{"id":2207,"date":"2002-02-15T20:02:49","date_gmt":"2002-02-16T01:02:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/wp\/?p=2207"},"modified":"2002-02-15T20:02:49","modified_gmt":"2002-02-16T01:02:49","slug":"friday_five_8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2002\/02\/15\/friday_five_8.html","title":{"rendered":"Friday Five!"},"content":{"rendered":"

It’s time for the (duh) Friday Five<\/a>, unusually this week presented here actually on Friday.<\/p>\n

1. What was the first thing you ever cooked? <\/b>
\nProbably instant oatmeal. One of the first dishes I remember cooking when out on my own, however, was mini-pizzas using pizza sauce, mozarella cheese, and English Muffins. Yum.<\/p>\n

2. What’s your signature dish? <\/b>
\nMargie does most of the cooking in our household (and that’s certainly not any surprise for those who have been blessed by her cooking). My “signatures” are desserts — chocolate pecan strata probably being the most so, though I bake a mean pecan pie.<\/p>\n

3. Ever had a cooking disaster? (tasted like crap, didn’t work, etc.) Describe. <\/b>
\nHeh. A casserole that called for diced green chiles, but I didn’t find any at the store, so I bought diced jalipeno peppers. Heh.<\/p>\n

4. If skill and money were no object, what would make for your dream meal? <\/b>
\nBeing a meat-n-potatoes kind of guy, money is not usually an object (insofar as I don’t have a yen for pickled hummingbird tongues or anything). And skill — well, I can follow any recipe, and Margie is a damned sight better than that, so that’s also not usually an object.<\/p>\n

The fact is, I usually get to eat my dream meals. Chile verde. Pepper steak. Cottage fries. A wide array of desserts. Yum, yum, yum, and I have the waistline to prove it.<\/p>\n

The only place where money might be an object — a really good wine with dinner, a good port afterwards. But I can also usually make due with cheap stuff, too, if well-selected.<\/p>\n

5. What are you doing this weekend? <\/b>
\nMy in-laws are in town, so probably some sort of a project (we finally built Katherine’s bunk bed this afternoon). A real doorbell, perhaps? Then, Sunday, we’re having fried turkey with friends, hopefully with a working burner this time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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