Comfort Food

Bacon. Wrapped. Hotdogs.

Amazing...mind blowing.

Last week was a long and torturous one of epic proportions. I had a lot of running around on campus and in my personal life. School, work and derby take a lot of my time. By the time I got to the weekend I needed some serious relax time. Which for me means a lot of food and cooking.

I started off with baking mint chocolate brownies for a game night in Nompton. I started the brownies on Thursday and finished them up Friday morning. There were lots of steps involved with different layers, but there were amazing. The garden gnome stopped eating them once I told him how much sugar was in them. Then I reminded him that it wasn't high fructose corn syrup and he was all for them again, just as long as I didn't bring anymore to his house. This said gnome also made me supper Friday night because he knew I was plumb tuckered out. He's a pretty good guy.

Saturday consisted of going to thrift stores with the gnome and his roommates. Can you guess what I looked at while there? Cookbooks. I bought 5. And a stack of the little taste of home ones you see at the checkout. The coolest one was a Japanese cookbook from 1969 that has really cool rice paper pages. After thrifting, we went to Super Cao Nguyens, the Asian grocery store off of 23rd. I did manage to keep my total under $20 which hasn't happened there in a LONG time. Then we went across the street to the Saigon sandwich place. The little odd corner building with the Braums milk bottle on top and got sandwiches for a picnic in the park. Supper was an unexciting frozen pizza that gave me heartburn...but it was good enough to be worth it!

Sunday I had a scrimmage and then went to Remington Park with my sister and the gnome for ostrich and camel racing. We only got to see the camels but that was worth it. I was thirsty for a soda, and the concession stand had mostly Mexican influenced items. I bought a Mexican Cola which is the same thing as a normal coke without high fructose corn syrup. Delicioso! This soda inspired an impromptu trip to el Super Mercado in south OKC. The coolest Hispanic grocery store I have found yet. It is off of Western and South 36th. Way down there, but worth the drive.

Sunday night we made turkey burgers and bacon wrapped hotdogs. I ate mine in a tortilla with guacamole, onions and tomatoes. Ah-maz-ing!

Try it sometime.

Coming soon with be a grilled cheese post, since according to Cody Bromley, it is grilled cheese month!