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I love Lao Gan Ma! There is shortage of It recently in my local Asian groceries.

I made unauthentic gumbo. Roux made with butter and shmaltz. No celery but I did have onions and green peppers. Kielbasa instead of andouille sausage. Chicken and okra. Rice from Baja Fresh. It was delicious! Also posted in dinner thread. Also made roasted crunchy okra. Ate most of it prior to posting.

My unauthentic cooking streak continues. Gumbo. Roux made with butter and shmaltz. No celery but I did have onions and green peppers. Kielbasa instead of andouille sausage. Chicken and okra. Rice from Baja Fresh. It was delicious!

I roasted okra at 450 degrees for 15 minutes in CSO to seal in the slime and finished cooking at 375 degrees bake steam for about 10 minutes. I happen to love okra. Sometimes I roast it at high temp longer and it makes lovely crunchy snack.

Roasted okra with chicken cutlets.

Shrimp and grits. Grits were cooked in instant pot with caramelized onions which made color darker.

Le Creuset dishes are ceramic. They came with cassoulet LC cast iron piece that was on deep clearance at Williams Sonoma for 50 dollars.

You are welcome to visit any time!

Pork belly tonkatsu Ramen with quick pickled ginger, radishes, scallions, onsen egg

LA mart had kimchi in a tiny container or in a bucket, no middle option. And no radish kimchi. I might get used to a bucket size.

Potatoes, kielbasa, egg. Comfort food.

Pork chops and eggplant individually cooked half way in cast iron skillet and finished in CSO 350 degrees steam bake

I love me some steak smell.

@SLB I am very sorry for your loss of family and friend. Stay strong and healthy. And keep cooking. And keep eating. Taking care of yourself is very important in times like this.

Fennel Italian sausages with asparagus. Sausages are made at http://www.nicksofcalvert.com and asparagus is from https://chesapeakesbounty.com, local businesses near our beach house. I am very happy that local asparagus has arrived.

Potatoes fried in bacon drippings and hot dogs cooked in CSO steam bake 350 for 15 minutes.

Duck confit with roasted sweet potatoes

Thinly sliced and pounded pork, egg and whole wheat flour “breading” with blistered green beans and mushroom sauce. DH called it Jägerschnitzel. My unauthentic cooking streak continues and I enjoy it.

Yesterday’s flatbread topped with base of feta, goat cheese, garlic, cream. Brie and king oyster mushroom topping. Baked in pre heated pan in CSO bake steam for about 12 minutes. Slightly falling apart but very tasty.

Fried rice made in a totally unauthentic manner with long grain (Tilda) rice, kielbasa, and asparagus. Showcasing my Darto pan.

Butter chicken approximation over Tilda rice and homemade flatbread. I only had one tomato so the sauce is a little dry. And I did not have yogurt so chicken was marinated in sour cream. But I had Garam Masala, cumin, etc so it tasted properly.

Flatbread to go with butter chicken

I use metal utensils regularly while cooking in Le Creuset, please don’t unfriend me 😃. Here is my LC Christmas tree!

Almost everything is sold out on Rancho Gordo website. Oy. I may hav to pay @JoNorvelleWalker a visit to barter something like Spam for beans

Right. And now two years later it appears to be intact. And DH and I are intact as well after eating it. Strong chemicals! Strong stomachs!