What's cooking? part 4

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!

i can't actually work out what it is

it is an acorn squash stuffed with quinoas and stuff!

^^^ winner!

acorn squash. i only ever saw them for the first time like two weeks ago. and this is the third time i've seen one since. are they the hip squash? what do they taste like?

similar to spaghetti squash

another thing i have only just had my eyes opened to: "onion squash". in my head they all taste pretty much like their adjectives.

I can't imagine never having seen an acorn squash! They're nice w/some soy sauce on them.

<3 winter squashes sooo much. I like butternuts the best but sometimes they're bitter, which is always heartbreaking. Any tips on how to avoid that?

I'm making a lasagna right now.

i would eat a lasagna right now

Sausages and mash and some glazed carrots.

It's bread baking day, and also chestnut roasting day.

i got some rice flour to try out some baking but now i have to work again so maybe soon.

Chestnuts! Fantastic.

CHESTNUTS AS A VEGETABLE

Peel the chestnuts and chop them coarsely inbto knobbly pieces about 1cm long. Cook onion and garlic slowly in the butter in a covered pan, until they are golden and transparent. Stir in the bacon, raise the heat slightly but be careful that the butter does not burn. When the bacon looks transparent, add the diced apple. Fry for a few minutes until the mixture looks and smells savoury and appetizing. Lastly add the chestnuts and cook until they are thoroughly heated through, and the pan juices reduced to a small amount of liquid. Season, particularly with pepper, and serve with chicken, guineafowl, turkey and game - or with pork, salt pork and veal.

from English Food by Jane Grigson. Haven't made it myself.

That does sound good. It turned into chestnut roasting day because we're having a long slow soaking rain and it probably won't go over 60 degrees.