Today, at work, there are bagels!

[cjsmith]

(Yesterday was happy hour, as on most Thursdays at the end of the day around here. I didn't stick around for that.)

I went over to the bagel table, looked at a half bagel someone had left behind, grabbed a plastic knife, scooped up a little blob of cream cheese, put the cream cheese in my mouth, and left. :-)

I am seeing a new reason why "cooking = saving money" didn't seem right for me. (Primary is the "cooking for one and being a complete n00b about it means a lot of waste" idea.) It's astonishing how often I wasn't buying my own food. I knew it was happening but I honestly didn't see how much.

This morning I ate some scrumptious spinach-cheese-onion-smokedturkey frittata. MMMMM. I am going to be addicted to chopping up little bits of smoked turkey into eggs.

Comments

[ericainohio.livejournal.com]

Whoa - that recipe sounds really good!! Sounds like it's fairly simple and hard to screw up too, which is a nice bonus. :-)

I haven't actually made hollandaise in years. It's a bit of a pain because you need a double boiler and you *can't* stop stirring it until it's done (which is pretty quick though). It doesn't take many ingredients at all. And boy oh boy is it gooooood on top of eggs. It's good on asparagus too; I think Cyd recently posted a recipe where you put a poached egg on top of asparagus and smother the whole thing in hollandaise. Sounded good.
Here's a basic set of instructions for making hollandaise:
http://www.gourmetsleuth.com/recipe_hollandaise.htm

[cjsmith.livejournal.com]

Oh wow, that looks yummy - and yeah, I don't have a double boiler, at least not the size to make sauce. I suspect if I looked in the right place I could simply *buy* a jar of hollandaise. It might not be as good as fresh, but when you consider that we're comparing against MY cooking skills here, the jar is a clear winner! :-)

[just-cyd.livejournal.com]

there is hollandaise sauce mix (McCormick (http://www.mccormick.com/productdetail.cfm?id=6311) and Knorr (http://www.dcimports.com/knorrhollandaisesauce.html) are two brands we have out here). still requires stirring, but no double boiler.

here (http://cheaphealthygood.blogspot.com/2008/03/its-springtime-for-vegetables-and.html) is the recipe for the poached egg and hollandaise over asparagus.