tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-42024776139205342772026-10-14T01:38:56.765-07:00Welcome to the Foodening Blog! Plenty to see, lots to eat. These are the recipes that I have attempted or madly created.mktgurlhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12237706633605048643noreply@blogger.comBlogger528125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-4202477613920534277.post-16691928478047339892026-05-14T17:58:02.555-07:002026-05-14T17:58:02.555-07:00

Thanks to the YouTube channel "My Name is Andong", I am making this Korean carrot salad because I have all the ingredients in stock. If you want to learn about why this salad exists everywhere else except in Korea, watch the video. This recipe comes from the Korean cookbook, "Korean Cooking Favorites" by Hyegyoung K. Ford.1 lb carrot1 tsp kosher salt1 1/2 tbsp sugar2 tbsp white vinegar1/2

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Either type of eggplant can be used: the aubergine (big fat eggplant, usually sold by itself) or the Chinese eggplant (long slender eggplant, usually sold by the pound).Preheat oven to 400 F.Ingredients1 medium aubergine eggplant or 3 Chinese eggplants, sliced2 tbsp olive oilwateraged balsamic vinegarsesame oil or toasted sesame oilDirectionsWash and remove stem(s) from eggplant.Slice eggplant

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Cycling through really old meat from the freezer. This ground pork package was from 2021 and so were the canned beans. What makes it really tasty is the addition of aged balsamic vinegar before serving. This is a two-technique process, using a pressure cooker for the first part, and the slow cooker for the second.Pressure Cooker Ingredients:1 lb ground pork (was frozen; but you can use fresh)sea

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Found this recipe on Reddit and the batter was enough to make 12 cupcake-sized pound cakes and one loaf for a work potluck. The cupcake-sized pound cakes got overbaked, and were of a hockey puck consistency, so didn't get anyone to eat them. Was able to slice up the loaf, and had a few takers for that. Not sure why it wasn't as popular of a homemade dessert; but the three-layer cake someone else

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It would appear that I have no mayonnaise in stock. However, I have a lot of green olives and sun-dried tomatoes. Aside from eating this with crackers, it can also be used as a spread on sandwich bread.Ingredients200 g sun-dried tomatoes700 g castelvatrano olive, pitted125 g red wine (cabernet, merlot, or malbec)1 fresh garlic clove, mincedolive oil, for consistencyPulse together in a food

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Despite my folks and relatives avoiding most dairy cow products, I love non-vegan cheese. Look, don't get me wrong, "cheese" product made with cashews is fine as a spreadable cheese, but sometimes, you just want to make a gooey grilled cheese sandwich (because it's now autumn and roasted tomato basil soup + grilled cheese sandwiches are delicious), add some cheddar to ramen noodles, or nibble on

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This has been one of my go-to meals this year. Mostly because I'm both tired and lazy; and after work, I just want something simple without a lot of prep. Thank goodness that the Ninja Foodi still works after two years. This uses the stainless steel rack insert that the NF comes with.In the NF, insert stainless steel rack and add 1 cup of water.On the rack, place frozen chicken thighs.Season to

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How you store food items makes a big difference in how long the food can be safely stored.Apples can stay firm for about a week without refrigeration (in the Pacific Northwest); but as it gets warmer and there is less humidity in the air, the apples will start to wrinkle and become not as firm. They'll start to rot after four weeks at room temperature without refrigeration during winter/spring,

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This would likely explain why my franken apple tree (has 5 varieties of apples grafted to its trunk) only produces 1-2 apple varieties per growing season. Each major branch represents a type of apple. Though, the identification tags have fallen off the tree. At least one of the varieties is golden delicious.Washington State's apple season typically runs from August to November, with the peak

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The pandemic and risk of COVID-19 certainly changed how I shopped for groceries and how often I shopped at which stores for particular food items: seasonal organic fruits and vegetables (Chuck's produce)organic dairy and snacks (Trader Joe's)bulk pantry items such as rolled oats, toilet paper, fresh eggs, fish, or rice (Costco)meat, packaged food, canned goods (Fred Meyers)Pre-pandemic (2019

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This takes ordinary steamed (baked or pressure cooked) rice up to the next level. I used 1/2 jasmine rice and 1/2 basmati rice; only because I am eating through the jasmine rice faster than the basmati. I subbed raw almonds for raw cashews because that's what I had on hand. Also, Indian pulau and rice pilaf are essentially the same thing, except with regional aromatic differences.Aromatics1 bay

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How to make soba noodles from scratch. I looked on YouTube for the buckwheat to flour ratio, and the first recommended video was on Japanese 101 cooking. In the video, the demonstrator cooks up a package of soba noodles and proceeds to plate it with other ingredients. This is not what homemade noodles means! So anyways. This recipe ratio is from Food52, and I must say, if you sub the spelt flour

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The type of bread yeast used depends marginally on the type of breads you are making and how controlled the environment is for bread making (bread machine vs oven). If you're not an avid baker, you are not going to know the difference between the types of yeast nor should you (there really is no difference, unless you need the yeast to ferment faster in a shorter span of time). Is it a noticeable

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You may have noticed this year that not only did 5, 10, and 20 lb bags of all purpose flour (white and wheat, bleached and unbleached) flew off the grocery store, restaurant grocery outlet, and big box store shelves (e.g., Walmart, Costco), but also all types of bread yeast all but disappeared in the last three months. The last time I saw a brick of Red Star Yeast (active dry) at Costco was back

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Earlier in the year, large shrimp was on sale for an abnormally low price ($5.99/lb) at the supermarket. It is likely due to excess supply and schools/restaurants were closed for the past two or three months. I procured several pounds of this and froze half of it in manageable serving sizes. For this dish, I enough for one serving. Though in retrospect, I feel like I just made a shrimp dish with

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Font type seems to have vanished from the new Blogger interface and instead, this crappy default Times New Roman is what looks to be in the composer with the Font selector drop-down nowhere in sight or settings. Hmm..As we all spend way too much time at home this year with 24x7 access to the pantry, you should be able to cycle through the ingredients in a more timely manner. Except, not in the

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The recipe ratio is adapted from the April 2020 issue of Men's Health, which calls for lamb stew meat, and this recipe substitutes beef for lamb. While I really enjoy grilled lamb for the occasional treat, lamb meat is price prohibitive at nearly $12/lb at my local grocery store w/ a butcher counter. And, after wondering what made this beef stew "Moroccan", I added some dried apricots and raisins

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I've been putting this recipe off for years and have only just gotten around to making it. It has a relatively short prep time, including pressure steaming the sweet potato (not the garnet yam, but the Japanese sweet potato with white flesh). The original recipe ratio comes from Lathi's Kitchen blog. The flatbread tasted a little doughy because I dredged the dough balls in some flour before

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This is a non-tomato-based beef stew. It is also a two-part recipe. I cooked the lentils separately then added them to the stew ingredients when cooking the beef. I also used two types of potatoes for this because that's what I had on hand: one gold potato and one sweet potato. TheFoodening Blog: beef stew with lentils For the lentils: 1/2 c dry green lentils 1 c Trader Joe's miso broth

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What recipes make it into being written up as a post? Dishes that were good enough to make me want to cook up again and aren't so simplistic as to be a direct copy from the instruction manual, such as making perfectly cooked jasmine rice (seriously, it's just a cup of water and a cup of rice, pressure cooked for 2 minutes with a 10 minute natural release). The end goal of this is more for me than

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Makes: 8 oatcakes Ingredients 3 c old-fashioned rolled oats 2 c all purpose flour 1/4 tsp baking powder 1 egg white 1/3 c plain yogurt 1/2 c sugar 12 c honey 1/2 tsp vanilla extract 1/2 c dried apricots, chopped 1/4 c roasted nuts, chopped (optional) Directions Preheat oven to 325 F Line a baking sheet with parchment paper. Pulse oats in a food processor until coarsely chopped. Add flour,

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Ninja Foodi dehydrated umami bombs.. dried shrimp. In my first batch, 10 oz cooked = 2 oz dehydrated. Except, by doing it myself, there are no preservatives (other than salt) and no food dyes. A win! Dried shrimp 🦐 are a key component of Chinese cuisine, such as turnip cake. This package of wild pacific shrimp comes pre-cooked and salted. Found it in the freezer aisle at my local Costco. At $15

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For whatever reason, I started logging what I made in the Foodi. What has turned into a daily breakfast item are soft boiled eggs. After figuring out the right combination of time and which pressure setting, these are extremely easy to make. A lot better than the randomness by stovetop method. The inaugural dish I tried in the Foodi was crispy fried BBQ chicken wings using raw, frozen chicken

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Two days before Chinese New Year is not the time to go to the local large Asian grocery store hoping to find holiday ingredients still on the shelves. It was exceptionally hard to find fermented black beans, which is weird, because it's an ingredient for specific dishes. Though, it is winter and these salted, fermented black soybeans are typically paired with chili oil, garlic, and ginger. It

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I had a vegan burger the other day at Red Robin (Keep It Simple: ancient grain and quinoa), and while I haven't tried to replicate the ingredients of this one, I tried another bean/beet centered recipe. As a carnivore who loves digging into a slab of grilled bovine, I have to say that this alone is probably not going to convert me from giving up my greenhouse-gas producing meat sources. After

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