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What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking?
What food and drinks have you been enjoying (or not enjoying) recently? Have you cooked or created anything interesting? Tell us about it!
What food and drinks have you been enjoying (or not enjoying) recently? Have you cooked or created anything interesting? Tell us about it!
My kitchen is currently gutted and the remodel won’t be finished until after Christmas. I am eating more processed foods than I want as I lack a decent sink to wash dishes.
I have a one burner cook top I’m borrowing from someone, a microwave, and an air fryer (a bitch to clean).
Lots of Trader Joe meals but it’s getting old.
I like making shrimp ramen, shrimp flavor packet + soy sauce + some of a packet of mushroom gravy with dried mushrooms in it + chives + red pepper flakes
and then add about 6 raw shrimp in at the same time as the noodle.
The shrimp turn red when they're done and finish about the same time as the noodles.
It's quick, easy, very cheap, and really good.
I made shepherds pie tonight and the Catalan custard recipe suggested in my thread about how to use extra Milk. I added nutmeg, cardamom and vanilla to the cinnamon in the custard.
Been making obscure cocktails. Last week's winner was the Golden Dream:
1 oz triple sec
1 oz Galliano
1 oz orange juice
1 oz half and half (10% coffee cream).
Shake with ice, stain into a chilled martini glass.
Tastes just like a creamsicle.
Oh my! I will definitely be trying that.
I am in the midst of my holiday baking so that everything will be ready to be packaged in time to ship out of state. So far I have done;
I still have to make chocolate fudge, torrone, four types of cookies, and peach butter. The apple butter is in progress and I am going to include hot pepper jelly and garlic dill pickles that I made from veg from the garden in summer. Hoping to have everything finished and packaged nicely by end of the weekend. But I am exhausted.
I already posted about my bread.
I am unnaturally excited about it. Everyone needs to know the joy of no-kneed whole-wheat sourdough!
I recently bought Fly By Jing's Sichuan Chili Crisp oil. It's normally really expensive but this one was on sale, and I was curious about a trendy, hip chili crisp oil aimed at western palates.
Holy crap, it is good. The flavors are more interesting, the texture better than Lao Gan Ma or anything else I've tried.
And it really does go well with everything, savory and sweet alike. It hits the mystical spot of being versatile yet unique.
Oooh, I almost splurged for it last time I was in the grocery store over my usual Lao Gan Ma purchase and decided against it. After your recommendation I will most definitely be getting it next time! I tried the FishWife/Fly By Jing tinned salmon collaboration and it now sits comfortably at the top of my favorite tinned fishes! If you like the chili crisp check it out too!!!
I made a simple quinoa bowl that was surprisingly yum.
Well steamed collard greens with a drizzle of bacon grease
Sautéed mushrooms to just a bit of brown add little powdered garlic, salt pepper
Cooked quinoa (I cooked in chicken stock)
Soft boiled egg
Stack in a bowl in that order starting w. greens
Salt/pepper to taste.
I love quinoa, but I hate dealing with the dry stuff so much I don't often cook it. Your preparation isn't too far from what I do, either.