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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!
I made sourdough!!!
It looks really sad and flat and I honestly had no idea what I was doing therefore I can't even troubleshoot the lack of rising in the oven, but like... it tastes fine! I do need to find a nice schedule to bake these since I was definitely not exactly, uh, following all instructions to the letter when it came to amount of time spent proofing and resting and whatnot...
A mix of things, really, but the big thing for me is that it has now been 1 month since I have had any red meat or chicken, including things like e.g. broth. I guess I've been what you'd called ova-lacto-pescetarian since the beginning of the new year, with a few exceptions (the last being a month ago). I've been really happy with the experiment, as cutting out meat has been a long term goal of mine. I've gone long stretches before without having red meat, but always stopped there as I considered chicken and chicken products (broth really) as pretty central to my cooking. I think having that crutch really stopped me from exploring other ways of cooking, and as a result I'd always end up back having meat here and there after a few weeks. This time feels much more permanent — I think this is something I could continue with long term.
My reasons are a mix of health, ethics, and environmental. I guess I put more weight on the ethics, but I know thats contradictory, as I still have eggs and dairy despite those industries being basically just as bad for the animals as the meat industry. But I consider and reduction in consumption a step in the right direction for me, so I'm happy with the progress so far. I've really been exploring seafood (which, if I'm mindful of sourcing, I really don't have too many ethical qualms about), and I've been loving it. It's amazing how easy and tasty it is to, e.g., roast a whole fish for dinner along with some veggie side. I've never been averse to seafood by any means, but without having a reason to I never gravitated towards it cooking-wise, and therefore I never really developed those skills. I'm slowly learning and it's been great! I might try and sign up for a mussel foraging class near me, which I am hoping will teach me even more.
I've been following W2 kitchen on youtube. (https://www.youtube.com/@w2kitchen)
A lot of his recipes are long entire sunday afternoon style things, but they've been delicious. And some of them have helped me make dishes that appeal to multiple cultures that come to eat with us, as he explains (in some of his videos) how this spice or that technique in one culture maps to this other idea in this other culture, etc. Which is very cool : )