Atomic Nerds

We’re either running around like chickens with our heads cut off or brooding in our lair like miffed dragons. Time for some easy content. In honor of friend Spear, who is learning to cook from the basic bachelor chow style on up, some relatively easy, fast weeknight recipes.

Turnip and Skirt Steak Ignore the description, this is nothing like risotto except in that it fills its basic ecosystem niche of a creamy buttery thing to go next to meat. Dairy fat is what elevates turnips from the bitter cousin of the potato to more-ish. This would also be spectacular with venison in place of the skirt steak.

Baked Grits and Eggs More in the vein of comfort food than healthy food. Really quite easy and straightforward if a bit time-consuming. Best on cold drizzly weekend days when the world is threatening to tell you to fuck off in general.

Beef and Broccoli Fast, good for you, good. Use avocado oil or even just flat vegetable oil in place of the coconut oil if you’re not too sure about the coconut oil.

Cauliflower with Horseradish and Bacon Side dish, but what a side dish. Perhaps next to

Pan-Roasted Pork Chops With Mustard Caper Sauce Name is fussy as hell, but pan sauces are dead easy. This one took me all of about fifteen minutes. Pan sauces in general are a good way to turn meat from ordinary to fantastic quickly and easily.

Pork Chops With Garlic and Wine So good here’s another basic pan sauce pork chops yum recipe. Tip: take the softened garlic cloves and mash them onto the pork. Cuts the sweetness and is very good.

Smashed Rutabagas and Turnips With Parmesan I love root vegetables. I want others to love them as well. All they need is love and animal fat.

Shrimp Rolls Just remember to thaw the shrimp when you get up and you are good to go. Can be spooned over salad greens/lettuce leaves or into portobello mushroom caps instead if you want.

Roasted Garlic Soup What you do with this is, you take the cheese and you grate it into the soup at the end instead of screwing with crostinis, and you brown up some Italian sausage and you also put that in. The cream makes it very, very thick if you go that route. Some grocery stores with an antipasti/olive bar offer roasted garlic cloves, which saves on fucking with that step as well.

Golden Brussels Sprouts More side greens, since there’s not much easier than brown up meat, brown up veg, hit with seasonings, plate it and swallow it. Stingray likes cheddar with these, I think it’s too heavy and prefer it with grated Parmesan.

Vegetable Pancakes …Never omit the “squeeze dry” step. Otherwise, you’re golden. Again, serve with “meat, cooked”.

Egg Salad The basis for my egg salad recipe, which I’m told is pretty good. I do different stuff with this, but always return to this point before I start screwing around again. I like to put in diced fresh cucumbers instead of celery, but then again I don’t like fresh celery very much.

Green Bean Artichoke Casserole It’s here, it’s not hard. Sadly I have had to use canned for the artichoke hearts in the past.

Skillet Chicken Florentine Make, eat, done. Believe it or not we don’t usually bother with the bacon, it’s rich enough as is.

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