Its Ya Boiardee

02/23/2024

Im making ravioli on Twitch rn if ya wanna watch:

50 FOLLOWEDS BENCH MARK! MAKING RAVIOLI TO CELEBRATE!

01/01/2024

I have made a very difficult decision.

I am not going to cook for the rest of the year.

I’ve done a lot of it and I still love it. However, I’m finding I can no longer focus on it due to some ongoing personal issues. Nothing too serious, but I appreciate any thoughts and good wishes. I hope you all know I love and appreciate you all. I may return to cooking, but it won’t be this year as I choose to focus on caring for my family and myself.

I only ask you all respect this decision and don’t reach out to me, my friends, my family, my accountant, the IRS, or any tax agency during this dubious time.

Shmell ya all later!

12/09/2022

Making Brownies + Eggnog!

Making Brownies with a friend!

12/05/2022

I always try and do my best to do new things for the holidays to make the things exciting, but to also incorporate some traditions to always have something personal with the holidays I can pass on to others. This year, I had a way to incorporate both:

Does anyone else remember making those pretzels topped with a Hershey kiss which is slightly melted to top it with an M&M? If not, swipe left to see

I grew up making these. I remember my Mom always baking A LOT and being part of that chaos. These were particularly crazy as you had to quickly get all the M&Ms on the kisses before they cooled. So itd be like an assembly line with my Mom, siblings, and I.

I recently tried making pretzels and had quite a bit of leftover Lye and a Christmas baking opportunity. So I thought what if I made this new and replaced the store bought hard pretzel with a fresh one? So I tried it.

Im did a test batch (two swipes), as I did this based on my memory of this process, which I had down…but as the younger middle child, I never handled the oven. I thought it’d be like >375 F, but apparently you can cook and burn Hershey kisses (I thought it’d melt…). I googled and found out you just have it in a 175 F for a minute and that melts it.

Also…these things don’t have a name from my googling….it’s just like “pretzel chocolate M&M” or “Pretzel Hershey kiss M&M”…

So the second batch came out as intended!

I think it was what I intended, maybe some adjustments in the future, but found it very meaningful to try. I don’t know why I typed this all out 😅, maybe just to express how it’s the little things that make this season fun for me as most big plans for holidays stress me out. Hopefully if ya read all this you feel inspired. If anything you can crack some jokes about this post, “Get a load of this guy getting sentimental over a derpy pretzel!”…I think it needs adjustments, maybe a chocolate drizzle. What do you think member of club who read this post?

08/24/2022

I know I said I’d stream Sunday….but I was lost in the ocean (it wasn’t because I was lazy….) STREAM STARTS AT 7:30 PM EST!

08/06/2022

You like Mario Kart? Join me on Twitch to play some with me live!

https://www.twitch.tv/itsyaboiardee

02/10/2022

I’m live making Chicken Francese:

Chicken Francese: Valentines Stream

02/01/2022

Happy Lunar New Year!

Just to be clear, I’m not all that educated about the full history and meaning of the Lunar New Year, and I’m trying to be better educated about it. However, I think Lunar New Year is a great time to celebrate Asian culture, whether it is celebrating Cantonese, Taiwanese, Korean, Asian American, Philippines, etc. it’s always been easy for me to celebrate the things we have from Asian culture being that typical (half-white) gamer dude growing up playing Zelda, eating sushi, drinking green tea, and waiting for the next Yu-Gi-Oh! Episode growing up.

However,

I haven’t always been the best in acknowledging and celebrating the people behind my consumption. In The United States, there is approximately 19.9 million AAPIs and, sadly, many face hate and discrimination. It’s important we celebrate the Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders today and not just there culture. Whether that’s by being purposefully maintaining friendships with AAPIs consistently, listening to their struggles, staying informed on the struggles AAPIs face and pursuing change, or standing up to injustice.

I am celebrating by learning and cooking more culinary stuff like Steamed fish, vegetable rolls, and doing hot pot tonight. But I wanted to share Asian American Christian Collaboration’s STATEMENT ON ANTI-ASIAN RACISM IN THE TIME OF COVID-19 (Link in Bio).

Let’s celebrate Lunar New Year by loving the people who have greatly shaped our culture today.

01/29/2022

Come watch me prepare for a grand feast on Twitch (link in Bio) tonight at 6:30 PM. Gonna make a lot of jelly donuts 👌👌👌
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