Homemade brioche by Bruce "The Baker" Hoffman

Week 3 of our new Keto diet showing how we are trying to get the balance right , two meals a day , first about noon to 1 pm last about 6-7 pm giving a period of approx 16 hours during which the body has a chance to utilise existing fats within the body. They call it intermittent fasting , we call it less cooking and dishes to wash and more time for important things :-)

Salad of butter lettuce with tomatoes from our garden (red and and yellow cherry) and avocado

I can thank Ilga for that title since I made these myself, but I agree with her totally. My mum gave me the recipe. These mince pies have a delicious macaroon topping.

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Continuing the Keto way of eating. It is NOT a starvation type diet.

This was my first meal of the day about noon today. Feeling no pain :-)

Home cooking during the COVID-19 pandemic, starting in March 2020.

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Basically followed Emeril's "persimmon glazed duck breast with steamed three color cauliflower" - minus the persimmons and cauliflower.

Instead of 1 c. blood orange juice, it was 1/2 c. blood orange juice (1 blood orange) and 1/2 cup Minneola tangelo juice (1.5 tangelos), with the remaining tangelo half split into slices and cooked in place of the persimmons.

Next time: Simmer the duck in the glaze more.

taco night

Not sure I hit it out of the park with this one.

It turned out pretty good considering the long beans were slightly overcooked and I forgot about the jicama (bung guang) lol :) ...and I didn't add carrots 'coz Bruce dislikes them... so much for soyur lodeh lol!

Homecooking

forkd.com/recipe/slow-cooked-lamb-shanks-in-red-390

This was preceded by homemade empanadas! Yum!

Thank you Cook's Illustrated for the recipe.

Linda took time off from painting to make us many scrumptious meals.

made by iron chef dirtherder

From "Ad Hoc at Home"

Shrimp with garlic scape pesto.

Latest attempt at slow cooking, this time with a Dutch oven instead of crockpot. I made “cholent”, a traditional Jewish dish I read about. Potatoes, onions, chunks of beef, pinto beans, buckwheat, cooked for 12 hours in seasoned broth. (Traditionally would be barley, but I went for #glutenfree buckwheat.) I thought it was a hearty stew with a warm flavor (turmeric and cumin), but my husband thought it was bland gruel. Ah well.

oxtail vegetable soup

made myself some lunch at 4pm

ingredients :

oxtail

carrots

tomatoes

mixed dried herbs

mushrooms

celery

location:

shanghai, china

Kraut from Baroo.

Sometimes I just feel like a tuna sandwich for lunch. There's a particular brand of bread around here that has slices around 1.5x the size of regular bread. I'm a fan but forget how filling lunch made with that bread is

As described in the Les Halles Cookbook (Disclosure: Amazon Affiliate link).

Added rehydrated dried shiitakes to the original recipe, plus a bit of the mushroom soaking liquid.

PS. The immersion blender is quite possibly my favorite kitchen gadget ever.