Meatballs and garlic bread

Meh, here's another thing that I was too lazy to post up.  Here's another dinner idea I stole from Everyday Food, meatballs with a some garlic bread on the side.  I always liked meatballs as a kid, which are basically the only good part of spaghetti and meatballs.  Whenever I got to an Italian restaurant I'm always tempted by the spaghetti and meatballs, but I really don't want the spaghetti.  Whenever I buy TV dinners spaghetti and meatballs or swedish meatballs are some of my favorite entrees to buy.  But then I feel like I have to eat the pasta or else I'm wasting a lot of food.  Maybe if the pasta were acting more as a side dish than a cohort or main part in the dish.  Ah well.

Meatballs make semi-good leftovers too since they can turn into sandwiches. 

Steak with jalepeno butter

I have to say, grocery shopping the day before the Super Bowl sucks. The only reason I was at Costco was to get some ciabatta sandwich rolls, which was the only place in Stockton that I absolutely knew had them off the top of my head. The line was long enough so you couldn't even see the cash registers, it was just a huge line going back to where the books and socks usually are. Anyway, I did see some prime grade New York steaks there. If you're going to eat steak, go for the best, baby. It's tastier and easier to cook since you don't have to do too much to it.

A steak dinner is a relatively quick meal to make, maybe 30 minutes or so. Rachael Ray would be proud. This is just a steak with a jalepeno/garlic composite butter, some chili and garlic broccoli, and garlic naan.

Feeling a little chili

Honestly, I don't think I've ever cooked this much in such a short amount of time. Well, cooking in a sense of making stuff that takes more time than making a sandwich or cereal. So good times.

I'm not the biggest chili connoisseur or purist so I don't care whether it has beans or not, chocolate, cinnamon, or whatever people want to put in as long as it tastes good. The ingredients in this chili are pretty standard while browsing through recipes posted at some chili competition websites, besides the beer and maybe chicken stock. On a random side note, have won hottest chili at the neighborhood 4th of July block party (when there were only three entries). Got a neat little drink bottle that has like a thing in the middle that freezes. Good idea but it had a tendency to leak so I only used it once. Yargh.

Anyway I decide to make the base for a chili to fold in the leftover pulled pork after I'm done making a few sandwiches out of it. By the way, I'm taking these pictures from my cell phone because I forgot to bring the charger to battery for my camera when I moved, so excuse the random blurriness and ghettoness.