Surprisingly, we’ve got a fairly decent chinese food delivery service here where I live, with tasty food and reasonable pricing. While I deem myself an open minded person when it comes to trying new dishes, I often catch myself ordering from a set variety of meals, just for convenience and because I know exactly what I’ll get when I’m not in the mood for experiments.
Farcydes Top 3 Recipes 2024
It was an eventful year that lies behind us and there was considerably less time to be freed up for cooking and experimenting in the kitchen. Nonetheless, these are the dishes I liked best in 2024, give them a try, enjoy and let me know if they worked out for you.
Easy Roasted Chicken
Ahhh… roasted chicken, fresh and hot from the oven. Chicken is a versatile, delicious and affordable type of meat, there’s a million ways to cook it and so I really like eating chicken (just surely and most definitely not the girls in my backyard – that would be downright treason 🙂 ) Sooo…
Home made Scallion Oil
This seems to be a very common condiment in chinese cuisine and, while easy to make, it’s a deliciously aromatic and enriching addition to stir-fries and soups. Here’s how to make it, give it a try:
Chicken Udon Soup
Chicken and Udon Noodle Soup – a recipe taken from somwewhere ⤷ here a long time ago – is a simple and quick no-brainer for the evenings when you’re craving japanese food, in fact hungry but at the same time thoroughly unmotivated and lazy.
Homemade Yoghurt
I’m still on the weight-loss-journey (going well, thanks for asking) and always trying to find new foods that comply with my goal and on the other hand don’t taste like utter sh*t. Yoghurt is one of the things I didn’t have on the radar for a long time and that I now re-discovered as a protein-rich snack – and I wouldn’t be myself if I didn’t try to make my own, right?
And It’s surprisingly easy, just some kind of copy & paste procedure of propagating “old” yoghurt (i.e. store-bought) to “new”, multiplying it in the process. I’m not an expert (yet), but here’s how I did it and it worked decidedly well. Even my wife liked it.
Popovers for my Girl! (Homemade fluffy Breakfast Rolls Recipe)
Popovers (wiki here) are a traditional american type of light bread roll (somewhat similar to Yorkshire puddings) that are very convenient for breakfast and can be consumed in both sweet and savory variations. They seem to be one of those “my grandma used to make these for me when I was a child”-things that everyone has a fond memory of. My wife loves them in the morning, so occasionally I make her some.
Air Fryer French Fries
I want to loose some weight (like, really some weight…) and cut down on fats a little, so I bought an air fryer some time ago for low fat food preparation. I like french fries a lot (and yes! The Mc Donald’s style ones not those present-time fancy, like, pretentious halved potatoes they try to sell you as fries instead of just oil soaked potato chunks) and I wanted to make my own, reasonably low-fat yet reasonably tasty stuff. The Air Fryer comes in very handy here. After some fiddling around and trying several internet tips I ended up with this recipe.
No, they won’t beat some well-made, twice cooked golden fries from the deep fryer, but they do get close enough for me and they do taste great. I wasn’t sure about the whole soaking-in-boiling-water-approach, but it turns out it’s an obvious plus, so do try it. Unfortunately, it’s therefore also not completely hassle free, but it’s well worth the effort and there’s a little workaround.
