Cookin again

[Zardnaar]

1) What surprised him about our discussion of his native cuisine?

2) pump him for info about where you can find it. Hey, maybe you & the wife Dan get a dinner invite!

The surprise for him was we were talking about Ethiopian food full stop.

He said it's getting popular in USA, then I mentioned Texas.

I read a lot and in game I play African nations in MP and read up on whoever I'm playing eg Mali, Ethiopia, Donghae (aka African Prussia).

 

[Ulfgeir]

Some soup. Cooked potatoes, carrors, chopped red chili, yellow onions, half a red onion, half a leek. Added lots of black pepper, crushed red pepper, some schechuan pepper, sugar and 2 vegetable stock cubes.
Served with crisp bread.

Edit:_ The Scechuan pepper migth have been a mistake. Makes it taste a bit sour, but also fruity.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

Our houseguest brought dinner tonight: Korean fried chicken in 4 flavors and some sides. Pretty tasty- we’ll be going back in the future.

 

[Zardnaar]

Our houseguest brought dinner tonight: Korean fried chicken in 4 flavors and some sides. Pretty tasty- we’ll be going back in the future.

I don't
like fried chicken that much but Korean and Japanese are decent.
Our weekly dinner.




Nacho Libre pizza.



Andre The Giant



Menu

Chicken coleslaw sandwich tonight

 

[Vael]

General gear report. Last year I bought myself a sous vide and I've been really happy with the results. Cooking sous vide has turned out some of the best meats I've ever cooked. Pork Tenderloin, for example, came out perfectly, it's my preferred way to make steak and chicken breast. Still need to play more with fish, but the first effort also came out brilliantly. It's a shockingly easy tool to work with and has been very consistent.

 

[CleverNickName]

Seems like the whole northern hemisphere is having a heat wave. Let's see some cold food recipes to help us all beat the heat.

Tonight, I'm trying out a few Szechuan dishes:

Smashed Cucumber Salad

and

Mung Bean Jelly Noodles

I dug around in the pantry and discovered that I already had everything I needed (except for the mung bean starch powder, but I grabbed a pack of it from the local H-Mart for like $3 over my lunch break.) Making the noodles involved a fair bit of cooking--well, boiling water anyway--and took several hours to cool and chill them. But for the most part, it looks like dinner is going to be very straightforward: (1) taking stuff out of the fridge, (2) cutting it up, and (3) adding a spicy, tangy sauce.

I'll report back on how they turn out.

 

[CleverNickName]

Okay, so here's my attempt at Smashed Cucumber Salad.

Absolutely delicious. I can't believe that all my life, I've been wasting my cucumbers in mediocre garden salads, when I could have been enjoying this spicy, tangy, nutty, refreshing dish instead. Ya'll need to make this.

 

[CleverNickName]

And the Mung Bean Jelly Noodles Cubes:

These are also very tasty and refreshing, but...I dunno. They really don't have any flavor at all, even less than tofu. Seriously, they taste like water... all you get is the sauce. And the sauce in the recipe was amazing, so the whole dish tastes amazing with it. But if you're just going to put some chili crisp and soy sauce on this jelly, you might be disappointed.

I think next time (and there definitely will be a next time), I'm going to go with an even tangier, even spicier sauce.

 

[Zardnaar]

Okay, so here's my attempt at Smashed Cucumber Salad.
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Absolutely delicious. I can't believe that all my life, I've been wasting my cucumbers in mediocre garden salads, when I could have been enjoying this spicy, tangy, nutty, refreshing dish instead. Ya'll need to make this.

We have discovered roast nuts and Kumara and hummus are grateful to bulk out a salad.

Local place had a great Buddha bowl.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

I haven’t exactly been covering myself in glory in the kitchen lately. However, I did try out some black tomatoes.