Ok I’m really proud of this one. Mille-feuille nabe. Napa cabbage leaves layered with ultra thin pork belly slices cooked with enoki mushrooms and broth. I changed it up a bit with Szechuan broth from my local hot pot place and served with some soba noodles and a ramen egg.

It’s an overcast drizzly day precluding a cold front so it’s time to start some soup. On the left, pork bones going for an overnight soak to eventually become tonkatsu ramen broth. On the right, a defrosting chunk of previous beef bone broth simmering with smoked marrow bones for French onion soup.

A bunch of us celebrated Halloween last night and I made lots of spooky food! I didnt have a clever name for the apple cider pull apart bread but it was the best new recipe I’ve tried in a while!

trans rights now ! #transrights #derpyhooves

I made a huge batch of enchiladas last week using smoked pulled chicken I froze from a prior charity bbq. One pan was frozen and bagged so I can still feed the furs I love despite living separately.

Ribs were perfect to my liking, tender but still with a little chew. The real star here was the smoked pineapple. This weekend I might just split a whole pineapple, dust with cinnamon sugar, and do one half plain, one wrapped in bacon.

I saw a video where a guy dipped a whole (peeled) pineapple in bbq sauce and then wrapped a dry rub rack of ribs around it and cooked it in the oven. While visually impressive, I realized the pineapple didn’t contact much of the meat and also why not smoke? So a meat experiment is being conducted.

Work has been extra chaos this week and I often take mental breaks by dreaming up restaurant concepts or thinking about new craft ideas. Currently workshopping a (non-food) idea involving themed scents and here’s what I’ve come up with:

I’m only 2 years into the con space and 4~ years in the fandom and the number of uplifting stories like this one I’ve seen from the furry community continue to drive my inclusion.

As promised, links to my panel "From Trash to Treats: Upping Your Cooking Game!"

Powerpoint: docs.google.com/presentation...

Google Slides: docs.google.com/presentation...

Hi, yes it’s Tristis the chef possum! Someone took the Tristis name here so I ended up using my OG fursona, Selindae the Platypus.

I will have my presentation “Trash to Treats: Upping your Cooking Game” uploaded to google drive and available for download here within the next day!