Justin Coslor's Culinary Blog Culinary Entry #1 -- Fried Cheese Buy shredded cheese, put 1-2 handfulls of cheese on a plate and microwave it for 2-3 minutes, then eat it with a fork. Culinary Entry #2 -- Soup Broth Buy chicken or beef bouillon, crush the cube into powder with a rolling pin on a cutting board or use fingers to crumble it. Put soup powder in a coffee mug with water and microwave it for 2-3 minutes. Add chopped salsa vegetables if desired. Drink & enjoy! Culinary Entry #3 -- Chicken & Dumpling Soup Put chicken bouillon cubes in a soup pot and add water. Bring the soup to a boil, then make dumplings. Dumplings are easy, just put 1 cup of wheat flour in a mixing bowl and add a little bit of water. Tear off nuggets of the dumpling dough and drop them in the boiling soup water. Then let it boil for a few more minutes, and use a ladel to transfer soup and dumplings into a bowl or coffee mug, and eat with a spoon or fork. That's just 3 ingredients: water, bouillon, and flour. Pretty easy! # Culinary Entry #1 -- Fried Cheese # Buy shredded cheese, put 1-2 handfulls of cheese on a plate and # microwave it for 2-3 minutes, then eat it with a fork. # Culinary Entry #2 -- Soup Broth # Buy chicken or beef bouillon, crush the cube into powder with a # rolling pin on a cutting board or use fingers to crumble it. Put # soup powder in a coffee mug with water and microwave it for 2-3 # minutes. Add chopped salsa vegetables if desired. Drink & enjoy! # Culinary Entry #3 -- Chicken & Dumpling Soup # Put chicken bouillon cubes in a soup pot and add water. Bring the # soup to a boil, then make dumplings. Dumplings are easy, just put 1 # cup of wheat flour in a mixing bowl and add a little bit of water. # Tear off nuggets of the dumpling dough and drop them in the boiling # soup water. Then let it boil for a few more minutes, and use a ladel # to transfer soup and dumplings into a bowl or coffee mug, and eat # with a spoon or fork. That's just 3 ingredients: water, bouillon, # and flour. Pretty easy! Culinary Entry #4 -- Deep Fried Bacon End Pieces Get a deep fryer and high temperature cooking oil such as rice bran oil, and deep fry bacon end pieces so that the fat sizzles down to a crisp and the bacon meat gets cooked. This actually removes much more fat than just frying bacon in a frying pan. Culinary Entry #5 -- Canned Salmon & Mayo Sandwiches Open up a can of canned salmon and drink the juice, then put it in a bowl with several spoonfuls of mayo and stir it up like a tuna fish sandwich, then serve on bread as sandwiches. Salmon is good brain food. Feed the brain then you get smarter and everything improves. Culinary Entry #6 -- Pork Fried Rice Make rice in the rice cooker and then add chicken soup bouillon powder to the rice. Fry up some thin strips of two scrambled eggs, and add it to the rice, and then pour soda pop on it and fry it until the pop caramelizes the rice. Then chop up some pork into small pieces and fry them in soda pop, to add to the rice or for on the side. Also, thaw out some frozen peas to put on the side, and make a pot of tea. Serve it hot, such as by heating the plate in the oven to keep it hot. Culinary Entry #6 -- Vegetarian Sausage Make a vegetarian sausage out of wheat and onions. Let wheat grains soak overnight or boil them to soften them, then cut up some onions and put both in a food processor or blender to puree it along with some salt and pepper and vegetable oil, citric acid crystals, and coriander. Then either squeeze it into balls and roll them in fish fry or flour and deep fry it or make patties out of it to fry on the stove top. It tastes like sausage. It might be related to falafel or tempei. Spice it with cumin before cooking for it to taste like falafel. However really all you need is wheat and onions. Culinary Entry #7 -- Vegetarian Sausage Make a vegetarian sausage out of wheat and onions. Let wheat grains soak overnight or boil them to soften them, then cut up some onions and put both in a food processor or blender to puree it along with some salt and pepper and vegetable oil, citric acid crystals, and coriander. Then either squeeze it into balls and roll them in fish fry or flour and deep fry it or make patties out of it to fry on the stove top. It tastes like sausage. It might be related to falafel or tempei. Spice it with cumin before cooking for it to taste like falafel. However really all you need is wheat and onions. Culinary Entry #8 -- Pad Thai (Peanut Butter Noodles) Put a handful of spaghetti noodles broken in half in a frying pan with water and chicken bouillon, bring to a boil at a high heat, and then add peanut butter to the noodles in the pan and stir until all of the water has evaporated. Then serve with a salad or greens and spices if you want. Culinary Entry #9 -- Chicken Noodle Soup Boil water with a handful of spaghetti noodles broken in half and add chicken soup bouillon, and boil it until the noodles are soft, remember to stir it, and serve in a bowl or mug. You can even boil it down to a thick sauce of noodles and bouillon, which is pretty good. It might be good with some shredded cheese thrown in there to melt and taste good. Eat and enjoy! * The wheat and onions in the blender fries up in the frying pan with some vegetable oil, but it must be served with ketchup on top to taste good. Then it tastes like hamburger. Culinary Entry #10 -- Chicken Soup Boil a whole chicken in a huge kettle of water for a few hours, then add vegetables and spices such as pepper, ground chilli pepper, salt, citric acid, ground coriander, and liquid smoke. Bring it to a boil again, and let it cool and store it in the refrigerator. Ladel some out into a bowl or mug and microwave it to heat it up. It lasts for at least a week if you prepare several bowls of it per day. Add extra water if too thick. Add chicken soup bouillon powder if it is too thin. Add either rice or noodles to thicken it up if you want to. Culinary Entry #11 - Buy a head of cabbage and chop some of it into squares or strips, then boil it in a pot with some water and soup bouillon. Tastes great, and is very inexpensive! Boil some chopped potatoes to add to it if desired. Culinary Entry #12 -- Refried Beans Go to the food bank or grocery store and buy a bag of beans such as pinto beans or other whole dry beans, and don't pay more than $1.50 for it. Rinse the beans in the sink and then boil the beans in pot of hot water for a few hours, adding more water from time to time. Then turn the temperature down to low and let them simmer for a few more hours until soft and tasty, and then mash the beans with a potato masher in the pot until the beans are like a muddy pond. Then add lots of spices ranging from salt to citrus crystals (ascorbic citric acid such as vitamin C crystals from the bulk food spice section), and hot chili pepper flakes and a bay leaf and some olive oil. Vinegar is optional since the citric acid will make it sour enough. Don't add sugar until you are ready to serve them, or not at all. I like to put ground coriander seeds in it, and some paprika (powdered bell peppers), and some liquid smoke + gentian aromatic bitters (optional). Then stir the spices in and serve or let it all simmer on low for however long you want to help break down the beans and to evaporate the remaining water at a low temperature. If you don't have spices, just stir in a small can of tomato sauce from a food bank or grocery store. This recipe makes a whole lot of refried beans, and they get better and better each day, whether or not you refrigerate it (just heat it up each day when you get hungry). Shredded cheese would also be good in place of the tomato sauce, and the cheese melts into it, tasting delicious. Fix a pot of rice to go with it on the side, and you can use the refried beans in Mexican food such as burritos and enchalada and tostadas and tacos. Taste test the food from time to time with a clean spoon, and as long as you don't burn the beans, you will have a whole lot of refried beans that taste delicious on their own merit. If you do burn the beans, add extra citric acid and move all but the burned bottom to a clean cooking pot, as that can save a pot of beans whether it be refried beans or chili. Speaking of chili, you can make a tasty chili with this recipe by just refraining from mashing the beans with a potato masher wand, and add lots of tomatoes and tomato sauce and cheese and browned hamburger (optional). The longer that the beans cook at a low temperature, the tastier they are, and consider using a slow-cooker instead of a pot on a stove pot to avoid burning the beans, and you can rest easy and leave it on in the slow cooker overnight or while you are at work/school. Shredded cheese is also delicious mixed in with rice in a rice cooker. Rice cookers are awesome. Use one. Justin Coslor 9/27/2015 Culinary Entry #13 -- Eggs with Ketchup Fry some eggs and put ketchup on them. Culinary Entry #14 -- Indian Food (Curry Lentils) Find a small sauce pan and boil some water with poultry or other bouillon cubes/powder and add some powdered curry from the bulk spice section. Then add lentils and olive oil and chopped Roma tomatoes and chopped jalapenos and simmer for about half an hour until the lentils are done. Then just serve and eat it or put it on naan bread or basmati rice, which is easy to make in a rice cooker. Meat can be added to the sauce if desired such as chicken or beef or lamb, but chop and pre-cook the meat before mixing it in. Culinary Entry #15 -- Chicken Vindaloo (Curry Chicken) Fry some chicken in a pan, then in a different pan cook rice & potatoes & chick peas, then in a sauce pot cook chicken bouillon with curry powder and (add coriander and mustard seeds and chilli pepper flakes if desired) with water and simmer it. Then add all of the ingredients together and serve. Reheat refridgerated leftovers from this for up to a week. Add sugar or soda pop to the mixture if sweetness is desired. Culinary Entry #16 -- Elbow Fettuccine (mushroom cream sauce noodles) Boil a sauce pot of elbow noodles, drain the water, mix in a small can of cream of mushroom soup and enjoy! Culinary Entry #? - Labels http://elingreso.com/2011/05/22/is-that-food-organic-lables-tell-you-3-4-8-9/ These PLU numbers are the “Product Look-Up Numbers”. The leading number gives you useful information, if you know the code… I remember the code on fruit and veggies using a simple rhyme… 8, I hate. It’s GMO! :-( 9 is fine. Organic. :-) All others, like 3 or 4, are neither GMO or organic. They are conventionally grown. This means the growers could have applied poisons to the food, including pesticides, herbicides, and synthetic fertilizer. But the food itself is not genetically modified.