black bean sauce noodles w/ dried shrimp (A-)

spaghetti broken in half
dried fish...very small ones
oyster sauce
black bean sauce (smooth, not chunky)
garlic
corn starch

1. garlic + dried fish (2T) olive oil saute
2. add black bean sauce (3/4T) + oyster sauce (1/2 T) + water
3. add corn starch slurry (2tsp) til thick
4. add cooked spagetti...
5. toss and saute til slight color...

Baby Back Ribs in Rice Cooker

14 pieces of cut baby back ribs, salted + browned on all sides on frypan
1.5 onions - big chop, salted + browned on frypan til translucent and slight brown
1/2 kabucha - big chop, skin on

Drop everything into  rice cooker with liquids


1/4 cup soy sauce
1 T of brown sugar
2 cups water

water goes to about 3/4 way up stuff...stuff about 3/4 up rice cooker

rice cooker set to "white rice" and it got error message after about 3 hrs of cooking...

turned it off and the meat was fall off the bone tender....maybe slightly too overcooked as it started to dry out a bit...good flavor but the the pumpkin was too salty because of it sitting in the soy sauce for so long...all the liquid was gone...just few drops left

next time:
- put the pumpkin in later or not at all
- try "wellbeing" or "steam" setting instead as i think the "white rice" setting basically just cooks until the liquid is all gone