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Re-case the place and settle down
And tonight I cooked my first real meal in this apartment, since stove-heated chowder is delicious but not exactly labor-intensive: tuna melt on pumpernickel, with ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
derspatchel. (He provided the critical information that ranch dressing can be substituted for the traditional mayonnaise. We've received suggestions for curry and avocado since. Between that and the deletion of celery from tuna salad, there may be hope for my willingness to eat non-sushi tuna yet.) We sat on different couches in the bare-bones furnished living room and noodled around on our respective computers. We drank seltzer and tea. There was lashing rain outside the windows and quiet inside. The house smells a lot more like cooking now than it does like new paint and linseed oil. I like this.
The kitchen is full ofadrian_turtle's boxes and mine, partly unpacked, mostly still taped-up. There are upwards of seventy boxes of books in the library. I still don't have a dresser, so I'm trash-picking to find clothes in the morning, and the wireless seems to play fine with my computer, but it's standoffish toward Adrian's. The apartment is mysteriously bereft of shelves or hooks, so we're draping things over other things and planning a visit to hardware stores and/or Costco. Still no art anywhere except stacked on the garbage bags at the end of my bed.
But I think I am beginning to feel I live here.
Rob and I have been engaged for a week.
derspatchel. (He provided the critical information that ranch dressing can be substituted for the traditional mayonnaise. We've received suggestions for curry and avocado since. Between that and the deletion of celery from tuna salad, there may be hope for my willingness to eat non-sushi tuna yet.) We sat on different couches in the bare-bones furnished living room and noodled around on our respective computers. We drank seltzer and tea. There was lashing rain outside the windows and quiet inside. The house smells a lot more like cooking now than it does like new paint and linseed oil. I like this.The kitchen is full of
adrian_turtle's boxes and mine, partly unpacked, mostly still taped-up. There are upwards of seventy boxes of books in the library. I still don't have a dresser, so I'm trash-picking to find clothes in the morning, and the wireless seems to play fine with my computer, but it's standoffish toward Adrian's. The apartment is mysteriously bereft of shelves or hooks, so we're draping things over other things and planning a visit to hardware stores and/or Costco. Still no art anywhere except stacked on the garbage bags at the end of my bed.But I think I am beginning to feel I live here.
Rob and I have been engaged for a week.
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I've never even heard of marmitako. Do you have a recipe you like?
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oil
1 onion, chopped
4 cloves garlic, chopped
2 peppers cut in strips
1/2 kg tomatoes, peeled, seeded and chopped
2 tsp paprika
salt and pepper
1 small chili pepper
1 kg potatoes, chopped
200 ml white wine
100 ml water
Cut tuna into chucks, discarding bone (if using fresh tuna). In a large dutch oven, saute the onions, garlic, and peppers in oil. When soft, add the tomatoes. Once the tomatoes are a bit reduced, add the potatoes. Stir for a few minutes, then add the wine and water. Cover, cook on high 20 minutes, or until the potatoes are done.
Add the tuna, cover, and cook another 5 minutes until the fish is done. Let it stand 5-10 minutes, covered, before serving.
If using canned tuna, drain and rinse it first.
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Thank you.
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I'm enjoying it! Thank you!
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Nine
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Thank you. There will be soon.
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But yay for cooking smells and new apartment and being engaged for a week!
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At the risk of sounding like Cousin Urk, I think that deciding to eat more tuna at this time of tuna being overfished seems odd.
I don't need to make tuna a staple of my diet from now on: I just like knowing there is the possibility of it in forms other than raw. Tuna salad was one of those childhood foods I could never, ever reconcile myself to, and I think a lot of it had to do with the preparation.
But yay for cooking smells and new apartment and being engaged for a week!
Thank you!
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Hah. I'm very glad!
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Engagement: w00t!
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(especially for being well past the horrible "looking for a place" phase).
Oh, God, yes.