What Have You Cooked Recently?

Here's a few things I made recently

Gingerbread cookies
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Potato mooncakes experiment
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Bubblegum
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The mooncakes had a potato based filling instead of lotus root or bean paste as an experiment. The way I made them didn't taste good, but potato works as a filling; it looks just like bean paste because it's semi transparent and white.

The bubblegum crumbles like the Hubba Bubba Bubble jug when it's room temp, but while it's warm it can be worked into canes or rolled into individual pieces.
 
As is tradition in my house, every time we have a snow storm it's a pot of homemade soup. Just a simple chicken soup this time, with oregano, thyme, and a carefully measured amount of chicken gravy to give it some richness.
 
What you could do is portion out the meat you get and bag and freeze part of that portion you're not gonna eat right away. Because I only cook for two, I'll buy big packs of chicken breasts and thighs and portion them out to a little ziploc bag of 4 pieces each. It also helps you from overeating doing it that way.
My mom always bought in bulk and separated our meat growing up. I didn't know that wasn't a regular thing
 
I fried some boneless pork chops with ginger, garlic powder, salt and pepper in panko breading, steamed some brocolli, and hard boiled some eggs. All I have left to do is boil some ramen, and it's easy ramen night. I haven't been able to find pork bones at the regular places lately, otherwise I'd make my own broth. The packaged Nissin Demae Black Garlic Tonkatsu Ramen is about as top tier in taste as a non-spicy ramen can be, in my opinion, so that's the ramen I'll be dressing up tonight.
 
I baked the basic Jim Lahey no-knead recipe in the Lodge dutch oven I bought. I know people talk shit about Lodge, but I honestly don't see anything wrong with it, other than their basic cast iron has some issues with being difficult to season and not holding it well.

I specifically did that bread because I've done it previously using various afro-engineered workarounds for not having a dutch oven. They don't work, they're bad, and really having a dutch oven is the only way to do it, because it turned out vastly better than past efforts.

I still just can't justify paying the kind of prices you pay for Le Creuset and shit like that unless I were cooking professionally. Lodge gets it done, premium or not.
 
Making some cheesy pasta, thought it was Kraft but upon further inspection of the box, it's some rip off made in Ireland.

Yesterday was first day back at the gym this year (had an absolute cunt of a blister on my palm) then randomly drank two bottles of buckfast after it. Feels like I've been battered today and need something comforting to heal my sore vagina
 
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