Turkey and Beer
Sep. 10th, 2008 08:18 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
frameofmind6(*cries*) They got rid of my beloved Turkey Cordon Bleu at Cosi... (*sniff*)
I knew it had to happen eventually. The posters always said "limited time only" -- but still, I'm sad. It was so yummy. I seriously went all the way uptown like three or four evenings a week over the summer just to eat it. (Well, and also to study my LSAT book in a comfy place with lots of natural light, and to have an excuse to get outside once in awhile -- but especially for the Turkey Cordon Bleu...) I wonder if I could figure out how to make it myself. I had it so many times I was really becoming quite a coinesseur. There was a good deal of variation in the ingredient ratio from day to day (sometimes the sauce was thinner, more buttery, sometimes thicker and more alfredo-y, sometimes there was lots of cheese, sometimes just a little, sometimes too light on the garlic or the bread crumbs, sometimes almost to much...), and I got pretty good at identifying the differences. I think I could probably at least conjure up something similar, and then play around with the ratios a bit until I get the right mix. The really tricky thing would be the turkey itself. Aside from sauteing a pound of ground beef, I don't know much about preparing meat (well, at least not without an outdoor grill -- that's what we always use at home, but I don't have one here). Anybody know a good way to cook a turkey breast just by itself (to later by sliced up and put in a casserole type dish) without a grill? Can you just fry it in a pan or something? And is a turkey breast even something you can buy in a supermarket? Chicken breasts, sure, but I feel like a turkey breast is a little weirder. The only ways I've ever seen turkey prepared at home are either as a sliced deli meat, or as a whole bird, a la Thanksgiving...
On a semi-related note, I am developing three bad habits at the moment: Aerosoles (cute-yet-functional shoes...love 'em...), Ann Taylor LOFT (makes me feel stylish and put-together -- plus, I figure I'll need more business/business-casual pieces in my wardrobe if I end up getting a job next year...), and drinking in the afternoon (*grin*). The last one isn't quite as bad as it sounds -- this friend and I have just been going out for drinks after class (at like three or four in the afternoon) a couple of times a week lately and hanging out, talking. It's really fun, actually -- I'm usually not great at one-on-one conversations (I'm better in small groups -- less pressure, I guess... *grin*), but somehow we never run out of things to talk about. And it's like everything from exchanging mildly bitchy critiques of some of the other people in our program, to politics, to social drama (mostly his. I don't attract much drama...), to mutual self-analysis and childhood stories. I feel like I have so many friends that I can talk to about x, but not y, and that are lots of fun in one situation, but not really at all in another -- and that's fine, but it's been awhile since I had a friend I could just hang out with for a length of time doing nothing in particular without getting bored or feeling like I'm dropping the ball on my end of the conversation. I used to have that with my best friend from back home, but we've kind of been growing apart over the last couple of years. When we do see each other (maybe once or twice a year), we seem to run out of things to talk about relatively quickly. Anyway, I really like hanging out with this guy -- if he were straight, I would probably have a major crush on him...lol...
(For the record, he is sooo not straight... *grin*)
I just need to lay off the beer a bit (*grin*). The buzz is nice for awhile, but it makes doing homework afterward a little more obnoxious -- and besides that, I feel like a human water-balloon. Those are calories I can do without...
I knew it had to happen eventually. The posters always said "limited time only" -- but still, I'm sad. It was so yummy. I seriously went all the way uptown like three or four evenings a week over the summer just to eat it. (Well, and also to study my LSAT book in a comfy place with lots of natural light, and to have an excuse to get outside once in awhile -- but especially for the Turkey Cordon Bleu...) I wonder if I could figure out how to make it myself. I had it so many times I was really becoming quite a coinesseur. There was a good deal of variation in the ingredient ratio from day to day (sometimes the sauce was thinner, more buttery, sometimes thicker and more alfredo-y, sometimes there was lots of cheese, sometimes just a little, sometimes too light on the garlic or the bread crumbs, sometimes almost to much...), and I got pretty good at identifying the differences. I think I could probably at least conjure up something similar, and then play around with the ratios a bit until I get the right mix. The really tricky thing would be the turkey itself. Aside from sauteing a pound of ground beef, I don't know much about preparing meat (well, at least not without an outdoor grill -- that's what we always use at home, but I don't have one here). Anybody know a good way to cook a turkey breast just by itself (to later by sliced up and put in a casserole type dish) without a grill? Can you just fry it in a pan or something? And is a turkey breast even something you can buy in a supermarket? Chicken breasts, sure, but I feel like a turkey breast is a little weirder. The only ways I've ever seen turkey prepared at home are either as a sliced deli meat, or as a whole bird, a la Thanksgiving...
On a semi-related note, I am developing three bad habits at the moment: Aerosoles (cute-yet-functional shoes...love 'em...), Ann Taylor LOFT (makes me feel stylish and put-together -- plus, I figure I'll need more business/business-casual pieces in my wardrobe if I end up getting a job next year...), and drinking in the afternoon (*grin*). The last one isn't quite as bad as it sounds -- this friend and I have just been going out for drinks after class (at like three or four in the afternoon) a couple of times a week lately and hanging out, talking. It's really fun, actually -- I'm usually not great at one-on-one conversations (I'm better in small groups -- less pressure, I guess... *grin*), but somehow we never run out of things to talk about. And it's like everything from exchanging mildly bitchy critiques of some of the other people in our program, to politics, to social drama (mostly his. I don't attract much drama...), to mutual self-analysis and childhood stories. I feel like I have so many friends that I can talk to about x, but not y, and that are lots of fun in one situation, but not really at all in another -- and that's fine, but it's been awhile since I had a friend I could just hang out with for a length of time doing nothing in particular without getting bored or feeling like I'm dropping the ball on my end of the conversation. I used to have that with my best friend from back home, but we've kind of been growing apart over the last couple of years. When we do see each other (maybe once or twice a year), we seem to run out of things to talk about relatively quickly. Anyway, I really like hanging out with this guy -- if he were straight, I would probably have a major crush on him...lol...
(For the record, he is sooo not straight... *grin*)
I just need to lay off the beer a bit (*grin*). The buzz is nice for awhile, but it makes doing homework afterward a little more obnoxious -- and besides that, I feel like a human water-balloon. Those are calories I can do without...
