dinner from 2-18-10 and an Italian pilot tip!

So tonight was green beans with almonds, dijon parsley potatoes and orange pork chops. The green beans were given an A. The dijon parsley potatoes were given an F and the pork chops were given an A. The queen does not like mustard and the Princess thinks that the potatoes would be good with less mustard.



Then the princess added the parsley and the finely chopped green onions



The princess covered the potatoes with Dijon mustard.



First the Princess cut up the potatoes. The princess overslept so she cut them up very tiny so they would cook faster.



The green beans were GREAT they were just green beans, almonds and a little bit of oil. The almonds were terrific!

Here are the pork chops.



add the sauce to the pan and cover the pork chops.


Mix in a bowl the orange juice, dark brown sugar, mustard, and Worcestershire sauce



Then you put the oranges on the pork chops and cover them and cook for about 10 mins.



First heat oil in a large skillet over medium heat. Brown pork chops well.


The Italian pilot told the Princess to use tongs to cook the meat! WOW! What a great tip! It was very helpful!

First cookbook

SO the princess sets out to learn how to cook. Using the help of both the Italian pilot and the Lord. She finds this cook book and is very happy to find that it is ONLY $5.00 at Big Lots. What a find!

Introducing the Princess

Once upon a time there was a princess. This princess could do a lot of things. She could read, write, tie her shoes and sing. There was one thing that the princess could not do and that was cook. This was very sad because it meant that the princess was only able to eat the food of the HORRIBLE, HORRIBLE beast..... fastfooddia.

Now, fastfoodia was found every where you looked. In fact the horrible beast had many names and many faces. They are so vile that I will not type them here as not to offend the reader. Also fastfoodia is so powerful that sometimes just the mention of the names that the beast uses would cause the princess to desire them. So we will stick to not putting the names out there.

SO, now you know the biggest (literally) problem that the princess faced. She feared she would face it all alone. THEN, one day she was blessed enough to meet the Italian pilot. The Italian pilot knew many many things to. He was rather smart. He could spell, read, tie his shoes, fly a plane and most of all much to the delight of the Princess he could.... cook. The Princess laughed and shouted with glee when she heard this! The Italian pilot could cook FOR her. BUT, she quickly found out that the Italian pilot lived 3,000 long, long, long miles from her making it impossible for him to cook for her. The Italian pilot said that it would not be a problem since he could help her. The princess, being a little thick headed, took some time but after her 45th day of fastfoodia decided to listen to the Italian pilot.

Now at first the princess did not believe the Italian pilot when he said that cooking was fun. She had come to believe that it was fun to talk into the little box and pull forward to the window and give the people all her money... (kind of like a stick up) but, the Italian pilot was very persistent. He would tell her about foods that she had never heard of because they had not been fried and wrapped in a paper wrapper and passed out a window. He regaled her with tales of cooking and chopping and dicing and all kinds of fun things.

The Princess decided to try it. The first thing that the Princess cooked was 15 bean soup. She put the beans in water and soaked them overnight. Just as the Italian pilot said. Then the next day she put the to a boil and then turned the heat down to one. After several hours she asked the Italian pilot why her beans were not done... that was the day that the Italian pilot taught the Princess about "simmer"

After several weeks of little tips here and there the princess decided to *gasp* cook all the dinner meals for the royal kingdom. She told the king and the queen that she would be doing all of the cooking. The queen was delighted because she had many royal things to attend to and the king was happy because he didn't like to cook either.

Will the princess learn to cook? Will she burn down the house? Will the royal family survive her learning? Find out next time as the Italian pilot teaches the Princess to cook continues.