Thinking About Food Differently
Cooking experiments, food fails, gardening
Hubs has been busy welding up some strange grilling devices. He’s been pretty bored since I started hammering on classwork, so he got a nice welder and put in some solid hours on YouTube, learning how to make different grilling devices that don’t require half …
This mighty mutant yellow-green citrus is called a Pummelo, and it bought it at the store today because I couldn’t resist the name. It gives no clue to the interior, and the exterior only hints at distant relations to a grapefruit. Turns out there’s a …
I’ve had rutabaga in things before, and I can’t really describe what it tastes like. It smells like a cross between cabbage and something else. Wikipedia says its a brassica (the mustard family = kale, Brussel sprouts, broccoli and cauliflower). I had it for the …
When I’m putting dinner together in the InstaPot I can’t help but toss some root vegetables in there too – they cook so fast! I added them later to this beautiful sheetpan and this will be dinner tomorrow night. I’ll save the tops for a …
I was angry when I made this. Conflict at work two days in a row made me salty; baking/cooking is therapy for me, and I knew nobody was gonna make me a cake for my birthday so I made up my mind to make my …
L to R, clockwise: turban squash, hubbard squash, and the unknown. Inside of the unknown, inside of turban, inside of hubbard, and mashed up for dinner (It’s a hockey joke, people. Gourd-y + How?) but seriously, what am I doing with this mystery squash? After …
Behold my Friday night entertainment – the Rambutan. Walmart sold it in the fruit section, but I had good reason to question. It looks like an alien egg? They sat in my fridge all weekend, and Sunday I went after them with a knife, determined …
We had seitan/soy chorizo the other night for taco salad. I saw this and was so curious I couldn’t resist. It passed the house Carnivore’s inspection, and he said he’d *willingly* eat it again. I wouldn’t microwave it though – it turned out kind of …