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Cooking/What Your Wife Does (Besides the Neighbor)
Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2024 5:48 pm
by The Outsider
Alright boyos, I'm drinking, I'm cooking. Tonight's menu is Land, sky, and sea udon and rice with bok choy, carrots, radishes, and green onion. Proteins marinated and cooked in mirin, soy sauce, beef bone broth, garlic powder, onion powder and crushed red peppers.
Also have a medium grain sticky rice to go with it.
What are you/your bitches cooking?
Re: Cooking/What Your Wife Does (Besides the Neighbor)
Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2024 6:27 pm
by emby
Wife is serving up eggplant parmesan with a bok choy salad as we speak.
Scratch cook aside from the marinara
Re: Cooking/What Your Wife Does (Besides the Neighbor)
Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2024 7:01 pm
by The Outsider
I'm changing the menu every day.
Re: Cooking/What Your Wife Does (Besides the Neighbor)
Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2024 7:03 pm
by The Outsider
All of that was scratch aside from the dashi (the broth) which is specific as fuck so I buy literal packets to make it with. Has like 4 kinds of dried fish, a type of kelp, shiitakes, and some other shit in it. It'd be nightmare to try to source the ingredients individually.
Re: Cooking/What Your Wife Does (Besides the Neighbor)
Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2024 7:09 pm
by emby
Looks like pho
Re: Cooking/What Your Wife Does (Besides the Neighbor)
Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2024 7:12 pm
by The Outsider
It is got more seafood flavor and has way less basil, and no Thai basil. But visually, yeah, pretty similar. I'll probably be adding boiled chopped duck egg to it as well before I fridge it.
Re: Cooking/What Your Wife Does (Besides the Neighbor)
Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2024 8:20 pm
by emby
The bok choy salad was a pleasant surprise. She chopped up the salad to the consistency of shredded carrots. Had cucumber, radish, bean sprouts and cabbage. Tossed it in a ginger soy sauce and dashed with toasted sesame.
She said it wasn't her best eggy parm. I didn't mind it at all.
Oh and the oddly delicious toasted Italian bread with mozzarella had white truffle oil as it's secret weapon.
Re: Cooking/What Your Wife Does (Besides the Neighbor)
Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2024 8:26 pm
by PetePierson
Nice, Outtie. Was lazy and just broiled a smaller than I would have liked NY Strip with some schrooms and onions sautéed (sort of).
Need to find a good local farm for my meat (teehee), eggs & milk. Rather support a local farmer and get healthier food.
Also thinking about a smaller freezer for deer meat. But seems wasteful as I'm only one guy.... and a lot less fat now.
Re: Cooking/What Your Wife Does (Besides the Neighbor)
Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2024 8:52 pm
by The Outsider
Best thing I ever did was move somewhere I could raise ducks extra-legally. It's technically illegal to have anything outside of chickens where I live but no one gives a fuck. I'll have 15 hens next laying season when the babies are done growing so next year I'm gonna have eggs out the ass.
Duck eggs are basically extra large chicken eggs, but slightly bigger, higher in fat, but proportionally higher in nutrition value in general than a chicken egg.
I haven't bought eggs in probably two years. And if I could stomach it (outside of an emergency) and kill off some of the drakes I'd have plenty of meat as well.
Re: Cooking/What Your Wife Does (Besides the Neighbor)
Posted: Sun Jul 21, 2024 8:56 pm
by PetePierson
The Outsider wrote: ↑Sun Jul 21, 2024 8:52 pm
Best thing I ever did was move somewhere I could raise ducks extra-legally. It's technically illegal to have anything outside of chickens where I live but no one gives a fuck. I'll have 15 hens next laying season when the babies are done growing so next year I'm gonna have eggs out the ass.
Duck eggs are basically extra large chicken eggs, but slightly bigger, higher in fat, but proportionally higher in nutrition value in general than a chicken egg.
I haven't bought eggs in probably two years. And if I could stomach it (outside of an emergency) and kill off some of the drakes I'd have plenty of meat as well.
No issues with Hawks or Coyotes? When I lived in Florida, had a good friend that lived out east (inland) and tried the chicken coup deal for a while but had a lot of issues with predators. He is/was pretty much a city boy so was learning on the fly.
Do you have a pond or water on your property?