{"id":41,"date":"2006-11-20T20:29:50","date_gmt":"2006-11-21T00:29:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/?p=41"},"modified":"2006-11-20T20:29:50","modified_gmt":"2006-11-21T00:29:50","slug":"slackersoup","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/?p=41","title":{"rendered":"Slackersoup"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, I&#8217;ve been slacking on the blog lately.\u00c2\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t been cooking all that much lately due to some problems I&#8217;ve been having with my stomach.\u00c2\u00a0 Seems that my gall bladder has to come out, I&#8217;ve been passing stones as of late and I&#8217;m not enjoying it one little bit.\u00c2\u00a0 Food has been pretty minimalistic and functional.<\/p>\n<p>Saturday, while spending the day shopping, we cruised into TGI Fridays for dinner.\u00c2\u00a0 It didn&#8217;t even register until the food arrived at the table, but I ordered Betty&#8217;s recipe from Top Chef.\u00c2\u00a0 I&#8217;m not the biggest fan of top chef, but there&#8217;s not much that I like on tv on wednesdays and I&#8217;ve been working on a knitting project.\u00c2\u00a0 Knitting equals sitting in front of the tv for a couple of hours each night, so Top Chef was the thing I watched this past wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>I liked the roasted red pepper and tomato soup so much that I have to find the recipe and make a big pot of it myself.\u00c2\u00a0 Luckily, the good folks at Bravo and putting the recipes online.\u00c2\u00a0 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bravotv.com\/Top_Chef_2\/recipes\/episode_3\/elim\/betty.shtml\">Tuscan Portobello Melt<\/a> is what they are calling the combo.\u00c2\u00a0 The sandwich is good, but the soup is wonderful.\u00c2\u00a0 I toasted a couple of quick open faced cheese sandwiches and they were just fine with the soup.\u00c2\u00a0 Pop even liked it, didn&#8217;t play it down as &#8220;so-so&#8221; like he usually does.<\/p>\n<p>My bff Alton Brown almost scared me off of frying a turkey after I watched his &#8220;Fry Turkey Fry&#8221; episode.\u00c2\u00a0 But, I&#8217;m all paid up on my insurance, so I think I&#8217;ll give it a shot anyway.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yeah, I&#8217;ve been slacking on the blog lately.\u00c2\u00a0 I haven&#8217;t been cooking all that much lately due to some problems I&#8217;ve been having with my stomach.\u00c2\u00a0 Seems that my gall bladder has to come out, I&#8217;ve been passing stones as of late and I&#8217;m not enjoying it one little bit.\u00c2\u00a0 Food has been pretty minimalistic [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-41","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-experimental-kitchenry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=41"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=41"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=41"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.dementedramblings.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=41"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}