I'm actually posting this on Friday for a change ( Read more... )

On Thursday I accidentally cooked a pot roast. The accidental part was that I had originally intended to cook beef rendang, but then at the last second I found that I didn't have enough lemongrass. Nor did I have the time or energy to go out and buy more lemongrass, but the beef had been thawing in the fridge for a couple of days and needed to be ( Read more... )

I spent a lot of my weekend (i.e. Wednesday and Thursday) cooking. I roasted a chicken on Wednesday and made chicken stock from the backbone--which I had cut out to roast the chicken flat--the giblets, and a bunch of accumulated chicken bones in the freezer, all simmered in a mixture of water and some commercial chicken broth. If I'd had meaty ( Read more... )

Today I cooked the pork and kimchi stir-fry I mentioned before. SO GOOD. I've never used gochujang before, but now I want it in everythingA few notes: I halved the recipe, although I probably used about a cup of kimchi, in part because I like kimchi and in part because the original recipe calls for such a large amount of meat to a small amount of ( Read more... )

I haven't cooked anything of huge interest since last time, but yesterday, inspired by The Guardian's discussion of a proper cream tea and by strawberries being on sale for 98 cents a pound, I made the closest American equivalent of a scone with cream and jam: strawberry shortcake.

I modified this recipe for lemon shortcakes with strawberries a ( Read more... )

Something I've cooked recently: Lack of cash means I'm relying on things I had on hand. This can have the pleasant side-effect of making me cook more creatively. Today I improvised a tagine-ish chicken dish.

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I've been reading a ton of Stargate: Atlantis (McShep) and Captain American fic lately. I've had an intense craving for m/m but without the complications of reading fic in fandoms I know well and/or care about. Trouble is, satisfying that craving has given me massive cravings for certain foods, because apparently SGA in particular is a very food- ( Read more... )

Yesterday I finally baked the boiled-orange cake I've been wanting to try. I used Nigella Lawson's clementine cake recipe, more or less, and although I made a ridiculous number of modifications it turned out very nice ( Read more... )

Are people still doing Recipe Friday? Regardless, it's Friday and I wanted to post about cooking ( Read more... )

I thought I'd post the results of Project Pizza right away rather than waiting for the next Recipe Friday, partly because I want to note all this while it's fresh in my mind and partly because I thought you might be curious ( Read more... )