great idea. I also take pictures of dishes. Some get posted, but most often I do nothing besides eat the food. rarely am I not satisfied with the food, but I'm also not that imaginative.

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well there is one sanskrit shloka: "Annam Purna Brahma", means only dinner is not a dinner, dinner is a part of purna brahma, the creator of this universe. as we mostly states here in our speeches with the public in my area. In another way, the soul is a part of that brahma and for that soul we practice it daily to give the contentment by eating the dinner.

your blog is a nice one, great idea by you. Fazor

I am writing this one by keeping a "sambhar wadi", a vegitarian rolled cake which was fry in the little pan, and was served me so hot, the ingredients of this rolled cake is sambhar, garlic, oninion paste, some masala, little chilly powder etc.

Pizza last night.




Dough from a local grocery (Trader Joe's)
marinara sauce
fresh mozzarella + a little shredded skim mozz
mushrooms
jalapenos
red onion
scallion
roasted garlic
basil

Cooked in my oven on a stone as high as the temperature would go.

You need some meat on that pizza

There is. Forgot to mention the hot salame.

looks great to me.


Last night was a frozen Stouffers Stuffed Bell pepper followed by spicy tuna sushi.

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Dinner tonight is kung pao chicken, following the recipe (mostly) from Fuchsia Dunlop's Land of Plenty cookbook. One of the best Sichuan cookbooks out there, in my opinion.

Homemade pasta with basil pesto with broiled chicken.

What is "braizing"?

Vinegar being the active ingredient says to me that the effect comes from acid. Is it ever done with other acid foods/juices? (In pondering that, I just noticed that acids we consume tend to be from fruits or their juices, and that beef is seldom or never served with a very sweet treatment, although it's done with pork/ham routinely...)

Hey! That's cutting down on my "Wow, that was simple & fast!" factor!

Would it also need to sit like that for a while before being cooked, like with the liquid marinade method? How long can you afford to leave the meat just sitting around?

I'm not sure exactly what either of those last two words means.

Chipotle rub is a spice rub which includes smoked jalapeños as an ingredient. Meat should be at room temperature before cooking.

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That pizza looks so good!

Starting on thursday I have had the house to myself so tonight cook up beef stir fry with peppers, broccoli, mushrooms and onoins with sides of eggrolls and springrolls.

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Wow, three taffy cookies and two bottles of Black Lager. Get sort of mopey when I have the kids all weekend and they're gone Sunday evening. (It's Sunday evening) Ate like a pig all weekend anyway so I can use the fast. Going to have one more beer though.

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I use the term to mean brushing coats of a glaze (usually a sauce that contains some kind of sugar so it carmalizes as it cooks) as you cook the item. I think it also applies if it's a marinade, but I'm new to cooking so I don't know my terms all that well.

I've only used the powder once; I prefer cuts that don't need tendorized, or if I tendorize I like to use the meat mallet. But the one time I used it, it only sat like that for maybe 10-15 minutes while I was prepping everything for the grill. Leaving meat out for a little while isn't as "dangerous" as a lot of people think (as long as the environment's clean and you avoid any cross contamination).



Chipotle is smoked jalapeno, but the rub generally contains other ingrediants. The one I used was store-bought and I'm not sure what all was in it.

A rub is when you take dry spices and coat the meat with it. Not disgustingly thick, but enough that when you cook it, the spices carmalize and create a crunchy coating on the meat.

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yea, some rubs are great. I make one for fajitas that's really simple and great!



last night was a pickle, ramen soup, and a blizzard from Sonic (whatever they call it). Yea, a cheap and terrible meal, but I'm leaving town tomorrow for 2 weeks and don't want to buy food before I leave.


oh, and the Sonic desert was terrible - hardly any oreos so it was just soft serve in a cup. I prefer Dairy Queen, but they close too early.

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Our town just finally got a Sonic maybe 6 months ago. I loved it--after always seeing their commercials but never having a place to go to to get their food. Their burgers were great. Their onion rings were...well, original (kinda a sweet batter).

But I finally started making a real effort to get healthy and lose all this weight. I haven't had a fast-food burger in over a month--and Sonic is one of the greasiest of the greasy. Don't even crave it anymore.

But anyway, back on point with your post--the shakes and icees and drinks are the things that are suppose to be their specialty. I've always found them terrible. Loved the food tho.

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I usually only go there for the cherry limeade. Very good, but their ice creams aren't worth driving up there.

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Great news crosscountry, today we are keeping on our dining table a new item and that is home made fruit salad, ingredients are as follows:

milk=1 litre
banana+anjir+almond+masala+flavour+preservative+ papita+mango+lichy+stawberry+cherry=in equal percentage.....> goto mixer pot...>go to a mixing machine...>goto a glass jar...rinsed with some special processes in that jar, and then it was kept for an hour in the refridgerator to take a cool air. And later we enjoyed that fruit salad along with the hot "puri". (puri is made of wheat powder and made of a thick paste of the wheat and later leave it in the deep pan and then with a hole marked spoon we can get back the size of that wheat paste resulting into "puri".)

you may be understanding the making procedure, the procedure is not lengthy, but the care must have to take after making it on the gas, because it is not an item to make in the grilled ovan.

I misunderstood the bit about the gas at first...

mugs....hi, interesting! ....cooking? how long do you brown the meat?

Delvo, perhaps this might help.....

http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~media/cookproc.htm

http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~media/brais.htm

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Me too. I'll go there just to get a cherry limeade nothing else is worth it.

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I bought some Chinese food, sweat and sour chicken. I didn't want to waste my stockpile of food, in case Tropical Storm Edouard

I don't think I would eat that.

You mean this one?

Or this one...

So for the next couple weeks dinner will be "on the road" I'm going to New Mexico on a Geology field trip. Myself along with about 10 others will be installing seismometers in a grid like pattern over the southeast portion of the state and parts of West Texas. Dinners are compped, and I won't take anything more than a water bottle and a metal cup to drink from.

Probably I'll buy fresh fruit or sun flower seeds to replenish the sugar and salt my body will use up working in the sun all day for that long. See you guys in a couple weeks.

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I must've been channeling someone French yesterday, because I had a lovely vegetable quiche (zucchini and leek/onion) and brought out my acrylics for a spin on the ol' canvas.
*puts on beret*

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Must have been something in the air; while my g/f was picking out some asian noodle stuff I spied the Lousianna/Creole/Cajun section, where I noticed a can of "Etouffee" sauce. I've never heard of that, but hell if it's Cajun and typically served over shrimp, it's gotta be good. So I grabbed it, and grabbed some shrimp.

I can't wait to try it; then if it's even halfway decent I'll have to figure out how to make it myself; if I can figure out how to make a Roux first.

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crosscountry, thanks for a trip there, well Puran poli is the vegitarian dinner item which is very famous in my area, may be it is available there in the maharashtrian families residing in your area, puran poli is the lion in the dinner dish.

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I have no clue about Cajun kitchen to be honest - which is sad because it all sounds delicious. I'd try to make a (seafood and veggie only) gumbo but since I have no idea how it's supposed to taste, how would I judge the grade of success?

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