Monday, March 28, 2005

ANU's computer network prevents crucial blog posts, following recipes is easy & college pasta bake

Far out! Stupid network at the ANU doesn't let me log into this for some reason... So, this really irritates me 'cause I been doin' quite a bit of cookin', since I now live at a residential hall which is non-catered and has this huge kitchen of about 10 sub-kitchens (each with 2 ovens, 3 stove tops, a toaster, a sandwich maker, and an industrial microwave). There's a fair amount of kitchen involved. So what have I cooked? Perhaps I should start with summer, before I went to Canberra (sigh): consisting of 11 lamb shanks and all things good I cooked a Stephanie Alexander dish "times" 3 (the recipe is in her book of multi-colours, somewhere, under lamb, no doubt) and accompanied it by a Stephanie Alexander "gramma pie" yet I successfully used Jap pumpkin and a pastry with almond meal substituted for flour to make a Coeliac's dream come true. Served to about 9 people this dinner was very successful and highly celebrated amongst those who had the pleasure of enjoying my ability... (to follow recipes); fuck you ANU-network I can't remember this cooking mémoire; "two meats, two sauces, two cheeses, one pasta, one love" is a pasta-bake concocted by myself and a fellow resident (Matt the satisfied) - we used chicken cooked in one pasta sauce in the bottom of a wok followed by a layer of cheddar follwed by some pasta (spaghetti) followed by mince cooked in a different pasta sauce followed by a layer of Parmesan and a little cheddar, the result... "faaantastic", try and see if you can eat a whole wok full!
In other news, my tooth should be hurting but ibuprofen is a wonderful drug, I hope the dentist gives me good news tomorrow...