hi! hope you had a good easter! we had an awesome one... the usual ham and sides, not much to describe. my mom made the same cheesy potatoes i made for xmas. no pics of that because we ate IT ALL. i had some leftover ham... i really dont think ive ever appriciated leftover ham as much as i have this year. i took lots of pics:

look at that beautiful slice of ham!! mmm!! i kept eating it before it could make its way into my sandwich. i swear the best way to eat ham is ham--->mouth, no inbetweens. but i made sandwiches anyways.

LOOKIT THAT!!!! yuuuum! after three sandwiches i boiled down my perfect technique. just ham and mayo on the bread. cheese just complicates things. then i dipped in two kinds of mustard, koop's horseradish, and inglehoffer's sweet and hot honey mustard. at easter we had some yummy silver spring straight horseradish, not for the faint of palate, but delicious! i need to get some of that!
ham is all gone now :'(

easter dessert was this lemon thing my mom makes. i think its lemon jello mixed with whipped cream, and layerd with torn up chunks of angel food cake. then topped with toasted coconut. whatever it is, its fucking DEVINE, so light and delicious. after eating a huge meal of ham and cheesy potatoes, its the perfect dessert. not heavy at all, sweet, and slightly tart to really cleanse your palate. i ate my whole tub of leftovers in one day, two sittings. this stuff is irresistable.

still on my fried-egg kick. this is just a bowl of "oriental flavor" ramen, non-soupy, with two fried eggs on top. was just going to make one egg, but as i was cracking it i touched the hot pan with my knuckle and DROPPED the egg, and it almost fell into the crack between the stove and counter but i saved it... but the yolk was broken so i had to make anothe one to get that great yolkiness in the ramen. mm. hot sauce on top. this is the way ramen was intended. this meal cost about... 40 cents?? :D POVERTY MEAL YAAAAAY!

so i was at the grocery store looking to spend my last $10 on a few food essentials to last til payday [tomorrow, whew]. mainly getting soymilk, mustard for my ham, a few cheap natural colas, when what did i stumble across but BEAR BROWNIES for like $1.70!!!! mmm! i dont even like brownies really, but these have a BEAR on them. i really like bears. it reminds me of oksana the bear from Borat. and i had some good ideas to doctor them up. i was gonna make granola brownies with sweetened condensed milk on top! granola-milk brownies!!
plan: made brownie mix according to directions. mostly. i realized i didnt quite have enough butter left, a bit shy of 1/4 cup, so i added maybe an extra half tablespoon of vegetable oil. then as i was stirring it it was REALLLY hard to mix, so i added a splash extra water and it seemed good.
WHY DO I DO THESE THINGS??
so, i poured the batter down, then took two kashi dark chocolate cherry granola bars and chopped them into small peices. sprinkled these over the batter. then poured about half a can of sweetened condensed milk over that. and at least minute remembered i had some leftover coconut i had no idea what to do with, so i thought, hey, like magic bars, and threw that on it. win.

looks alright, huh? maybe a little too golden around the edges, if anything. this is after 30 minutes. i let it cool, and then start to cut it and fuck it, its still batter except for about 1/2 inch around the perimeter. that burny part. so, back in the over for 15 more minutes. nada. still batter. by that point i was tired and cranky so i just went to bed.
i woke up the next day and fired it for like 20 more minutes. fuck, STILL BATTER. the top is getting freaking hard so i just said fuck it, this is never getting done.

mmm. gooey. oh well, i like brownie batter right?

yeah. i ate this lump of goo. it was kinda good at first. suuuper chocolatey. i had no doubt the bear brownies would be good if made properly. supposedly they have... whole grains and shit. but after this one "piece" i felt pretty sick, so, i kid you not, and im ashamed to say this, i threw the rest of the pan away. im sorry.
does an extra half tablespoon of oil do that? really? i dont understand food. this is why i dont bake!! meat only, from now on!

never again, bear brownies!

lastly, let me share this wonderful message from the outside of bakers square with you. good food, good feelings. thats what its all about, son.
[baker's square crepes florentine is fucking awesome. so is their tomato basil soup. get the tomato basil, not the chili!!]

































