A poultry seasoning batch made and dry-rubbed chicken tested, a refined chai recipe (technique intentionally breaks standard tea-brewing rules, works anyway), and a running want-list — a deli meat press, crispier roast chicken, Nanaimo bars — alongside a “win the freezer” push to clear out beef balls, patties, and ham.
Thursday, July 24th
Recipe ideas for later this year
- Nanaimo bars (from SE)
Monday, July 21st
Food explorations
Things I didn’t know I wanted:
- Deli meat press (for making homemade deli meat)
Monday, July 14th
Winner winner, chicken dinner
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make batch of poultry seasoning→ Bruce’s poultry and pork spice rub- update precise recipe, update simple recipe (TODO)
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dry rub / break down chicken (+1 on hind) -
potatoes (brined?)
Sunday, July 13th
Food ideas
- Use up pecans!
- Test out some fresh tuna sandies?
- Masala syrup (for drinks)
- chai without the tea
- Test crispier roasty chicken (lower temp? watch a few videos + adjust method)
- Kalbi beef ribs
Weekly food prep
- soup stock (pho ga?)
Wednesday, July 9th
Food links
- Food adulterants testing
- WTF: win the freezer edition
- beef balls → lunch soups
- patties → burgs
- ham → breakfast sandies
- Transglutaminase → meat glue (great for making lunch meats, though a farce + emulsification does so naturally)
Home food thinking
Chai (updated recipe)
→ Chai
- Some of the chai masala techniques I’ve seen break the rules of tea making (temp + time are much harder than English style tea brewing). It works, however, and you end up with a different (but good) tea flavour.
- Ingredients
- 2-3 cups of water
- 3-4 cloves
- 3-4 cardamom pods
- 2 teaspoons loose tea (Scottish breakfast is what I usually use)
- 2 teaspoons sugar
- a few slices of ginger
- milk (120 ml) or cream (60 ml), or to taste
- Steps
- Boil water/spices (can toast first if you want)
- Add tea
- ~5 minutes
- Add milk or cream and “boil over” 3 times: boil until it foams, remove from heat, stir, repeat, avoiding catastrophe.
- Goal: caramel sauce colour
Sunday, July 6th
July meals
- Strawberry salad and roast pork