Taking a shortcut.

Firstly: Happy birthday to blergeatkitty and laughingirl!!!!!

In addition to her (and kip3f's) generosity in letting j_bkl and myself have their CSA share for the week, blergeatkitty was also nice enough to suggest a recipe involving fennel, one of the things in that week's share. (Although, by and large, it was the craziest-looking piece of fennel I have EVER seen). I made it last night, and it was delicious.

blergeatkitty had already suggested that I substitute boneless, skinless chicken breasts for the cut-up chicken pieces in the recipe, which worked brilliantly. My favorite thing, though is that the recipe called for a 28-oz can of WHOLE tomatoes, chopped up, undrained. 0.o Now, I've used canned whole tomatoes for years to make sauce, and lemme tellya, my kitchen would have looked like the scene of a homicide had I done it their way.

Me: You know they have cans of chopped tomatoes in the same size.

Recipe: Well, I don't care. This recipe only exists to plug this brand of tomatoes, so that's what I'm going to do. Chop away, bitch!

Me: Ha! I am not so gullible anymore. ::buys can of chopped tomatoes::

Recipe: Curse you!!

Me: Oh, hush. I have to chop an onion, okay? You still get to torture me.

Recipe: *sulks* Oh-kaaay. *sigh*

Results were delicious. Recipe is below for the curious. I have lots of nice leftovers to bring with me for lunch, too.

( Recipe follows here: )

More on Provincetown and my first reactions to school later.

Taking a shortcut.

Firstly: Happy birthday to blergeatkitty and laughingirl!!!!!

In addition to her (and kip3f's) generosity in letting j_bkl and myself have their CSA share for the week, blergeatkitty was also nice enough to suggest a recipe involving fennel, one of the things in that week's share. (Although, by and large, it was the craziest-looking piece of fennel I have EVER seen). I made it last night, and it was delicious.

blergeatkitty had already suggested that I substitute boneless, skinless chicken breasts for the cut-up chicken pieces in the recipe, which worked brilliantly. My favorite thing, though is that the recipe called for a 28-oz can of WHOLE tomatoes, chopped up, undrained. 0.o Now, I've used canned whole tomatoes for years to make sauce, and lemme tellya, my kitchen would have looked like the scene of a homicide had I done it their way.

Me: You know they have cans of chopped tomatoes in the same size.

Recipe: Well, I don't care. This recipe only exists to plug this brand of tomatoes, so that's what I'm going to do. Chop away, bitch!

Me: Ha! I am not so gullible anymore. ::buys can of chopped tomatoes::

Recipe: Curse you!!

Me: Oh, hush. I have to chop an onion, okay? You still get to torture me.

Recipe: *sulks* Oh-kaaay. *sigh*

Results were delicious. Recipe is below for the curious. I have lots of nice leftovers to bring with me for lunch, too.

( Recipe follows here: )

More on Provincetown and my first reactions to school later.