chicken or beef
Sep. 22nd, 2009 02:42 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
serynOne of those days when I wish I had friends who were online right this second. I need to get dinner ingredients out of the freezer.
I am trying to decide between pasta in a light sauce with frou-frou chicken sausage or making homemade tortillas (potential fail) and using taco meat from the freezer and canned beans to make tacos.
What really appeals is pumpkin soup and sun dried tomato polenta and a few strips of grilled chicken. Of course that has 3 serious problems: I haven't made a successful pumpkin soup in 5 attempts. I don't like sun dried tomatoes and my polenta is seriously lacking. I can't grill chicken (no grill and no chicken.)
There is another branch to the decision tree where I go to the store and buy tortillas.
I have been eating steak sandwiches with guacamole in pita bread. I think I might have found something really neat with that idea. The guac. reminds me of chimichurri sauce but has that rich gooey factor that usually is brought to American sandwiches by the power-duo of cheese and mayonnaise. I found the steak in the freezer. It was even labled "steak sandwich meat" on the zip-top bag where I stashed it after portioning it. But I had forgotten about it. No loss, the meat's still good and it certainly shines with the oniony guacamole. And pita is a good choice, better than your standard whole wheat bread at least.
So probably I should make the chicken stuff. I could mix up tortilla dough, then it could rest for longer before I had to manipulate it. Probably resting over night is going to make it easier than just an hour. I don't have a tortilla press, but I do have a plethora of plastic cutting boards I can temporarily hinge with packing tape.
I am trying to decide between pasta in a light sauce with frou-frou chicken sausage or making homemade tortillas (potential fail) and using taco meat from the freezer and canned beans to make tacos.
What really appeals is pumpkin soup and sun dried tomato polenta and a few strips of grilled chicken. Of course that has 3 serious problems: I haven't made a successful pumpkin soup in 5 attempts. I don't like sun dried tomatoes and my polenta is seriously lacking. I can't grill chicken (no grill and no chicken.)
There is another branch to the decision tree where I go to the store and buy tortillas.
I have been eating steak sandwiches with guacamole in pita bread. I think I might have found something really neat with that idea. The guac. reminds me of chimichurri sauce but has that rich gooey factor that usually is brought to American sandwiches by the power-duo of cheese and mayonnaise. I found the steak in the freezer. It was even labled "steak sandwich meat" on the zip-top bag where I stashed it after portioning it. But I had forgotten about it. No loss, the meat's still good and it certainly shines with the oniony guacamole. And pita is a good choice, better than your standard whole wheat bread at least.
So probably I should make the chicken stuff. I could mix up tortilla dough, then it could rest for longer before I had to manipulate it. Probably resting over night is going to make it easier than just an hour. I don't have a tortilla press, but I do have a plethora of plastic cutting boards I can temporarily hinge with packing tape.
