𝔼𝕣𝕪𝕟 𝔹𝕣𝕒𝕔𝕔𝕠

Many new dishes at the foray this year! Mixing it up!

Always delighted to enjoy the mind-blowingly good candy cap icing pecan shortbread cookies 🤤

Usually chaga tea has almost no flavor to me, but this year it has a somewhat vanilla flavor that is really nice!

#fungi #mushrooms #foodstr #dinnerchain #chaga #teachain #wv #wvforay2025 #grownostr

Dinner at Zynodoa:

Charcuterie, sourdough, Southern fried shrimp

Steak with collards and sausages, Polyface chicken and herb dumplings

Dessert cyser, Basque cheesecake with dulce de leche and blueberry compote (best dessert I’ve ever had there and very very good)

#foodie #foodstr #dinnerchain #cider #mead #grownostr

Elk leg tteokbokki with shiitakes, oyster mushrooms, and home-pickled hot peppers.

This marinade makes the elk taste amazing! I rinsed out sriracha bottles with rice vinegar, and added homemade ginger liqueur, toasted sesame oil, Sichuan peppercorns, and a little orange zest. You can really taste orange and Sichuan peppercorn in each bite of meat😚 👌

All fried up in sausage grease, tossed with gochujang and miso, and enjoyed with nigori sake and dragon well green tea with ginger peels.

Feeling thankful again today for my father in law’s hunter friend for the meat 😊 He is Chinese and frequently cooks his game in Chinese style, so I’m excited to tell him about my marinade; I wonder if my technique to get “每口肉有花椒味” is really an innovation or something he already knows 😁

#lunchchain #dinnerchain #elk #venison #huntstr #cooking #teachain #ferment #花椒 #做饭 #鹿肉 #狩猎 #grownostr

Some of

‘s favorite things for dinner: Regeneratively farmed filet mignon from Triple E, mushroom sauce, and Arecibos. Glass of pretty good red wine for me. And a pretty nice hydrangea #flowerstr

#dinnerchain #cooking #steak #knowyourfarmer #grownostr

Soup 1 of 2: very spicy, very tasty pepper soup.

Fresh out of the oven to go with it: plain and bacon sourdough with a few experiments going on.

For the first time I used whey (from straining homemade yogurt) instead of water. I used a sifted whole grain bread flour in the preferment but only white AP flour in the second flour addition, hoping to get whole grain benefits while giving time to soften and ferment it so it wouldn’t harm gluten development. I used four eggs instead of three.

I like the result! The bacon loaf is especially beautiful.

This special whole grain bread flour was from Brian Severson farms. Apparently they’ll customize flour; I might want to get some extra sifted bread flour to try.

https://qualityorganic.net/

#cooking #dinnerchain #soupstr #baking #ferment #sourdough #breadstr #yogurt #grownostr https://image.nostr.build/94e69d0415d6a5456381b028d2b338b2d752cf6ae16e30b4863663c7b6001ece.jpg https://image.nostr.build/0d0db7b8f8e54d200cabe82a5ab9f839bfcce079bbc08d1d176c9bbfb251c1ae.jpg https://image.nostr.build/1d6d25163cb323775f652f0de1f4834023a565d752da7131632a5ada01f1f9a9.jpg

Hoppin’ John with green pork sausage for New Year’s Eve #dinnerchain

Black eyed peas, sea island red peas, brown and red rice, fire roasted tomatoes and green peppers, kale, homemade broth, white wine, loads of bacon, and a pat of butter

Not pictured but crucially important: Crystal hot sauce!

I always make a huge mess of it, so I’ll definitely be having some tomorrow, too.

Watching Die Hard II because it’s still #Christmas

#NYE #HNY #newyear #cooking #food #grownostr https://image.nostr.build/3668de74ebea83374014ff583bfb636a8bec8c1ab36c2e3603a0ffc885c0b87d.jpg

Gourmet sausages with homemade ✨spooky kraut✨ and roasted butternut squash! Darjeeling tea

#dinnerchain #cooking #food #ferment #sauerkraut #teachain https://image.nostr.build/78d12ed800c3f6bd06807d177df05b57014789a4cf702eb4fe341944ca0512f4.jpg

I made pawpaw curry! Unfortunately, you can’t taste the pawpaws. I would be sad that I wasted them except I had so many that needed to be used up anyway. I STILL have some, but now it’s a reasonable amount to finish eating soon 😂

It’s still a delicious Thai-style curry with eggplant, green beans, and chicken thighs!

#dinnerchain #pawpaws #Asimina #cooking https://image.nostr.build/eb9faca2dd37f311fe32b4fe7e84e0ae7357e2abc8d9cc76cdb9db7ec2714dae.jpg https://image.nostr.build/d8d5fea62d0b69265f387dede1a24b59b58a2d914a399745e09cb9181a269a1a.jpg https://image.nostr.build/3912c47a177fdc4b4c8383993b957125396124f99a2a6f7b90150a869843a81d.jpg https://image.nostr.build/8cc3be6b5e481187f1975a792779c2dcd73485af06b127f07e965756dbe5d6b9.jpg

Belated birthday dinner ✨

My Cravingz is a hidden gem Turkish place in Manassas. It has a goofy name and nearly no ambience, but the food is incredible. Go if you can.

Pictured and enjoyed: Pastirmali yumurta and sucuklu yumurta Pastirmali gözleme Muttebel Mantı Simit Katmer and tea

#nova #restaurant #food #foodie #teachain #dinnerchain #grownostr https://image.nostr.build/b9c9214499a74431eb5044fe518e654ce6d874f7c3fffd47bd83a050cb23e02e.jpg https://image.nostr.build/4ebe589d37b0aaad3f4ad0ea1147267e3cf1f0adef9e202a9ce8371da80a58c9.jpg https://image.nostr.build/e061c57860813e52b6097f6b53c2de179768c2425cb1c7c5770da1f445c47ec2.jpg

Fourth of July barbecue feast!

One of the desserts, my cornbread pound cake, was a hit 😁

#bbq #dinnerchain #food #grownostr https://image.nostr.build/f5807c46ab2e4fb64ce0b2dabd089c9801ec9a1a0fe3c20661b893b225300b91.jpg https://image.nostr.build/29d9d0fc1301a28613b4b439bc4d119c4fe831d94eff1277bad020e4b750fc05.jpg https://image.nostr.build/d790b69d7d4ecf027e3faf89940855ba32f2f9eee4400807c0d00bc534699443.jpg

Bucket list dinner for Mother’s Day last night: cheese wheel pasta!

Since learning about this dish years and years ago, I’ve wanted to try it. A divot is carved in a wheel of Parmesan, doused in vodka, and lit on fire. Vodka and melting cheese form part of a sauce cooked in the cheese wheel, and pasta is tossed in this.

It’s kind of hard to find restaurants that do this, but we managed to discover they did it at Ciao Osteria, a great restaurant not far away. The only problem is they only do it rarely and REFUSE to tell you when 😂 I had noticed that they served it last year on Mother’s Day when I saw some of their social media posts after the fact, and called to find out if they were doing it this year. They said no… I decided to book a reservation anyway, because their other food is also great.

What a pleasant surprise — they DID do it for Mother’s Day this year! I managed to get the last one 😮

Their take on the dish is to do it as a pink vodka sauce with a whole lobster. This was also my first time eating a whole lobster, which was delicious and actually fun. I’m usually not the biggest fan of seafood but even as a kid, I always liked lobster.

It was a wonderful surprise, a great experience, and a delicious dish 😁 The recommended wine to accompany it, Cacciata Vermentino Toscana, was amazing, almost a dessert wine with grapefruit notes.

#dinnerchain #winechain #restaurant #lobstr #grownostr https://image.nostr.build/14ee5149fcac50669c70d9e13c558d34ca5b35d8a1ef758a0ed7d46a139cdd82.jpg https://image.nostr.build/726ff283cd036db35054398aa964278e32f8bd76f3ce93c74f01c1660839d908.jpg

Here’s a dish I’ve been meaning to make for a really long time… it exceeded expectations 😁

Carrot miso pasta sauce with chickpeas, peppers, and chicken, very loosely inspired by of this recipe:

https://www.feastingathome.com/orecchiette-with-creamy-carrot-sauce/

Mine is roasted carrots, a few cloves of garlic, miso, and equal parts water and lemon juice blended smooth and simmered with cream, and my topping was lemon zest, garlic, homemade sourdough breadcrumbs, and a little parsley and celery leaves fried in butter.

So unique and delicious 😁 enjoyed it with my triple strength Darjeeling tea

#dinnerchain #ferment #miso #sourdough #pasta #teachain #cooking #grownostr https://image.nostr.build/0f2a28dc0b4f5f87f3c0a8ba8c2f65a46caf72db3777b6c3f37d6d940f8997f0.jpg https://image.nostr.build/ad0b47072024cfcbb9c1dfca5d07ca5712474a307bcb1564f8faec3a1c75b0c7.jpg https://image.nostr.build/ac39f930fab1d48a7bd5147d482c253fffeb882b90793a1f91895524a6799784.jpg https://image.nostr.build/4f1caa08d22ee3836141c66a1d18c57c5aacf27ee396add3de4826bbcbe4367d.jpg https://image.nostr.build/9f216e72c98f652f6ac8744bfff95cd0756137e014158216242ff7b507623a9e.jpg https://image.nostr.build/c2fde4802527d90e222ab00e623b5d0ce9b47eb83cd0febf70305f3917687fa4.jpg https://image.nostr.build/befb1cf540a1cf95f1a5ba8eb84dbdb964dbebb189b7393a6d0864e0f984f433.jpg

Steaks in cast iron, roasted celery root, mushroom wine sauce, and one of my unique vegetable dishes, named Arecibos after the telescope.

They’re artichoke bottoms stuffed with a garlic clove and cream cheese, topped with shaved Parmesan, and baked golden brown (these got a little darker than usual but were still delicious!)

They’re great party fare; a big hit with almost everyone who tries them, especially

New York Strips and Sirloin from Polyface Farms

#proofofsteak #dinnerchain #cooking #eatmeat #regenerativeag #knowyourfarmer #grownostr https://image.nostr.build/38ab34ad480587de8d7f5371d3b00d71d0f31326c4b13eaf696b3f54e56e32fc.jpg https://image.nostr.build/029690244cd75f5268cd2e207f4163c18b03c16d077c542060a01d093f994ac0.jpg https://image.nostr.build/cf8cfbe705c73535c2e05fec8f88843f30f46bce7f4c172e53e7b92e945a0eae.jpg https://image.nostr.build/e03cc3313e200c65ddc70341b41f57b25be865278b56965c4034957cbe37a05c.jpg https://image.nostr.build/d74b1bc5cb7178173c1de58c7efa749cd418080adbda4a58e0541939402136b9.jpg