tuftears: Lynx in Chef's Hat (Cooking)
2019-12-29 09:31 pm
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Random Food 2019, Homemade and Restaurant

I deleted a bunch of 'regular' food images but here are some of those that survived the cut:

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tuftears: Lynx Wynx (Default)
2019-12-29 04:16 pm
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Dumplings making with my co-workers

Brace for impact... I'm finally getting around to unloading my camera pictures since I fell off the blogging boat mid-2018!

First up, my company had a dumplings-making workshop as a team-building/culture sort of thing. We didn't actually make the dumpling skins, which I had kind of hoped we would, just the filling, according to the recipes they gave. Some select pictures...

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tuftears: Lynx in Chef's Hat (Cooking)
2018-05-27 08:27 pm

Food Catchup, May Edition

You may have heard me mention Curry House before - well, guess what, they had a special, curry ramen! (from now until end of June) While Jared and BoingDragon were out here, we headed down to Curry House to sample their offerings.

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tuftears: Lynx in Chef's Hat (Cooking)
2018-04-22 10:12 pm

Food Catchup, April Edition

A couple of homemade dishes, and one decently tasty restaurant meal, courtesy of Revar!

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tuftears: Lynx in Chef's Hat (Cooking)
2018-03-24 08:09 pm

Homemade Keema Curry, General Tso's Meatballs, and Orange Beef with Kale

Okay, by popular request (one or two), it's time for a couple of recipes!

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tuftears: Lynx in Chef's Hat (Cooking)
2017-12-25 01:13 pm

Meowy Kitsmas! With Applesauce Carrot Cupcakes!

Meowy Kitsmas, y'all!

In lieu of a family get-together (most of the relatives are away in SoCal and such) I baked myself some applesauce carrot cupcakes to go with my omelette today. This time, I didn't use cupcake liners. "Tufty," I told myself. "You have non-stick cupcake pans. Why don't you trust them to do their thing?"

... It worked. :)

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tuftears: Lynx in Chef's Hat (Cooking)
2017-11-04 05:56 pm

Cooking Experiment: Vegetable Gravies with Meatballs, Pan-Fried Noodles, and Chicken Katsu

I was browsing the web for substitutes that could be used to make tastier gravy and hit upon an interesting idea: blended vegetables. I'd seen vegetable purees before but they never seemed that relevant as side dishes. They had virtually no texture, making them boring to eat.

But... What if I used them as gravies?

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tuftears: Lynx in Chef's Hat (Cooking)
2017-09-29 09:30 pm

Food Experiment: Homemade Keema Chicken Curry

Here's a good experiment! You might recall I'm a fan of Curry House's "keema curry" which is a mix of ground beef with various vegetables, on rice and served with a soft-boiled egg or fried eggs on top. I decided to try making much the same, but this time with chicken thighs to make the recipe slightly healthier.

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tuftears: Lynx in Chef's Hat (Cooking)
2017-08-12 06:42 pm

Random Food Snaps part 1: 85C Breads, Gotts's Impossible Burger, Mike's Chicken Ramen

It's been a few weeks of random food photos. Let's start with the food I didn't (strictly speaking) cook.

First off, we have a couple unusual "bread" items sold at a Taiwan bakery chain that has a few shops out here, 85C:

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tuftears: Lynx in Chef's Hat (Cooking)
2017-07-02 07:00 pm

Cooking Experiment: Oyakodon (ersatz)

Every now and then I get an urge to try making Japanese cuisine. This time it's the Oyakodon - literally the 'parent and child bowl', so named because it features a chicken and egg together.

Well, this isn't really an oyakodon; practically speaking it's just inspired by the concept. I don't know anything about making Japanese dashi, but I do know how to make a chicken stirfry!

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tuftears: Lynx in Chef's Hat (Cooking)
2017-05-29 06:24 pm

Cooking: Memorial Day BBQ for One

Happy Mew-More-Y'all Day!

It being a week before I go on a trip to Italy with [identity profile] dracosphynx.livejournal.com, I regretfully decided against going to one of the cons in the area or friends' BBQs - last thing I want is to be battling sickness while on the plane! So I cooked myself some BBQ-ish food.

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tuftears: Lynx in Chef's Hat (Cooking)
2017-05-20 08:34 pm

Food Catchup: Kung Pao Chicken Tacos, Chorizo Fried Rice, and Meatloaf

After a friend posted on Twitter about General Tso's chicken burritos and other acts of Chinese-Mexican fusion cuisine, I thought I'd give it a try...

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tuftears: Lynx in Chef's Hat (Cooking)
2017-05-06 09:42 pm

Random cooking notes to myself

* Bake bacon in oven at 425 degrees for 15 minutes, not 20. 20 gives you almost charcoal.
* Bake Trader Joe's Apple Blooms at 400 degrees for 25 minutes, not 350 degrees at 15. It's still icy in the middle otherwise.
* After boiling ramen noodles, bake them at 400 degrees for 50 minutes, shaped in individual portion discs or squares, for making delicious "pan-fried" noodle stirfries.
* Make microwave popcorn easily: 1/4 cup of popcorn kernels at 2:30 minutes in the microwave in a safe bowl with cover, with 2 teaspoons of ghee or butter-flavored olive oil and a dash of salt mixed in.

Feel free to pop any cooking questions you have but I don't guarantee to know the answers. -_-
tuftears: Lynx in Chef's Hat (Cooking)
2017-03-25 07:28 pm

Food Catchup: Impossible Burger, Zucchini Noodles, and Other Things

Let me lead off with the one you're probably going to find the most interesting: science has perfected a vegetarian burger that looks and tastes very much like the real thing! This is the Impossible Burger. Unfortunately it's only available at a handful of restaurants, and apparently not yet commercially purchasable.

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tuftears: Lynx in Chef's Hat (Cooking)
2017-02-20 05:19 am

Food Catchup, Featuring Ersatz Okonomiyaki and Bacon Cheeseburgers

Time to catch up on food pictures I've taken on my phone but haven't uploaded immediately for various reasons!

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tuftears: Lynx in Chef's Hat (Cooking)
2016-10-23 09:21 pm
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Cooking Catchup: Turkey Meatloaf (x2), Sweet Pepper Jelly Chicken, Mexican Lasagna, Fresh Pineapple

I've been distracted with Legion, WoW's latest expansion, but I've been catching up with various things-- bills, mail-in ballot voting-- and now it's time to catch up on photos! So here, have some pics of food.

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tuftears: Lynx in Chef's Hat (Cooking)
2016-07-29 04:13 pm
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Random Food

This is the 'miscellany' part of my catch-up. :) Next up, the Asian Art Museum!

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