What's cooking? part 4

Oh, wait, I don't mean like the big picture of gyoza, but like the picture at the end of the second row here:
http://www.weichuanusa.com/products.html

you can probably panfry something like this kind of wrapper

http://www.wensh.net/up/2/img/701.jpg

but not the fluffy, bready kind

http://i.imgur.com/jBn6I.jpg

Yeah they'd just stick to the pan and break apart wouldnt they?

argh fluffy bready kind in the rice cooker leaving flakey scabs all over the rice argh!

xp, yeah, that's why I was surprised, seeing that photo. It would never occur to me to pan fry a steamed bun! Well, maybe the next time I make a batch, I'll give it a try.

yeah trayce. but maybe if you coat them in egg first like french toast *hmmmmm*

nonstick frying pan ftw

omg french toasted steamed pork buns! D:

Thats like strongos nuevo cuisine next level, man.

*pours maple syrup over french toast pork buns*

I just made sardine fritters - really good with sriracha mayo

making this lentil & coconut soup
we'll see if I can get over my ditchwater flavor yrack record w/brown lentil soups

let's also hope it's good because 3 fucking quarts of fluid

That is a lot of liquid.

one of my dudes got tapped for 9L of bloody ascites this week. now THAT'S a lot of fluid, I tell u waht

I added green chile to the soup and I like it, but not so much that I am congratulating myself for making 3 quarts of it. Solo life means adjusting recipe scale, I really need to remember this.

lime + coconut milk + green chiles + other hot = yeah that's gonna taste good

plz send me extra soup

friend's family member in hospital so i volunteered to bring food over later. i roasted a chicken and made a salad of wheat berries, red pepper, cucumber, spinach, parsley, tomato, feta and red onion in a balsamic vinaigrette. feels good to cook with a purpose. i hope they like it! i also roasted a chicken for us to keep here :)

abbott, your soup sounds yummy!

you are the nicest!

i don't mind! i feel like it's rare that i get to help people. i should volunteer more. honestly it helps me to feel like i have something meaningful to do today because there are a lot of things lately that i have no control over/can't do anything about.

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Breakfast Bao!

-half the fingerling potatoes I bought suffered from greening upon further inspection at home
-threw out half the fingerling potatoes I bought

i made a baby arugula, red bell pepper, and gouda omelette and pwned breakfast potatoes. i am such a baller re: cooking lately i amaze myself. it's probably because i'm so shitty at everything else!

-made potstickers from leftover DUMPLINGS!
-the way the skin gets hard is the best thing

harbl, that egg arrangement sounds like what I had for breakfast every day over Christmas break! It was a really nice time.

A basic pork loin roast will be happening here. I don't know what to make along-side it. Garlic spinach, I guess. Does it need a starch?

Pork roast always calls out for mashed taters to me. Gravy from the roast drippings, oh yeah.

do this but with spinach imo http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D06E2D61039F932A25750C0A96F9C8B63

Haha wow. I think I like my sides kept separate, I'm not sure I would like the spinach throughout the lovely potato taste. Plus I like my spinach w garlic and lemon. But that's an idea, for sure.

I guess I'll have to leave the house and buy some potatoes at the actual store.

i've never made it with spinach but with dandelion greens it's v good

Its reminiscent of colcannon, that is.

I have ruined so much food today

next up: making crops fail with my eyesight

Aaaaabbot! What happened, kitten?

Nothing worse than screwing up a meal :(

Bah, that is just an excuse to heat up a frozen pizza or go get takeout

FROZEN PIZZA IS DEFEAT!

oh bah, live to fight another day

Never cookin u dinner.

My friend's current facebook status (posted long after my comment on this thread):

Seriously beans! You've been in the crockpot for 15+ hours and you're still hard and crunchy. What the hell! Cook damnit. I will now console my crockpot failure with Chinese takeout.

I AM VINDICATED

if you were a LADY who cooked ME dinner, it'd be the rare occasion I wasn't the one cooking anyway

btw I eat about anything

I wish a guy would cook me dinner tbh ;_;

(btw I was only railing against the frozen pizza, i dont think takeaway is an admission of fail!)

Gotta know when to quit imo

I've been making all kinds of things, nothing different or really worth noting

memorable highlights

-- vegetable gallette with goat chz (for a potluck, came together nicely with very little effort)
-- garbanzo-tomato soup with tons of kale
-- spinach salad with grapefruit, fennel, and parmesan (I eat this a lot)
-- chicken tacos (and chicken taco salad, and about 17 tons of black beans eaten alone, with eggs, with rice, etc)
-- other stuff i kinda forget because it was boring, various pastas with vegetables and nuts
-- oh yeah, french toast dusted lightly with garam masala and topped with candied walnuts w/ cayenne
-- is it normal fruit season yet because i am REALLY TIRED OF BANANASAPPLESCITRUS

I've been eating horrible crap, including thrown-together sandwiches and too much fast food, for the last couple of weeks because of heavy workload and the fact that my wife hates cooking. I'm finally at the end of that push, so I'm thawing chicken and soaking black beans tonight for a real meal tomorrow.

I have always had a fantasy of finding a Le Crueset at a thrift store & it happened today at the Value Village. Little round 2 qt guy, just perfect for solo cooking. Eight bucks!

how do i make a peanut sauce for dipping fresh spring rolls? i made them last night for the first time ever, they were awesome, but the dipping sauce recipe i had was lime/soy/garlic/sugar and it was too light-weight for the already light-weight rolls.