Playing With Fire

Quick story. Today I needed to make myself a speedy lunch before work. I had all the workings for stir fry, so I pulled out my wok. My plan was to first to start cooking my chicken and shrimp, throw in some snow peas, broccoli, carrots, and top it off with this new stir fry sauce I found by Seven Paths. Well, I had the oil heating up and turned away from the oven to peel the shrimp, when suddenly the entire wok caught on fire. I'd always considered myself a better worker under pressure, but I think all the cold medicine I've been taking counteracted my decision making process because I just stood there. After a few moments of shock watching my entire oven fill with flames I yelled for my roommate. Again, I AM JUST STANDING THERE. I remembered a sudden thought that if I tried to put it out I may catch my shawl on fire. Never once did I even consider taking the shawl off. Luckily, my roommate stepped into action and calmly poured baking soda over the flame. I ended up cooking my stir fry once the smoked settled, but the moral of the story is: DO NOT TAKE AMPLE AMOUNTS OF COLD MEDICINE AND THEN TRY TO COOK. Order take out.

On a side note, the stir fry sauce was pretty tasty, a little spicy with a sweet undertone.





This adventure also made me stick to my plan that I will only buy a house with a gas stove. I wish I could take my commercial stoves from work and put them into my apartment.

How to put out a grease fire!!

Where's the Cheese?

Do you have food allergies? Well, I don't, BUT while at the grocery I stumbled across this brand of products called Namaste Foods, LLC.. Their entire pitch is that they are meeting the needs of people with allergies more than any other brand with products that contain no wheat, gluten, corn, soy, potato, dairy, casein or nuts. They sell bread mixes, pizza crust, flour blends, pasta, and even cookie and cake mixes. So on a whim I decided to give their Say Cheez Pasta Meal a try. I must say it was actually fairly good, I'm going to say rather delicious actually, especially considering it was a non-dairy Mac 'n Cheese that only took a few minutes to wrap up. Now, with that said I love cheese. I could live off a diet of cheese alone, but if I had any food allergies or was a vegan I'd definitely stock my kitchen high with this product.



I'd give it: 4 stars!

Mi Piace il Gelato!

So, a little known - or should I say "really know" fact about me is: I love ice cream. I could eat pint upon pint of the stuff. My favorite the past month has been Haagen-Dazs Vanilla Honey Bee, but today I stumbled into this new tasty treat. Introducing Talenti Argentine Dulce de Leche Gelato. According to their website it's the best carmel gelato in existence. Straight from Buenos Aries, Argentine. I've never witness such a hypnotic website for...well anything, let alone gelato. I felt a little bad spending 6 dollars on it, but after tasting it there is no turning bad. Could this be love? (ALSO when I'm finished eating it I'm gonna make a carmel scented candle inside the container)



I give it: 5 stars!