Where to start…
Well, I woke up at 5am with a sick headache,
(product of drinking Mezcal Reposado with friends Saturday night,)
so I woke up, yeah.
I saw a cat in a box, thought it was amusing…. then I decided to go on a mission cooking food. yeah.
so, Robin gave me this cool vegan Sphagetti recipe, which I modded and polluted with meat
BUT
it was AWESOME! yes. it really was.
I gathered fresh roma tomatoes straight out of Chris’s garden and fresh green pepper
fresh red pepper, fresh jalapenos. kickass! fresh rocks!
(special thanx to Chris Ohara & Danielle Layden)
I began by peeling off the skin of the tomatoes
by submerging them in boiling water for ten seconds and then xferring them to
a pot of cold water. then the skin peeled off effortlessly. yeah!
once I peeled the skin off all the tomatoes, I gutted them of seeds
and diced them into small chunks.
I diced up an onion. F****CK! onions make me cry for real.
(fresh stolen from a field out in Kankakee County somewhere around 3pm)
minced a green bell pepper and a red bell pepper
minced three cloves of garlic
measured out spices:
{
—1.5 teaspoons oregano
—1 teaspoon basil
—0.5 teaspoon thyme
}
peeled a whole carrot
Soo…. after prepping all this,
heated up 1/4 cup of extra extra virgin olive oil in the wok,
and sauteed the onions for five and a half minutes….
Next, added two bay leaves, the bell peppers, garlic and cooked for another five minutes….
oh I forgot to mention that I decided to chop up a bunch of mushrooms,
cuz whynot? mushrooms RAWK!!!
so I threw in a six ounce can of Hunts Tomato Paste, and then dumped in the spices…
Now the COOOL part.
This is where I say F***CK Prego, F***CK Ragoo, F**** all those store bought
Newmans Own-wanna be bullsh*t tomato sauces.
CUZ, I GOT FRESH FRESH DICED TOMATOS!
Yes, they were picked around 3pm, diced by 5:30! YEAH!!!!
I even diced up a fresh Jalapeno. Danielle told me NOT to put in jalapenos-HAHA.
sorry, I tried not to laff. I have a mexican mouth and I’m not even mexican—SEAN LIKES SPICY!!!
oh and the carrot. store bought. i dont know where to get fresh carrots… YET.
AND…….
toss it all in!! yeah!
stir and simmer for 45 minutes….
meanwhile, boiling water for the pasta. water takes a damn long time to boil!
I threw a ton of salt in there too… Fleur De Sel to be specific.
(its like some high end french salt)
Cooked up a pound of Ground Sirloin, added some garlic salt to flavor it…
I drained the grease down a manhole on the street. where’d you expect me to put it? in a bucket somewhere
to fester? no. Manholes are good for dumping grease. shh, dont tell anyone!
People at the corner light of Monee & Western were staring at me–HAHA.
few minutes later…. done!
And I polluted this awesome vegan sauce with some meat LOVIN’
(sorry Robin, destroyed your sauce)
F’ing loved this!!
oops! smoke alarm went off! whooops!
so I’m waiting… what to do?
Ahh! I know! make garlic bread!!! yeah!
I cut the lonnnnnnng french bread in half.
one half I divided up into sections for dipping in olive oil and fresh greated parmesan cheese
the other half? well I buttered it, added the cheese and garlic powder, baked for about three mins at 375 degrees F
I melted a stick of butter in the microwave for 30 seconds, and used a brush thing to brush it on the bread
before adding the cheese and garlic powder…
oh snap! the water is finally boiling! that was taking forever.
tossed in the Barilla noodles for 9 minutes.
when I get the kitchen aid, I’m making my own noodles! (future dinner)
I broke them in half and chucked them in the volcanic heat of the water!
ok, bake the garlic bread! yeah!
few mins later….
(got some really good cheese at Whole Foods in Hindsdale)
Quickly grated some Parmesan cheese with some weird device that
I don’t know what its for yet.
This loosely translates to I dont have a proper cheese grater yet,
but I make do any way that I can!
drained the pasta!
GREAT DINNER!
I have to do this again! YES!~
(next time I wont use a crappy camera phone)
maybe I’ll have a date. *shrugs*