Friday, January 30, 2026

Cooking…for the halibut

To-Try Recipe #14: Vegetable Sushi Bowls

(From Cookie and Kate.) I’ve been wanting to try this because they’re vegan and nutritious and sounded like a great lunch to take camping. But they didn’t taste all that special.  I’ll eat some more tomorrow and see if a day in the refrigerator changed my opinion.  All I had was a little taste of the finished product—I had some leftovers already on the menu.

Maybe the spicy mayo would have pulled it all together.

Keep or Discard?  Probably discard, although the rice treatment seemed to be a good idea.


To-Try Recipe #15: Black Pepper Chicken

It turned out okay, not especially exciting. It needed salt, as I guessed while making it.  It was basically just chicken in a potato starch, black pepper, and garlic rub, stir fried and seasoned with oyster sauce and sesame oil.  He only called for one-quarter teaspoon of salt for the three pieces of chicken—I think splash of soy sauce at the end would have improved it a lot.

But still, that particular “treatment” didn’t complement the chicken. It would have been better with beef, IMHO. 

Keep or Discard?  Discard.


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