the domesticated sloth

Since I’ve not been doing much lately, I decided to expand my culinary repertoire to which no one in the house has yet agreed on as to whether is a good or bad thing. Cooking with unhindered creativity is awesome. Cooking with your mom or people who know how to cook is not. This is what I realized. Panif (housemate) and I cook, and Tonz (the other one) is our understudy. Poor guy.

We reckon that cooking is a stress reliever, not for the stomach as has been proved a few times, but the mind and other parts of the body. You get to use a different part of your brain.

Panif likes to eat healthy whereas Tonz prefers to fry burgers, cheese, curry from a can and the occasional doner kebab. Panif’s pretty slim for a 40-something dude, so I decided I too could do without too much of a pot.

I should write a book about all my recipes and research since this will infinitely benefit chumps who don’t know where to start. So this is it.

Tuna and baked beans curry.

Boil strands of wholemeal pasta in a pan. I used to break them in half before Panif told me not to. You just wait till they soften.

Chop half an onion and throw it into a pan covered with a layer of heated olive oil.
Throw in a can of chopped tomatoes.
Throw in a can of baked beans.
Throw in some mushrooms.
Throw in some herbs, chili powder from sl. Garlic powder, ginger powder, salt pinch, and soy sauce. – These are all the ingredients I have and it works.
Throw in a can of tuna and stir for 5 minutes.

Now wasn’t that easy?

Salmon steak and potatoes and veggies.

Veggies are a hassle so I get the frozen mixed bag.

Throw in the same ingredients I threw in before into a mixing bowl.
Add two (so you can keep one for the next day) salmon steaks into the bowl and mix being careful not to break them.
Place them on a foil and shove them into the oven for 45 minutes.

In the meantime, boil some small potatoes with their skins on (since this is nutritious and peeling sucks, but buy some quality shit). Oh, cut up the potatoes in half to make it quicker and smarter.
Cut up an onion in a manner that forms rings. Like onion rings without the crust.
Throw the onions into the heated olive oil in a pan and stir until they turn golden brown.

Boil some frozen veggies in a pan for around 3 minutes so as not to kill the nutrition.

After everything is done, top the potatoes with the onions. Add the salmon to the plate. Grab some bread.

There’s so much more to go and so little time. Until next time, don’t eat your heart out.