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Scott (cooking for Moi)
@scottmcq.bsky.social
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Retired IT guy in TX. Food/cooking/tech/music/guitars. Less political here. SELECTIVE FOLLOWER. If you follow 1000s I probably won't follow back.

Feeds: ALT Pizza, ALT Burger...Chili/Noodles/Curry/Taco/Fried Rice/Pie/Cake/Salsa
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Didn't have quite the precise ingredient proportions, but made a suitable version of Southern Thai Turmeric Chicken Soup. 🍽️🍜🇹🇭🌶️

hot-thai-kitchen.com/turmeric-chi...
November 11, 2025 at 1:35 AM
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Found fresh catfish and thought I would fry it up. Marinated in buttermilk & Louisiana hot sauce.

Coating was yellow cornmeal/flour & spices.

Pretty large filets so had to get out the 12" cast iron. Tough to get the temperature right this try. But sure was tasty. 🍽️🍜🌶️
Two fried catfish fillets on the left side of a white pipe with a wedge of lemon at top right and a piece of corn on the cob below that.
November 9, 2025 at 2:07 AM
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Sausage biscuits! 🍽️🍜
On a small white plate are two sausage biscuits. Behind is a glass of tomato vegetable juice and a container with different types of hot sauce.
November 7, 2025 at 4:06 PM
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Simple supper. Spaghetti w/Rao's marinara, ground beef, grated Pecorino romano and Ciabatta rolls. 🍽️🍜
November 7, 2025 at 3:31 AM
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Fish sauce wings! With beer.

Made from this HTK recipe. I used the shallow frying method which is the standard, though she gives instructions/notes for deep frying & air frying methods as well. 🍽️🍜

hot-thai-kitchen.com/fish-sauce-w...
Chicken wings that have been marinated and coated with pepper & chili pepper and rice flour and shallow fried in a skillet.
November 6, 2025 at 2:02 AM
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Brown butter/EVOO sauteed "sea bass" with S&P and lemon juice.

With yellow and green squash sauteed in olive oil, scented with shallots & garlic and seasoned with S&P and dried Greek oregano. 🍽️🍜
In a white bowl at the bottom 8:00 position or two pieces of sauteed fish and the rest of the bowl is covered with sauteed yellow squash and zucchini.
November 5, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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I fell back into some breakfast tacos. 🌮🌮 😄

Chorizo, eggs, onions and cilantro with a wedge of lime and Mexican style guacamole. Which is pretty much just smashed avocado with salt and lime juice. 🍽️🍜🌶️🇮🇹
On a white plate are two breakfast tacos down the middle with a wedge of lime on the left. Mexican guacamole on the right.
November 2, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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A cool, drizzly start to Nov 1. So I heated up some leftover vegetable soup & topped it with a little olive oil and feta cheese. And made a turkey and provolone sandwich to go along with it. 🍽️🍜
On a wooden cutting board is a small white plate with a turkey sandwich at the bottom left and a white bowl of vegetable soup at the upper right.
November 1, 2025 at 5:06 PM
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Chipotle-Garlic Shrimp w/Cilantro-Lime Rice and a Black Bean & Corn salad. 🍽️🍜🌶️

Inspired by this.

www.acouplecooks.com/shrimp-bowl-...
A white bowl on a brown round placemat containing sauteed Chipotle shrimp in the upper left, cilantro lime rice in upper right and a black bean and corn salad at the bottom.
October 31, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Cooked up a vegetable soup tonight. Tomato and chicken stock broth based on a recipe from Allrecipes.

More info in 2nd alt text.

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In a white bowl on a brown placement is a serving of the tomato vegetable soup. In a Dutch oven is chicken stock, water, fire roasted tomatoes, tomato vegetable juice, better than bullion chicken stock, diced white potatoes, sliced carrots, sliced green beans, diced zucchini, frozen peas and corn. Initial stage when cooking the base liquid smashed garlic cloves, a bay leaf and Italian parsley leaves and stems were added. Then tomato paste and Greek oregano. Salt and pepper as needed.
October 29, 2025 at 12:57 AM
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Oven baked baby back ribs with corn on the cob, pickles and BBQ sauce on the side.

Ribs brined in water, salt & brown sugar, dried and coated with Rendezvous, seasoning and wrapped in foil and cooked in the oven at 275 for 2 and 1/2 hours.

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On a round white plate clockwise are a piece of corn on the cob, a pork ribs, pickle slices and a ramekin with barbecue sauce.
October 28, 2025 at 1:39 AM
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First time making a frittata. It was puffy in spots around the edge and was sticking to the bottom of the skillet. Time to re-season it.

It was still tasty though. 🍽️🍜
A wedge of frittata and 4 slices of tomato on a round white plate on a round light brown placemat. In the background is that glass of orange juice. A cooked frittata in a 10 inch cast iron skillet on a gray countertop. Basics: 6 eggs 1/4 c milk Grated cheddar cheese 1 scallion, sliced 1 baby Bella mushroom, chopped 2 small sweet peppers, diced 2 slices turkey bacon (round like "Canadian"), diced 400 degrees for 15 minutes
October 26, 2025 at 5:04 PM
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Boneless/ skinless chicken thighs lightly marinated in soy, ginger and garlic then cooked on a grill pan. With sauteed mushrooms (base recipe in alt text) and sliced kumato tomatoes. Chicken and mushrooms garnished with chopped Italian parsley.

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On a white plate are chicken thighs at the bottom, sauteed mushrooms top left and cut tomatoes and top right. Base sauteed mushroom recipe link is below. https://www.seriouseats.com/sauteed-mushrooms-recipe-7972096
October 24, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Khao Pad Gai. Rice (Khao) stir fried (Pad)with chicken (Gai).

Ingredients in wok Alt. 🍽️🍜🌶️🇹🇭
The finished fried rice in a white bowl. Fried rice cooking in a wok. The vegetables include onion, carrots, sliced bok choy, garlic and bok choy greens. The sauce was made of Thai oyster sauce and high mushroom soy sauce. Heat provided by Thai ground chili powder.
October 22, 2025 at 1:18 AM
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Lamb kebab pieces over a mixed green salad. Ingredients in ALT. 🍽️🍜
Lamb kabob over a salad of baby spinach and kale with sliced sweet baby peppers, green onion, kumato tomatoes, feta cheese & vinegrette.
October 21, 2025 at 3:34 AM
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Lazy Sunday. Pork pot stickers with a soy based dipping sauce. 🍽️🍜🌶️
In a white bowl are potstickers surrounding a ramekin of dipping sauce. On a cutting board is a small white ramekin with dipping sauce made from Kikkoman soy sauce, La-Yu chili oil, sesame oil and rice vinegar.
October 20, 2025 at 12:24 AM
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Sunday breakfast. Scrambled eggs w/cheddar and green onion, English muffin with honey and a sliced banana. With a glass of veg juice. 🍽️🍜
Scrambled egg in the foreground of a white plate. Behind on the left with sliced banana and then the right and English muffin. The glass of juice is in the background.
October 19, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Pork chop with an Alleppo pepper, cumin, turmeric, garlic powder, onion powder rub. 😋

Carrots glazed with butter and brown sugar.

Slices of a previously frozen Olive fougasse.

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On a white plate is a slice of olive fougasse pipe left followed by 5 baby carrots and another slice of olive fougasse. At the bottom of the flight is a medium thick pork chop.
October 19, 2025 at 12:52 AM
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Had a half pound ground beef patty in the freezer so I pulled it out to make a bunless Hatch green chili cheeseburger.

While pan frying the patty I put in a few splashes of Worcestershire sauce for a little extra flavor.

Mustard and pickles along with. 🍽️🍜🌶️
The green chili cheeseburger with American cheese and mustard and pickle chips on a white plate. The ground beef patty topped with Hatch green chili pan frying in a small non-stick skillet.
October 18, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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A few more photos.
October 17, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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While out for lunch in Odessa, TX, I drove 1.5 miles from the nursing home where my brother lives to see the Stonehenge Replica at the UT Permian Basin campus. Just past stores, restaurants, etc and there it is.

Created in 2004 by members of the Art Department.

#art #stonehenge
October 17, 2025 at 12:42 AM
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Sol dinner in Odessa at Mamacita's Mexican grill. I had spicy green chicken enchiladas and a margarita on the rocks. They make their own enchilada sauces and this was really to my liking. 🍜🌶️🇲🇽🔥
In the image on the back left are chips and red salsa and on the right side, a margarita. On the plate in the front from the left is a small salad beans at the top left, rice at the bottom left and three enchiladas with cheese on the right side.
October 16, 2025 at 12:18 AM
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Lunch in Odessa, TX with my older brother who is in a nursing home there. At a Asian fusion place called Volcano.

I had Singapore Mei Fun noodles and I ordered some sushi for him which he barely ate as he spent more time looking at all the people. 🍜🌶️
White plate with spicy thin noodles with chicken cooked Singapore style. My brother in a wheelchair at a restaurant table with a plate of California roll and spicy tuna roll sushi. He has a beard and is wearing an orange shirt that says Texas.
October 16, 2025 at 12:14 AM
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Traveling tomorrow.

So I bought HEB deli ravioli with buffalo mozzarella, balsamic vinegar, and pecorino romano. Product of Italy.

Not too bad for an inexpensive pre-made product. 🍜🇮🇹
The ravioli described in the text above garnished with chopped parsley and olive oil in a small white bowl or a brown placemat.
October 15, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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Bought a ready to cook petite piece of steak w/two stuffed mushrooms. Added slices of heirloom tomato.

Baked the mushrooms at 350. Pan seared the steak to perfection medium rare.

Added salt, olive oil and feta cheese to the tomatoes.

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On a white plate on the left side is a crescent moon shaped piece of steak with two mushrooms stuffed with mozzarella and spinach to the right. Two slices of heirloom tomato with salt, olive oil and feta cheese on the far right.
October 14, 2025 at 1:02 AM