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Garlic Salmon Pasta with Super Garlicky Garlic Bread

Post author By Allison
Post date April 20, 2018
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There are a ton of food “holidays” out there.

“National Pineapple Upside-Down Cake Day”

“Lima Bean Respect Day”

“Chocolate-Covered Cashew Truffle Day”

(You think I’m kidding. Seriously, those are the actual food holidays for April 20th and 21st!)

Most of the time I skip them. I’m usually meh about most of them, and the ones I know of lean heavily towards American and European foods. (Seriously, where’s my International Pho Day? Ramen Respect Day? Kimchi Celebration Month? I’d be all over those food holidays.)

But every now and then, there’s a food holiday that I just have to celebrate… either because it’s super nerdy (oh hi, Pi Day) or because it just gives me a really good excuse to make a food I want to eat.

In other words… well hello there, National Garlic Day. Fancy meeting you here.

We are crazy for garlic in this household (plus I really just wanted a good excuse to make this “OMG Garlic bread” that we made on stream in January again, but this time we used garlic cheddar bread. so good.), so of course I had to make sure we celebrated National Garlic Day. Obviously.

And since garlic bread isn’t quiiiite a meal all by itself… oh darn, guess I’ll just make it an entire garlic dinner. What a difficult life I live.

I had planned to make this garlicky pasta and top it with this garlicky salmon. But unbeknownst to me, most of my onions went bad… so caramelized onions were out of the picture. Instead, we just made the salmon and used it as a sauce for the pasta… which was delicious! Such a good sauce. Still want to make that garlicky caramelized onion pasta one of these days though…

… in the meantime, I’ll just be over here hoarding garlic bread…

Today’s Question of the Day: What is your favorite pasta dish?

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Tags fish, garlic, garlic bread, Italian, pasta, salmon, Twitch

Twitch Streaming

Spinach, chorizo, and chickpea frittata

Post author By Allison
Post date April 18, 2018
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For the last five months, five days a week, I’ve been cooking something different every day for my Twitch stream. It’s been an amazing experience, and I’ve gotten to cook so many things that have been on my “to cook” list for years.

At first, we went all out. But after a while, I realized that the decadent lifestyle – roast duck, bolognese, ramen, etc. – just isn’t sustainable for me. Don’t get me wrong, I’ve enjoyed all the crazy fun things I’ve gotten to make. (And no worries… it’s not stopping anytime soon!) But the start of streaming coincided perfectly with me entirely stopping working out (due to both how busy streaming kept me at first, and also an intentional break to let some injuries heal). Not great.

I’ve realized I (and my body) are happiest when I get a healthy, filling breakfast. I can eat random shit the rest of the time, but as long as I get a good breakfast, I’m good to go.

So that, and an overabundance of spinach in my fridge that needed to be used up, led to today’s menu – two healthy, filling, spinachy, and hopefully tasty breakfast options.

The first recipe is a chickpea, spinach, chorizo frittata. Not the easiest to make from scratch in the morning, but if you can manage it ahead of time (over the weekend, maybe?) it’s easy to reheat a wedge on a weekday morning. On its own I found it to be a little one-note (although definitely filling and fairly healthy), however with a dollop of your favorite salsa, it’s exxxxxcellent. 4 out of 5 stars, would make again.

As for the second recipe, which was a green shakshuka recipe… I’m gonna go ahead and chalk it up to use error. Even though it seems like something I would love, and I’ve made things from Jenny and Teri’s blog before that turned out great… I was very much not a fan of this dish, so I’m going to assume I took a wrong turn somewhere.

Regardless… the frittata was great! And we’ll try out a more traditional shakshuka recipe one of these days. Can’t win ’em all.

Today’s Question of the Day: What is your favorite savory breakfast? (Even better if it’s healthy – I need breakfast ideas!)

Tags breakfast, chickpea, chorizo, frittata, stream, Twitch

Twitch Streaming

Asian-Style Green Beans with Bacon

Post author By Allison
Post date April 17, 2018

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“You should make green beans soon!” For once, Son actually had a specific request for the stream, after seeing one of our Twitch viewers talk about a stir-fry they were making for dinner that night.

I’m always looking for input from him on what I should make (usually at least once a week, I’ll ask him to pick a cookbook, country, or vegetable to help me figure out a future stream), so green beans went on the menu. Originally I was going to make green beans with xo sauce, but given that some of the ingredients for that are pricier and a bit more obscure (I’m lookin’ at you, dried scallops), I tabled that for a future stream and went looking for a more reasonable menu.

Asian-style green beans with pork belly? Sounds good to me.

Since we didn’t have pork belly on hand but do always have bacon, I switched out the crispy pork belly part of the recipe for bacon. And while I can’t judge the tastiness of the pork belly in the dish, since I obviously didn’t make it, I can definitely assert that bacon is an excellent replacement. Holy cow. So good.

The dish is flavorful, with just a tad bit of sweet and spicy going on, and the bacon cooked in it almost takes on the flavor of bacon jam. It’s so good. Plus it’s green beans, so… we can definitely claim that it’s healthy, right?

Today’s Question of the Day: What are your favorite dishes to get when you go out for Chinese food?

Tags Asia, Asian, bacon, China, Chinese, green beans, stir-fry, Twitch, vegetable

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“Vampire Slayer” Ramen

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RAMEN!!!

I’ve been wanting to make ramen for years. Years and years and years. And ever since I started my Twitch cooking stream, it’s been one of the top things on my list of todos.

It would’ve been easy to be paralyzed by “which one to make?”, or, “which ramen should be my first?” But when I came across a recipe named the “Vampire Slayer Ramen Express”, from the excellent Mandy of Lady and Pups, it went straight to the top of my list.

I mean, look at all that garlic. I don’t even care if it’s not traditional, it had to happen.

I got a head start on Saturday’s stream (ramen prep in lieu of our usual Sushi Saturday), so with the ramen eggs marinating, menma cooked, and chicken broth already in the fridge, finishing the ramen was a neat five-hour stream. (If I’d tried to do it all in one day… it likely would have been closer to 24-hours.)

The chashu was a simple sear, then stick it in the oven and wait. Since I had two and a half hours to kill, I tried something else I’ve been wanting to do for years… milk tea! (No boba this time, only because it was a last minute addition to the menu and I had none in the house.)

I used this Milk Tea recipe from Chichilicious, which was basically just very strong black tea, plus sweetened condensed milk. Oh so good. 10/10, would make again.

So on a massive caffeine and sugar high (wheee!), I made the garlic powder, garlic oil… and then finished up the ramen!

The biggest question from our chat is… was it worth the two days of work?

Both Son and my answers? A resounding YES.

Holy cow, it’s so good. (And SO garlicky. You definitely have to love garlic to eat this ramen.) While the chicken broth by itself was surprisingly light yet flavorful, the broth itself is thick, has an fantastic depth of flavor, and is so rich that you can’t eat more than one bowl. Exactly what you’d expect from a good bowl of ramen.

And when you add in all the other toppings? EVEN BETTER. The menma turned out deliciously, I’m still swooning over the ramen eggs (I don’t think I can make soft-boiled eggs any other way now), the chashu is oh so good, and I love that the garlic oil and garlic powder add EVEN MORE LAYERS OF GARLIC.

(There is no such thing as too much garlic.)

Also, since I’m writing this the next day, I can tell you that leftovers? Also excellent.

I may have to go steal another ramen egg from the fridge.

Today’s Question of the Day: What is your favorite kind of ramen?

Tags Japanese, ramen, stream, Twitch