Vrghr has been in a bit of a funk, cooking wise. With all this "Covid social separation" stuff, wuff has been totally unable to go out and cook for his friends as he loves to do. And making extravagant creations just for himself hardly seemed worth it.

But wuff found a solution, at least partially: "Cookin' With the Wuff, Phone-Style!"

Yesterday, Vrghr hosted a dial-up cooking session for  Shottsy85 and Malvir to help lift their spirits in some pretty tough times, and together we created a stir-fry feast featuring one of her favorite dishes; Hibachi Shrimp!

Earlier, wuffy had placed a delivery order with Amazon Fresh and Whole Foods, to stock their pantry and fridge with everything they would need to create the dishes wuff had thought up. And the day before, we made the sauces, marinades, diced the chicken and put it up in the marinade, and otherwise created most of the prep. We even made an instant-pot of steamed rice so it could rest in the fridge overnight, to go into the stir-fried rice the next day.

The star of the prep day was home-made YumYum sauce, which was a huge hit. Turns out its one of their favorite condiments! *grin*

And yesterday afternoon, we placed a call and started cooking. We started with another quick Instant Pot of steamed rice, so it would be warm and fluffy for the shrimp to nestle in. Then Vrghr led them step-by-step through the creation of some scrambled eggs for the rice, stir-frying the chicken, creating the stir fried rice and adding the chicken and eggs back in. And then we moved on to frying up some zucchini squash & onions in Hoisin and soy for a little veggie side dish. And then came the "Star" feature, the Hibachi Shrimp.

As you can see from the photos above the results were spectacular and VERY tasty!

Not only did we have all sorts of fun creating these dishes, but now Malvir and Shottsy have new recipes that they can create on their own, along with some practice at stir fry and other techniques. And most importantly, they have additional confidence in their own abilities to create dishes like this in their own kitchen, though of course wuffy will always be happy to help them work through more kitchen experiments like this.

Wuff only wishes he could have been there to enjoy the company in person, and to sample the results (they look SOOOO good! *grin*). But this was a great, fun time and really perked up Vrghr's spirits.

Wuff is so thankful that he's living in a world where technology has set the stage to do these sorts of virtual gatherings and socializing. Perhaps, if this becomes "a thing", we can set up Skype or Zoom or something similar, so Vrghr can actually watch the process going on at the distant end instead of just listening for the sound cues.

But no matter what, this was fun and successful, and wuffy is hoping he can do this again soon.

And for folks interested in creating these goodies for themselves, wuff will post up the recipes for each in his gallery.

Be safe and be well out there! And Bon Appetite from your floofy Cookin' Wuff! *SMILE*

Find the Stir Fried Chicken & Chicken Stir Fried Rice recipe here: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/36979760/
Find the Hibachi Shrimp and YumYum sauce recipes here: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/36981855/
Find the Hoisin Hibachi Veggies recipe here: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/36982513/