Various days, weeks, and months in early 2020

Hello! Welcome to “cooking pretty well”! I’m your host, Ben!

Today, I’ll be showing you some of the things that I cooked pretty well! Thanks to COVID-19, everything’s shut down here in Oregon. I’m very glad that everything’s shut down, but it does make getting interesting food fairly difficult.

Luckily for me, I like cooking! I’m even okay at it usually!

I didn’t post any individual articles about these while I was cooking them, because they’re frankly not that particularly interesting or impressive on their own. But when taken together… this shows a history of creativity and can-do attitude! Or at least that’s what I tell myself.

Short version – I had a lot of fun trying new recipes, and cooking things that I’m not well versed in. It was fun, and almost everything came out quite tasty!

• White Castle burgers!
  I followed a youtube recipe (link below) which walked me through the various steps to preparing and cooking semi-accurate White Castle sliders. I can’t comment on how authentic they tasted, since I’ve never actually been to a White Castle, but I can say that I was happy with how they came out.
  As a bonus, I couldn’t get buns from the grocery store, so I made my own!
  Solid 7/10
• Brisket!
  I followed my standard recipe for this one, and I’m happy to say that it came out exactly as well as I’d expect.
  8.5/10
• Hamburger Sliders!
  Not similar at all to the White Castle burgers, these were cooked directly on the skillet, and didn’t have any onions included… but dang, did I do a good job.
  I even learned that they’re good as leftovers, either re-heated in the toaster, or just microwaved and eaten like a savage.
  9.5/10, good things here.
• Steak.
  Is steak. Was good. Yes.
  9.5/10
• Mega-Extra bacon cheese burger!
  Normally, I don’t put lettuce or tomato on my burgers. It’s not that I’m against it, mind you, it’s just that I don’t think that they add enough to justify the effort of getting all the extra ingredients. See, I don’t really buy “hamburger materials”, it’s just stuff that I like to keep stocked in the kitchen. Lettuce and tomato though… those don’t last long enough to keep stocked regularly, so I don’t.
  Which means that, sometimes, I decide to get fancy and make a full-power burger. Like this one!
  9/10, yay burger!