What did you cook today?

I tend to use Sriracha in stuff (while cooking) and Cholula on food (at the table), if that makes sense. Love all flavored of it too.

 

Last night I made baked bean burritos. They were fucking delicious.

 

Peanut Butter Cookies

 

Similar here, I use Tabasco sauces for cooking and making drinks (Caesars!) and Cholula on prepared food. They've got a few varieties out. Cholula isn't all that readily available in Canada, but the Chili Garlic and the Chipotle varieties are here now. I want to try the Chili Lime, that sounds good. I hope it shows up soon.

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All this talk about bacon and eggs and hot sauce, I had to make some for breakfast. Eggs over easy with Cholula of course. And those are the first local strawberries of the season. The strawberries I bought all winter were from the States but the local produce is starting to show up in stores. Tis the (strawberry) season!





Dinner is more eggplant lasagna. I had dessert first… vanilla ice cream with more strawberries. I spent the day at the lake (it was beautiful out!) and I was so overheated when I got back I couldn't cool down. The ice cream did the trick. It's from a local creamery and oh so good.

 

I getting ready to make Crock-pot Chicken for Tacos.

Edit - Yep, it was easy and it is good!

 

Left over brown rice from Chinese take out becomes homemade pineapple and duck confit fried rice.

 

Tonight I cooked up a ribeye on the grill with a hunk of Kerrygold butter on top and steamed some broccoli, which I then sprinkled with Himalayan pink salt.

 

raw carrot (like to eat while cooking)
Roasting:
Uncured Bacon
Honey Maple Turkey
Green/Red/Yellow Bell Peppers diced
mixed in chili powder,
lemon
lime
garlic
Sea salt

then warming small tortillas

 

those salts are so good

 

I made a massive salad with peppers, mint, cucumber, zucchini, olives, sweet onions, and chick peas, and roasted a chicken to go with it.

 

I started more fermented veggies today. I've only got a couple jars left from the last batch and I want to ferment these longer. I bought a few special fermenting lids with airlocks as an experiment. They had a sale on them, less than half price. I'll let you know how they compare to regular lids.

I made two jars of mixed veggies (cauliflower, bell pepper and zucchini), two jars of green cabbage, and one jar of mini cukes. I'm going to ferment the cukes for only a few days this time and I'm trying a trick that's supposed to help keep them crunchy. You add about a tablespoon of tea leaves to the jar. I think it's the tannins that help keep them crisp. These are one litre jars, bigger than I usually use. They were also on sale, by the dozen, so I snagged a box. You can't really tell in the picture but they're the pretty ones with the design on the front. Though it was the price that drew me.
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I tried a new chili pepper, Scotch Bonnet, and it is SO hot. I always use gloves to cut up the chillies, but somehow I got some on my hands. My fingers were burning! The tips were pruned and red. I soaked them in milk, kept washing them, to no avail. The burning finally abated after I used a soap I have with tea tree oil. I've learned since, that Scotch Bonnet is right up there with habañeros. Yikes. I think I'll take them out of the jars, they may be too hot for the veggies and take right over. I'll stick to my medium-hot chillies. I'd never heard of these before and it was the only ones the store had so I bought them. Won't do that again.

Ha, I just realized I forgot to take a picture with the lids! I'll get a pic of them next time, the jars are in the cool room already and light is low there for photos.

 

Eating a quesadilla from the chicken I made in the crockpot. I forgot to give a link for the awesome recipe. http://www.fromvalerieskitchen.com/2012/11/crock-pot-chicken-tacos/

 

Homemade guacamole:
Avocado, Lemon, Lime, Sea Salt, Pepper, Shredded Carrots

Homemade Fahijtas:
Green/Yellow/Red Bell Peppers, White Onion, Vine Ripe Tomato, Garlic, Basil, Lemon, Lime, Chili Powder, Sea Salt, Uncured Bacon, Honey Maple Ham, Flour Tortillas

 

bbq rib eye with nuked potato on the side

 

Lids or no lids looks good Lucy, but yikes on the peppers.

Hot dogs tonight, sorta Chicago style sans poppy seed buns. Not loving the pics.

 

Ha, yeah those Scotch bonnets are freakin' incendiary!
It went went right through the gloves, lol

 

It must have! I'm always careful not to get any on me. I'm going back to my weenie Fresnos!

 

Jang Uh Gui//. aka grilled eel .. delicious. much money saved on making it myself.

 

What, no garlic?

 

Today's breakfast. Cinnamon French toast, maple bacon, those yummy local strawberries and maple syrup.