Cooking

Woke up from my nap and didn’t know what dinner was. I looked through the cabinet and found my emergency dal makhani and remembered I had some leftover rice from the fried rice.

Made dinner for my fiancé last night. Sous vide strip steak, roasted brussel sprouts with balsamic reduction, sautéed mushrooms, and baked potato. Really happy with how it all turned out!

I was cold, so I made soup.

I prepped everything in the morning so that no matter how bad my arm was I could just toss everything together at the last moment.

I have like 15% use of my left arm right now. Chop some onions, melt some butter, open a jar of homemade turkey stock, open a can of crushed tomatoes, add some basil, thyme, salt and balsamic. Let it simmer for an hour and use an immersion blender to make it all soft. Add some cream whf serving.

Freshly pound spices and dried shrimp in my new huge granite mortar and pestle. Coconutmilk basmati rice with dried pandan leaves, boiled egg and msemmen. Vegetables not pictured.

Easiest recipe on the market and it’s so damn good :D

Scratch English muffin. Scratch strawberry and blackberry jam including scratch made pectin from backyard apples. Scratch made elderberry mead from backyard elder plants. 6 years old

Bursitis has completely stopped me from using my left arm. I was trying to think about what could be cooked with just one arm.

Part of the on going freeze clean out: Pre seasoned and cooked chicken bits.

Toss some palm heel striked garlic and onions in your favorite hot sauce for a few hours. Then drain and cover in a neutral oil. I like my using my toaster oven, but any low and slow constant heat source works. Heat at about 200-250°f for two hours bumping it up to 400 for the last 10 minutes.

Recipe from Tried & True. I see the author posting on imgur sometimes, and this one caught my eye.

So some people stress bake… Anyway! Cowboy Cookies!

Scratch made breakfast sausage, biscuits and pancakes.

Stew Beef

Freezer cleaning.

Eggplant and potato moussaka. Snuck in some zucchini to the top layer, and chopped mushrooms to the meat. First time making this and I think it turned out pretty well, just a bit watery. Will simmer the meat for longer next time.

Homemade turkey chorizo, home smoked sharp cheddar aged one year, turned into queso dip. Homemade tortillas.

Homemade crust topped with pepperoni, mushrooms.

It only hit 28C today, and it didn’t even feel warm after the 40C+ days. I was so tired today after work that I even settled for what I thought was a soup (I do not have Italian heritage nor have I visited Italy, so I apologise ahead of time for any terms I use incorrectly).

If you wanted to make shelf stable snacks that didn’t cost a lot but delivered on umami what would you make?

Leftover chicken fried venison from last night, fresh baked rolls, quick pickled onion and carrots, a sauce of home fermented horse radish, Dijon mustard, mayo and black pepper.

Country fried venison cube steak.

Leftover venison chilli and cornbread, some pepper jack and a four egg omelet.

Extra saucy so we can dip the bread. But also because there weren’t quite 8 oz of pasta left in that open box.

One head of broccoli, I cut the stem thin leading up to the florets then break apart by hand.

In North America, we have McCain hashbrowns that are tiny cubed potatoes you find in the freezer aisle. In Australia, hashbrowns are hashbrowns patties, and we don’t have the cubes. I haven’t been able to find them anywhere.

Is cold. It’s wet. I’m poor. It’s chili time.

I’ve always liked to cook, but I’ve never really delved into baking. It always seemed so fussy. However, as they say, the first step in being kinda good at something is being really bad at it, so I decided I should try anyway. All said, pretty pleased with the result, especially the evidence of laminated layers.

Cures the bad weather blues

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I prepped a batch of dough last night not knowing what things it would become.

Experimenting with some herbal infused milk chocolate.

Had random old bits of frozen elk from someone. Decided to slow cook it and serve with mashed potatoes.

Both of these things were free and have been taking up space in my freezer for about a year.

It’s frightfully cold out and chuck roast and cabbage was on sale. It was time for some luo song tang!

Sorry for the no effort meal but they made me take an IQ test today and my brain is fried after that.

Part of the problem with buying cabbage is that you need to buy pounds when you only need to buy a little. This was my attempt to use up the rest of what I bought for yesterday’s dinner.

Deep fried the potatoes, pan fried the sausage and cabbage, added a little red pepper flake and once it was almost done I added the potatoes so they could get to know the rest of the flavors.

Four eggs, 5 sausages, 3 oz cheddar, giardiniera, pepper sauce, hash browns, tortilla, too much butter.

Made a 30h slow cooker girello (top eye of round) the other day and turned it in to a girello and cheese toastie on sourdough bread for dinner tonight. Mixed in gravy and fermented BBQ sauce with the meat. It’s 39C, I’m not making anything elaborate today!

Our local meat store, can’t honestly call it a butcher, recently started carrying flank steak and skirt steak. Angus flank and skirt steak. For 7.69 a pound.

Instead of my traditional ground pork I went with ground turkey at half the price. There is literally a 2:1 turkey:pasta ratio. The sauce is a heavily seasoned can of crushed tomatoes. Garlic knots have been hiding in the freezer forever and were free back when I got them.

I usually do it on rice but had to go for pasta this time, was pleasantly surprised :D

It doesn’t look like eggplant curry, let’s be honest 😂, but it tasted incredible.

Aqua faba is really such a nice ingredient to thicken up a sauce :D

The exposure is a bit meh but it tasted really good :D

Made chickpea curry with potato last night. Recipe called for less potato, but my potatoes were starting to become sentient beings so I had to put them to use.. And who doesn’t love potatoes?!

It’s not much but it’s honest work

Plain bagel, 2 eggs, 2 slices of American Cheese.

Hash browns, four eggs, cheddar, fresh made Guajillo sauce, sour cream, tortilla.

Cost per person, $3.50

After yesterday’s misunderstanding I did a redo. But I had enough chips so I made myself some oven fries.

She asked for Italian sausage and potato chips. I was thinking she meant like nachos. She meant like sausage hoagies with a side of potato chips. Oops.

Lemongrass rice bowl. Made it last night, and will have it again tonight and tomorrow. Chicken has got incredible flavours, and it’ll definitely be in the rotation now, just with whatever veggies I have on hand.

The original recipe is good, but I made enough adjustments that it’s worth restating the entire recipe. My modified version makes eight servings and it freezes well—I separate into individual containers and thaw one the night before I plan to eat it.

I used jarred sauce because after a day of repairing floor joists I was in too much pain to make my own from a can of crushed tomatoes. And I used brass cut die spaghetti because it was already open so this is a bit pricier than normal for what should be a cheaper meal.

Got up just a touch earlier than I wanted and had a craving for a corporate breakfast. I grabbed some dough out of the fridge and shaped it into a ball and dusted it with cornmeal before heating a cast iron pan to 400°f and made myself a fresh English muffin.

Homemade potato chips. Fresh baked bread. Cheddar. The tuna mix is tuna, pepperoncini, pickle relish, red onion, brown mustard, mayo.