A Juicy Porterhouse Steak!

For my non-Christmas/Holiday dinner this year I was craving a porterhouse steak.  I found a good one that was calling out my name, "yo Kitchen Bitch, I'm a real heart stopper" so naturally I fell for that line.  I knew it was way too much for just me but I had a plan for what I couldn't finish.

When I'm in a meat eating mode basically that's all I really want to eat.  When I eat steaks I do like tomato wedges sprinkled with minced garlic, kosher salt and fresh cracked pepper and a few sticks of green onions that I rub in salt as I'm eating.  I'm a salt freak with no high-blood pressure problems so I just go for it.  I plug my steak with garlic slices and douse with more salt and pepper then I grilled it.  Here's the before and after...

 

When I ate all I could I wrapped up the remainder and saved it for the next day.  After a huge steak I'm not too hungry the next day and a little soup does me good.  I go for my favorite quickie soup that I call Oasis Soup after the Inn I stayed at in San Francisco while attending the Culinary Academy.  All I had to cook on was an electric burner and a small pot or pan.  My tiny refrigerator didn't hold much so I would take whatever vegetables I had on hand and chop them up to add to my canned chicken stock.  Usually I would put sliced carrots, broccoli, a brussel sprout or two, maybe a few sliced mushrooms and cook them in the stock/broth then add Ramen noodles, minced garlic and sliced green onions.  If I had leftover chicken I'd throw that in too.  I used the leftover steak from my Christmas dinner as the protein in this soup.  Its so easy, flavorful and inexpensive.  I'm sure a lot of people have cooked this soup when getting themselves through school.  Here's what the steak looked like the next day.  Yum.

I really enjoy this soup!

Stealth Christmas

I'm attending a Christmas Party where everyone dresses up tonight.  I was going to go as a bunch of mistletoe but with cold season and all I opted for the next best outfit to "blend". 

I hope to snag a few presents when no one is looking.  It'll go with the outfit.  I hope I don't get to "lit up"!  It'll be tough driving home.  It may be tough driving to the party like this.  Too many dogs around here.

I'm wishing everyone I like and love a very Merry Christmas.  If I don't like you I hope you spend too much on useless gifts that everyone returns.  Oh yeah, and I hope you get a lot of re-gifts too! 

I hope Santa gives America about 13 Trillion dollars to cover the debt.  Do you even know how much a Trillion is?  Believe me, its way more than we really have.  Talk about just printing money.  The government is also pooping it.  (maybe you'll get a pooper scooper for Christmas)

Here's a current photo of my last holiday dollar.  I snapped the photo as it was flying out of my wallet.  Poor thing.  It's so scared....    

The Bitch is Back!

I just woke up from my long year's nap ready to begin more blogging.  I needed to unwind and detox from all the work and learning I did at the Ca. Culinary Academy.  It is now December 2009 and I'm feeling oh so refreshed!

I must admit that my cooking has improved and I've remembered a number of things they taught us, still.  So all in all the Mazillion Dollhairs paid through student loans were worth their weight in paper.  Be nice if I could pay it back but I'm working on that.  Or maybe I'm waiting until Sallie Mae goes the route of Freddie Mac.  I do know I'll be Chased by Chase even in my next life, all the while I'll be accruing interest.  I'll have to be born Bernie Madoff if I'm ever going to pay that off.

I've been cooking with and practicing on my only true love - Food.  In other words nothing has changed in my whole life.  I do admit I've gotten much better at on-the-spot sauces to cover on-the-sale meat products.  I've also learned several new things to do with zucchini besides boil it to death like my grandmother did.  I'll be adding photos and such later on with recipes and instructions on what YOU can do with zucchini! 

But for now, I just wanted to re-open my blog and begin anew.  I'll leave you with the favorite phrase of the Kitchen Bitch:  Here's to Food, Fork You!