Felt like Japanese today at the mall and had two choices: a food court option or a full on sit-down restaurant.
Yeah I went for the sit-down option and goddamn this was my first time having non-instant ramen and holy jive.
Forgot to post this when I made it maybe a month ago?
Biscuits from scratch with some cinnamon butter leftover from a restaurant. Hickory smoked spam, toasted. Scrambled eggs with bell pepper. Pickled cucumber and daikon I made awhile ago. One little tomato from the garden.
Biscuits were pretty dry, but eating a little bit of everything in one bite was surprisingly good, added some moisture to the biscuit.
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Decided to try out this simple Beef Wellington recipe. One of those things that I've heard about but never tried.
Couldn't find a tenderloin at the market so used a roast instead. Used rehydrated shiitake mushrooms and canned ones.
Didn't connect my two pieces of puff pastry properly so it split while cooking. Probably should've put egg wash on the bottom, but I was afraid of the whole thing breaking. Bottom dough ended up sticking to the foil.
Hardest part was waiting multiple times and getting hungrier and hungrier. It's pretty good, but probably needs something else to go with it.
Couldn't find a tenderloin at the market so used a roast instead. Used rehydrated shiitake mushrooms and canned ones.
Didn't connect my two pieces of puff pastry properly so it split while cooking. Probably should've put egg wash on the bottom, but I was afraid of the whole thing breaking. Bottom dough ended up sticking to the foil.
Hardest part was waiting multiple times and getting hungrier and hungrier. It's pretty good, but probably needs something else to go with it.
Eat it with boiled veggies, mashed potatoes and gravy.
This is the way.
(And as a British person, that meat needs to be brown ALL the way through... )
Meat should never be brown all the way through.
The video also shows a pink center, probably an Americanized version. I prefer beef around the medium rare range. Pork and chicken definitely have to be cooked all the way through. Fish, any way is fine as long as it's prepared right.
We were thinking mashed potatoes. Will have to see what kind of veg I have in the freezer.
We were thinking mashed potatoes. Will have to see what kind of veg I have in the freezer.
Ironically, I've eaten raw chicken with raw chicken egg in Japan, where is much safer to eat.
Although I read recently that they're trying to phase out...
I do wonder if we're a little too paranoid about it here. I've had salmonella and it really was not that exciting.
Salmonella isn't really a thing in Japan, due to (stricter) safety precautions.
How Can You Eat Raw Eggs and Raw Chicken in Japan and Not Die?
For some reason, raw chicken in Japan is an edible treat that doesn't result in horrible stomach pain! Raw eggs go doubly! What is it that makes this so?
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And yes, you should be REALLY worried about salmonella.
(Source: - https://www.mayoclinic.org/diseases-conditions/salmonella/symptoms-causes/syc-20355329 )
I've had food poisoning a few times, and my stomach's more sensitive with age. Not something I'm going to risk.
Edit: forgot to mention, made mashed potatoes with sauteed onions and garlic to go with the leftovers. The dough on the Wellington isn't crispy anymore, but the mushrooms have more flavor now.
Edit: forgot to mention, made mashed potatoes with sauteed onions and garlic to go with the leftovers. The dough on the Wellington isn't crispy anymore, but the mushrooms have more flavor now.
I have a tough stomach, I guess.
That does look nice, though I wonder how nice it is when trying to chew it.
I'll concede that maybe I just don't know. There's people who think they don't like rare meat because they've never had it cooked properly. Rare doesn't mean raw. Rare doesn't mean just not cooking it. Rare is cooked. I'm sure there's cooks out there who just aren't cooking their steaks, and it leads people to think they don't like rare meat. So maybe there's some secret trick to well done meat too. I don't know.
But I grew up on terrible overcooked steaks, so it's hard to pass on any opportunity to have it medium-rare or below.
That does look nice, though I wonder how nice it is when trying to chew it.
I'll concede that maybe I just don't know. There's people who think they don't like rare meat because they've never had it cooked properly. Rare doesn't mean raw. Rare doesn't mean just not cooking it. Rare is cooked. I'm sure there's cooks out there who just aren't cooking their steaks, and it leads people to think they don't like rare meat. So maybe there's some secret trick to well done meat too. I don't know.
But I grew up on terrible overcooked steaks, so it's hard to pass on any opportunity to have it medium-rare or below.
The problem with well done beef is that there's a fine line between "done" and "shoe leather" and a lot of people don't k ow where the line is.