ODG Eats

Tonight was therapy night, so I got home a bit later than normal. However, I still needed to cook dinner, and I had lots of ingredients that I needed to use, so I got to it.  I knew I was going to cook some swai, but I had to figure out what was going to go with it. I was hungry, which is a bad thing when putting together a meal, so I ended up grabbing some fennel, an ear of sweet corn, some green bell pepper, red onion, "baby broccoli," a couple mushrooms, my last bit of basil, and a clove of garlic. Historically, I do not like corn, just in general. I've had a few corn dishes that were okay, but it's never been a favorite of mine. Obviously I love cornbread and corn dogs, but those aren't really corn  dishes. I love them damn corndogs, man. I used my knife to cut the corn off of the cob. That actually went pretty smoothly, which made me happy. I'm not sure what to do with a corn cob, but, once all of the kernels were removed, I stuck it in a freezer bag for ...

Y'all remember that movie Ratatouille? It's about a rat named Ratatouille who burrows into some hopeless dude's brain and makes him cook food, culminating in the duo cooking some vegetables for a man who's angry about his pointy nose, and then the restaurant gets shut down because the rat's family kidnapped a bunch of people and locked them in the walk-in. Anyway, I watched it once back in...2018 or 2019 or some shit, and decided last night I was gonna cook vegetables like the rat. Granted, I was operating solely off of my memory of the movie, and I have never looked up a ratatouille recipe, so it was mostly guesswork, which is probably why it wasn't spectacular like Angry Nose Man thought. I started off by slicing up half of a yellow squash, half of a zucchini, and the tip of my fucking middle finger on my mandolin, then, after the bleeding subsided some and I got a bandage applied, I used my knife for a couple of tomatoes. I just stacked them all horizontally ...

If you give an ODG some tomato sauce, he's gonna want some pasta. If you give an ODG some pasta, he's gonna want some cheese. If you give an ODG some cheese, he's gonna want some wine. If you give an ODG some wine, he's gonna want something crispy and fried. If you give an ODG something crispy and fried, he's gonna want some tomato sauce. This was not a vegan meal, but it is vegetarian, so at least there's that. I started off by slicing my garlic as thin as I could, dicing up some red and yellow onion and some bell pepper, slicing up some mushrooms, chopping up a green onion, and mincing some basil leaves.  I made the mistake of peeling my tomatoes raw. They're much easier to peel if you cook them first, but I was drinking wine and didn't feel like blanching tomatoes, so I butchered them instead. I still had about half an eggplant, and it was starting to oxidize, so I figured I'd go ahead and get that all cooked up. I cut it into "fries," t...

I apologize for the title. The thing is, I don't know what to call this one, except The Rulebreaker. I was originally thinking about making eggplant parmesan, but I didn't want to take the time on a Thursday night to make marinara, especially since Princess Nadia needed her bath tonight. The idea didn't leave my mind too far, though; I just gave it a pseudo-Asian flair.  So first off, I cut off a few slices of eggplant, maybe about a half-inch thick. Instead of an eggwash and breadcrumbs, I did my miso/soy binding that I did with the swai  and coated the eggplant slices as well as I could with panko crumbs.  Meanwhile, I started up my rice cooker with some Jasmine rice (still working on the 6lb bag - that shit lasts forever) and a bit of split green peas (still working on the same 1lb bag - that shit lasts forever). I tossed in some salt and black pepper, then added water and got the rice and peas cooking. Nothing too too crazy yet, right? Wrong. I wanted to make a peanut...