My first apartment - shelves are for pen blanks

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Just moved in... here are some pictures of the "command center" with a familiar site onscreen =) and the bookshelves that have the remainder of my pens blanks. Hopefully the shelves will be empty soon and I will be able to put some more books on!

It is pretty exciting having my own place, but this whole cooking for myself thing is going to take a little time - spaghetti and scrambled eggs for every meal get a little old, so I am trying to learn new things :D

CENTCOM
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Blankshelves
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Complete with a chunk of amboyna burl


Oh yeah, does anyone have any good simple food suggestions??? So far my bag of tricks only includes basic pasta, grilled cheese, and scrambled eggs [8D]
 
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Congrats on the new apartment! I moved out almost 3 years ago, isn't it great! I just wish I had that many nice lookin pen blanks.

Good, Easy Fajita Recipe:
chop up chicken or beef
marinate in italian dressing
chop up a couple bell peppers, different colors if possible
1 chopped onion
handfull of cilantro

cook it all in a frying pan
serve on tortillas

Thats about as advanced as I get mostly. But I still eat a lot of spaghetti, top ramen, beer, pizza, beer, cereal, more beer....

Other than that, get yourself a nice lady! I love cooking for/with/by my Fiance.
 
Congrats on the new place, Joel! Keep up the good work with the pen blanks, that looks real nice, all organized, like. Be sure to post a picture of those shelves this time next year. I'm laying 5:1 odds that there's going to be less books and more/and different types of blanks not only on those shelves, but on top, in front, on the couch in boxes and big hunks of stuff all around the whole mess, not to mention 476 different chemicals in various containers all over the place. And then there's the shop...heh

Not to mention a thin layer of dust on/in everything you own! [:p]

As far as food? Sammiches, man! You can hold your food in one hand and your skew in the other. Life is good! :D
 
Huh...looked at the picture again...

Is that an actual plant on that one shelf? You know, with a little resin here and there, that, too, will make a fine looking blank or two. heh [}:)][:p]
 
Get yourself a small gas BBQ -- opens up a lot of simple cooking options. Gas is easier and won't tempt you to get imaginative on firewood :)

Enjoy.

-Barry
 
Hmmmm, I thought shelves were for wood and pen blanks and boxes were for books. The is a new concept, replace wood with books. Nahhh, I'll leave my wood there, who needs books, anyway.:D

Congrats on the new place.
 
Originally posted by broitblat

Get yourself a small gas BBQ -- opens up a lot of simple cooking options. Gas is easier and won't tempt you to get imaginative on firewood :)

Enjoy.

-Barry
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You can't cook good Bar-b-que on a gas grill. [}:)] You gotta use wood or coal(charcoal) or a combination of the two. You can get a $9.99 fake mini-Weber at Wallymart, that will be more than enough to cook a whole chicken, hamburgers, grilled meatballs for spagetti, fish, porkchops... you only use about 15 brickets at a time and a chunk of your smoking wood. It's not fancy but it gets the job done.

Look for sales on charcoal, and start reading the supermarket ads. Try to buy double on BOGO sales, and stock a larder or cupboard or whatever they call it in your neck of the woods.
 
I second the bbq vote. It is hard to mess up. Go with a smoker. You can use it as a traditional charcoal bbq also.

http://www.virtualweberbullet.com/

I smoked a turkey with recipe on that site last thanksgiving. Plus the neighbor on other side of alley always shows up when I am cooking. The only problem is deciding the fate of that chuck of apple wood. Smoker, or pen blank / bottle stopper blank. [}:)]
 
Congrats on the new apartment!

I put one of the simplest dishes in the oven this morning before I left for work.

You need a dutch oven (we use a cheapie glass one we got at target)

A small beef roast
A packet of liptons onion soup
Some taters carrots and onions


Put the roast in the dutch oven, add veggies, add water till it covers beef by 1"
Add liptons
Put in 250 degree oven for 8-10 hours

Come home from work and enjoy a fall apart roast for dinner and roast beef sammiches tomorrow!
 
Wow congratulations, nice to have your own place, huh? Here is a quickie dinner,
Cook some Minute Rice by directions on box.

Brown some hamburger
Add 1 can Cream of Chicken soup
1/2 can of milk

Let simmer for a few minutes, ladle over some of the rice.

BTW, nice shelves!
 
Yeah, thanks so much for the responses. Dawn was even kind enough to offer sending cookbooks! It is making me excited to try some new stuff :D
 
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