What's cooking? part 4

ok so when we eventually move to seattle how bout tza u move in with us as our chef and i will pay you with... books?

i'd settle for free rent!

Wait just a minute, I want this gig!

no wai they are mine

uh sorry that sounded crepey

btw i make grebt crepes!

looooooooooooooooooooooooooool

honestly meal preparation is one of the great non-pleasures of my life. i have tried and tried to feel some enjoyment in the process, esp since i do all the cooking in our house (my expression of love for my husband), but i just hate it! hate it! hate it! and i hate that i hate it, which is even worse!

see, meal preparation IS a pleasure for me but it's the eating that isn't really because even if i make something awesome i just sit there and eat it alone so i think this arrangement may very well work as long as you don't want me to just make the meal and then sit in the chef's quarters while you guys dine.

service entrance and eating in the kitchen for you, young lady

NO DEAL

cook for yourself

unless WmC has no self respect, that is.

Just momentarily to come back to the poaching water thing - when making kedgeree it's worth using the water that the haddock's been poached in to cook the rice in.

cept maybe that one time shasta went all nuts about how to make sushi on that guy.

:o(

I did make sushi once after that happened and thought about how inauthentic I was being and didn't care at all cause what I made was delicious!

service entrance and eating in the kitchen for you, young lady

― DAN P3RRY MAD AT GRANDMA (just1n3), Monday, September 28, 2009 11:08 PM (Yesterday)

NO DEAL

― can i lust (tehresa), Monday, September 28, 2009 11:11 PM (Yesterday)

cook for yourself

― can i lust (tehresa), Monday, September 28, 2009 11:11 PM (Yesterday)

unless WmC has no self respect, that is.

― can i lust (tehresa), Monday, September 28, 2009 11:11 PM (Yesterday)

Self respect got nuttin to do with it, this sounds better and better! I'd get full just tasting the dishes as I cooked anyway.

yeah i really like meal preparation. it makes me stop thinking about other things!

well, i wouldn't like it if i felt like i had to do it tbh

asparagus mint and broad bean pilaf tonight oh shi-.... looks delicious in the cook book

Marinated sliced chicken thighs in the kecap manis I made awhile back (dark soy, carmelized sugar, ginger/star anise/bay), then stirfried with bok choi and wide rice noodles. Those noodles are my current favorite ultra-fast starch, almost as fast as couscous, just boil some water and drop the noodles in and stir. I tossed a bit of sambal oelek in at the end of cooking, served everything topped with peanut sauce and chopped cilantro. Delicious and fairly quick to throw together.

nommmmmm

i just ate leftover poached salmon for lunch. still good!

Chicken, big rice noodles, and broccoli/bok choy/other greens with varying degrees of peanuts, kecap manis, soy, fish sauce, herbs, and chili paste is one my favorite things a big staple for me.

a big beautiful artichoke (mayo + roasted garlic); new potatoes with butter and a ton of chopped fresh dill.

Oooh I never thought about making one's own kecap manis! Thats awesome.

It turned out great, just a small hazardous explosion of soy sauce steam when I poured it into the super-hot caramelized sugar! I made enough to last almost 2 years, and it's just gotten better from the whole spices that are still steeping in the liquid.

roasting brussels sprouts. i love fall!

mac & cheese or puntas ruffinas (beef slow cooked in a chipotle/adobo/crema sauce) for Sunday dinner?

last night

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scallops!

Mmmm! Is that dill or fennel fronds in the marinade?

dill

that beef sounds amazing
those scallops look nom!

looks good but i am truley sorry for your lots with that electric stove!

lady u don't even know :(

pro-tip:

prep called for high-heat to sear scallops for like a minute, and then dropping to med so they could cook thru. tuff to do on an electric. so: heated water for spinach poaching to boil on the right front coil, got the oil to high on the left. as soon as water boiled, threw in the scallops, seared for a minute, and then switched pot and pan. water continued to boil on high left burner, scallops cooked on med right burner

it worked!

i gotta write that down
i hate electric stove!!!

i do too >:(

Scallops + dill, not a combo I would have thought of. But it was good?

yessir

tackling some acorn squash in about 5 min - wish me luck!

i really really miss nz scallops: nelson scallops are big and juicy and slightly sweet, not very seafood-y at all; queen scallops are small and much more salty and fishy. both are DELICIOUS.

esp in something like a pernod cream sauce

yum. i haven't had scallops in ages

I used to get amazing ones from Jack's Fish Spot, in the market around the corner from Frank's Produce. Now it's cooler and maybe fewer tourists, I might venture back there.

i was at the market the other day but i didn't buy any fish bc i'm dumb and forgot!

you are like in fish town lady!

i know!
why do i keep buying frozen fish!?

I would eat the hell out of a couple of dungeness crabs right now.

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i am eating the hell out of this!