Haven't seen my bestie in two years (we live on opposite sides of the country). Finally reconnected in person and made some carbonara, as authentic as can be (guanciale, pecorino, you name it). Still fucked it up, got mad, scared bestie, she started to cry, I comforted her and now we are drinking coke from wine glasses~
She wanted to bake one for my birthday last year but we could neither find fresh nor frozen strawberries. This is from the official cookbook with about half the amount of sugar. Fruity and tasty, but I almost cried when the frosting simply wouldn't get solid (you can see that it's still kinda runny. How is that even possible when all the ingredients are solid at room temperature???).
Gotta leave the house soon and won't get to eat within the next 10 hours, so food's a bit basic today.
My mom would make a beef stew for Christmas every year. It mostly contained marinated beef escalopes, red onions and chunky bacon. When money was short on hand (we weren't really struggling, just a little broke at times), we started substituting beef with chicken. Still tastes great and costs about half as much.
I love this dish so much. It's just some pan-fried shrimp, sweet caramelized red onion, green pesto and some pasta. Could eat this everyday.
German staple food for all the people that do not like to make elaborate food or that want to whitetrashmaxx their lifestyle. It's typically the cheapest pasta, cheapest ham and some basic cheese with some herbs and stuff. Seasoning can also be bought as some Hamburger Helper style instant mixture that has emulsifiers and thickening stuff in it, but...it's really not that deep to just use salt, pepper, some herbs and pasta water for consistency of the cheese sauce. Added cream cheese, gruyère and cheddar to this. Came out great.
With some broccolini and bacon, mashed potatoes and some homemade teriyaki sauce.
Little chewy potato dumplings in a sticky sweet-and-savory sauce. Love child of Mitarashi Dango and Thüringer Klöße (Thuringian dumplings, chewy German potato dumplings that are usually served with a nice and saucy pork or beef roast etc.). Nice and filling. Also, let Spheal stare into your soul.
Today accompanied by Spheal's German cousin Seemops. Their résumé: "It's edible. Could use a bratwurst next time, tho, and some fruit pulp for the sauce. Other than that, not bad."
For those not knowing: Currywurst (curry sausage) is a German streetfood staple. It's basically a sausage, e.g. bratwurst or Bockwurst, in a tomato-based sauce with spices (curry, chili, but others as well), something sweet, and something sour. If done well, it's really tasty. This was rather mid. :3
No better time than the weekend to cook something a bit more time-consuming. Marinated the chicken in the afternoon and prepared the dough, so the rest is done within half an hour or so when it's actual cooking time.
As roommate demanded (no, she actually helped a lot with these). Store-bought buns today, but everything else fried, sliced and assembled with love.
Dough wouldn't stick together, but I managed to shape them with sheer dedication (and some flour) – they just had to be made a little bit more flat. Also made an easy tahini yogurt dip. ^_^
Roommate seared the steak, I made the salad, Spheal watched the process.
Time for some omuraisu. Way too much hassle for my energy levels today, but a girl has to eat, so...
Quite the unorthodox approach but tasty nonetheless. Cooked dashi from konbu and katsuobushi, added chicken stock, soy sauce and some fried garlic. Topped with crispy pork mince, buttered corn, spring onion from the garden and a soft egg. Spheal looked quite jealously at this...
Depression hits like a truck, but as long as there is still tasty food on the table, things can hardly be so bad, huh?
I made some blueberry jam/sauce to layer on the pancakes. A pinch of cinnamon and a dash of lime juice go a long way here.
...but it tastes so good. Queen of Madness here thinks everything "this time making the mayo in the blender will turn out great!" And then it doesn't, and I have to make it all over again. Twice. Anyway, chicken caesar salad tastes great. ^_^
Also, trying this type of Monster for the first time. What was it called again? Les...Lesbiblood? Is that correct?
Today I slept from 7 to 10 am, yay. Can't even go to work like this. I only eat real dinners every other day. Energy is lacking so hard but I can't get myself to sleep.
Yeah, simmering this for an extra hour really helps. It's really just like with an ordinary meat bolo. Turned out good, saucy and savory.