FauxPseudo

Potato and cheese Perogies? Quesadillas? Perogadillas? Someone in one of my cooking groups posted something like this and I had to try it. It blended my need for Mexican with my wife's need for perogies. San Diego meets Pennsylvania.

Made a Mexican lime slaw and bought a can of charro beans. Made some guajillo sauce too.

I have no idea how much this cost per person because there are so many parts but other than that can of fancy beans for $2 and a head of cabbage that I only used a quarter of every part of this was stuff I already keep on hand as staples. I can make the mashed potatoes in advance and freeze them. The mashed potatoes need to be a little on the dry side like you are making a bubble and squeak which works better for freezing anyway. The guajillo can also be made ahead of time to shorten cooking day time. I can can my own charro beans for way cheaper.

It's been decided to put this into regular rotation.

When you see words like "legitimate" and "legal" in front of "citizen" this implies the speaker thinks there are other types of citizens. Which makes them unqualified to discuss civics. These people think their opinion matters more than rule of law. They can't be trusted. There are citizens, natural born citizens that can run for president, green card holders, and a whole dazzling list of other things but there are no illegitimate or illegal citizens.

Greek salad without lettuce.

We like our salads without lettuce, except Caesar. A little chicken on the side.

Cost per person, $13. Literally as much as the steak from the other day. This is why society is doomed.

Wife isn't feeling good. This is sometimes the result of anemia. She takes iron supplements but occasionally you just need steak.

Cost per person: $13

I had some free brown rice to use. I knew there had to be a beans and rice recipe out there for that. The last three ingredients of the first recipe I saw included dry sherry, soy sauce and balsamic vinegar. That was a combination I needed to try.

I was going to scale the recipe up and some of the numbers just didn't look right. For example it wanted so much onion that it would overload the recipe. I took the picture of the mise en place after cutting the onion in half and knowing that the three ingredients are the end were definitely going to need adjustments. I ended up doubling all but the soy sauce just before serving.

It's getting harder to trust recipes.

But was I able to get it to work? Yes.

Cost per person: $2.45, a little more than the bread and butter.

Hashbrowns, eggs, cheddar, chopped giardiniera as a no effort salsa.

Cost per person: $1.25

Day old homemade bread French toast. Mystery ham, scrambled eggs made from the leftover egg wash by adding a goose egg.

Ham was part of a house cleanout from two years ago. Vacuum sealed and frozen. Too small for even two people. My wife got the breakfast sausage and I ate the ham.

Cost per person: $1.70. Almost half of that was butter.

A friend recently moved and they forced me to clean out their pantry and take anything I wanted. Anything. Like a quart of pesto and a spare pasta machine I need to sell.

I decided one way to use some of the pesto was to make some crispy potatoes and rice fry the eggs in pesto instead of butter. This was a winning idea.

Total meal cost:
Eggs from our backyard.
Pesto free.
Sausage free.
Potatoes $1.
Peanut oil $1.

Cost per person: $1

But not for me. Someone wanted it and wouldn't make it. I did the math to find a price for it and some smoked cheeses that I thought was going to be too high. They said yes anyway.

Fried rice with all the odds and ends I could find in the kitchen. Duck eggs, rotisserie chicken, mushroom, carrots, onion, scallion.

Egg rolls from Aldi.

A conspiracy theory cannot stay the same size. It constantly has to grow because every time you find a way to disprove the conspiracy it creates a bigger conspiracy as you have to create sub-conspiracies to account for the "false" evidence that disproves the conspiracy. This process is what I'm calling Conspiracy Scope Inflation.

Questions that homeopathy should have answered in a century:

1. how long do the vibrations last?
2. how can you test a homeopathic pill to see if the vibrations have decreased
3. what are the frequencies of the vibrations for the different homeopathic ingredients?
4. do the vibrations decrease over time?
5. how do you remove all previous vibrations?
6. what is the half life of the vibrations and does it change from the vibrations of an onion to the vibrations of a duck liver at some point?
7. by what mechanism does the body read and measure these vibrations?
8. once measured by the body what actions are taken and now can measure them?
9. how are vibrations transfered from one molecule to another?
10. how does the native vibrations of water change the vibrations of the substance? Because vibrations set frequencies and when you add two frequencies you get a new third frequency.
11. how are these frequencies different from brownian motion?
12. how can you verify your water is free of vibrations from previous interactions?