What Have You Cooked Recently?

[Santiagothrumachifacku]

Grilled Cheese

 

[StarkRavingMad]

I made some "Irish Carbomb" (don't know what else to call them-- everyone is offended by the name these days lol) cupcakes, which are made with

-Guinness chocolate cake
-Jameson Irish Whiskey chocolate ganache filling
-Bailey's Irish Cream buttercream frosting

These are my all-time favorite cupcakes, but boy are they time consuming. They are also very rich AF. I typically make them once a year for St. Paddy's Day as a special treat, but I pretty much skipped through that holiday entirely this year as the first week of the USA locking down everywhere over COVID happened then. I had the itch to make them this week, and so I did. Yum.

Pro-tip: While I made my cupcakes from scratch, I have made chocolate boxed cake with Guinness added to it before, and it's still awesome. Baking anything chocolate with Guinness added is a match made in heaven, so if you want to try it without putting forth much effort, then just use Guinness as a sub for water for boxed cakes. You won't regret it.

 

[FitBitch]

Made my first butternut squash soup of the season last night. Husbando has oral surgery coming up on Wednesday and right now it hurts for him to chew anything so I made a lot of it for him.
It might be the smoothest I've ever made and I finally perfected how much rosemary to put in. Delicious!

 

[WonderWino]

Made my first butternut squash soup of the season last night. Husbando has oral surgery coming up on Wednesday and right now it hurts for him to chew anything so I made a lot of it for him.View attachment 1658866
It might be the smoothest I've ever made and I finally perfected how much rosemary to put in. Delicious!

I highly recommend adding a pinch of fresh summer savory as well, it adds a nice bit of richness to squash soup

 

[Jeff_the_Thriller]

Air fried pork ribs and home fires. I overdid the ribs a little but they weren't bad for the first time cooking ribs in an air frier. I was going to make air fried tendies and pan fried zucchini tonight, but it's raining hard and the squirrels will be bedded down so no tendies.

 

[MoffAlbert]

Making my second apple pie of the season right now. Made my first one about a month ago. We still have a few apples leftover after today's pie, so I'm thinking about making apple cobbler in the crockpot with those.

 

[WonderWino]

Tonight is thick, fatty pork chops seasoned with the keg steak spice and a side of homemade macaroni and cheese that uses a mix of old cheddar and stilton. The dog is sitting in front of the oven sniffing the air right now and must be going nuts smelling the cheese baking

 

[Clostridium Botulinum]

Mulled wine:
(2-3 servings, depending on how much you drink)

• 1/4 tsp cloves
• " chopped, not ground, cinnamon
• " star anise
• " nutmeg
• the peel from one large orange, dried
• Squeeze of lemon
• cinnamon quill for garnish
• 1 standard bottle of red wine, 750 ml
  • Pinot noir/merlot is preferred; sweet wines will make the drink syrupy.
• 2 shots or equivalent of bourbon/rum
• 1 tsp honey or 1 square inch honeycomb.

toss all ingredients except for cinnamon quill into a small pot, bring mixture to boil, and simmer. Repeat for more intense flavor

Serve hot with cinnamon quill garnish

 

[JambledUpWords]

I had a rough day today, so I decided to make some sweet potato hashbrowns. I also needed to use up a few things in the fridge, so it all worked out. I used red bell peppers, red onion, freshly minced garlic, bacon bits, smoked paprika, crushed red pepper flakes, maple syrup and a Mexican cheese blend. I topped it with some barbecue sauce. I felt like eating like a stoner, and I got my wish.

 

[Hongourable Madisha]

Made a sort of bubur ayam, Indonesian congee, with rabbit instead of chicken. I'm usually vegetarian but they have to cull rabbits and deer around here to keep them off the arable farms, so it'd be a shame to waste the meat. Topped it with the shredded boiled bunny meat, stir fried veg, sambal, pickles, and a cakwe stuck in it like a savoury Flake 99. It's a classic comfort food, my oma used to make it for us when we were sick. I couldn't find cakwe anywhere for ages until I learnt that they're a Chinese thing too and called yóutíao and learnt what to ask for in shops when nobody knew what a cakwe was. It's like savoury churros.

ETA: a picture of it. I like sticking the cakwe in the side of it like this and dunking it in the sticky rice porridge.

 

[verygayFrogs]

Spaghetti Sauce, Egg Noodles n Corn. Pretty damn good

 

[TowinKarz]

Macaroni salad, mostly as a way to use up a half-onion, a bell pepper, carrot and 2 celery stalks that were going to go to waste otherwise.



But my forte' really is in baking as of late, taking my "experiements" into work and gauging the success based on how fast they disappear from the break room

This month I've done pound cake and banana bread



But the chocolate chip cookies are the big winner by far....

 

[JY's Tampon]

This weekend made shredded chicken sandwiches. It's a staple in small town north and central Ohio.
2 pounds chicken breast (some people us canned chicken), a can (of concentrated) cream of mushroom or cream of chicken soup, and (optional) a sleeve or crushed Ritz or crackers of your choice (I find it doesn't need the thickener).

Cover the breasts in a slow cookers for a few hours, drain/shred, back in the cooker, mix in the concentrated soup, add the crackers if you desire, heat up, and serve on a hamburger bun.

 

[Local Fed]

Edit: forgot to finish my post: Two egg omelette with 2/3 of a cup of shredded Tex Mex cheese in it.

This weekend made shredded chicken sandwiches. It's a staple in small town north and central Ohio.
2 pounds chicken breast (some people us canned chicken), a can (of concentrated) cream of mushroom or cream of chicken soup, and (optional) a sleeve or crushed Ritz or crackers of your choice (I find it doesn't need the thickener).

Cover the breasts in a slow cookers for a few hours, drain/shred, back in the cooker, mix in the concentrated soup, add the crackers if you desire, heat up, and serve on a hamburger bun.

That sounds like the comfiest meal ever.

 

[JY's Tampon]

Two egg omelette with 2/3

That sounds like the comfiest meal ever.

Not a school athletic event without one from the concession stand.

 

[Exceptionally Exceptional]

Made Chicken Cordon Bleu with Creamy Dijon sauce, garlic butter rice, and a salad because I'm fat.

 

[Titos]

Made a soup out of a bunch of random shit I had in the fridge. It turned out pretty good. And after calculating the cost of all the ingredients it's pretty fucking cheap too

Spoiler: Recipe

Ingredients- chicken Hearts (these are especially cheap, got a pound for $1.50), Bok Choy, Ginger paste, Soy Sauce, Saifun (glass) noodles, bell peppers, Garlic, Green Onions, Thai Chilis, Cilantro, Better Than Bouillion Roasted Vegetable flavor, Oyster Mushrooms, Mirin
1- Soak your glass noodles in cold water to soften them up
2- chop up your veggies, take out the seeds of the chilis if you want it less spicy
3- cut chicken hearts in half and fry them on the bottom of the pan until lightly browned
4- throw in minced galic to just slightly cook
5- Add in stock, chilis, tablespoon of soy sauce, ginger paste
6- Add in veggies sans Cilantro. Obviouslly according to your preferred texture
7- Add in noodles and let simmer for about a minute and a half
8- Once done cooking add a squeeze of lime juice into bowl and garnish with Cilantro

 

[Hongourable Madisha]

Spaghetti Sauce, Egg Noodles n Corn. Pretty damn good

Like speggtie but without the corn.

 

[Sneakywombat666]

Dunno if "cook" is the right word, but I shoved some corned beef into a slow cooker and let it simmer all day, and it was great.

Slow cookers are fantastic. They use less energy than an oven and take less stirring than stove top dishes. Everyone should have a slow cooker. Very versatile. My only gripe is that half of the recipes from "slow cooker cookbooks" are very bland. It's definitely a cooking method you'll want to tweak as you learn.

 

[Brahma]

I bought all these sichuan peppercorns, dried chilis, and bean pastes and made mapo tofu and twice-cooked pork. I don't think I've ever had mapo tofu so I didn't know what to expect, but it was delightful. I'm going to try making other dishes with these spices like chicken.

Bang Bang Chicken is a good use for sechuan peppers