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[Killer Goldfish]

[Killer Goldfish]

[Juniper]

Had a one two knock off of successful cooking attempts with a first attempt at tamales sticking the landing, and even better making a version of those scallion noodles from the viral NYT recipe. Alas tragedy struck when I thought adding the cooking oil to the beef and mashed potato patties for tonight's dinner would add an incredible boost of flavor. Instead they came out tasting of musky, skunky used cooking oil. Well, live and learn.

[Killer Goldfish]

[Dr. Kobb]

I bet you that cures EVERYTHING. 

[Killer Goldfish]

I never knew this existed until Campbell's discontinued it...thank Christ!



Fucking slimy-ass tripe soup with lots of peppers in it.

[Marxo Grouch]

I bought some parsley and some scallions in anticipation of making a Tunisian chickpea stew. Naturally, the weather has just taken a turn for the humid, making the idea of slow cooking something less desirable. I may still very well make it, but either way, I have a tendency to buy bunches of green products only to have significant portions of them turn to slime before I have a chance to use them. I am determined that that will not happen with these two particular bunches of scallions/parsley, so I'm adding them to anything I can think of. Made a standard chicken salad the other night that came out markedly better than usual, largely because of the scallions.

[El Santo]

I'm not sure what to call this stuff, exactly.  It's based on a recipe for char shue ding, but it has to be something else ding, because Juniper won't eat pork, and I substituted beef instead.

If you have a wok, you should use that.  But I don't, so I dumped the following into my biggest frying pan, all diced:

1.  A yellow onion of modest size
2.  The equivalent volume in celery
3.  The equivalent volume in carrots
4.  A small can of chopped water chestnuts
5.  A small can of whole roasted almonds

Stir-fried the lot in soybean oil until the onion fumes stopped burning my eyes, then added about a pound of shredded beef.

Stir-fried some more until the beef was browned, then added:

1.  About 2-3 fluid ounces of soy sauce
2.  About 2-3 fluid ounces of sherry
3.  About a jigger of hoisin sauce

Stir-fried some more until the liquid was all blended and the beef was thoroughly cooked, then sprinkled with sesame seeds.

I had planned to serve it over lo mein, but it turned out to be so much goddamned food that the noodles weren't really necessary.

[Killer Goldfish]

Good Christ!

www.reddit.com/r/StupidFood/comments/156rk8h/would_you_dew_it/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=android_app&utm_name=androidcss&utm_term=1&utm_content=1

[Killer Goldfish]

https://www.reddit.com/r/nope/comments/15g3yc8/what_the_bloody_hell_is_this/

[El Santo]

This one needs some tweaking, since the alcohol didn't quite cook off the way I wanted it to, but even the first-draft version turned out damned good.

Combine the following in a mid-sized, lidded mixing bowl, and whisk until thoroughly mixed:

1.  About 4 ounces of molasses
2.  A jigger of bourbon
3.  However much powdered cayenne pepper you can handle

Add a couple chicken breast filets to the bowl, and let sit.

When the meat seems sufficiently marinated, cook over moderate heat in a frying pan, together with all the liquid that didn't get soaked up.


Avenues for further experimentation:

1.  A little less bourbon?
2.  A somewhat weaker bourbon?  (I used Maker's Mark, which is 90 proof.)
3.  Less time soaking in the marinade?  (I threw everything together before going to bed last night, and didn't start cooking until almost 7:00 this evening.)
4.  Higher heat to vaporize the alcohol more thoroughly?

[Mayzshon]

Eating some Andy Capp Ranch fries when it occurred to me that there's almost a whole subcategory of food that consists junk food imitating other junk food.

[Killer Goldfish]

Jul 6, 2023 14:58:17 GMT -5 El Santo said:

I'm not sure what to call this stuff, exactly.  It's based on a recipe for char shue ding, but it has to be something else ding, because Juniper won't eat pork, and I substituted beef instead.

If you have a wok, you should use that.  But I don't, so I dumped the following into my biggest frying pan, all diced:

1.  A yellow onion of modest size
2.  The equivalent volume in celery
3.  The equivalent volume in carrots
4.  A small can of chopped water chestnuts
5.  A small can of whole roasted almonds

Stir-fried the lot in soybean oil until the onion fumes stopped burning my eyes, then added about a pound of shredded beef.

Stir-fried some more until the beef was browned, then added:

1.  About 2-3 fluid ounces of soy sauce
2.  About 2-3 fluid ounces of sherry
3.  About a jigger of hoisin sauce

Stir-fried some more until the liquid was all blended and the beef was thoroughly cooked, then sprinkled with sesame seeds.

I had planned to serve it over lo mein, but it turned out to be so much goddamned food that the noodles weren't really necessary.

But it sounds dang good.

[Dr. Kobb]

Aug 27, 2023 13:16:08 GMT -5 Mayzshon said:

Eating some Andy Capp Ranch fries when it occurred to me that there's almost a whole subcategory of food that consists junk food imitating other junk food.

Not quite the same, but I used to have a postal contact who reviewed chicharrones in his zine.  People sent in bags of their area favorites for review.

[Killer Goldfish]

Sleeping without a pillow is really changing things for me. Instead of resting all weekend because I was too worn out to do anything, I went out and trimmed trees, weeded, put down some mulch, shopped, AND made a whole-ass dinner with a chicken-and-rice stewlike thing and what turned out to be a delicious peach cobbler I found on Pinterest. I added spices but next time will use less sugar on top. And now I'm going to get on the stairstepper to walk off some of those calories. I DO NOT HAVE A HEADACHE!

[Dr. Kobb]

Aug 27, 2023 19:48:58 GMT -5 Killer Goldfish said:

Sleeping without a pillow is really changing things for me. Instead of resting all weekend because I was too worn out to do anything, I went out and trimmed trees, weeded, put down some mulch, shopped, AND made a whole-ass dinner with a chicken-and-rice stewlike thing and what turned out to be a delicious peach cobbler I found on Pinterest. I added spices but next time will use less sugar on top. And now I'm going to get on the stairstepper to walk off some of those calories. I DO NOT HAVE A HEADACHE!

I feel like I'm missing some context here.  So, you recently switched to not using a pillow to sleep at night and from what I gather it's been a game changer in terms of rest and health? 

[Dr. Kobb]

Apr 21, 2023 19:54:26 GMT -5 Killer Goldfish said:

No.  Absolutely not. 

[Killer Goldfish]

Aug 27, 2023 19:54:07 GMT -5 Dr. Kobb said:

Aug 27, 2023 19:48:58 GMT -5 Killer Goldfish said:

Sleeping without a pillow is really changing things for me. Instead of resting all weekend because I was too worn out to do anything, I went out and trimmed trees, weeded, put down some mulch, shopped, AND made a whole-ass dinner with a chicken-and-rice stewlike thing and what turned out to be a delicious peach cobbler I found on Pinterest. I added spices but next time will use less sugar on top. And now I'm going to get on the stairstepper to walk off some of those calories. I DO NOT HAVE A HEADACHE!

I feel like I'm missing some context here.  So, you recently switched to not using a pillow to sleep at night and from what I gather it's been a game changer in terms of rest and health? 

Yes. I actually had the energy to do all that.

[Dr. Kobb]

Aug 28, 2023 12:30:52 GMT -5 Killer Goldfish said:

Aug 27, 2023 19:54:07 GMT -5 Dr. Kobb said:

I feel like I'm missing some context here.  So, you recently switched to not using a pillow to sleep at night and from what I gather it's been a game changer in terms of rest and health? 

Yes. I actually had the energy to do all that.

But was it specifically from losing the pillow?  Because I sleep with five pillows and feel like a lazy shit most of the time. 

[Killer Goldfish]