Food

Made cardamom buns yesterday. Never had them before. God knows why.

Tri annual meat eating.
Bone in sirloin from Hill & Szrok.
Reverse sear, didn't have a thermometer but used Kenji's guide which was spot on, only problem was my dad was BBQing so I tried to sear on the grill but it was nowhere near hot enough to get a good char, still tasted delicious.

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Tarte tartin done.
Don’t think the salted caramel worked as well as I would like.
But it looks half decent..
Looking forward to having it after our roast chicken dinner.
Gonna have it with some salted caramel ice cream..

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Have had a weekend of smoking, sorry for the rubbish photos, but smoked off a gammon joint and a whole chicken in shwarma rub for sandwiches this week, beef short ribs and belly pork burnt ends for dinner last night, and then used the leftover burnt ends on pizzas tonight.

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Tarte tartin was excellent!
Will make again

I have a table for two booked at Hawksmoor
Borougj for 9pm tonight, special 'eat out to help out' menu which is £10 for a 300g rump steak and chips, and £5 corkage as it's Monday.

My wife is not feeling great (not COVID tho) so we might have to pass on dinner.

If anyone is interested let me know. No guarantee as she is/was really looking forward to it, so if she's feeling better we will be going.

This is almost certainly a very basic question but I am a wildly inexperienced/bad baker. I've got some bananas that are looking about perfect for banana bread. The last few times I've made it though the outside that's touching the edge of the tin has gone black and burnt before the centre has had a chance to cook properly. Where am I going wrong?

Oven temperature too high, possibly the recipe has too much sugar or your oven thermostat is broken or allows the temperature to fluctuate wildly.

You could start at the normal temp to allow the rise of the batter but then drop the temperature to allow the cooking to continue but reduce the browning process.

Thanks! Will try dropping the temperature midway.

Maple glazed black pepper bacon. Burger toppings are srs bznz

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The clearance fridge had an ox cheek I couldn’t leave. Made barbacoa with salsa verde, pico de gallo and homemade tacos.

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Delicious! I made something similar last night... Venezuelan arepas (from yesterday's Munchies), just corn masa and water and come out very much like a pitta... Filled with barramundi, slaw and refried beans... They were spectacular and might have been less work than making tortillas, very filling I deffo ate one too many...

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When I was in NYC I became addicted to arepas there was a place in tbe east village that was great.

https://www.caracasarepabar.com/

Hey, I ate there!
Was delicious as I recall, pre-Trump salad days...

Yeah it's a great place always busy. It was a few years ago when I was there. another place I loved was empanada mama up by hells kitchen then they moved to near delancy St beacuse of a fire think.

Gonna make some arepas soon 👍

FYI, allow a good extra hour if you are going to Billingsgate these days.

(The queue folds back along the car park all the way from where I stood when I took this picture)

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Also, tried this refreshing experiment: Cold tomato and watermelon soup, with coriander and chives, lime juice, salt pepper and olive oil. Basically a eyeballed gazpacho with watermelon and no onion/peppers. Will wiz again!

Oh looks great, I’ve been meaning to eat more fish so will give this a go.

Had some gorgeous tomatoes in the box this morning and am freaking out about how good breakfast was. Bread I baked yesterday, toasted, rubbed with garlic, rubbed with the ripe tomatoes, drizzle of oil and salt. Hot coffee. Even kiddo who is not usually a champion of overt garlic wolfed it down.

Continuing the Mexican theme with an American take on it, made the burritos from Joshua Weissman’s video (a bit memey and tedious, but the recipe is solid). https://youtube.com/watch?v=n76noIAaAuY

I replaced the chicken with fake chicken and skipped the bacon in the beans, and I added a bit of pico de gallo for some freshness. Very happy with how they turned out, don’t see myself using storebought flour tortillas if time permits.

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A good Pan con Tomate is one of the truly great starts to the day!

Did it today as well. 4am. Was afraid to go near other parents at the playground. They think I'm covid shy but I just stink of garlic.

4am

what?!?

butt-head 3 year old

Ha. I have one of them. Well, a butthead nearly two year old anyway. They dig my calamari tho.

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