all i want to do is cook lately. cross-posted from life journal:
yesterday i made lasagna and it fucking ruled. here's what i did, approximately, in this RECIPE OF THE DAY!
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preheated oven to 400.
sauteed a small onion, chopped, and three cloves garlic, minced, in vege oil. added fenugreek and basil, toasting them for two minutes in the oil before adding a big can of crushed tomatoes. stirred all this together, put a top on it and let it simmer.
meanwhile, back at the ranch: crumbled up half a block of firm tofu. added a tablespoonful of mustard, a tablespoonful of nayonnaise, 1/4 cup nutritional yeast, salt. would have added some lemon juice too (like half a lemon's worth) but didn't have it. a tablespoonful of capers with some of the juice. i also added a tablespoonful of red pepper spread that we had in the fridge. when i make things like this i really just throw in whatever i have that's savoury.
cooked lasagna noodles. actually, keri and i managed to get the no-cook kind, so i just kinda softened them.
sliced and sauteed up some mushrooms.
used my wide-blade peeler to peel up some zucchini into thin wide strips. these could probably have been thicker. i should have added eggplant as well though i'd like to pre-salt it and maybe even pre-roast it for a few minutes. uncooked eggplant sucks.
i made a crust but it didn't work out... it was breadcrumbs, garlic powder, pepper and a little nutritional yeast. spread it out on the bottom and then spooned some sauce overtop. put a layer of noodles. a layer of sauce. a layer of zucchini. a layer of noodles. a layer of sauce. a layer of crumbled tofu ricotta. a layer of sauce. a layer of noodles. a layer of sauce. a layer of mushrooms and tofu. a layer of sauce. a layer of noodles. the last of the tofu. the last of the sauce. topped it with breadcrumbs and nutritional yeast.
baked it for about 30 minutes with tinfoil overtop, then broiled it for ten without tinfoil to brown the top.
HOLY SHIT YOU GUYS IT WAS SO GOOD.
lately i have been listening to a lot of hip-hop music. i went to a show on monday night and took loads and loads of photographs of my new favourite local band the heard. when i posted the photos i said:
The Heard is pretty much the best band ever... I think everyone should go see them live. A wicked drummer/singer/composer/musical guru, a wicked bassist, two guys on laptops and three hip-hop emcees, one of whom is a super foxy lesbian... what else could you want in a band?
you can see those photos here. i fucked up the colour though. shitty. this is what the colour looked like before editing:
it's a magenta mess. 
oh, and i got a wireless remote for my camera... i have taken a few pictures with it. here's one:
i need a new 50mm prime lens. i definitely got dust in mine at burning man and it hasn't been the same since. i suck. sigh! maybe someday soon i will have an extra $120 to buy one. it could happen. maybe i will find $120 on the street, and for some reason buy a lens instead of food, or paying rent.
being a starving student is okay, but sometimes it sucks.
