Stone Cold Cooking

After rereading through our old posts earlier today, we realized we could create the storyboard for the introduction to our very own "Intervention." While we do want a TV deal, we were hoping more for "Ellen" or "Real (Single) Housewives of Des Moines." So, we opted to cook tonight sans wine...or beer...or vodka...or cooking sherry...to give our livers and our pocketbooks a break.

So, for tonight's blog, we'll just focus on the food. This shouldn't take long.

Scanning through the refrigerator at several days' worth of leftovers, we needed a reason to throw those out and free up some Tupperware space: enter, picadillo. Tonight's recipe is actually a Burned original (if you consider the melding of two separate recipes "original," that is). Therefore, we would like to share it with you:

*Ingredients:

• A hunk of ground beef
• Almost a whole onion
• Chopped bell pepper
• A few scoops of garlic out of the jar
• Hunt's diced tomatoes
• A jar of olives (not sure if it matters what kind - we used the cheapest green ones we could find)
• Freakishly big capers
• A handful of golden raisins
• The right amount of white vinegar
• A little of each: cumin, ground cloves, bay leaves, salt, pepper, cinnamon
• The biggest bag of yellow rice you can find (it boils down and really doesn't make that much)
• Garnish with roasted almonds (if you already have them) and fresh parsley (but only if you can find it for 99 cents)

*Directions: throw ingredients into a big pot and cook until it's done. The rice, of course, gets its own; for that, follow the directions on the bag.

If you don't think this blog is funny, well, neither is our sobriety.