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I'm so sick of succulent beef, lmao. It's always so cheap and we tend to just split one steak sideways when they're large enough, which they have been.
Twice this week, we had a ribeye with a side salad as well as duck fat potatoes one day, and candied carrots and steamed broccoli the other.
Used the last ribeye from the pack to make quesadillas, which felt kind of sacrilegious but was great.
I made chimichurri-marinated pork chops with tabbouleh just because both sounded good and I wanted to finish up the chimi I made for the steaks, I thought it'd clash but everyone ate quite a bit so I guess it wasn't so crazy.
Peruvian-style fish ceviche with roasted sweet potatoes.
I made butternut squash, curry, and coconut milk soup with roasted pumpkin seeds on top today.
 
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I made some pizzas, I was planning on cooking them outside in a pizza oven, but the weather didn't cooperate so I cooked them indoors on a pizza stone. I heated the pizza stone under the broiler and par baked the bases for 5 minutes with the sauce on, before adding my toppings and baking on full for a further 7 minutes.
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We had a birthday in my family so I made a vanilla cheesecake in lieu of birthday cake as had been requested.
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And after all of those carbs, I made some steak and eggs. I used a really nice rub from paprika, ancho and fresh ground coffee, a simplified version of this. I highly recommend adding coffee to beef based dishes, I always add it to chile con carne and it's a total game changer. The yolks broke on their way to the pan but it was still very nice.
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A gigantic nearly two pound ribeye steak, sous vide. I still have the other half because I'm not a python.

I can't recommend sous vide enough. I was so sick of blowing money on steak and then just SLIGHTLY fucking it up. I mean, rare when you wanted medium-rare or medium when you wanted medium-rare isn't a tragedy, it's entirely edible, but you wanted that goddamn medium-rare and you didn't get that.

Sous vide means you get exactly what you want, exactly the way you wanted it, and you can't even accidentally fuck it up. Push the buttons, it happens. Here's your perfectly medium-rare steak,sir.

It needed nothing but some sauteed onions, which it got. Even the cat loved it, even more than the cat loves anything steak.
 
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Pesto and almond crusted Leg of lamb, country style short ribs, brined chicken breasts wrapped in bacon for chicken salad for later, baconized baked beans with molasses, cheese and shells with homemade cheese (A kind of young pepperjack/queso) mixed with homemade pickled jalapeno relish and a Dorito/panko crumble crust. Also threw on some peppercorns, salt, paprika and mustard seeds and some eggs as well because at this point I'd been knocking back drinks for three hours and said fuck it. Used hard lump charcoal and apple wood.
 

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A few nights ago, I cooked up a filet of Alaskan cod that I've had sitting in my freezer for awhile.

I got an air fryer for a present a couple years ago and I've only used it a few times, so I wanted to give it a try with this.

Rubbed some butter on the fish, then coated it with old bay and some matzo meal for a little crunch.

400 degrees, 5 minutes, then flipped it and then 5 more minutes.

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Came out pretty good. A little overcooked, I'll be gentler next time, but otherwise a really good late night snack.

Served it with some homemade tartar sauce which was good, but a little runny.
 
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Marvin said:
A few nights ago, I cooked up a filet of Alaskan cod that I've had sitting in my freezer for awhile.

I got an air fryer for a present a couple years ago and I've only used it a few times, so I wanted to give it a try with this.

Rubbed some butter on the fish, then coated it with old bay and some matzo meal for a little crunch.

400 degrees, 5 minutes, then flipped it and then 5 more minutes.

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Came out pretty good. A little overcooked, I'll be gentler next time, but otherwise a really good late night snack.

Served it with some homemade tartar sauce which was good, but a little runny.
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Runny? Bro, that looks NICE! Toss some lemon slices on that for garnish and the retards at a restaurant would dish out $21.40 for a plate.
 
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Takeout is too expensive and the Chinese places in my town aren't that good anyway so I've started making it myself. Eggplant in garlic sauce and rice tonight. I've got some dried lily flowers coming in the mail so I can do hot and sour soup correctly. Will update when this is accomplished.
 
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I made a tomatillo green salsa that is easy and so good. Mix it with hummus and some quinoa for protein. Sometimes the tomatillos are tart so I throw a tiny bit of agave in and it balances it.

I also made an herbed olive oil dip for bread and mixed that in with some hummus too and it tasted like SHIT. My boyfriend loved it but something was not working for me. It was super bitter.

Do sandwiches count as cooking?
 
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Marvin said:
I got an air fryer for a present a couple years ago and I've only used it a few times, so I wanted to give it a try with this.
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I sort of had that "what do I do with this thing" period when I first got one. I literally got it to make fries, only to find that it actually kind of sucks at making fries. They're okay but not what I really want.

Then I slowly discovered it's actually amazing for lots of things you wouldn't even consider. For instance, it makes an absolutely awesome cheesecake that I've brought to Thanksgiving ever since.

Now whenever I plan on making anything I search for the dish with "air fryer" or "sous vide" to see if these meme machines will do it. Very often, they do it far better than traditional methods.

And what I made recently, an air fryer loaded jacket potato. 400 degrees. 45 minutes or so, flipping it in the middle, then opening it up and putting butter and cheese on it a few minutes before done, then sour cream, bacon, chopped onions, and a dash of pure scorpion pepper powder. I usually shake this on and the shaker has holes small enough I often wonder "is any of it even coming out?" This time some was visible and I thought oh, shit, I probably overdid it.

I did but it was still edible.

Air fryer baked potatoes are awesome. Also 45 minutes at that temperature for a smallish potato will be nearly burned and very crispy, but with hot, fluffy potato inside. That's how I like it though.
 
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