Recipe please! Shrimp is still a no here for everyone under 37. 
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Yes, our mutual Staten Island friend from the other food forum.
that looks excellent! not surprising!
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Here’s the IP Taiwanese Beef Noodle Soup i made last night. Turned out great. I followed the recipe almost exactly, except less meat. I couldn’t find the little “spice packet” mentioned in the recipe at our local Asian grocery, so I made my own - luckily, i had all the ingredients. Really good, and easy.
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Ate a bit of leftovers early because I was starving - dal, the dregs of the beet curry, and ivy gourd.
Then on to more using-up-stuff before my upcoming trip.
I was going to make tsukune for the canceled dinner at my friends’ on Sunday so ground chicken needed using. Had also defrosted pork tenderloin that I’ve been intending to make but was lazy about marinating.
So. cut and marinated the pork using andrea nguyen’s vietnamese pork chop recipe. Then started on the tsukune, and decided to grate in a couple of zucchini that were close to being unusable. Common sense prevailed for a change, and I made patties using a scoop and my biggest pan - two batches and done. Made tare sauce, put all the patties back in the pan, and glazed them. At the end of all this realized I forgot to put in the egg and panko… well, phew that they didn’t fall part!
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Meatless Monday vegetable korma with cauliflower, potatoes, green peas, and chick peas. I enjoyed it better than the chicken/shrimp versions I make.
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Forgot - boiled peanuts! From the indian store visit last week, finally cleaned and boiled.
I didn’t know until a couple of years ago that this is a common snack across many cultures!
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I loosely followed this: https://www.africanbites.com/coconut-fried-rice/
I had coconut rice frozen from something else and left out the curry powder. Used broccoli instead of peas and didn’t add any broth. The soy sauce had enough salt. I’m sure would be fine vegetarian or with another protein.
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Mouthwatering! Recipe link handy?
Thanks!
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Last night was blackened chicken quesadillas with salsa and avocado, and various other leftovers. No pics.
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Boiled peanuts are a joy and brings back too many memories. That and oysters cracked open on the beach. Both a treasure inside
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Tsukune? Here’s what I did:
1 lb ground chicken (I usually use turkey, more flavorful)
Aromatics - 2” ginger, 2 big cloves garlic, 1/4 onion, 2 scallions
Seasoning - soy and sesame oil (2T each), s&p
Binders - 1 egg, 2T or so panko (both of which I forgot yesterday)
Optional - 1 finely grated zucchini
Mince the aromatics finely (in mini FP or grate onion and mince the rest by hand).
Mix everything well into the chicken - you want a very smooth mixture (“overmixed” for me). Check seasoning and adjust. Chill for a while.
Real cooking method - form into cylinders or balls, on skewers, grill or broil, basting often with tare sauce to glaze. (As you saw I was lazy yesterday and formed patties with a scoop, then poured the sauce over the cooked patties and let it reduce to a glaze).
Tare sauce:
1/4c soy
1/4c water
2T fish sauce or dashi (optional)
1T mirin
1T sake (I used shaoxing instead)
2-4T sugar or to taste (or honey)
1” ginger, grated
1 clove garlic, grated
Black pepper to taste
Simmer everything till it reduces to almost a glaze (it will thicken as it cools) - if going the basting route.
If you’re using the cheat method I did, reduce only halfway - the glaze will form while simmering with the patties.
(This sauce is amazing on mushrooms btw - esp wild).
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Oh yum, thanks!
Trying to keep our dinners a bit off beat over the past two weeks resulted in a plate of Detroit Coney Island hot dogs with Tots as a side. Flint (MI) does a riff off this called the… Flint Coney. And in upstate New York, it’s a Michigan.
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Simple dinner tonight: Trader Joe’s sausage and cheese ravioli with a diced tomato cream sauce, and sauteed spinach with Aleppo pepper.
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Tomato (and goat cheese) dressed with tomato (pico de gallo), Salvadorean sour cream
Pepper, potato and sausage “stew”
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I picked out a real nice T Bone steak from the local butcher. Cooked more rare than medium on ci skillet .One of those days of the year with ketchup on the side . Sauteed zucchini, side of beans . Cheers. 
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