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I’ve been making this cucumber salad a lot recently. It’s a good summer dish.
Ingredients: Cucumber Celery Pickled Red Onions (done with apple cider vinegar, garlic, cardamom pod, coriander seed, cumin seed, black peppercorn) Garlic/Rosemary infused Olive Oil Sunflower seeds Fresh cracked black pepper
Oh, hey, I have a cucumber and no plans for it. I have all those ingredients. Now that a cuke has a destiny. Thanks for the recipe.
(“Thanks for the recipe” sung to the tune of “Thinks fr the Mmrs”)
I just made a huge pot of chorizo cheese dip yesterday for our “dinner club” we host once a month. I also made tacos and guacamole but I only took a pic of the queso. It was very good and we sent home a bunch with everyone too. I made it with white American cheese.
I made mooncakes for the first time yesterday, I wanted to be ready to make them for the Mid-Autumn Festival this year. I’ve been buying them for a long time and decided to finally make them myself.
They’re not as difficult as I expected, actually. Since the cakes are molded there’s some nuance to getting the dough the right thickness. Making them at home gives an incredible variety of options for fillings; I did purple sweet potato, cheesecake, and matcha.
YUM!
I’m planning on smoking some ribs tomorrow for the 4th. Gonna be real good lol
@SoaringFox@beehaw.org For some reason I can’t see any replies to this thread from outside my instance, hopefully this post works
I like to dry rub and smoke them for about 3-4 hours, wrap for 1, then unwrap with some sauce on top until they’re done. During the first part I mist them with apple cider vinegar for extra flavor and moisture.
What method are you using to smoke them? I’ve done the 3-2-1 before with pretty good results, but I’ve also had them turn out well smoking till a certain point then wrapping them the rest of the way.
I have this weird/bad habit of thinking I’m going to like a recipe even though I know that I don’t like what it is. Examples being things like steak, pork, or most pasta dishes… but I make them, anyway, just in case “this one is different”.
So I made a little too much Spaghetti alla Carrettiera because I saw a recipe that looked really good!
Turns out, it’s “good” but definitely nothing great, for me personally, but uh…I made too much so it needs to be eaten. So this was a few meals, at least.
I get what you mean! That recipe looks good, but I’m willing to be believe you that it tastes less stellar than it appears.
my GF and I will be hitting the 2 year mark next month. Last year for our anniversary, I cooked up a Spaghetti and meatballs dinner exactly like the scene in Lady and Tramp (I made it into a picnic at the park with a bottle of wine, tablecloth, etc, to recreate the infamous dinner scene). I even found a cute Lady and the Tramp vinyl figurine of the scene and snuck it onto the table while she wasn’t paying attention.
She adored everything.
This time I am going to recreate the Confit Byaldi from Ratatouille! She is going backpacking tomorrow so I have an opportunity to test out the recipe without leaving any evidence :) (Oh and I have a matching Remy ornament too)
That is so sweet! I love cute romantic stuff like that, sounds like she’s a lucky lady!
I’m trying to expand my non-meat horizons, so I’m going to try making seitan and stir fry it, probably with udon noodles, bell peppers, carrots, white onions, garlic, and sweet&sour sauce.
For breakfasts, pb&j overnight oats: frozen berries on the bottom, oats mixed with Greek yogurt, PB powder, and chia seeds, plus some water to cut the thiccness.
I’m also trying to use up the fish in my freezer, so probably some baked tilapia with mixed veggies (summer squash and bell peppers?).
On the non-meat side, if you fry up some mushrooms low and slow, then add seitan or veggie crumbles near the end, you are half way to a vegetarian (not vegan) stroganoff. You’ll also need egg noodles, sour cream, vegan worcestershire, and such.
Ooh. Sounds good. I ended up making the seitan stir fry for lunch today and was a big fan, so it’s definitely joining my rotation. I want to try seitan stroganoff and goulash now, too.
A soup i make every week for my disabled partner: potatos, kale, green onions, broth, pork, and a lot of seasonings (specifically to make it a little spicy). I finish it off with evaporated milk to have a little creaminess. My partner eats one pot of this soup a week and sometimes it’s all they can stomach. 💙
That’s sweet of you, it sounds good! Soups generally aren’t something I make a lot of, is the consistency much thicker with the evaporated milk?
It isn’t too thick really, the milk is mostly to soften the aggressiveness of the crushed red pepper and cayenne I use! I learned to add it at the end, because to cook the kale so it’s less gassy, I split the milk a few times! D: So I add it after I take the rest off the heat now. :D
- Rice & curry with green beans
- Lasagna
- Airfryer potatoes, broccoli and ‘vegan strips’
- Shakshouka
- Work surprise dinner
What’s work surprise dinner? Like a potluck or something?
Saw a video of an Italian guy making carbonara and copied his recipe. It was delish. Main takeaway was putting some water in the pan with the guoncale and some water in the egg mixture.
Made Stoofvlees despite not being Belgian after hearing about this dish and talking to a Belgian friend.
It’s basically a beef in belgian beer stew, topped with a slice of bread smeared with mustard, served on fries.
It came out really good even adjusted for a pressure cooker! And it reheats really well as well (not the fries, just the stew part)
Just looked it up, sounds interesting. I always think stew = soup for some reason but that seems like it would be tasty.
Here is our menu for the week. I guess I could share pics as the week progresses
Monday: Steak Mashed potatoes and corn Tuesday: pulled pork and lots of 4th of July Goodies Wednesday: Chicken Pot Pie Thursday: Taco Pizza
You should at least share a pic of the taco pizza, I’m interested to see what that looks like!
The star of my previous week (from Wed to Tue) was the green lasagna with bolognese and bechamel sauces. It took a lot of time to prepare (homemade dough), but the folks here devoured it amazingly fast. They also really liked the entrevero.
Today I’ve prepared some deep-fried pork - basically karaage with pork shank instead of chicken, it turned out rather good. And Sunday I’m going to buy roti chicken because I gotta prepare coxinha in the Monday, I like to use the leftover roti chicken breast for that.
I’ve had a lot of fun coming up with recipes to use what was in my first CSA box of the season.
So far the best dish I ate was maple-miso Hakurei turnips following this recipe with two modifications, I BBQed the turnip bulbs and pan-fried the leafs. The other dish I had fun eating was a rhubarb crisp.
