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A Simple yet tasty meal. Brummel & Brown [i] yogurt spread, honey if you want sweet. The preparation here is simple: make the coffee, swab the bread in the dish of spread, and [optionally] squirt some honey on it. Yum. The bread in question here is pumpernickel rye from the SuperTarget bakery [ target.com ]. In fact, all the ingredients came from the SuperTarget, since it's right up the street... Also used in the preparation of this meal - Melitta coffee filters, Starbucks coffee (Sumatran, "cone ground"), Nestle CoffeeMate [powdered] non-dairy creamer, Ice Mountain spring water, and the RTH brand hot pot [i] from CVS Pharmacy . The Archer Farms Blueberry Honey ["Archer Farms" is a Target store brand] pictured in the Picasa gallery looks cool, and isn't bad, but doesn't taste much like blueberries - apparently the honey is made by bees who are feeding on blueberry plant blossoms or something - it's not blueberry flavored ...

Ordered from Lee's Egg Roll House: chicken & mushrooms, spicy with garlic; an extra pint of white rice (the chicken came with a half pint of rice); and spicy noodles. This order cost something like $12 and change (tip to delivery guy not included). There was enough food there for two meals. They sent 2 Styrofoam plates, about 6 plastic forks, two plastic spoons, 2 plastic packets of Panda soy sauce, two plastic packets of Panda hot mustard, and one fortune cookie. The "spicy noodle" was $2.99 and was what appeared to be ramen noodle soup. Not bad, but something we could probably make in the microwave for - say $1 if we got the high end ramens... The mushrooms were nothing special, and in fact seemed a little tough, but the spiciness was right, and the chicken was good, although it was breaded. There is no tofu or bean curd on the menu. When I called I asked them about it, and they just said "no", they didn't have it. There is some sushi on t...

Ingredients: 1 pkg organic extra firm tofu 1 pkg uncle ben's pre-cooked wild rice thai peanut sauce "rooster" chili sauce some chili oil I found in target chopped garlic some powdered ginger root mixed with sake (about an oz) Directions: put the tofu, oil, peanut sauce, chili sauce, garlic, and galanga mixture into a bowl and microwave it for 2 minutes (time may vary) when the tofu finishes, put the package of rice in for 90 seconds (don't forget to open the top of it, or it makes a disturbing 'pop' sound at about 63 seconds into the cook cycle :D) when the rice is done, put it in the bowl with the tofu, stir it up (w/ chopsticks) enjoy! This is basically another one of my "meal-in-a-bowl" specialties - quite tasty! It would be good with some chicken or beef broth, too, but I only have 1 liter cartons of those, and didn't want to open one, since I'll be leaving before I could use it up, and the weather is ...

Powdered ginger root and sake makes a good sauce - just put some powdered ginger root in a bowl or cup and moisten it with the sake; add sake and mix thoroughly tp get all the lumps out - add sake and stir until a desired consistency is achieved. This turned out to be a good way to apply powdered ginger to a dish of rice, egg, and beef broth. Other seasonings used were chopped garlic, a mixture of chili-sesame oil and olive oil, and soy sauce. The entire recipe went like this: In a ceramic (microwavable) bowl, combine cooked rice, beef broth, two raw eggs, oils, and chopped garlic "to taste" Use a chopstick to poke the yolks on the the eggs (this keeps them from exploding in the microwave) Microwave on high for a few minutes (how long will depend on your microwave and how much rice and broth you're using - 1500W microwave for 3 minutes should work - this works better if you cover the bowl) While the bowl is in the microwave, mix the the ginger sauce - You...

Well, we decided to try out something new that was (apparently) dropped off by the mothership in time for our recent visit to the store - a 'microwave rice cooker'. Unfortunately, this device failed catastrophically 'out of the box' - on the first try. Pictured below are the results. The full album (linked from Picasa) tells the rest of the story, in pictures. From MicrowaveRice...

Ingredients that go in many things: flour tortillas ("fajita size") hot chili sauce powdered ginger root dried chopped chives extra virgin olive oil sesame oil chili oil tofu soy sauce thai peanut sauce sea salt tuna salmon chicken eggs soy milk candy cookies honey rice seasoning sushi rice wild rice oatmeal garlic dried fruit bits soy sauce mushrooms cheese hummus bread Brand names we use: Aquafina Bolthouse Farms Sriracha (chili sauce) Kikoman Brachs Worthington Mission Brand (tortillas) Melitta Botan (Calrose Rice) Myojo (Udon) Dynasty (sesame oil, maifun) Tabasco Cheerios American Spirit Tobacco Top cigarette filter tubes Rizzla cigarette tube packing device Bic Zippo Orient White Tea w/ mardarin orange Sun-Maid (dried fruit) Star-Kist (tuna in oil) Chicken of the Sea (salmon) Zatarain's (cooked, packaged rice) Brummel & Brown's Yogurt Spread Equipment: ...

Take two vegelinks - the kind from Worthington - put them in the microwave (together) for 40 seconds. Slice some cheese thinly Place each link in a flour tortilla While the links are still hot, put the sliced cheese on the links Add some taco bell fire sauce to each Wrap the tortilla around the link, cheese, and sauce Enjoy!

Ginger - Zingiber officinale by Steven Foster is a monograph on ginger - what it is, it's history, some traditional uses from different cultures, and some modern lore. References are included.

From the Earth Food Labs: Using a rice cooker (test model was a Black and Decker model from Walmart) to cook maifun. pour the entire contents of a 0.5 liter (16.9oz) bottle of water (Aquafina) into the rice cooker Switch the rice cooker on (i.e. plug it in and move the switch to the 'Cook' position). Once the water starts to bubble, add the entire contents of a 6.75oz (191g) package of Dynasty Maifun Rice Sticks. Place the lid on the rice cooker and wait for it to switch to "Warm". The maifun are ready to eat. It may help to remove the lid now and then and break the mainfun apart e.g. with a pair of chopsticks - making sure to stir them down into the water. Ideally, the rice cooker should switch to 'Warm' mode once the water is cooked out - whereupon the noodles are ready to be removed from cooker. Notes: In all tests, the water was absorbed into the noodles as they cooked, so there was no need to drain the noodles after cooking. In...