12/20

Should I resurrect this in the new year?


Does anyone even care honestly?

30/31/32

I'm wondering, if you are still out there, are you still searching for meaning in life (like myself).


I'm rebuilding myself piece by piece. Breakdowns are never fun, especially when you shatter.

Thrice during this repose I made homefries. Expect me back in full action soon, but not quite yet.

29

Dinner:

bean burger.
mashed potatoes.
home fries.


I'm pretty potatoed out.

"Twenty eight...tell me are you single yet? My heart's as big as texas..."

I made them for lunch. they were bland. I'm still too stressed/busy to really write about them. sorry.

also, like the human calendar? I saw it on someones blog.

27

I forgot to post last night. well I rememberd that I forgot but then I was too tired. this is like the week from hell.

I'll try and do a detailed post this weekend chronicling this week. I did make them though.

26

Made them tonight too. too busy to write about them. check back later for details.

20+5

I made them today but I have a lot of studying to do. I'll edit this post when I get time.

schwenty 4

HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

I have a surprise for my probably 1 reader (maybe 2).


I woke up around 1, and just got done making homefries and mashed potatoes.

Homefries:

1 yukon gold, peeled
3 Red potatoes, unpeeled (also, smallish)


Parboiled in salted water. Frying pan. salt. pepper. oil. high heat. more pepper. more pepper. cover. (did I mention more pepper?)

1/4 a white onion, roughly chopped. 1 clove of garlic, roughly chopped. some green pepper (new ingredient!!!) roughly diced.

After a time, lower heat, uncover and throw those bad boys in. with more salt. and pepper. and pepper. and pepper.

cook. I added a little (well accidentally kinda a lot) of pickle juice.

They're still pretty good. I cooked them a little too long, I can tell by the color of the green pepper.


The mashed potatoes turned out good too. Yummy way to start the day.



(phone camera photograph. dedicated to gary granger <3)

so

10/30/09

Did not make homefries. again. I was busy. I had them at amy's place though. that should be enough for you people! besides, I'm exhausted. I'd make them now, but it is saturday so they wouldn't count. okay bye.

XXIII (XXIIV?)

Day 23 of homefries. I'm currently eating them.

first, my bounty from yesterday:
Russet
Purple
Red Creamer
Red
Yukon Gold

I gotted those varieties.


A bunch of local garlic ($1.99 a lb, you seriously cannot go wrong. I used to get the organic $5.99 a lb crap but then I realized, why should I support California organic farmers when God knows NYS farmers have such a hard time getting anything done...damn our laws)

A green pepper, 2 shallots, 2 yellow onions & a red onion.

oh and a pomegranate but that's not for you.


So I woke up late & after analytical came home (where I am now) to shower & eat some food. I am currently missing spanish. oh well.

anyways, 2 yukon gold potatoes, par boiled. Fried, covered, then uncovered & added some roughly chopped garlic, onion, & ginger mint. Cooked. Added a sprinkle of cinnamon & some Fine Herbes (read about Fine Herbes here). Then a little pickle juice.

I served them with leftovers from Amy's Place (YUM!). It's half of the "full" lentil-berry sandwich (which I HIGHLY reccommend).

Anyways, not too bad, but not really as flavorful as I was hoping. I have to go herb shopping today or tomorrow.

Oh I've been listening to this over and over whilst I have cooked/eaten them, it's really beautiful:

22

I went shopping today.
I got like a million kinds of potatoes and so many of them.

I have a lot to do tonight.

1 potato, some onion, and a clove of garlic & a scoop of salsa.

they were too dry.

sorry I gotta go.
& sorry about last night. I ran out of tatoes.

5 day forecast brings black tar rains & hellfire

So I didn't make homefries last night. I had a large dinner at amy's place. also I'm out of potatoes. so yeah.

I am going shopping tonight for taters & spices & stuff.


leave me more suggestions!

Comments are open to everyone!!!

21

Homefries & MAshed potatoes again tonight!


Melted butter and added garlic, basil, salt, pepper. Cooked on high for a few minutes. Added straight to my potatoes I was mashing.


Used the frying pan (without washing) & threw in the par boiled taters. Salt pepper olive oil.

Cookcookcookcookcook shakeshake cookcookcookcook shakeshake cookcookcookcookcook shakeshake.

Added onions & garlic.

Is there really such a thing as too much garlic? I don't think so. I went through 2 cloves tonight. um.


Oh I added some pickle juice too. it was really delicious.

Suggestions

I'd like to hear your voice, whoever you are.

Comment this post with flavors/items/possible pairings that you would like me to use in my homefries!

Let me know cos I have to go shopping.


okay yeah.

20

TOnight I had homefries and mashed potatoes.

yum!

homefries:

Par boil a cubed potato.

Salt. Pepper. Oil. High heat. Lid.


Shake em up every once in a while.

Garlic and a little roughly chopped onion.

A spoonful of salsa. heat a little more yum yum.


Also, put mozerella cheese into your mashed potatoes. it's so good.

And: yesterday I made so many homefries and everyone loved them so yeah that made me happy.

Happy Birthday Brian

Today we made a breakfast birthday (reverse those..I'm tired) for Brian. With brian. I have gotten 40 minutes of sleep the past 36 hours. tired.


home fries. everyone liked them. don't use so much curry nxt time.
the end.


sleepy.

XVIII

I've discovered something.

Quick, good homefries.

They lack the nuances of flavor found usually in my homefries, but they require no more chopping than the potatoes.


Ready?

I used one potato.

cubed (not too large, they cook faster this way). Put in a hot pan, add some salt pepper & oil. Cover.
High heat.
*time passes*

two minutes later shake em up baby (twist & shout?) Give em about 5 more minutes, shaking maybe two or three times.

Salsa. I use about a spoonful. Add to taste & depending on the amount of your potatoes! Mix it in and cook for 1-3 more minutes.

Not too bad, to be honest. I'm leaving for Fredonia soon so I had to make them quick and this worked surprisingly well. Under 10 minutes of cooking!!

kbye

XVII

A few announcements:
I've opened up comments to everyone so even if you don't have a blogger account or whatever you can just comment.
That's the only announcement.

I would like to dedicate tonight's post to my new friend Tara.

so. 4 small potatoes tonight. I've been experimenting with cube sizes. I used to do pretty big hunks but now I'm kinda liking a smaller size.

I put some water over to boil (salted) while I peeled. I diced. Waited. Water boiled. I threw them in.

While the water was boiling I went to get a clove of garlic. I accidentally got a massive clove (the size of 2 cloves) but whatever. chopchopchopchop I love garlic. (Side note: I consume at least a clove of garlic a day. I am starting to smell like it all the time.)

So this is about 2 minutes later and the water is back to a full boil. so I drained them and threw them in a frying pan. Salt and pepper (I went heavy on the pepper) and poured a little olive oil over them. (I don't stir it all up or anything...just leave the salt pepper on top and the oil will spread out).

So I chopped some onion. I am learning that more onion is not necessarily better (same goes with garlic)! The point of homefries is really to showcase the potato and too much onion just kinda ruins it. So go light on it (you can go a little heavier with garlic..I would never go more than 2 cloves probably though....actually 3). Well at this point my onion is chopped and they've been going on high heat about 5 minutes. So I shake them around and stuff.

cover.

I went to chop a thai hot pepper up too (50K-100K on the Scoville scale). I chopped the top off and then ran it under water and just squished it around in my hands to force maybe half the seeds out. Then I roughly chopped it. Some dill too.

Uncover and add everything...garlic onions dill pepper. I mixed it all around.

Went in my fridge to get my jam and saw salsa. Mild. I thought, hey, why the hell not? So I threw in about a spoonful and just mixed and heated so the cold salsa wouldn't be cold and it was well mixed.


The texture is really good tonight, and I like them with the salsa too actually. Quite good. I'm def gonna experiment with this again.

SPECIAL EVENT

Just saw Andrew Bird & St. Vincent.


St. Vincent first:

She is tiny. She is pale. She is beautiful. She is the angel of death. They were really awesome (her + the band). No one (sans Brian and I) moved. The guy next to me yelled at me :( Stupid hipsters. Except he was a dad. Anyways when she was playing "The Marrow" I totally pictured her in body worlds surrounded by cross sectioned bodies. It was really awesome. She makes such scary music. Also, it almost seemed like she wanted no one to dance (like on of those "artsy bands") BUT I think she was really just waiting for Brian and I to H-E-L-P her and Save her, save her from what she wants. blah blah she's hot.

Andrew Bird:

Setlist:
Cannonade
Water Jet Cliche
Sweet Breads (original "Dark Matter)
Why?
A Nervous Tic Motion of the Head to the Left
The Giant of Illinois
Effigy
Tenuous
Masterfade
Anonanimal
Natural Disaster
Trimmed+Burning
Happy Birthday Song
Lusitania (NEW SONG! He played it with Annie. So beautiful)
MARRY ME (Andrew & Annie..I want them to make babies)
Sycthian Empires (full band, absolutely amazing)
Tables & Chairs (also full band & so incredible)
*everyone leaves stage*
Andrew & Annie return

Oh Sister (Bob Dylan Cover)
*Annie leaves*

WEATHER SYSTEMS (so basically this is my favorite Andy B song and I was like so sure he wasn't gonna play it and shit and I wanted to request it but didn't want to ruin the show and basically then he just played it and I died. Amazing way to close the show)

So he played about 2 hours and the material really came from everywhere. it was so excellent. he is amazing. Really just beautiful. I took I think 2 30 second videos that I'll link here eventually.



OH ALSO WTF HE'S BEEN HERE FOR TWO DAYS BIKING AROUND. SHIT I WISH I HAD SEEN HIM. FUCKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
ps this is unrelated to homefries.

I am calm and resposed, I'll let my beauty unfold.

They were pretty good tonight.

I added a little pickle juice. gave them nice flavor. thanks to andy for the pickles+juice.



I am keeping calm right now, getting ready for Andrew and Annie tonight.

On the inside about a billion bells and whistles are exploding.


:D