Hungry Beaster in the houuuuuuuse!

Welcome to Hungry Beaster's Homeowner Humor. I realized today that being a new homeowner is pretty funny. Not only that, but being in a house with a nice kitchen provides the opportunity to make lots of good food.

Anyways, I'm Beaster... (nickname, of course, given to me by my sister a long time ago). My fiance and I purchased our first house in northeastern Ohio. We moved in 6 days ago and have been working to exhaust ourselves since then. I guess I should have taken a bunch of pictures of all the house stuff before we did anything, but eh, that didn't happen.

Let's talk a little about the house:
It's a lovely ranch, 3 bedroom 2 full bathroom. All you reallly need to know is that the kitchen is big. Lots of cook prep room, standard gas stovetop (big plus), standard other stuff like fridge and microwave. The house is otherwise awesome. Everything is updated and clean which means that the heavy work to do is outside, and believe me... there is work to be done.

In addition to talking about the work to be done outside, I will be sharing some of the successes and failures of food. Especially focused right now on summer appropriate items (read GRILL and yummy cool desserts).

Night 1 of having the grill was such a standard grill meal:
Steak, marinated vidalia onion, asparagus. And then baked potatoes. Omm nomm, delicious.

Grill night 2:
This was like... the best ever! This recipe came from my friend K, provider of many recipes and also inspiration for food... and inspiration for house things.

Greek Burgers with cucumber sauce

1 pack ground turkey
1 small container of regular feta cheese
1 small container of sliced black olives
black pepper to taste
a few shakes of dried basil

before turning on your grill, take off the grates and spray with non-stick spray. heat grill and throw the burgers on. try and grill one side well before flipping, turkey burgers don't take to frequent flipping.

while the burgers are cooking you can make the sauce:

1 container reduced fat sour cream
a few shakes of dried dill
salt
pepper
1/2 tsp white sugar
1 cucumber (peeled, seeds removed, chopped)
1T white vinegar

mix everything together... and avoid consuming all of it before the burgers are done.

throw the burgers on some buns, throw some sauce on the burgers, and you're done.


my plan for tonight is to take the leftover 2 burgers and chop them up, make some greek-ish pasta meat sauce and put it on top of some whole wheat pasta. side that with garlic bread and a fresh salad and dinner is served.

dessert is one of my simple favorites: pre-made graham cracker crust, filled with cook-and-serve chocolate pudding, whipped creme on top. Today I added some orange zest as I was cooking the pudding. Once the pudding was in the crust, I threw some pecans and sliced almonds on top. It's in the fridge right now, will keep you updated.



That's enough on the hungry beaster right now, now for the quick homeowner humor... I am trying to rip out ivy groundcover that has clearly not been tamed since before I was born. Anyways, as I was trying to rip some of it off one of the evergreen trees it is smothering, the ivy broke and I ended up on my ass nearly doing a backward somersault. Awesome.

Any recipes? I will try them and share.

Any good ideas for memorial day? We're having people over... I'm thinking about faux-cheesecake (recipe provided by Kraffles... aka, my sister) and easy key lime pie (found one the back of the pie shell, inspired by watching too much Dexter season 3)