Pot Stickers and Noodle Soup

These vegetarian pot stickers are from Noodle City. The soup is a disastrous attempt to create a stock in thirty minutes. It was too spicy and utterly lacking in flavor despite the obscene amounts of shitake mushrooms and onions I added to it.

Look at how they expand after being cooked

Leek Soup

Delicious leek goodness. It looks greasy and brown because I used carrot stock and added too much oil when frying the onions. Also because I'm not the sort of posh person who only uses the pale part of the leek. There might be potato in here.

Omrice

Found a container of chopped onions and yellow bell peppers and decided to make something of it. We had half a jar of left over tomato sauce and a five pound bag of garlic so I created the horrifying Japanese concoction that is omrice. I was introduced to it by a student years ago and it has haunted my dreams ever since. It is made of rice fried in ketchup and then stuffed in an omelette which is decoratively topped with ketchup. Why the fixation on ketchup? Probably a horrifying consequence of American GIs being stationed in Japan post WWII.

Dumped the garlic in at the last moment so it was basically raw.

Not using the usual cast iron pot because someone's mother didn't clean up after frying certain salmon steaks last night.

The staged version/

What I actually ate.

Salmon Steak and Onion, Leek, Squash Stir Fry Topped with Walnuts

Look at that poor dead creature. I've saved the skull to attempt cold water maceration in a mason jar.

Leeks improve just about any stir fry and of course so do onions and summer squash. The walnuts are part of my mum's attempt to make me eat healthier. The salmon ended up over cooked which tends to happen when we try to cook thick slabs. And yes, that is white rice. Delicious white rice that will destroy my health.