Lots of meals to report on.
Tonight - Bibimbap, because I finally found gochujang online at the grocery store!
Components - bulgogi-style ground beef (using beyond burger for the vegetarians), plus seasoned broccoli, spinach, shiitake mushrooms, cabbage, and carrots. Base of either white rice or a mix of brown rice and quinoa. And the sauce, of course - gochujang based.
The most delicious Monday we’ve had in a while!
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We had a busy weekend with a landmark birthday for my sibling.
Very small and simple but happy celebrations each day - all outdoors, each with a neighbor. Kind of neighbors to host - each set are elderly and being very careful, and we are the only people they feel safe seeing physically given our own isolation through this. Of course, it was all still outdoors, distanced, and masked when not eating. Thankful to have weather than enables outdoor engagement.
First night was italian takeout, grilled shrimp, and kobe beef. Second night was grilled vegetables and grilled porterhouse steaks. Third day was indian food - some cooked by neighbors and some by the lady who cooks for us sometimes.
I made my well-practiced-at-this-point-in-the-pandemic chocolate ganache cake for the actual birthday - a bigger version given the larger audience. Ganache finally turned out exactly the way I like it, bit soft and glossy. My best cake this year: I was very pleased. Kids were into decorating - I was only the technical helper.
I also made a tiny cake for candles to be blown out on - I’m still scarred by the memory of a birthday we hosted back in April where the birthday boy blew out candles and we all ate the cake before realizing what had just happened. SHUDDERS.
CA is now back in lockdown, so it was a good weekend to squeeze in a birthday.
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End of the weekend dinner - yellow tomato soup (frozen yellow cherry tomatoes from my crop) and grilled cheese (homemade Pullman loaf).
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Some other meals from last week:
Mexican takeout - pork chilli verde and fixins:
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South Indian at home - idli, masala dosa, chutney, sambhar
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Indian comfort food series - Khichdi (rice and lentils cooked together, risotto texture), dhokla (steamed rice and lentil cake), puranpoli (stuffed sweet flatbread):
