16 April 2011

Breakfast: oatmeal and coffee

Lunch: a fine traditional lunch of

• homemade meatloaf (too much oatmeal)
• boiled rice
• boiled broccoli florets (I'm still working my way thru the bag of broccoli florets I bought at Sam's about 3 weeks ago!)
• coffee and
• iced water

Dinner: I could not face another Healthy Choice meal so I went with:

• two nice little steaks fried in my 10" cast iron fry pan,
• frozen hash browns fried in my 10" cast iron fry pan
• with unfortunately, bottled brown gravy. I should have let the steak juices and ketchup do the flavouring for the potatoes and
• a bottle of Michelob Lager (not the Mic Light and certainly not Mic Ultra, which I think is always filtered thru someone's kidneys...)
• desert was the last of the "no sugar, no fat" cooked chocolate pudding from yesterday
  

I had a bit of trouble cleaning the fry pan. Before I started cooking, I boiled some water in it to remove any unwanted grease and kill anything growing in the pan (I'm paranoid about such contamination). I saw what appeared to be several rust streaks and that both upset me and offended me! There wasn't much I could do at that time, though.  I fried the steak first and then the potatoes. After cooking dinner, I had fried potatoes stuck to the bottom of the pan (and I had used a lot of olive oil). Fortunately, I boiled a bit more water in the pan and was able to scrap the potatoes out with a steel spatula. Then, I rinsed the fry pan out, dried it and coated it with a thick layer of olive oil. After which, I wrapped it in a couple of towels and put the pan back in the pots and pans drawer of the oven. (The next time I use this fry pan, I'm sure I'll worry about germs growing in the olive oil... :-[  )