poeticdream rocks hardcore. she bought raw milk for us to enjoy and experiment with. it's good plain, but methinks raw milk + organic chocolate == scrumptious organic hot chocolate; also, I want to make smoothies of raw milk and wheatgrass. i'll report back on this later!

it's expensive, but it's also very yummy. I'd love to buy it in bulk and freeze it. next step: buy a chest freezer.

I love me new Jamaican Beef Patties! I bought mine frozen from the supermarket, but they are dead easy to make, as a simple google search will show.

I think I will pair one up with some red stripe beer tomorrow whilst reading the new Harry Potter book.

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At what cost, you might well ask? Well, I'm here to tell you from experience: Jamaican beef patties are not without their downsides. But (butt?), if you can stand it going in, you can stand it coming out, right?

so we just made this tonight. simply awesome. we didn't have seasoning, so we omitted it, and it was still scrumptious.

the pounding the chicken flat part is crucial. with a hammer. a lot.

or maybe that's just a good way to get out agression. all i know is, it makes yummy chicken.

am i a sick puppy for liking pepto-bismol?

we made empanadas for dinner tonight. mmm, boy howdy are they good. you should try them if you haven't already.

vive le recipe!

tuesday, sue—chef extraordinaire at camden hills—will be serving up garbage plates. let's just say a little birdy whispered a couple of recipes in her ear, and then stirred up the interest in all the ex-rochester faculty (surprisingly, there are six of them, at last count, all working at the high school).

as abby would say, "aww yeah." i can't wait. i hope she uses the grill scrapings.

tonight poeticdream and i made sushi at home.

thanks to the japanese kitchen and the essentials of japanese cooking, it was pretty easy.

robin has the sticky rice down stone cold, a+, wonderful. our ingredients were nori, rice, smoked salmon, mango, apple, capers, and cream cheese, oh, and tamago (egg) and pesto for the tamago rolls. we tried different combinations and roll techniques. i learned how to make a passable futomaki, but am still stumped by temaki (hand rolls).

i think my favorite so far was a roll with salmon, cream cheese and capers.

pictures will be forthcoming. my assignment to you is: go, make sushi at home! enjoy! it love you long time!