This is a chili that I made maybe around a week ago. It is similar to many of my chilis, having onions and kale in it. What is slightly different here is that I am using Hunt’s tomato sauce and Bush’s chili beans.
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Big Sur art sketch
This is a sketch of the Big Sur coast towards the evening and with a fiery sunset. The Big Sur is a favorite photography topic of mine although I don’t live nearby anymore.
The golden yellow and emerald green planes slope into the sea which is sometimes emerald in color. The slopes are often sandy and rocky, and sea life is often heard squawking in the kelp in the sea. This is a place to “get away from it all”, and is more beautiful than you can easily capture. It is a fantasy land, a place where your imagination can run wild.
Cute fish sketch
Captain Crock
Here is a sketch I did just last night.
Captain Crock says “hi”.
BTW, Star Trek is my favorite all time TV show, and the new movie (#11) is superb. I dare say it’s a little better than the original.
Wiener and kale and cream cheese bagel
I do lots of weird cooking things.
I so happen to have made a really “strange” bagel. Well, I won’t be too embarrassed. I made this bagel several months ago when purple kale was obtainable from the farmer’s market. I then put on cream cheese and added wieners. It was quite tasty. Although the wieners and cream cheese are not the healthiest, this is a tasty meal that one can have probably occasionally.
Chili with fresh farmer’s market vegetables
Here are some pictures that correspond to a chili that I made several months ago, during the summer. It was a Saturday and I had just bought many fresh ingredients, such as kale, Swiss chard, onions, and banana peppers from the farmer’s market. When I got back I made a fabulous chili discussed more below.
There is a nearly endless variety to the kinds of chilis you can make. I put just about anything in. Nearly every chili I make is different in some wah. During the summer months when the ingredients are available from the farmer’s market, my favorite things to put into chilis are chopped greens, such as kale and Swiss chard. The meal shown below has both kale and chard. Putting a few slices of (Kraft singles American) cheese is also great for chilis, and another fantastic variation would be to put in a can or two of cream of mushroom soup in place of the tomato sauce and beans. Adding a chopped garlic clove always helps, too. (I did not happen to have one at the time of this cooking.) I frequently “spice up” chilis, and the dish below has some chopped red banana jalapeno peppers; this warms it up nicely. I also spice up chilis with several chopped hot Thai chili peppers.
The chili shown below has chopped fried vegetables consisting of:
- two kinds of onions
- kale (purple)
- Swiss chard
- red banana peppers
- mushrooms
There is nothing in this chili here that is high in cholesterol or unhealthy (that I know of). Putting in a few slices of cheese or a can or two of cream of mushroom soup would add an interesting taste but would diminish the health aspects.
Nice roast with lumpy mashed potatoes
I cooked a roast a while back and did not record a lot of details, but there is a picture of it below.
The meat was a little overcooked, but still tasted great. (I was probably busy blogging and did not check the meat as often as I should have.)
I never peel potatoes. I leave the skins on when making mashed potatoes. Of course I scrub them first. The potatoes aren’t mashed real well (I’m not a good masher), and you can see the butter and milk on them, along with the brown potato skin. To me, lumpy mashed potatoes taste just as good with the meat.
Downtown city sketch
Mountain sketch
Colorful sketch with mountains and trees.
This reminds me a little of the time I spent in the high Sierra.
December pork chop dish
I have never made a pork chop casserole before. Indeed, I have never made pork chops before either. They were on sale at the grocery store, so I embarked on another one of my fantastic forays into uncharted cooking territory.
I cooked this meal at around 300 degrees for just under 3 hours. Begin with pork chops, and chopped onions and potatoes. When it is near being done, mix in a can of seasoning soup and add a few slices of cheese. The meal sure tasted great!
- I cooked it in an oven for 2-3 hours. But you can also microwave the dish, and this takes 15-20 minutes if you’re in a hurry. I did this the next day, and this same meal, cooked in a microwave, was also fantastic.
- There were no special seasonings other than the cream of mushroom soup and the cheese. The cream of mushroom soup is one of the best seasoning ingredients you can find.
