Over the weekend my dad had gone out of town so I spent three days in his townhouse ravaging through his cupboards for things to eat. With an ample kitchen and a whole lotta nothin to do, I was able to cook up some interesting meals that substituted the fast-food processed leftover mush I might have otherwise consumed on my own.
My dad keeps a lot of freeze dried fruit in the freezer, usually to be used for smoothies, but saturday morning I had all the right ingredients, and the stars aligned for a beautiful meal. My girlfriend is a vegetarian (who isnt these days?) so before she woke up I went down and made pancakes from scratch, and I cooked down the frozen strawberries with sugar, cinnamon, water and a bit of gelatin powder stuff--in order to make a nice syrupy substance for the pancakes...and it worked!
I think a major part of my cooking/eating habits have to do with what is easily avalible, I took inventory, and executed. Our family has had its ups and downs as far as income goes, so I was raised in an environment where you cook whatever the heck you can find. This would usually lead to ridiculously spicy meals that my dad would make for us all. So I would constitute the meal as economically sound, and tastey as well. Had it been my apartment I was spending the weekend at, things would have been different (like freezer burrito different).
Using the other available ingredients, I was able to make vegetable curry with rice and beans, and grilled cheese with sundried tomatoes and sauteed onions. A very good day for me as far as cooking goes..but hey, every dog has one.
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