Get bored with regular potatoes sitting around in a stew? Grate ’em, press ’em, mix with breadcrumbs, onions (didn’t have them so scallions it was) and egg, and fry them until golden brown. Could’ve used less egg, but the crispy crust was sublime. Hm, I should try the ones I have left with some smoked salmon.
Update: Yup, smoked salmon unsurprisingly works as well. served with some spinach and a spicy dill mayo.
If you can’t go on vacation you gotta bring the vacation to you. Continuing my streak of frying things I decided to tackle a staple of far away sunny lands, croquetas with chorizo. Trickier than I thought. Harf of them turned out well, harf of them started falling apart. All of them were very tasty though. To make amends for the harf/harf outcome and to complete the picture, I poured myself a glass of iced Patxaran. Cheers.
Crispy on the outside, creamy on the inside, whoever invented those deserves a high five.
I was in the mood for something crispy, so it ended up being panko fried turkey tenders. Served with a spicy miso cocktail sauce, hmm. The roasted broccoli is strictly for easing my health conscience.
The pecorino is traditional, but using chorizo is not, fusion cooking?
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Who said that stuff has to be sweet? Blend some eggs with onion, parmesan cheese, herbs and melted butter, dunk the bread and fry ’em up. It’s kinda like Knödel in rectangular form when you think about it.
In all the boredom Alduhir decided to gather the group together to play a game or something, I dunno, it sounded like you pick roles and roll dice or something, and since he mentioned that it might go long I wanted to make sure people are well fed. Playing games while hangry is a mortal sin.
Huh, I’ve never baked two loaves of bread in one day before, and it’s pretty challenging to juggle the timing. Because once you throw the yeast in it’s on, and only a matter of time until that fungus has consumed all the flour. Sounds kinda weird when you spell it out like that but the end result is some nice and airy bread. Well, after you do the preferment, autolyse, mix in the salt, bulk proof, do stretch & folds to develop gluten, preshape, bench rest, shape, final proof, score and bake in a blazingly hot oven (lovely on a warm late summer day like this), and THEN, you hopfully get some nice, airy bread with a bubbly, crispy crust. Timing is everything, the first loaf went harf an hour *glug* over, and it didn’t rise as nicely as the second one.
So wait, what are the game rules again?
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The prep for this is more low and slow than one would think. Start duck breast in a cold pan to render the fat and get a crispy skin, cook noodles, drain, spread out to dry, fry slowly until crisp as well, time everything right with the veggies and make a nice sauce with the pan drippings until you can finally combine everything to a layered dish. Whew.
I’m sure there’s a part of the dwarven community that will curse me for doing this, but I wanted to mix some whisky into the sauce and felt like the taste was too sharp, so I cooked off some alcohol off. And you know what? It’s kinda nice, but still somewhat overbearing. But the textural mix of streusel, cake, nuts and ice cream was good, so that’s that.
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Soo, idiot me forgot to grease the baking form, so rather than nice rectangular cakes I ended up with what looks like a modern art piece, or one of them odd rock formations you find in the Southeast of Niflheim. Nevermind, that caramelized white chocolate miso stuff is tasty!
In its most simple form mostly avocado, onions and salt, season with lemon and sugar to taste. The thing is, preparation matters and if you mush the onions in a mortar it gets a more distinct onion flavor, something about broken cell walls and enzymes, so I dug out my trusty granite mortar and pestle. Served the guacamole in a cheeseburger. I have a fondness for cheeseburgers, can you tell? Shoutout to Quiz for the original inspiration.
