Can i just say, i love food and if I could ever get paid to eat, well, I'd just be in heaven.
I've been watching a lot of the food network lately and although i haven't starting cooking much more, my desire to have food cooked for me has really gone up. My desire to move has also gone up as a result because no one in logan knows what food is. Even our mom and pop restaurants and dives, for lack of a better word, suck. Don't get me wrong the food isn't terrible but its not great and the variety is lame. We've got the standard Chinese restaurants that all taste the same, pizza, fast food, ihop (which technically isn't food, i think it should be classified more as a type of drano than food), and a few local places that aside from the total lack of customer service and the ritual of failing health inspections, have food that is, well, forgettable.
Not to say that all the restaurants here are horrible, they just all leave you wanting more. But don't expect to find more because even by the time you decide what you are willing to force down next, chances are its closed as the whole town goes to bed at 9. So unless you want to settle, or in this case, step up to gas station food, your left to your own devises.
So here are a few things we have been making.
Chicken Chili. This was a recipe that i just kind of made up. and what do you know, it was good.
2 or 3 cans chicken breast
2 cans Great Northern Beans (drained but not rinsed)
1/2 onion
2/3 tsp crushed garlic (or one clove chopped)
1 can cream of chicken
1 can diced tomatoes with lime juice and cilantro
1 cup celery
1 can corn
pepper
salt
1-2 Tbls olive oil
1 cup red or green bell peppers
The Destroyer, I call it this because by the time your done, you've destroyed any good a Boca burger would normally do.
2 Boca burgers
6 strips of bacon (three for each patty)
2 slices of ham (seared in bacon grease)
1 fried egg (again in bacon grease)
sautéed onions (you got it, in bacon grease)
and 2 slices of cheese melted over each patty
-try placing the bacon on the patty then the cheese on top of the bacon for more stability-
veggies -totally optional (remember the veggies are in the patty!-
salt
pepper
and sauces
The triple by-pass
same as above but replace Boca burgers with 1/2 lb or greater beef patties
well i have more to share with you but all this talk about food had made me quite hungry so later.
Oh and if you have any recent favorites, tell me. I'd love to try them.
