Lemongrass Vegetable Soup

Finally using that lemongrass I bought when I went grocery shopping with my mom. This came out pleasatly spicy, but not overly so. This also managed to almost clear out my fridge!! Hurray!

Ingredients:
2 thai chilies, minced
1 medium clove garlic, minced
Zest of a small lime
Two stalks of lemongrass
1 tsp sugar
1 tbsp soy sauce or to taste
4 oz sliced crimini mushrooms
1/2 c peas (frozen in my case)
3 small carrots, sliced
4 cups stock

Serves slightly more than two

Mince the core of one of the stalks of lemongrass(IE just the parts that don't resist when you cut it. I physically can't cut anything but the inner core because of my complete lack of upper body strength and my general lack of interest in doing anything that takes effort). Chop the other one into a size where it will be able to be completely submerged in your pot(I cut it into 3 inch lengths. YES THREE INCHES I KNOW IT WAS THREE).
Place chilies, garlic, lime zest, sugar, soy sauce, and lemongrass in soup pot with stock. Heat until it boils.
Reduce heat to a simmer. Add peas and carrots, and cook for about 8 minutes. Add mushrooms, cook for two more minutes (so that they're cooked but not over cooked).

Breaking Bad

One of my coworkers commented that I looked very tired this morning. I've been experien. cing nightmares, night after night...Ever since I started watching Breaking Bad.
I don't know why I'm watching it.
I guess just because its on.
But I'm the one putting it on.

Maybe it gives me nightmares because I WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A CHEMIST.
According to my dad.
MAYBE
It resonates with my hypothetical life story.
It was supposed to be ME that had an affair with my MY assistant.
And then it was supposed to be ME watching my assistant marry my boss and steal my research.
And then I WOULD HAVE BECOME A HIGH SCHOOL TEACHER AFTER MARRYING A WAITRESS.

Asparagus Quiche, the retarded way

Nom?
Idk it tastes alright.. I guess.
I burnt the breadcrumbs, my fingers, and the roof of my mouth :(
The method/recipe was so bad though that it isn't worth sharing.

Thai style OMG WHAT THE FUCK MY MOUTH IS ON FIRE

I went to an asian market with my mother yesterday because she doesn't trust white people.

I bought panaang curry paste, thai chillies and a few other exciting things.

Putting two chillies and like one fourth a cup of chilli paste in four cups of soup. My lips have lost all feeling and my insides burn. My white girl sensibilities can't handle this shit.

It tastes better than it looks. I swear.

Ingredients:
2 cups coconut milk
2 cups stock (homemade chicken stock in my case)
2 Thai chillis, minced
1 zucchini, sliced
1 bell pepper, diced
A cheapass tin of watery, julienned bamboo shoots
2 oz mushrooms, sliced
1/4th cup OH GOD WHY IS IT SO HOT panang curry paste

Serves two

"Stir fry" the paste in sesame oil until it sticks the to the pan, you shrug, and shout mashugana. Add stock, chilis, bell pepper and allow to simmer for like 5 minutes. Add everything else, allow to simmer until zuchinnis are done... which is like five more minutes probably.

ATTN CHRISTINA AGUILERA:

I heard that "Moves Like Jagger" song.
I can only assume your secret is that you have a penis.

Not diet food :(

Cabbage soup: day two. Less yummy than yesterdays, I must say. Even with pork product :(
I think it helps that the apples I used are sour :(

Ingredients:
3 cups stock
.5 lb cabbage, chopped into child sized mouth bites
~3 oz pancetta, diced
1 apple, peeled and diced
1 tbsp butter cause I'm a fatty
1/2 a white onion, diced
Saute pancetta until its crunchy, delicious pork product. Remove from pot, pour off excess fat, add onion and cabbage and cook until they start to brown or until you get bored. Add stock and pork product and simmer for ten minutes or so. Probably.
Meanwhile, saute apples in butter until you get bored or they begin to brown. Or in my case... burn. On one side only. Use to garnish the soup.

Gingery Cabbage and Mushroom Soup

A few weeks ago, a guy tried to impress me by saying he could make cabbage soup. I said that was gross. He later asked me out, and I made up some bullshit. Badly. Cause he knows me.

Turns out cabbage soup isn't that gross.
I hope that someday I wont say "Turns out sex with fatties isn't that gross."

Ingredients:
4 oz crimini mushrooms, sliced
.5 lb cabbage, sliced
2 tsp ginger, minced
1/2 of an onion, sliced
1 tbsp sesame oil
3 cups stock

Cook cabbage, onion in oil until they start to brown, or if you're me, blacken because you walked away because you're addicted to terrible tv. Add ginger, salt, pepper and three cups vegetable stock. Turn heat to low, and let simmer for about ten minutes. Add mushrooms and cook for a few more minutes.
Optional: add chili oil to leftovers because...chili oil is delicious.