important food questions

[bedlamsbard]

1. Should I make pork chops with apples and onions again or chop up the pork chops and use them for fried rice? I only have two pork chops left and they are seriously tiny, I probably could have cooked all five of them last night and been fine, but I didn't.

2. How...um, how does one eat a peach? I got two peaches from this farmer's market that sets up at Tulane every Friday (new this year!), and I...have never eaten a peach before, so I'm not really sure what to do with them. Does one eat the fuzzy skin? Should I peel them and chop them up and make a mini cobbler or something out of them? Should I just eat them?

3. This one is not a question. Man, I feel like I am cooking more Asian food than ever before, probably because I am -- I have so much rice! Because we always have rice at home, and it's so nice, to just make rice once a week and refrigerate it and pull it out throughout the week to make sushi or add as a side dish or fried rice or something. And soy sauce! And nori! (Which really freaks people out, for some reason; I'm all, "It's just toasted seaweed!" and they go, "But why can't you just say toasted seaweed?") And I picked up curry mix, so now I can make curry! Although I still have to buy potatoes and some kind of meat and also salt&vinegar potato chips, but yay curry! (Japanese curry: totally my comfort food.) So I am not having as much Asian angst as I usually do.

4. I have two cucumbers, for reasons that we shall not discuss; what should I do with them? One will probably be used for sushi, what should I do with the other one?

5. Does anyone have a good cream pasta recipe? There are a couple of restaurants around campus that do very good pesto cream pasta with chicken recipes, and I want to do it on my own! But for some reason it's surprisingly hard to find recipes.

6. I really need to pick up a small casserole dish, so I can make macaroni and cheese. Man, I should have bought cheddar cheese at Walmart today.

Comments

[be_themoon]

Just eat the peaches! The skin tastes perfectly good. You can chop them up in cereal too (in which case you should peel them). I have never liked any cooked peaches I have eaten, but perhaps you will, so you could try cobbler if you wanted.

[bedlamsbard]

I think I saw a recipe for peach and blueberry cobbler somewhere that looked delish, so that was what I was thinking earlier...

Do you dare to eat a peach?

[sara]

1. Stand over sink.

2. Grasp peach firmly.

3. Rinse peach if necessary.

4. Insert peach into mouth.

5. Masticate.

Re: Do you dare to eat a peach?

[bedlamsbard]

*coughs* I don't know why I've never eaten peaches before...

[juniperphoenix]

Here are a couple of peach cobbler/crisp recipes (the second one is in the comments).

[bedlamsbard]

I guess the slight problem is that I don't actually have a ceramic or glass baking or casserole dish right now. *sighs* We have metal baking pans, but I'm not sure how well those would work?

[sgrio]

They'd work ok for a cobbler, probably.

[bedlamsbard]

I shall consider the cobbler thing! Although I should probably, you know, actually try the peaches first.

[juniperphoenix]

Yeah, glass would probably be best. Maybe next time. Your first experience of a peach should probably be uncomplicated by other ingredients, anyway. :)

[bedlamsbard]

We use a glass baking dish at home for cobbler (blueberry! Mmm, blueberry cobbler -- outside of that and muffins, I'm not actually a big blueberry fan).

[snacky]

Shall I part my hair behind? Do I dare to eat a peach?
I shall wear white flannel trousers, and walk upon the beach.
I have heard the mermaids singing, each to each.

Sorry, couldn't help myself! :D

I just bite into peaches, but I also love peach cobbler and peach pie. And peach ice cream. And anyway, if you don't like fuzz, you can peel it, slice it, and mix it with yogurt. Nom.

I don't have a pesto cream sauce recipe, but I use one like this for a tomato cream sauce.

[bedlamsbard]

*pouts* What is with the peach + Eliot refs!

I shall try the peaches! Just not right now, as I am craving protein.

Huh. I wonder if I could use cherry tomatoes for that sauce? I have all these cherry tomatoes that I should really use, because they're not really sweet enough to eat on their own but I keep forgetting to buy lettuce to make salad...

[snacky]

I don't see why you couldn't use the cherry tomatoes. I've used can tomatoes and fresh. And sometimes if I don't have tomatoes, I've used a couple of tablespoons of tomato paste and mixed it with cream.

[bedlamsbard]

...I hope my cream's still good!

[darklyndsea]

2. Just don't eat the pit! Although it's kind of hard to imagine how you could.

[bedlamsbard]

Yeah, I feel like that would be a poor decision...

[aella_irene]

1. I would go for the rice, to add variety?

2. You...eat it. Skin is eatable. I suggest having something on hand to wipe your hands with.

3. ...huh. A food safety course taught me that you shouldn't refrigerate rice, you should eat it right away, because stored rice leads to food poisoning. But if you've been doing it for a while, and you haven't died yet...

4. Chop it up and put it in a salad with the cherry tomatoes!

[bedlamsbard]

*shrugs* My mother always refrigerates rice, or freezes it, then thaws some of it and refrigerates it. I assume it's all right?

[rahirah]

It the unlikely event that you have one of the older varieties of peach which have a lot of fuzz on them, you might consider rubbing the fuzz off before biting in. other than that, what they said. (Also, if the peach is hard, it's not ripe yet, and you may want to leave it sitting out in a brown paper bag for a day or two.)

[bedlamsbard]

It's been in a brown paper bag since Friday, so -- I should probably eat them.

Poets seem to like peaches:

[sgrio]

What thoughts I have of you tonight, Walt Whitman, for
I walked down the sidestreets under the trees with a headache
self-conscious looking at the full moon.
In my hungry fatigue, and shopping for images, I went
into the neon fruit supermarket, dreaming of your enumerations!
What peaches and what penumbras! Whole families
shopping at night! Aisles full of husbands! Wives in the
avocados, babies in the tomatoes!--and you, Garcia Lorca, what
were you doing down by the watermelons?

I saw you, Walt Whitman, childless, lonely old grubber,
poking among the meats in the refrigerator and eyeing the grocery
boys.
I heard you asking questions of each: Who killed the
pork chops? What price bananas? Are you my Angel?
I wandered in and out of the brilliant stacks of cans
following you, and followed in my imagination by the store
detective.
We strode down the open corridors together in our
solitary fancy tasting artichokes, possessing every frozen
delicacy, and never passing the cashier.

Where are we going, Walt Whitman? The doors close in
an hour. Which way does your beard point tonight?
(I touch your book and dream of our odyssey in the
supermarket and feel absurd.)
Will we walk all night through solitary streets? The
trees add shade to shade, lights out in the houses, we'll both be
lonely.

Will we stroll dreaming of the lost America of love
past blue automobiles in driveways, home to our silent cottage?
Ah, dear father, graybeard, lonely old courage-teacher,
what America did you have when Charon quit poling his ferry and
you got out on a smoking bank and stood watching the boat
disappear on the black waters of Lethe?

Allen Ginsberg, Berkeley, 1955

[(Anonymous)]

Aw man, all of this sounds awesome. I should have totes hung around with you until you fed me. Like, "Nuh uh. I shall CONTINUE to engage you in conversation and thwart your attempts to study! Until you make me nommmmmmms."

(Lol if you feed a Christine, is it like strays and will she stay around forever?)

[bedlamsbard]

Man, I totally wouldn't have had the energy to actually make food then! Also this was, like, the first actual meal I have ever made in NOLA, so.