i just post pictures of my food

hershel / he/its / my main block is @catboyclarity / my art blog is @deercliff

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Hi! I’m Hershel and I like to cook. This blog is gonna be a semi-daily record of meals I make since I like doing that. I’ll try and link to what recipe I use if there is one, or post my own recipes. Hope you enjoy!

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Tomato ricotta pasta

Huge success. Yummmmmm. Used my immersion blender, greatly improved things.

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Pasta e ceci with BREAD!!!

We’ve started doing a weekly dinner with our friend, who really really likes my bread. And it goes perfect with this meal, absolute decadence. Both turned out excellent.

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Onigiri

It’s a pain in the ass but it’s primarily composed of good pantry foods so it’s a nice fallback meal. Not traditionally “dinner” but it works and is quite filling. I use the tuna mayo filling.

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Burrata stuffed acorn squash and salad with baked goat cheese

I just don’t like any other squash as much as spaghetti squash. Sad!

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Yeasted waffles from Good Things by Samin Nostrat

Even when you fuck up the recipe these things bang like hell. Do I like waffles yeah I like waffles

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Risotto and piña colada

I fucked up the risotto but I don’t even care bc piña colada wow

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Ribollita

Bucket of wet slop. Grins.

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Salmon with vanilla bean squash

I’m mildly allergic to delicate squash and it scared me so so bad

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Roast chicken with cabbage and bread

Made this for my WEEKLY DINNER THING we do now. The cabbage in this recipe is basically sex. Like, how is it so good? Damn. I heartily recommend it if you’re even a little bit freaky about cabbage. Yum.

I BURNED the bread but it was still good/ok. I’m gonna use the rest to make ribolitta later this week.

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My beautiful chili

It’s basically its own recipe now, I’ll write it up next time I make it. I used hand crushed canned tomatoes (San Marzano sweeeeeeep) instead of diced and I really liked that. Made it very tomato forward, might experiment with some bouillon to balance out the flavors.

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Oyakodon

It looks fucked up and I used too much chicken for just me and not enough egg but holy shit I loved this so much. I ate way too much way too fast and I got a stomach ache. Recommend

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Chickpea tostadas with black bean and kale

Turned out very good. Huge success.

The black bean and kale thing I make is just a can of black beans and kale (an amount) cooked down in olive with a minced/crushed garlic clove, red pepper flakes, salt, pepper, and whatever other seasonings work for the meal. In this case, cumin and smoked paprika.

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Marinated goat cheese from Good Things by Samin Nosrat

My SIL got me this book for Christmas and I’ve been having a great time with it. I made this recipe bc I was excited about preserving goat cheese longer. I’m gonna use it for a salad later this week!

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Cauliflower Cheese from Good and Cheap

I tried this bc I wanted something new and I haven’t eaten cauliflower a lot due to disliking it. And I figured I’d give it a try since the only good thing I haven’t been able to get past in some way is bell peppers (n even then I like them in pepper jelly)

Anyway this was pretty good but it turned out weirdly wet? Online says it’s either from not letting them dry for long enough after parboiling, the parboiling itself, or just plain cooking it too long. I’ll keep trying

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Pasta Alla Norma

Now that I know where in town I can buy ricotta salata (and I’m doing better financially) I make eggplant and tomato pasta fancy-style.

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Hey it’s been a minute. One of my New Year’s resolutions was to start posting here regularly again. I’ve still been cooking a lot.

2025 was NOT MY YEAR but I think 2026 should be better and I miss documenting my cooking like this. More to come!