When QJ moves – Part 3 – Chemicals are better than food? Hmm…

That’s what the picture looks like, right? No food, but a heart for “cemicals,” ha!

To take the mystery out of the picture, what actually happened was I let the girls help me label some of the boxes. In one of the first trips, we took all the food over to the new house and put it away immediately. That gave us an empty box and it’s one of the few that we reused. One of the girls marked out food, repacked it with “chemicals” from under the kitchen sink, and tossed on a doodle like I had been.

The rest of the posts about my big move can be found here

When QJ moves – Part 2 – What’s the difference between a pan and a pot?

culinary detours, images, kids, moving, pictures | September 30, 2010 | By

Generally, this is a pan I use to fry foods in, whether it’s sauteeing onions and garlic, browning pork chops, or actually using it as a shallow deep fryer sometimes even.

I tried finding a definite definition of pot vs. pan, but apparently it’s kind of vague. Here’s what one site says:

“One difference between a pot and a pan is their size and shape. Pots are deeper, with high sides. They have a circular base, and the sides of a pot tend to go straight up. A pan, on the other hand, is fairly shallow. The sides may only come up a couple of inches from the base. 

Another difference between a pot and a pan is their purpose. A pot is typically used for liquids. ” 

Another said this: “Generally it is the the handles, a pot has 2 and a pan has one… ” 


Well. This pan is fairly shallow, generally used for frying, etc. Technically it has two “handles” but that’s debatable. Today’s purpose definitely took it from  being a pan to being a pot, though. 



Yes, not only did I resort to fixing ramen, but I also cooked it in a frying pan, hehe. 


And for the record, we call it “top ramen.” Where I live now, I do refer to it as “ramen noodles” pronounced “ray-men,” just so people know what the heck I’m talking about. “Top ramen” is pronounced “rah-meh”….close to “raw.” People tend to think I’m crazy for that, but I took a picture of top ramen as proof. 



So while I understand that’s a brand name, it’s no different than saying Kleenex instead of tissue, and that’s what I grew up referring to it as. “Ramen noodles” still sounds so foreign to me, ha. 


Oh, and yes, it was served in more plastic bowls.





And outside. Hey, it was the cleanest place of the house. 



The rest of the posts about my big move can be found here.

When the Quirkster moves – Where to eat breakfast?

culinary detours, images, moving, pictures | September 29, 2010 | By

When I moved back in July, I posted some pictures on Facebook, but it didn’t even scratch the surface of the ones I wanted to share. Expect the next few posts to show you how I move and cook with style.

And by style, I mean, serving microwaved oatmeal in various sized plastic storage bowls….on top of a fireplace in the middle of the kitchen.

Notice also that it’s at an angle, meaning there was little room to wedge a body on one side and through the kitchen into the dining room. 
If you must have a logical reason for the fireplace being in the middle of the kitchen, it’s because it was one big set of musical furniture. In order to get the stuff into the living room, the fireplace had to be moved to the dining room, but in order to move it into the dining room, the stuff in the dining room had to be moved. And in order to move the stuff out of the dining room, it had to be moved into the living room, but couldn’t move into the dining room until the living room was cleared out, so….
So it was in progress to the dining room when breakfast called for the little ones. I didn’t have real dishes out yet and I certainly didn’t have the stove cleaned off….or any way to even get to the stove, so into the microwave it all went. I prepped it on the fire place right there, but sent them outside to eat. Yay for early summer mornings being gorgeous. 
The rest of the posts about my big move can be found here