Delicious
It's delicious trying to eat the stuff up in my cupboards and freezer. I forgot that I had some of my mom's tasty homemade rolls (frozen of course - like everything else in a good midwest family home.) DELICIOUS! I could eat those things all day. I've totally forgotten about half the stuff that I've bought. Since I have to start eating it up it's a time to explore the cabinets and come up with meal ideas that actually use up some of these rarely used items. Makes the grocery bill a lot slimmer - and makes for some interesting dinner combinations.
There have definitely been success and failures in this quest so far. The greatest failure was a Thai red curry made from this mix that I bought a while ago and haven't used (mainly b/c every time I looked at it I couldn't really figure out why I had bought the damn thing in the first place.) I have to say - it ended up being a complete and total failure. The sauce was not spicy enough - and it was not hot enough. It just plain was not very tasty. Not something I would repeat. Making a red curry out of straight coconut milk and red curry past is MUCH better. The great successes being the oatmeal chocolate chip cookies with pecans and the frozen dinner rolls that were delicious. 2/1 for the cupboards - not too bad - we'll have to wait out the rest of the season to see how the rest of this goes down...
I don't really watch a ton of TV normally - but lately - to help distract myself from the whole moving freaking out - I've been watching a lot online. And by a lot I mean just about everything that I can find. I've really gotten into this new show "Pushing Daisies" the show is very stylized, cute and sweet without making you sick, and just a little dark. All in all it's a good pick and a good show. I'm not sure how long the show can last - I don't see it going ten seasons like the simpsons - it's just not that ubiquitious. I think I will go a good three to five seasons (hopefully.) There are a lot of really bad sitcoms out there this season. It's interesting to see how TV changes over time. I don't remember seeing a lot of hour long shows when I was a kid. There were many more half hour shows. Now it seems like there are many more hour long shows. I think this comes down to people are watching less TV than they used to. I'm not sure if its overall less - or if people are just finding ways to get around commercials - or if the current rating system just doesn't account for the changing way that people are watching TV. More than likely it probably comes down to pushing up profit margins by lower production costs. I can't imagine that the production costs for a half hour show are significantly more than that for an hour long show.
There have definitely been success and failures in this quest so far. The greatest failure was a Thai red curry made from this mix that I bought a while ago and haven't used (mainly b/c every time I looked at it I couldn't really figure out why I had bought the damn thing in the first place.) I have to say - it ended up being a complete and total failure. The sauce was not spicy enough - and it was not hot enough. It just plain was not very tasty. Not something I would repeat. Making a red curry out of straight coconut milk and red curry past is MUCH better. The great successes being the oatmeal chocolate chip cookies with pecans and the frozen dinner rolls that were delicious. 2/1 for the cupboards - not too bad - we'll have to wait out the rest of the season to see how the rest of this goes down...
I don't really watch a ton of TV normally - but lately - to help distract myself from the whole moving freaking out - I've been watching a lot online. And by a lot I mean just about everything that I can find. I've really gotten into this new show "Pushing Daisies" the show is very stylized, cute and sweet without making you sick, and just a little dark. All in all it's a good pick and a good show. I'm not sure how long the show can last - I don't see it going ten seasons like the simpsons - it's just not that ubiquitious. I think I will go a good three to five seasons (hopefully.) There are a lot of really bad sitcoms out there this season. It's interesting to see how TV changes over time. I don't remember seeing a lot of hour long shows when I was a kid. There were many more half hour shows. Now it seems like there are many more hour long shows. I think this comes down to people are watching less TV than they used to. I'm not sure if its overall less - or if people are just finding ways to get around commercials - or if the current rating system just doesn't account for the changing way that people are watching TV. More than likely it probably comes down to pushing up profit margins by lower production costs. I can't imagine that the production costs for a half hour show are significantly more than that for an hour long show.
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