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I made a frozen pizza last night because I was lazy and heating up a pizza stone in the summertime is suicide. As I was eating it it struck me that DiGiorno is the autotune of pizza; It technically ticks all of the boxes, but there's still an unsettling artificialness to it.
 
Makin' pork Chile Verde (great way to use left over porkchop btw) with homemade flour tortillas. I finally found a tortilla recipe that works for me.

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I think I'll give Chile Verde a try next time I cook a full meal. I can't recall ever having it before but it looks good. Is it normally served with anything besides tortillas? It looks like it might be too saucy for just tortillas alone. I'm thinking maybe to pair it with some yellow rice. I've been meaning to make yellow rice for some time anyway.
 
I think I'll give Chile Verde a try next time I cook a full meal. I can't recall ever having it before but it looks good. Is it normally served with anything besides tortillas? It looks like it might be too saucy for just tortillas alone. I'm thinking maybe to pair it with some yellow rice. I've been meaning to make yellow rice for some time anyway.
I serve it with rice and tortillas. The Verde sauce from Salty Cocina's recipe is fairly thick, it's a "Here's the base, add water to thin to your preference" recipe.

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I bought canned haggis before. Can't get the real stuff in America because we're too good to be eating a sheep's lung for some reason, but close enough. This'll either be the start of a brand new chapter in my life, that of the haggisman, or it will be one of the most repulsive things I've ever eaten. One thing is for certain, I'll be drunk.
So I actually did eat this and was pleasantly surprised. Granted anything that comes in a can always has that faint "dogfood" aftertaste, but it was still very good. Considering this was basically a highly processed facsimile rather then the real deal I can only imagine the actual stuff is a lot better. Best way I can describe the flavor is a nuttier version of corned beef hash. Can recommended making it with eggs, and I can easily see why. Really though if what I ate has any actual relationship to scottish haggis then I figure the reputation for this stuff being some sort of disgusting, horrific, organ mush is pretty undeserved. Probably has more to do with how its presented (sheeps stomach) rather then the actual part you eat, which is basically just sausage.
 
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Stir fried rice with peas, shrimp, and egg in it. Also seasoned with this stuff (and oyster sauce)

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Surprisingly not that spicy, but I didn't load the food with it, either.
 
Does anybody actually say paprika has no flavor? It's more mild and subtle then most spices, I guess. But you can definitely tell when it is there.
Hot Hungarian is actually very flavorful. Anyone who can say that has no flavor has no taste. PROTIP: if the language on the label is in English, you haven't gotten the right shit.
 
Does anybody actually say paprika has no flavor? It's more mild and subtle then most spices, I guess. But you can definitely tell when it is there.
It's because usually people don't use it often enough that their batches likely get stale. I can tell there's a smokiness in mine still, but it'd be stronger if it was fresh.
 
I'm a heathen and used a jarred curry sauce and combined it with potatoes, peanuts, and tofu. It tastes better the next day since the tofu soaks up the flavor, so that's going to be my dinner. Next time I'll be using chickpeas because I'm out of tofu.
 
I did a do-over of the peanut chicken thing. This time, it was a cup of peanuts, cup and a half of panko, a couple tablespoons of brown sugar, and some nearly random amount of cayenne. Whack the hell out of it in a food processor. Dip chicken in egg, dip in mix, dip in egg again, dip in mix again, bake at 350 for however long you feel like, serve over rice with peanut sauce.

If you start with honey roasted peanuts, omit adding sugar, but last time I made this, with the same plain peanuts I used, it lacked something. This time it worked fine.
 
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