If you are a young career professional in a high cost of living city, you should seriously consider meal replacements for multiple meals per day. People hear about my majority Soylent diet and say things like "How can you possibly stand that stuff, don't you like food?" The truth is, I love food. I just love optimizing my life more. Here are some justifications, from a 2014 Soylent 1.0 OG. Cheap Nutritional FloorMeal replacement nutritional bioavailability is imperfect. They're ultra-processed,…
If you’ve ever wished you could whip up soft, warm naan breads without the time or fuss of working with yeast, you’re going to love this recipe. These Yeast‑Free Naan Breads come together in minutes using simple pantry ingredients, and they cook right on the stovetop — no rising, no kneading, no waiting around. Just mix, roll, and toast until they’re puffed, golden, and irresistibly tender.They’re perfect for scooping up curries, wrapping around grilled meats, or serving warm with a bit of…
A gift from Mrs. Mai Tai, who knows I’m interested to try a Mai Tai in any format. This powdered drink mix isn’t intended to be boozy, but if you’re reading this you know I did the right thing by adding a little Jamaican rum into the glass. Look, it isn’t amazing, but does it kind of taste like a Mai Tai? Well, close enough for the scenarios where you can buy a bottle of rum but not all the other Mai Tai ingredients. There is a little bit of a tangy flavor that reminds me of the pop of lime you…
Meringue “Snackers” is a funny name. I mean, I do like meringues, but it would never cross my mind to have one as a snack. Kind of like eating air. These big, swirly puffs are pretty to look at though. And you can do lots of things with them…even though I didn’t shape them into pavlovas, I’ll still probably take them from snacks to full-fledged dessert with some berries and cream. I have some bright pink “raspberry juice powder” that I impulse bought not long ago, and thought I could fold some…
Here’s the last of these sent by The Fat Hipster – thanks! So this is camping ramen. I must say the prior varieties were quite bland. I guess we will see on this one. Trailtopia Adventure Food Beef With Mushrooms & Vegetables – United States Detail of the packaging (click to enlarge). Looks to be meat free but check for yourself. To prepare, remove desiccant sachet, then add 1.5 cups boiling water to pouch and stir. Zip shut and steep 10 minutes. Finally, stir and enjoy! Uncooked product.…
Before moving to Maine, I had never heard of anadama bread – an old-school New England yeasted bread made with cornmeal and molasses. But once my friend Sarah introduced me, I was hooked! What makes Afton Cyrus’s New England Anadama Bread worth making is that the cornmeal and molasses actually pull their weight. The cornmeal is softened before it hits the dough, so you get that subtle texture without any grit, and the molasses adds a dark, toasty sweetness that keeps it from feeling one-note.…
Hello hoomans! Things have been hectic as of late and I struggled to keep up, but now I'm finally back to the blog... and yes, the moment has come! After teasing you with an introduction to gong-fu cha, boring you with a list of all the tools, inspiring you with the charming tea mascots and boring you some more with tea processing, I am finally going to teach you how to use the gong-fu method for brewing tea. I have also decided to add a page, the grimoire, where I will collect this and all my…
If you’re looking for an easy, comforting, one‑dish supper that practically cooks itself, this Sausage & Sweet Potato Casserole is the kind of recipe you’ll want in your weeknight rotation. A vintage recipe taken from an old cookbook, it is hearty, flavorful, and wonderfully simple — just good ingredients layered together and baked until everything is tender, caramelized, and delicious. Sweet potatoes bring natural warmth, sliced apple and onion a delicious sweetness, the sausage adds savory…
Few days ago I decided to make the curry of chola batura. I bought 250gms of kabli chola and let them soak overnight. I tried to find some recipes for chola batura but I could not find it that might work with the ingrediencts I have. I do not want to follow all the steps for chola batura to make the perfect one as it would take so much time. I am so bored of eating chicken and fish most of the time that I need to try something new. Enough of chicken recipes (I tried 2 recipes, resturant style,…
Whenever the subject of Baltimore is raised here on the Tribunal, you know I’m going to reference The Wire, perhaps the greatest TV show ever made. So far I have not had many opportunities, but between the local Italian sub called The Scooch and the slightly more notable regional roast beef sandwich called Pit Beef, the subject has arisen a few times in these pages. In that piece on The Scooch, I mentioned crab cakes and Natty Boh beer specifically, though the most memorable reference to…
Nothing like Korean ramyun – this one is from a brand that makes some nice varieties. Found this one at Boo Han Market in Edmonds, Washington. Let’s cook it up! Harim Spicy Ramen – South Korea Detail of the packaging (click to enlarge). Contains anchovy. To prepare, add noodle and sachet contents to 550ml boiling water. Cook for 4 1/2 minutes. Finally, stir and enjoy! An individual pack. Detail of the packaging (click to enlarge). An instant noodle block. A sachet of soup base powder seasoning.…
It’s finally warm enough to cook with the windows open. And while the bright greens of spring haven’t quite made it to the farmers market yet, I needed something fresh like Eric Kim’s Scorched Skillet Rice with Raw Spring Vegetables. Asparagus, sugar snap peas, and peas get tossed in a punchy soy-wasabi-green plum syrup dressing, then piled over rice cooked in sesame oil until deeply golden. I may have taken “scorched” a little too far, some of my rice crossed the line into burnt. I think I had…
I first went to a Blacklock in 2015. I wrote about it in 2022 for the first time. By my estimates I’ve been about a dozen times to varying sites in the last ten years, including the opening of Canary Wharf and, more recently, an ill-fated afternoon in Soho that left me a lovely scar on my forehead and a £300 Uber back to Birmingham. I like Blacklock. Must do given the amount of times I’ve been. And yet I’m struggling to reach the same fever pitch of excitement over the opening in Birmingham. I…
『餐點速度品質與服務員的訓練與敬業程度都令人深感欽佩，美中不足的並不來自服務員的問題和用餐環境，而是一個用肛門想就知道是來自すき家行銷高層自以為聰明而製造的毛病：數位點餐在目錄頁把價格隱藏了，對多數顧客而言這是考慮是否點菜最重要的決定條件，卻這麼做和使用者體驗完全反其道而行，希望藉由無法立即一覽價碼的資訊落差，令消費者在看不到價碼之下直接亂槍打鳥點了滯銷品與較貴品項，賺摳這一點因客群犯錯而多噴錢但其實也沒有多少的利潤。這是企業將死之前將消費者榨乾的伎倆。從偶爾傳出的超時加班血汗聽聞，和經驗中其它分店部份職員顯然是因上層吝於把勞工當人看、造成職員身為有血肉人類在尖峰時段無法再進行表情與聲音管理的耗竭狀態，可想而知對員工與消費者而言，すき家的未來就是沒有未來。』 本來想把整串嘰嘰歪歪連著點餐體驗回饋附上糟透了的表情符號送出，但我想這整份回饋機制並非消費者的心得留言板而是這張發票對應值班時段人員的抓戰犯工具，只有管理階層有權限去瀏覽與彈劾屬下，而腦脫的管理階層必然是只懂KPI12345量表的機械化語言，換句話說比起真實在廚房與櫃檯內外肉體與情緒作業的職員們，管理階層更適合被LLM取代。因此我…
You probably think you already know how to grow a zucchini plant but if you live in North America ... you might not. Years ago, I starting using a European technique that I had little hope for, but shock of all shocks - it worked. My guide was originally published in 2019, when staking zucchini...Read More
I found a couple of red onions, tucked under regular onions, sprouting in my kitchen. I did realized them have been sprouting for quite some time, but just now I found the time (and the will) to plant them, in case there will be green onions later on. I also took the time to tidy things up in the balcony. We are moving into a much hotter, and much much more humid, weather recently, which means some placement rotations are in due time. The post Red onions appeared first on coriander in pho.
I haven't felt much like blogging lately, but I wanted to pop in quickly to say hello and would you like to see some blueberry bread? I made it the other day. It's essentially just blueberry muffins in bread form, but I like it better this way, and I prefer it packed full of blueberries. 🫐😋 It's one of my comfort foods that's easy to whip up with basic ingredients. I hope you enjoyed looking at this blueberry bread. I certainly enjoyed eating it. Here are some other foods I've enjoyed lately:…
My wife’s sambar tastes different from my mother’s. And mine, too. When I cooked as a bachelor, my neighbour would pop by, taste the sambar, and exclaim, “Rasam super!” Surbhi’s Day 5 of the 30-day challenge was about Sambar which inspired me to take her dataset and create a decision tree for which state a sambar recipe is from based on its ingredients. ChatGPT started with 68 recipes and built a tree at 41% accuracy. As we added more recipes: Recipes Accuracy 68 41% 293 42% 361 55% 406 54% ……
Like Paris, Portland is a city of neighborhoods, each having its signature cafés, restaurants, bars and bakeries, where residents gather to nod a hello, remark on how big children have grown and share the latest gossip. Lisa Belt's Flour Market was that kind of place from the moment it opened on Northeast 30th and Killingsworth, and quickly achieved "let's meet there" status among lovers of good drip coffee and outstanding baked goods and breads. So regulars were overcome with shock and dismay…
On Friday night my partner and I joined some friends at the nearby Orion Amphitheater↗ to see CAKE↗. It was a really fun, chill time - and quite a bit different from the shows we usually attend↗. You might be surprised to learn that this show seemed to attract a different crowd than our typical metal shows, but it's true. There were a lot more older and younger people in attendance, and they dressed more colorfully than we're used to. We saw a bunch of couples our age who had brought their…
This is rad and came by way of the folks at Hong Kong Foodies – they’ve got a lot of Demae Iccho varieties I’ve never seen before and were kind enough to send them my way! Let’s try this classic variety which uses Hokkaido wheat flour. Nissin Demae Iccho 100% Hokkaido Wheat Flour Sesame Oil Flavor Instant Ramen Detail of the packaging (click to enlarge). Unsure if it contains meat so check for yourself. To prepare, boil noodle in 500mnl water for 3 minutes. Add in sachet contents. Finally, stir…
Were 19th century European visitors to the United States inclined to be super critical about the food they ate in restaurants and hotels? It’s hard to know the answer, but they were often negative. An example was a woman from Scotland who grew so used to bad food that she was surprised to find a good breakfast in La Junta, Colorado, in the 1880s. She bonded with the proprietor, a German who had been trained in Paris, agreeing that Americans were mainly interested in quantity, not quality.…
For the life of me, I cannot remember where I first tasted the inspiration for this Crispy Cod with Leek Broth and Lemon-Thyme Butter, but I remember exactly how it felt. It was one of those early spring days in New York where winter hadn’t fully let go. It was still cold, but you could feel the shift coming. And this bowl matched that moment perfectly – light and bright, but still warm enough to take the chill off. This isn’t a dish that shouts, and I think that’s why it works so well. The…
This week is National Park Week, so I decided to round up 10 Sweet nature cakes that would make Leslie Knope proud. (By Intricate Icings Cake Design) Preeeeettty. Now, I'm a hermit blogger with what my doctor described as a "shocking" vitamin D deficiency, so I think it's safe to say I'm not the outdoorsy type. BUT! I hear there's actually a lot you can do in our national parks.Things like:Kayaking: (By Mike's Amazing Cakes) Hiking: (By Sweet and Sassy) Camping: (By The Royal Bakery) And…
Sunrise, April 23, 2026Standing near the “shoreline,” which has expanded inland with all the rain, I’m surrounded by swooping tree swallows. I allow myself to feel them as they whoosh by my head. I giggle at the way they arc, dive, climb, and seem to spin in the air. Male tree swallow with the zoomies.I feel the part of me that wants to get going, that thinks we have so many more locations to visit, that we might be missing out on another magical bird that is just around the corner.The female…
Wheels Coffee Roasters adalah tempat hits yang selalu ramai terlebih saat hari libur. Kalau akhir minggu, semua cabang Wheels akan penuh dengan pengunjung, terutama turis yang mayoritas dari area Jabodetabek. Sebagai warlok, saya malas mampir ke tempat yang jelas-jelas tourist spot dan menghabiskan waktu. Mending saya diam di rumah atau ngemper. Tapi terus terang penasaran juga; terlebih karena hype- nya nggak abis-abis. Antrian selalu mengular dan waiting list, baik di cabang yang besar…
Luka sent me a care package including Cinnamon Toast Crunch. It’s all I ever wanted, really.
It’s genuinely worrying that Pringles can make crisps that taste exactly like lettuce. What does lettuce even taste like other than lettuce and water? https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/pringles-165g-burger-king-chicken-royale-flavour-sharing-crisps You're getting this because you follow my global (everything) feed — if you'd like to filter what comes through, you can find all my feeds at edleeman.co.uk/rss. Regardless, thanks for reading over RSS. You're awesome and I appreciate you.
I was suggesting local restaurants to a Portuguese friend. Suddenly, he had an idea to bounce off of me. "Isn't it a shame there's no app that gives you surefire food tips wherever you go?" I smirked painfully and told him that I'd created that once. I gathered an unusually expert group of food lovers to swap tips and answer questions, and it eventually scaled so large that a staggering number of obscure nooks and crannies were explored and accounted for. He asked me for a download link, and I…
You may have seen my review of this one’s creamy counterpart. That one was really good – curious how this will be. Nope – not ramen, but should be nice. Let’s give it a whirl! Nongshim Taekyung x Pinkfong Baby Shark Sweet & Spicy Topokki – South Korea Detail of the packaging (click to enlarge). Looks to be meat free but check for yourself. To prepare, rince rice cake with cold water. Add rice cake and 110ml water to a pot and bring to a boil. Add sachet contents then lower heat and simmer 3~4…
