Sausage

I guess this turned into hamburgers which got delayed. Oh yeah, cause I’m out of sausages, at least ones to use for what I mean by this.

Chana Masala

I ended up taking Friday off, between the long term outage and some other general nonsense it was nice to have a day with almost no plans. I exercised, payed some video games, got in a nap. I started making this around 4:Pm debated on using rice or flat bread, and went with rice. Good things. I used some of the salsa I made on it.

Hot Honey Peanut Noodles

I had planned on doing Chana Masala, but I was working on something later then I intended so I threw this together earlier in the week and went from there.

Baked Potatoes

A nice starchy dinner, fried a bit of bacon, sour cream, butter and salt and pepper. Good things.

After a bit of convincing, I flip-through one of my ebook cookbooks I have, Oaxaca: Home cooking from the Heart of Mexico, and found a nice simple recipe for Guacachile (Creamy Serrano Salsa). After Shannon went to bed on Monday, I did the dishes and then started making this with my fancy new blender (not that fancy). I got the onion, lime juice blended up a bit, then I started to fry the chilies in avocado oil (modification from this recipe but called for in others). I became a bit worried that I would create a cloud of capsaicin, so I didn’t use the high heat like it called for, but I did fry them and only had a cough or two myself, so luckily I didn’t wake up Shannon.

I let the peppers and oil cool a bit, then blended everything until it was nice and smooth. Tasted, added a bit of salt, tasted, added a bit more salt, and tasted, and then a bit more (3/8ths tsp per doubled recipe). I was happy with the flavor, the heat and texture. It does tend to break a bit if you leave it to long, but it’s supposed to be served very fresh and it doesn’t make to much. I did win one of the many awards for it at work (though I think mine was the only one in this particular category).