What Have You Cooked Recently?

[AnOminous]

Chopped Caprese salad. Basically one of those 10 oz. cartons of grape tomatoes, halved or quartered (I halve the smaller ones), fresh basil (stems removed), and cubed mozzarella, with olive oil mixed in, drizzled with balsamic vinegar, and topped with salt. I used Himalayan pink salt, but kosher salt or any coarser salt should do. You can add pepper, but I didn't.

I mess around with the portions some, rather than using a specific recipe. The only really important thing to do is drizzle the balsamic on top rather than mixing it in.

Next time, I want better tomatoes because they were kind of tasteless as grocery store tomatoes usually are. I know this, but got burned again. I should have gone to a local farmer's market. Also, next time I'll make a balsamic reduction glaze instead of just balsamic vinegar.

 

[Bassomatic]

Dude, my tomatoes are just starting and I can't fucking wait to make this from the back yard.

I felt like I'm 11 again so I made an organic no sugar added peanut butter crunchy, local sourwood honey (good for allergies too) and boysenberry jam PB&J or a toasted deli roll.

So adulting as a kid. Took me 2 minutes and was a killer lunch that was a nice nostalgia.

 

[XYZpdq]

Aldi had whoopity shit cold cuts of roast beef at about two bucks a pound with a use-by of tomorrow.
Got a pound and change, cooked it with some worcestershire, an onion, small can of mushrooms, some minced garlic, then after the liquid started separated I tossed in a couple of eggs that I needed to use up, stirred the fuck out of them as they cooked. Sorta ghetto beef bowl. Quite tasty.

 

[DeadwastePrime]

i made a pizza. it was a premade pizza crust. i just added some pizza sauce with a bit of hot sauce to it, some cheese, and pepperoni. it tasted prety good

 

[Gordon Cole]

Made some burgers for my sister and I. Nothing crazy, just sirloin beef with some bbq seasoning and provolone.

 

[XYZpdq]

I've had some chicken breast cut into nuggie size soaking in pickle brine spiked with a bit of pickled banana pepper brine for a few hours, I'm doing some sort of baked breading in an hour or so.
Gonna do plain breading with paprika, rosemary, salt, white pepper, an egg wash. Maybe mix some garlic olive oil in with the egg or something.

Edit: The brine oozed out and left the breading a weird gummy texture.

 

[Oh Long Johnson]

I have fully mastered cooking Cantonese style chow mein, which excited me to no end as you can't find the shit in restaurants anymore. I've been using Chinese la mein noodles and find if you pay attention to your oil situation and noodle volume, you can get the noodles to crisp and char right up, lending them a slightly smokey flavor in the process. My most recent batch used pork char siu that I marinated for two days and came out exactly as I'd been wanting.

 

[MerriedxReldnahc]

I made my own delicious home cooked tendies by cutting up a chicken breast and marinating it in a little mustard, seasonings, and buttermilk for a few hours and then coating them in crushed up Ritz crackers. I went the less greasy route of cooking them in the oven rather than frying them. If you place them on a wire rack with a pan underneath and flip them halfway through the baking process then they won't get soggy on one side like oven-fried chicken sometimes does.

 

[Adamska]

I cooked NY strip steak for the family. They tend to be the people who like tires, so I just had it cook for like ten minutes in the oven after searing to ensure it was pretty much well done. Sadly, it turned out the meat cuts we got were amazingly shit tier; it was half gristle.

Shame too, since the results of my cooking tasted damn good when you bit into meat.

 

[sperginity]

Ratatouille. It's only really good in the summer when eggplant is in season, but god damn is it good. Eat with a baguette.

 

[sperginity]

Cooking up some dal makhani today from the best Indian cook book I've bought

 

[Forever Train Engineer]

Cut up, an cooked some chicken, steamed some broccoli, boiled pasta, put that all together, and add Alfredo sauce

 

[wifflypuff]

I'm going to be making Hello Dolly bars today, but with peanut butter chips instead of butterscotch.

 

[Varg Did Nothing Wrong]

Just made a bigass plate of fried eggs and like 8 pieces of bacon, topped with habanero/bhut jolokia hot sauce.

It's like 9 PM why am I having breakfast at 9 PM

 

[An Ghost]

One pot baked ziti. Made the sauce in a Dutch oven with Italian sausage. Cook the ziti right in the sauce which is phenomenal. Added whole milk mozzarella, parm, and spinach. Top with ricotta and just put the whole pot in the oven.

 

[Cheeseburger Picnic]

Just threw a whole bird in the slow cooker. Stuffed a whole head of garlic (tops cut off) in the cavity and a couple of cloves under the skin next to the breasts, then rubbed the whole bird down with olive oil + salt + pepper + garlic powder + a little creole seasoning and set to low for 6 hours. The key is to put the chicken breast side down so the fat drains down to the breasts, keeping them moist, and prop the bird up on some aluminum foil balls so it doesn't simmer in the liquid (it will taste fine if you don't do this but will fall apart instantly when you try to remove it).

At the end of cooking I'll put the chicken under the broiler for 5-10 minutes to crisp up the skin and turn the juices + giblets into gravy the way my granny taught me for some mashed taters.

 

[wifflypuff]

Just made a bigass plate of fried eggs and like 8 pieces of bacon, topped with habanero/bhut jolokia hot sauce.

It's like 9 PM why am I having breakfast at 9 PM

Because breakfast for dinner is the goddamn best, that's why.

 

[MerriedxReldnahc]

I made homemade tendies again, but this time I re-created a horrible experiment I tried years ago. Back then I oven-roasted chicken breasts coated in Crunch Berries and it was just as disgusting as it sounds. Big ol' slab of overcooked chicken with soggy fake fruit flavored breading all in the name of science.
Tonight, I used chicken strips coated in flour, egg, and then crushed up Captain Crunch (no berries this time!) before frying it all up on the stovetop. Sprinkle some salt on top and it's actually pretty good! The chicken stayed really moist and the breading stayed on well. I might try it again with Crunch Berries someday out of morbid curiosity, but that's probably an experiment best left un-repeated.

 

[Gordon Cole]

I made homemade tendies again, but this time I re-created a horrible experiment I tried years ago. Back then I oven-roasted chicken breasts coated in Crunch Berries and it was just as disgusting as it sounds. Big ol' slab of overcooked chicken with soggy fake fruit flavored breading all in the name of science.
Tonight, I used chicken strips coated in flour, egg, and then crushed up Captain Crunch (no berries this time!) before frying it all up on the stovetop. Sprinkle some salt on top and it's actually pretty good! The chicken stayed really moist and the breading stayed on well. I might try it again with Crunch Berries someday out of morbid curiosity, but that's probably an experiment best left un-repeated.

I have a local grocery store chain that does the same thing and I always try to get it whenever I'm there.

 

[XYZpdq]

I made homemade tendies again, but this time I re-created a horrible experiment I tried years ago. Back then I oven-roasted chicken breasts coated in Crunch Berries and it was just as disgusting as it sounds. Big ol' slab of overcooked chicken with soggy fake fruit flavored breading all in the name of science.
Tonight, I used chicken strips coated in flour, egg, and then crushed up Captain Crunch (no berries this time!) before frying it all up on the stovetop. Sprinkle some salt on top and it's actually pretty good! The chicken stayed really moist and the breading stayed on well. I might try it again with Crunch Berries someday out of morbid curiosity, but that's probably an experiment best left un-repeated.

I wonder how honey nut cheerios might work.