Our current mode of home cooking.

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IT’S TIME TO DECIDE!
🍚 vs 🍟
Rice Cooker VS Air Fryer - your counter only has space for one, CHOOSE WISELY, MY CHILD!

#Boost Appreciated!

#poll #ricecooker #airfryer #cooking #food

Regarding the cold noodles. If you can't get soba noodles. Any similarly sized (spaghetti) noodles will do. Just boil them until aldente, and then rinse them in cold water, then in the ice bath. (I find vermicelli type noodles a little thin - they clump up in the sauce)

For accompanying veggies, anything will work. Just make sure they're cut thin so they wrap around the noodles. Carrots, celery, green or red pepper strips, courgettes, blanched broccoli, cauliflower, beans, asparagus #cooking

Did that coffee liquor brown sugar honey mix I usually do to make a sort of taffy, but I added in some caramel maccchiato creamer and vanilla extract and Oh my god! it's amazing! turned out making a hard candy instead of a taffy tho will need to learn more how to adjust texture #cooking #candymaking #candy

Ginny, hon, you're gonna burn the house down if you don't stop overpacking the air fryer basket! 😲 🔥 😅

Don't be like Ginny.
Learn to cook before using an air fryer.
And consider taking a home safety course too!

#wtf #humor #AirFryer #fire #cooking #catalog

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Aubergine Caponata.

First time making this as some aubergines were going cheap at the market. Sadly, I didn't have any salty capers to add but improvised with a few tiny dried anchovies blitzed with the tomatoes & dash of white wine for passata. The recipe also called for raisins but I left these out completely. Anyone else heard of raisins in an Aubergine Caponata?

The picture is atrocious and really doesn't pick up the red of the tomatoes but this is yummy if I do say so myself. Serving with homemade panini bread and olive oil.

Not all my apples are used for cider. I spared enough to make a very good tarte Tatin this afternoon.

#Cider #TarteTatin #Cooking

Wow! For a first attempt at cashew “mozzarella” this didn’t turn out half bad!

It slices okay with a serrated knife, is almost free of taste (so I’ll have to work with that next time), it’s stretchy almost like freshly-made mozzarella, and it MELTS a bit when you reheat it.

I am freezing one to see how that affects the texture and tomorrow I’ll make a caprese salad for lunch with some of the other one. So, photos of that to come. Woo! #Vegan #Cheese #Cooking #PlantBased

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Again, attempting to make jellies for the first time hence the small batches. Unless I change my mind about making the blueberry, lemon and basil jelly, this tiny batch of hot red pepper jelly is the last variety for the Christmas give aways.

Note to self so I remember how I made this marinade/dressing-

2 Tbsp Pomegranate Molasses
1 Tbsp Balsamic Vinegar
1 Tbsp Xaoxing Rice Wine
1 tsp Dried Tarragon
1 tsp Garlic paste
1/2 tsp Sumac

Fresh Cracked Pepper- to taste
Sea Salt- to taste

1-2 Tbsp Olive Oil

Whisked together, olive oil added, then whisked again.

Currently being used as a marinade for chicken thighs to be roasted with brussel sprouts & carrots for dinner tonight.

#cooking #homecooking #dinner #homemademarinade

Hilarious article in the New Yorker about kitchen gadgets. We actually USE our electric pressure cooker, ice-cream maker (Lello Mousso is a wonderful machine!), bread maker (Zojirushi) a LOT! We no longer buy bread or ice-cream. It's been wonderful. I use the pressure cooker for Indian cooking mostly.

https://www.newyorker.com/news/afterword/the-instant-pot-and-the-miracle-kitchen-devices-of-yesteryear

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I love it when I have something cooking away for hours in the oven, and the smell slowly seeps through my flat.

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Which company makes a good thick chicken wild rice soup that takes like restaurant quality?

Today, I am trying X.O brand green curry paste. I've never used it before, but Malaga was all out of every other brand (that wasn't something western with suspicious ingredients in it).

I usually get Mae Ploy or Cock brand, but I couldn't get my hands on any. So this is it. I'll report back on what it's like. #cooking #greencurry

Today in BoneQuest History for August 26th 2017 "CHEMICALS AND HEAVY METALS" https://bonequest.com/6744 #bonequest :pants: :spigot: #adjectives #cooking #double_entendre #gay #pants_spigot #science #sfw

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Getting a jump start on some Christmas gifts.
Apple and Pear Cardomom Jelly. Mmm, can just imagine this with a great scoop of goat's cheese.

#introduction

Reintroducing myself so those folks whose posts I have commented on don't think that I am some kind of nutter. 😉

I left the BlueBird site the day EM took the reins last year. I went from teens to 20s in the #80s and other than here, I don't "do" social media. Not because I don't understand it, I just really can't be bothered to watch TikTok vids, Instagram my food or FB long forgotten school chums.

Canadian by birth, lived in #England for close to 20 yrs before coming back to Canada over a decade ago. I miss my adoptive home. I have 2 great adult children and could talk all day about #kdramas #books #cinema #sewing #cooking #travel #80smusic. I also consider myself a pretty good #pubquiz team member.

Chose my since passed beloved 13yr old Doodle as my profile pic.

Today's dinner. Dumplings with sausage casserole. Chopped browned Cumberland sausages, onion, leek, red pepper, garlic, Dijon mustard, thyme (because I ran out of rosemary), salt and pepper. #cooking

Last night's #cooking fail:

Holland House red wine vinegar and my preferred brand of toasted sesame oil come in similarly sized and almost identically shaped bottles.

I was making pizza sauce. It was not supposed to be sesame flavored pizza sauce.

DO YOUR DAMN MISE EN PLACE, KIDS.

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