Winter Term, Day Twenty Eight: PHO Real!

Started off my day with the beginnings of pho beef broth (blanching the bones, charring the onions and ginger, toasting the spices), but as I worked, I needed sustenance. I made a meatball sandwich on wheat bread with provolone, basil, crushed red pepper, tomato sauce and then melted, and then topped with spinach, salt and pepper, and olive oil.



I prepped all the things for last minute dinner making, and then headed to the airport with Brandi. We returned, Daniel finished up the summer rolls (fillings included tamari-marinated fried tofu, bean sprouts, green onions, garlic chives, cilantro, basil, carrots, cucumbers, pickled daikon, and mung bean noodles, with sweet chili sauce and peanut sauce to top) and I finished prepping the beef pho: boiling the beef stock, cooking the rice noodles, then pouring the boiling broth over the thinly sliced flank steak and noodles. Yoshi, Brandi, Daniel, Aries and I then topped the soup with bean sprouts, lime, basil, green onions, hoisin sauce, sriracha and sambal, depending on taste.

Winter Term, Day Twenty Seven: Snausages and Stuff

I woke up this morning and realized I had so many sandwich options... I opted for toasted wheat bread with turkey and mozzerella, melted, then topped with garlic chives, avocado, red leaf lettuce and salt and pepper. This photos are purely to make my mom dream of enormous sandwiches with avocado.


Yoshi went crazy at West Side Market this week and wanted all kinds of fresh poultry sausages for some meals this week. Tonight, he made garlic parmesan chicken sausages topped with sauteed red peppers and onions (no onions and peppers for Chris) served with green beans and chimichurri potatoes. Sooooo delicious.

Winter Term, Day Twenty Six: On Top of Spaghetti, All Covered with Cheese

Tonight: simple, classic, delicious. The triad of winter term housemates tucked in a fair amount of spaghetti with basil marinara and meatballs and a side of garlic bread.

While making dinner, I had a delivery of a slice of fresh foccacia from Harris. I have lovely friends.

Winter Term, Day Twenty Five: A Dinner at the Hark

A momentous day: nothing cooking planned at Slapdash house, because Ardea and Oliver invited me to Harkness for dinner! I spent most of the afternoon with Harris, at the public library and in my kitchen talking about food and drinking tea with Yoshi.

They made a coconut cauliflower curry and white rice topped with toasted coconut. There were roadkill/squashed toad cookies for dessert (a hearty flat chocolate chip and oat cookie that I found a reference to on the Fern Country Store website, billed exclusively for pre-teens) and two kinds of bread: sourdough baguettes and cinnamon swirl bread. So much deliciousness.


Thank you for the invitation, guys. :)

Winter Term, Day Twenty Four: Pan-tastic Pan-Asian

Another West Side Market and Trader Joe's trip, with an added stop at Seoul Korean Market as well (I got a crushed pear drink as well as pickled daikon and dumpling wrappers).

Tonight's meal was a Pan-Asian selection of goodies:

Curry udon with beef, carrots, onions and potatoes by Michael
Tteokbokki (a Korean chili stew) with whole hard boiled eggs, garlic chives, daikon, and Korean rice cakes by Eliza
Mushroom broth by Amanda
Tuna, pickled daikon, lettuce, carrot, avocado, cucumber and green onion sushi by me (More than half the green onions came from the ones growing in my kitchen... I'm impressed!)

Chris got her adorable rice bowl sans nori, and Yoshi and Mike helped us devour all things on the table, but we had enough food to feed twice as many people, even after we stuffed ourselves.







Also, I only really seem to be painfully stuffed after Asian meals. I do love them so. Everyone else was stuffed as well, so before we cleaned up, we watched Wallace and Gromit: A Matter of Loaf and Death. A good humorous lull in the evening.