Cooking in a sous vide is one of my favourite things to do as everything can be done in advance and all you need to do is put it in the water bath for the allotted temperature and time. When its time to eat, you simply need to sear the meat either in a pan, the oven, or a blow torch. The meat always comes out at a perfect doneness and super tender. It has become my go to way of cooking meats during the pandemic since it requires little to no supervision while the wife and I are working at home. Additionally, I can get a bunch of meals ready at the start of the week and keep them in the fridge/freezer until I'm ready to cook them. For this recipe, you'll need: - Boar Chops or regular Pork Chops (bone in or out, it's up to you) - Garlic slices - Rosemary sprigs (dry works as well) - Lemon Pepper seasoning - Bay leaf Directions: 1. Place everything in a vacuum bag or a ziplock bag and seal. You can do this step way in advance and place in the fridge or freezer until you're ready. 2. Place the bag in a 141 degrees fahrenheit bath for 2.5 hours. This temperature will cook the chops to a medium-rare doneness with some pink still. But once you sear the meat, it will turn into a medium to medium well doneness. You can play around with the temperature to your desired liking but I suggest not going over 150 degrees fahrenheit as this gets to the well done range after you sear. 3. When you are ready to eat, take the chops out of the bag and dry it with a paper towel before searing it. Dont skip this step, as the meat will take a much longer time to get the desired crust and even over cook the chop. Heat up some oil in a pan and when the pan is smoking hot, place the chops in for about a minute on each side. You can use any type of oil to sear, I often use olive oil or duck fat if I have some in the fridge.
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Since travel isn't much of an option these days, I have decided to share some of my recipes with the interweb. They are by no means expert level, just some things that I have cooked up (pun intended) over the years. Some are straight from my jumbled mind, and others are adaptations to recipes I've followed. When I cook, I don't usually measure things out and do a lot of it by feel. The amounts that I have listed are approximations and I encourage you to play around with the amounts. To me cooking, unlike baking, isn't much of a science, it's about the feels so you don't have to be as exact. For my first recipe share of 2021, its Beef Satay.
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1. Cut beef into 3-4 inch cubes. You dont want to cut it into pieces that are too small since the meat will shrink and disintegrate when simmering. The size that I cut it in the above pictures were actually too small in my opinion 2. Boil it off in plain water for a few minutes and drain. Rinse the meat off a bit. This step removes some of the blood/raw taste of the beef 3. In a large soup pot, sweat the onions, garlic, ginger, bay leaves, black peppercorns, and chilies (optional) 4. Add beef back in and completely cover with water 5. Bring to a boil, remove the frothy gunk that comes out 6. Add satay, regular and dark soy 7. Reduce heat and simmer until soft (probably around 60 - 90 mins) 8. Optional: In the last 30-45 minutes before serving, add the cubed daikon. Cook until soft and adjust the taste to your liking. This may involve adding more of the satay sauce, or even adding some extra water if it is too salty/strong. You can serve this with rice or as a noodle soup. Although, you may need to make the broth a bit tamer if you're opting the noodle soup way. Let me know how your version goes. 2020... what can I say other than I am glad it is almost over. COVID-19 has made the world change how we think, act, and feel. Although it has been a tough year, I have learned new skills and gained so much experience this year, so for that, I am not completely unhappy with 2020. But the light at the end of the tunnel is getting brighter, we just need to persevere a little longer and we can soon be out gallivanting like we used to!
I'm still not very good at this whole blogging and website management stuff so PLEASE excuse my rather elementary site. Until next time, Mahalo. This is my attempt at explaining how to solo this phase. It takes some getting used to and anywhere between 2 to 9 resets so being in Airplane Mode (or equivalent) is key. What you need for this tactic: - 4 x 7* lowbie toons (any) for cannon fodder - g11+ Mother Talzin with zeta on her leader ability "The Great Mother" - g11+ Asajj Ventress with zeta on "Rampage" - g10+ Old Daka (optional zeta on "Serve Again") - g8-9 Nightsister Initiate - g9-10 Jedi Knight Anakin All the above toons must not have any potency mods (or primary stat) equipped. Go for speed, offense, crit damage, crit chance or health. Here are the mods that I have equipped for this phase Step 1 - the Sacrifice The very first thing you do in your attempt at a p3 solo is to send in your 4 x 7* lowbie toons. They will likely not get an attack in. The only reason you do this is for Traya to use up her Isolate ability and restart the timer on it. That way, when you go in with your Nightsister team, none of them will get Isolated right off the bat. Step 2 - the Setup After you're lowbie team gets wiped out, its time to start the real run. Send in your Nightsister team with Jedi Knight Anakin (MT Lead, Asajj, Initiate, Daka & JKA). *IMPORTANT NOTE: TURN ON AIRPLANE MODE NOW*. (that way if you screw up, you can exit out of the game without using up your turn). Your main goal is to get Initiate to die first and fast. Work on the sabres one at a time but do not kill them, just get them to redline until you are ready to topple Traya. Once Initiate is dead, *DO NOT* attack sabres with the Nightsister team because if you happen to kill one, Initiate will be revived and the attempt is pretty much over. The main reason to get the sabres to redline without killing them is because JKA and Asajj can use their Area Attack to wipe them out in one shot, and starting the topple round. Do not get discouraged when you get bad luck in having other toons die first before Initiate, thats what having Airplane mode on is for. *EDIT* If any of your toons are inflicted with Daze, Traya's turn meter will go up a lot and the loop will not work that well. So if you have 2 or more toons with Daze, it may be better to just reset. Step 3 - the Beatdown Once you get Traya toppled, this is where the fun begins. In order for you to get the infinite (or near inifinite) loop, you MUST use basic attack ONLY. Using special abilities will greatly increase Traya's turn meter and will not activate MT's lead ability of having a downed nightsister assist attack. Thus JKA will not get his bonus attack (when an ally dies) and Asajj's Rampage will not grow nor will it activate Daka's Serve Again (if you have it). In my attempts, I have never one toppled this phase like others in the videos out there. I can usually finish the phase in 2 topples though. If I am lucky, the part between topple 1 and topple 2, I can have Asajj attack first so I can quickly use her Area Attack to clear the sabres and restart topple. If I am not, then one of the toons get Isolated. This is not the end of the world as I have cleared this phase even with one of the Nightsisters Isolated. I have not been able to do it with JKA Isolated though. *EDIT* I have been experimenting with using the "Stand Alone" ability right before the topple ends to force Traya into Isolating the toon that will likely live. In this case, Asajj seems to be the best bet. Even with a toon isolated, the loop will still work.
I know its been a long while since I've posted. I know I said I would try to post more this year but its now May and this is my 2nd post for 2019! It's been a crazy 5 months, trying to find myself and to decide in a direction, both on this site and personally. I'm no where near a decision but part of the fun is the process, or so I've been told!
I will continue with this website but will likely not be as active on it as I had initially hoped. I will continue to upload pictures but there definitely will be a delay. I continue to post reviews on TripAdvisor.ca so follow me there as well. Transferring my reviews from there to here feels like double work so unless its a review that I strongly feel about, I think I will end up just leaving it there where more users will see it. Bye for now. Mahalo Nui Loa |
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