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I figured out how to make konpeito
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After trial and error, the piroshkys turned out well. Had to look up lots of recipes and trips to the russian grocer to get some help. made a milk (had to use unsweetened almond, i've found it works in baking if you have stomach issues) and water based dough and then for fillings I did mushrooms and potato, but prepped the potato like it was a latke, with some vegetable butter, garlic, salt, dill, and pepper and then I did a ground beef and onion with the same seasonings and paprika. I fried them in canola oil after wrapping them. I love any type of savory pie and am going to keep practicing since a few of them broke open during frying.

I also have been getting my spice tolerance up which has really opened up my cooking world. I have bad stomach problems but I've found the spice is not messing me up as bad as I thought. I made an avocado, egg, and sweet potato bowl with sriracha, something I used to be really scared of eating and I was able to handle it. Sriracha used to make my ears ring so this is pretty cool
 
Made a chicken pot pie that came out really nice. The only concerning thing is how much fucking butter went into the crust…

I made it in a small cast-iron pan which is still way too big for one person. In the future for a “single serving” pie I’ll probably use ramekins or smaller disposable tins and only put crust on the top… with a fully enclosed pie, the crust-to-filling ratio was a bit high anyways and I’m quite worried by the amount of fucking butter that goes into the crust.
 
request was shephard's pie (ground beef) using the older shit floating around
frozen peas - not too bad
frozen corn - literally dried out like the shit you feed ducks and geese, no
fresh ground beef
about 2/5 of a red onion leftover from salad
a mess of baby carrots
a handful of carrot shred
cooked that a not appropriate to let the garlic powder bloom properly
general beef seasoning, pepper, paprika, a bunch of dried onion, a little salt
cooked it fully
drained it mostly (drippings aside)
about a third~quarter of a worstietichehrer ish sauce "The Colony Sauce"
drippings and remaining amount of liquid needed in water for Idaho instant potato powder (the surprisingly not-awful one)
meat and stuff in the my hot shit Le Crueuesuueut casserole dish, then the potatoes on top, little bit of rosemary on the potato
22m in the oven at 375
gonna top it with a bit of cheese and extra rosemary under the cheese and then a little more

tried the leftover bits of the meat and stuff and potatoes from the pots and pans
should be dank af
After trial and error, the piroshkys turned out well. Had to look up lots of recipes and trips to the russian grocer to get some help. made a milk (had to use unsweetened almond, i've found it works in baking if you have stomach issues) and water based dough and then for fillings I did mushrooms and potato, but prepped the potato like it was a latke, with some vegetable butter, garlic, salt, dill, and pepper and then I did a ground beef and onion with the same seasonings and paprika. I fried them in canola oil after wrapping them. I love any type of savory pie and am going to keep practicing since a few of them broke open during frying.

I also have been getting my spice tolerance up which has really opened up my cooking world. I have bad stomach problems but I've found the spice is not messing me up as bad as I thought. I made an avocado, egg, and sweet potato bowl with sriracha, something I used to be really scared of eating and I was able to handle it. Sriracha used to make my ears ring so this is pretty cool
I would unlock the dark secrets of perogi but I fucking loathe cleaning up from dough
 
I use my tortilla press to make pierogis, just stick some plastic on it and it makes cleaning up easier.

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I made creamy garlic shrimp on fresh baked bread. I had it with kkakdugi and stir fried green beans.
it took me a hot minute looking at the pic wondering what the fuck part of that was supposed to be perogi until I finished reading the words under it
 
Trying my hand at some jerk seasonings, gonna see how they work on some fat sumptuous chicken thighs...
 
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I bought some chicken thighs and sausage to make a big pot of gumbo. Will add the trinity; peppers, celery onion and add some carrots as I have a load to use up, will add cajun seasoning. As always serve with rice but I will have cauliflower rice.

Last night I took two chicken thighs seasoned with salt and pepper flattened them and put on top of stripes of bacon then put garlic herb cream cheese inside, rolled up and baked. Served with veg.
 
My husband and I are doing our annual "cleanse". It's not one of those woo things, more just a yearly diet reset (especially after Christmas over indulgence). Only chicken breast or fish, very little oil (and only olive) or salt, only ancient grains, no sugar, no caffeine or alcohol, plenty of veg, no starchy veg, no dairy...etc.
It's usually about now (mid cleanse) we go a bit nuts. Tonight's dinner however perked us up. Baked garlic salmon, with grilled asparagus, quinoa, and a lemon dill "cream" sauce. The sauce was made from the scooped out innards of zucchini (from last night's stuffed zucchini boat dinner). I cooked the hell out of them, blended them, then added pepper, lots of dill, and fresh lemon juice. It was delicious.
 
Felt like I needed to eat something mildly healthy so I made a curry with green beans, mushrooms, broccoli, bean sprouts, onions, and chicken thighs. Used ghee for the first time since it was on sale at about 5 bucks for a pretty big jar. I can get why people like using it instead of oil, it smells really good like movie theater popcorn butter. Didn't feel like making rice so instead just made some bulghur wheat and poured the curry over that. Pretty good overall.
 
I made tacos using chicken leg quarters. I tried these a year or so ago and hated the consistency of them. I slow cooked these for 8 hours and they turned out the same way. Anyone know what to do to make them fall apart like when I cook the whole chicken?
 
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