Today is big trash pickup and also happens to be a little stormy. All of the noise from the trucks, trailers, and thunder has my dog unsettled and barking. However, I’ve recently realized that he likes watching me in the kitchen, and so instead of having a relaxing morning with a book, I cooked 🍽️🍜
Another quick dinner, mostly from the pantry. This weekend, my friends and I are going on a big grocery run for my birthday, so I’m trying to make room in the pantry/freezer 🍽️🍜
Going through the freezer means finding a couple of field roasts stashed away. This roast is very definitely not ham, texture-wise, but there is something very almost-ham in the taste, and honestly, it was just a bit confusing 🍽️🍜
Roughly: 1. Toast curry powder 2. Add chunk of butter (or cooking oil of choice, enough to sauté) 3. Saute half a sliced onion to whatever softness you prefer 4. Throw in a bag of frozen okra, keep cooking until it’s tasty
Quick weeknight dinner—TJ’s kebabs, curried okra, and rice and lentils. I don’t know why I don’t do okra like this more often, it’s a good, quick dinner 🍽️🍜
Suffered from a big case of the I-don‘t-wannas this morning, but got on track eventually.
I had half a bag of flageolet beans, and decided to try making something with leeks, which are hard to find where I’m at, but maybe I’ll make an effort to find them more often 🍽️🍜
Had to fill in on a presentation today, but I feel like I did rather poorly. At least I had dinner to come home to. Corn soup that turned out amazingly well and bagged salad that was a bit less so 🍽️🍜
If you haven't tried cowboy caviar, you might want to take a gander at it! Bean salsa/salads are super flexible, especially when it's too damn hot out.
Best way I can think to describe it is the green flavor of parsley with the brightness of mint. It helps lighten heavy, savory flavors, and cools down hot or spicy foods. It really is hard to replicate!
One of my friends has the cilantro-soap gene, so I rarely use it out of habit. When I do use it, though, I’m always pleasantly reminded of how bright and fresh it is! 🍽️🍜
Found a pound of mayocoba beans that needed to be used. Bean spread on crackers for the next few nights, then bean salad after. What I’m going to do with the last third, I have no idea. I’ll figure something out 🍽️🍜
Last night I read about lescó, and I thought about the peppers in the fridge getting a bit wrinkly.
This isn’t that, not exactly. I ran with what I had, what I could remember from the recipes I looked at. I found some boudin in the freezer that’s been hanging out, and it all worked pretty okay 🍽️🍜
I can’t tell if my allergies are acting up with the cold front that moved in, or if I’ve stressed myself into a cold. Either way, some vegetables and a chicken carcass stashed in the freezer makes for an easy dinner 🍽️🍜
A few months ago, I bought attachments for my stand mixer to make pasta, and then promptly put them away and didn’t think about them. Until today, that is.
Really, I’ll probably still used dried pasta for spaghetti, but I’m happy to have the roller for making crackers and ravioli 🍽️🍜
Found some Rancho Gordo beans on sale and discovered one of the bulk stores carries fresh herbs, so herb salad for dinner tonight. And some toasted baguette slices. Because really, that’s my favorite part 🍽️🍜
