If the meal I am preparing does not involve chicken or some form of a recipe, I cannot guarantee that it will turn out right. Last night I prepared some grilled Alaskan White fish fillets on my George Foreman grill. I do not have the gigantic Foreman grill yet, I still have the baby grill that my Mama bought me while I was in college. At the store while buying the fish, I asked JT how to prepare it… he simply stated, to grill it on the Foreman.

Mmmkay…easier said that done I thought to myself.

The fish was already thawed because I left it out in the sink when we came home earlier in the afternoon. About a quarter to eight I turned on mini-Foreman.

I glanced in my cabinet and pondered over which spices I was going to experiment with. I grabbed trusty ole Mrs. Dash (the yellow classic one), lemon pepper mix and the garlic and herb mix. At first I slapped some Country Crock butter on the grill, but that did not turn out to well since that shit slid on down the grill right on into the grease pan… so then the light bulb went off in my head and I grabbed the Pam cooking spray. Voila! Surprisingly, the fish cooked must faster than I thought it would but then again the fillets were not that thick. I sprinkled the spices on each side but the lemon pepper one did not seem to turn out so swell. I sampled a piece of it and the taste was overwhelming so I reached over for the garlic and herb mix and proceeded to get my shake on. Silly me forgot that the holes on the garlic and herb mix were MUCH bigger than the lemon pepper mix. I had garlic and herb all over the fish, grill and counter. OOPS… A little spice never hurt anybody…I just scraped the excess off and called it a day.

Now that I figured out the proper spice and non-stick methods, the next problem was why were my fillets breaking up in little pieces? Normally when you use the Foreman and you are grilling meats, you close down the grill on top of the meat. After the fifth fillet I decided to not close down the top. That helped a great deal but the fillets still broke in half. I was getting frustrated at that point so I decided to start cooking the rice. Here is the killa…after I finished grilling the fillets and really all throughout my grilling I scrapped off the excess fish and spices with a metal fork. I bent down a bit to look closely at the grill and I started cussin up a storm because I scraped the fuckin Teflon off my Foreman. I inspected the fish fillets thoroughly and luckily no mini pieces of Teflon were scattered across the meal. Then I glanced back over at my Foreman and apologized to him for destroying his shielding and frame.

All the more reason for JT to buy me the humongous Foreman grill for Christmas or even sooner…

It is on the wish list *hint*

The irony of this? I nearly destroy a meal by scraping up my Foreman only a couple of hours after laughing immensely at Raven for not being able to cook Jiffy Mix Cornbread.

But wait a minute, what made EVERYTHING ok is that the fish turned out great albeit broken up in a million pieces…add that too some broccoli & rice and green beans. I loved the meal because JT loved it :D

Thanks to my dear friend Jake, I found out about a worm going around effecting Windows XP and 2000 users. If you have had any problems today on your system, I suggest you check this out and bookmark it and/or print it out just in case.

http://securityresponse.symantec.com/avcenter/venc/data/w32.blaster.worm.html

Later on, I came across this site that has downloads available of previous versions of AOL Instant Messenger. Lovely, because I am sick of those newer versions that freeze and hog up memory. It does not make any damn since for my HP that is running on 512mb DDR SDRAM to freeze because of AIM. http://www.aimfilez.com/aimversions.html

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