Oh my goodness, those look so good!
I was thinking something needed some spice either as a sauce for the meat or on the cauliflower. So super spicy air fryer sounds great. Do you have a goto spicy sauce?
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No go-to but I have a huge spice collection 
won’t be a problem.
ETA: Decided to go a different route! I used cavander’s greek seasoning (which I love, but it has MSG just FWIW, if you’re cool with that I recommend trying it) mixed with oil and a little french dressing, just for sweetness.
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I have a feeling someone here will have brined olives - any best recipes? I have about 3 jam jars’ worth to brine. Mostly I want to be sure I don’t make myself sick.
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So every time I go to HMart (like 4-6 times a year) I buy an impolite number of instant noodles because I love instant noodles, they are probably my favorite junk food of all time and I eat them a lot. Anyway. I’ve tried many types of instant noodles and these…holy shit, these are so good. Some instant noodles are like, good on flavor but then the noodles aren’t that great bite-wise, and others have great noodles but not enough flavor. These are the best of both and everyone should buy them and eat them.
FYI- It’s a sauce style noodle not a soup, but seriously, eat them.
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We do, but we call them popovers!
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Popovers aren’t quite as fried as a good Yorkshire pudding. I put jam or whipped cream on popovers, I wouldn’t put anything sweet on a Yorkshire pudding
But it’s been a long time since I had one so maybe I’m remembering wrong
No, I think you are right. You’re just a lot more likely to find popovers served in the US than you are to find Yorkshire pudding, so I tend to equate them.
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I just made The NY Times recipe for Yorkshire pudding and it mostly tastes like a popover. Maybe the Yorkshire pudding I remember once from my childhood wasn’t actually Yorkshire pudding?
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A CHIMERA! Cool!
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1 have one cup of turkey gravy in the freezer left over from Christmas. I was thinking I could turn it into a pasta shells & kale tetrazzini-like bake if I thin it with some cashew milk, and add parmesan + cheddar, top with panko crumbs.
Am I missing anything? other ideas of what to make with it beyond a chicken pot pie (sad without the puff pastry shells)? I think I did a poutine once, but I’m not really in the mood.
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Serve on mashed potatoes as a side for something else?
ETA: And did each side taste different?!
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Make some cottage pie? I like to use gravy as a base for the sauce.
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we didn’t notice much difference between the sides of the potato - maybe a bit firmer in the white, but perhaps that was just in my head.
I used 3/4 of the gravy in the pasta bake, which turned out pretty good with a heavy addition of parm and cheddar, with panko (leftover from salmon cakes) on top. We don’t tend to have white potatoes in the house because the shadowy one doesn’t eat them, but I sometimes do pasta for my lunches.
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That looks so comforting and delicious. Super cute vintage casserole pan too 
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All but one is from my grandmother - funny how perspective makes them look so similar. There is a very large, a medium, 3 smalls (two shallow, one deep). And then of course the medium shallow that has the pasta bake.
I need to replace the middle lid, but it is hard to find. Perhaps that can be our summer search, hit the various charity shops across the city.
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Oh wow! You’re so lucky to have a nice set like that! The only thing I own from my grandmother (I never met her and there’s only one picture of her, but we look a little alike and she was apparently a great cook) is a big hammered roasting pan with a lid. I imagine her whenever I use it, which is funny since I don’t know what she was like. But I feel her in it, or my imagining of her.
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I got extremely overpriced avocado toast delivered to work today and I realized I could probably made a DIY version. But you are all super excellent at food so I thought you might also have ideas!
My idea:
Pre sliced crusty whole grain bread, keep in work freezer
Toast it in the toaster oven
Bring an avocado, a knife and a fork and mash the avocado on the toast
Store Sister Salsa (brand of fresh salsa) at work so I don’t have to deal with bringing tomato/onion/vinegar to work
Top with pre crumbled feta or goat cheese to reduce mess
Probably do have to bring salt/pepper/paprika? I’ve wanted pepper before so I might just buy these and leave them for everyone
Do I have to bring oil for this to be yummy?
Any other easy toppings?
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Freezer slices are a good plan.
I never do oil on avo toast, had never even thought of it! I mash up avo, usually add a little lime or lemon juice from ye old bottle, add salt and pepper. I sometimes add a fried egg at home but that’s a little difficult without a stovetop.
ETA: I am clearly very basic with my avo toast.
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