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[recipe] Pork undumpling soup

Posted on November 15, 2024November 15, 2024 By admin


Ingredients
60ml soy sauce
2 tbsp chili oil
3 tbsp unseasoned rice vinegar
4 green onions
15 square dumpling wrappers
2 tbsp toasted sesame oil
500g ground pork
1 tsp salt
1 1″ piece ginger, peeled, finely grated
2 tbsp mirin
1l vegetable broth
1/2 small head of Napa cabbage, sliced about 1cm thick

Separate dark green parts from 4 green onions and thinly slice; set aside for serving. Thinly slice white and pale green parts; set aside separately. Cut 15 square dumpling wrappers into eighths by cutting on a diagonal from corner to corner to make an X, then cutting each triangle in half through the long side; set aside.

Heat sesame oil in a medium dutch oven. Add ground pork and salt and cook, stirring to combine and breaking up meat with a wooden spoon, 1 minute. Work pork into an even layer and cook, undisturbed, until a brown crust forms underneath, about 5 minutes. Add ginger and reserved white and pale green scallion parts and cook, stirring often and breaking up meat into smaller pieces, until combined and pork is cooked through, about 2 minutes. Add mirin and cook, scraping up any browned bits, 1 minute.

Add vegetable broth, soy sauce, rice vinegar and chili oil to pot, increase heat to high, and bring to a boil. Add reserved dumpling wrappers and cook until tender, about 2 minutes. Add cabbage and cook, stirring, just to wilt, about 30 seconds. Remove from heat.

Ladle soup into bowls; top with reserved onion greens.

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[recipe] Chicken and dumpling soup

Posted on November 14, 2024November 15, 2024 By admin


4 chicken legs and thighs
2 leeks
1 onion
1 stalk celery
1 carrot
1″ knob of ginger
1.5L of water
Handful of whole peppercorns
2 tsp salt

Simmer for 1h. Remove chicken pieces and shred meat off the bones. Strain and keep chicken stock.

180 g all-purpose flour
1 tbsp baking powder
1 tsp salt
2 tbsp unsalted butter, melted
180ml milk
2 tbsp freshly chopped chives
Salt & pepper

Mix together until just combined.

2 leeks, chopped in rounds
3 carrots, peeled and roughly chopped
3 stalks of celery, roughly chopped
1/2 small cabbage, sliced thinly

Saute veg to soften, 10m. Add stock and chicken meat. Bring to a simmer. Adjust seasoning as needed. Add quenelles of dumpling mix using 2 spoons. Simmer 20m.

Serve immediately.

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Making pasta

Posted on November 9, 2024November 15, 2024 By admin
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Today has been a bubba-cuddle day

Posted on November 6, 2024 By admin

Given the election news from last night/this morning, I’ve been needing lots of Byron cuddles today.

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Sometimes fear triumphs over hope.

Posted on November 6, 2024 By admin

Donald Trump has been elected the 47th president of the United States in a win that sent shockwaves through America and around the world. His victory in the 2016 US presidential election was described as a leap into the political unknown. This time there is no excuse.

Trump becomes the first convicted felon to win the presidency. He is also the oldest person ever elected to the office, and put aside his boasts of being a stable genius, recent campaign gaffes indicate otherwise. He was impeached. Twice. America knew that he was a criminal, serial liar and racist demagogue who four years ago attempted to overthrow the government. It voted for him anyway.

The result will sound alarm bells in foreign capitals given Trump’s chaotic leadership style and overtures to authoritarians such Putin of Russia and Kim Jong-un and Orban. He was branded a threat to democracy and even a fascist by his opponent and some of his own former White House officials. Those bells are now also ringing closer to home, with Trump having made campaign promises of mass deportation of immigrants, repeal of LGBTQ rights, female fertility autonomy rights, climate change policy u-turns, and revenge attacks against his political foes and the press.

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Posted on November 3, 2024 By admin

Clingy, smoosh-faced dog

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Back in the land of cheese and chocolate

Posted on October 24, 2024October 29, 2024 By admin

My flights back, while long, were mostly boring and pain-free. Security, customs, baggage (ok baggage drop in Montreal was automated and the machine didn’t want to work until it did, but baggage claim was worry-free), connecting flight, all good. But now I’m jetlagged to hell and gone.

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I think they went a bit too far

Posted on October 23, 2024October 29, 2024 By admin

Cigarette advertising laws in Canada are just nuts. You can’t legally show any brand information beyond the brand name (in a standard typeface) and the packs are covered in YOU_WILL_DIE messages. It’s even on the cigarette filters. Every time I see shit like this, I think of Dennis Leary’s old comedy routine “I love to smoke”…

https://www.flubu.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2024/10/wp-1730218101228.mp4
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Helping!, a visual progression

Posted on October 22, 2024 By admin

Nat’s cat was trying to helps me work this morning.

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The Great Wave of Coffeegawa

Posted on October 15, 2024 By admin

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