If you have a good black bean recipe, please post. I make killer pinto beans, a family cultural tradition. But my black beans taste like my pinto beans. Every time I search for Black Bean Recipes they start with, open the can of beans....
thanks.
I got a new cook book from my parents for my birthday last month. It has receipes for different dishes that where in anime or manga. Of course some of them are dishes from "Food Wars" many are typical items from japan. Last week I tried some of of the dishes.
Fake Pig Roast (Food Wars)
The overall preperation following the recipe took very long but the result were great.
Napolitan Curry Fettuccine (Food Wars)
The recipe ask for these japanese curry blocks I can't easily buy. So I tried to make a curry roux with curry powder. The end result was not bad but only with all ingredients at play. I guess I try using curry paste next time. That I can buy everywhere.
Sanji's Curry (One Piece)
Just normal Curry Rice. The author could have used any and every anime here but I guess "One Piece" had to be included. Here I used curry paste.
Fake Pig Roast (Food Wars)
The overall preperation following the recipe took very long but the result were great.
Napolitan Curry Fettuccine (Food Wars)
The recipe ask for these japanese curry blocks I can't easily buy. So I tried to make a curry roux with curry powder. The end result was not bad but only with all ingredients at play. I guess I try using curry paste next time. That I can buy everywhere.
Sanji's Curry (One Piece)
Just normal Curry Rice. The author could have used any and every anime here but I guess "One Piece" had to be included. Here I used curry paste.
Idk where you live but in the US, it looks like those blocks are very easy to find online. I’d have to assume they ship well.
I can also get them online but I would have to wait a bit and they are not cheap.
What I cooked for my wife for dinner last night.
That is about an 8oz ribeye with a dry seasoning of garlic powder, onion powder, salt, and pepper. Cooked to rare, and very tender. On the steak is a little truffle butter as a topping. Long grain and wild rice, and my wife decided to make popovers for a bread course. We usually go out to a local Mexican place that we started going to when we were dating back in the dark ages of the 1980s.
That is about an 8oz ribeye with a dry seasoning of garlic powder, onion powder, salt, and pepper. Cooked to rare, and very tender. On the steak is a little truffle butter as a topping. Long grain and wild rice, and my wife decided to make popovers for a bread course. We usually go out to a local Mexican place that we started going to when we were dating back in the dark ages of the 1980s.
Introduced my girlfriend to Indian food last year, so I made her favorite for valentines: butter chicken. Introduced her to a new dish, which she also loved: palak paneer (spinach and cheese)
Tonight’s dinner, learning to cook on a he Blackstone griddle. Picture of mine:
Learning curve on a new piece of equipment. I cooked fried rice, chicken thighs, squash, onions, tofu, and some bok choy. First time cooking on it, learned where the hot spot is, where to let something sit just to sauté, gotta pick up a couple of things to make cleanup easier, but happy I didn’t ruin anything hung with the first shot.
Learning curve on a new piece of equipment. I cooked fried rice, chicken thighs, squash, onions, tofu, and some bok choy. First time cooking on it, learned where the hot spot is, where to let something sit just to sauté, gotta pick up a couple of things to make cleanup easier, but happy I didn’t ruin anything hung with the first shot.
Eggs scrambled in brown butter, sausage and cheddar in a crepe with gravy
I made Dal Makhani and was able to get a few more of the ingredients in the recipe I didn’t have before. It turned out super well. And I didn’t accidentally add the seeds of a hot pepper 
Look at all the shades of brown!
Haven't made this in years and years. Salmon mousse stuffed mushrooms with beurre blanc my girlfriend made bread pudding
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Reporting in from my annual sampling of commercial fish sandwiches:
Arby's: Decent for a fast food fish sandwich, but don't get the one with cheese.
Burger King: Hard and overdone. Flavor wasn't too bad, but that texture...oof.
Culver's: (Cod) Better than Arby's. Lettuce was a little sloppy, but would eat again.
Culver's: (Walleye) Holy moly, this is an awesome fish sandwich. I even found a bone in it. Are they always this good?
Culver's: (Walleye #2) -- I am no longer accepting entries in this category. Calling it now--Culver's walleye carries 2025.
--Patrick
Arby's: Decent for a fast food fish sandwich, but don't get the one with cheese.
Burger King: Hard and overdone. Flavor wasn't too bad, but that texture...oof.
Culver's: (Cod) Better than Arby's. Lettuce was a little sloppy, but would eat again.
Culver's: (Walleye) Holy moly, this is an awesome fish sandwich. I even found a bone in it. Are they always this good?
Culver's: (Walleye #2) -- I am no longer accepting entries in this category. Calling it now--Culver's walleye carries 2025.
--Patrick
I demand this done more extensively.
figmentPez
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In my experience the walleye tends to sell out well before Lent is over, so yeah it's usually that good.
So I saw a Youtube video that showed how to make cookies without an oven. All you need is nutella, all-purpose flour, milk, and a microwave. I gave it a try, and they came out mostly all right.
However, the cookies ended up too hard (they literally hurt our teeth to bite into them) and they were too sweet, so for my second attempt I altered the recipe. I lowered the amount of nutella, and used cake flour instead of all-purpose flour. But the result was that the dough refused to form a hard enough ball for me to shape into cookies. Instead, it was wet and gloopy, ie it was more like cake batter. So I had no choice but to add some baking powder, then stick the mass of dough into my rice cooker and bake it.
So, basically... anyone else ever tried making cookies but failed so hard you ended up making a cake instead?
However, the cookies ended up too hard (they literally hurt our teeth to bite into them) and they were too sweet, so for my second attempt I altered the recipe. I lowered the amount of nutella, and used cake flour instead of all-purpose flour. But the result was that the dough refused to form a hard enough ball for me to shape into cookies. Instead, it was wet and gloopy, ie it was more like cake batter. So I had no choice but to add some baking powder, then stick the mass of dough into my rice cooker and bake it.
So, basically... anyone else ever tried making cookies but failed so hard you ended up making a cake instead?
figmentPez
Staff member
Yes. I wanted to make strawberry cookies, but didn't want to look up a recipe, so I just cut up a lot of strawberries and added them to the cookie dough. Which added a lot of moisture. I eventually added enough flour that I could form vaguely cookie sized lumps, but they were still more mini cakes than cookies. Tasted good, though.