Daniel Cooks Asian Food!

So here we are, back for another exciting installment of me talking about food. On the menu tonight... stirfry! I love stirfry. It's easy to make, bordering on idiot-proof. It's also fast and tasty which is good because I'm kind of lazy and like things that taste good. And now, on with the show.


We start off with onions. Which go into a bowl so they're off the cutting board.


Red peppers come next and get a similar insert-into-bowl treatment.


In the mean time, frozen scallops and shrimp are sitting in the sink thawing out.


This picture really has nothing to do with food. It's just a picture of my shirt. I'm not really sure why Jody took it but she did and it gives me a chance to once again remind you all that you're bad people for not listening to enough Jawbreaker. Okay, I'm done. Back to the good stuff.


Zucchini comes next. Chop, bowl, etc. Seeing a pattern here at all?


Ginger was peeled and grated (I find it way easier than chopping) and garlic was smashed and hacked up. With all the prep done it's time to cook!




Exciting stirfry action shots!! Sort of... A little bit of oil in the pan and on to the heat. Vegetables go in and fry for a few minutes until tender. Garlic and ginger go in for another minute or two. Finally it's noodle time.



The noodles we had came in a vacuum sealed bag and were precooked. They're tasty, cheap and quick to use. The only problem is that they come out of the bag in a pretty solid mass and you have to smack them around a bit to get them to break up.

This stuff was awesome. Normally I just use soy sauce and some hoisin or oyster sauce for stirfry but we bought this a while ago and hadn't tried it. I don't normally like mushroom anything that much. I know, I know, I'm a horrible freak. Blah, blah. But this stuff really doesn't taste like mushroom at all. It tastes a lot like miso with a little bit of kick. Highly recommended.



I did go ahead and add a little bit of hoisin sauce just because I really like it.


Seafood, now nicely thawed, goes in and cooks away.

Tossed some snow peas in at the last minute and just let them warm up a bit.


And here are a couple with the lid off so you can see. Please try to ignore the rest of the mess...

Jody's bowl. Thank goodness she has some presentation skills because god knows I don't. I'll be the first to admit that I sometimes make ugly food. Really tasty... just not the most visually appealing.

And here I am enjoying the fruits (or vegetables I suppose) of my labours. 24 Hour Revenge Therapy? More like... 24 minute... food... therapy... oh god... I'm done.

So... Food I Suppose

This is me. I like food.



This is Jody. She also likes food.

So I started this blog to talk about our food. Because... it seemed like a good idea. There's a good chance Jody will post stuff eventually. The idea was to put up pictures of us cooking and give you an idea of the food we made.

Today, I forgot to take pictures. But we made a bunch of food so I thought I'd talk about it anyways.

Breakfast: Well... sort of breakfast. It may have been 2:30 in the afternoon but that totally counts as breakfast if it's the first thing you eat. Right?


Jody bought these a while ago. They're for poaching eggs. So we decided to try them out. We bought some fresh eggs and tomatoes from the Calgary Farmer's Market, some English muffins from Safeway (the cheese kind) and some Hollandaise sauce mix. Yes, sauce mix. When my breakfast is concerned I'm rarely in the mood to toy around with sauce making. If that makes me a bad person... stuff it.

So eggs were poached. Unfortunately we overcooked them a little but since it was the first time we'd used the pouches we weren't heartbroken. Besides, they looked a lot prettier than the poached eggs we usually make and they didn't completely fall apart. I'd consider it a success. Topped with the Hollandaise and some salsa verde they were delicious.

Supper: Poutine!

Again, with the instant gravy. But again... stuff it.

Fresh cheese curds from the farmer's market. Some sauteed onions. Some sauteed bunashumeji mushrooms for Jody. (Her exclamation at the market was "THESE MUSHROOMS ARE SO CUTE!") Home made French fries.

Tonight's drinks provided by Wild Rose Brewery. We bought their sampler pack. It included their Brown Ale, India Pale Ale, Velvet Fog (unfiltered wheat beer) and the Wraspberry Ale. My favorite so far has been the Brown Ale with the Wraspberry coming a close second.

So... see you next time maybe why not? I'll try to have more pictures and be more entertaining. Right now I'm going to have more beer and finish watching The Blues Brothers.