Breaded cauliflower with orange sauce and stir fried mushrooms and noodles.

I made pulled pork since deli meat was way too expensive. Banana for scale.

So I had a yield of 3kg when all was said and done, at just under $10/kg. I made myself 15 sandwiches and froze them for work, ate a fair bit that night, and I've got 2 packs, each 1kg, frozen and ready to make more sandwiches or dinners or something. All in, I think I was under $100 for 6ish weeks of lunches, with 2 sandwiches each day, assuming I turn all that pork into sandwiches. $10/kg is a steal compared to the $46/kg of deli meat. I'm gonna keep working at making more of these bulk-style meals on the weekends so that I can pop an easy meal into the oven or pull a good lunch from the freezer before work. I love going to the store and picking something to eat that night, but it's totally unmanageable with the grocery prices lately. I'm gonna look into making my own yogurt and stuff for smoothies to see if it's economical.

Also I made entirely way too much coleslaw. Can somebody please help me eat 2 heads of cabbage?

yesssd I was gonna say the coleslaw on the sandwich 👌🏻 such a good touch

Classic pairing. A little vinegar to cut through the richness of the pork butt. Added smoked paprika just to really drive home the smokey flavour profile I was going for with the dish. Chipotle and arbol chiles in the braisage were literally and figuratively muy picante. Mostly the latter, it wasn't actually very spicy. My 1-year-old enjoyed the pork. But very tasty, nonetheless.

Today's probably the last day the coleslaw is good, and I don't think my dad likes coleslaw, if I remember correctly. I'd buy more bread and do up more sandwiches if I had room in the freezer, but unfortunately I'm limited on space.

Took a couple sandos to work and they held up pretty good to freezing. They thaw just in time for lunch so this is gonna work great for me. Every few weeks I can change up the coleslaw game. Apple slaw, radishes, purple cabbage, different sauces, just whatever to keep it interesting, yet easy.

I used the braisage from my pulled pork to make some baby back ribs. I also upped the haute cuisine factor like 10,000,000 times for the photo, just to flex on y'all kids.

IPA and cider braised baby back ribs, chipotle dry rub, pork jus mariné deux fois, smokey slaw, pine nut, garden herbs, fleur de sel.

🤌🤌🤌🌶️🔥👌🤠

I had some really kickass tacos from this food cart at a nearby outlet mall last weekend, so I decided to do my own this weekend.

Chicken in the slow cooker, when I realized that I've never grilled thighs before, and it was already dark out.

Homemade salsa verde

Tacos with red onion, cilantro, queso fresco and salsa verde. With Spanish rice.

Tacos look pretty decent

I wrecked the potato salad I attempted to make. I got the wrong kind of potatoes, and was prepping something else while they were cooking.

They're now the consistency of chunky mashed potatoes.

Broke it? Or made it better?

Homemade pizza:

Roast pork that I'm going to take to my Uncle's slicer for sammiches.

Made some super tasty burgers.

1/2 ground beef

1/2 ground pork

Panko

Cured egg yolk

Whole eggs

Bone marrow

Anchovy paste

MSG

Tony's

Garlic powder

Topped with fried onions and smoked chedder on a garlic cheese bun.

Tried doing it as a smash burger but it didn't flatten out as it should have, so they were maybe 1/2" thick. Still delicious though and would do again.

Panko chicken tendies made from chicken tenderloin:

with garlic, rosemary and thyme roasted poh-tay-toes:

Lazy man's lo mein - bag of "Asian slaw" and Wegman's Stir Fry sauce(I was going to make the sauce, but I had been in the sun all day long, and got incredibly lazy)

With sesame shrimp!

That was yesterday, today I made some French onion dip

And some chicken noodle soup.(Don't know why I made this in summer, but it was still delicious)

Aight so I'm a dad still, so I fuck with meal prepping real good to keep my lil chop goin. I found this recipe for some protein bars for quick lunch packing during the week that's pretty good.

https://thebigmansworld.com/no-bake-peanut-butter-protein-bars-keto-sugar-free-vegan/#wprm-recipe-container-18305

I made em as written and the flavor was extra peanut butter-y, but pretty good woth hints of chocolate and coconut. I've since been fixin them up by spreading them in larger dishes with more honey, Nutella, pecans, etc. They've tasted good each time I've made em, anyway.

I enjoy cooking, but I've recently gotten into baking as well. I've tried looking around for a homemade cookie recipe that I could proudly make for myself and others, and after a couple of failed, bland attempts, I finally found a recipe on youtube that the whole family loves:

https://youtube.com/watch?v=rEdl2Uetpvo&feature=share9

I did make a few adjustments (like using 1 tsp of salt instead of 2, using unsalted butter, using Starbucks espresso roast instead of espresso powder, and baking at 320 degrees F instead of 350), but they're delicious, and I'm really into em

Finally took some pictures of food. Lasagne with a Bolognese style meat sauce and bechamel, with parmagiano reggiano layered and on top.

Other than the insane amount of time it takes to make this particular meat sauce because I fry the everliving shit out of the beef and pork so every grain of mince has that lovely Maillard reaction that we all love, and the soffritto. I also add smoked paprika and msg, because the flavors are incredible.

I make this focaccia bread often. It has thyme, rosemary and garlic on top (and a little inside). Please ignore the completely burnt garlics, you can’t taste them at all when you eat it so no burnt taste.

damn this looks good af

bon appetitties

What is up party people. I'm high as shit but I been meal prepping breakfast burritos lately. They're good as fuck and braindead easy to do across two nights. So I thought I would share this with y'all while lil chop kicks my shit in before bed.

First, get you a chub of breakfast sausage. I fuck with the hot sausage, but regular is good too. I ain't a maple boy so use at your own risk. Right now, I got a loaf of sausage cookin in a pot right now. Cook up about half for a small batch or the whole thing and divide it evenly between two containers. The cooked sausage'll keep for a couple days if you wanna make tacos across multiple days. When you go to save it, drain some of the grease off but reserve it for the beans and hash browns.

Next up, I use some dehydrated hash browns I nab from Costco. I cook em according to the box directions, although you could use frozen too. I fry em in the sausage grease for a bit of extra cronch.

Meanwhile, I got some pinto beans mashed up with salt, pepper, cumin, and my boy sausage grease! Throw them babes over low to medium heat and give em a good mush and stir every so often and once they're at a good consistency, let em cool to room temp while your other shit cooks.

Now, eggies. I use about 24 eggs for a full loaf of sausage so to make it easy on myself, I drop 12 in a bowl with a generous dash of salt and pepper, a splash of milk. Split the cooked sausage into two portions and use half of the hash browns. Get your sausage and browns together in a pan over medium heat and drop your scrambled egg mixture in. Occasionally stir it until it's all cooked and crumbly.

So now, put your cooked egg mixture in a bowl and set it in the fridge for a bit to cool down some. Hopefully your beans are cool by now, otherwise, toss em in the fridge for a few.

Once your shit's all cool, go on and heat some big ass tortillas over a medium heat until they're all poofy and gettin lightly browned. Grate some cheese while you wait and once your tortillas are coming out good, spread some beans on the tortilla, followed by the egg mix, then a nice helping of cheese. Roll a big ol taco blunt and roll it in foil. Toss em in the freezer and boom, you got meal prep tacos. Reheat em for 2 minutes or so

Ensalada bonita (dressing oN tHe SiDE)

Solid hangover meal from a while back. Three egg cheddar cheese and Valentina omelette, yogurt with berries. Large but weak coffee.

Steak and eggs on sourdough. Pan seared and brown-butter-basted AAA Alberta Beef Tenderloin. 2 eggs basted medium. Pan-toasted sourdough, to soak up all that basting fat. Drenched the toast in the meat drippings after I rested it in brown butter. Fresh ground pepper to garnish.

Went for a one hour bike ride this morning to burn off all that grease I'd just consumed. Did a massive hill-climb right off the get-go and boy was that a terrible idea. Took me about 40 minutes to catch my breath and for my lungs to stop burning.

This breakfast was much too rich, but I think I earned it.

Homemade fried rice:

Made French onion soup for the first time, roughing Julia Child's recipe. Definitely didn't have enough onions, didn't caramelize them enough, and used chicken stock instead of beef because i didn't want to go out, and added mushrooms.

Is was bland, but still good enough that I ate the shit out of it for two days in a row. Definitely needed more salt too. The parmesan on top of sourdough toast helped on the second day.

I think next time will be absolutely delicious.

With fall coming around, I've been in the mood to make pumpkin-related desserts. More specifically, I found this wonderful pumpkin bread recipe about a year ago. Didn't have a bread pan, so I made them into muffins instead. The first time, I didn't follow the instructions quite exactly, but they still came out amazingly, very soft and moist. Second time, idk wtf I did the second time around, but they came out a bit blander and not quite as moist on the outside. Very sad waste of ingredients. Tried again this year (yesterday) and followed instructions more closely this time around (even got to try out a bread pan), and it was great! Very similar to the first time I ever made it. Only thing I messed up on was trying to pop the bread out of the pan before letting it cool for 10 minutes which I'm pretty sure resulted in the bread kinda falling apart. But everyone absolutely loved eating the bits of bread regardless. Very stoked to make another loaf

Spooky Szn spooky snacks 🧁

oooh my gawwddd. gimme gimme gimme!