I wouldn�t want to buy or sell these cookies in a public place with strangers. Better the 2021 method of pre-orders to friends & family. We all need to limit our time out of the house.
my child wasn�t home or wasn�t in the kitchen when I was cooking / eating these sausages. It�s a bit less dangerous than No New Taxes.

It�s not the double thick soy sauce? Maybe even a bit of LKK oyster sauce or bbq sauce? :-) we all love our LKK!!!

I find full chicken versions not very good. At least the ones I've tried. You need a certain amount of fat for any meat, but especially sausages from anywhere. Pure meat without some sort of fat/oil content is just disgusting.

That said, since the start of the pandemic, I've had pork lard (those pork bits you find in Singapore/Malaysia that they sprinkle on many dishes) on the table. The chinese supermarkets here have been selling a lot more pork so lots of pork skin for cheap...

I don't think so. I think it's part kecap manis but there has to be some other component(s). I've been growing my collection of condiments/sauces just to keep things interesting.

gorgeous - I did start cooking a new recipe for the chicken tangine albeit not rotisserie chicken.
I love it and just use shop couscous.
we probably use more almond and pistachio than the recipe lists :-)
https://www.thekitchn.com/moroccan-r...-kitchn-175757

What does that dark sauce taste like - it�s not semi sweet / salty?
i do wonder if it�s sauce from preserved pork belly (or whatever that fat back stuff is) because the meat part of the pork belly should have that dark soy sauce color. Maybe that�s it? I definitely recall the tamales having both the Chinese sausage and preserved fat back (as a parent referred to it for my benefit).

Fish tacos (Costco rockfish / onion / yellow & orange bell peppers)
fresh housemade guacamole
assorted toppings

Girl Scout cookies :-)

How's limiting your time out of the house working for you? How many trips to Costco this week?

Some of the beef rendang , fried chicken wings , tuna bergedel and nasi lemak with the pandan flavour along with bunga terlang for the blue


Homecooked nasi lemak with pandan & bunga terlang ( blue / purple pea flowers ) for blue colouring along with beef rendang , fried chicken wings , crispy ikan bilis and peanuts , cucumber , bbc instead of usual kang kong ( water convolvulus / spinach ) and lovingly prepared achar by a friend ( Peranakan pickled finely julienned vegetables - cabbage , cucumber , carrot , chilli , .. )

Had ham & havarti sandwiches, with spinach and miso ginger mayonnaise!

I can't recall what our menus are in the coming weeks. It's PQM and Big Star I believe so could be pork for both (not to mention I'm making a pork shoulder for the Super Bowl - oops). Each pickup location had a slightly different menu. We actually could have easily chosen between Highland Park and Northbrook but liked the HP menu better.

Here's my quick review on week 1. It didn't look like enough food when we took it out of the box, but turned out we were quite full. Only the chicken tagine and bread required reheating, so it was much more convenient than some of the other takeout meals we've done, and didn't require us to use any of our own pots and pans. While the tagine had good flavor, the chicken was our least favorite part of the meal, as the breast was dry. We really liked the baba ghanouj, which had plenty of olives - usually not something we'd order, as we normally like hummus better. Same for the tabbouleh, great flavor, especially with the charred onions. We both liked the dessert, even though I don't love coconut and my wife doesn't like passion fruit. It was slightly tart, which was refreshing. I expected it to be my least favorite meal of the 3 - it probably will be, but it was still a decent weekday meal.

I didn't realize there was variation between the pickup locations. I was looking at Lakeview.

Last night's dinner was a salad with leafy greens, cherry tomatoes, cucumbers, and red onion with a pistachio vinaigrette. And a meat and cheese board with prosciutto, mortadella, smoked gouda, sage derby, fontina, pimento cheese spread, blackberries, and arugula. Friend is allergic, otherwise would've had honey too.

Tonight's dinner will be baked lemon pepper halibut and roasted broccoli.

I love a charcuterie board for dinner. How did you make the pistachio dressing?

It was from a local pizza place.


Halibut and broccoli. Was so glad to feel like cooking again.

Depends on where you go. Up here, it's definitely less sweet than the cheong-fan type soy sauces (and thicker). In Singapore the ones I've had were even more thicker and only slightly sweet, more savoury. It could be a mushroom based soy sauce with some sugar and oil...

For the the tamales, I think you're referring to zhongzi (or ba-zhang)... That's different. I usually add a bit of light soy sauce (have way too many packets lying around from takeaway sushi this year). I don't think that's fatback in there though. I know what you're talking about but the ones I have had usually have some fatty meat (more meat than fat and that has been steamed to near melting) no sausage but sometimes a salty egg yolk. I always keep a few of these in the fridge in case I feel lazy about cooking.

Actually that reminds me, I have a batch of salty eggs to pull out before they become more salt than eggs. Guess I'm having congee tomorrow.

Tonight it will be plain grilled sea bream, caught last night, with samphire and chipped potatoes. The simplest things, but with the finest ingredients, are so often the best.

After losing a few pounds of holiday weight, I realized this morning that we've planned for a 4 day bender of comfort foods as our temps go below zero here.

Last night, buffalo chicken wraps. Tonight, loaded homemade pizza and salad. Saturday the plan is cheeseburger mac and cheese. Sunday, for the game, we'll have crock pot pulled pork and chips, and likely a few snacks before. Ugh...back to healthy eating on Monday I hope.

Well , for many in Asia , with the Lunar New Year coming up next Friday the feasting resumes . So if you have not lost any weight yet , all the best !

Grass fed tenderloin for dinner with mash and pea shoots .. , fish soup .
Cherries and lychees .

I'm planning a last minute Super Bowl meal. It cannot be described as healthy.