I Cooked This, NBD

Chicken tacos. An attempt at making ‘tinga de pollo’ at home.

I used some left over chicken thighs, chopped up the meat, and cooked them in a pan with a can of the La Morena brand chipotle chiles in adobo and some onions. Then I put some avocado on the top. I used WAY too much onion in this (I didn’t realize how little meat I had), but it seems to be the start of something good.

Ate these soft scrambled eggs with toasted ciabatta and an arugula salad for home made brunch today.

This is one of my favorite ways to make eggs. Chop up some garlic, put 2-3 tablespoons olive oil in a cast iron (maybe a pat of butter if you like), and put the stove on super low, the lowest flame you can maintain. In a separate bowl beat 2 or 3 eggs alongside about a tablespoon of tomato paste. When the garlic is sizzling a little and seems cooked, pour in the egg mixture and stir stir stir on in the pan on the low eat. Stir until everything has solidified. You end up with what is more like a lumpy custard than scrambled eggs, and it is perfect for scooping up and eating on top of bread.

I feel like this is some sort of Midwestern staple with fancy organic ingredients.

I really like to take chicken thighs, sear each side until crispy and season them with Johnny’s Season salt (you don’t need to use any oil, chicken thighs are fatty and will confit themselves). Get the pan really hot and place skin side down for like 5-10 minutes, and then flip. Finish it off in the oven at around 300 degrees for another 5-10 minutes. It’s a great cheap meal because chicken thighs are so inexpensive, even if you go for the organic fancy stuff brands like Free Bird still have packages of thighs available for under 5 bucks.

I ate it with an arugula salad with tomato and green onion with ranch dressing.

Large clams steamed in a white wine butter sauce with garlic scapes, butter, onion, ramps, and broccoli rabe. Ate them out of the pot like this with ciabatta. Cooked this on Friday May 4th.

Brown rice, you choi and scapes sauteed in fish sauce, dired shrimps, and chili oil, and a chicken sausage with spinash and feta. Easy dinner I made sometime last week.

Breakfast for dinner. I made an omelet that fell apart… inside is percorino romano, this amazing ricotta called Salvatore ricotta, ramps, and garlic scapes. I made a potato hash with zaatar spice, red pepper flake, and the also some ramps. 

This might be my new favorite easy dinner. Fried brown rice with spring greens. First I fry two beaten eggs in the bottom of the cast iron skillet. I let that cook and then toss some of that young spring garlic and a bunch of chopped Chinese chives (the huge ones) on top and break up the egg with a spatula and saute it all together. Lastly I added the rice and then flavored it with sesame oil, Katsup Manis, soy sauce, and Sri Racha. 

Here’s a meal I made today. 

This is a breakfast sandwich with bacon, a chive scramble, and broiled ramps, with some broiled ramps on the side. I cooked the eggs in the bacon grease. I also did something new since I didn’t have any milk in the fridge… I mixed some kefir into the eggs. I totally recommend this, it both lightens up the scramble like milk would while adding a richer flavor.

This is rigatoni with sweet Italian turkey sausage, broccoli rabe, some more of that young garlic, in a butter and parmesan sauce with red pepper flake and garlic. Would have been good to add white wine to this if I had some in the fridge at the time. Made this last week.