I made a new round of my Codsworth-Cheese that is now sitting in the fridge at the moment to cure. Seasoned with a little oregano and painstakingly washed daily with cheese brine for 5 days it was then left to dry.
Simple Cheese Brine Recipe
Here’s the formula for my simple cheese brining solution. Easy to make and shelf-stable for an eternity.
The goal is to produce a ~20% salt solution. I only brush it onto my cheese instead of dipping the whole slab into the brine. Mix and store in an airtight container and make sure to sterilize your brush before applying.
The recipe:
– 300 ml water
– 67 g salt
– 4,5 ml white vinegar
Chinese-Style Fried Rice Recipe
For me, one of the tastiest ways to use up leftovers. In this case rice, homemade chinese bacon, spring onion and lots of garlic. BTW: I stole this recipe from a chinese cooking show with no subtitles on YT, so I hope it’s half-way original 🙂
Anyway, this is tasty stuff, filling enough, and here’s how:
Farcydes Top 5 Recipes 2021
These are the dishes I liked best in 2021 and, funnily enough, some of them were also the most clicked ones. I’d appreciate if you give them a try, enjoy and let me know how they worked out for you!
Finally a new Batch of Chinese Style Bacon
I finally found the time again to prepare a very yummy and versatile ingredient: Read how to make chinese-style bacon here. It’s absolutely worth the effort!
Plus, I got to use my re-activated drying box again!
Creamy Savoy Cabbage Recipe
There’s a popular northern germany dish called “Grünkohl mit Pinkel” (Stewed Kale and Pinkel Sausage), that I like very much. Now, running out of kale… somehow… I decided to just substitute it with creamy savoy cabbage (german “Rahmwirsing”) from the local grower and it worked fine.
It’s simple and it only takes 15 minutes to cook, yet it’s delicious. And here’s how:
Chicken Tomatesca
Ahh… the first mashup dish from the new kitchen that I call the “Chicken Tomatesca” – for shamelessly stealing and mixing ideas from several other dishes.
Chicken cubes with garlicky tomato sauce and pasta, not very difficult and very satisfying.
Well, and easily that single most ugly food photo I’ve ever taken… 🙂
Dehydrating Food
I grabbed some sweet apples that were on sale at the supermarket, decided to buy some other veggies as well and turned on my trusty food-dehydrator. I tried to slice everything to about the same thickness of about 4-5 mm, as I expected that all ingredients would take roughly the same time to dry.
The groceries I used (apples, button mushrooms and chili peppers) are rather moist material so the drying time was a little longer. It was about 5 hours at about 55°C (131°F) for the shroomz and indeed 7 hours for the apples and chilies. Everything turned out fine.
