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I made something from a magazine called sharkshuskaskasomething and it was a lot like eggs in purgatory, but with roasted red pepper hummus. Ideally you make your own hummus but I was lazy and used the plain store bought hummus I had on hand.
You get some onion sauted before adding minced garlic, cumin, and red pepper flakes. Add in a can of crushed tomatoes plus 3/4 a cup of whatever hummus you have (and if you're me, some roasted red peppers you found in the fridge that still looked edible) make that do lovely things in the pan, before making little wells in the sauce to crack your eggs into. Let that simmer until the eggs have set and serve with some flatbread or a baguette. Very tasty, I want to try it again with homemade hummus.
 
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Greek has been the big request of late. while it's labor day we had to go full Merkia as well.

chicken kebab marinated in yogurt sauce for a day then grilled veg and my personal plate.

no pics of apps or potato salad (mayo ick!!)

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Edit, I know my plate is far from pretty but the chef doesn't have time to make it look pretty, I'm just glad I got to inhale something before I had to get the pound cake, fruit and ice cream ready.
 
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Bassomatic said:
Greek has been the big request of late. while it's labor day we had to go full Merkia as well.

chicken kebab marinated in yogurt sauce for a day then grilled veg and my personal plate.

no pics of apps or potato salad (mayo ick!!)

https://postimg.cc/image/re4dvv5sd/

https://postimg.cc/image/st5yklel9/0826aab7/

Edit, I know my plate is far from pretty but the chef doesn't have time to make it look pretty, I'm just glad I got to inhale something before I had to get the pound cake, fruit and ice cream ready.
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Amazing. That really looks incredibly nice! Potato salad with mayo or not?
You make it in germany either with oil and vinegar or with mayo, depending on where you live (I am pretty sure you know that already though :-)).
 
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got me some packed udon noodles at the super market, made a soup stock from mushrooms with veggies and sprinkled that with some fried onions

i'm extremely basic and lazy
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I´d love to know how you make all of that!
 
Rokko said:
I´d love to know how you make all of that!
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You can get the udon noodles pretty easily at super markets(either wet/dry/instant noodles sections) but good fried onions are harder to come by depending where you live though I prefer getting mine from morning markets

vegetable/mushroom soup stock is super easy to make,just cook/stir fry some vegetables with oil,add in salt and some spices or sauce and add water

you can add thickening agents too if you don't want the soup to be too watery

so uhh yeah boil the udon and strain it,make the soup and pour it into a bowl with the udon then garnish it with whatever you like
 
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Tried eating some gross shrimp leftovers and failed, so I threw one of my all-time favorites in the oven- oven-roasted broccolini. Broccolini is essentially the Japanese love child of broccoli and jie lan (chinese broccoli). It's longer, thinner, and has smaller florets. It's also much more visually appealing and the florets don't fall off and get everywhere when you try to cut it (I'm looking at you, broccoli).

Threw it in a brownie pan, doused it in olive oil, gave it a heavy dose of red pepper flakes, and put it in the oven for ~15-25 minutes at 425. Theoretically you can flip it with tongs at the 10 minute mark, but it doesn't burn if you just leave it and the olive oil distribution isn't that important. I like that shit good and caramelized.

Also made some rigatoni and stirred it around in the pan after the broccolini came out to get all of the excess olive oil and pepper flakes. Heaven in a brownie pan, really.
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An inside-out parmesan omelet. Oil a heated griddle with olive oil, then grate parmesan onto it until there's a thin layer of bubbling, browning cheese. Pour eggs (with a bit of water for fluffiness) over it in an even layer after it gets light golden. Let the eggs set and then fold it in half.

The parmesan layer on the outside should be a bit crisp and the eggs inside, since they never touched the hot griddle, should be light and fluffy.

After I did this I found out it wasn't a new thing. Next time, I might put some meltier cheese on the inside.
 
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Stuffed Turkey breast and salad. God there’s something about stuffing that’s been cooked in the bird (fuck you Alton Brown).

It’s far enough away from Thanksgiving we’ll be hungry for turkey again,and since it’s ugly outside, having something roast slowly for hours isn’t a big deal.
 
Bought a bone-in pork roast that was too big to fit in my crock pot (nearly a 12-pounder), so I cut it in half. The half without the bone went in the freezer, and the half with the bone went in the crock pot, along with some potatoes, carrots, brown sugar, a few dashes of apple cider vinegar, a few glugs of soy sauce, some sweet-hot scotch bonnet sauce, and probably some other herbs and seasonings -- I forget what all. Let that cook overnight, and by morning it was break-apart tender. Pulled the bone out, packed a lunch, and put the rest in the fridge.

Got a 5 pound package of chicken leg quarters (leg & thigh) cheap that needed to be used or frozen, but didn't want to use up any more space in the freezer. I had someplace to be, so I put them into a baking pan, drizzled on some olive oil, sprinkled on a garlic herb blend, and added some of the sweet-hot scotch bonnet sauce. Covered the pan tightly, set the oven to 250 degrees, the timer for 5 hours, and left to go do my thing. Came back hours later, putzed around the house a while longer until the stove beeped, and took them out. The juices had filled the pan halfway up the side of the meat, and they were so tender that they almost fell apart when I took them out of the pan. I put them in a separate container, added some potatoes and carrots to the juice left in the pan, covered it again, and left it in the oven for an hour at 350 degrees. The chicken was so done that the bones just came right out of the meat, and in hindsight 5 hours was probably a little excessive (even at the low roasting temperature of 250 degrees), but I'd never done it before and didn't want to undercook them. They were not at all dry, owing to the fact that the pan was covered, but if I did them slow roasted again think I'd uncover them near the end so that maybe the skin wouldn't be completely soft.

Tonight was taco salad again. Seasoned ground beef, diced jalapeno, diced tomato, tortilla chips, lettuce, salsa, and cheese. No sour cream this time; didn't have any in the fridge and didn't feel like buying some.

I think tomorrow I'm going to try to make a breakfast pizza. I'm going to try modifying my pizza crust recipe by replacing the water with milk (by adding dry milk to it), so fingers crossed -- should result in a softer crust, I think. Toppings will be sausage gravy, bacon, shredded potato, and cheddar. Maybe scrambled egg, but who cares really. Of course it'll have to have hot sauce, too.
 
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boiling some noodles
get a ceramic bowl
salsa, shredded cheese, butter, aldi franks red hot sauce
1.5 min on high with a ceramic plate for a lid, stir, another 2, stir
lid back on
dump finished noodles in the bowl
stir

not bad
 
MerriedxReldnahc said:
I made something from a magazine called sharkshuskaskasomething and it was a lot like eggs in purgatory, but with roasted red pepper hummus. Ideally you make your own hummus but I was lazy and used the plain store bought hummus I had on hand.
You get some onion sauted before adding minced garlic, cumin, and red pepper flakes. Add in a can of crushed tomatoes plus 3/4 a cup of whatever hummus you have (and if you're me, some roasted red peppers you found in the fridge that still looked edible) make that do lovely things in the pan, before making little wells in the sauce to crack your eggs into. Let that simmer until the eggs have set and serve with some flatbread or a baguette. Very tasty, I want to try it again with homemade hummus.
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Oh man, shakshuka is my absolute favorite in these late-summer weeks when the heat has broken but garden tomatoes are still pouring off the vine. I've never done hummus in mine, but I'll sometimes add okra or finish with a bit of chevre on top. If this is wrong, I don't care to be right.

I've also been doing smashed new potatoes dressed with minced shallots, lemon juice, olive oil, pepper, salt, and parsley. With purple potatoes, the bits that get the lemon juice do that litmus-test thing and turn fuchsia. It makes a really pretty dish.
 
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For ages have I tried to make a decent and cheap pasta with tomato sauce and failed, so yesterday I said fuck it and just fried some ground beef with onions and garlic before adding store-bought sauce and adding shredded cheese on top. It was pretty good, not great but good. Definitely made better but veggies and shit are so expensive when I only got one shop in town now to get my groceries.
 
I've been on a cooking spree lately.

The day before yesterday was homemade meatloaf and mashed potatoes with green peas and onions.
Yesterday was steamed rice with egg, peas, and fish sauce with barbecued salmon and beef mandu.
Today is black beans and corn bread.
 
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I made meatballs. Beat an egg with worstichere sauce, minced garlic, salt and pepper. Dumped that in a pound and change of ground turkey. Added a bunch of breadcrumbs and baked at 400 for 20, flipped them over and another ten minutes

Not bad.
 
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