cooking, weather, work

Pantry staples:
onions
garlic
canned tomato products (diced, sauce, paste, Rotel)
rice
pasta (any type)

Today I adapted Pioneer Woman's pasta alla Marlboro Man. I was trying to make something using the Roma tomatoes I'd bought yesterday. Last weekend my adaptation of the Rice-a-Rini meal flopped, I think, because I added way too much rice. Today's pasta is good, though the super-lean ground turkey will be changed to ground beef next time. My goal is to eventually use fresh tomatoes as much as possible, though I don't know if I could do without canned paste. Forget taking hte skin of the tomatoes first, too - too much work! I also want to learn to make more meals that involve meat besides ground beef, ground turkey, or chicken breasts. Beef stirfry I can do, but it's still easy. Steak I've done twice ever. Ever. Beef stew once also.

Right now, the AC is off and the window open. It was 85 degrees earlier with a nice breeze. All the cooking has warmed the place up a bit, but I'll take a day like this as long as it'll last.

One week of work down, 195 days to go. Same crap, new year. Feeling ok so far; my students are not trouble makers and pressure from the top hasn't come down yet. Just ye wait. In a month or two, I may want to quit again.

Ooh, burn.

Monday night, I just barely bumped my hand on the oven and burned it. It's a half-inch spot at the base of my thumb, on the back of my hand. It would be healing all fine and well except that I keep bumping it. On everything. It was sort of scabbed over but getting wet and/or scraping it accidently has made it a nasty-looking thing. I feel like it's the wound that will never go away.

Grr.