Chey’s Lounge

Guys, I must confess.. I am kinda tired and don’t feel like writing about what I’ve been cooking, but trust me when I say, I’ve been cookin’. The apple butter took more than 2 hours longer than the high end of the range of my initial guesstimate. I can’t believe I took a pic of the final product last night. I forgot I did that. That was so smart of a girl like me. I made latkes this morning. I don’t want to talk about the amount of schmaltz I used. It doesn’t matter, I’m eating good this weekend lol. I listened to my heart a lot with the latkes. And Martha Stewart, believe it or not. I added a little bit of beer (Michelin Ultra, in my case. Martha is kinda crazy for that. So anyway. I had most of a beer at 9 am today. The latkes were good. How could onion and potato not be when it’s been cooked in that much rendered chicken fat? I know you don’t know how much, but I can’t tell you, it’s too embarrassing. It was pretty darn good with the apple butter. It’s very flavorful in a weird way. Not weird in a bad way, I just don’t have sweet stuff that much. It’s sweet in a different way than I’d normally have something.
okay so the latkes were good and I was tired after making them from working so hard and definitely not the 9 am beer, so I definitely needed a like 3 hour nap. So I started cooking dinner later than I should have and it turns out, it will be tomorrow’s dinner. I woke up from my nap and texted my mom. She had texted me earlier telling me she was making a sauce and meatballs. She asked what I was doing today before my nap and I said I was planning on making a sauce too. That sentence was structured weird and I think I used the passive voice, but I’m not fixing it. Anyway, I just knew I was not making the sauce timely today, so when I woke up I asked my mom if she could bring some pasta and a meatball or 3 over. She did! She’s the best. I was in the midst of making my sauce when she came. The garlic was pregnant (green thing coming out of them) and I don’t really like that, so it takes me a while to perform all of the necessary abortions (removing the green part).I still hadn’t started chopping by the time she left. I had peeled/cleaned carrots, celery, and onion before she came and I literally was messing around with the garlic for like 40 minutes. Ridiculous of me. I will write more tomorrow. I’m making a bolognese sauce btw. I do add some non-traditional spices though. Maybe I don’t. Let me look up a recipe or two at some point. Okay, here’s some pics of Apple butter and heart shaped latke.