May 19, 2009

A Little Latin and a Little Cooking

Sounds like I'm becoming my sister. We'll wait for me to run a half-marathon.

I had my first day of Latin today. It will be amusing. The first chapter uses the method of throwing every verb tense at you, and then stepping back and breaking it down. It's sort of like putting a kid in a snowstorm, and then handing them, one by one, all the tools they need to build an igloo and a fire. I'm okay with that.

Fun fact I did not realize consciously before: nauta (M) means sailor. So astronauts are star sailors. Does that make the nautilus a sort of nonhuman sailor of its own?

And for dinner the past couple of times I have been trying something which suits me rather well, because it's simple and, to me, tasty. What I've been doing is just putting sliced mushrooms in a single layer in a shallow baking pan. I buy them presliced, because they're the same price as the whole ones. I then sprinkle whatever herbs and spices I want on them. In my case, I've been using some garlic and herb chicken seasoning that turned out to be not so good on chicken. Here, it really works. I stick it in the oven at 325 for however long... say, about ten minutes, let cool for a minute, serve, and enjoy! The mushrooms end up slightly juicy, like they've been sauteed. I could probably refine it, pretoss the mushrooms with the herbs, and have less herb-bits left over on the pan. But other than that...

2 comments:

Diana said...

Yesss! Embrace the snowstorm!

I buy presliced mushrooms, too, unless I want them superthin.

One of my favorite sans-Jon meals (he hates mushrooms) puts those semi-sauteed mushrooms on a naked tortilla and back in the hot oven with some cheese sprinkled on top until it gets bubbly. Mushroom pizza.

Or is that mixing too many things? ;)

James said...

Hey, that sounds pretty good, I'll have to try it.

Mixing is fine, if it's in my hands. ;) It's those other people that put undesirable ingredients in their food who cause all the issues.