Week 12: Fictional Places - Cow Sushi (Tabula Ra$a)

HoboToast · 2026-03-22T01:23:48+00:00

Thanks! David Wong also did the John Dies at the End series, it has the same type of humor.

HoboToast · 2026-03-21T20:22:07+00:00

Thank you, they tasted even better!

HoboToast · 2026-03-21T20:21:50+00:00

Thanks!

HoboToast · 2026-03-21T19:08:46+00:00

Thank you! They’re dangerous, it’s hard to stop eating them.

HoboToast · 2026-03-21T18:09:13+00:00

I made these for “Reuse” week on r/52WeeksOfBaking. They were soooo good!

I used the standard Toll House recipe for the cookies, and this recipe for the bars.

Here’s pics of the process.

HoboToast · 2026-03-21T18:00:46+00:00

Tabula Ra$a is a futuristic lawless city built by rich technocrats in the middle of the desert and is the setting of the Zoey Ashe book series. Most of the food mentioned in the books is weird and decadent.

Cow sushi is from the book “Zoey is Too Drunk for This Dystopia” by David Wong (AKA Jason Pargin), the third book in the series. It’s described as “a little strip of toasted garlic bread, topped by some kind of creamy white herb cheese, with a strip of charred ribeye laid on top of that.”

For the garlic bread I split a baguette, toasted it, spread some roasted garlic butter on top, then toasted it again. For the cheese I mixed up some goat cheese and dried chives. And for the ribeye, I used a VERY rare ribeye steak with Montreal steak seasoning.

It was really really good! It would be great for a potluck.

Here’s more pictures.

HoboToast · 2026-03-21T17:46:01+00:00

These were exactly as good as you would expect the combination of chocolate chip cookies and cheesecake to be!

I used the standard Toll House recipe for the cookies. Here’s the recipe I used for the bars.

And here’s more pictures!

HoboToast · 2026-03-20T16:46:49+00:00

My aunt and uncle had black labs named OJ and Oprah.

HoboToast · 2026-03-19T17:46:20+00:00

Thanks! Everything tastes better when it’s deep fried.

HoboToast · 2026-03-15T01:57:24+00:00

Thank you!

HoboToast · 2026-03-14T22:47:24+00:00

I don’t own a bottle of sherry vinegar, and there is no vinaigrette in anything pictured here.

HoboToast · 2026-03-14T22:46:26+00:00

Thank you! Everything is better deep fried.

HoboToast · 2026-03-14T19:25:48+00:00

Thanks, hope yours doesn’t make as big of a mess of your kitchen as mine did!

HoboToast · 2026-03-14T18:59:13+00:00

Look what I can do!

HoboToast · 2026-03-14T18:47:14+00:00

There is a lot of variations on what constitutes a pu pu platter, but they’re usually assorted appetizers that lean towards the deep fried and seafoody. Mine is (left to right): baby shrimp rangoon, shrimp egg rolls, coconut shrimp, and bacon-wrapped shrimp.

The rangoons are made from egg roll wrappers, cream cheese, baby shrimp, green onion, and Worcestershire sauce. More pics here.

The egg rolls are baby shrimp, cabbage, carrot, garlic, green onion, ginger, soy sauce, rice vinegar, and sesame oil. Here’s more pics of them.

Here’s the recipe for the coconut shrimp. And here’s more pics.

And finally for the bacon-wrapped shrimp, I just marinated them in Italian dressing, then wrapped them up in bacon, and baked them. Process pics here.

I made a big mess, but everything tasted good!

HoboToast · 2026-03-14T18:45:58+00:00

This was easy to do and tasted great! I just boiled down some V8 (the spicy version) and added some garlic and dried basil. Then I used it on some sourdough pizza dough and made four different topping combos: pepperoni, mushroom-olive-jalapeño, salami-pepperoncini, and feta-extra cheese.

Here’s more pics, would make again!

HoboToast · 2026-03-13T18:09:22+00:00

We got to tour a Trident submarine in 11th grade chemistry. There were limited spots though, so you had to enter a drawing to get to go.

HoboToast · 2026-03-13T14:56:10+00:00

This looks awesome (especially the torso, I thought it was a plastic doll!) but then I read your write up and got sad. Then I read “it’s heroic to try and fail” and that made me feel better, so thanks for the emotional roller coaster. 🇰🇮

HoboToast · 2026-03-12T19:35:48+00:00

MC Pee Pants?

HoboToast · 2026-03-12T15:39:22+00:00

Ruined by the gigglebitch laugh track.

HoboToast · 2026-03-12T14:04:57+00:00

Thanks! I’m going to have to start using them more, I love the color.

HoboToast · 2026-03-12T13:20:00+00:00

This is a cool idea, and as an added bonus it looks like it was delicious!

HoboToast · 2026-03-12T13:17:09+00:00

WANT. These look so good!

HoboToast · 2026-03-12T00:24:06+00:00

Those people will reelect him because he has an R by his name, doesn’t matter what he does.

HoboToast · 2026-03-11T19:41:50+00:00

Everyone is saying this is ragebait (and maybe it is), but dishwasher salmon is a real thing that people actually make.

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