MEAT! Glorious, fabulous, delicious MEAT! And cheese!

[wolfwings]

How to make a delicious feast for under $5 a person, albeit a simple one. Take one package Pillsbury french loaf dough. SLOWLY brown one pound of the fattiest ground meat you can find, on the order of 22%-30% fat. And by slowly, I mean cook all the fat off, you shouldn't have to drain this meat, expect it to take 45 minutes or longer. Grate and stir in one half pound of cheese of choice over very low heat, in my case Jack over ground Beef. Make sure it's a pure-diary cheese, oil-hybrids cause problems. Unroll the french loaf dough into a flat square sheet. It has a seam, find it and tease it apart, with wet fingers it unrolls quite easilly. Spread the 'filling' across the bread, leaving about 1" along the 'top' and 'bottom' untouched, as well as about 2-3" along one edge to tuck over. Roll it up from the 'borderless' side, then tuck the ends over to 'seal' it closed properly, tucking them under the loaf when you put it on a baking sheet or tin foil to bake. Cook for the usual time, 30 minutes at 350 degrees. When it comes out, enjoy hot, or carve chunks off and wrap in tin foil or a towel to put in a backpack for a hike.

Okay, now that you're all gaining weight just reading that recipe... cooking this, let alone eating it, is somewhere beyond cartharitic for me. It's something feral... primitive. It harkens back to rough food, rich to the point of obesity to keep animals running themselves ragged alive... and satisfied.

The creation of this recipe, which I thank my grandmother for helping me figure out the details of what would work and what was safe, I blame squarely on Anne McCafferey. Love or hate her, many find her as their first exposure to dragons on a scale few consider. The 'full' recipe makes the dough as well, but I've found little gained from that over simply buying the 'dough' in the convenient form Pillsbury makes it in.

This came from my many burnt and failed attempts to make meatrolls when I was less than 14 years old, an expedition that got me hooked on cooking, and the marvels I could do with naught but wood and seasoned iron, a handful of dried plants, and my instincts...

Cooking is the closest I come to experiencing that 'artistic mood' so many artists can have so often. It's the one time besides martial arts or just fighting that I can let my entire conscious mind go... fall back on my primitive instincts, trusting my reflexes to pull down the right amount of this, mix it with the right portion of that...

Yes, I'm still in 'that' mood, wishing I could stand at the edge of a cliff, overlooking a field and the crags and ridges all around me, and just feel the wind whipping past my arms, past my face, feel the brush and rocks whip by as I run along them, run through them...

But, lacking that, I can make food so rich it can give people heart attacks at fourty paces. =^.^=

On a different note... I'm almost glad Maly's necklace hasn't gotten here, as I was able to surprise a house-mate with a nifty 'gift' on their copy of Animal Crossing while they were gone at work today. I plugged in the GBA on the link cable (which you do get, Maly!) and drew them the 'Invader Zim' logos as patterns and left them on the game for them. That is, sadly, the extend of my 'artistic' talent, though I plan to fix that starting next year.

Turns out my job pays for schooling in full! Not gonna do much, but by Goddess I'm taking a fekking art class. I don't care if I pass or fail, but by Goddess I'm going to give it one helluva go now that I have the chance. I'm not going to let the chance pass me by again like it did so many years ago...

Comments

Massive amounts of protein

[sardonicus.livejournal.com]

Been there, eaten that....minus the cheese. My roomie does a great meat roll. I should get her to write it down so I could send it along for comparision.

And good for you, getting that class! Now, if we can get Sarah as well to start taking classes.....hummm, need a life model?

My original didn't have the cheese either.

[wolfwings.livejournal.com]

It was a later addition for shorter-term ones that would only be good a week at the most, with refrigeration. Without the cheese, they keep well for a month at a stretch in tin-foil in the fridge. :-)

And right now, I found out my company pays for school classes less than a week ago, at the same yearly review I got a full 10% raise. So right now I'm still scrabbling to find a school for next 'semester' to try to enroll in and stuff.

And I think I'd just simply laugh if I ended up at the same school as Sarah, mostly because it would be ludicious, but fit right in with the 'dumb luck' we seem to have in our respective lives.

Re: Cheeeeese!

[sardonicus.livejournal.com]

From what I've heard you two mention, that sounds all too likely.

One of these days, I should investigate if it's possible to bus or train down to Garden Grove. It would be neat to see you or go to Tess's again.

Gods yes that would be nifty. :-)

[wolfwings.livejournal.com]

Though now, I'm in the mood to chatter, unless you have to get to bed very soon? Dunno why, between cooking, smelling the scent in the air, and having a nibble of it among other foodstuffs, there's no way I'm gonna get my mind wound down enough to sleep for an hour or three yet. =^.^=

If you can, gimme a ring on my cell phone number? Not the house line, everyone else _is_ asleep, but my cell phone won't wake anyone up. =^.^=

Re: Gods yes that would be nifty. :-)

[sardonicus.livejournal.com]

Okay :)

Re: niftiness delayed

[sardonicus.livejournal.com]

Erf :(

Darn it, for some reason the phone jack in my room isn't cooperating, and the only other one is too close to my room-mate's bed.

Maybe I should start looking at a cell.....though I tend to lose such things.

It's annoying, as I find your voice a pleasant one to listen to. It's snuggable, as are you.

Re: niftiness delayed

[wolfwings.livejournal.com]

Erf, understandable though. *snugs and fidgets elsewhere in the meantime* And it's not cooperating how, praytell? =^.^= I thought you were on a modem, or did you finally get DSL or such-not? *is a little lost on that regard*

Re: niftiness delayed

[sardonicus.livejournal.com]

I'm on broadband here, through Time Warner cable. It's been very nice, particularly as regards music, games, and downloads.

I'm not sure what it is. The phone just isn't responding when I plug into the phone jack here, but does just fine in her room, with the faceplate lighting up and everything. It's been unused for a while, as it's too near my bed for mornings, but it was covered over so I can't imagine dust being an issue.

*muzzlelicks a wolf* I do wish I had more time with you over that Halloween party. Amber wasn't the only one there I wanted to snuggle intimately with....

Re: niftiness delayed

[wolfwings.livejournal.com]

I think it's safe to say I'd have loved a big snuggle-pile of you and Amber all to myself. =^.^=And good luck sorting out whatever is the problem with the wiring, I dunno. *snugs* I'll figure something out, and probably crash out before too long.

Nuzzles and dreams

[sardonicus.livejournal.com]

Take care of yourself, Wolf. I'm quite sorry we couldn't do this.....and all due to some niggling little mechanical failure like a loose wire, which is what it is in all likelihood.

I'd agree as to Amber and yourself. She's like a house on fire, as regards life-energy. And I've thought you quite edible since I first got to really know you. Not to mention, you also kiss very nicely.

Sleep well, when it comes time, and dream of being pounced by a large toothycat.

Feral states..

[lionman.livejournal.com]

I find that my more feral and satisfying state is when I'm eating ribs...BBQ ribs..with your hands, ripping meat from bone, and sucking the marrow of life.. Mmmm...-that's- good stuff. Murr!