Chicken Caesar salad with homemade croutons tonight.

Guiness lamb stew with taters, turnips, carrots, celery, onion & peas.

I'm trying to cut down on the amount of sodium I consume, so I subbed in some pork loin with a Cajun seasoning I made up for the andouille I usually use for red beans & rice. Haven't tried it yet, but it looks good.

Got a belated bday present from my folks (my mom picked it out).

Super excited to use it.

Should I be worried?

Yes

Went dumpster diving a few days ago and found a buttload of Oreos, I'm thinking about making trash brownies with some of them.

Before & after:

IT'S SANDY TIME!!!!

Oh, it's been a beefy kind of weekend.

Pretty breakfast

I haven't had a parfait in forever, and those berries look FRESH.

No kidding. I guess I'll have to pick up some raspberries tomorrow afternoon since I haven't had fresh fruit in months.

Finished my meat sauce (phrasing, boom).

I very much prefer the crunch bits of frying ground beef and pork, so I did that, which a deviation from traditional bolognese as I understand it. Also added my own twists, and it turned out amazing. Smoked paprika is the bees knees, plus msg and Tony's, dried oregano, basil, thyme, pepper, salt, shredded carrots and sliced shallots, leftover fried mushrooms and shallots, can of peeled tomatoes, chicken broth, and a whole bottle of sauv blanc that is absolutely undrinkable.

Anywho... Gonna use it to make lasagne with bechamel, and some pecorino and Parmigiano.

Made some BBQ Maui ribs for supper, and they were phenomenal even though I forgot a few key ingredients.

I blended some frozen pineapple, then mixed in some of this amazing black bean sauce (or thick soy sauce?), sushi vinegar, sesame oil, msg, Tony's, pepper, garlic powder, shallots, maybe a dash of cinnamon, and let marinate for about 6 hours.

Forgot some fresh ginger, and some lime might have been good too. Next time.

So good. Sweet and savoury. For a pack of 3, is was like $10, so super cheap too. Definitely worth making for a group supper.

I think I'll be focusing on some SE Asian cuisine this summer.

Jasmine rice with onion, ginger, garlic and sesame oil, broccoli, and grilled chicken breast seasoned with Chinese 5 spice powder.

Ughhhh 🤤

Some delicious pasta salad I made featuring garden veggies - garden tomatoes, green bell peppers, onion & pepperjack cheese cubes

Chicken I seasoned Souvlaki style(salt, pepper, rosemary, oregano, garlic, olive oil & lemon juice) and some macaroni slad I made.(way too much celery)

Threw together some General Tso's shrimp, jasmine rice with ginger, garlic and onion and broccoli.

And, of course, I had to whip up some Beelzebubed eggs for Memorial Day.

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?