I’m dubbing all the “dishes” that I make without recipe or name an “Isaacism.” This was inspired by the fact that we had lots of vegetables that needed to be eaten. Baked bacon for 15 min at 375 F. Added to sliced potatoes, carrots, and wedged onions tossed in melted margarine, and herbs, baked with cover for 25 minutes. Tossed broccoli in extra virgin olive oil, garlic, S&P, chili powder and such, and baked uncovered for 15 minutes separate from potatoes.
Combined broccoli with bacon and put on potatoes with cubed queso fresco (Gracie:Amazing cheese fresh, but loses all appeal cooked, imagine, packed, elastic, tender feta with a slightly salty, but not pungent tang. Imagine feta melted. See what I mean?) , baked uncovered at 425 F.
This resulted. It was edible, but not mouth watering. Too hard for mommy, too weird for Gracie (G:very. Soggy bacon, potatoes needed bacon fat but the bacon was precooked- we have this fantabulous baked potato bacon via the much better dishes of “isaacism” or. “Isakism” but he kinda….frankensteined it.). We resolved to go by the book for now.
On another note, did a little food research by going to Pita Pit today and getting a Falafel Pita, ~$6. Wasn’t very tasty at all. But it was nice to see how they dressed it. They tore the top 1/3 of the pita off only to stuff it with lettuce, tomatoes, black olives, falafel and Tzatziki sauce. Then they tucked in the fold, and rolled the entire pita into a roll. The falafel left lots to be desired — it was cold falafel, pressed onto a pan to quickly reheat it, and it was not at all hearty (G:It was grainy, soggy, crumbly, and tasted stale, but the other ingredients were nice- I do wish we could find decent pita things though.)
Another note, I’ve finally made an allrecipes.com account. Look for “thirdcaptain” on allrecipes.com (G: I have one too! Cinamarron, I think. I don’t have anything on there as of now, but eh.)). I’ve saved some gyro recipes and tzatziki sauce recipes on there.
-Isaac
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