The Cheese Limit.
02.07.06
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Music o' The Entry: "Samui Yoru Dakara (Euro House Remix)", TRF
Another one of my karaoke favourites, although I always sing the original version (the Euro House version is also in English). Sigh. I miss my karaoke, especially since I've been learning a number of new songs that I'd really like to try. Oh well, the time will come...! Just gotta be patient, something I'm not necessarily that great at. I mean, I'm better at it than some folks, but my impatience comes in bursts, minor freak-outs. But I WILL have my karaoke...
Some of y'all know of my love of cheese. No, not in the metaphorical sense (my goofiness that way runs more in the direction of gross overdramatization and, well, goofiness), but in the culinary. It's almost a given when I'm cooking (which is often, regardless of not my family is home or not) something other than a dessert that I will use cheese; blimey, it extends to my okonomiyaki cooking as well. Matt was over at my house yesterday, and is our custom, we decided to cook something tasty for dinner, and picked a specialty of mine, calzones. As usual, the whole set-up involved myself handling the making/eating of the dough and the preparation of the other ingredients, such as Italian sausage, sauteeing the mushrooms and onions, chopping olives, etc, and Matt grating the cheese. Which sounds innocuous enough, except when one takes into account the sheer amount of cheese we grate, which actually turned out to be a LOT more than I bargained for in the way of cheddar (for calzones the grating involves mozzarella, cheddar, parmesan, and romano, though I'm interested in trying Asiago as well), but I digress; suffice to say that cheese grating is no more easy than my jobs (hooray kitchen equality?) in the process of calzone creation. Anyway, I was planning to halve the dough recipe because the standard batch produces four calzones, and Matt and I are only two people. I can refrigerate the remainder, certainly, but calzone dough is quite annoying and pretty much impossible to handle when it's cold, so I try to use the entire amount of dough when it's still fresh and easy to work with. However, because I'm a tard, I began to make the full batch, which meant I had to come up with some method to utilize half the dough. Which brought me to what is either a stroke of genius, or stupidity, depending on the context; something at work we produce known as "Cheese Bread". I've never prepared it at work before, but I've observed how they do it a little, so I decided to try my hand at it, by slapping the dough into a bread pan, coating it with olive oil and melted butter (I was in a healthful mood, so sue me) and then throwing relatively obscene amounts of first mozzarella, and then cheddar cheese on it. I crammed it in the oven for 20 minutes and waited...after removing it, I sprinkled it with the powdery parmesan and romano that one purchases in cans and garlic powder (which I don't usually recommend, I've recently become a big proponent of actually buying chunks of parmesan and romano and then grating them for use, the flavour is much bolder)...and that ladies and gentlemen, is how I broke The Cheese Limit. Because Matt and I, both lovers of cheese, have always lived by the adage that one cannot have too much cheese. Because you can, oh yes, you can. Not that the cheese bread of my devising was bad; actually, it was disturbingly tasty, perhaps my best creation (which always seem to involve cheese, garlic, and bread, not surprisingly) and excellent...it was just very very cheesy, plus the calzones that followed soon after also had insane amounts of cheese. Seriously, I don't care to measure the sheer amount of cheese I consumed last night. So the moral of this story is don't make cheese bread WITH calzones; have one or other. But both are really really tasty so this shall concrete my idea for my online quasi-cookbook, which I'm considering adding to this blog, or creating another one entirely for that sole purpose, so you all can share in my culinary glee. But I have work this evening, so I need to go exercise now, because I've been a slob about it recently. Luckily, I have Final Fantasy VIII to beckon me (I'm probably the only person who considers video games an exercise incentive. Hooray exercise bikes!), so it shall be good. Until, then adieu (and also note that I plan to live on tea, steamed vegetables, ramen, and fruit for the rest of the day. Seriously, I had WAY too much meat yesterday...)!
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