{"id":1141,"date":"2011-06-28T14:32:44","date_gmt":"2011-06-28T18:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/?p=1141"},"modified":"2011-06-28T14:36:11","modified_gmt":"2011-06-28T18:36:11","slug":"what-the-heck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/2011\/06\/28\/what-the-heck\/","title":{"rendered":"What the heck?!?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Food&#8230;What is it about food? \u00a0I&#8217;m either into it, and creating recipes like mad, or it&#8217;s Ritz Crackers and cheese or Shredded Wheat for dinner. \u00a0 And I&#8217;m stuck in that rut of cereal for dinner, or the easiest meal I can come up with. \u00a0Lately, it&#8217;s been my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kobackers.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">local market<\/a> for a pre-made salad, or a rotisserie cooked chicken. \u00a0Or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.traderjoes.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Trader Joe&#8217;s<\/a> for whatever freezer stuff they have on sale.<\/p>\n<p>All of which means I&#8217;ve been eating like crap. \u00a0Not enough good healthy foods. \u00a0My feeble attempt at trying to start cooking again has led me down the path of &#8220;buy stuff I am not going to cook that will rot away in the refrigerator&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Take a look over there to the right of your screen and you&#8217;ll see the archive listing. \u00a0November 2010 was my last post?! \u00a0Really?!? \u00a0What the heck have I been doing for all these months.<\/p>\n<p><em>Oh, yeah. \u00a0Cereal.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #800000;\"><em><strong>*bangs head on desk*<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<p>The most\u00a0<del>adventurous<\/del> I&#8217;ve been able to come up with is a rhubarb pie, and even that little bit of simplicity sucked. \u00a0My pie dough looked as though a first time baker had done it. \u00a0Worse, perhaps, because my first pie dough was really good!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/omg-wtf-bbq-apron-zoom.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-1142\" title=\"omg wtf bbq apron - zoom\" src=\"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/omg-wtf-bbq-apron-zoom-300x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/omg-wtf-bbq-apron-zoom-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/omg-wtf-bbq-apron-zoom-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/omg-wtf-bbq-apron-zoom.jpg 360w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>I&#8217;m going to try and start with some simple things this coming weekend. \u00a0I&#8217;m going to a picnic\/bbq\/fireworks\/alcohol..thing. \u00a0I&#8217;ll make a couple of items: \u00a0 Some chicken cutlets. \u00a0Some <a href=\"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/2008\/03\/31\/potato-salad\/\" target=\"_blank\">potato salad<\/a>. \u00a0Some fruit salad. \u00a0Nothing mind blowing, just good, wholesome dishes.<\/p>\n<p>I guess we&#8217;ll see. \u00a0If you start seeing posts here, I&#8217;ve found my food grooooove again. Otherwise, I&#8217;ll be back later. \u00a0Really.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Food&#8230;What is it about food? \u00a0I&#8217;m either into it, and creating recipes like mad, or it&#8217;s Ritz Crackers and cheese or Shredded Wheat for dinner. \u00a0 And I&#8217;m stuck in that rut of cereal for dinner, or the easiest meal &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/2011\/06\/28\/what-the-heck\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-1141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-humour"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1141"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1144,"href":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1141\/revisions\/1144"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/thisfoodthing.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}