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Take some prunes and put them into some light alcohol like wine for a couple of hours. If you don't want any booze, then just put them in the warm water for 30 min. Then put them in the colander and let them drip for some time. Take creme fresh and mix it with a powdered sugar for your taste, add vanilla and cinnamon. Then take some roasted almonds and stuff each individual prune with almond or two. Them put one layer of stuffed prunes into a bowl and pour your creme fresh over, then add another one and addd creme fresh, then coat the last layer with creme fresh and put a bowl in the fridge for 24 hours or longer, you want those nuts to soften up. Then dust it with cocoa powder and enjoy. Now you know how heaven tastes like.
 
...dare I ask how you fuck up a cheese fondue?
I honestly have no idea, I think the stock to cheese ratio was off or something. It just didn't come together the way it was supposed to, you know? We've done it successfully in the past. It was just really weird, I think it just wasn't meant to be lol.
 
I honestly have no idea, I think the stock to cheese ratio was off or something. It just didn't come together the way it was supposed to, you know? We've done it successfully in the past. It was just really weird, I think it just wasn't meant to be lol.
Do you have a blender? It might be cheating but it can rescue a sauce that's split.
 
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Do you have a blender? It might be cheating but it can rescue a sauce that's split.
We do and I didn't even think about it at the time, we even have an immersion blender hanging around here somewhere! Thanks for the reminder, I'll try to keep it in mind if it happens again. We've still got.. quite a bit of cheese, so there's a decent chance of trying again once we're over how gross it looked when it wouldn't come together, lol.
 
and on tonight's menu
hoagie roll
garlic herb aioli
crispy fried onions
Prime NY strip (rare)
Swiss
lettuce
tomato
 

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So it's better with the chipped stuff?
I wouldn't necessarily say that it's better, just that it's vastly different. It's a salted, cured, salami-like beef product that's shaved into paper-thin slices. Find the cheapest, thinnest, most processed beef sandwich meat that's legal for them to sell in your country, and that's probably a decently close match.
 
Cut out potatoes in my diet and have been having fried cabbage for a side instead. It's really nice .
just add some butter and olive oil to a pan, add your chopped cabbage (add a lot because it'll shrink right down) salt, pepper and a teaspoon of apple cider vinegar. Fry it for about 20 minutes, let it char a little if you like it that way.

I wouldn't necessarily say that it's better, just that it's vastly different. It's a salted, cured, salami-like beef product that's shaved into paper-thin slices. Find the cheapest, thinnest, most processed beef sandwich meat that's legal for them to sell in your country, and that's probably a decently close match.
Maybe pastrami then?
 
Cut out potatoes in my diet and have been having fried cabbage for a side instead. It's really nice .
just add some butter and olive oil to a pan, add your chopped cabbage (add a lot because it'll shrink right down) salt, pepper and a teaspoon of apple cider vinegar. Fry it for about 20 minutes, let it char a little if you like it that way.


Thank you I will have to try this as I have a head of cabbage to use up.
 
one of my new favourite dishes is chicken vindaloo, as per one of Madhur Jaffrey's recipes
the stuff you get from takeaways is little more than radioactive slop with chilli added for heat - this recipe is quite involved, and requires you to make a paste from cumin seeds, dried chilli, black peppercorns, a cinnamon stick, black mustard seeds*, fenugreek seeds*, salt, brown sugar, vinegar, and a blended raw onion, before adding it to the main mix, and it makes the end result a sour, thrillingly hot and wonderfully rich taste explosion - truly the king of curries
it's the blended raw onion and shit-ton of garlic that make up the bulk of its hotness

* these are hard to come by outside Asian supermarkets - if you can't get hold of them, nigella/black onion seeds and ground fenugreek work just as well
 
So, I have a short story about my most recent dish. Now, enchiladas are one of my favorite "mostly canned" recipes I do, and I had a craving for them a couple days ago, I had the tortillas, the cheese, and the cans of enchilada sauce. Now, everyone who knows me knows I prefer chicken breast, black beans, and white rice as my go to filling, but I only had beef so I thought I would enjoy it slightly less (chicken just meshes better with black beans and white rice). One problem: I had less than a cup of rice left and I had forgotten to buy more. I was resigned to using it with just black beans but then my eye caught on a can of refried beans I had bought in case I wanted to do taco salads. I shrugged and said, "Meh, let's try it and hope it's good."

It was. It doesn't beat my go-to but it is the stuff to use when I go with a beef filling from now on. The refried beans married the beef then had their honeymoon in the tortilla while swinging with the sauce, spices, and cheese. The flavors came together so incredibly well I was honestly a little shocked after my first bite. Always happy when an experiment works out.
 
I got real busy this week so I've made a lot of rice bowls since they're quick. Rice cookers are mandatory unless you're actually good at the stove top method. My favorite one was with stir fried sweet potato, mushroom, leek, and a soft egg. Topped with furikake (the seaweed kind is the best imo) and some soy sauce. BBQ sauce would also be good
 
Today I made a big batch of brown rice with carrots, celery, onion, parsley, chicken bouillon, leftover rotisserie chicken, salt, pepper, paprika, and hot sauce. Oh and tons of garlic. I saw this technique where you slice an entire garlic bulb in half horizontally and put it on top. After it was done cooking, the garlic is very smooth like butter and you just smear it into the rice. Very tasty highly recommend.
 
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