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For the last two weekends, I've been eating local grass fed beef. From a local ranch that I could walk to but I buy it from the farmers market. Curiosity prompted me to do this after hearing how grass fed beef taste different and seeing friends buying it.

 

Last weekend I had a stir fry mix (~$9/lbs), so stuff that didn't made the cut for other cuts. I might have overcooked it or something but I still tasted a slight difference. Now today I tried out a flat iron steak (~$12.50/lbs). I taste it for sure now and I say, it taste like beef heart. Tenderness is good too, not too chewy.

 

I would love to continue but this is expensive...

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I made home-made gnocchi for the first time today. I think they turned out well: they were light and not chewy nor doughy and not watery. Though I've only had gnocchi once before so I don't exactly have a lot of experience for comparison.

 

I fried half to see what that was like and I have to say that I preferred them to the ones that were just boiled. We had them with spinach and sausage and alfredo sauce (home-made also, of course). All very nice, I must say.

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Double posting because I tried my hand at making seared ahi tuna. The marinade I used was a garlic, ginger, soy sauce and sesame oil for about an hour and 15 minutes. I think I prefer my ahi to have a more neutral flavor. I might minus out the soy sauce next time and just do some salt. Also I learned that the minute sear is solid. I tried going over by about a minute on one side and it makes the fish hard to cut since it get flaky. So yeah, heat up your pan and go for a minute.

 

In the end though, $7 for 0.6 lbs*. I can do this every month or so to handle my fish craving which I just conquered for the next few weeks. This beats fish congee (Which is delicious but lacks the nature of tuna).

 

*With some refinements, I could just ignore the sushi places...

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"Black bean and lentil soup". Not enough black beans or lentils. Blended to a brown mess. I was pose to only blend half of it but I never used a hand blender before so I over did it and got everything. Oh well, it tastes fine. Besides, at least I finally broke in my hand blender. With that, I can do blended soups and junk. I might get bored one day and do menudo.

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I have discovered the power of homemade bake beans which involves making what amounts to a barbeque sauce (Which gets driven home when I eat the bacon cooked with the beans). Since it got molasses, I suppose the sauce is more Memphis style than Kansas City. The only thing I regret is not pre-cooking the beans long enough (~2 hours or so) to make them soft as they can be. The beans still have some strength to them but I suppose its a good thing for people who doesn't like mushy beans.

 

10/10. Will do again.

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Menudo. First time making it. I've been making this more or less the whole day. A labor of love since I love menudo. Most of it is downtime while I let it simmer. The only accidental change I did was adding a whole lot more pepper than called for which made it super red. This will be intense by tomorrow as the rest of the ba4tch soak up the flavor overnight...

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I made chicken noodle soup but without the noodle since I replaced that with lentils and rice. I failed to realize that with the amount of rice I put in made it into very much like a congee. Congee can easily burn if you are not careful of how high you put your burner. Since I didn't realized I made congee, I didn't pay much heed to the heat since I was trying to reboil it after adding in some water to dilute it a bit... then I proceeded to sit on the computer for 10-20 minutes.

 

Luckily for me, I know how to deal with burnt out bottom of congee. You do not stir up the bottom. After a taste test, I got to say... the slight burnt taste kind of helps with the flavor. If this was plain white congee, it would of ruined it. Thus my week-long dinner was saved by chicken flavor.

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