Southern Chili

Now that I'm living by myself, learning to chop, cook, and eat on my own, I've been trying to come up with simple recipes for meals.  This meal is super easy, and requires only one pot to make.  I made chili for dinner tonight.

Here's the recipe:

1/2 pound of ground beef
1/2 a yellow onion
1 can yellow corn
1 can white hominy
2 cans chili beans
2 cans stewed tomatoes
1/2 packet of McCormick original chili spice mix

Dice, then sauté the onion, add in ground beef, then throw all canned ingredients, and dried spice mix, and bring to a boil.  Simmer for a few minutes to thicken.  That's it.  It's ready to enjoy.  So easy.  You could eat this over rice or pasta if you'd like.  Unfortunately, I found out my rice cooker was broken so that didn't happen tonight.  You could also eat this with cornbread.

California Bucket List

There's a number of things I'd like to do before I leave California for my new adventure in West Virginia.  Different items include seeing a number of people, eating at certain places, and going to certain places.
There are a number of food locales I would like to visit before leaving.  These include, but are not limited to:

• In N' Out
• Cheesecake Factory (the new one at Hillsdale)
• Kara's Cupcakes (I still have some money on my gift card there)
• Off the Grid (the gathering of food trucks)
• Shanghai Dumpling Shop

Also, I'd like to make another trip to Guitar Center.  I already have bought my guitar floorboard.  Thanks for going with me, Doug.  Music is a never-ending hobby.  Giving away my old guitar.  I've got to restring my acoustic guitar.  This is what prompted me to start cleaning today.  I couldn't find the extra set of guitar strings I knew I had purchased.  After lots of cleaning, I found them.

Cleaning up my room has made me realize how much unnecessary things I've accumulated over the years.  Lots of papers from high school and college that I no longer need.  I recycled a lot of paper.  I've got two extra backpacks, a pair of white nursing scrubs, old clothes.  Beanie Babies.  Didn't even realize I had any of those left.  By the way, if anyone wants the beanie babies, I'm giving them away for FREE!!