#Bean Sprouts

[tellioari]

Redid some old stuff for Black Beans!! it's a taller crop found in humid regions. you can either bake them, or if you break the crop prematurely you can get Bean Sprouts, which can be a substitute for lettuce in modded recipes.

[daily-deliciousness]

Pad Thai

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Beef Short Rib Pho

[buffetlicious]

In Singapore, couple are often both working so it is more convenient to just buy takeaway meals during workdays and then cook on off days. In our case, it is the reverse, mum cooks during the weekdays but not on weekends. Here, I bought Singapore Fried Noodles (星洲米粉) for her and I go for the Teriyaki Chicken & Chicken Bento as I like variety.

[morethansalad]

Lotek / Indonesian Vegetable & Tofu Salad with Peanut Dressing (Vegan)

[vegan-nom-noms]

Bami Goreng (30-Minute Thick Indonesian Noodles)

[reasonsforhope]

"Of South Korea’s countless kilograms of annual food scraps, very few will ever end up in a landfill. This is because of two reasons—the first is that it’s been illegal since 2005, and the second is because they have perhaps the world’s most sophisticated food waste disposal infrastructure.

While representing a significant burden on the economy, the food waste disposal nevertheless produces ample supplies of animal feed, fertilizer, and biogas that heats thousands of homes.

As the New York Times’ John Yoo and Chang Lee reported from Seoul, South Korean cuisine tends to lend itself to creating food scraps, since many staple dishes come with anywhere from a few to a few dozen sides.

With the culture erring on the side of abundance rather than restraint, many of these small dishes of tofu, kimchi, bean sprouts, and other bites would be tossed in the landfill if it wasn’t illegal to do so.

The government put the ban hammer on it because the mountainous terrain isn’t ideal for landfill construction.

Instead, restauranteurs and street hawkers pay the municipality for a sticker that goes on the outside of special bins. Once filled with food scraps, they are left on the road for collectors in the morning who take 90% of all such waste in the country to specialized collection facilities.

At apartments and among residential housing areas, hi-tech food waste disposal machines are operated by a keycard owned by residents under contract with the disposal companies.

Once taken to the recycling facilities, the food is sorted for any non-food waste that’s mixed in, drained of its moisture, and then dried and baked into a black dirt-like material that has a dirt-like smell but which is actually a protein and fiber-rich feed for monogastric animals like chickens or ducks.

This is just one of the ways in which the food scraps are processed. Another method uses giant anaerobic digestors, in which bacteria break down all the food while producing a mixture of CO2 and methane used to heat homes—3,000 in a Seoul suburb called Goyang, for example. All the water needed for this chemical process comes from the moisture separated from the food earlier.

The remaining material is shipped as fertilizer to any farms that need it.

All the water content is sent to purification facilities where it will eventually be discharged into water supplies or streams.

While one such plant was shut down from locals complaining about the unbearable smell, many plants are odorless, thanks to a system of pipes built into the walls that eliminate it via chemical reaction.

It’s the way South Korea does it. Sure, it costs them around $600 million annually, but they have many admirers, including New York City which hopes to implement similar infrastructure in the coming years."

-via Good News Network, June 15, 2023

[myspecialinterestcorner]

What Shall I Grow? from a Chic-fil-A Kids Meal

[chrishangry]

Spicy pork, rice, blanched bean sprouts and spinach, and sweet soy stewed potato and pork belly for extra credit lol

[catscraftsandcommentary]

MA'AM. MA'AM. WHO SAID YOU COULD BE SO COZY. SO ABSOLUTELY COMFY. HOW DARE YOU.

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Godsdamnit, Angie. You're making me jealous.

And, for anyone who likes bean sprouts...

...here they are in all their sprouty goodness.

[selinaeliott]

Broken cucumbers in Chinese

[seasonalwonderment]

~ Seedlings ~

Image via This Is My Garden

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Indonesian Mie Goreng

[buffetlicious]

Got this takeaway box of Singapore Fried Noodles (星洲米粉) from the Tze Char stall (煮炒) near our place. It is bee hoon or rice vermicelli stir-fry with a host of ingredients like egg, char siu, bean sprouts and shredded cabbage plus a lime to squeeze some acidity over the noodles.

[morethansalad]

Vegan Shoyu Ramen

[vegan-nom-noms]

Asinan Sayur (Indonesian Salad With Peanuts And Tamarind)