What's cooking? part 4

I've put in a request to Mr Veg to get me a wok for my birthday

Baked a big batch of tamarind-dipped bacon-wrapped chicken thighs. Some for dinner and plenty left over for next week's lunches. Giant beef roast is on the slate for tomorrow.

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I <3 tamarind. The sour fruitiness is really nice with bacon (but then, what isn't?).

Can I move in?

I mean, I love what I cook but you always cook the most amaaaazing things!

Come on up! We'll have a great time and cook up a storm :-)

I've been getting ideas from all these paleo cooking sites lately. Lots of meaty goodness and piles of tasty vegetables.

any favorite sites? I'm not paleo but I love the recipes

Nomnompaleo.com and theclothesmakethegirl.com are my two very favorites right now. Paleomg.com has some good stuff too!

Giant beef roast in the oven with a window and the back door wide open and my industrial squirrel cage fan going at top speed to clear all the damn smoke! !!

does anyone have (or know a source of) good ice cream recipes? especially anything unusual/different. we came into possession of an ice cream maker a couple years ago and it's just occurred to me recently that we should actually use the damn thing.

http://www.davidlebovitz.com/category/recipes/ice-creams-and-sorbets/ has a lot of cool recipes

thanks! those look excellent.

If y'all want the perfect massaman curry recipe, look no further (I halved it and it was perfect; the proportions of beef/potato/shallot were spot on)

http://recipe.radafsechina.com/recipe/rick-stein-s-mussaman-beef-curry-geng-mussaman/1775

emergency dinner of brown rice kale edamame and chicken/apple sausage - crisis averted.

pumpkin and crispy sage risotto. halved the parmesan and added feta. it's tasty but i prefer mushroom or chorizo and pea.

ooh, hafta try and make that grapefruit campari sorbet! thx for that link seandalai!

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Brined a pork shoulder Thursday night, got up at 8:00 and put on the rub, in the oven for almost 4 hours now...

Good food day yesterday! Fruit for breakfast, some snacks I don't remember, then for lunch I made a combo warm-cold salad with sauteed leeks and fennel and green beans over a bed of raw baby spinach (I do this with virtually everything -- put some spinach under it and then the spinach wilts a little when everything is stirred up) and then for dinner I splurged on some scallops for me and steak for the mr and I FINALLY got my scallops to have the perfect crust on the outside and not get overcooked.

Here they are with the kale-bacon-pecorino salad I always eat because it's the best

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8371/8499865408_28f30f17d3_n.jpg

(Note: I worked from home yesterday, hence the lunchtime cooking. After the day I had on Thursday, you're going to have to trust me that I deserved a treat on Friday.)

yuuuum

that looks fantastico!

thank you!

this was the lunch thing. I KNOW lotsa people don't like fennel, but I love it, and with the leeks/some salt/oo it was all the flavoring I needed. It was warm and comforting.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8531/8498759261_ec156485ac_n.jpg

Fennel is great! We're going to try growing it ourselves this year.

In fairness though, you just have to mention any vegetable X and I'll reply "X is great!".

Haha, totally. Not sure what it says about me, but I ate two full leeks and an entire fennel bulb in one lunchtime sitting.

http://farm9.staticflickr.com/8379/8500918039_161a858f3e.jpg

The photo is pretty bad but this is how I get myself to eat vegetables: chicken panang curry with saffron rice. There's a handful of fresh spinach leaves hiding under that rice, waiting to wilt, too.

yum!! that looks great. i can assure the world at large that your curries are delish.

This one is extra so because I used the last can of panang curry paste from the Chinese store.

And hey, thanks! I only cook for myself so I don't really know whether something is "good" or not, has good flavor balance, that kind of thing.

lambballs
fattoush
roasted potatoes

wiiiiiiiiiiine

That looks soooo tasty, io!

It was! I ate too much and now I have to get ready and go out in my beached whale incarnation. The ocean is my stomach full of curry coconut broth.

tomorrow i am going to attempt slow-cooked korean short ribs :D

Making a couple of pounds of smoked shrimp today.

Do you smoke them with the shells on or off?

I made homemade sriracha from this recipe and is it ever good. I made 1/2 the recipe because we only had 3/4 lb of peppers - but it was the exact right amount for my food processor.

Today is also the day of roasting yams and beets for the coming week, and dinner tonight is slow-cooker chicken and gravy (the one made from leeks and onions and chicken drippings that is to die for).

I'm addicted to that chicken GOD

I know! It's so good. I didn't think it would be possible, but last time I made too much gravy. So I cut back to only 6 leeks this time.

I peeled the shrimp but left the tail-tips on as handles. They were a little underdone because I was so worried about overcooking them. Not bad for a first try.

for in orbit:
http://www.reddit.com/r/IAmA/comments/197ji0/i_am_anthony_bourdain_ask_me_anything/c8lija1

I vaguely remember Suzy talking about her recipe for chocolate cream cheese brownies - would you care to share?
I made some a while ago and they were nice enough but kind of flat and floppy? weird.

This is on the stove right now, fresh from the current cover of Bon Appetit magazine:
http://www.bonappetit.com/recipes/2013/03/chicken-khao-soi

The curry paste smelled really good, can't wait for the rest to be ready shortly

Korean short ribs turned out really well (from omnompaleo site that Jaq linked upthread). I made it non-paleo with soy sauce and rice vinegar etc. I think I may have overcooked them slightly --- I wasn't sure what the final texture was supposed to be? these were falling-off the bone and just a wee bit mushy, but not terribly so. I made a soba/kimchi stirfy as a side, and it was delicious. And it made tons, still enough for another meal for dinner tonight YAY that's the best part

cookingstagram
http://instagram.com/p/WLM1bnxOM_/

how was that khao soi?? its one of my fav dishes but i've never made it

Not sure how legitimate it is compared to different ingredients, but I really liked it and have enough for a few more meals. I realized I'm out of chili oil so I ended up spicing it up a bit more with what I have, but I think it is the correct spiciness to serve to a group that's not used to really hot things like me. I did sub in rice noodles instead of egg noodles since that's what I had, though.

i don't cook a lot of fish for various reasons so i'm proud of getting some nice crispy skin on tonight's sea bass.

this looks fucking INSANE

http://www.recipegirl.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/03/Cinnamon-Roll-Pancakes.jpg

http://www.recipegirl.com/2011/03/01/cinnamon-roll-pancakes/

also it looks exactly like jizz which is really funny and awesome to me.

lol