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Heading off to San Diego Comic Con tomorrow but time for a podcast meal! Fried Chicken Adobo! Yes, I visited me & co-host's @jonhoche's ancestral roots & put a twist on it. Started w/ 3 large chicken breasts. Seasoned with salt/pepper/bacon salt/paprika. Cut into small chunks. Set aside. I then made the adobo marinade. Soy sauce/rice wine vinegar/dark brown sugar/minced garlic/bay leaves/jalapenos/peppercorns/ground pepper/lemon zest/sweet chili sauce. Mixed it up until sugar dissolved. I placed chicken pieces in & mixed well so every piece was covered. Let sit overnight in refrigerator. Few hours would have been fine but it ended up being about 10 hours. Next day (today), I pulled out chicken/adobo marinade. Filled large bowl w/ flour. Set aside. Carefully strained adobo sauce into another container making sure to wipe off any garlic, jalapeno, peppercorn, etc from chicken. Chicken was beautifully dark & full of the adobo! I placed the chunks in bowl w/ flour. Mixed up til all covered. Then egg washed each piece & then back in the bowl of flour to cover again. Let sit as I heated up oil in pan. Meanwhile, I had started on some rice w/ salt & butter to taste. Let simmer til ready. Also chopped some multi-colored cherry tomatoes & green onions into slices. Heated up some green beans w/ butter/salt/pepper. Set aside. Back to chicken. Dropped in chicken a piece at a time to fry up in batches. Turned out beautiful golden color! As I was doing this, I put adobo sauce into a small pot to simmer. All done! Plated chicken w/ white rice/green beans. Spooned adobo sauce over chicken/rice. Dropped cherry tomatoes/green onions over it all. Finally, sprinkled some sesame seeds on top. HOLY MOTHERLAND WAS IT DELICIOUS!!! Chicken was crunchy & had that adobo taste to it w/o even adding more of the sauce on top of it. (We taste tasted it separately first). Added sauce was a bonus. Next time, I may add a thicker soy sauce to it to thicken up the sauce at the end but besides that...perfect! #ChefJimmy #cooking #ComicNewsInsider #friedchickenadobo #chickenadobo #chicken #adobo #whiterice #greenbeans #filipino #phillipines

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Got home from work & made some late night quickie kimchi fried rice. Deeeelish! Chopped up thick cut bacon into cubes. Fried up. Drained. Added roughly cut green onion kimchi. Then added Korean canned tuna w/ kimchi sauce in it. Threw in some minced garlic, gochugaru (Korean chili flakes) & ground pepper. Added cooked rice. Mixed well. Turned down heat. Spread shredded parmesan around. Cracked one egg in center. Put lid on & let cheese melt & egg cook. When done, I topped w/ sesame seeds & cut up pieces of dried seaweed. - Result: Hell yeah you know it was delicious! I've made longer & more involved kimchi fried rice dishes before but this was super quick, easy and damn tasty. #ChefJimmy #Cooking #kimchifriedrice #kimchi #greenonionkimchi #rice #friedrice #tuna #bacon #cheese #parmesancheese #gochugaru #egg #koreanfood #food #AsianCookingAsian https://www.instagram.com/p/COUn97oBzFT/?igshid=1likox3fm6kwz

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As you probably have noticed, I haven't been cooking in quite some time. A lot of it is that I'm back working full time & am just exhausted all the time. And a lot of it is I've been pretty depressed and down a bunch lately. But I decided to do a quick easy simple snack that I saw the amazing @cafemaddy do. It's called so-dduk so-dduk (Korean rice cakes & sausage). - I bought some small berkshire pork sausages & rice cakes. If you are unfamiliar w/ Korean rice cakes (dduk or tteok), they are not what you think of with American rice cakes. They are thick, chewy & usually glutinous. Think a thick pasta. I skewered them together & simply fried them in a generously oiled pan on both sides until the dduk was crispy. - Meanwhile I made the sauce to spread on it. I did a small variation of Maddy's recipe. Hers mixed gochujang/sugar/soy sauce/ramen packet/garlic powder/water. Shamefully, I was out of ramen so no packet! So I used everything else listed and randomly added some tomato sauce & sesame oil & mixed well. Then heated up in microwave for a short time. Apologies to Maddy for changing the recipe but it still turned out super good. - When the sausage/rice cakes were done, I took them out & patted them dry w/ a paper towel. I poured the sauce evenly all over each side and spread. Topped w/ some sesame seeds. - RESULT: Damn these were so tasty! Literally took me minutes to make. I was on zoom w/ a friend and was sending him pics of it and he was like "you're done already?" Such a great snack and so delicious and simple to make. Highly recommend checking out Maddy's IG, Tik Tok & website for more amazing recipes. #ChefJimmy #cooking #sodduksodukk #tteok #dduk #sausage #gochuhang #soysauce #snack #KoreanSnack https://www.instagram.com/p/CN4Hr3TB0wL/?igshid=15dm2cciw66ce

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I had some red potatoes so decided to do a variation of a recipe my friend Falynn put together. WHAT DID I DO?! Well, one thing I forgot to do was take pics as I was making it...so here it is after I put the leftovers into a container. SORRY! :) - I cut the red potatoes into cubes, leaving skin on most of them. Soaked them in salted water overnight. Next day, took them out & put them in a pot. Poured heavy cream & milk in. Added half of a sliced white onion, about 5 whole garlic cloves, a few whole sprigs of fresh rosemary & parsley, ground black pepper, & dry herbs de provence. Brought to a boil on medium high heat & stirred off & on. After awhile, let it simmer for a bit. - When potatoes were cooked, I poured into a strainer over a bowl to save the liquid. Carefully removed the herbs & large onion pieces. Left garlic in & bits of herbs here & there. Added about half a stick of butter & started mashing! I slowly added in some of the cream/milk mix that I had saved & mashed/stirred together. I also added a bit of cream cheese, a good portion of gorgonzola blue cheese & cut up pieces of bacon that I had cooked in the toaster oven. I had also added some of the bacon fat grease to the pot when it was still cooking the potatoes. After fully mixing together...I ATE SOME. - Result: GODDAMN TASTY! So flavorful & creamy. Honestly, I didn't need to add the bacon or cheese as it tasted so great but it's my party & I'll cry if I want to. Er...well I'll add bacon & blue cheese if I want to! #ChefJimmy #cooking #mashedpotatoes #heavycream #rosemary #parsley #onions #garlic #butter #gorgonzola #bluecheese #creamcheese #cheese #bacon #baconfat https://www.instagram.com/p/CMRh6PIBhRC/?igshid=pepqc1gbbl4k

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Baby's first cornish game hen! Listen, I cook all the time & am pretty good at it. But still a lot I haven't worked with or tried. Cornish game hen being one. So I looked up a bunch of different recipes (Giada, Ina, etc) & chatted w/ a friend (Thanks @erincrosbymakes!) about what I should do. So here's what I did. Cornish game hen w/ roasted potatoes/tomatoes. - Potatoes/tomatoes: Chopped red potatoes into chunks. Sliced cherry tomatoes in half. Covered in garlic oil/jalapeno salt/pepper/paprika/minced garlic/fresh rosemary/herbs de provence/bacon fat/butter. Mixed well & set on one side of the sheet pan. - Chicken: Poured salt/pepper/melted butter/fresh rosemary/sweet paprika/diced onions/minced garlic in a bowl. Put on some kitchen gloves & mixed well. Rubbed butter all over chicken. Then stuffed the mix inside the chicken & rubbed it all over on the outside. Added some chopped up lemons inside as well. Placed that on the other side of the sheet pan & stuck in 350 degree oven for about 50-55 minutes. - Result: It was a little hen but boy did it pack in that flavor. So juicy & tender. I'm not good at slicing a bird properly so I just sort of tore into it. Damn it was delicious! Potato/tomato mix was awesome too! Now that I've given it a shot, I def have ideas for future roasts. Maybe I might even fry one? DANGER DANGER BUT DELICIOUS DANGER!! #ChefJimmy #cooking #cornishgamehen #chicken #roastedchicken #redpotatoes #roastedpotatoes #cherrytomatoes #garlic #butter #paprika #onions #baconfat https://www.instagram.com/p/CLn7GlBBsUx/?igshid=1rnnuqvamih5l

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Baby Baker's first chocolate chip cookies! As said, I'm a good cook but never been a baker. So taking baby steps and trying things lately. I asked around for some super basic recipes. No nuts, oatmeal, fruit, etc. Simple. Both baking & non-baking pals gave suggestions. I did go w/ a baking pal! (Thanks Adrienne!) :) Thanks to everyone else. I will def try other recipes. - Recipe said to make tbsp sized balls and I think I made them slightly a bit too big. But besides that...they turned out pretty good! Yeah, I'm shocked too. :) I was curious about this recipe as it involved honey & that sort of threw me off. But it worked! I also combined chips & chocolate chunks (cut up a giant Hershey's dark chocolate bar) & thought I may have put too much in but it seems to have worked out. Excuse me while I have a cry while eating these delicious cookies! #ChefJimmy #cooking #baking #babybaker #chocolatechipcookies #basic https://www.instagram.com/p/CLhsA9KB9qX/?igshid=ne8sfncwfgv4

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I got some tilapia & didn't know what to do w/ it. I mean, I had plenty of ideas but wanted something super simple/quick! I looked up a bunch of recipes & sort of combined/came up w/ my own. Lemon Parmesan Tilapia! - In a baking pan, I put in garlic olive oil, minced garlic, jalapeno salt, black pepper, hot paprika, lemon juice, grated parmesan cheese, dried parsley, melted butter in & mixed up well. I had cut some tilapia up into somewhat square pieces & placed in pan. Mixed it all up making sure to cover every side of each piece of fish. Then topped it w/ more parmesan & parsley. Stuck in an oven for about 10-12 minutes. - Result: So simple & easy. And so damn tasty! Could easily mix up ingredients around keeping the basic lemon and parmesan. Nice bit of tanginess w/ the lemon. Bit of heat w/ paprika & jalapeno salt. And minor cheesiness w/ the grated parm. Deeeeeelish. Served it over perilla leaves w/ some rice & dinner roll on the side. #ChefJimmy #cooking #tilapia #lemonparmesantilapia #fish #lemon #parmesan https://www.instagram.com/p/CLFDQ9bhM4I/?igshid=vdkpf5kwqj7k

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Baby baker is at it again! As you know, I can cook like a MFer but have never really tried baking. Well, desserts that is. Decided to try some chocolate chip pumpkin bread this time around. I used Gemma Stafford's recipe of Bigger Bolder Baking. She's great for beginners and more experienced peeps. Well, I used her pumpkin bread recipe and added chocolate chips & chunks. And I didn't make the glaze. - Also, I don't have a proper bread pan so I used 2 smaller disposable ones & watched the time. I think I got it right! They turned out pretty good. Held together better than the banana bread I made last week. Deelish! - I need to try some basic chocolate chip cookies next time. But also, I'm afraid to get into baking as I'll do it all the time & then eat tons & turn my chub rock Asian self into an even chubbier rockier Asianier (can I be Asianier?). Stay tuned! #ChefJimmy #cooking #baking #babybaker #babysteps #pumpkinbread #chocolatechips #chocolatechippumpkinbread https://www.instagram.com/p/CK0sWqbBOLy/?igshid=1antj3vfpcqkf