What's cookin', good lookin'? Part II

I made excellently excellent tacos yesterday.

Shrimp, chorizo crumbs, red and yellow pepper, jalapeno, lime mayo, cilantro and a squeeze of lime on top.

This again. Beer for dessert.

I gotta stop drinking on Sundays.
 
I was thinking about cooking something from New Zealand as my next country, for the letter U.

Turns out in many, many food blogs and other recipe sites the New Zealand part in any recipe is the wine pairing rather than the food itself.

Does this mean I get to drink a bottle of wine and call it a country cooked? Would eating a kiwi fruit count?

Or maybe I have to turn to Ukraine, Hungary, Uzbekistan, Uruguay or Uganda for my U country.


seela, try green lipped mussels or blue cod, unfortunately they are only here in NZ, I am not sure if you can source the mussels, fairly certain you will not be able to source the blue cod. Both are tasty, the muscles I like with a light red curry sauce and the blue cod, pan fry, the flesh flakes off, it is the best fish you will ever taste, in my view.




Leftovers from yesterday for lunch. Now a G&T or three. Lord have mercy.

I'll probably be back to find someone to talk to in an hour or so, when I'm half way through G&T #2. I apologize in advance.

There's a drunk posting thread for that! LMAO at Seela bc that was me last week!


We should arrange a convenient time coordinated around the world for all, each cook a dish and have a G&T together and then post the result here.
 
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seela, try green lipped mussels or blue cod, unfortunately they are only here in NZ, I am not sure if you can source the mussels, fairly certain you will not be able to source the blue cod. Both are tasty, the muscles I like with a light red curry sauce and the blue cod, pan fry, the flesh flakes off, it is the best fish you will ever taste, in my view.

That's the problem, the NZ recipes I found were either a wine or based around a specific NZ ingredient that's impossible to find here.

It's been too hot to cook much here (no AC) and I've been too busy and tired to really think about this, so I'm still stuck at U. I'll try to get that sorted this weekend, finally. :)

We should arrange a convenient time coordinated around the world for all, each cook a dish and have a G&T together and then post the result here.

The time zones make this really difficult.

But it might be interesting for everyone to make a version of the same dish and post the result, or everyone using a certain ingredient.

I liked reading the book club thread here back in the day. I never participated myself, because I never could find the books, but I really enjoyed the "doing something together" spirit of it. :)
 
Beef rendang is on the slow cooker, the cooking smell wafting around, another few hours and it will be perfect. A glass of lite Aussie red, good to go.
 
Ooh, maybe I should give corn bread another chance. I have a ton of corn flour that I don't know what to do with. Thanks for the idea!

Cornbread is so good. If it's finely ground, you could probably make hot tamales with it too.
 
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