Issue #51: Texmex Chicken Thing

Harrr! For once I made some food myself! Who woulda guessed? Oh, and I didn't even drink last night! 'Tis the season of miracles, or something.

Anyway.

I bought some chicken, "texmex"-vegetables (it was like some regular wok-type mix minus some things plus beans), and noodles. Oh, I bet you'll say this looks disgusting:


Well, it sorta does. But don't judge a book by its cover! It tasted delicious. I even had some left over so that I could microwave it later. THAT SHIT'S LONG GONE, MAN!

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Verdict:
Uh, yeah.



(oh, by the way, there's been some troubles with fixing the numbers of old issues. maybe that'll be fixed later.)

(oh and get smultronix #1!)

Issue #49: Nepalese night

Tonight I decided to try my all-time Nepalese restaurant favourite dish, the chicken korma! (or kukhuro korma if you visit Nepalese restaurants). The things you need for this tasty meal you can find at your local supermarket:
- basmati rice
- chicken meat slices (I chose ones that were in Indian tandori sauce)
- Pirkka Kormakastike (has pinkish label, belongs in Pirkka's 'Aasia'-series)
- Santa Maria Naan bread (traditional Indian bread)
- Santa Maria Raita mix (traditional Indian yoghurt sauce)
- some yoghurt (natural, unspiced)



On the left you can see the naan bread still in its package, in the middle a bowl with rice and chicken korma sauce, and at the right a cup of yoghurt sauce.

Making this meal was simple and fast. Just roast the chicken slices, and when they're done, add the korma sauce and let it sauce the chicken with mild heat (2 when 1-6) for 5 minutes. Cook the basmati rice (I added chicken sauce cube to give flavour), when the chicken and rice are both ready mix the yoghurt spice mix with yoghurt. Then put naan bread to microwave owen for a minute (while still in its package) to make it warm and moist. The ultimate drink with this meal is mango lassi, but I didn't find any canned mangos at the store, so I decided to drink plain water :(

Verdict:

If you food could give you an orgasm, this would be quite near to that experience. This was so fucking good that I still drool from the very thought. Guys, you should really try this!

Issue #47: I-Need-To-Stop-Drinking Pizza

So I was out drinking last night (just had to!) and had an awful hangover today. Woke up at around 1 PM, then just mostly stared at a wall for some time. Afterwards, I totally rocked some Rez (one of the best games ever!), and I beat Direct Assault (Normal mode) too! I'm going to tackle Lost Area again later tonight...

ANYWAY, this is all irrelevant! Let us concentrate on what's important: what I ate in an attempt to heal my hangover!


YES! ANOTHER FROZEN PIZZA! There's something seriously wrong with me. How come I keep eating this stuff? It's definitely not healthy, and not particularly tasty either. Oh well! Being a lazy bastard on a Saturday is very pleasing sometimes, sort of like masturbating. Or not.

The microwave returned this after 4 minutes of "WHIRRRRRRRRR-clunk" type sounds:


Looks disgusting. Tastes OK. What can I say, it was alright. I also somehow managed to drink a liter of milk with the pizza, a feat that never fails to baffle me.

Verdict:
Yay for hangovers!

Issue #40: Smoothie Ugh

Yesterday, I had a party to celebrate the fact that I'd finally cleaned up my apartment. The last time I did something like this (ie. cleaned my apartment) was in October, last year. So anyway, early yesterday morning (read: in the afternoon) I started cleaning. After some help from susihukka/jML!, the place was finally cleaned up and it was time to go buy beer and various other refreshments! This is what I ended up with:


For all you linguistically challenged people out there, that's a strawberry-banana smoothie. I saw it at the store and was like "whoa, shit!" and bought it. I also bought a wonderful microwave meal that can be seen in the background, but let's not get into that. It turns out that the meal was quite OK (for a microwave meal), but the smoothie was garbage. The "Play" brand used to only consist of some strange cocoa drink, which was actually quite nice. Now I have proof that the transition to include several other types of drinks is a total fucking failure. Ignore at all costs.

Verdict:
Eugh.

Issue #39: Frozen Food Beyoop

Those of you who have been following this blog for some time already might have noticed that I hardly ever cook my own food. To prove all y'all wrong, I'll cook some wonderful dinner .. like .. next week or something.

So. I was out drinking last night (how many of my posts start like that?), and I totally didn't feel like cooking anything today. I went to Hesburger for some breakfast, which was a normal cheeseburger meal with some uh, chicken on the side. I had wonderful company too, my also-hung-over brother and two charming ladies. Anyway, that's not what this post is about.


Yes, frozen pizza. After the Hesburger-meal, I went to town and bought an awesome game (fist up for the game too, woo!), and went to the store. As I stated before, the hangover was in full effect, so I kinda froze at the store and bought milk and cookies. Yeah, I thought I was gonna survive to the next day with that. I consumed the milk and cookies when I came home, and then proceeded to take a nap. The nap cleared my head a bit, and made me realize that I have to buy some actual food. Another trip to the store was in order, and I returned with juice and the aforementioned Dr. Oetker Pizza Salame.


Ah, oven-fresh pizza. Of course, I wouldn't have bought the damn thing if I didn't know in advance that it's mighty tasty. The only thing I regret is that I didn't buy milk, as milk would've been much nicer with the pizza than the juice I bought. The pizza was nice and crispy, and didn't feel like shite at all. Wunderbar. Jawohl.

This might of course be the hangover speaking.

Verdict:
Speedfisted to the universe!

Issue #36: Microwave Puke

Whoa! Back from a small hiatus, during which I didn't eat anything interesting. Sorry about that. Anyway, here I am, back with a vengeance:


Truth be told, I was gonna do some noodles + meat + wok shit, but the store had zero meat and zero anything else for that matter, except for a few microwave dinners. SOOOOO. I bought this damn thing, chicken in cream sauce with rice. Yeah. Awesome. I've eaten it once before.. no, actually, I didn't eat it, I ate like two spoonfuls as it tasted shite and someone quickly suggested Chinese food (yay!), which we then had. This was a few months ago - have things changed since then?

No.

Admittedly, microwave shit never really looks good, but it can (occasionally) be pretty tasty. This fucking abomination isn't. It doesn't just look like something someone fucking threw up at the microwave shit factory, it tastes like it as well.

Shit, did I discover Saarioinen's secret?

Verdict:
Fuck you, Saarioinen.



(Yeah, I did that on purpose.)

(edit: oh, and sorry about the disrespectin', Atria! it was saarioinen all along that was to blame)