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Seafood Ramen!

Ramen, one of the quintessential foods for winter. I love how warm and nourishing the meal is, and batch cooking it in the winter is one of my favorite ways to prepare meals for the week. Personally, I've always done Tonkatsu ramen before thanks to Kenji's

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Zucchini Rollatini

In their Vegetable-based Lasagna recipe, aeghrur, RZ, and Jimmy reminded me that I hadn't made any baked pasta dishes since the first meal I made at my current apartment. I wanted to take it a step further. They eliminated meat...what if I eliminate pasta? Back when I

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Skinny Chicken Tikka Masala

This recipe doesn't use fatty parts of chicken or excessive amounts of butter or cream, so apologies in advance. Ingredients * 1 tbsp butter * 1 onion * 2 cloves garlic * 1 knob ginger * 4oz greek yogurt * 1/2 cup milk of your choice * 1 can crushed tomato * 2 cubed boneless

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Vegetable-based Lasagna

As part of a Quantum Lion challenge, we (aeghrur, RZ, and I) make a vegetable-based lasagna. With the absense of meat, we chose to focus on the strong flavors of mushroom and eggplant. Making the noodles Ingregients * 4 eggs (240 g) * Flour (1.5x the weight of the eggs -

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A Glitch in the Goulash

Nothing goes according to plan this week as I make a ground beef recipe. Inspired by a surprise meat grinder which showed up at my doorstep earlier last week, I promptly searched the internet for recipes, ultimately settling on a Goulash for Americans dish (I will note that adding "

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Aloo Curry

I'm sure my fellow posters can share the love for Taste of India that I have. It was one of my favorite places to eat on on campus because I loved the spices, but also because I was able to get such a ridiculous amount of food for

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Cheesy Scalloped Potatoes

On most days, part of my commute home from work includes stopping in at Trader Joe's to pick myself up with a free sample (my favorite so far has just been the simple combination of crackers and cheese, interestingly), and during the Thanksgiving season, one of the samples

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Home Made MaLa Dry Pot

I tried my hand a MaLa Dry Pot over the summer, when chilis were plentiful, and it turned out pretty well. I didn't get a chance to write about it until now, but honestly, this dish is pretty fun to make no matter what season we're

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Udon

It's gotten cold lately, and there are few things more warming than a nice bowl of noodle soup. The SO and I went out for pho earlier this week and had packed up the leftover soup to take home so that we could save the deliciousness for our

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Muesli

Shortly after graduation, the SO and I went on a cruise together (my first!), and one of my favorite parts of the trip was all the good food. Dinner was amazing because we would always go to the fancy dining location and eats tons because the waiter always gave us

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Breakfast Sandwiches ft. Homemade Biscuits

Inspired by our 10PM McDonald's date a few weeks ago, where the person sitting at the table next to us was devouring a few McMuffins, I woke up this morning with the mission to create breakfast sandwiches. Ingredients * 1.5 cup flour * 3 tbsp butter * 1/2 tbsp

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Black Bean Soup

This soup is my go-to whenever I eat at Panera Bread (which has happened maybe 5 times ever, hah), and I have been craving it for the past few years. For some reason, I never got around to making though because I never had onions on hand or just didn&

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Carbonara Pasta + extras

My SO loves parmigiano-reggiano, and when we were in school, he used to buy huge chunks of this cheese, eat a bit on the first day, and then leave it in the fridge for the rest of the semester to dry up. We recently acquired a big slice from Ye

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How Carnegie Mellon Graduates are Disrupting the Burger Industry

Abstract The weekend of June 23 marks Jimmy and (future) Dr. Bulldog paying CHeF KUBiAc a visit in Boston. The following account details our burger adventure in the first Quantum Lion semi-reunion. * A contribution from CHeF KubiAc, Jimmy, C.L.M. and (future) Dr. Bulldog. Introduction As commencements at universities

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Celebrating ‘MURKA with a 7-Patty Burger

Abstract (Future) Dr. Bulldog breaks his personal record of the number of patties in a burger consumed. Background Just as my research group attempts to synthesize and characterize high-valent transition metal-oxido for the past 24 years, I have been attempting to build and eat burgers with an increasing number of

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Tuna Kimbap

This dish makes me think of middle school and high school because I had a friend whose mother would sometimes pack her kimbap for lunch, and then another friend and I would always be hounding over it, trying to get a piece. It's like a sushi roll, but

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Shrimp Cabbage Rolls

Cabbage was $0.17/pound this week, so I decided to pick up a head. Usually, I just like to chop it up and stir-fry it with some salt and pepper, but today I decided to pay homage to one of the greatest chefs of our time--Cooking Mama. This was

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Peanut Butter Kale Noodles

Everyone I share this recipe with always reacts the same way with a "What?!! Is that even good?" If you're a fan of cold sesame noodles, it's basically the same thing, but with fewer variety of ingredients and more kale. I love noodles and

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Steamed Mussels over White Wine Sauce

Seafood can be difficult to cook sometimes, but here's a simple recipe that will help you impress your friends. I learned this from one of my college friends. He cooked it for us one winter when mussels were cheap and plentiful in Pittsburgh. Now it's one

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Southwestern Chicken and White Bean Soup

We're back with another soup! If you like tacos and simple recipes, I think you'll enjoy this. The hardest part of this recipe is waiting for the soup to boil. Ingredients * Taco seasoning (or do it yourself with crushed red pepper, oregano, onion powder, garlic powder,

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Chicken-Base Daikon and Carrot Soup

Growing up in Cantonese kitchen, it's part of the culture where every meal starts with a bowl of clear soup. Sometimes it's more intentionally made from simmer bones for ages, but sometimes it's just something simple like boiling some of the extra pieces of

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Vegetarian Eggstravaganza

Abstract An eggstremely punny food update from (future) Dr. Bulldog on his eggscellent vegetarian egg casserole. Introduction As announced in my post last week, I have been pursuing a more vegetable-heavy diet as I try to live like an adult and keep my arteries unclogged. The last time I went

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Zucchini Pizza Boats

Finding healthier alternatives to high-calorie foods that I love is always fun, because it means I can eat bigger portions or enjoy them more often. I've heard a lot about zucchini pizza bites and zucchini pizza boats. It was only a matter of time before we put the

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Chicago deep-dish pizza: I did it! (finally)

Abstract After finals week, (future) Dr. Bulldog had a crack at the top of his bucket list: Chicago-style deep dish pizza. The cheese-infused product was a marvelous sight. Background It is no secret I like food in big portions. I don’t do 5 small meals in one day; I

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Salami & Mozzarella Stromboli

The last time my parents visited me, they gave me a bunch of groceries since our local supermarket at home has a sale every year for its anniversary, where if it's 21st anniversary, it'll have a list of ~20 items that they sell for 21 cents