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What was the last thing you cooked?

Today I made a Tokyo style Shoyu Ramen for the first time. I was able to get the Kombu and dried Bonito flakes from a local Asian market for making the Dashi. I also added Shitake mushrooms for more depth. It turned out pretty well. All of my friends who we had over for lunch liked it. I had it with beef (costco had thinly sliced beef loin) that I cooked with onions, scallion, sake (junmai), soy, tamari, and mirin. Cooking with the mirin added a nice sweetness that went well with the savory Dashi.
 
Au Gratin Potatoes my style

6 med potatoes
1 onion
1/2 bunch chopped fresh greens
1 zucchini
2 Tbs butter
1 tsp salt
1 Tbs flour
2 c milk
2 c shredded cheese
2 c cut up ham

Preheat the oven to 375.

Melt the butter in a big frying pan. Fry up the onion, greens, and zucchini. Stir in the salt and flour.

Pour in the milk and stir constantly until boiling. Allow to simmer for one minute. Turn off stove.

Add 1.5 cups of the cheese to the frying pan. Stir in until melted.

Foil and grease a standard sized rectangular cake pan.

Chop up the potatoes and scatter them evenly in the cake pan.

Chop up the ham and lay it evenly on top of the potatoes.

Pour homemade cheesy veggie sauce on top of the ham and potatoes.

Sprinkle remaining cheese on top.

Bake uncovered for 1 hour.

Enjoy :)
 
Yeshuasdaughter said:
Au Gratin Potatoes my style

6 med potatoes
1 onion
1/2 bunch chopped fresh greens
1 zucchini
2 Tbs butter
1 tsp salt
1 Tbs flour
2 c milk
2 c shredded cheese
2 c cut up ham

Preheat the oven to 375.

Melt the butter in a big frying pan. Fry up the onion, greens, and zucchini. Stir in the salt and flour.

Pour in the milk and stir constantly until boiling. Allow to simmer for one minute. Turn off stove.

Add 1.5 cups of the cheese to the frying pan. Stir in until melted.

Foil and grease a standard sized rectangular cake pan.

Chop up the potatoes and scatter them evenly in the cake pan.

Chop up the ham and lay it evenly on top of the potatoes.

Pour homemade cheesy veggie sauce on top of the ham and potatoes.

Sprinkle remaining cheese on top.

Bake uncovered for 1 hour.

Enjoy :)
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That's a one-pot meal!
 
I'm babysitting a 4-year-old and an 8-year-old today, so I made breakfast for everyone. I cooked a pound of mild breakfast sausage, scrambled 8 eggs, and made toast with homemade peach jam. We ate all of that. The kids are now watching something mindless on TV but I'm going to get them to help me with outdoor chores in a little while. They need the exercise and fresh air.

Now I'm trying to figure out what to cook for lunch. Maybe just a big pizza with cheese, peppers, onions, and pepperoni or make tacos with some leftover chicken. I'll let them pick what they want.
 
I figured out lunch for kids - I'm going to make alphabet soup and add some leftover shredded chicken to it. The Mexican food store sells small pasta shaped like alphabet letters. Kids love making words with their soup although the 4-year-old is pretty limited in what she can spell.

It reminds me of when my mother heated up Campbell's alphabet canned soup for us 60+ years ago.
 
This is not cooking but more of a hunt for yy ethnic comfort food. Am in Ann Arbor today while my spouse is receiving a diagnosis for something that is holding up her knee surgery.

We will be swinging through Detroit to go to the Polish Market. I plan to get; kraut and mushroom (porcini) pierogie, sweet cheese blintzes, Polish sauerkraut, fresh kielbasa, borscht, and other delicacies I can't get at home.
 
Gerald Wilgus said:
This is not cooking but more of a hunt for yy ethnic comfort food. Am in Ann Arbor today while my spouse is receiving a diagnosis for something that is holding up her knee surgery.

We will be swinging through Detroit to go to the Polish Market. I plan to get; kraut and mushroom (porcini) pierogie, sweet cheese blintzes, Polish sauerkraut, fresh kielbasa, borscht, and other delicacies I can't get at home.
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I'm jealous! I love all those things, especially really good sauerkraut.
 
I made eggplant parmesan and a big green salad for dinner last night. I made my own sauce with some tomatoes that were getting too ripe. Tonight, I'll oven roast some chicken drumsticks seasoned with a dry rub to go with the leftovers.

I often find myself trying to figure out what to make with vegetables and fruit that are getting too ripe or too old. I hate to waste food. When I have a lot of little pieces of various kinds of cheese, I blend them all together and turn them into my own weird version of pimento cheese(s).
 
The other night I made Enchiladas. Everything, even the sauce was from scratch, except for the tortillas.

Tonight we had Loco Moco for dinner and homemade Carrot Cake for dessert.
 
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Yesterday I didn't get home from a morning appointment until after one. I was ravenous for lunch. I wanted something nourishing and comforting so I made super fancy ramen out of a couple of 30 cent chicken flavored Maruchan Ramen packets (aka Martian Ramen).

I started by sauteeing onions, mushrooms, chopped broccoli, and some canned corn in a little butter until al dente.

Then I added a chopped up chicken breast, and sauteed that til it was a little brown on the outside, but still not cooked through yet.

I mixed in the ramen seasoning packets and also some sage, salt, garlic, mustard, fish sauce, and hot sauce. I sauteed that all together a little longer.

Then I added a quart of homemade bone broth and let it all cook til it was boiling. Then I turned down the heat on the hob, allowing it all to simmer, stirring every now and again, until the chicken was fully cooked and tender.

Then I cracked two eggs into the soup, gently stirring constantly to make it into Chinese egg flower soup.

After about a minute, I turned off the stove, crushed up the ramen noodles into the soup, and put the lid on for 10 minutes.

Meanwhile, I cut a sourdough bun in half and lightly buttered each side. I sprinkled each side with salt and garlic, and put it under the broiler for five minutes.

It was the loveliest lunch.

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Later that night, around 9 or 10, for dinner, my daughter thinned out the leftover soup with some water and heated that up on the stove. And on the side we had grilled cheese sandwiches to dip in the soup. She's really sweet so she made mine into a tuna melt. It was a bomb dinner.

And it all started with two 30 cent poverty ramen packets.
 
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