Food 2: Chew Harder • Page 48

Made some homemade onion rings and dip

 

gotta give us that dip breakdown; cmon now

 

if anyones in or around Philly, I tried Laserwolf for the first time on Sunday night.

So damn good. I feel like Im still stuffed haha

 

Those look so good. How'd you do them and what's the dip?

 

I followed this recipe I found. You dunk the onions in a mix of milk, white vinegar, and sour cream. Then you dunk it in a mix of flour, salt, pepper, and garlic powder. Then you repeat and place to the side till ready to fry. I used canola oil and did like 4-5 at a time for like about 3 minutes. It said get the oil to 375 but I don't have a thermometer so I just guessed.

The sauce was a mix of sour cream, ketchup, mayo, soy sauce, and hot sauce. Originally it wanted chili sauce and worcestershire but I didn't have so I subbed. And then as I was eating I added more hot sauce to it.

 

https://chejorge.com/2021/04/09/frozen-baked-sweet-potato/

I’m not a huge sweet potato guy but I’ve been wanting to try these for a while. My Trader Joe’s had Japanese sweet potatoes this weekend so I finally made them and damn are they good.

 

I have two Japanese sweet potatoes sitting in my pantry, definitely going to try that!

 

Went to a good okonomiyaki place on our way to Wrestlemania

 

Homemade McGriddles for brunch today

 

First attempt making focacchia.

 

You guys I'm at the beach and saw a sign for a pie shop. We follow the pie sign which led to progressively sketchier pie signs until it led us upstairs to what looked like an apartment on the side of a building and it ended up being a super cute lil room with a bunch of pies and a sign saying it's the honor system to buy pies and leave money in the drawer and they had a sample table and it made my dreams come true

 

I'm gonna try to make my bf a birthday cake tomorrow and I'm so nervous. And it's gonna be vegan and sugar free cause he doesn't so dairy and I am trying to eat less sugar. I'm going to bake the cake before work and then leave work early to frost it so im not doing the thing I always do where I get impatient and frost too soon and it's ugly. I just hope waiting until I get off work doesn't cause the cake to be too dry when I serve it idk I'm just nervous.

 

Joined a new friend for Ramadan iftar. They gave me some food to take home. Lots of good food

 

Also can I just say I spent the weekend at the coast hoping for some good food but turns out if you're a vegetarian it's just a bust. Everything was so mid. Coastal restaurants are like yay seafood oh wait let's just throw in a garden salad or a grilled cheese for the others and call it a day. The best thing I had was a great london fog from a cute lil progressive coffee shop which was like a shining beacon to me in the midst of all the "rah rah freedom america" touristy stores around.

 

Ummmmm I think my cake pan is too big so this cake is looking v oddly flat and I don't know that I'll have time to bake an extra layer to make it look better because I don't have enough monkfruit. Pray 4 me

 

Update: this turned out so hilariously bad I had to throw it out. Only I could have made whatever the end result was. Because it was not cake. It was a monstrosity. I am trying again and it's not sugar free cause I ran out of monkfruit but take two is currently in the oven smh

 

Yeah of course it was a monstrosity it was cake without sugar, sorry that was the perfect setup

 

I knoooow but the recipe had a ton of good reviews and I am just the worst. But take two already seems way better so I just have to not screw up making the frosting later

 

No man is worth what I went thru to make my bf's birthday cake today. NO MAN. He is getting store bought next year jfc

 

Okay I'm ready to detail the trials and tribulations of the cakes. Notice that is the plural form of cake.

I get up at 5am to start baking the cakes. But really it started before that. I wanted to surprise him so I had to smuggle the ingredients in the apartment and hide them in the back of shelves the other day. I even bought a springform pan because the recipe called for one. That's how true to the recipe I was. I had to Google what the meant. So I get up at 5am to get started before work. I make the vegan sugar free cake. I follow the recipe. The cake didn't appear to rise. The recipe had tons of great reviews. It didn't rise and the middle took forever to look not mushy. I take it out to cool. After a few minutes the cake surface appears a little white. I think "huh that's weird" and let it keep cooling. I miss my 6am peloton workout. I put the dirty baking dishes in the dishwasher but don't run it yet. I check on the cake. It is even more white now. It is a CHOCOLATE cake. Made with regular brown cocoa powder. It has turned white. It doesn't taste good and it's flat. I throw it away.

I go lay down in bed in defeat

I find a new recipe. I find one with ingredients I have. I make the cake. I get the dishes back out of the dishwasher and clean them to reuse. I only have one springform pan. I have an immersion blender with a whisk attachment I'm excited I get to use. Idk how to use it. I finally figure it out. I excercise while it bakes. The cake turns out! Looks great. I put the dishes back in the dishwasher. I decide no this isnt good enough. I need another layer. I had envisioned a taller cake. I re-clean the baking dishes again. I make a second and get ready for work while it's in the oven. I let the cakes cool while I'm at work. Perfect.

Not perfect

I forget my work badge at home so as soon as I get to work I have to drive back home. The other drivers today are terrible. One honked at the car in front of me for not going on a red light and then went around us to go through the red light. Weird.

I work. I leave early to pick up his bday present and get frosting ingredients because I decided to do a cream cheese frosting instead of the chocolate one I had planned. I almost consider buying store bought frosting but I think "naw I want it all to be home made. I have committed." I don't get store bought frosting. This will turn out to be a mistake.

I buy the stuff. My paper heart by all american rejects plays at the store. Im excited about that. I decide only the best butter for my bf. I get the fancy Irish butter. I get home and make the frosting. I make a huge mess. Frosting is everywhere. But it looks like frosting. I taste it. It tastes like butter. I think that's weird but maybe paired with the chocolate cake it complements it? (Spoiler alert: it doesnt).

I get this fancy edible gold spray i bought. I proceed to frost the cake and spray it gold. It looks horrible. It's like a pale yellowish orange. I spray more. That's a mistake. The gold appears to be fizzing. I taste the frosting. It tastes like chemicals. Inedible. I literally had to spit it out. At this point I almost throw it out but I regain my composure and decided to pat the gold off with a paper towel. It helps. The gold shimmer comes thru and still kinda looks like dehydrated pee but it's more subtle and now doesn't taste like chemicals but it still tastes like butter.

I can't stress enough that the frosting tastes like butter. You'd never know there were other ingredients in this frosting. It tastes like I spread butter over the top of a cake.

It tastes gross but my bf humored me at least.

None of this was worth it.

None.

 

any pics to share with the class?

 

Lmao. It never recovered aesthetically from me patting it down with towels. The best part is my bf calls his mom and tells her the story and shes just the sweetest lil mexican mama and in her cute lil accent shes like "no son its supposed to taste like butter!" Because she doesn't have a negative bone in her body and would rather gaslight her son than say I messed up even tho we were laughing about it. The actual cake part is good tho so we put it in the fridge and will prob scrape off the frosting.

 

It looks good!

 

U can only see their foreheads in this pic but Frasier and Niles are judging me from behind the cake on my Frasier cookbook which kinda made it better somehow too

 

I dont like cake, but that looks really good.