Month: October 2016

Our current cooking adventure is ginger beer. The recipe is very simple: add grated ginger, sugar, yeast, and water to a container and let it sit. The challenge is that the fermentation is highly energetic and is liable to create a carbonation bomb if the container is sealed too tight for too long.

It only takes a day or two to get a tangy, fizzy ginger beverage. Pictured below with a smoked meat sandwich with homemade sauerkraut.

(note: despite the name, ginger beer is a non-alcoholic beverage)

Tonight, I had a craving for fast food, but the nearest fast food is over 600km away. So I decided to see how good a homemade replica I could make with things already in the kitchen.

• Fries: cut extra thin and fried in oil. We still have a huge excess of potatoes.
• Burger: the kind that comes out of a frozen package (so just like fast food!)
• Bun: we didn’t have any buns, so I cut the crust off some bread, fried it a bit, and put some sesame seeds on it.
• Special sauce: I googled the recipe for this… mayonnaise, vinegar, sugar, salt, finely minced white onion, sweet pickle relish (aka some finely minced pickles), and French dressing – we didn’t have any of this either but I looked up a recipe for that and it was basically the same as the above ingredients + ketchup.

Success! Tasted somewhat convincingly like fast food. Or maybe I’ve just been up here too long.