Ben Zanin @gnomon@kitch.win
Joined Feb 2021
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Valentine's dinner, FOR ME
Half a strip steak, a pile of crispy lemon pepper broccoli, and 8 garlic shrimp, that's all I need in life
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The lil crab. Still cooking. Crabs were frozen and I was recommended to pop em in early
It's Fancy Oatmeal Sunday!
Hazelnuts, walnuts, almonds, pecans; plus some nice rolled oats with cinnamon and vanilla. Honestly not much to it at all - maybe I should have toasted the nuts..? - but a nice tasty late morning meal to follow coffee.
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Dinner
Maybe my favorite winter meal, roasted brussels sprouts and a little steak
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Dark rum negroni variation - just swapped out the gin for a nice El Dorado 12. Mostly an excuse to practice my ice carving, really. (Yes, the orange peel is a little over the top. Great for impressing while serving but a bit awkward to drink.)
- 30ml (1oz) dark rum
- 30ml Campari
- 30ml vermouth
- 2 dashes Angostura bitters
- 2 dashes orange bitters
Stir with ice to chill, pour into a chilled coupe, garnish with an ice cube and orange peel. Make sure to spritz with orange oils from the less successful orange peel strip. Drink slowly.
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I've been working on my cocktail presentation a bit too. This is a clover club with muddled blackberries, mostly for colour but also for the lovely taste.
I used a reverse dry shake to tilt the egg white more towards foamy than silky, but it took almost a full five minutes to strain out the blackberry solids along with the ice! Lesson learned: use the citrus clamshell juicer with a layer of cheesecloth to extract the liquid from the blackberries well beforehand, don't muddle them in. Live and learn!
(My photo technique also needs work: I was trying to focus on the fruit garnish, not the tip of the nearest cocktail pick. Dangit!)
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Mixing 30ml (1oz) of the syrup with ~100ml of club soda makes a delightful drink, and a lime wheel with a sprig of clapped mint brings a nice aromatic accent. This would be even tastier with some lemon in it.
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Took Smitten Kitchen's one-pan Farro (onion, grape tomatoes, garlic, salt, red pepper), and added turmeric, carrots, ricotta, and kale for a creamy, heartier feel. Made a marinade with some lamb chops: lemon, olive oil, coriander, fennel, salt, garlic. Pan-fried the chops, combined, topped with a little more ricotta. Mmmm.
meat, fish
Fingerling potatoes
Microwave on high for about 6-7 minutes, flip over, repeat. Slit open; season with butter, pepper, salt, thinly chopped chives.
Tomatoes
Wash, halve, season with salt and pepper. Toss with crumbled feta.
Asparagus
Wash; trim fibrous ends; chop into bite sized pieces. Toss in olive oil. Add a few cloves of smashed and diced garlic, then cover with microplaned parmesan cheese and fry.
Toss asparagus after the bottoms have browned; squeeze over about half a lemon worth of juice. Add the other half of the parmesan cheese, then pop into the 400°F oven for 18-20 minutes.
Once you remove the pan from the oven, squeeze over another half a lemon or so.
Salmon
Heat a half sheet tray in an oven set to 400°F. (This will aid with heat conductivity and also catch any leaks.) Lay out two sheets of parchment paper or aluminum foil near prep area.
Dice two celery stalks, two shallots, a few cloves of smashed garlic; lay in a flat layer on the foil sheets. Tear in a good amount of dill. Salt generously. (The goal here is mostly to add aroma and steam.) Lay skin-on salmon pieces over the vegetables; salt well; top with 3-4 thin lemon slices and more dill.
Tightly seal parchment/foil packets. Lay atop heated sheet tray. Cook for 16-20 minutes depending on fish thickness and desired doneness level.
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i was gonna cook pasta for dinner but i didn’t have lunch til 4pm so now i’ll maybe just have toast? idk.
last night i sautéed some veg to try and counteract the weekend of breakfast and snack foods. i think next time i’ll attempt to crisp up the potatoes before i add the silverbeet.
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It worked out pretty good! All the things I like, none of the things I get in takeout that I don't like (celery)
It's about 4 oz of sliced up steak, 6oz of shrimp, a head of broccoli, 2 carrots, 6 quartered mushrooms, and a small can of water chestnuts, with a sauce made of: minced garlic and ginger, vegetarian oyster sauce, and chicken stock (with cornstarch)
There's also white rice under there
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Butterfly Pea Flower Martini #natmixes
shouts out to @JhoiraArtificer@twitter.com for infusing the flowers into gin and @FridayTea@twitter.com for providing the flowers in the first place!
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Food, candy, recipe
Second batch of sesame candy done! I used this simple recipe https://healthynibblesandbits.com/easy-sesame-candy/ (though could not get black sesame seeds). This time I toasted the seeds a bit longer (I think I under-did it last time), and added a pinch of brown sugar. It only takes a few minutes and is so tasty.
They recommend silicone mats, but parchment paper over a cutting board worked just fine for me. If you do not have a rolling pin, any round can or bottle works - I used a wine bottle.
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High effort meal
Individual Beef Wellington (it's just a 7oz filet mignon in there) came out pretty good, I'm glad I can make something complicated once in a while
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documenting the day's labors prepping whisky tastings and making blue gin on my ig stories https://instagram.com/stories/natalie.weizenbaum/2504139202145448646?utm_source=ig_story_item_share&igshid=1o6j9stg65ll5
Joined Feb 2021
