For one thing, Reverend Anne and her two daughters just came back this afternoon from three weeks in Africa (Anne's parents, who're linguists, live there; her mom was sick), so it pretty much made my day when I went over to Matt and Anne's house to get something and Emma, calling my name, came running and threw herself at what turned out, given our relative heights, to be my legs.
And then I found this. A whole website devoted to posting pictures of baby zoo animals. It's not quite the world-changer for me that I think it is for certain of my friends - ::coughAbbycough:: - but it's definitely good for a rainy day.
So to speak.
Since it's raining.
Okay, time for me to go back to stuff. Tomorrow, straight through 'til next Tuesday: InterVarsity-Alfred fantasticness, for the win!
6.17.2009
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6.03.2009
Slacker Cuisine
So among the bounty which my friend Chung Eun showered upon me before she left for Korea was about eight containers of ready-to-eat rice. Seriously, it's precooked and packaged, and all you need to do is put the container in the microwave for two minutes to heat it up.
So here's tonight's main dish, slacker-style:
1. Wake up from a nap to realize that you've only got a little over an hour before you have to be up at church (this part is optional, of course, should you wish to duplicate the meal - my church finalized the purchase of our new building today, so we had a brief service to celebrate).
2. Realize also that you need to cook the now-thawed hamburger that's in your fridge.
3. Wash your biggest frying pan.
4. Add pepper, garlic powder, and dried onion bits to hamburger meat. Fry meat until done.
5. Set aside maybe a quarter or so of this.
6. Make an attempt at sloppy-joe sauce by mixing ketchup, honey mustard, honey barbecue sauce, and a few splashes of leftover and mostly-flat cola until it tastes, if not exactly like sloppy joe sauce, at least like it'd be pretty good on hamburger.
7. Mix the sauce and the set-aside hamburger.
8. Eat a little on some bread. Put most of the rest of the hamburger, the part you left unsauced, into some Gladware for a later recipe (I'm thinking Slacker Shepherd's Pie, since I've also got canned potatoes and frozen vegetables, but we'll see). Put the rest of the sauced hamburger in a smaller, separate container and get ready for church and go.
9. After church, when you're hungry again, heat up some precooked rice and mix it with the rest of the sauced hamburger. Add more sauce ingredients if you've got too much rice comparatively.
10. Pretend, because you're tired, that things like side dishes and vegetables don't exist. Serve warm or hot.
I'll do better tomorrow or so.
So here's tonight's main dish, slacker-style:
1. Wake up from a nap to realize that you've only got a little over an hour before you have to be up at church (this part is optional, of course, should you wish to duplicate the meal - my church finalized the purchase of our new building today, so we had a brief service to celebrate).
2. Realize also that you need to cook the now-thawed hamburger that's in your fridge.
3. Wash your biggest frying pan.
4. Add pepper, garlic powder, and dried onion bits to hamburger meat. Fry meat until done.
5. Set aside maybe a quarter or so of this.
6. Make an attempt at sloppy-joe sauce by mixing ketchup, honey mustard, honey barbecue sauce, and a few splashes of leftover and mostly-flat cola until it tastes, if not exactly like sloppy joe sauce, at least like it'd be pretty good on hamburger.
7. Mix the sauce and the set-aside hamburger.
8. Eat a little on some bread. Put most of the rest of the hamburger, the part you left unsauced, into some Gladware for a later recipe (I'm thinking Slacker Shepherd's Pie, since I've also got canned potatoes and frozen vegetables, but we'll see). Put the rest of the sauced hamburger in a smaller, separate container and get ready for church and go.
9. After church, when you're hungry again, heat up some precooked rice and mix it with the rest of the sauced hamburger. Add more sauce ingredients if you've got too much rice comparatively.
10. Pretend, because you're tired, that things like side dishes and vegetables don't exist. Serve warm or hot.
I'll do better tomorrow or so.