What's for Dinner #43 - 03/2019 - the SMarch Edition

We also had other sauces with the fish and the chicken, but I thought this sounded good, so I made it, too. We all liked it.

Do you make them yourself, where do you usually get your inspirations?

Great, I have some coconut milk that I don’t know what to do with it. Will make some for lunch.

My Sunday was feeling so weird, the after effect of swollen gum from the spicy Korean seafood and tofu stew confirmed I can’t eat too spicy. I had the same problem once when travelling in Malaysia. Anyway packed the remaining stew and off to the freezer… Maybe husband could finish it.

Yesterday was mulet with roasted broccoli. The fish was cooked with fish stock, butter and lemon sealed in aluminum for 10 minutes then a few more minutes with white wine and grilled for 4 last minutes. A brown butter sauce was made on stove. Recipe here.

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Good, except the fish was small.

Also want to improve some knife skills, so decide to make some “sashimi” from black sea bream, fish was small, so I kept the skin. MISTAKE! The skin was too fatty and thick… nearly inedible.

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There are some reasons why great sushi and sashimi is so expensive. :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

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Yes, I’ve been making my own kombucha for a few years now! Honestly has made my tummy LOVE me, and I think the probiotics are part of why I just don’t get sick. My favorite flavor is lemon/ginger which is kind of boring but I perfected that flavor combo and get great bubbles with it (some flavors it is hard to get the second ferment carbonation)
The NOMA book had a lemon maple combo that sounded interesting so I played with that a little to flavor the bottles for the second ferment (didn’t want to waste so much maple $yrup on using it for first ferment which needs a lot of sugars to feed the scoby)

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Thanks for your explanation. I’m reading the Noma book now, it’s quite fascinating how all those microbes are working.

Sorry, a bit more questions. How do you keep a scoby in standby, for example if you need to go away. Is it possible to keep that alive for a month?

Since you make the drink regularly, how many copies of scoby do you keep for different flavors?

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I have had some trouble when i travel and the scoby is left alone a while - mostly in winter it gets too cold and can “die” which happened to me at the holidays this year. If you leave the scoby in a small amount of the kombucha tea at warm-ish room temp it’s fine a month alone.

My method differs from noma method- i make a big batch of “basic” kombucha first, just the tea/sugar/scoby mix to ferment. Then i introduce flavor when bottling for second ferment, so i could make 12 different flavor bottles if i wanted. I haven’t tried to introduce flavor at the first ferment, just not how i learned to make it- and i think also that scoby is limited in the future since it will absorb that flavor? I am tempted to make the apple kombucha recipe, may try that with some of excess scoby i have since now mine is healthy and reproducing a lot

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naf - nope. Bought them. I have never attempted dolmas and probably never will. They seem like something I should leave in the hands of the pros.

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Thx again. I’m curious about the apple and the coffee one in the Noma book.

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Tried a new low-carb pizza crust recipe last night with limited success. Partially my fault, because I used it to make a deep dish pizza and I think it really needed to be par-baked (which I didn’t do). I’ll try it again with some tweaking, but at least the filling was delicious!

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Solo parenting this week while my husband is gallivanting through the west snowboarding. I take my hat off to true single parents. This is not for wimps! Thank goodness for my in-laws and being able to watch the little one because our daycare closed (AGAIN) for 2 inches of snow. EYE ROLL.

That being said, we have been eating a variety of random meals that can be thrown together quickly. I have a gap between meetings this afternoon and will try to prep up some sort of udon noodle stir fry.

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Hang in there! I remember cooking once and eating beans for a week when I parented alone.:joy:

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Neither one of us seems motivated to rattle those pots and pans tonight, so we agreed to invite Marie Callender to cater dinner. It’ll be a serving each of the 15 oz boxes of Chicken Pot Pies.

No photos will be submitted.

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No shame in that (says the person who ate hot brownies with an igloo bar and called it a complete balanced dinner)!

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It’s really not that hard

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Tonight I made bibimbap with this bulgogi recipe and Aldi’s carne picada: https://www.paintthekitchenred.com/instant-pot-korean-beef/

A repeat! Veg were sesame carrots and zucchini with sweet soy and ginger mushrooms with ponzu, leftover walnut pickled cukes, and bought kimchi. Rice a mix of jasmine and cauliflower.

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Looks delicious! Love bibimbap, but often fall short on the variety of vegetables that make it so delicious.

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It’s still soup (and soupy) weather over here… Loose interpretation of Tom Kha Gai with the leftover chicken and stock from Hainanese chicken. Added broccoli slaw to make it more substantial, but forgot the mushrooms.

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OMG!!! YOU REALLY DID?
(please tell me was it good?)

It looks warm and comforting…
Tonight It is grilled porterhouse, red beans and some vegetable fried rice.

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This pic made me hungry immediately after I ate

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