it’s too hot to cook.
hi guys. remember when this blog was more about food and less about nothing? my excuse is the title. get it? anyway, i hate summer because i cannot (should not) have a simmering pot of soup on the stove for hours, or a venison loin slowly roasting in the oven all day.
i can only eat so many bowls of cottage cheese with frozen peas and lemon juice and thyme and green onion so it was time for a salad-y thing that wasnt all cold and heartless. (is that a joke about being sick of salads without meat in them? like…without something that used to have a heart? like).
OMG JUST SAY IT TACO SALAD ALL I DID WAS MAKE A TACO SAAAAALAAAAD.
step one: go to rowe farms on roncesvalles, and hope they have ground turkey- THEY DONT. NOT ON MONDAY JULY 25TH. you dont want to use ground chicken breast because wtf. no fat. not a lot of flavour, etc. so give in and get the ground beef. feel a little less awful inside knowing:
wonder when you got so soft. (answer: born that way).
step two: sauté some onions and garlic, add the *gasp* ground. beef. i added a bunch of spices, duh: chili powder, MORE LIKE CHILI POWER. um. cumin seeds, curry pow/d/er, dried oregano.
step three: start talking in the first person.
step four: i dumped a bunch of habanero salsa into it too. because there’s no fucking way im going to eat it by itself. it has become a fun game of ‘where can you hide the habanero salsa’. no actually, it hasnt. this is the only time ive ‘hidden it’. but that would be a fun game, wouldnt it?
step five?: i steamed some fresh corn i got on the weekend in bruce county. it tastes better than any corn in toronto. also, cut up some tortillas into triangles, slosh a bit of grapeseed oil over them and bake until crispy.
interlude: oh shit i forgot it’s the dead of summer and the plan was to avoid using the oven.
step six: chop up whatever toppings you want. i chopped these toppings, which are visible to the human eye in that picture there above that thuuur herp derp:
- lettuce
- cherry tomatoes
- green onion
- cucumber (you might think that’s weird BUT IT’S NOT)
- fresh mint from your mom’s garden
- old white organic* cheese (i care about cow’s milk’s”s feelings but not cow’s facess”s feelings)
- ORGANIC* sour cream
build a pile of all that stuff and squeeze some lime on top and you might be tricked into thinking the mint is cilantro!
HOT TIPS: because you (i) are (am) poor, throw in a can of beans to “STRECH IT OUT”. i am going to do that tonight.
eat it with this drink that is pretty much this drink but with some fresh mint and blueberries muddled in the bottom first. REFRESHING.
*it is of the utmost importance you use ORGANIC and if you do not, the devil, amy winehouse and/or someone tending the garden on parts and labours’ rooftop will cut you.
