Food

http://www.seriouseats.com/2012/06/how-to-make-simple-miso-soup.html

sous-vide... ...2 hours and 15 minutes...

Not the way I'd o if I had a blazing hangover, but rep to thee.

Thanks @mands and @Machine for miso tips

jesus, what a ballache. surely just bang in a hot pan for a minute a side, serve with half a loaf of white bread and pint of chocolate yazoo. then back to your pit for the rest of the afternoon.

Oh yes, I need bread. And chimichurri. I think I have all the ingredients right here. Oh boy how much I love a good chimichurri with my meat!

Cook a bunch of nice mushrooms with garlic, loads of butter and parsley. Some slow scrambled eggs with truffle and butter and serve on a nice wedge of bread.

EZ

Sounds quite good even though I'm not so big on mushrooms.

I don't have a meat thermometer, which I really should. I don't know what is the temperature of the water bath in my oven, in which my steak is submerged. The outer of the meat has got that well-done greying colour. Hope it's not like that all the way in.

Apologies for shite photos.
So, 1kg entrecôte (not rib-eye, excuse my French) sealed in a zip-lock bag, submerged in water bath in oven on I don't know exactly how many degrees as my oven isn't the most accurate one.

After about 2h20m it looked like this.

I cut the bag open, as I couldn't get the steak out with tongs without damaging the meat, and placed it on some paper towels to dry off any surface moisture, which wasn't very much.

Wanted to measure the excess liquid in the bag to see how much I had lost. It was a seriously good cut of beef. Not enough liquid to measure in a measuring cup!

Meanwhile the cast iron skillet was warming up for about 10-15 minutes on high heat. After adding a good glug of oil, I gently laid down the steak in the pan. It almost didn't fit.

This being a hangover meal I was glad to live in the same street as my favourite butcher, but I couldnt let this cut of meat go without other good ingredients, so while it was cooking in the oven I manned up and walked to the supermarket to get some other stuff.
After a couple of flips I generously added butter, some cut up shallots, spring onion stems, smashed garlic and fresh thyme. Starting to smell very good. Kitchen/living/dining room of the student house looked like smoggy Shanghai.

Thoroughly seared all sides and took the beauty out of the pan. With this low 'n slow preparation I didn't deem resting necessary. The core temperature of the meat wouldn't have risen much during the sear anyway.

So I started to cut pieces. I like my steak (at least the more fatty pieces such as entrecôte) medium-raw. This steak had cooked slightly too far to my taste, but definitely not too far to be enjoyable. And look at that edge-to-edge equality in doneness. Very little to no liquid came out of the steak while cutting. I was surprised at this view.

Innovative sous-vide steak
Salad of nutty lettuces, tomato, red bell pepper, cucumber and a quick & easy dressing with fresh herbs
Good bread from baker down the street
The best chimichurri (1 part flat parsley 1 part cilantro and some garlic all chopped up, a bit of red wine vinegar, very good olive oil, a dash of ground cumin, some red pepper flakes, salt and freshly ground black pepper)
Sadly no wine because I couldn't handle it yet.
This was a very good hangover breakfast if I may say so myself. The steak was juicy and tender. I say oven based water bath sous-vide is a success. I think my house mate is in love with me now.
Note: After taking the last photo I tossed some of the onion-garlic-etc.-mixture and tasty butter from the pan over the meat.

dropbox wont let me see pics, sadpandafacedotjaypeg

I think I'd have followed greenhell's method tho, quick n dirty, with 3 eggs and a couple of bloody marys :D

Hmm let me try and upload the pics somewhere else.

Works now?

You ate all that meat by yourself? #youfatbastard

Looks great however!

Fruit toast + blue cheese = winning at breakfast

Nah shared with my house mate. She calls me feeder.

Wholemeal tortilla wraps with charred pepper, courgette, sweet potato, red onion, tomato and a dressing made form olive oil, garlic, coriander and parsley.

Makingthe wraps from scratch was dead easy and they tasted so good! Normally my culinary inventions are pretty average so I was chuffed these came out so well. I would have added cheese and maybe sour cream but trying to reduce my dairy intake.

That's some hangover cure, I'd have been a very poor student if I ate that every time I had a hangover....

Got that Heston rice cooker/slow cooker for xmas so any veggie slow cooker recipes?

Make a simple roux with some onion and garlic. Add 50/50 milk and cream. Season with salt, pepper, red pepper flakes and nutmeg. Add to slow cooker with plenty of kale cut in stripes and some chicken or vegetable stock. Cook for about 2 hours on low. Finish off creamy kale with some lemon zest.

Gently fry some onion, carrots celery and later on garlic in olive oil. Add some cumin, chili powder and paprika. Toss it all into slow cooker with dry red lentils some bay leaf and plenty of vegetable stock. Cook for about 4 hours on low, add stock if necessary. When finished, puree it all up with blender or hand mixer and add a dash of vinegar or lemon juice. Serve soup with fresh cilantro.

Fry some onion, carrot and garlic in butter. Toss in slow cooker with pre-soaked split peas, celery, celeriac, bay leaf, nutmeg, salt and pepper and a dash of red pepper flakes if desired and plenty of water. Cook until split peas have dissolved completely. Don't know how long as I usually make in pressure cooker. Finish off soup with fresh parsley.

but am on a meat-free roll for a little while.
PS: no cheese please.
reduce my dairy intake
dry January

Jan is depressing enough with the lack of light and horrible weather.

I have a friend who, a few years ago, gave up alcohol, meat and masturbation for January.

Talk about bleak.

Is it any different from a slow cooker?

'friend'....

Really enjoyed the little packs of salmon from co-op. They're honey coated and oak smoked. Bloody tasty.

Oak smoke flavoured, unfortunately :-/

Don't care, they taste awesome. Normally v find smoked salmon really bland.

It cooks rice and risotto too?