Turning my day old challah into French toast

Where are my African dish lovers? This is a Nigerian dish called melon soup. Also known natively as Egusi soup

This was wide style dan dan noodles. I felt like this place used more peanut butter which is a good flavor but I like my Dan Dan more spicy.

Has anyone made their own Dan Dan noodle ?

Vegetarian Bo kho with bread and I wanted eggs

Holla for the Challah

I was craving pork belly so I bought some from Costco and had some perilla leaves, kimchi, samjang on the side with bibim naengmyun.

Dijon Honey mustard sauce on pork steak with some rice , it was yummy 😋

Gochujang chicken sandwich with kimchi bacon jam

Had snow crab leg clusters. Had guests squeamish about food so visibly reminiscent of the source critter, so I picked the legs and body to make crab cakes. Riffed off the Maryland crab cake recipe from Serious Eats. Served as bowls with jasmine rice drizzled with kecap manis, garden ripe cherry tomatoes, pan fried summer squash, and steamed edamame, lemon wedges on the side.

Tried making Vietnamese beef noodle soup

Pan fried Cajun spiced Barramundi. Roasted broccoli. Should have been on a bed of sweet potato mash but I was too lazy to mash. 🥹

Chef tip: if you have an air fryer and want perfect roasted veggies, toss them in a bowl with olive oil+your seasoning. That way they’re more evenly coated for going in the air fryer.

I tried poke from Costco. It was ok, not the best flavor. Has any one made their own poke before?

Another not great photo but made this mushroom gochujang butter sauce for some steak that turned out to be pretty tasty

soy sauce marinated chicken! Hack if you don’t want to make your own chicken, take the rotisserie chicken from Costco

By far the best Brussels I’ve ever made.

Who loves potatoes?! 🥔😋

My take on Potatoes O’Brien ❤️

Diced potatoes cooked in bacon grease and Country Crock Original Vegetable Oil Spread

Seasoned with pepper and the cute garlic salt that has green specks by Lawry’s

Yellow onion

Serrano pepper

Red bell pepper

Minced garlic

Lastly, the homemade bacon bits that was made first

Don’t even need ketchup it tastes sooo good!

😋🥰

Forgot to take a photo when I was freshly made, but galbi which is Korean marinated short rib!!!! Ugh so good

Not so much cooking, but it’s a charcuterie board!

IYKYK

the pita sat too long in the oven but it was still pretty good! chicken, yellow rice, a hummus drizzle, scallions, tomatoes, cucumber, and chickpeas fried in veggie stock. SO GOODDDD

Rib eyes with potato pave. Missing the caviar and creme fraiche tho

My Homemade habanero lime sauce fajitas

I made chicken with garlic, salt, garlic powder, and pepper. I definitely still need to marinate longer and make slits the have the seasoning go into the chicken better

Still need lots of improvement

Smoked chicken quarters

Built fire in smoke box to cook chicken legs in more direct indirect heat. They cooked up in about 15-20 minutes, then I put them over flame to crisp and char. Simple - just salt, pepper, and olive oil. Chunk hardwood charcoal with a split or two of hickory. White sweet corn in foil pack with salt, pepper, and ghee, cooked until subtly charred.

Butter pan seared Tilapia. Made a soy sauce fresh cilantro Jalapeño pesto. Green beans tossed in olive oil and sea salt then roasted in the air fryer. Jasmine lime rice.

Grilled bronzino. Going to pair with a buerre blanc

I had more kimchi to use up and so I made kimchi stew. Added more Napa cabbage because I love the sweetness from it, the other half can of spam from yesterday, onions, and silken tofu!! I also used chicken broth along with the kimchi juice with a splash of soy sauce and sugar.

Made lettuce cups with curried yogurt chicken for dinner

Made kimchi fried rice using day old rice, spam, onion, lots of garlic and of course a fried runny egg on top!

Attempted to make yakisoba today using chicken and udon noodles.

I think I could have used less sauce next time and maybe a couple more vegetables ( I only used what I had in the fridge)

Here’s the after it’s cooked of the nabe Mille-feuille. I served this with a nice bowl of rice!

The soup base I used to cook this with was dashi with some mirin and soy sauce. Simmered it until the lettuce was tender.

I also used a yuzu dipping sauce to bring it that refreshing pop