As promised my "borg" pumpkin. 2 harddrives gave their lives to make it happen :). My wife carved the Jack "the pumpkin king" pumpkin. I've got a fun bento coming up stay tuned!
Wanted to pop in and say thanks for stopping by Not Exactly Bento. Love the Cyborg Pumpkin. Very creative! Your bentos are great too. How do you like the laptop lunchbox? I don't own that one and I think it looks quite interesting.
Hey! Thanks for dropping by! You know, I love the laptop lunchboxes. Easy to clean, and I like how you can optionally remove components to make room for big stuff or create more compartments by using silcone cups instead. Because I'm cooking for a few people having a standard box helps in churning them out.
My *only* complaint. The lids have warped over time. I don't think the dishwasher for the outer container is a good idea the plastic is thinner than the inner containers. They still close just not perfectly.
I should get paid for such an endorsement :) no I'm not a shill I promise.
Thanks again for dropping by. I'm hoping to add a blogs followed soon as there are so many wonderful blogs, i'll make sure you're on that list :)
This is actually a post that's been sitting in the queue for quite some time. A while back we had a Taiwanese potluck where everyone brought a food favorite from Taiwan. I didn't have a favorite food so I said I'd make whatever someone wanted. One of my wife's friends had a real hankering for Da Chang Mian Xian (大腸麵線 also called Mee Sua), a Taiwanese vermicelli street food dish, I of course open my big mouth and say: "sure how hard could it be to make?" (famous last words). Surely there was a recipe or something to go on. As it turns out this no there's wasn't a recipe to go on. Fortunately this was something I had tried before, my wife took me back in 2012 to visit her favorite Mian Xian restaurant (Ah Zong Mian Xian 阿宗麵線) when we were visiting her old university stomping grounds. All I remember from this place were a few things: 1) it was really hot outside 2) there was no where to sit so everyone was standing around (ok a few chairs) 3) th
Ok more traveling, this time to London, first week for work (above is our view of Buckingham Palace from our office) and second week for vacation with my wife. Lots of pictures of a lot of different food, I've manage to cut the number of photos to the highlights of what and where we ate. I've put links to the various places just in case you're in the area and want to check out some of these places. Sorry in advance about some of the photos I shot everything using a Galaxy S3 mini android phone that I acquired while on this trip and it does a pretty good job, but under low light it gets a bit grainy. Got off the plane bright and early 6am and dropped my bags at the hotel. While there I started my trip off with a classic English breakfast. Bangers (sausage) mushroom, roasted tomato, potato cake, hash browns, vegetarian sausage (which was quite nice), eggs, beans (heinz I believe) and some black pudding (blood sausage, a little dry but tasty) Since my room wasn'
I've talked a bit about my Orion Cooker or as I like to call it, "la torre del diablo" (the tower of the devil) and lots of people come and visit looking for info on the orion cooker and turkey. So today I'm going to chronicle the step by step of cooking a turkey and hey look, just in time for xmas. It all starts with the brine. As many of you know the best way to get a nice juicy turkey is to brine it before hand. It allows helps the meat retain moisture through the cooking process and you can impart some nice flavors. I used a slightly modified brine recipe (see below) by my favorite food geek/hero, Alton Brown. It's quite simple really, you need a high salt content I believe the rule of thumb is one cup each of salt and sugar for every gallon of brine. In this case, the vegetable stock has salt in it, and I trust that's why there's less salt in the recipe, and of course the word of Alton Brown is never wrong he is after all the culinary equivalent of C
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My *only* complaint. The lids have warped over time. I don't think the dishwasher for the outer container is a good idea the plastic is thinner than the inner containers. They still close just not perfectly.
I should get paid for such an endorsement :) no I'm not a shill I promise.
Thanks again for dropping by. I'm hoping to add a blogs followed soon as there are so many wonderful blogs, i'll make sure you're on that list :)