Internet downtime & creative cooking...
By gmakesmoney
@gmakesmoney (2923)
United States
December 6, 2007 2:12am CST
Yesterday my vonage made my internet crash so until my internet lady came by today, I was without internet and phone. Which A) made me miss some Helium Marketplace article deadlines and B) left me bored out of my mind.
So what did I do? I found some baking chocolate, some crushed pecans, some toffee, some marshmallows and some pretzels and decided to play candy store chef. See the pic below. It was fun! I also prepared my roast for today, and made yesterday's dinner. Today I made a sweet onion bbq pork tenderloin in the crock pot and crispy onion rings and iced tea. Winter weather and bordom often find me in the kitchen cooking up a storm... no wonder I stopped dieting this month!
What do you do when you're stuck with no internet and it's too cold to venture outside?
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@alamode (3071)
• United States
6 Dec 07
You made me hungry, darn it!!
When I have nothing else to do, I make what I affectionately call a 'Paper Mess'... I go into my front room and make as many greeting cards as I need for months! And I work on my handmade paper and books as well. That way, I get a lot done, and only have to clean up once!
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@gmakesmoney (2923)
• United States
6 Dec 07
That's a pretty good use of time! If I liked my neighbors I'd have someone to pawn it all off on and not munch away. That's so not nice of me but they really do suck as neighbors, lol... no snacks for them! It was fun to make though and they came out pretty I think.
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@alamode (3071)
• United States
6 Dec 07
You can seal them up and freeze them... then you have all that good stuff to serve for the holidays!
As for neighbors, ours have a wood stove and the smoke blows right in through my front door every time we open it. My house smells like we smoke hams!!
@gmakesmoney (2923)
• United States
6 Dec 07
Thanks for the tip, I wasn't sure if I could freeze them or not. We're doing good to just eat a couple, they're really rich and I double dipped them in chocolate so 2-3 is enough to fill that craving and it's a cool dark chocolate that tastes really sweet that my mom bought in the summer at a going-out-of-business sale for like 25 cents. The pretzels were a bag I got for a $1 but ended up not liking, I like those other thicker ones. For a $1.25 snack they sure came out tasty, lol.
If my house smelled like smoked ham I'd be forever hungry. I love pork, I think it's my downfall. If my neighbors had some pigs, I'd probly bite them right on their little piggy butts, lol. That's so not cool though, the smoke. No goodies for your neighboors either!
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@GardenGerty (169477)
• United States
9 Dec 07
I need to clean when I reach that condition, or really before I reach it. I am like you, and I enjoy spontaneous cooking adventures. I am interested in how you made your sweet onion bbq pork tenderloin, An acquaintance discussed a pork roast she makes. It is a three ingredient crock pot recipe. Put your pork roast in the bottom of your crock pot, after browning it. Next, dump a can of refried beans on top of it, adding 16-24 ounces of salsa. Cook on slow, when tender, cut and shred the pork and enjoy the results. Serve with tortilla chips or rolled into tortillas, or enchiladas.
@gmakesmoney (2923)
• United States
9 Dec 07
It's always the dishes you don't plan to make that end up the best! That roast sounds yummy, I'll have to try that. For the sweet onion roast what I did was get a pork tenderloin piece from Target (they have the biggest, reddest cuts of great quality, very lean and only $5.99 a piece for about 3lbs). I seasoned the pork with some sea salt and peppercorn mix, lightly, and then left it in a sweet onion bbq sauce (forgot the brand but it's the one with the bull head on it) overnight in the fridge. The next afternoon I cut up 1 sweet onion and placed it on the bottom of my crockpot and put the roast over it and then I cut up one spanish onion and put it on top of the roast. I put maybe 1/4 cup of water at the bottom and then covered the roast with more of the bbq sauce and let it cook in the crockpot until dinner around 6:30pm. It was so good! We at it for 2 nights and on the 3rd night my mom shredded what was left and mixed it into some spanish rice, which we then had for 2 more nights and was also good. So I got 4 meals out of one $5.99 roast, not bad!
