What Did I Cook Yesterday

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Made hotteok from maangchi’s cookbook for Kory. Tasty! And easy!

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Kory made this super delicious stir-fried green bean and pork dish w hoisin sauce. YUM.

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I’ve been wanting to make Chrissy Teigen’s famous banana bread forever and finally did. First the dumb store did not have the small box of instant jello vanilla pudding, only the big box. They had cook and serve and some nasty ass sugar free kind. So I had to use store brand. Then I didn’t have enough bananas so I had to go back. Then I used baking powder instead of baking soda. Then it took way longer to cook than it said. Then I had to stay up to try and get it to cool down as much as possible. Ugh! Anyway it tastes great fortunately, even with the hiccups.

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Super Bowl snacks! Made pickle wraps with pastrami instead of ham. Mini corn dogs. And sliced up an Asian pear leftover from LNY. The cream cheese though may have been too much for Kory. And what a terrible game!!!

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Lunar New Year feast for Kory. First one! Gamjajorim, tteokbokki, bulgogi, ssamjang, kimchi pancake, kongnamul-muchim, sigeumchi namul, cheese buldak, and tteokguk. Bamboo brought over pork pan-fried dumplings and sticky rice in bamboo leaves, with a delicious cilantro jalapeño sauce. Fun and yummy times!

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Super super easy cheat dinner— bought Cajun marinated catfish at the store and fried it, and Kory roasted some broccoli. Delicious! It’s been forever since I made catfish and it’s a favorite.

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Instant pot mac and cheese. Needed some more salt, and excellent with hot sauce.

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Did Cara McGee’s cooking challenge which was spaghetti Neapolitan (used Kitchen Princess’ recipe). Delicious but goddamn onions messed me up for two days.

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Made Sharon’s pecan pie but it didn’t come out very well. Was too dry. The nuts should’ve been chopped finer.

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Jalapeño cheese monkey bread. Only good warm! Cold or room temp is bad. Reheated fine in microwave. Kinda wish the biscuits weren’t as sweet.

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From smittenkitchen’s second book, Smitten Kitchen Every Day, smoky sheet pan chicken with cauliflower. Potatoes took longer than everything else by like 30 min. Removed chicken so it didn’t dry out. Chicken skin didn’t crisp much. Still very tasty.

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Pear cranberry gingersnap crumble (from smittenkitchen) for my annual Thanksgiving at my best friend’s and a corn casserole (from seriouseats). Haven’t had corn casserole before but Kory apparently has it in Iowa. It was pretty good!

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Lion’s head meatballs and roasted asparagus. Took FOREVER, mistake cooking on a weeknight!!! 90 min cooking time not counting prep time. 😑

Good thing these were delicious! Water chestnuts gave the meatballs nice texture. Maybe just a teeny bit too much salt.

From Ken Hom’s cookbook. Also one meatball per person is PLENTY.

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Mapo tofu from scratch, not a box. Turned out quite well. Watching Bourdain go to China makes Kory always want mapo tofu because it’s one of Bourdain’s favorite dishes (maybe even his favorite) and he got so much pleasure from it.

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Chrissy Teigen’s tom yum ramen. Spicy!! Very flavorful too. The tomatoes were especially good soaking up the broth. Forgot to add the fish sauce for the simmer and added it afterwards, still fine.

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Chrissy Teigen’s pad Thai carbonara. Came out really good!!

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Bitter melon and pork this time! Actually like this better than the chicken. Bitter melon is so good.