Sunday, April 19, 2015

Chapter 2: the grind and the refind - A good kitchen knife

It has been a quiet weekend so far. As I mentioned, I did not get a lot of sleep on Friday night, but the new mattress, now subdued and newly used, is proving a significant improvement over the previous one. Whatever reasons may exist for my insomnia, the mattress is no longer one of them.

I checked the bike shop and they had only a single electric model that costs $2400. Needless to say, I did not surrender my credit card on the spot. I've checked online and there are a few options around $700-800, but I'll need to think of it further. When I finally do get a paycheck at the end of the month I should know more, especially as I'll be able to see how the budget, such as it is, works out.

This isn't food blog so I won't get into details, but it seems I have a lot to learn still about how to make a schnitzel. I made a batch and froze it for the rest of the week, but with how they look I'm worried that either they'll slip out of the freezer and wander around the apartment (and you know how reanimated flesh can be when it's not properly supervised) or I end up being reported for postmortem animal abuse. 

My laptop is also starting to give me problems, and while I did get a recommendation for a reliable computer store to get a new one, the budget constraints are pressing here as well.

Tomorrow starts another week and there is much work to be done.

2 comments:

  1. "He just wanted to have a simple meal for dinner, but when he opened the fridge, he was confronted with ... The Schnitel!" (rated R for extreme gratuitous silliness)

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  2. By the way, cooking tip - fried foods do not freeze well. You should freeze the chicken breasts before you fry them, and fry them fresh on demand. Or, (and this isn't much recommended either but still possible), egg and bread them, then freeze them, and fry them when you want to eat. Either way, once it's fried, it's pretty bad for freezing, is my experience.

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