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Week 33/52: Lost in Translation - Frijol con Puerco (Beans with ?)

This year we’re doing the 52 weeks of cooking challenge and this weeks theme was Lost in Translation and we made Frijol con Puerco wrong

I wanted to do something fun for this challenge so I had a friend from Yucatán Mexico send me a recipe entirely in Spanish when I know like 6 Spanish words.

The first picture is obviously the food and the second picture is her recipe with my translation.

I think I did generally pretty good but there were a few things that I REALLY got hung up on.

Like I had no clue what Puerco was and that was pretty important because it’s in the name.

Also had NO idea what Epazote is and finally landed on chili powder when in reality now that I’m able to google stuff:

It’s tea. lol. TEA.

I have no idea how much my bad gringo interpretations changed the flavor of the dish but it tasted pretty good in the end!

We ate it my beans with ? With white rice and salsa and enjoyed it!

I’ll have to make it again sometime properly because it was dirt cheap and very filling and comforting.

As a bonus I feel like I learned a lot of Spanish.

Classic saltimbocca recipe: pounded chicken breast, sage leaf, wrapped in proscuitto, dredged in cornstarch and sauteed in butter. Served with white wine chicken demi reduction swirled with butter. White rice on the side. Victim of my success, son and family loved it.

Unfortunately my egg missed the pillowy zucchini pancake landing pad. Better luck next year.

From this years county fair. A grilled hot dog on a croissant with brie and blueberry jam. So. Good. I’m glad I bought a bunch of croissant for this bc I’m going to be eating this every day this week.

For Cantonese week I made Char Siu, noodles with scallion-ginger and oystersauce, water spinach like greens with ginger and eggplant with pork and sauce. Recipes by Made with Lau.

It was all delicious, but for the Char Siu I'll pick another cut next time as this was a little thin.

We layered melted chocolate, diced strawberry, and toasted kadayif tossed in pistachio cream. These were absolutely scrummy!!!! And totally worth the hype. 😋

Recipe: https://www.number-2-pencil.com/perfect-single-serving-size-chocolate/

So, I had read that resting the dough for 24-48 hours in the fridge can improve the texture and taste of baked cookies. I decided to test that out by making a double batch of this recipe that intends to just make two cookies.

Unfortunately there was a huge methodological flaw: the confounding variable of temperature. The dough for the first half of the batch was room temperature, but the dough for the second half of the batch was at refrigerator temperature and I neglected to bring it to room temperature first for a better comparison. The latter came out extremely underbaked as makes sense for the same cooking time. I thought of throwing them back in the oven, but eh, I don’t hate cookie dough, and I ate it as is.

Guess I’ll never get into science school 🤷🏻‍♀️😂

This is my favourite real world example. I’m a German living in Australia. In Germany, “Pudding” describes a firm custard type of dessert, typically chocolate or vanilla flavoured. Here in Australia, “Pudding” is a baked cake type of dessert, often a sticky date pudding or a self saucing pudding. So here is my German chocolate pudding, alongside a self saucing chocolate pudding from RecipeTinEats.

Fun fact, when I talked to a friend from the UK about the challenge, she told me that in Scotland and the north east of England everything that is eaten after dinner is classified as “Pudding” and one can just ask “What’s for pudding?” when they want to know what’s for dessert. The meals in a day are breakfast, lunch, dinner (or tea), and pudding.

I took a generic chocolate cookie recipe and translated it 10 times to very different languages (e.g. English to Russian to Chineese to Latin to Swedish, etc.) this was the result. :)

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RECIPE: Circles of Golden Flesh with Broken Mud Stones

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REQUIRED ELEMENTS:

* 1 cup of weak milk fat, melted and sad

* 3/4 cup of sand from white rocks

* 3/4 cup of dark mud earth (must be compressed)

* 2 massive chicken children

* 2 teaspoons of the black aromatic fluid

* 2 1/4 cups of universal powder for everything

* 1 teaspoon of chemical volcano ash

* 1/2 teaspoon of ocean tears

* 2 cups of broken brown sweet stones

SACRED RITUAL:

1. Fire up the inferno room to 375 heat attacks.

2. Inside the giant crater, violently smash the sad milk fat and both sands

   until it becomes peaceful.

3. Defeat the chicken children one by one, then drown them in the black fluid.

4. Merge the universal powder, volcano ash, and ocean tears; slowly feed this

   dust to the peaceful monster.

5. Wrap the broken brown sweet stones into the blanket.

6. Launch circles of the flesh onto the cold, unprotected iron sheets.

7. Burn the elements for 9 to 11 minutes or until the skin turns to gold.

8. Let them cry on the iron sheet for 2 minutes, then exile them to the metal

   cage to freeze completely.

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