Thank you 
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The tea brined chicken was a huge success. Big flavors, really well balanced. It had tea, ginger, garlic, onion, lime, tamari, habanero hot sauce and brown sugar in the brine (brined 24 hours.) I ended up cooking the chicken in the instant pot with 2 cups of the brine (due to rain.) When finished I took the chicken out to cool and reduced the brine/ drippings. In a skillet I sauteed zucchini and oyster mushrooms and added the cooked udon noodles, added the chopped dark meat chicken and ladled in some reduced brine. We topped it with Momofuku Ssam sauce. No leftovers.
Next time I’ll bbq but roasted would work, too- the skin was a really nice mahogany color.
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Sounds good. I sometimes smoke duck breasts/meat or salmon in an old wok with orange pekoe. In Peking I had prawns cooked or boiled in Longjin tea.
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Which tea have you used?
Indoor or outdoor cooking? Made this for neighbours at a bbq lunch, a success.
Shredded chicken in wasabi sauce. Poached chicken breast in hot water for 15 minutes. Chopped finely carrots, yellow peppers, bamboo shoots, scallions, pickled ginger and bean sprouts. Tossed with shredded chicken, toasted sesames, and truite roe. Dressing: oyster sauce, sugar, sesame oil, chicken powder, dark soy sauce and wasabi.
Finished with a few pastries.
Yesterday was Ecuadorian tripe stews Guatita, thanks to the recipe of @PHREDDY 's MIL. I made some Cebollas encurtidas or pickled onions with this recipe but used shallots instead of red onions, as they are too sweet compared to their small red onions. Served with avocado and rice.
I like it, maybe I would like the 1 hour cooking of tripe extended, since I like them really soft. And more sauce too. Actually I hardly felt the peanut butter, it was very subtle. Mr. n was disoriented though.
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Reheated for lunch, added more cooking water to the stew, and this looked more like the right consistency. Difficult to concentrate on cooking when there was Top Chef on TV! Wow, the Belgian chef works in consulat in Tokyo was eliminated! The level of this year’s candidates are good!
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I understand. I am patting your hand from afar.
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Indoor.
Failed making fresh pasta. Luckily had ALDI brand “fresh” egg pasta in the fridge. With olive oil, garlic, asparagus, shrimp, and pesto. Pasta was a bit heavy but could’ve eaten it all day.
Late night stress baking. Clockwise from top: bars with dark chocolate brownie on bottom, milk chocolate-peanut butter-krispie cereal layer on top; white chocolate cake with lemon glaze; and vanilla cupcakes.
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What happened with your pasta? I’ve had pretty good luck with homemade pasta in the past. I have had issues if I don’t let it rest long enough.
Just some black tea I had here, I had a cold this week so I was working with what I had already here- you could vary the flavor with different teas and use different brine ingredients that complement different teas for different results. It would be a fun experiment.
I had planned to cook a pork stirfry, based on a Nigel Slater recipe. However, due to unforeseen circumstances, that has been put on hold. I had not “foreseen” that I needed to defrost the pork and to buy several ingredients.
In its place, a supermarket steak & ale pie, oven chips and peas.
I am organised for tomorrow - brown gloop in the form of ham and goose ragu I made with Christmas leftovers is already defrosting.
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That’s usually a cause for a complete switch-up for what you’re planning to cook. BTDT.
Sounds excellent
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Was it sweet tea?
Noooooo. I’m not a fan of sweet tea. I only added enough brown sugr for balance, it wouldn’t have been considered sweet at all.
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today is last day for our visitor from Amsterdam , so we had an early dinner, late lunch 
2 large pieces of thick halibut that was smeared with Costco’s pesto, wrapped in heavy foil, grilled on propane stove until the skin of the halibut was charred . To serve, since most of the pesto has dissolved , we added pesto on the side. Picture show
s the halibut that was still in the foil, all broken up with no evidence of pesto but it was GOOD!
This was served with Chinese veg, Yu Choy stir fried with EVOO, lots of garlic, S/P, soy sauce, cider vinegar, cracked red pepper and Shiau Xing wine.
Dessert is the left over apple pie and tres leches 
One is from local vineyard that my son and his friends visited this past Sunday.
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best wishes to you taking care of your parents! grumpy/old/sick people are emotionally and physically difficult to deal with, i know. glad you have sister to help.
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It was too dry/grainy. The recipe was with egg. I added some water but it never looked smooth. I cooked it anyway and the texture was terrible. Unlike bread, I don’t make fresh pasta often. Just need more practice I guess. Recipe was written for AP flour, but I used 00. Will follow recipe exactly next time.
I noticed that! I had them in the freezer, so who knows what shenanigans I had been up to! I DO seem to remember trying some faux smoked thing from Kenji.
