It's hard to come by in this house. I don't think the parents like fish. I love fish. I miss fish. So when I went on a grocery shopping trip with Dad I jumped at the chance to buy some fish. Some fish that would be fit for FRYING.
Deep frying has recently come into mine and BF's lives. We'd never made fish and chips from scratch so, since he was over and we don't celebrate Easter, we deep fried some fish. And some potatoes. It was wonderful.
We used Alton Brown's fish and chip recipe as a guideline and went from there. We didn't have Old Bay seasoning and we had a six pack of Torpedo. I'd say it worked out just as well. Dad kept saying it was awesome.
Although it was an all afternoon affair, it was totally worth it. I need more deep fried foods in my life. And more real beer. Gluten-Free just isn't the same.
Ok. So. Maybe it’s not laziness so much as I put everything of until the veeeeery last minute. My procrastination/laziness sometimes comes from being nervous about classes, work, job interviews, or new recipes. Sometimes it comes from me being a Forgetful Franny. Mostly it’s the latter. But let me tell you.. In the case that I am about to elaborate on there’s no one to blame but myself. I am aware of this and I’m mostly OK with it, but there’s nothing I can really do to change. I think to really grasp what I’m talking about I need to tell you a few tidbits about myself.
I don’t own bread.
I never boil eggs.
I love egg salad sandwiches.
Therein lies a small problem that I’ve had for quite some time.Then I read an entry over at Noble Pig and whatever problems I had vanished, as she almost always does when I read her blog. That, my friends, was when I realized I can have my egg salad sandwiches and not boil eggs. This is what I found:
7 large eggs, scrambled
1/2 cup mayonnaise
1 Tablespoon mustard
1/4 cup chopped green onion
4 sweet pickles (or dill), diced
Salt and pepper to taste
Scramble seven, large eggs in a nonstick pan. Turn them out on a cutting board and give them a good chop.
Add the chopped eggs to a bowl along with 1/2 cup mayonnaise, 1 Tablespoon mustard, 1/4 cup chopped green onion, 4 diced sweet pickles and salt and pepper to taste. Mix until you have your desired consistency.
Refrigerate for one hour or longer before serving on your favorite bread or roll.
Amounts of ingredients will change depending on how many eggs you use. (I only used 3 eggs. And it was one too many for my appetite)
I cannot even begin to tell you how my life has changed. I even went out and bought bread just for the occasion. Bread that is now in my freezer and will probably go uneaten for a month or 2. Two out of three ain't bad.
UPDATE!!
Day 23, money spent thus far: $43.94
I had a craving for cold fruit and to surprise BF with homemade easy cheese danishes, so a trip to the grocery store was in order.
