I eat a lot of porkchops and protein bars and it makes me gassy as hell. For what it's worth I'm at the gym at least 3 times a week for low-ish end weightlifting and workout, other times just cardio. However, I get the sense I don't use up enough of that protein intake. *toot*

nah, Seattle Finn here. The fishing Finns came here, the farming Finns are Minn residents

I have some chicken and black bean noodles for lunch today. I'm really fucking hungry right now.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaah! i didn't know about this migration. at all. awesome! i thought you came from norwegians or something.

this must be from way before the leningrad cowboys did america :D

wtf is black bean noodles? this is new to me. kindly explain.

It's just pasta...but made out of black beans. So it's black spaghetti. We just stir fried it with some chicken and red/yellow peppers. It's pretty good. My girlfriend is on a health kick so she's trying out different things to cut carbs n stuff.

When she told me about them, I got a little excited. There's this Korean dish with noodles and black bean SAUCE. It's made with black bean paste and it's so damn delicious. But...no it was the noodles....><

oh hell! i love black beans and that sounds superyummy.

i'll sniff around. post a make/model if you have.

Yo, seriously though...the black bean noodles are good n all....but if you have never tried Jajangmyeon(noodles and black bean sauce)....make that shit or seek it out somewhere, it's to die for.... I wish I lived near more Korean food spots. I used to live near the Korean part of Chicago and I kind of miss it......a lot. Their spicy beef stew...mmmmmmmmmmm.

oh hell I'M SOLD. thanks for that info! i did come across that dish yesterday when googling, so now i know how much it rules. will see about making it if i can. ¡gracias!

went out to the nut farm and got some hazelnuts and walnuts, cracking and eating!

(the lower-salt version)

with fried eggs and roasted green chiles, black coffee. just no tortilla. awesome!

chEEEEEEEEEEFFF!!!

i don't know if you read this anymore but tonite i just made a caramelized red onion for a pizza (or pissaladière, whatever it's called--it was a fathead dough)

AND IT WAS FUCKING AMAZING

i know the recipe calls for white or yellow onion, i forget which kind, but like a proper sudaca i had none so i reduced a whole red onion in irish butter, with a little thyme

IT HAS A HINT OF OLIVE IN THE FLAVOR!!

i don't know if it's the reduced purple pigments or the fact that i burned the bottom a leeeeeeeetle bit and so it added some bitterness, but i swear it tastes like motherfucking black olives a bit

glorious red onion--she and i shall never part

well.

what have you been up to mein freund? (ha ha--sorry to maim your language--)

but yeah. like severian to his movies, i to my cookin'

caramelize one and see.

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the other half of the thing i covered in a mash of: house-grown tomatoes (some plants are blooming in february!), fish sauce, erythritol (i'm into keto these days), red pepper flakes, oregano, basil, yeast flakes (i had no parmesan at hand)

ha ha ha ha ha

i shall enjoy myself even in teh alpacalypse

turkey.

i had a 22lb butterball in the freezer. got it for 96c on sale around thanksgiving. i slow-roasted 2 weeks ago (overnight, 10h) with just salt and pepper

sliced & diced it & stored it again, and now it's ready for whenever.

tasted great just plain.

A bunch of bananas I bought two weeks ago still haven't turned. I've left them in what little sunlight hits the house, but other than that I'm not sure what to do. Still green. Any advice?

put them in a paper bag in a warm place (not hot)

like maybe on top of the fridge or something

temps help ripening and paper bag traps the ethylene gas which is the plant hormone that causes ripening in this kind of fruit (in others, it stops it)

Brietbart said ethylene gas makes you gay.

so did your bananas gay it up yet?

Orange marmalade glazed pork tenderloin, fresh asparagus and rice pilaf with carrots, onions, tomatoes and parsely

^^ ilducio, that needed a picture

for breakfast i had blueberries with sour cream, "greek" yogurt with walnuts, and a black coffee

for lunch im gonna have 4 butter-fried jumbo eggs, toasted pecans, and a black coffee

for dinner i'm thinking a turkey green chile stew and a small salad

Chilaquiles Verdes.

¡qué bien comes!

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just had 2nd breakfast:

fried spam, fried eggs, avocado, serrano chiles, and a glass of tecate

aaaah!

Jerked pork steaks with peppers and onions, rice and beet/watercress salad

gonna have carnitas all week so it's gonna be repetitive (made something like 8lbs ha ha ha). but with avocado slices and some shredded cabbage and a cilantro chimichurri i concocted i do not mind i do not mind the daily grind

Oh, I forgot.

After a week in a paper bag with a rotting apple, bananas are almost ripe. Still a few more days. Crazy. I bought them three weeks ago.

try opening one

sometimes you get these camouflaged bananas (usually it's a thick skin) that stay green on the outside but are ripe inside already

dang homie. that's whats up. Did you make it inside or do you got one of them cazo's. What did you cook it with? use any coke?

I recently stopped eating wheat (no more wheat bread, no more pizza, no more pasta, ever) and sugar (I eat something sweet here and there, but I highly reduced it) because of health problems. I'm feeling much better now.

yeah i make it inside in a dutch oven. use a whole boston butt, chunked

i have tried many recipes over the years with garlics and herbs and orange juic and the worst has orange rind-- that shit tastes bitter

all i do these days is rinse with water cut big chunks add salt slow cook on the stovetop or a 200F oven and let it sit there.

no cocaine, no salsa pato, no pulque, nothing.

once the fat is rendered and the meat falls off the bone it's done. really easy/lazy anyone can do it. pork and salt.

reason why i use minimal seasoning is that when i reheat/crisp i can change the seasoning for each meal

see, for example yesterday i stirfried teh cabbage instead of making slaw, so it tasted a bit chinese with sesame seed and soy sauce and a drop of fish sauce.

also i don't eat sugar. which brings me to this:


ow man, sorry about your health. and congrats on quitting the cocaine known as sugar. it's a fucking terrible and addictive substance-- even baudelaire knew this. back in the day only pharmacists sold it.

as for wheat, YMMV, but yeah i've ditched most flours too. since i'm all day at the computer i have nowhere to burn all those carbs.

you don't have to miss pizza completely though-- look at the recipe for fathead pizza / fathead dough. it will blow your mind (and taste buds). you're welcome.

also if you've quit only wheat but not beans, i highly recommend a tasty tasty farinata. it's just garbanzo flour with water and olive oil in a very hot oven, added some broiled onions and rosemary to the mix (seasoning can vary). mark bittman has a good recipe in the new york times. others work as well (youtube, etc)

OH SO GOOD. SO GOOD. SO GOOD.

just ate a MEGATON of cheeze blintzes and im like the python who ate the antelope

Huevos divorciados with a small piece of skirt steak(my girl and I split it). The rice that came with it was hella salty....and then we finished the meal off with some arroz c/ leche.

i forgot to get wine in the weekday, so

im gonna make a blueberry "shaved ice" and spike it with armagnac

close enough! haaa haaaa haaa

(the shaved ice is just grounded up frozen berries)

then while drinking that im gonna make a fathead focaccia

That's me after visiting my grandma

strawberry season is upon us, we've been visiting the you pick farm.

never got back to this i think.

sounds like you hit the right spot. Lately i like to soak them (cut into rough, bigger chunks) in cold water with a little bit of red wine vinegear -> next day (cleansed) roast them at highest temperature for just a short while, take from heat; add a little bit of butter and salt...
add that to anything... a cold melon and some prosciutto, a brined duckbreast, soylent green... add herbs
the red onion will rise again!


it's been a while, hope you (and everyone else still active on this playground) are doing fine!

im staying sane in spite of the horrible politics in this country.

you?

soylent green is people! and i don't mind

lately been playing with pork and annatto seeds.

tried it with a slow cooked pork shoulder as a sort of carnita-plus juuuust to learn the flavor. really nice "herbal" flavor, a little grassy maybe? or something. hard to explain these jungle seeds.

next time will add full adobo ingredients (vinegar, hot pepper powder, cumin, etc) but i'll be able to tell the annatto apart from the rest.

great w/ roasted cauliflower instead of the usual starches. normally i don't start my oven in summer but we've been having a cold summer in these mountains. weird!

ima try those onions you're proposing as a side for it. or maybe... maybe in a breakfast salad with fried spam (how do i love spam? let me count the way).

yeah i've become addicted to spam haaa haa haaa. i'm a terrible human being, i know.

so how s life/work?

i just made a green chile chicken stew, with red onion, cilantro and beer.

TASTES MONSTROUSLY GOOD

i also have a roast beef in the oven. waiting for the thermometer to hit 140F

rubbed it with olive oil, garlic, salt/pepper, paprika, thyme, oregano... and a sprinkle of msg mhuahahahhahahahahaaa... yes, im trucking with evil. but evil tastes great.

I had a peanut butter & jelly sandwich for breakfast/brunch.

ordinary cucumber ("gherkin" i think in england?)
roma tomato
anchovies in olive oil
hard boiled egg with soft creamy center
splah of red wine vinegar

hot august day!

ditto here, we had gazpacho