I made a mess of greens — tung ho (chrysanthemum) — and I learned that tung hot should be cooked with a couple of days of getting it and that it should be cooked a very short time (or eaten raw) — in this case, add it at the end, and cook only a few minutes.
Hi I’m Nika (they/them) and my hobbies are gaming, cooking and baking, knitting and crocheting. I bake my own sourdough bread since 2015. I organise my life with a bullet journal.
I speak German and English.
My posts will be written in English most of the time.
I’m interested in #vegan#food, but not with ultra processed substitutions. I refer to this as #PlantPowered but that doesn’t seem to be an active tag here.
Any ideas what I can follow to tap into this type of #cooking ? Boost are appreciated.
It helped to soak the (intact, whole) grain for a few hours before cooking.
I started with 1 cup of grain, soaked it, drained it, added 2.5 cups water, and simmered covered until all water was absorbed. It's good, though next time I think I'll try 3 cups water.
I'm having some with perilla oil, TJ's Sriracha Seasoning, and smoked paprika. I'll probably use it like rice.
Wife came home the other day from King Arthur Flour, “I bought you a scone mix!”
😶
I don't mean to be ungrateful, but what's in a scone mix doesn’t help MAKE scones any easier. It's like saying, “I measured two cups of flour for you to make scones with!” 🙃
Traded homemade muffins for a bunch of these fruit. It’s a hybrid between trifoliate orange and Duncan grapefruit and can be used as a lemon substitute - it supposedly can grow in zone 7 so might be more convenient for northern growers rather than bring a 🍋 tree indoors.
Watered and sweetened to lemonade, you can definitely taste hints of grapefruit.
The problem with eating out at places when you're married to someone who cooks so well is not finding places that have food that's amazing but finding places that make food as well as she does. #cooking#diningout#restaurant#goingout
Another post about this cool book I'm currently reading: "The Sol Majestic" by Ferrett Steinmetz. Gotta love that name.
Have you ever wondered how a top-rated restaurant might function on a space station? Light years from any planet? Well, Ferrett Steinmetz thought about it and came up with:
-artificial gravity used to cook things using the heat generated by enormous planetary-scale pressures instead of direct heat
-stasis fields instead of fridges (duh) but also speeded-up time field used to sneak a week's worth of work into an hour
-an alien sourdough culture that MIGHT be sentient
All of this is an excellent backdrop for a story of a young boy finding (gay) love, seeking independence from his parents, and exploring questions of philosophy, truth, capitalism, and marketing. It's not #SolarPunk, but it has that homey vibe.
October was an awful month for me, and November as always really sucks. Sun set at 4 pm today and it will only get darker + next week we expect severe frost.
But …
It is now only more or less 1 month until the winter solstice, Dec 22 at 4.27 am (UTC+1), and today my garden was prepared for winter.
This is what it looked like this morning … #saraswinter23/24
Today I’m cooking … “Pressylta”, typical Swedish x-mas food & the one you can buy is both expensive & less spiced. I’ve also prepared an outdoor “fridge/freezer”, lined with styrofoam on the inside - a true recycling project, the other half of an old music case for records & vinyl-player. The top half is a bench in the hallway. Strangely enough I did not have a proper size hatch to protect food from magpies, squirrels & mice. #sarasmidwintercount23 @gardening #cooking #carpentry #recykling
Perilla oil, red onion, Trader Joe's seasonings, and cooked oat groats from the refrigeration: tasty and satiating — and MUCH better than oatmeal, IMO.
My Gujju friend shared this automated #roti maker (for home use) some years ago. I wonder why they never caught on. Maintenance? Loud noise? Super expensive? Taste isn’t close to the real one? As they say, ‘wait till the end’.
Really missing my redbud tree (Cercis canadensis) this fall. It had such beautiful peach colored leaves.
It fell over after successive tropical storms this fall. Arborist said it was near the end of its lifespan anyway. I searched all over for volunteer seedlings but couldn’t find any. 😔