Alex's Lunch!

From today's title, it might be easy to guess what I am starting with.

I was non-stop busy last night it seemed. Since I was an idiot and forgot my gym clothes, I canceled with trainer, and actually stayed a few minutes after quitting time. I used my 'Mastercook' program, and created a shopping list to try and cook up a few recipes last night. I was like a madman at the grocery store. I was all over the place, I definitely need to work on using that shopping list part of the program, and how items are listed. I would walk past something on the list in the same aisle as something else, and then realize it two rows over. I bought some stuff I have never bought at the grocery store in my life too, so I had to locate them. So once all that was done
I drove home, let the doggies out, and started unpacking. I double checked my list and realized I had forgotten fresh Basil!!! I did for some reason buy two kinds of parsley. (argh)

So I have a bunch of recipes I want to test, and had bought ingredients to make 5 different ones last night. Since it was already pushing 6 o'clock, and I wanted to watch a DvD, I decided I would hold off on one for maybe tonight or this weekend. I went ahead and dove right in.

First I made the Lemon-Basil Red Potatoes (I had to use dry basil, which I was happy to see I had). As that got to a stage it just needed to cook, I started on the Spicy Not Baked Beans. Finally I whipped out the food processor and made the Aioli for the Rolled Chicken Sandwiches with Arugula and Aioli.



After finishing all that, I sat down to try it. I liked the sandwich wraps, and the potatoes were good, but maybe for me needed a touch more seasoning. I need to practice my lemon zesting skills, I realized last night they suck right now. The bean salad was good, maybe I couldn't get over the fact I was willingly eating cucumbers, which I still think I don't like. I even used the seedless kind.

I watched a little TV, and couldn't decide if I wanted to start the DvD, start playing GTA IV, or mess around on the computer. I finally figured I would go ahead and make desert. Before I could do that, I had to clean the disaster area all that cooking had left in the kitchen. I fired up the grill, turned my iPod player back on, and rolled up the proverbial sleeves. For Christmas last year I got this sweet iPod speaker dock, I keep in the kitchen, and it has been used on a regular basis.

So the desert looked way simple, I fired up the grill, and started getting the ingredients ready.
Grilled Chocolate Chip Banana Cookies.


Click that to get a bigger view, and it's worth it. These turned out silly, ridiculous good.

When I uploaded these to my PC to use on the blog, I found a couple older pics of previous plates.

Here is a little Stir-Fry.

















And this was a mini-frittata dish I made in muffin pans.













I am out of the office tomorrow, so no post until probably Monday. This weekend I am going to see a stand-up comic, Greg Giraldo (sp?) so I will post about that afterwards. Tomorrow, I am paying the car tags in the morning, then playing some golf!!

I'm pretty busy, so that's all you get today.

ciao!


sorry, I forgot to share this cool video sneak peek of Microsoft's WIndows 7 touch interface.

Video: Multi-Touch in Windows 7

ok, now I'm done.

ciao!