Author: Faye

The Slowest Fast-Food

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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.

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Thanksgiving Weekend Cooking

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We did a bunch of home cooking this weekend. Here are some photos.

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Locally picked cranberries transformed into cranberry juice and cranberry sauce.
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Cranberry juice subsequently transformed into cranberry gin cocktails.
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Eggs benedict on a bannock base.

We got a cabbage and are trying our hand at lacto-fermentation: sauerkraut and kimchi. Results will be available in 1-2 weeks.

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***Update: Kimchi and sauerkraut were a success!

We got together with friends for a Thanksgiving feast. We brought the aforementioned cranberry sauce, bread, candied yams, and scalloped potatoes.

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Also, adorable mini-quiches.

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