%title Eating In: Day 2
%date 2008-12-24 08:09:44
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Breakfast: Steel-cut oatmeal, coffee

Lunch: Leftover Saag

Dinner: Beef Stroganoff, Corn Bread, mead, brandy, whiskey

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Two days now, and, stupid as it sounds, I already feel better.  It's not some over all lightening of mood, or even that I feel physically better after having spent two days cooking for myself. Much more specific.  See, my choices for going out to lunch (and I used them well) are Carls Jr., Taco Bell, Panda Express, Spoons, or bagels/wraps.  I noticed it right after lunch - I didn't feel the stupid general grossness that I usually do at that point of the day.  Notably absent was the horrendous gas one gets upon eating Taco Bell.  It was kind of uplifting: maybe this really is healthier.

Until after dinner.

So I made my stroganoff and cornbread and sat down to eat.  Had a couple of servings of each, too, 'cause I really like eating.  After all that, I went back in the kitchen to clean up and just happened to look down into my bag of flour.  Flour, it should be noted, does not normally contain black specks.  Curious that mine did.  I pinched one and sprinkled the load of flour+speck into my palm only to find a bug.  THERE WAS A FUCKING BUG IN MY FLOUR.  The flour, I should note, that I just used to make corn bread.  I looked back in the bag and, lo, the bug had his whole family there.  They were evenly distributed throughout the fifteen pounds or so of flour I had left in there.

So I drowned my disgust in alcohol.  Man.. fucking sick.

<strong>Beef Stroganoff</strong>
<em>Serve this over noodles or rice, so long as there are no GOD DAMN BUGS in either.</em>

1/2 lb lean beef fillet
1/2 onion, sliced
1/2 lb crimini (white) mushrooms, sliced
3 Tbsp butter
3/4 cup sour cream
1/4 cup dry white wine or herbed mead (not cooking wine)

Slice the beef thin, then pound it thinner and cut the strips into bite-sized pieces.  Sautee the onion in 1 Tbsp butter for two or three minutes.  Add the beef and brown all over.  Scoop everything into a bowl and keep warm in the microwave (just put it in there, don't turn it on - microwaves are decent insulators).  Add the next 2 Tbsp butter and the mushrooms to the pan and sautee until everything's a good golden brown and doesn't look very white anymore.  Drain.  Add the beef, onions, and wine/mead.  Cook and marvel at the scents.  Add the sour cream and stir.  Season to taste with salt, pepper, and any green herbs that suit your fancy - I used summer savory.  Serve over a starch.

<strong>Cornbread</strong>

Know what?  Forget about it.  Look on the back of the canister (that's what I did).  I don't even want to think about anything with flour in it now :|

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