noodle dates

 "Cows," he says when we drive passed a field of cows.

A green flag, I think and I smile. When I glance over at him from the driver's seat, I see him looking out the window.

He does this sometimes. Little things that make my insides flutter and take me by surprise. Silly, silly boy.

My guy loves noodles, so incidentally I end up eating a lot of noodles.

Basil noodles with scallion lemon roasted chicken quarters.

Summer squash, peas, parmesan.

Mushroom miso noodles with skirt steak and squash.

And super savory indulgent potato leek soup.

Cold soba noodles for two excessively hot weekends:

Shiitake tomato broth and snap peas.

Chilled avocado dashi broth with cucumber, tomato, snap peas, and one soft boiled egg.

ingredient of the week: sweet corn powder

 The secret pantry ingredient is... sweet corn powder. That's on the verge of being too stale for myself to eat. Definitely too stale to feed other people.

But I made myself a few carby staples - some for the emergency freezer stash.

Mini snacking savory scones - corn powder, sun dried tomatoes, jalapeno.

A loaf of buttermilk corn sandwich bread.

For BLR(adish)'s...

...and buttered toast.

Sweet corn pasta noodles with dulse butter.

Sweet corn youtiao that I ate at a 1:2 ratio of doughnut stick to fermented tofu.

I'm convincing myself that if I pick one or two pantry ingredients of the week to make a million meals out of, I can get everything to fit in my designated cabinet.

One of my big bins is already looking half empty!

love a cabbage slaw

cabbage, chrysanthemum, perilla, bonito

soy sauce, miso, garlic, vinegar, sesame oil

watermelon radish, snap peas, cabbage, red onion, cottage cheese

fish sauce, tomato cheong, sesame oil, citric acid, candied makrut lime

cabbage, tomato, garlic, perilla

fish sauce, lime juice, tomato cheong, sesame oil 

cabbage, parsley

peas, black garlic, garlic, calabrian, lemon, sesame

side slaws

pasta day

 Guess what? I catalogued and organized my pantry during a lazy Sunday.

And as a result, used up the remaining bag of my pasta flour that had been sitting tucked behind some random bags of powders. One bag of pasta flour to go.

A quick fettuccine with chard, charred leeks in a lemon butter sauce.

The second helping called for a soft egg and a handful of peas.

selected pantry items:

00 flour

AP flour

sweet corn flour

accessories:

eggs

swiss chard

onion

lemon

butter

fermented wax peppers

peas

leeks

perishables to use up: shrimp and milk

The remainder of my shrimp went into a citrus ponzu poaching liquid to be layered on top of some pea-ricotta-sesame puree. Ricotta courtesy of a leftover half gallon carton of milk. When in doubt about how to use up a lot of milk fast... milk jam or ricotta.

The rest of that ricotta was mixed with tomato powder and harissa and olive oil and eaten with fried eggs for breakfast the next day.

selected pantry items:

citric acid

bonito flakes

perilla seeds

harissa

tomato powder

accessories:

shrimp

milk

scallion

radish

tamarind onions

peas

eggs