This is a page with miscellaneous accounts of what goes on in the kitchen. May involve food. If you're looking for recipes, go to forkable recipes.
Made a Chinese-style scrambled eggs and tomato dish today to eat with leftover rice. I used chives with this recipe for the first time, and there was something very delightful about dropping a bunch of chopped chives into hot oil. I really enjoyed how my kitchen smelled for a solid minute before moving on.
Cooked spinach tortellini in butter with garlic, pine nuts, chili flakes and nutritional yeast. I did add a little bit of parmesan on top at the very end to it creamy, and then topped it off with hemp hearts. Turned out to be a spicy and hearty meal.
Used up a wedge from 2-week old cabbage to make a cabbage shakshouka. Also swapped out onions for shallots. It turned out pretty well. The rest of this very large cabbage is fermenting in a jar in my attempt to make sauerkraut. Not much progress has been made on that front, though I smell something sour in there. It's only day three.
Big produce haul from the farmer's market today. I roasted the carrots whole and then sliced them into thin, long strips. I then put them away in a box with vinegar, lemon juice and some spice. Then I used up leftover basil, cilantro and pecans to make a pesto for dinner. I added some mushrooms from the haul to it.
On my way home, I saw notices in the building about a water outage the next day. In preparation for it, I washed all the dirty dishes and then filled every empty jar, pot and bottle with water for the next day. I hope this is sufficient.
I needed to get rid of some overripe bananas, and decided to make banana bread on a whim. It really is as easy as they say it is. That said, I was taken aback by how ingredient-intensive it is. A whole stick of butter? Concerning. It turned out delicious though. I ate a couple of slices topped with raspberries.
Made some kimchi fried rice today. I needed to finish off an old shallot. I've had kimchi at home forever now, so it made perfect sense to put this together. Added two eggs for the protein. I used sesame oil and toasted sesame seeds as garnish, which turned out really well
Made a quick buckwheat soba today. Some chopped cucumber, scallion soy sauce and sesame oil. The weather has cooled down but not as much as I'd like. This was quick and good.