What did you cook or eat today (January 2025)

Somebody put the pizza stone on too high a rack so the pizza’s were distinctly more leopard like than usual!

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Tip-toeing into burnt toast territory but fortunately just had a nice charred flavour rather than acrid 😂
I’ve called this pizza combo ‘The Red One’ red pepper, red onion, piccolina tomatoes on a tomato & Nduja base with a bit of German black pepper salami.
 
TastyReuben said:
All the fancy recipes for mashed potatoes command using white pepper, so you can’t see the specks, but I like seeing the specks in there - reminds me of specks of vanilla bean seeds in vanilla ice cream, which all the fancy chefs point out as a positive…just goes to show how arbitrary all the “rules” are - I think those taters look delicious!
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When they were preteens and early teens, our twin nieces said they hated pepper and wouldn't eat anything where they could see the pepper specks. Their other uncle made mashed potatoes, among other things, for Thanksgiving 1 year. He used white pepper. The girls raved about the potatoes, said they were the best they ever had. Their mother used potato flakes. Their faces when they were told pepper was in the potatoes were something. That, and the garlic chocolate fudge, led them to being leery about anything Uncle Lee made for several years.
 
medtran49 said:
When they were preteens and early teens, our twin nieces said they hated pepper and wouldn't eat anything where they could see the pepper specks. Their other uncle made mashed potatoes, among other things, for Thanksgiving 1 year. He used white pepper. The girls raved about the potatoes, said they were the best they ever had. Their mother used potato flakes. Their faces when they were told pepper was in the potatoes were something. That, and the garlic chocolate fudge, led them to being leery about anything Uncle Lee made for several years.
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Sometimes it's better to just not know.
 
Our Japchae, AKA Korean sweet potato starch noodles, meat and vegetables. Shaved rib eye, red bell, carrots, spinach, shiitake, onion, green onions, garlic, and tamari, sesame oil, black pepper, sugar, salt, and sesame seeds. Bit of a prep, but it only took me 10 minutes to finish, and that was mostly tossing everything together, since the pan was a little small for everything and I had to be careful.

The noodles were not very good when I tasted them right after cooking, mostly starchy, but sure improved after being tossed with the seasoning mix.

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