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Out & About #639 | Week #12 Quarantine Update

6/7/2020

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I'm an advocate of simplifying matters. You know, like math. Drama fits best in media productions, dispensable in daily life and enjoyed as a form of entertainment instead. I also believe in unique opinions. Everyone can have opinions; whether you choose to voice them is up to one's own discretion. Silence is not synonymous with a lack of awareness, and furthermore warrants no personal attacks. Neither one to condemn expression or suppression, it is my belief that sharing opinions in the absence of agreement is absolutely fine.

​Moving onto a lighter note - as should we all with negative news popping up left and right - allow me to present several creations of the week:
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1. Egg Salad with Pickled Celery
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I shall forewarn about my auntie-esque attributes: Scoring two stalks of celery for $2.59 was my most glorious grocery-running moment last week. This boast-worthy endeavour was then quickly put to use with none other than the first recipe to emerge under SK's "celery" category. Shallots were an unexpectedly wonderful touch; Dijon mustard was swapped for wasabi and boiled potatoes were added for substance.
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2. Matcha Madeleine w/ Milk Chocolate Matcha Glaze

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French pastries adopt very precise shapes, with very specific contours, which, in turn, demand very particular apparatus. At the mention of brown butter, my mind tends to drift towards financiers (Third Wave's financier, to be exact), then to my own attempt, and then to the possibility of crafting financiers in madeleine molds (how sacrilegious! I know, I know.)
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Of course, the traditional madeleine does not employ brown butter as a staple ingredient, but rather baking powder and a decent amount of patience - an aspect I cannot pride myself with possessing. The need for uniform portioning and additional wait time for glaze-setting were other elements that led to pastry's hedgehog-back demise.

At least, there was pizza to save the day (feat. a pizza paddle acquired nearly half a decade prior and promptly forgotten upon its entry into the house).
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3. Ginger Blueberry Soda w/ Homemade Blueberry Jam
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This was enjoyed while hermitting indoors, unboxing a much-needed package from Nature Republic and securely shielded from the repulsiveness that is thirty-degrees-plus-humidity weather.
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4. Soy Baked Chicken Drumsticks
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​Adapted from SK's Sticky Sesame Chicken Wings, this was an easy one-pan dinner item employing our pantry essentials in a previously unconsidered configuration. The results was less sticky and more runny, though I blame no one, for they were arranged in a curved tray as opposed to the recommended sheet pan for optimal moisture dispersion.
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I may be upping the honey next time, or the hoisin sauce. Regardless, the entree paired well alongside Brew 003, otherwise known as a citrusy and ridiculously hoppy Hazy Session IPA. And otherwise known as the reason why I stopped IPA-ing.
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A latte a day keeps insanity at bay.
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5. Tomato and Potato Soup (An ABC Soup spinoff)
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​Not pictured: Tuna Salad, 南乳番薯豆腐煲 (which I can only loosely translate as "pork and veggies in fermented red bean curd broth"), more cookies, and garlicy 숙주나물 무침/kongnamul muchim, (Korean soybean sprout banchan) (not mine).
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