Home cooking TOTALLY from scratch, and on a work night, no less... BOOM!

Video still won't post here grrrrr

From seed to tortilla!

My kids grew corn (maize) from seed, made masa, and then made tortillas!

I'm making a hearty soup for dinner.

Wait, I mean I'm in the kitchen building layers of flavor for dinner.

please boost!

been in a sort of #cooking slump the past few weeks, could use some inspiration. what's your favorite #recipe you like to share with people who don't like to cook? (i've got pretty much no dietary restrictions, although i am somewhat lactose intolerant)

thanks in advance!

First time making baba ganoush! #food #cooking #eggplant

developed a recipe for making my own breakfast sausages and i just had from this fresh batch. should have made 2 or maybe 3. i will never go back to store bought as long as i can make my own.

ps: i really love developing recipes. good thing i finally have, with Obsidian and our little kitchen blackboard, a way to capture & write down my mad scientist in the kitchen moments.

Vietnamese Cabbage & Chicken salad and braised soy eggplant donburi #Cooking

So wanted to use up some shallots… Cream of potato and shallot. Actually pretty tasty.

Finally cracked the code on cooking great northern beans in the pressure cooker.

Overnight soak, 3 min on high, then sit 10 min and release pressure.

Skins come off with the fast release but the actual beans are perfect.

Breakfast.

Today for dinner I was able to cook us a simple Teochew muay (Teochew porridge, very different from Cantonese congee. Kind of just water and rice but in a more precise water ratio). The goal of a Teochew muay is to have a plain canvas on which you can eat any number of savory sides.

It usually comes with a whole fish.

I did that, and a ‘ba chor nerng’ (omelette with ground pork). A side of veggies and ‘preserved olives and mustard leaves’.

Pretty much what my grandma cooked daily for lunch.

Being so far from home, little things like that ground me and give me a sense of home and self.

I wrote about the importance of this simple food here: https://popagandhi.com/posts/a-drinkable-history-of-my-family/

Two weeks ago I made the Scallion Pancake Breakfast Sandwiches recipe from J. Kenji Lopez-Alt’s _The Wok_ cookbook.

They were good. A little heavy, but I don’t mind that for breakfast. 4 stars ★★★★☆

https://orangegnome.com/posts/3446/scallion-pancake-breakfast-sandwiches

I spend a lot of time in the kitchen. I encourage kickstarter endeavors, but I don't want this frivolous AI contraption that also traps the user into buying their spices.

https://newatlas.com/around-the-home/smart-spice-dispenser/

I made Ukrainian borscht for the first time today using this recipe:
https://www.YouTube.com/watch?v=MSOVl9VRx7s

I'm quite pleased how it turned out but I want to add more beetroot tomorrow