Some Home Cooking

I am not much of a cook, but I'll make something on occasion. I like to chop stuff and be a cook helper though, otherwise I take a long time to slowly follow recipes or just be slow in general at shuffling ingredients around. So perfect for times when there's no rush to cook. But anyway, sharing some things I happened to make recently.

I like nice and simple. This is simply a poached egg on smoked salmon on a toasted muffin. It's missing a yellow sauce that would make it a Benedict but I didn't have the ingredients for it. (Well, actually I did for one variant so the real excuse is laziness).

Turns out I like it without the creamy yellow sauce anyway.

Rice 'n' stuff.

In this one I handled the tempura battered pan fried flounder. And this turned out also to be pretty simple. Pat and dry some fish (we started from frozen flounder filets from Costco, so that needed defrosting as well).

I found this tempura powder from long long ago. Actually there's a date printed on it that's at least a year old, but I figured it was probably still fine... (Yes I'm here, so it's fine). Just add water, and stir it up. Fish goes in, one side, then the other, and onto a generously oiled and heated pan. Ours is a cast iron pan, and the oil was just enough to barely coat the pan with a thin layer.

Probably this would have been better with a splatter screen. Few minutes on each side and it was ready to go. Nice and crispy, and the fish inside soft and flaky. I'm very excited it turned out well because I was expecting the worst. But now I should be able to reproduce it.

Yes, this is really a post with two random food pictures with a smattering of blabbering. Bon appetit!