Sometimes, while deep frying, you light your house and hair on fire and worst of all, you burn your food.
Other times, you make perfect #eomuk. Seriously this is not your Doctor's fish fingers and custard. This is legit.
Thanks to @maangchi for the 100% amazing recipe and to all the millions of people who posted #koreanstreetfood videos so I could see how to actually form the fishcakes.
#koreanfood
#eomuk
#eomukguk
#friedfish
#fishcakes
#deliciousfish
#fishsoup
Sometimes your quiche is a burnt mess of scrambled eggs and sadness.
And sometimes it's a sublime ramps-flavored triumph of a culinary achievement.
And sometimes it's just pretty damn good and you eat it.
Which one do you think this is 😉
#ramps
#quiche
#rampseason
#foragedfood
#foraging
Sometimes you release your inner caveman and go foraging for food. You end up empty-handed, hot and tired and settle for a liquid dinner of liquor to wash down the bitter disappointment.
Other times, you let the damn professionals hunt you up some amazing #ramps and #nettles and make some #pastaprimavera out of stuff you actually find in the spring.
Thanks Chris and Aeros from @whocooksforyoufarmpa for doing the dangerous nettle wrangling and ramp hunting so that we may eat this delicious dish.
And thank you to our chive plants for producing such pretty and pungent flowers to eat. You made my nose tickle.
Happy hunting. I mean foraging. I mean eating. Whatever.
#pastafresca
#homemadepasta
#rampseason
#nettles
#foragedfood
#foragedfoodie
#foodfromscratch
#forage
#chives
#pasta
#pastalover
Sometimes, you don't have the tteok part of tteokbokki so you cry yourself to sleep to avoid the unrequited craving.
Other times you make the damn thing with wheat noodles instead. Eff it, amirite? No I'm not right. It's not the same. It was still good though. And it made me cry a little.
At least the #eomuk (fishcake) was homemade.
#koreanfood
#gochujang
#gochujangsauce
#gochugaru
#spicynoods
#spicynoodles
#thespiceislife
Sometimes, you have a rip-roaring fight with your friend from Texas about what differentiates a #cookout from a #barbecue.
Other times, you ignore semantics and just put that delicious, delicious food in your freaking face.
Thanks to @harviefarms again for hooking us up with the BEST GROUND BEEF EVER. And thanks to @jubilee_hilltop_ranch for actually...you know. Growing it. Making it? Whatever.
#teamcookout
#grilledfood
#grilling
#grillingseason
#grillinglife
#flamegrilled
#flamegrilledburger
#hotdogsarelife
#hotdoglover
#tatertots
Sometimes, you cave to your inner ten year old and make yourself 5 minute buttered noodles for dinner with a side of wistful nostalgia and whiskey.
And sometimes you grow the eff up and make THE ORIGINAL Pasta Primavera! (Which I found thanks to @amandahesser 's great NYT article that made me curious.)
And you film the entire pain in the ass process for posterity. And because you're a glutton for punishment you research the shit out of it and find out the wild story of how it came to be. Or maybe that's just me.
If you want to find out how an Italian housewife saved her husband's honor in a hunting lodge in Canada, and find out how that has to do with one of our most beloved (and bastardized) Italian pasta dishes, watch the video. (Link in the profile.)
And if you ever have an excess of time and patience, and want to make this glorious monstrosity yourself, I highly recommend it. It's one of the best things I've put in my facehole in a long time.
#Vintagerecipes
#Pastaprimavera
#Foodhistory
#pastafrescafattaincasa
#ogrecipes
#homemadepasta
#pastarecipe
#pastafromscratch
#pastafresca
#pastafattaincasa
#americanitalianfood
#Italianfoodie
#Italianfooddelicacies
#makemorepasta
#pastalovers
#nytcooking
Sometimes your culinary efforts spawn greatness in the form of flawless food.
Other times, the sluglike #gnocchi you labored over for two hours, and that looked so perky on the table, dissolve into a mass of floury potato sludge in the pot. Like these little fuckers did.
PSA: #potatognocchi are a pain in the ass. Switch to #ricottagnocchi and save yourself some rage-y frustration.
#pastarage (we're making that a thing.)
#homemadegnocchi
#gnocchifail
#homemadepasta
#pastafresca
#gnocchifattiincasa
Sometimes your inner 14 year old boy makes an unwanted appearance and you giggle when your boss says "exacerbate" in a boardroom full of c-suite douchebags.
Other times, you spatchcock a chicken.
Heh. Spatchcock. That's what she -- never mind.
ANYWAY. I did it right this time! Cut the breastbone rather than the backbone and everything (total n00b mistake last time.)
Turned out ok. It was super mild though. Next time gonna brine it and add stronger flavors during the cook.
#spatchcock (heh)
#winnerwinnerchickendinner
#spatchcockchicken
#roastchicken
#chickendinner
#chickenfordinner
Sometimes dinner is box mac and cheese with a side of existential dread.
Other times it's flame grilled burgers with delicious beef from @jubilee_hilltop_ranch!!!
So, full disclosure, I've never actually made a burger at home that I'd rather eat than a burger made at a good burger joint. #Burger. 😛
I mean I guess I always knew the meat made the difference, but I didn't really realize HOW MUCH of a difference it made till we got this ground beef from Jubilee in our box from @harviefarms #farmshare. 🤯🤯
Total game changer. AMAZING flavor, perfect fat content. All around awesomesauce.
10/10 will make again (and have. Literally the next day. After ordering a 10 lb pack of frozen ground beef.)
#burgers
#burgerporn
#burgertime
#burgerlover
#flamegrilledburger
#flamegrilledburgers
#burgerlife
#cookinwithfire
Sometimes you make bad life decisions and end up in an empty parking lot in the boonies at night haggling over raw milk cheese with a farmer named Cooter.
Other times you make your first #agnolotti!
This pasta brought to you by the Evan Funke’s recipe for egg dough and all the #parmesan, #ricotta, and #provolone I had left in my fridge.
Shoutout to @pastasocialclub for making it look easy enough to try even though I was feeling lazy.
Shoutout to myself for the fucking awesome #bolognesesauce I made ahead and froze.
10/10 would make again.
#pastafromscratch
#makepasta
#pastafrescafattaincasa
#pastalovers
#stuffedpasta
#filledpasta
#meatsauce
#bolognese
#pastabolognese
#homemadepasta
#pastasocialclub
Doing Some Good
We’re well aware that lots, if not most of the stuff on this blog is really only accessible or affordable to a certain group of folks, and that the vast majority of folks out there struggle just to make ends meet and put ANY kind of food on their family’s table. To try and do what we can to help, we sponsor a different food-oriented charity every month. We research our charitable choices pretty deeply, as we want our dollars to go where they can help the most.
Right now, these contributions are made by Wobbles and Zesty themselves, but the goal is to have part of any proceeds made by this site, Youtube channel, etc. go to charity.
This Month’s Charity
The Greater Pittsburgh Community Food Bank is an incredible organization committed to fulfilling the basic human need of having enough food to underserved communities in the Pittsburgh Area. We picked it as our first charity to support because of the demonstrable good it has done our own community. We were especially impressed with how quickly the charity adapted and provided for a much broader group of people during the initial shock of the Covid19 crisis.