Whaaat a fukken life: a warm cozy apartment, 3 laptops, 2 phones, legal weed, prescription sleep aids, a giant industrial fan from the 50s, homemade vegan 'nduja, mozzarella, hot water, plumbing, homemade kimchi, a great mattress, streaming media, ok one actual mouse, but really, what are we complaining about. We being me.
'nduja.
75g home-dried tomatoes
or just sun-dried tomatoes, which NO ONE WANTS TO HEAR but bear with me: if they're not herbed or treated in anyway or packed in oil this can still be a good ingredient, you just want 100% unfuckedwith dried tomatoes
1/4 cup hot water
2 garlic cloves
1 tsp smoked paprika
2 tsp gochugaru
1 tsp crushed dried red pepper, the hot kind
1 tsp fennel seed or possibly 1.5 tsp
1 tsp coarse sea salt
Blend to a chunky spread. I threw a dried apricot in there the last time and it might have made a positive difference in terms of structure and sweetness. I also made a 'nduja butter out of it which is, as you can imagine, better.
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