What Have You Cooked Recently?

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MoffAlbert said:
It's ribeye and eggs tonight. Salt, pepper, and garlic powder, seared in a pan with butter and a little red wine. Simple stuff, but this is the first time I've cooked in earnest all week thanks to an abundance of Easter leftovers.

Tomorrow, it's slow cooked pork tacos. Thinking about doing it with a whole onion, a few cloves of garlic, and some orange juice with the usual cumin, cayenne, and salt and pepper.
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Here is the pork pre-shred.
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I got up about 45 minutes before work this morning, seared this bad boy in a pan with some olive oil and leftover beef drippings from last night's dinner. Then I put it into the crock pot, seasoned it liberally with salt, pepper, cayenne, and cumin, and squeezed an orange over the whole thing. Then I added my chopped jalapeño, onion and garlic, and let the thing cook for about 7 hours while I was at work. As soon as I got home, I shredded it, and did a taste test.
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And decided while the pork was tender enough, it needed more flavor, so I added more cumin and some garlic powder to be safe. My plan is to let it go a little longer, let the shredded pork absorb some of that extra flavor in the juice, and then pan fry the pork until crispy for tacos. Mom gave me a jar of tomatillo salsa she canned this last fall, so with that and some sour cream, cheese, and guacamole, I think I'm probably gonna have some of the best tacos I've ever had.
 
I made some spring rolls recently. Fried up some ground pork, cabbage, mushrooms and whatnot and wrapped it in bits of filo dough then brushed the rolls with oil and put them in an air fryer.
Wrapping was tricky since the dough dried out very fast, but they came out great in the end. Made two kinds of dipping sauce. Next time I'll cheat and use wheat tortilla I think.
 
So i found a morel mushroom walking yesterday.
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Grilled it in some butter, drained the butter from the pan into another pan and cooked the sirloin to medium rare with garlic and onions, some salt and pepper.
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Excellent flavor. The nutty flavor of the morel leeched into the butter and grilled the flavor into the steak. Garlic and onions added a nice companion flavor to the steak.
 
Zwarbo cook horse cock. they say if Zwarbo eats horse cock Zwarbo become big and strong.
 
Huevos rancheros are so good. Made some meatloaf because I haven't had it since I was like 14, met my expectations.
 

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Third attempt at fried rice, and the first in the wok, went well. Still needed a bit more soy sauce, but slinging it across the sides of the wok so it caramilizes and cooks down as it flows into the rice works pretty well
 
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aldi had a "about to sell-by" pork butt at half-off, so I think buck and a half a pound?
threw it in an instant pot with
about three and half bay leaves
pack of onion soup mix
a couple of heaping tablespoons of that "tomato and chicken" bouillon powder
buttload of garlic powder
many red pepper flakes
some fresh ground black pepper
bit of cumin
some chili powder
a bulb of garlic, peeled and at least each clove broken in half
an onion quartered

in at high pressure for an hour and change
original plan was to pull it and bbq sauce but it works good without it too
 
My sense of taste is coming back slowly postcovid. My butcher managed to have pheasant for the first time ever.
I made roasted pheasant (in a bacon blanket) with sautéed kale, roasted potatoes, stuffing, and wild mushrooms gravy.
Holy cow, pheasant is amazing. I thought it would be darker meat, but it was very light and so flavorful (even with my shit taste buds)
 
Haven't made buttermilk biscuits in a long time, I like to make them into lil' sammiches with cheese and sausage patties. I also used butter and blueberry jam.
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Made some chickpea masala w/ home made sauce. If you have an instant pot, it's great for making sauces in shorter times. I used some earth balance, msg, pepper, 1 can of fire roasted tomatoes, some tomato paste, smoked paprika, whole garlic cloves, garam masala, coconut cream, cilantro, lime juice, chili powder, tumeric powder, onion, and some trader joes chili flakes.
First added earth balance and onion then got the onions nearly caramelized and added the tomato paste and garlic cloves (i used like 3 bulbs, i love whole garlic), before adding dry spices and then the rest. Pressure cooked for 5 minutes and added the coconut before blending.
I sauteed chickpeas, mushroom, and ginger in a sauce pan before adding the sauce. After simmering for 15-20 minutes I added some purple cabbage and some more cilantro/lime and served with yellow rice.
This recipe is not authentic in any way but i don't care, it's really good and I want to add gochujang next time, i think it will add a good spice
 
Got a craving for Japanese, so I made jelly donuts onigiri. Filling was spicy tuna and mayo. I individually wrapped them and it's so easy to take with me for a quick bite.
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Then I noticed I had three bananas about two days away from being rotten. You know what that means!
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This is probably is one of my favorite low-effort lunch.

Peanut Butter, Banana, and honey drizzled over the bananas.
 

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