The Vomit

And now for a spinoff. It's time for an episode of...

My lovely drink shaker.

This episode is improv because I don't have all that much to work with. What I DO have is margarita mix but what I don't have is tequila to mix it with. Let's start with two shots of margarita mix.

The only real choice to mix with is vodka, so let's add that.

I also have some red wine though, does anyone ever mix anything with wine?

Now I do.

I've also got Irish cream, might as well throw that in...

Hmm. This is interesting looking at least.

I'm afraid it'll just taste like wine though. Let's add some cola...

And maybe a spoonful of vanilla...

I could stop here, but because I'm feeling creative I will add orange juice as well.

Uh oh. From the looks of it now, this might turn out to be a crap drink.

Too late to turn back though, let's shake it and see what we get!

Um, yeah. It tastes as bad as it looks. I'm going to call this drink The Vomit.

Steamed ground veggie salad with steak

I was originally going to make a "bad breath veggie salad," but I couldn't think of anything besides garlic and onions to put into it. So instead, I assembled this fine collection of ingredients...

...which all grow out of the ground. I'm going to call this my "ground veggie salad." As is usual, the first thing to do is to chop it up.

That's a lot of garlic and onions, from the original "bad breath" plan.

Since I've done stir fry a bunch of times before, I want to try something new and steam these.

I love how the steamer basket unfurls by the way. It's so cool looking.

I wonder if my veggies-to-steam-area ratio is a little bit high.

Oh well, since this is all stuff I can eat raw there's no danger. Let's get to steaming.

I feel like making a steak to go along with the salad. I've learned melted butter works much better than oil for stopping your meat from sticking.

This is going to be a pretty typical pan-fried steak while I wait for the veggies to steam.

I was afraid I was going to run out of water to turn into steam and end up burning something, so I poured in a whole lot more water. That submerged the veggies a little.

Adding in a bit of salt and pepper for seasoning.

Yuck! Where did all that blood-stuff come from?

The extra water turned out to be a mistake... now it's nearly boiling over.

But my steak is nearly done so that gives me an idea.

I was thinking of adding rice to this dish but that would take awhile, so I chose pasta instead. I poured some of the boiling water from the veggies into the pasta. (I also touched the metal steamer thing without thinking. Ouch.)

After a few more minutes I decide everything's done. I had no idea how long to steam the veggies so it was just until I ran out of other things to do.

Pasta became infinitely easier to make once I got a strainer.

Since I had pasta I wanted to add spaghetti sauce, but I was getting impatient and decided to microwave to heat the sauce. The sauce didn't like the microwave and exploded slightly.

I also added cheese.

Yummy! The steak could have been a little softer, but otherwise I like steaming. The veggies turned out great.

Discount broiled bread pizza

I discovered how cheap bread is at the discount bakery section. Two dollars for a whole bag of rolls? It's time to make use of that in a kitchen experiment!

Now, I bought a roll of pepperoni a few weeks ago thinking I would find something fun to do with it, and I think the time has arrived. Isn't a pepperoni pizza basically just bread, tomato sauce, and cheese with pepperoni on top? I've got all of those things handy, it's time to have some fun.

Here's my pizza crust...

And now the spaghetti sauce.

My favorite cheese is pepperjack and I've never had pepperjack cheese on a pizza.

Then some sprinkled cheese to fill in the gaps.

I have a bunch of mushrooms I don't know what to do with, so it will be a mushroom and pepperoni pizza.

Now here's the pepperoni.

Does all pepperoni come in logs?

I'm not so good at cutting thin slices.

There we have it, it looks just like a pepperoni pizza except for the bread, right?

Now, in retrospect it would have been a good idea to make the pizza on a baking sheet instead of having to transfer it.

I'm going to broil this one because the bottom is already done. I have to check on it regularly since I don't know how long I'm going to be broiling.

And here we are! A cooked pizza!

This was probably my best recipe yet. Tasted exactly like I would expect a broiled bread pizza to taste like.