Sometimes simple is better. With all the fresh tomatoes we’re getting from our garden, I had to make a wedge salad and I might have used more tomatoes that I typically do, but damn if it wasn’t super tasty
That is a fine looking wedge salad, Tman. I approve of your tomato ratio. :)
The best (meaning fugly) summer tomatoes don’t need much. I usually go 1:3:5 soy sauce:sherry vinegar:olive oil and black pepper. Maybe some basil if I’m feeling fancy.
I have used that before, and yes, it does indeed get nasty.
You know what I never understood? Cooking shows where they rub the bread with some garlic for “just a hint of garlic”. No. Smash up at least a few cloves and smush/smear it all over. No one wants just a hint of garlic! At least no one I want to be friends with! ;P
Give me garlic or give me death!
You would be surprised how much garlic you can get on a piece of toasted bread. I’ve done it. You essentially grind down an entire garlic clove per slice of toast. That also causes a chemical reaction because allium often has two, or more, chemicals that react when broken together.
Onions and garlic both taste different depending upon how you process them. Cooking whole, sweet. Smashing and dropped into a pan of hot oil, fragrant. Chopping and mixing, heat. And much more.
So beautiful.
Made a shit ton of Japanese food for a friend’s birthday we celebrated at our weekly game night where another one of the guys is running his homebrew Pralines & Dream campaign. All told, we had okonomiyaki (Japanese savory pancakes) with pork belly underneath and shrimp inside, plus gyudon (brothy beef-and-rice bowls), chicken and veggie yakisoba (noodle stir fry), and salted salmon and black sesame onigiri (mixed rice balls).
Lighting sucks down in the basement, but I was pretty proud. I put together the full spread in about 3 hours. The okonomiyaki didn’t transport SUPER well (lost its crispiness in the tin foil), but overall, it carried well :)
Another guy got an astoundingly good key lime pie and some carrot cake cupcakes from a local bakery (birthday boy’s two favorites), while another one of the guys made us some homemade strawberry ice cream.
Needless to say, we feasted like kings. Then, we beat the forces of Hell back from a decrepit mental hospital in post-Katrina New Orleans, closed the portal to the shadow realm, and became Youtube famous. Mutants & Masterminds, y’all.
Is that a Duchess game table?
I personally make something my wife calls “Heart Attack Spread.” In a small bowl, mix some softened butter, a bit of mayo, shredded cheese and a ton of garlic. Mix it all up thoroughly, then spread on bread, and place under the broiler until the cheese melts.
At that point I don’t really need the pasta any more.
Yeah. My understanding is that my friend, the birthday boy and host, has another friend with more money than time who had Kickstarted the tables and also entered a contest to win, like…a demo/preproduction/first gen model? I forget the specifics. Anyway, he wins the contest, and rather than try to get out of the KS backing, just gives us old table to my friend, since he figured they’d game together at both their houses a lot, so it would still see good use…
That’s pretty cool. I’ve been watching that company since they have mentioned even though they stopped making it they might do a follow-up. I want to turn my second living space into a gaming room and a handy taable would fit right in but their regular tables are 3k which seems a bit high. Anyway, back to the food!
This is not what I cooked. But it’s about food and it is very moving. Apologies for the tangent.
I literally just got finished reading that. And spent a considerable portion of yesterday wandering in H-Mart for the ingredients for the above-pictured feast.
It’s a fucking good piece. People should read it.
I knew you would appreciate it. (And I should have known you would already have seen it) Everyone who posts in this thread should read it.
Judging just from the pull quote, it sounds legit: I often reflect that a big part of an Asian American life experience is growing up with lots of foods that you don’t like, but that you just kind of accept are in your life. Weird snacks, sauces, etc.
Then, when growing up, seeing them in grocery stores and…not want to buy them per se…but just kind of…miss them.
Whoa, that’s sobering and sad.
So I want to do Asian marinade pork belly burnt ends over the weekend but I really can’t be assed to make a marinade/sauce from scratch. Anyone know of a good Asian pork marinade/sauce that is readily available in a store?