Been cooking a LOT during the Shelter-In-Place, like most of the world. Unfortunately, i never think to photograph the most impressive ones...too eager to eat.
My favorite afternoon snack or quick lunch the past few months has been just a good english muffin toasted, with a high-quality riccotta cheese, extra virgin olive oil, sea salt, and fresh ground pepper. To me, this beats a bagel and cream cheese or toast with butter and jam/cinnamon sugar 9 times out of 10.
Easily in the top 40 most photogenic egg salad sandwiches i've ever made:
A sequel: left: hot sauce and bacon, right: just the sweet-and-hot pickles. As much of a bacon fiend as i am...i gotta say...I preferred the pickle one.
Hommemade bagels (we tried making them a 2nd time and failed miserably, somehow). The first two on the left are plain, then two random jarred seasoning blends, then sesame seed and 3-cheese, then pretzel salt and a garlic powder/onion powder/salt/pepper mix. The trick with the cheese: it has to be a course shredded cheese. Finely scredded burns too quickly. As did the two seasoning blends. My favorite was the pretzel salt, but I saved half for the next day, and the salt had absorbed so much moisture, the bagel was wet to the touch. Ha! So eat that one first.
Here's the recipe, but note: there is a "print recipe" button to be able to ignore all of the useless garbage on the page...but I still linked to this page, because there's a video that is a helpful reference for things like the dryness of the dough when mixing, etc.
https://sallysbakingaddiction.com/h...0rQVp0pznhGIswoMGCafRN6bdWNWNUzMV7VJJkXxk8-rc
A white lasagna with mushrooms and spinach. Amusingly it's a slow cooker recipe. I'm sure it could be made in the oven with minor tweaks, but hey...it was damn good. It's a bit grey because we used dried oregano and parsley.
NY Times' recipe for Loco Moco. i've had it a couple times before, but then had some AMAZING ones in Hawaii last year, and have been on the hunt for a good recipe ever since. We make this about once every 3-4 weeks.
Pulled pork sandwich with homemade BBQ sauce, bacon, sweet-and-hot pickles, and Hawaiian "buns" (the regular rolls would have been much better.) The camera lens distortion/perspective is making it look like the top bus is gigantic with only a tsp of pork, but it was much more balanced IRL. Unfortunately, the pork itself was much too saucy and sweet. Need to find a good at-home recipe for the pork we had in hawaii...