Magical Meal

I find it refreshing when someone presents me with a cooking challenge. Not something stupidly hard like that crap they air on TV where they have four hours to cook for thirteen thousand people... but stuff like, "We don't have any food in the house.*"

Really? No food... well then, I see a few cans of tomatoes, some chili beans, a box of tostadas expired from last year, one chicken breast in the freezer, and a half-head of lettuce. Also the pitiful remains of some cream cheese and some weirdly shriveled cucumbers in the bottom of the fridge.

Clearly our meal was going to have a mexican theme, and there probably wouldn't be enough chicken for everyone, so I whipped everything together in a frenzy (because we were _HONGRY_), and set stuff out. First step was to slather some beans onto the toasted tostadas. Get a good base going, you know.

Next up was to make a lattice of lettuce. Some veg, you know, for the growing minds and bodies of our household.

The chicken was cubed and pan-seared with some oil and onion slices, then I added a can of Ro-tel with chilies. It came out spicy as hell, but really, when you combine everything together, it isn't so bad.

Top it off with some bits of cream cheese and sliced cucumber. The cream cheese melted a bit, and the cucumbers turned out to be some sort of gee-whiz gourmet variety that embodied the very essence of cucumber. Very tasty.

And that's it. No weird shit like spam, no scraping together enough change to run to the store for this or that. Just simple stuff combined together to make a meal out of nothing.

Magic is both awesome and delicious.

*footnote: We hadn't gotten paid yet since moving to the new house, so we were clinging to the remains of food from the other house. We've since gotten paid and have filled the house with food.