Cooking Lessons

So, tonight we had individual mini-pizzas for dinner tonight. Gramma Sweetie (Mr. Sweetie's mom) is here for a few days, and we had the good stuff: crab meat, portobello mushrooms and fresh spinach.

Kidlets had pepperoni and sausage.

Making Italian sausage for pizza here at Chez Evil means buying Jennie-O turkey sausages and browning them. But, of course, for pizza, you need crumbled sausage. So that means taking the refrigerated sausages and removing the casings. So, you have these long, curved tubes of meat, contained inside a thin, organic sheath, and you squeeze. . .

It just feels so. . .you know. . .porny.

Note To Self

1. When Kidlet doesn't eat muffin for breakfast, DO NOT leave the house with muffin on the table.

2. Put Dog on immediate Muffin-free diet.


3. Remove the remains before making the bed. (Bloody cur made himself breakfast in bed!)

Breakfast of Champions

So, this morning was a VERY early morning. Pony is off with half the seventh grade for a week of winter camping and community building. Kids were expected at school at 6:45. At 5:20, Pony suddenly remembered that she was supposed to bring a lunch.

Maybe making a lunch isn't so hard for you. Maybe you have kids who actually like peanut butter and jelly. Or turkey sandwiches. Not so much here--Pony is a believer in the Hot Lunch Program, and really really hates every kind of non-cooked food that makes bag lunches possible. So, by 5:30 this morning I was scouring the kitchen for enough calories that she would actually eat, so she could even HAVE a lunch.

Due to my incredibly creative methods, I managed to send enough food. I think she'll even eat it. Among the items enclosed was a carmel roll that I thought she might actually eat for breakfast. So, after Pony was successfully delivered for her trip, Mr. Sweetie and Bunny came home looking for some breakfast.

Mr. Sweetie: Do you know what happened to that carmel roll?

Me: I gave it to Pony for her lunch.

Mr. Sweetie: Oh. We were going to have that for breakfast.



Me: There's quiche! [There was too! From dinner last night--cheese quiche, and a spinach-onion-swiss one too--yummy yummy and only a few seconds in the microwave for hot delicious quiche!]

Mr. Sweetie: Quiche? For breakfast?

Now, Mr. Sweetie is a very smart man, as well as a firm believer in having "normal" things for breakfast. Mr. Sweetie does not eat (ever!) cold pizza for breakfast. Mr. Sweetie would never drink Diet Coke before lunch. Mr. Sweetie is a high powered executive with a business degree from an Ivy League school. Mr. Sweetie says that quiche is not a breakfast food.

Am I wrong about this? Is quiche actually not a breakfast food?

I mean, look at it. What is quiche after all? Eggs, milk, cheese--it's practically the very same thing as an omelet, and surely an omelet is a breakfast food. Quiche is certainly a brunch food. And what is "brunch" but eating breakfast at lunchtime? Quiche is scrambled eggs made in the oven and not on the stove--with a crust. What is it about quiche that removes it from the universe of appropriate breakfast foods? But leaves carmel rolls in?

And consider this a real question, because I'll admit I've eaten cold pizza and Diet Coke for breakfast--maybe. Once. A Long Time Ago. Probably.

What?