Skewers

We used our grill for the first time in a long time this evening. We had chicken, green pepper, red pepper, and onion skewers. We marinated the chicken in A1 Cajun Marinade, which we both greatly enjoyed. I'm incredibly tired, so this is a very uninteresting post. Mostly I'm writing it because we haven't updated in awhile and it seems that most of the blogs I read regularly are having that same issue, which frustrates me when I'm looking for a short distraction. So here's my contribution to the short distractions of the world. When I have completed two Algebraic Topology homework assignments, one Real Analysis homework assignment, one Real Analysis project, one Real Analysis final, one Master's project paper (the first draft has already been turned in), given one more presentation of my project, written quizzes for my students to take on their projects, graded said quizzes, graded my students' "research" papers, written a final, graded a final, and completed my students' grades, then I may write a more interesting post on our culinary delights, for then we may actually have some. Until then, you'll have to rely on the over-worked Ryan (who, by the way, is still up himself working on stuff for a demanding customer) to update you. In other words, it may be two weeks before you have any idea that we are actually being nourished. I hope you can live with that. Here's one last tidbit (this is especially for Catherine, who may be concerned that we are losing important moments for posterity by neglecting our blog): we had frozen pizza again this week--but this time, we didn't do anything to it. We tried Freschetta's Special Deluxe, and, I must say, I have never had worse sausage in my life. The rest of it was fine, but the sausage was so bad it was offensive.

Instant Replay

In the spirit of the Superbowl and the Olympics, we have an instant replay from the last post (you do read them in chronological order right?). Many of you doubtlessly noticed the striking and bold new apron (a custom order from the winter line of the Janet Yates collection). But did anyone notice the Steelers yellow lurking beneath? How about the nearly empty propane tank that ultimately would make the whole outdoor part of the adventure fruitless. Perchance one of you noticed the Seahawks colors around my head where I could send out negative brain waves, to disrupt their game (apparently only the refs heard them). Just in case you missed any of these details, I added this instant replay.

My New Apron

Continuing with our grand update, we have... Me, in my new apron! Making the chicken for Buffalo Chip Chicken Dip. So you make the chicken, rip it into tiny pieces, mix with cream cheese, cheddar cheese, and sour cream, then bake for a while. But first you ask Rachel for the recipe (she recently received Gmail chat). We took it to our Superbowl party (they were all Seahawks fans, so they didn't comment on the dip).

Updates

Contrary to popular belief, we have eaten since December (I know our figures don't show it). I'm writing this to let all of our readers know about the delightful culinary adventures we have had and will write up. Due to lack of temporal assets, we have heretofore been unable to delight in the writing up of said adventures.

First we have Rebekah's recent success in making Challah. Since then we have modified the recipe to move closer to the lovely loaves of bread given at Outback Steakhouse (and with each step also closer to the coupe du monde de boulangerie).

Next we have pictures of myself in my new apron (an essential for all cooks!). I am sporting my new adornment while placing chicken on our grill. Little did we know that the grill was about five minutes from being out of gas.

Lastly we have the aforementioned chicken (after finishing its cooking indoors) shredded and mixed with various cheeses to make Robin via Rachel Buffalo Chip Dip (Rebekah uses the name Buffalo Chicken Dip, but we all know its true name).

This is simply to whet your appetite for what is to come!

Pride goes before the fall

We went out to breakfast (brunch, I guess) this morning and I had a Belgian waffle with strawberries and whipped cream. My response was, "Ryan, you make better waffles." (He makes really good mixed berry waffles that are excellent with kiwi and/or strawberries and whipped cream on top). Then we went to the grocery store later to get a marinade for our steak and we had sample brownies. My response was, "I make better brownies." Then we had a real American meal: steak and potatoes (I think I once told Ryan that I would probably never make a meat and potatoes meal--so he had to do this one). We started off with a really good salad, and the steak was pretty good, but the potatoes, which were my baby, were not so great. Apparently grilling them is not the best way to go. I'm sure there are many places out there that make better spicy potato wedges than I do!

Grilled Steak and Potatoes

We decided to contribute to the smoke by grilling steak and potato wedges. The wedges got a little burned and a lot dry, but they were ok with catsup. Albertson's gave us a coupon for a free bottle of Kikoman's Teriyaki sauce (and we got another coupon when we checked out) so we marinated our steak in it for about 30 minutes. It was very tasty, bringing back memories of teriyaki beef jerky when I was growing up (not because the meat was over done and dry, it was just right ... ok, a little over done). Our cat Missy used to go crazy over that stuff. We would come home find the bag with bite and claw holes all over it. Speaking of cats attacking bags, it's Mobius' favorite thing to do now. The other day when we got up in the morning we found bite holes all over our bread bag. She doesn't even like bread!