Linden's First Roast Bird, and Leftovers

Well I have finally gotten moved in and settled down and internetted up in my new flat, and I am starting to get to do some cooking, for the first time in a while!

Now, I'm living with Chris, and as we all know he is a little bit English. Which means, different food his entire life! I mean, there's the similar things, like sandwiches and pasta with tomato sauce, but much of his diet has consisted of shepherds' pies and cock on the van and beef barging on and of course roast dinners, some of which I had never heard of, and none of which I have ever made.

But compromises must be made, and so I have started cooking other foods - last weekend I roasted my first chicken! It was very delicious, and I didn't really take any pictures, so you will have to settle for this dark and close up picture of the already-plated meal.

Then, with the leftovers, I made tortilla soup! Which went very well and was very colorful.

Yum yum.

Linden's unexciting breakfast wrap

Dear Family,

I don't understand why sometimes I open this blog up after two days absence and there are five new foodphotos from different people, and sometimes I open it up and there is nothing but my recently deceased cookies staring sadly back at me. I am getting better at remembering to photograph my food though - tonight, I remembered as I almost finished eating.

I am in the process of preparing for something sort of exciting (although it will probably have to wait until Thursday or Friday night), but it means that the fridge is sort of full of my food, and in fear of my roommate's wrath I decided I had better use up some leftovers. Thus, I had scrambled eggs with green beans and onion (and salt and pepper and chili powder) in a wrap with some cheddar cheese, which was then heated up until it was crispy instead of stale.


Because that is rather high on cheeeese (which I admittedly enjoy, but also make me sleepy and unproductive), I rounded it out with an apple and a pear. (I had some help with the pear.)

Family, I have realised two things: (1) cooking every night takes a lot of spare creativity (2) nonstick pans are god. (I have neither creativity to spare, nor a nonstick pan. But I shall soldier on!)

ps - a sidenote: there are these things called labels which make life better later on. consider it!