Griddlin

Sunday, February 23, 2020

If you ever need proof that I am clinicially insane all you need to do is examine my kitchen decisionmaking.  I've been trying to figure out the best way to cook tortillas.  Cast iron seemed like the obvious choice, but my cast iron is not especially well seasoned and the darned thing smokes.   I need to strip and reseason with some higher smoke point oil, but that's going to have to wait until grilling season since I can't do it indoors - no range hood.  I'd live with the smoke since it's not that bad but I set off the blasted smoke detectors last time and they're super annoying.  Strike one.  Next I tried a sacrificial ceramic nonstick pan, which worked, I guess, though not ideal.  Strike two.  Yesterday I used a stainless steel skillet.  The tortillas were fine but the skillet was not happy and I'm still working on getting it back to pristine condition.  Strike three.  I'm seriously thinking about getting a nonstick electric griddle.  Which would put my investment in tortilla making at somewhere north of fifty dollars.  Sheesh.  Yes, that's my mind at work.

Breakfast:  Bacon, coffee with cacao butter

Reheating leftover bacon certainly goes quickly.  Convenient that I cooked up the rest of the package yesterday.

Lunch:  Homemade tacos

I didn't realize until this morning that I did not have fire sauce with my tacos yesterday.  I finished off a bottle last week and hadn't pulled out the other one I have.  Otherwise, same as yesterday.  Fresh tortillas, everything else was leftover.  I'm definitely getting more efficient, this took about 20 minutes to prepare.

Dinner:  Broiled chicken breast, white and wild Rice a Roni, green beans, cheddar cheese sauce, rolls with butter, 12 oz Miller Lite

Overdid it.  Definitely.   Pretty darned good, though.

Exercise:  Yes.  I humped boxes and stuff for quite a while.  An active day.  It helped a great deal that I threw a compression sock (and two regular socks) on my callused foot and it didn't bother me all day.  Major improvement.  Hopefully that continues, because it's easy enough to do.

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