This summer, my office relocated to a different part of our city. We are now across the street from an Asian supermarket. I have started exploring it, and I recently bought a tteokbokki kit—it came with a portion of rice cakes and a sauce powder packet for making the traditional Korean sweet and spicy sauce. I made sure to read the ingredients carefully to make sure that it had no wheat gluten in it. (It did have wheat starch, but that is not an issue for me.)
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The first time I heard about Mississippi pot roast, I was hella skeptical. Would it be good? Or would it taste too artificial, given that it includes two flavouring packets? I was intrigued by all of the rave reviews, so I gave it a go, using this recipe.
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This has been a busy year, but I wanted to sneak in one more post before it’s officially over.
Earlier this year, when I was feeling nostalgic, I made oyster cheese toast. It features oozing cheese that’s flavoured with smoked oysters. It’s something my parents used to make regularly when I was kid. It was a way to use up bread that was going it a bit stale, and it was a fast meal to pull together at the last minute.
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I made tacos last weekend, using a boxed kit. It was all very tasty, but those taco shells are so tiny. So confining. I kept breaking them with my overly ambitious and optimistic attempts to fill them. I eventually gave up and just made piles of the filling.
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I was on vacation in the Caribbean recently and had a ton of delicious food while I was there. One of my fondest memories is of dinner at a rib shack that included your choice of any three sides with an order of ribs. I chose coleslaw, beans and rice, and plantains. Ever since, I have been thinking about eating plantains again.
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Some time ago, I bought a large jar of pickled eggplant. I like eggplant and was curious what the pickled version would be like. I had no idea how to use it, though, so I googled it. Of course, most of the answers involved bread products (sandwiches, crusty bread). And while I do use bought bread products occasionally, I try not to eat them too frequently.
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There are certain activities that help keep me sane—such as walking, reading, taking photos, writing—and during the pandemic, I have been trying to make them a priority. One of these activities has always been creative cooking—me, in the kitchen, experimenting away. This blog was born purely so I could blend cooking, photography and writing all together.
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Another delicious meal! I made kofta kebabs earlier this week and they tasted amazing. Here they are paired with Greek potatoes (cooked slowly in a bath of broth, olive oil, lemon juice, garlic and oregano) and store-bought dips—tzatziki and baba ganoush. What a feast!
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I had been craving pepperoni pizza for a while now, but could never find gluten-free pepperoni when I remembered to look for it. Then I finally found some made by Piller’s. I used it to make this pepperoni, jalapeno and onion pizza.
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A Flour By Any Other Name 