ediblegarnish: if you gave an amelia a home

If you give an Amelia a home,

she's going to ask for a basket of ingredients.

When you give her the ingredients,

she'll probably make you dinner every night.

Ian's bachelor pad could use a silicon spatula and a proper cheese grater, but all things considered, its kitchen is pretty well stocked. I did not have to purchase new spices for him in order to make a meal. In fact, I saw his unopened bag of butterfly pea flowers and was like we're making blue sticky rice. We gotta.

Shopping list:

whole chicken

bok choy

leek

garlic

ginger

lemongrass

scallion

cilantro

lemons

Pantry items:

sticky rice

fish sauce

sesame oil

chili oil

rice vinegar

honey

olive oil

pc. Joyce

A roast chicken is my favorite deceptively-simple-but-always-impressive thing to make for famry dinner events. Even in slightly crunched time, with my baby birds chirping for dinner, it's still perfectly tender and juicy with all the aromatics and herbs stuffed under the skin to marinate and then roast (though the skin could be crispier). The fishy vinegary garlicky dipping sauce was my favorite part. I turned Ian into a "raw" fish sauce believer.

At one point, Ian brought out his giant tupperware of frozen Washington foraged truffles. Probably more value than I'll ever hold in my hands again. The instructions were to find ways to use up as much of the truffles as possible as they had been sat and forgotten in his freezer for awhile (how?!?!). This is not a problem.

Risotto of course. Mushroom (and leek) risotto of course of course. Just absolutely loaded with shaved truffles. Eaten straight out of the pot while the asparagus roasted. Then "plated" for the picture.

A couple more truffles went into a blender with parm, cilantro, lemon, and garlic, for a "pesto" sauce for penne, leeks, and scallops. That we promptly packed in tupperwares to eat at Gasworks.

Disappointed in the sear, or lack thereof, on the scallops, but once we found our park spot, I inhaled it too quickly to care.

Ian's only real request was to make cheddar biscuits for his beloved breakfast sammies.

This was coming off of a biscuit haul back home that ended in a freezer stock of 30ish pork floss biscuits.

Sammies were complete with basically hand shredded cheddar because someone doesn't have a cheese grater. Filled with sausage patties, egg, caramelized onion, and herbs.

And served with bok choy *shrugs emoji* it was in the fridge.

He has goals to win best breakfast sammie in the world (details and actual title unclear), which I can't really wrap my head around, but it's a fun exercise to imagine what that actually looks like.