Made some disgusting high-calorie protein bars. It's like a cake, but all the incredients have been replaced with peanut butter and sugar.
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Last month I bought Vietnamese chicken curry.
What's the difference between Vietnamese curry and Indian curry? It looks less thick, little more watery. How's the flavor base?
I wouldn't know, because I've never had Indian food at all.
I will say it's less thick than your standard Chinese or Japanese curry, but it's not too watery. There's still some thickness to it.
Damn excellent. The curry definitely got a natural taste to it. The chick curry has carrots, potatoes, and onions as well.
Been addicted to scrambled eggs lately. We never cooked them the "proper" way before, so silky, buttery scrambled eggs are foreign to me.
For my game day contribution we're bringing a veggie platter and I made a bolognese.
My sister in law thinks I'm bringing what you often get at even the best Italian restaurants: Pasta sauce with ground beef.
Real Bolognese is a much more hearty and complex dish.
Ingredients (mostly doubled up for party)
Olive oil 2 tsp
Uncooked fennel bulb(s) (I didn't use this as the wife hates it) 1 item(s), small, chopped
Uncooked onion(s)1 small, chopped
Uncooked carrot(s) 1 medium, cut into 1/4-inch dice
Uncooked celery 1 rib(s), medium, cut into 1/4-inch dice
Garlic 4 medium clove(s), minced (I did this even though the wife hates it. Cooking Italian food w/o garlic is like holding off on salt and pepper in any other dinner. Integral to the dish. She notice. I got yelled at. I can take it.)
Uncooked 93% (I used 85%) lean ground beef ½ pound(s)
Uncooked 96% lean ground pork ½ pound(s) (85% again)
Table salt 1 tsp
Red pepper flakes ¼ tsp
Black pepper ¼ tsp
Canned crushed tomatoes 28 oz
Grated Parmesan cheese ½ cup(s), divided
2% reduced fat milk ⅓ cup(s) (Wife wants skim. I can do that.)
Uncooked whole wheat spaghetti 16 oz (Sister in law using the real stuff)
Basil ½ cup(s), fresh, chopped (I got the very last bunch at the store).
My sister in law thinks I'm bringing what you often get at even the best Italian restaurants: Pasta sauce with ground beef.
Real Bolognese is a much more hearty and complex dish.
Ingredients (mostly doubled up for party)
Olive oil 2 tsp
Uncooked fennel bulb(s) (I didn't use this as the wife hates it) 1 item(s), small, chopped
Uncooked onion(s)1 small, chopped
Uncooked carrot(s) 1 medium, cut into 1/4-inch dice
Uncooked celery 1 rib(s), medium, cut into 1/4-inch dice
Garlic 4 medium clove(s), minced (I did this even though the wife hates it. Cooking Italian food w/o garlic is like holding off on salt and pepper in any other dinner. Integral to the dish. She notice. I got yelled at. I can take it.)
Uncooked 93% (I used 85%) lean ground beef ½ pound(s)
Uncooked 96% lean ground pork ½ pound(s) (85% again)
Table salt 1 tsp
Red pepper flakes ¼ tsp
Black pepper ¼ tsp
Canned crushed tomatoes 28 oz
Grated Parmesan cheese ½ cup(s), divided
2% reduced fat milk ⅓ cup(s) (Wife wants skim. I can do that.)
Uncooked whole wheat spaghetti 16 oz (Sister in law using the real stuff)
Basil ½ cup(s), fresh, chopped (I got the very last bunch at the store).
Pretty similar to my bolognese sauce. Tip: add some pancetta or gianciale cut into 1/4 inch dice to your sauce. Gives your sauce a bunch of depth. For even more flavor, give it a quick turn in the pan before adding (no oil or butter, let it bake in its own fat). For the amount you're making about 1/2 pound should be fine. Tends to be very salty tho, so might wanna reduce or even cut out the table salt entirely.
Can't. Italian-descended girlfriend. Would get murdered.
You know, some of the genuinely best pasta I've ever had was made in my girlfriend's condo where we just simmered canned tomatoes with onions and garlic, dumped that shit over some fresh noods with a bit of sliced cheese, and sprinkled some dried parsley.
I mean obviously you can do so much better than that, but I was shocked at how good it was with essentially no effort. Pasta be a magical thing.
We can’t go back to jar sauce very easily anymore. A small can of tomato paste/water adds some nice texture too. Gotta let it simmer altogether for about 15-20 minutes, even before adding any meat. Also a bit of sugar helps neutralize the acidity if heartburn is ever a concern.
That essentially is marinara sauce. When my mom shuts down her vegetable garden for the year she starts canning vegetables. I come over and cook down all the tomatoes into sauce so she can can it. And all I put in it is oregano, garlic, and salt. Sometimes a little basil.
Oh yeah, I forgot the tomato paste (mainly because the last time I was there she forgot to buy some). Really does help, as well as the simmering. We made the mistake last time of cooking the sauce basically the same amount of time as the pasta, the flavor was significantly less.
For some reason, in my head, marinara sauce must have olives.
There's a lot of things you can put in it. I've heard people swear by anchovy paste instead of salt, I haven't tried it yet. My dad likes it when I make sauce The Godfather style. Cooking up a bunch of sausage, then taking out the cooked sausage and deglazing the fond with some wine and then cooking down the tomatoes right in the wine/fond/sausage grease. He likes the sauce, but I suspect he likes having that much cooked Italian sausage around so he can make his favorite grilled sub sandwich.
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My dad grilled up some steak and chicken last week on Sunday. Got mashed potatoes with it too.
Today, I had spicy misoh ramen 
, yellow tail and scallion sushi, and Calamansi juice.
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Very nice!My dad grilled up some steak and chicken last week on Sunday. Got mashed potatoes with it too.
Today I had spicy mico ramen
Ah man you get the best food!My dad grilled up some steak and chicken last week on Sunday. Got mashed potatoes with it too.
Today, I had spicy misoh ramen
I kind of wish I had taken pictures, on Fri I had spicy black garlic tonkotsu ramen and for the very first time ever, takoyaki. Mostly I ordered it because I was with my parents and knew they wouldn't order anything interesting. I don't get why they aren't more adventurous. They both got a pretty standard pork or chicken rice bowl. I offered them some of the takoyaki, but they wouldn't even try it until I told them exactly what was in it. And of course they noped out when I told them it was octopus.Today, I had spicy misoh ramen
Then, it turns out I don't like takoyaki either. Not because of the octopus, that was fine. It is the (?batter.) It is cooked and pancake like on the outside, but the inside is very uncooked. Like a pancake that still has batter on the inside. I think I would have liked it if it were a little more "well done."