#homemade tempura

[the-meme-monarch]

i don't know how people make fried chicken with the 'dip in flour, dip in beaten egg, dip in flour again' method. like it feels like an elaborate prank on everyone that we just keep perpetuating. the egg never fully sticks to the flour and then the flour doesn't fully stick to the egg and now your hands are slimy and you have all this leftover unused egg and flour. and your breading is probably going to fall off in places once it's actually frying

[darksouls2yuri]

ohhh tempura sweet potato i love youuuuuuu

[icedmetaltea]

Merry Christmas!!! Happy holidays!!! Hope you’re having a wonderful time 🎉

Merry Christmaaaaasss!! I'm having a lovely time anon, thank you very much ^-^

[xx-justsomeguy-xx]

The best ube ice cream ive ever had fixed me omfg

[stellar-skyy]

PRECIOUS THINGS - Kazuha, Itto, Heizou, Kokomi & reader

i. SUMMARY: What kind of things would they give as a gift? ii. CONTENT WARNINGS: None! iii. NOTES: Can be read as platonic or romantic, fluff, gn!reader, 0.7k words. iv. A/N: it's actually my birthday soon! this was a little early present for myself hehe. i hope you enjoy!

KAZUHA

Kazuha doesn’t care much for material things. He’s a vagrant, there’s no room for too many unnecessary belongings when one is travelling with the wind. Sentimentality only slows him down.

Because of that, he keeps his gifts limited to something intangible. He’ll take you out for the day, show you the most peaceful places of Inazuma and bring you down to the beach to watch the sunset.  

As the sun dips low in the sky, he'll let you rest your head against his shoulder or in his lap if you're tired. But make sure you don’t fall asleep too quickly, or you’ll miss the beautiful view.

If Beidou allows it, you might even be treated to a stay on the Alcor, where Kazuha will help you up into the crow’s nest so you can observe the sea from the sky.

Perhaps the most precious thing he gives you is a haiku, written just for you. He’ll recite it while you’re relaxing on the ship, spinning words as elegantly as the waves flowing below you.

“Did you enjoy it? Well, perhaps we’ll have to spend some more time together when the winds lead us to each other again.”

ITTO

Ah, Itto.

Itto is the king of making your birthday a big deal.

The Arataki Gang will make sure to wake you up at the crack of dawn to start the celebrations early. First comes a homemade (and… debatably edible) cake, followed by an off-key singing of Happy Birthday with some beatboxing from Itto to accompany the song.

Then, once Itto has shooed the rest of the gang away to ‘let you have some peace and quiet’ he’ll present you with the gifts he’s picked out.

It’s all things he is interested in—onikabutos, trading cards. There’s nothing Itto loves more than sharing the things he’s fond of with the people he’s fond of, so he worked hard to find the finest of those things. You deserve the best, so that’s exactly what he’ll give you.

“Heh, good birthday, huh? Well of course it is, I couldn’t just leave my favourite honorary gang member without a proper celebration, could I?”

HEIZOU

Heizou! Heizou loves to share his interests with you, one of which being riddles and brainteasers.

On your birthday, he’ll present you with a locked box, covered in various puzzles. Once solved, the inside reveals a riddle that leads to a mysterious location tucked away in one of the chilly corners of Inazuma.

He’ll be waiting for you there, sitting cross-legged on the corner of a picnic blanket. Draped across is an arrangement of foods, a mix of both your favourites. Fried radish balls, Sakura tempura, and Taiyaki are some of his selections, but there is of course a variety of food picked out for you too.

Heizou has a gift as well, something that is exactly what you wanted. You never needed to tell him what it was—as Inazuma’s finest detective, he already figured it out.

“So, partner? Would you say your birthday lived up to your expectations?

KOKOMI

Kokomi wants your present to be perfect. You’re special to her, and special people deserve the best gifts.

Giving gifts is one of her favourite ways to show the people in her life that she loves them, so it must be something personal and related to you specifically; she doesn’t allow for half-thought out presents!

If you’re a fan of books, she’ll gift you a copy of The Legend of The Sword—her favourite book—and shyly ask for your opinion on it.

She will also make time in her schedule to spend time together, which is a gift in itself. She puts her work over everything, so for something else to become a priority is a rare sight.

During the day she’ll take you everywhere: across the scenic beaches of Watatsumi, diving in the depths of the ocean, before finally retreating back to her home to give you a homemade cake. The entire day is planned out (as expected of a grand strategist) and rest assured, she’ll make sure not a moment is wasted.

“So, did you have a good day? I hope so—happy birthday, (Name)!”

reblogs and comments are appreciated! ♡

[fattributes]

Homemade Chicken Tempura

[nkn0va]

Chie, Yukiko, and Wagner being surprised by their S/O for their birthday and them also finding out their S/O is a master at cooking and baking? (Honestly they need an s/o who can cook since canonically they all suck at it.)

Fun fact, I almost had this ask finished by but my fucking browser crashed and I lost everything. God fucking dammit.

-Chie's cooking had...improved a bit at least, though that would be rather generous. People weren't in danger of going catatonic from it, but it was just bland.

-She tended to end up using so many flavors at once that they all cancelled each other out and made something completely flavorless, almost like eating water.

-You thankfully were not nearly as helpless, so much so that you ended up being assigned to making the cake for her party that the rest of the IT were throwing for her. Yukiko and Rise were rather disappointed they couldn't do it but the boys all breathed a collective sigh of relief.

-What you end up making isn't good, it's really good. The aforementioned ladies weren't even mad about it anymore once they had a taste of it for themselves. Chie especially was happy about it, and proud to call herself your girlfriend in that moment.

-She definitely knows who she's relinquishing cooking duty to when you eventually get a place together.

-Until that time comes though, expect to get a lot more requests from her to make her lunch most days. It'd be a reason for her to look forward to school now.

-Yukiko was in a similar situation to Chie in regards to her cooking skills, or lack thereof. Thankfully she's pretty aware of it and is trying to improve, as much of a mixed bag as that is sometimes.

-You'd suggested spending a day at the Amagi inn together to celebrate her birthday, let her relax and take advantage of it's services for once and not have to worry about taking care of guests.

-Naturally given your hobby, you end up doing some cooking beforehand, making a nice homemade dinner for both of you to enjoy. Yukiko had known you were a cook but hadn't yet had the chance to try for herself.

-The moment Yukiko puts the fork to her mouth she instantly gushes about how good it is, quite the contrast to her own skills. She very quickly scarfs if down despite her attempts to control herself.

-She then has the spontaneous idea to make a date out baking cookies together using the inn's kitchen with you teaching her how along the way.

-She has some...interesting ideas to say the least. Mostly not in a good way. Odd ideas for ingredients/flavors to use, wrong ideas about how to use kitchen equipment, and everything in between.

-You nearly have a heart attack when she suggests setting the oven to a higher temperature so that they bake faster. You just barely manage to talk her out of it so that she doesn't start a fire, knowing damn well what she would do if left unchecked.

-Wagner had been fully aware for a while now that cooking was not her forte, after several failed attempts. She knew it was for the better not to try again as well.

-Despite her snide attitude, she learned to be grateful for anyone who provides food for her, and an S/O who can cook quality scratch meals is definitely an important box to be checked for her in a relationship.

-Her birthday rolled around and you decided to make something a little extra special for her. Using your experience you used an entire week taking what you learned cooking in general and about what she liked best in a dish to make what you felt would be her new favorite food.

-Wagner was a big fan of tempura in particular so that was your focus. Opening up the box with the food inside, she could feel her stomach rumbling as she looked at it.

-She'd heard many times before that cooking was a labor of love. An activity that one continued to get better at when they cooked for the people they cared about. By that logic how much you loved her was practically palpable in every bite.

-As you go about the rest of the day together celebrating her special day, she still can't get that food off her mind. She's not exactly one to admit things out loud too much of the time, but she does sincerely admit how grateful she is.

-What she can't seem to figure out how to communicate though is that it might just be the best damn thing she's eaten in her life, and that really says something considering the type of lifestyle she was born into. She's absolutely going to request you recreate that recipe more often.

[ryanscabinlife]

After finishing the chicken run roof this morning, I was seriously craving something greasy for lunch. So I made some tempura with zucchini flowers (a little past their prime, but still pretty delicious) and kale. I accompanied them with tofu with homemade tonkatsu sauce, lightly sautéed green beans, and some kimchi (Costco kimchi 🤣🤣)

25-Aug-2023

[johannestevans]

always curious what people's like. staple meals and regular meals are

like the meals you regularly cook a few times in a month, for yourself or your family as well

bc for me it's like

bacon sandwiches. basic.

garlic bread

baked feta with peppers & tomatoes, oregano, olive oil, a bit of lemon juice

the lidl potato gratin with peppers, tomatoes, and spinach mixed in, again normally with olive oil and some cheese

roast chicken with roasted potatoes and root vegetables, normally carrots and parsnips

pork souvlakia, chunks of usually belly pork or chop on kebab sticks and oven grilled with or without chunks of pepper and tomato

dolmades, vine leaves stuffed with stewed rice

chicken risotto made with chicken stock on a base of butter with spring onions and bacon to toast the rice with

pasta with chicken pieces with a tomato-based sauce w more cheese and vegetables

a "greek salad" with some modifications - chunks of cucumber, tomato, red and yellow pepper, spinach leaves, red onion or spring onions, garlic granules, and then olive oil and feta chunks

parchment pastry scrolls, a spread of pastry smeared with tomato purée or similar chutney, cheese, bacon, vegetables, or mushrooms, and then cut into discs and baked

homemade burgers with beef or lamb mince, tiny chopped onions, egg, honey as a binding agent, and then fried hopefully to eat with slices of cheddar or leerdammer, bacon, and pickles/cornichons

i made a kouneli stifado a while back (whole rabbit cut into chunks, slow cooked with potatoes and root vegetables, onions, red wine, stock, etc) that i want to do more regularly bc a whole rabbit is a fiver and it feeds a LOT of people

then obvs like. various oven cooked things i don't modify, like prawn tempura or frozen calamari, etc

because i've moved and haven't set up my rice cooker or got my short grain rice again, and bc i don't have a new deep fat fryer yet, i'm not cooking like, my fresh cut chips, or maki rolls and onigiri, or a meal i'd regularly do of just like. fried eggs on rice and stuff

i used to make lasagnes more regularly and i'd like to go back to that, esp bc like... i love making latkes and once we have a nice wide frying pan it will be nice to do that more regularly, and my big thing atm is that i want to learn to cook with some new ingredients

i want to learn to do more and more interesting stuff with coconut and pineapple, i want to do more like. kormas and other diff curries, i want more green vegetables, esp asparagus and broccoli

i want to cook more with different fish and sea food bc i know i desperately need the oil for my fucked up joints and brain, i want to break more breads and savoury things, esp garlic and tearaway breads

esp bc like. my body's capacity for red meat is fucking terrible lmao, i want more fibre and less heavy protein from red meat at once so i don't just utterly eviscerate my guts lmao

[foodies-channel]

🍥 Homemade Tempura Shrimp Bao Buns

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[kimarisgundam]

I made tempura and burdock root kakiage with my grandma today and I didn't know that burdock root is edible??? As in, it can be made into nice food???

^ apparently the edible part is the skin of the root

I thought only horses eat it cos I feed it to Buckshot (my Red Dead Online horse) sometimes...

Actually, I didn't even know burdock root was a thing. Red Dead Redemption taught me a lot about wild plants...

Everything turned out pretty nice btw! I made some homemade udons with curry sauce too 😀

[bnesszai]

Humans are social animals.

Humans do not need to hide their natural selves because they are normal to each other. They are ordinary and they do not think too hard about anything because that is a waste of time. They do not like thinking about things like death and sickness.

They want to live forever. They do not think if they will make it to their fifteenth or twentieth or fortieth birthday in one piece. They know they will.

Humans do not ask all the wrong questions.

Unlike Dazai Osamu, who is capable of doing the exact opposite. Thinks about all they shouldn’t. Stays awake late at night thinking and thinking and running his ceaseless, tired mind on every possible scenario for things he cannot change. Dazai, who is capable of putting on a hundred faces and sewing them together so he can forget his own.

Dazai, who in comparison to his partner Chuuya and his coworkers, stands so dimly that a dark room would provide more light. Dazai, who can solve puzzles of any kind given the resources to do so, could not figure out the puzzle that was human nature.

What no one had told him was that humans did not intentionally operate on puzzles.

They see this boy who operates all above them, but no one talks about how far the clouds really are from the ground. How memorizing number strings will not save you from crying at the death of someone who was almost able to hold your heart just right. Remind you that you had one in the first place.

No amount of socializing and putting on personas could save him from the blow of having the ground fall from underneath his feet. Dazai thought often, and bitterly, that “humans are social animals” was a statement worth revising.

Humans are animals when they are social. This is what he thinks with certainty as he progresses through the next stage of his life. A rebirth for the sole purpose of dying again. Humans are scared of things they don’t understand. Dazai disappears into the bathroom at a bar.

He is scared of himself. So he revises again.

Humans are animals. He walks into the rain the weathermen said nothing about. There is an old lady at the bus stop who sees him freezing because he is not human. If he is not human the cold will not kill him. She gives him an umbrella anyway and offers for him to stay for dinner. To give him warm homemade tempura with her family recipe. A bit of green tea on the side. She had two grandchildren but “they’re very polite really.” And they were. Everything Dazai had touched he saw stained with black goop. It was climbing against the walls and floorboards but he left a thank you note while she slept.

Dazai revises his statement.

Humans are. What humans were he was not. Where they excelled he lacked. This was the universal balance. That he would be the amalgamation of everything humans weren’t supposed to be, so they could claim to be made in God’s image. Dazai was the antithesis to humanity.

He exchanges one of his playlists with Atsushi, having a few bands in common. He sees the boy’s face light up in a way Dazai could never be capable of. He hears the boy claim, “Just like me!” And for the smallest fraction of a second he is tempted to claw at all of the masks he had sewn together to show Atsushi the gaping hole where he was supposed to be. To say, “no. I am nothing like you. You are human.” He only smiles and continues looking through the playlist. His hand shakes.

Dazai revises their statement.

Humans. Atsushi could not be described as anything else. Chuuya. Kunikida. Ranpo. Akutagawa. Sigma. All of them. But if his ability was No Longer Human, surely it implied he had to have been human at some point. That he could be again. But it was too late for that. He had tied himself to pulling the strings from the back. Lumped in with the likes of Fyodor. Dazai scratches it out and revises.

Human is a liability.

“Dazai-San, come join us!! That cafe downtown is giving us free bagels and coffee. Wanna come?” Kenji and Atsushi looked at him hopefully. They looked at him as if everything he touched didn’t smear and stain. Dazai smiles in his usual laid back manner and gets up from the couch, following them. ‘Free stuff and no work? Count me in!’

Dazai orders plain coffee, watching the kids and Ranpo ask for plenty of sugar. There is sunlight coming through the window and for once he is in it.

Dazai revises his statement.

“Humans are worth protecting.”

He sets down the pen and pad to the side, resting his head on Chuuya’s pillows. Greeted by the warm embrace of the only thing that would remain constant. Even if he wasn’t entirely human, there are people who believed he was.

And surely that had to count for something.

"Dazai was the antithesis to humanity"

I'm gonna be sick thanks

[darksouls2yuri]

tagged by @lostcryptids ^_^

last song you listened to:

loooove modest mouse forever and forever check out this album its so good

last movie you watched: i rewatched Thale last month one of my fave movies

^look at her. huldra swag

currently reading: im supposed to be reading Annihilation by Jeff Vandermeer but its still not in from the library :'(

currently watching: ive been on and off watching midsomer murders with my dad and also rewatching criminal minds as bg noise when doing school (its so much worse than i remembered)

currently craving: ive been thinking about sweet potato tempura nonstop i want to have sweet potato tempura so so bad

umm ill tag @metalgearsolidyaoi @boydykez @ubashaaa @sug-kuk and @amamozarte ^_^

[cyberphuck]

THANK YOU everybody who sent birfday wishes!! I had an awesome day, anxiety was low, I had homemade shrimp tempura and decadent chocolate cupcakes, I have a new desk (!!!) and a miniature magical bookshop that I'm having fun accidentally gluing myself to putting together, and a swanky new tablet stand, and some steam eye masks which are great for relaxation, and a weighted plushie that you can put in the microwave and he doesn't mind, and I just. Feel good. I had a really good day.

[kumoriyami-xiuzhen]

Hakuoki Yuugiroku 2 - 《Autumn Shinsengumi Sports Day!》——Lunch Break

ugh i hate summer. ive been extremely unmotivated for a while because of the heat... and that's just not something i can help given how badly i do in hot weather.

anyway, this is the third part! also it's of six not five parts! kept missing the "Awards Ceremony?" section which follows 2 events.

Hakuoki Yuugiroku 2 - 《Autumn Shinsengumi Sports Day!》——Lunch Break

Translation by KumoriYami

Exercising is a way to promote relationships between people, who was it that said this sentence——

Yukimura: "Everyone on the white team, please eat more."

Shinpachi: "Oh, thank you, Chizuru-chan!"

The first event was over, and it was now time for an hour's break.

In a corner of headquarters, Chizuru's homemade bento boxes had been set in an area where there wasn't a lot of space, and Nagakura and Heisuke were hurriedly reaching out with their chopsticks.

Heisuke: "Hehe, meals taste better after moving/exercising!"

Shinpachi: "Whether you were exercising or not, you're ashamed to say that you lost."

Heisuke: "Uh… I-It's all that bastard, Kazama's fault for block me…."

Shinpachi: "Your excuse totally sucks, Heisuke." In order to make you properly reflect, this egg shall be dedicated to me!"

Heisuke: "Th-This and that don't have anything to do with each other!"

Souji: "Ah, Chizuru-chan. Leave those two alone, can you get me a cup of tea?"

Seeing how Okita and Nagaura were bullying Heisuke, Chizuru forced a smile as she handed over the hot tea.

Then, she walked over and delivered the bento boxes to the red team, who were sitting beneath a sakura tree/some sakura trees.

Yukimura: "Harada-san, Hijikata-san, and Saito-san, please eat slowly."

Harada: "Oh my, this looks delicious. I won't be holding back."

Hijikata: "However you elegantly won the first competition, Saito. It doesn't matter if we lose to the white team, but losing to that group of oni would be completely unacceptable."

Saito: "Half of that was due to Heisuke and Kazama self-destrucgint… In short, if Harada wins the next competition, victory for our team will be assured."

Harada: "Alright, leave it to me. Although I don't know what sort of competition it will be, I won't lose."

Harada and the others talked cheerfully laughed while they focused on finishing off the meals in their bento boxes.

Grilled fish, and dry roasted veggies…. While watching the three people eating their food, Chizuru suddenly her head and pointed into the distance and then spoke.

Yukimura: "Speaking of which, um, Hijikata-san. Over there..."

Hijikata" Leave it alone."

Yukimura: "But..."

Hijikata: "Listen to me, and leave it alone."

Kazama?: "Nori grilled fish/Nori wrapped fish... [? literally seaweed boiled or grilled fish. the word here is identical to the one before Chizuru's "Speaking of which..."]"

Shiranui?: "Kamaboko and fried eggs..."

Kazama?: "Fried bean tempura... [or this might be fried beans and tempura.]"

Shiranui?: “…………”

Kazama?: “…………”

Amagiri: "Oh, What's wrong, Kazama, Shiranui? Don't you want to eat?"

Shiranui: "....No, I was just thinking, although our food is more luxurious compared to what the humans have, why do I feel that we've somehow lost..."

There was an absolute difference between what a girl personally cooked and not. Eating from the bento that Amagiri poured his heart's blood into, Shiranui's gaze shifted to their neighbours, where they had been noisy just now.

Kazama: "Unhand me, Amagiri…! My wife's homemade cooking is waiting for me!"

Amagiri: "Give it up, Kazama. I feel that you must learn the skill of retrating retreating sometimes."

Shiranui: "This man is still so annoying…."

Turning his gaze away from Kazama who was being supressed/pressed down, Shiranui leisurely put boiled beans into his mouth by himself.

---To Be Continued…..---

p.s. ill deal with my messages sometime before the end of the day...

[fuckkbrunch]

Quick and dirty one today. This was one of the options for a garnish along side the shrimp bisque, but I chose the shrimp salad option instead. Figured it would make a decent dinner on its own.

Kept the shells from my shrimpy boys to boil them for a future laksa broth. Tony didn't specify either way, but in my experience, you need to break the backs of the shrimp so that you get that good, long shrimp stick. You can use a knife to cut them, but I find pressing them into the table with your fingers in faster and less finicky.

Fucking dredging. Feels so dumb to be putting together a whole dredging station for only 8 shrimp. Just like heating up a whole pan of oil to deep fry 8 whole shrimp. But here we are.

Panko breaded tempura is the inferior tempura. Everyone prefers the kind that you get in sushi restaurants, with the batter coating. This is more like jumbo popcorn shrimp.

Looks just like the ones you can buy frozen. Still delicious though.

| Tempura Shrimp |

Taste is a 2.5 out of 5. Average, but shrimp is always good.

Difficulty is a 2 out of 5. Straightforward, even if it's a little finicky.

Time was about an hour. A lot of that is the oil heating up.

I actually did this one along side the grilled cheese recipe, as you may have noticed in that last photo. So disclaimer that they would both take less time than it took me if you were doing them separately.

Not a bad combo, but the shrimp needs a sauce. Luckily I had some homemade tartar sauce kicking around.