a thing in 140 photos cooking Lo-fi dinner because I was exhausted. Happy chef at work My brother got a new kitchen toy! Getting Sous vide steaks prepped for dinner. Mmm, breakfast sammiches Ta da! Look! Chopping stuff! Cynthia requested I make a green bean dish! ...and got to the very rare task of cooking in my apt! Cynthia invited me to a "hot dish" pot luck dinner so later on I went shopping for the necessary ingredients... Afterwards, we all teamed up to cook a potluck supper. Shawn grilled pineapples along with dinner. Chef Shawn cooked all the first night guests and amazing dinner. Serious steak situation. Chef Breakfast-for-Dinner on the case! One of the new packages contained this giant bag of pancake mix! Cast iron cookware set! Jared and company whipped up a Memorial Day BBQ style feast for dinner. The cabin has an outdoor stove on the porch. Got treated to an excellent... Fatty, er, ahem, Dave made us breakfast in the morning. Browning the croutons! Amy cooking up our lovely dinner! On Thursday evening I went over to Meredith's for a stay-in-town hide-from-your-family Thanksgiving! ...tie dye tshirt making party! Cauldron O' witch's shirts brewing on the stove! ...and frying up some garlic... Came inside from the fire at 2am to find J-rod boiling some angel hair up... Gurj made us peanut butter, jelly, banana and Nutella sandwiches! I arrived just in time for the... While I waited for Scott to come pick me up, I worked on the last of my groceries! Made a "try to finish all your groceries" omelet! ...to make dinner. Keep that pancake train rolling. Mac & Pancake dinner? Suuuuure. When you don't have a toaster, you gotta pan-fry your breads. Fabulously golden-brown grilled cheese for dinner... Dave cooking us up some dinner! ...whip up the first of many grilled-cheese-centered meals! Hung out in the backyard with Brett and supervised his new BBQ! Sauce-game STRONG. ...okonomiyaki! He was making his now-famous... Max woke me up at 7:30 so he could open presents! Came downstairs to find Amy hard at work making Monkeybread! Yes! Wrap it up! Not only did it look just like real sushi, it was absolutely delicious! Went over to Sarah's for dinner and she made vegetarian sushi with watermelon instead of tuna. Dad grilled up some shishkabobs... Hans on the coals Monday morning man-cooking! Mom making dinner! Cheesy bread! Up and at 'em for group breakfast at 10am! ...consulted with our resident chef about preparation... Haha. Getting excited for eating time! ...and Grant cooked us dinner! On Thursday night Grant and Amanda came over... A smiling German man kept bringing us piping hot pizza after pizza! Huge development in mid-November kitchen news: Got myself a new 12-piece set of T-fal Signature cookware (none of that non-Signature shit here!). Helped out in the kitchen... Saturday afternoon kitchen prep! ...get as serious in the kitchen as they are about ping pong! Cooking meat with tree branches, holy moly! Quinn poses with the mega salad. We entered to find Hans in the kitchen hard at work making chocolate cakes! On Sunday night I went over to Amanda's apartment and Chef Grant made us... I'm, at best, a lowly kitchen helper. On Friday night Catrinel and I went over to Ben & Sarah's apartment to cook dinner and meet their new baby Charlie for the first time! Yes! ...and Siege even threatened to have some! Unfortunately, I didn't pass his "sniff" test. Grant cooked a Japanese dish for us... A little before midnight, I walked over to Matt's for a late night hang (and some hash browns?) I have no idea what he's cooking! ...and insanely delicious potatoes au gratin. While Hans got responsible and started working on dinner.... Back inside, Peter was hard at work... ...on an epic breakfast! ...working on dinner! Man-cooking makes me feel right at home. No time to clean this up... Busted out the camping stove and made breakfast. The longer you party with people, the better you get at it. I've got at least 20 solid years under my belt with these guys. I don't have a toaster so I just pan fry my bread along with my eggs. ...by Rachit & Adit from Two Toasters. If I don't order food, chances are I'm making a grilled cheese. ...for some freshly-cooked Guatemalan food on their neato indoor oven. Leigh working on dinner while Alex supervises. So thankful for these two for COMING TO OUR RESCUE! Later that evening I ventured into the kitchen for some cooking-by-flashlight. TA-DA! ....bruschetta (with pepper & olive tapenade?). Whatever it was it was so delicious it didn't make it off the baking sheet. Haha. Veggie lasagna and... Meredith cooking up a Monday evening feast for me and Ellen! Freshly-baked orange-almond cookies for crumbling on top of a... After the drive back from Sarah & Ben's wedding in New Hampshire , Grant cooked dinner for us! He was halfway through staying with us for a month while searching for a new NYC apartment and so we were treated to meals in exchange for board. Later that night, Grant cooked dinner. The guys went surfing, I made a specialty of mine for lunch... Later that night we had an awesome... Mer & Quinn talking everyone through... She was pureeing them, putting them in the food dehydrator... Chef Grant showing off his Japancakes! ...Meredith was dehydrating carrots! Amanda was my cooking partner. She worked some blender magic... ...while I added to the pot what she told me.
