Smart enough to cook
The weekend, the weekend! Oh, how I have waited for it.
We’re ten days into the new year and I’m still hoping that energy and motivation will kick me in the ass and get me cleaning, organizing, and purging.
I’ve put a lot of pressure on myself to make this weekend awesome and productive, and so far it’s been all right.
I finally went to the grocery store and stocked up on relatively wholesome foods. I got all the Christmas stuff taken down. I even scrubbed the stove to a sparkling state…a deep overdue scrub.
When at the store, I bought some healthier items with this notion that I may try to ligthen up (probably a good idea since some of my jeans aren’t fitting like I want them too), and one thing I got was Oatmeal to have for breakfast.
There hasn’t been a day in my life that I’ve enjoyed oatmeal, ever. Even with all the bells and whistles like honey, syrup, fruit, you name it. It actually makes me gag. I was always more of a malt-o-meal kind of gal if I was even venturing into the warm cereal-esque waters.
So when I woke up yesterday, and I pondered that box of oatmeal with pure dread, I had a way better (and not nearly as healthy) idea.
Oatmeal cookies of course!
With some left over chocolate chips for good measure.
They turned out pretty yummy, although the recipe I followed guaranteed softness, and well they aren’t quite as soft as I would like. I probably didn’t adjust it enough for altitude.
While at the grocery store, I also bought a whole chicken for $3. Why did I do this? Because I read something earlier this year (ha ha) that was called “America: Too Stupid to Cook.”
It popped up in the “What’s Hot in Google Reader” RSS feed one day and I checked it out and thought the writer had some great points. To summarize and then I’ll link ya to it, Americans are being taught that they are too stupid to cook, basically to sell books and television programming about really “easy” recipes that are supposedly fast as well, because we have no time to cook! No time at all!! Only time to watch television for three hours after dinner.
At the end of the article he describes how actually easy it is to roast a whole chicken, even though there’s a stigma about a meal like that being too hard and too time consuming.
He made some good points, and you should check it out.
Anyway, while at the store on Friday night, I saw the whole chickens, just sitting there, only a couple of bucks and thought…why not. So I went with it. Along with a few other cheap ingredients, that I mostly had on hand…
…it turned out pretty good!
And I had more than one very happy customer.
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Nice, your chicken looks great! It’s funny that you post on the topic related to America being too stupid/not having time to cook. J really wanted to watch the new show on Food Network called America’s Worst Cooks where they take people who suck royally at cooking and try to teach them how. So we saw the first 2 episodes yesterday. The show annoys me because they don’t start with basics and are trying to get them to make really complicated things when people can’t even cut a carrot into slices. But, that aside…I am flabbergasted at how little people know about cooking. I feel it is a basic life skill. One woman didn’t know the difference between Granny Smith and Red Delicious apples, and used the wrong ones. I feel that type of knowledge doesn’t require you to have gone to culinary school- just the grocery once in a while to buy some fruit! I don’t understand how people grow up not knowing basic things like that let alone other purely basic techniques like slicing vegetables. They all seem so retarded to me. And it’s sad, and it made me wonder what the hell happened to our country.
Anyway… I’m glad you are enjoying cooking and stuff. I know I am.