What to do...

[kwando]

My wife and I were suppose to fly out to vegas thursday for her birthday (1/26) and returning monday. We got a call this past saturday morning that her grandma is deathly ill in thailand (her hometown). So we canceled out trip to vegas and she will be flying out with her mother wednesday for thailand for 3 weeks.

Please keep her grandmother in your prayers.

Now what am i going to do those three weeks??? I can cook very limited foods, so it looks like i will be eating spaghetti, fajitas, scrambled eggs, and ramen. There are some things around the house that needs addressing. Since its winter i can't do any yard work.

Maybe plan a little shoot?

We do have two dachshunds that are a joy to be around.

Ideas?

[HunterCO]

prayers sent!

You need some game meat!;)

[robsterclaw]

Learn to cook! Seriously, it can be fun. I taught myself starting when my dad would always make roasts. The damn things sucked. I wondered how he could take a fine piece of meat and make it tough and tasteless. Then I opened a cookbook and read that a roast needs hours of low heat to make it tender. Sounds like a no brainer, but when you're 14 you just don't know.

So I decided while home from school one day I'd cook up a roast. I added the things I liked. Onions, salt pepper and a can of beef broth. Then after 4 hours I added carrots and taters. Mom was happy she didn't have to cook. Dad finally found out what a roast should taste like.

Now I take a roast and sear it on the grill. Put in 2 large onions, 1 pack of onion soup mix, 4 stalks of celery (I don't like celery, but I do like the flavor it leaves behind) 5 tablespoons of beef bullion and a can of chicken or beef broth and a few cups of water. Cook it for 3-4 hours, add a little more water and some more beef bullion a bag of baby carrots and quartered taters. Cook it for another hour or so. The taters soak up the beefy flavor and so does the carrots. The roast falls apart, and you get excellent gravy. Just boil the juice and add enough corn starch to make it thick.

Cooking isn't hard if you just have the time and ingredients. Besides a good sized roast will have you in leftovers for a long time.

Also I hope your wifes Grandma get's better!

[robsterclaw]

Oh another idea, go buy or rent some season of your favorite t.v. shows. I got Season 2 3 and 4 of NYPD Blue for Christmas and watched all 66 episodes already.

[vim]

1. Learn to cook some good stuff.

2. Plan and execute a nice surprise for your wife for when she returns.

[kwando]

We have a crockpot that we've never used.. maybe i will venture into that realm.

as far as watching tv, well since i am in the TV industry, i can watch all the TV i want at work and at home. free tv, ppv, porn, fights, etc. sitting in front of the tube is a waste of time IHO.

thx for the well wishes. waiting to check them in online and print their borading passes.

[redleg1one]

Learn to reload!


If you haven't already.

[StagLefty]

Spend some time on ARFCOM if you have BRD !!!!!![Beer]

[Marlin]

http://www.foodnetwork.com/


They Have stuff on there that any moron can do. Even Me.[Tooth]

I have become Quite the Culinary Wizard doing stuff off there.

[PsychoI3oy]

If you want to learn how to cook (and why cooking is done the way it is, as in the roast post [heh] above) and have access to it, I suggest watching as many episodes of Good Eats as you can. Alton Brown is a food geek.

[Ranger353]

Alton Brown is a food geek.

Alton Brown is the Man! That dude could cook a shoe and make you WANT some. [Beer]

[Marlin]

Alton Brown is the Man! That dude could cook a shoe and make you WANT some. [Beer]

And I thought I might be the only Food Network fan. [Ban3]

[kwando]

i do have a DVR...

[shrapmetal]

sorry to hear about your wifes grandma.
if you are asking what to do while she is gone, you either have the worlds best wife that lets you do what ever you want or you have been married so long you forgot about all the stuff you stoped doing before you got married. if the pizza man can make it to the house you got food covered. i say have some fun! rebuild a engine in the kitchen. also maybe a good time to sneek a few new guns into your gun room while noone is looking. i tried to get my wife to go visit her family for a week or two without me but she just wont go without me. heck i would pay someone to take her away just so i could have a few hours home alone. my wife hasnt left the house without me to even go to the store in over a year now. take advantage of your free time. fry some bacon up naked or something.

[Shag]

fry some bacon up naked or something.
Bad bad idea. Bacon splatters.

[StagLefty]

Bad bad idea. Bacon splatters.
OUCH !!!!

[Bumblebee Bob]

Prayers for you mom-in-law.

Cooking is easy.

One of my favorites is to brown a pound of burger and add a package of taco seasoning.

Scoop some out over a bed of tortilla chips, or Fritos Scoops, add shredded cheese, shredded lettuce, salsa and sour cream and you've got a pretty good meal. Sometimes I'll even heat up a can of refried beans to add to it. mmmmm........

Or roll some pork chops in flour, bake them in the oven for about 45 - 50 minutes at 325º and serve with a package of the Lipton's Spanish Rice with a couple jalapeño peppers sliced into the pot as the rice cooks. mmmmm........