Polenta from popcorn, blu cheese, bacon, jalapeño, lettuce

Process 1/4 cup of popcorn kernels in a coffee mill.

Cook two thick strips of bacon as bacon bits in a pot, not a pan.

Add two finely diced jalapeño peppers before the bacon is done.

Add generous butter.

Add two cups of water.

Add the milled popcorn powder to the water before it boils. Stir.

Keep stirring until the mixture boils.

Let it boil a minute. Observe the mixture become thick.

Add broken up cheese. 

Spoon into a bowl.

Top with 1 leaf of chiffon-cut Romaine lettuce including crunchy stem.

This cheese/bacon/jalapeño combination works very well with macaroni and with mashed potatoes and with egg omelet. 

Ben & Jerry's, Cherry Garcia

Taste of Philly, Philadelphia sandwich, dinner salad

Asparagus, zucchini, tomato

Butter and rice vinegar.

Burger Fi, double, cheese, lettuce, tomato, pickle, jalapeño and fries

Nappa cabbage and rice with beef broth and shrimp

1/2 cup rice steamed in a pot.

35 minutes later

Rice removed from the pot and placed into serving bowls.

Pot rinsed out.

1 strip of thick bacon diced finely cooked in the same pot.

1 minute later

Shrimp cut up and added to the pot.

30 seconds later

7 magical Asian flavor ingredients added to the pot.

5 seconds later

Beef broth added to the pot.

45 seconds later

Nappa cabbage stalk ends added to the pot.

30 seconds later

Nappa cabbage green leafy ends added to the pot.

15 seconds later

Everything removed.

This meal is outstanding in its field.

Lookit! There it is now, out there standing in its field.

pizza

2 types of mozzarella and blu cheese. 

Apparently blu cheese melts to oil. 

2 jalapeño peppers were cut up with their membranes and seeds and I could hardly taste them. The cheese muted their capsicum.

Pineapple from a tin. Ew, gross, I know, but I forgot to buy fresh pineapples. And I also forgot that I have some frozen from fresh.  

Shrimp and nappa cabbage

Seven magical Asian flavor ingredients.

What the bottles look like.

Juice, carbonated, orange

Cheese and garlic and hot chile tortilla chips

Masa harina, a magical Mexican ingredient made from milled corn that was treated with lye. The dough this produces when mixed with hot water has the texture of Play Doh and the aroma of Old Mexico. 

The dough is pulled off in the size of golf balls and pressed in a cast-iron smasher between two pieces of plastic. The plastic peeled off one side, then the plastic returned to its place and the wet disc flipped and the other side of the plastic peeled off. Now the disc is sufficiently loosened to peel off onto your hand to place in a pre-heated pan. 

One after another each disc is par-cooked to dehydrate before being cut into six as a pizza and shallow fried in oil.

Each batch is shallow fried until they stop bubbling signaling the water is gone from them and they are crisp. 

Then the chips are tossed in salt or flavored salt while they are still hot so the flavorings stick.

Processed together in a coffee mill to powder.

Ahi tuna salad

It starts out the usual tuna salad then deviates with frozen tuna and 100% additional things with two separate dressings.

A sweet apple and shredded Romaine lettuce with blu cheese dressing is placed in the bottom of a bowl. This is a fine salad by itself.

In another bowl the tuna salad is mixed. 

* chopped onion (frozen this time, so its water is squeezed out)

* sweet pickle relish

* cubed celery

* frozen ahi tuna steak microwaved cooked in pulses in its cryovac packaging. 

* large red bell pepper diced

* jalapeño pepper diced with its seeds and membrane

* cubed cucumber

* mayonnaise.

It's a very nice salad and it amounted to four easy meals.

Raspberries and omelet; mushroom and Romaine lettuce

Half the carton of mushrooms is used.

I want the crunch of the lettuce.

Yo, Micky dis so fine, dis so fine it blows my mind. Yo Mickey. 

Mushrooms are seared briefly in butter with thyme.

Removed from pan.

Fresh butter into the pan.

Three eggs scrambled with a fork poured into the pan.

The edges of set egg pulled toward the center to build up egg curd.

All around the edges.

Again and again. Until all the egg is nearly set.

Lettuce spread lightly across the surface of the egg.

Mushrooms set along 1/2 the top of the egg.

Rolled out onto a plate. 

Remaining lettuce and mushrooms top the rolled omelet. 

Plate finished with raspberries. 

Viola!

Voila!

There. Now you too can be expert at producing ace omelets the likes of which you do not see out among the world at large no matter where you travel. 

Go forth and spread your new ways, placidly amid the haste and noise and remember what peace there may be in spreading your newfound wisdom. For you are a child of the universe no less than the trees and stars and the squirrels in the trees and the planets around the stars and you have a right to be here, probably more right then the squirrels who are very much like rats except with fluffier tails. 

Juice carbonated: apples, pears, carrots, cucumber

Too much foamed out again. 

I learned to do this in the sink. Still too much of a mess. Too much is lost. 

My precious juice. Gone. Just gone.

Juice carbonated: apple, celery

Maybe the Soda Stream isn't such a good idea for juice. Too much foams out. 

It's filled to the black line on the bottle but the viscosity gives too much strength to the bubbles that foam out of the bottle while still in the machine. 

Maybe I could fill them up less, under the black line and see if that works better.

Swiss cheese, egg and bacon sandwich

This sandwich is lovely. Both sides of the bread are toasted in the pan with butter. And it has toasted cheese on the outside as well as melted cheese in the center. Two thick slices of top applewood bacon are fried crisp as bacon bits and stuck to the surface of eggs under melted cheese. Held there in place there is no dropping of the bacon bits as you go. A bit oily to handle, you must have a napkin at hand.

A non-stick pan is used to fry bacon, fry an egg, toast the bread, and toast the cheese.

Toast the cheese. Yeah, cheese turns solid when you fry or bake it.

Arts!

Arts!