I had two ideas for the cookbook, but a quick google search led me to find that my most exciting idea had already been done: Spaghetti-O Pizza. I’ll figure out some variation that is uniquely mine. Basically I want to open a can of something, put it on something else, and then add cheese and bake it for a while. Shouldn’t be too hard, and I think I will go ahead and try that shit anyway.

My other idea was inspired a bit differently from the rest of the dishes I’ve come up with so far for Desolation Bowl. Instead of an empty fridge and pantry, I started at the grocery store. I had ridden my bike, so the spoils of my journey needed to fit in my backpack. I didn’t really consider that while filling my basket until it was too late — I had already just kind of randomly taken things that I like. So, I don’t really have any focal items to cook around. Instead I’m going to just throw everything I bought into a casserole and see what happens:

Pasta (some twisty little guys)
Salami
Mushrooms
Tomatoes
Spinach
Onion
Bell pepper (red)
Assorted Italian spices

Of course, there are a few kinds of cheese in my fridge, some milk, and I have some corn starch in the pantry. I’ll probably cook this tomorrow and let you know what happens. I realize that so far this entire book is just different ways of using cheese and deli meat to make things that aren’t sandwiches. I think I will break it up in sections, such as “deli meat: the other meat” “canned: good,” peanut butter on a spoon,” etc.

I would like to note that about a week ago I shopped at Stanley’s Fruit and Vegetables for the first time, and I probably won’t bother going anywhere else as long as I live in Chicago. It’s where I got all of the above foods for like fifteen bucks. Great deals on produce, completely reasonable pricing for meats and cheeses, free canvas bag w/$20 purchase, fresh potato chip samples every day, and dude flying a watermelon-airplane while smoking a pipe as a logo.