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Really pissed at myself. I made black beans and rice. There was SUPPOSED to be chicken thighs seasoned with cumin and chili powder, but I pulled a Scalfani. Should've butterflied them and removed the bones...or cooked them in the oven. I'm more pissed at the wasted food than the fuck up because I don't have a wendigo spirit in me forcing me to eat raw meat.
 
Doing OMAD so I combine breakfast and dinner into one big meal. I made scrambled eggs with bacon, sour cream, and monterey jack cheese and an avocado on the side for the breakfast portion. Sour cream on eggs is A+ and good for gut health if you buy the right stuff. Also pan fried a 10 oz ribeye and had it with sauteed onions and air fried radishes with a bit of garlic on them which make a great replacement for potatoes if you're trying to cut carbs.

Sidenote: If you air fry vegetables a lot I recommend getting a spray bottle for applying oil. You can spray the veggies with whatever oil you have on hand while it's in the air fryer and don't have to mess with tossing them in a bowl or bag or drizzling it on unevenly. You can get them on amazon for pretty cheap.
 
EnemyStand said:
Really pissed at myself. I made black beans and rice. There was SUPPOSED to be chicken thighs seasoned with cumin and chili powder, but I pulled a Scalfani. Should've butterflied them and removed the bones...or cooked them in the oven. I'm more pissed at the wasted food than the fuck up because I don't have a wendigo spirit in me forcing me to eat raw meat.
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Wasted food? You can always cook things more. Or was time the issue? Throw them in the oven while you're eating and use them for something else...
 
Kosher Salt said:
Wasted food? You can always cook things more. Or was time the issue? Throw them in the oven while you're eating and use them for something else...
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Outer half was burnt to a crisp, inside was bright pink but there wasn't enough to be worth cooking more. Sure, I can use the bones for soup but I d9idn't have time to thaw another thing of meat. I forget not everyone reads the Jack Scalfani thread here.

Trust me, I would have much preferred it simply being undercooked and I wouldn't be whining.
 
EnemyStand said:
Outer half was burnt to a crisp, inside was bright pink
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Oh.

Yeah, that takes a kinda unique talent. Can't do very much to fix overcooked. Even still, if they were in any shape edible, I'd have still tried to finish them in the oven and just grimace my way through the burned parts.
 
EnemyStand said:
Really pissed at myself. I made black beans and rice. There was SUPPOSED to be chicken thighs seasoned with cumin and chili powder, but I pulled a Scalfani. Should've butterflied them and removed the bones...or cooked them in the oven. I'm more pissed at the wasted food than the fuck up because I don't have a wendigo spirit in me forcing me to eat raw meat.
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A meat thermometer works well for these because you can't really eyeball them effectively. I prefer to "oven fry" these because they are fatty enough that they essentially fry in their own fat. I used to get thighs in bulk, or leg quarters, because they were absurdly cheap and I generally prefer dark meat anyway, even if the pieces are somewhat more irregular. Unfortunately it seems other people caught on to this and the prices are closer to other pieces now.

Just buying a whole chicken is the one bargain left, and I suck at cutting them up despite watching numerous videos where some wizard cuts them up in a minute. Even though I'm not very good at it this might be the excuse I need finally to get an actual knife worthy of the name.
 
Some ribs with a tangy bbq sauce, home made slaw with bell pepper and collards.

Traditional Russian fisherman's soup made with a fish stock from the bones fins etc.
 

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Significantly less dogshit pancakes! These also were from a bag of Birch Benders mix, but unlike the last Pancakes of Complete Sadness, these ones have actual normal pancake ingredients and the mix smelled nothing like cat food. I still found that I had to adjust the mix to water ratio, the batter was way too thin for my liking at first. These cooked up way better, I didn't mention in the previous post but for some reason the keto pancakes didn't do the bubble-thing on the edges that I was taught to watch for when making pancakes.

These tasted way better, but the texture was a little gummy and the blueberry isn't very noticeable. But I'm spoiled from eating scratch-made pancakes and at least these ones didn't ruin my whole morning!
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MerriedxReldnahc said:
Significantly less dogshit pancakes! These also were from a bag of Birch Benders mix, but unlike the last Pancakes of Complete Sadness, these ones have actual normal pancake ingredients and the mix smelled nothing like cat food. I still found that I had to adjust the mix to water ratio, the batter was way too thin for my liking at first. These cooked up way better, I didn't mention in the previous post but for some reason the keto pancakes didn't do the bubble-thing on the edges that I was taught to watch for when making pancakes.

These tasted way better, but the texture was a little gummy and the blueberry isn't very noticeable. But I'm spoiled from eating scratch-made pancakes and at least these ones didn't ruin my whole morning!
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Interesting. How'd you doctor them up? I'm guessing egg and milk?
 
EnemyStand said:
Interesting. How'd you doctor them up? I'm guessing egg and milk?
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I actually didn't add anything extra to them, aside from adding more of the dry mix than suggested. I wonder though if they would have turned out better had I used milk instead of water, milk and an egg might have actually helped with the gummy texture.
 
Had brussel sprouts as a side to my dinner and forgot how nice they are.

They're best cooked from frozen. Drizzle them in olive oil and mix them around so they all have a film of oil around them, sprinkle salt over them then stick in the oven for around 40 - 50 minutes. They'll look burnt but it's only the outer layer. Just little crispy balls of joy. They don't really have that sprout taste that makes people hate them.

Had younger family members who HATE sprouts begrudgingly try them and end up loving them. I like them with some nando's peri peri salt sprinkled over them.
 
Tonight's dinner is a slow cooked beef shank stew with pork buns. I'm planning on browning the shanks in a pan, putting them in the slow cooker with some onions, spinach, garlic, five spice, cooking wine, and soy sauce and letting it cook for 8 hours. The buns won't be homemade, but they'll make a good reason for me not to put noodles in the soup. I'm just not feeling carbs lately.
 
2nd attempt at Japanese-style curry off of box roux* the other night, and I was successful! I wasn't 100% sure what I screwed up last time, just that the curry 'sauce' didn't thicken and stayed super thin (kinda like it separated) and it didn't cover much of anything.

Remedied that by cooking meat and veggie in 2 separate runs, then throwing it together in 1 pan to simmer. Used less onion in exchange for some sliced apple, and tossed in some extra ingredients** in the final thickening stir, but it came out good! I fucked up my rice and it came out a bit mushy, but I can look past it in exchange for not fucking up the big part.

* S&B brand Extra Hot roux if you can find it. I'd call it more of a Medium (unless you're comparing it to the heats under it), but it was a perfect amount of heat IMO.
** Soy sauce splash, butter, a sprinkle of shichimi powder, and chocolate- yes, chocolate. 2 squares of bittersweet, you don't really taste it. May do 1 square next time, though.
 
EnemyStand said:
Really pissed at myself. I made black beans and rice. There was SUPPOSED to be chicken thighs seasoned with cumin and chili powder, but I pulled a Scalfani. Should've butterflied them and removed the bones...or cooked them in the oven. I'm more pissed at the wasted food than the fuck up because I don't have a wendigo spirit in me forcing me to eat raw meat.
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I always bake chicken with bones in the oven, I don't trust putting it in a skillet or on the grill, even if it was butterflied.

For buttermilk chicken like KFC I fully bake the chicken in the oven first, and then fry on the batter after.
I could trust the grill or a skillet with breast meat, but not pieces with bones or skin.
 
Made myself a pizza with pepperoni, olives and red onion! Nothing beats kneading pizza dough
 
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