Zennotes

Lentils w/rice, onion & tomato

zenman — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 23:09:21 +0000

This a very easy meal I’ve been making for myself lately. I’ll cook up a big batch on Sunday and have it for dinner most of the week. It’s awesome because it’s dirt cheap, easy, and you can eat a ton of it while feeling satisfied by never lethargic. Ingredients: 1 pound lentils 1 can [...]

Irish Soda Bread

zenman — Sun, 25 Mar 2007 16:02:36 +0000

Last weekend I was looking for something Irish to eat for the holiday and I came across this recipe on Simply Recipies. I think it turned out very well, but I think my cup of flour wasn’t nearly the same amount of stuff as her cup of flour because my dough just didn’t want to [...]

Tuscan Salmon

zenman — Thu, 15 Mar 2007 00:54:05 +0000

I consider something like this to be a dish reserved for special occasions. I’m a little late in posting this because I actually made this with Melanie for Valentine’s Day. The most time consuming part by far was reducing the wine sauce, but I think it was well worth it. I’m feeling a bit lazy [...]

Country Style Steak

zenman — Wed, 07 Feb 2007 01:17:50 +0000

After watching the cube steak episode of ‘Good Eats’, I was inspired to try Alton’s recipe for country style steak. My method was exactly the same as his, but I changed the ingredient list a bit to suit my tastes and current pantry. Ingredients: 1 1/2 pound bottom round steak 1 bottle of ale (Red [...]

Drawing – Jennifer Love Hewitt

zenman — Thu, 23 Nov 2006 04:50:07 +0000

I just bought a new scanner today. I needed one because it was becoming very sad being reduced to taking digital photographs of my latest artwork and then using Photoshop to edit them sufficiently that they didn’t look like garbage. So, I broke down and bought this Cannon CanoScan LiDE25 from amazon. It was pretty [...]

Drawing – Yoruichi

zenman — Tue, 21 Nov 2006 04:49:20 +0000

Its been entirely too long since I seriously drew. This is mostly a remake of an older sketch I did a couple years ago. I’ve since learned what legs should mostly look like, that women look weird without proper hips, and that I still suck at drawing hands… As usual, any feedback would be appreciated.

Snow storm today…

zenman — Fri, 13 Oct 2006 23:21:24 +0000

We had a little adventure last night in the Buffalo, NY area. Its October 13th, and we got 22 inches of snow last night. Even for Buffalo that’s a record. The most snow we’ve ever gotten in an October storm before was 6 inches in the early 1900’s. It was a very wet snow that [...]

Baked Beans

zenman — Mon, 17 Jul 2006 01:08:12 +0000

I was inspired to make this dish when my Dad told me that he wanted to make some spare ribs. I thought nothing could go better with a hearty meal like that than some sweet and spicy baked beans. You can find Alton Brown’s origional recipie here. Ingredients: 1 pound dried Great Northern beans 1/3 [...]

Grilled Pizza – version 2

zenman — Thu, 22 Jun 2006 22:41:59 +0000

I got the idea for this pizza from a co-worker who said he’s done this in a conventional oven. If you’ve read the previous entry on grilled pizza much of this will look familiar… Ingredients: 1 ball of frozen pizza dough Olive oil BBQ sauce Mozzerella cheese 2 Chicken breasts 2 bell peppers 1 large [...]

Grilled Pizza – version 1

zenman — Fri, 19 May 2006 00:50:20 +0000

My last college roommate, Dan, showed me a cooking show called ‘The Surreal Gourmet‘. Among other crazy things I saw this man cook salmon in a dishwasher. The host also grilled pizza in one episode… that’s right, grilled pizza. I thought he was crazy at first, but after trying it myself I have to say [...]