The food and drink forum blog thread.

RAGER · December 22, 2019, 12:36:38 PM

Last night for dinner I made bucatini con salsa salsiccia alla arrabiata.

This morning I prepped shuba but with chicken. So instead of "herring under a fur coat it's "chicken under a fur coat" or chuba

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I bought some vereniki and pelmeni when I was last at Kachka Lavka. So we'll have that too. Ukraine dinner. No pisdec!

Muffin Man · December 23, 2019, 05:26:30 AM

Original Loaf 1 - sourdough, fig, rosemary

RAGER · December 23, 2019, 01:32:02 PM

Right on dude. How's it taste. Looks like you got some aeration.

Muffin Man · December 23, 2019, 07:45:03 PM

Yes glad I got some. 3 Yums up. Gave up on that dough after folding it 20-50 times, puddle kept getting runnier almost pourable, like honey!- could never get any stretch. I shall acquire kitchen scale instead of eyeballing. Made three satisfying meals for funions

Loaf 2; Anchovy, Red Flakes in Salted Buckwheat Sourdough painted in Coconut oil. Charred finish, Olive oil side

Loaf 3 Banana with butter side

Muffin Man · December 24, 2019, 01:29:21 AM

RAGER · December 24, 2019, 07:42:01 PM

You got bread for days man.

Found a pretty good Szechuan place. Strip mall of course. They usually are.

Shrimp and tofu hotpot with wood ear mushrooms.

Beef in spicy gravy.

Wonton in chili oil.

RAGER · December 28, 2019, 02:51:41 PM

Made nam prik makheua (spicy grilled eggplant dip) for lunch this morning along with some pan roasted spicy peanuts.

Roasted chicken will be dipped in the sauce

Roasted that chicken with coriander seed cumin seed and white pepper.

RAGER · December 29, 2019, 11:04:27 AM

Last night was kaeng pa or jungle curry. The meat was pork so it would be kaeng pa mu. Fukn killer and Thai spicy. Whooo!

The holy basil really stands out.

mortlock · December 30, 2019, 10:28:23 PM

my plan for new years eve is to go to my local bar and grill and have a few drinks and grab some take out.
im going to get the angus beef 1/2 lb bacon bleu burger. crumbly on top creamy on the side. they make their own homemade bleu cheese. it so fucking good. especially for dipping fries into. if im not too hammered by the time i eat it ill try and remember to get a pic.

RAGER · January 02, 2020, 06:01:42 PM

Went to Lardo yesterday.

Hot fried chicken sandwich and dirty fries.

mortlock · January 03, 2020, 12:25:49 AM

got way too hammered and failed to get a pic.

RAGER · January 04, 2020, 02:54:28 PM

Laap muu again with veggies but this time I made nam prik kung. It's a nam prik but with shrimp. Few ways to do it. You can slow roast almost dry whole shrimp in the oven or you can quickly cook peeled shrimp or use dried whole shrimp. Either way y pound them with the other ingredients to make the nam prik. I use dried whole shrimp and further pan roasted then put in spice grinder briefly so as to keep it kinda chunky. Then pounded it with the rest. Made nice chunky nam prik.

There's another kind I wanna try called nam prik kapi. Way too funky to take to work. It calls for kapi which is shrimp paste that you spastic for a few minutes. Maybe on my days off.

Muffin Man · January 06, 2020, 12:23:02 AM

"clubhouse special" - cast iron Veal piccata, pesto garlic butter potato, pickled asparagus, whisky soda

Jor el · January 06, 2020, 02:27:35 AM

YES

Muffin Man · January 06, 2020, 02:45:56 AM

YAY!

RAGER · January 06, 2020, 01:16:23 PM

My wife won't eat veal so I haven't made any in a while. It's even hard for me to sell a lamb dish in the house. Fucking forget about goat. Haven't had tacos de chivo in years.

RAGER · January 06, 2020, 02:22:54 PM

Lunch made and cooling to packed up for today. Gonna be good.

RAGER · January 11, 2020, 02:34:10 PM

Stuffed lemongrass stalks, jinhua ham, peas and rice, and a condiment of pickled lemongrass and shallots.

renfield · January 11, 2020, 03:09:01 PM

Third attempt at the funky korean cabbage. This time I added buchu, water dropwort, saeujeot, and an asian pear. Gonna let this shit get extra ripe.

RAGER · January 11, 2020, 04:04:54 PM

Looks like a proper kimchi. The shrimp should do what the lack of fish sauce would do unless you added fish sauce too.

renfield · January 11, 2020, 04:12:34 PM

Both fish sauce and shrimp, a la Maangchi.

RAGER · January 13, 2020, 10:14:51 AM

Naam phrik khaa

Puya chilis garlic galangal salt lemongrass and just a bit of fish sauce all pounded together in my Thai granite mortar. Then over low heat for about 45-1 hour you slowing stir it around and cook off any and all moisture until you have this dehydrated chunky mix. Great on everything including fruit.

RAGER · January 17, 2020, 01:49:47 PM

Fish sauce ribs and veggie noodle stir fry. Pretty much that lunch thing I posted above a week or so ago. Def a keeper. Thai Chinese fusion.

RAGER · January 17, 2020, 10:15:19 PM

Vacation mis en place. Yes that's a stiff ass rum drink.

renfield · January 18, 2020, 12:40:19 PM

I want some of that pineapple