4
votes
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!
Haven't been cooking a ton, due to various reasons. In the middle of organizing my spice cabinet and putting everything into airtight jars. Got some long pepper and spikenard in the mail, going to try making Max Miller's version of Araf Tib (a spice mix) from his video on ancient egypt's 28 ingredient hummus. Excited to try it, and try my hand at more spice mixes as well. I wonder what makes a good spice mix?
Made several scrambles with egg, sweet potato, garlic/onion, peppers, and the aforementioned long pepper - it's a very interesting flavor that I suggest trying at some point, but am pretty far from calling it essential to my cooking. I got it from the spice house, which describes it thus:
I definitely notice the nutmeg notes, but it's really only notes. Not at all what I expected, but good stuff!
Been sick (not covid), had my partner make me some golden milk, which for me is oat milk with turmeric, ginger, black pepper, and honey boiled for 10 minutes. It is very good and imo better with fresh ginger/turmeric but we use what we have. Same category of drink as hot chocolate but different. Try it!
Sandwich with hummus, chinese cucumber, tomato, s&p, red pepper flakes, and I finally succumbed to trend and got everything but the bagel seasoning. It's pretty alright.
Made some onion pancakes with no recipe that were pretty alright? Had too much banana in it. The real star was the sauce - soy sauce, rice vinegar, toasted sesame oil, red pepper flakes, ginger. (Wants sugar but I omit) Very simple but very good.
Trying to switch to only whole grains (I will make an exception for e.g. wheat bran cereal) and it is HARD as my microbiome adjusts. Suggestions for ways to do this better are welcome - anyone have a good whole wheat bread recipe, or savory whole wheat (flat|quick)bread recipes? Do better rice cookers make brown rice in under 90 minutes? Do whole wheat bagels exist or will I be sad forever? Know any good ways to use millet? (I've just been amending white rice with it...)
Going to start going to farmers market more - they have the best garlic. Also realized I can do 60% of my shopping there, so why not?