CookOrDie Day 2: Veal sausage and potatoes

Posted on November 12th, 2003 by Sacha Chua

I can just hear it now.

Welcome to Day 2 of CookOrDie: Adventures of a Desperate
Cook! I’m Sacha Chua and I’ll be your host for today’s segment, “Veal
sausage and potatoes”.

It has all the makings of a bad survival show… Hey, now there’s an
idea – grab a bunch of geeks who have no idea how to cook, turn them
loose in a supermarket with a budget of PHP 100 (~ USD 2) a day, and
see how long they can survive without repeating recipes and using only
a microwave and a toaster oven!

This meal was a bit more expensive than it should have been, but I
know how to fix it now. It came to a total of (+ 44 9.25), or 53.25. I
can improve this by using more potatoes, thus ensuring that I can keep
half of the bratwurst for breakfast the next day. If I doubled my
portion of potatoes and added some herbs and spices – would you
believe that I have neither salt nor pepper? – then I could have a
good meal for (+ 22 (* 2 9.25)), or 40.50.

Microwave chopped potatoes (1/4 ~ 1/2 inch) for 2.5 minutes.

Must find correct way to use butter to flavor these things. Trying to
put garlic in butter didn’t really do anything either.

You know what? I should learn how to toast garlic, or however they
prepare the garlic that goes on top of arrozcaldo…

Realization #1: Pita pockets are named pita pockets for a _reason_. I
should try Hungarian-sausage+tomato+cheese stuffed pita pockets. Maybe
tomorrow; I can bring neat little sandwich bags to the UPSA rehearsal.

Realization #2: If I slice the sausages before putting them in the
oven toaster, then they have nice texture.

Tomorrow: Pita pockets of slice-toasted Hungarian sausages, mushrooms
and cheese.

More posts about: Uncategorized // 4 Comments »

Short URL: http://sachachua.com/blog/p/1351

http://sitsirya.com Haraya Ocampo

Hi! Are you from St. Scho? I was looking for a recipe because I’m starting a new biz then your site came up!

Cool!

How are you? I’m actually some batches ahead but I remember the Monday morning praises where they present the awards that you’ve bagged over the weekend. Did you move there in Canada for good or just for some years?

Also, I don’t know if you can help improve your site (sitsirya.com). I understand there’s a fee but a few suggestions would be appreciated :-) Our family business is bringing food specialties of the Philippine islands closer to where there are Filipino communities (in short, the world). My friend who made the site ages ago has moved and I actually don’t know what improvements are necessary but my dad wants to improve on it.

I’m really thrilled to come across your site.
Keep in touch!

~Aya
- http://sachachua.com Sacha Chua
  
  Hello, Aya!
  
  Hello, fellow kulasa! =)
  
  I think I’ll be in Canada for a while. =)
  
  What a nice family business! I’d love to be able to get some of those specialties in Toronto. There are any number of web design companies in the Philippines and abroad, so you should have no problems finding a company to work on your site. I can’t recommend a particular company – haven’t looked into that recently… =) Good luck!
  
  Sacha
Julie

What is the best way to cook veal sausages? (no microwaves or toasters please because that’s just wrong)
http://sachachua.com Sacha Chua

Cast-iron pan, apparently.

On This Day...

2012: Validating ideas and working with other people — Here are the next chunks in my personal business curriculum: validating business ideas, and working with other people in order [...]
2011: Weekly review: Week ending November 11, 2011; thinking about the temptation to work — I realized that I was feeling conflicted about tracking my time because I treated the numbers as prescriptive statistics instead [...]
2010: Sketches: Wicked — Jump to text We’re watching Wicked on Friday. It will be J-’s first time to see it live. W- [...]
2009: My talks in 2009 — Totally Rocking Your Drupal Development Environment, IBM Totally Rocking Your Development Environment, DrupalCon 2009 Totally Rocking Your Development [...]
2009: How I learned to stop worrying and love the webinar: Part 2: From audience to participants — Speakers and audiences see very different things. Looking out from the stage, you see a large group of people. As [...]
2007: Kaizen: meetings — I attended my first client meeting today, and I now have a clear idea of what I need to do over [...]
2004: Waaaah! Happy happy joy joy! ICPC achievement! — Dominique called me as soon as the ICPC results were released. We’re second only to the University of Tokyo! What an [...]
2004: Localization — Want to help out with open source? Not quite sure if your coding skills are up to it? There are other [...]
2004: Free wifi in Shangri-La — Enjoy FREE Wi-Fi internet access from your favorite spot anywhere inside the mall between November 12 to 14, 2004.
2004: Celsus Kintanar on inq7 — Thanks to Joey Alarilla for picking up his story. Is that how Celsus looks like now? <grin> Interesting… Filipino%20reaches%20finals%20of%20world%20online%20programming%20tilt%20-%20INQ7.net
2003: Summary — CookOrDie still okay. A surprisingly affordable meal, actually, considering I had bratwurst and potatoes. All I need to do is add [...]
2003: First day of classes — education What worked: CS21A and BlueJ I have a small class of 8 students. Most are taking CS21A for the first time [...]
2003: Plan for CS21A — - Explain objectives of course - Capture what they know about programming - Introduction to BlueJ. Shapes project. See the README file. - [...]
2003: Plan for CS161 — - Organize them into six groups of five students each - Tell them about textbook - Explain the group assignment - Divide the [...]

sacha chua living an awesome life