What Have You Cooked Recently?

[cowboytakeshi]

It's been almost a year since I posted so here you go, all my favorite cooking highlights from my kitchen in 2021:

Gingerbread cookies

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All-clad pan-seared ribeyes cooked to 130

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Apple pie with hand-picked apples and homemade crust

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Lemon, fennel, and pork Ragu with pappardelle

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Beef bourguignon with special guest appearance by Nessie

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Pene a la vodka

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Country fried steak with mash and mac and cheese

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Cherry pie
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Pollo sofrittos

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Orange souffle with grand marnier creme anglaise

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Blood orange marmelade

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Bonus round Nessies in their element

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@Null I make a mean chicken and dumplings, same recipe here but I used egg noodles while short on time. I'd cook you dumplings.

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Merry Christmas everyone and keep fine-tuning your home cooking skills. Wishing you the best in 2022, be bold, make something new, learn something hard, and never stop improving.

I have a blue nessie ladle and that same dutch oven! Fantastic set of food you made there, merry christmas!

I made a massive batch of pink vanilla topping and rose water filling macarons and then some orange filling/chocolate macarons. I went full Pinterest and put them in jars for gift giving. I have some bagels slow rising in the fridge for boiling tomorrow too. The tediousness of baking is very satisfying. During the cold months it's very fun

 

[Grinrow]

Yes, I've had kangaroo. Moose has more of a nutty/savory flavor. The two times I've had kangaroo, I really liked it. Hard to come by in my part of the world.

Kangaroo in a spag bowl is really good the sweetness of the meat with the tomato paste work very well together I recommend it if you ever cook Kangaroo again

 

[EnemyStand]

Made some cheddar biscuits for a party I can't actually attend. They cooked faster than the plain ones I make for sausage gravy.

 

[Ellesse_warrior]

linzer cookies each time and finally did, it took a long-ass time but they look so pretty!

These look amazing, I love sandwich cookies. I want to learn how to make some

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I made profiteroles for Christmas dessert

edit 2
I made an ice cream cake for dessert too. It's meant to be an igloo with penguins and that's what it looks like sliced with the cake around the ice cream

 

[Robotic Richard Simmons]

Christmas Eve I made cauliflower and chickpea Tikka Masala and naan.



I made a pretty basic Christmas ham dinner. I did a brown sugar bourbon honey baked ham.


I also made a Lebkuchen cake with a cream cheese frosting filling with candied ginger pieces.





For Christmas Eve I made sugar cookies with royal icing.



I also got my first piece of Le Cruset as a Christmas gift.



Fun fact, when I make sweet treats I usually give a majority of it away to neighbors and coworkers.

 

[XYZpdq]

Christmas Eve I made cauliflower and chickpea Tikka Masala and naan.

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I made a pretty basic Christmas ham dinner. I did a brown sugar bourbon honey baked ham.

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I also made a Lebkuchen cake with a cream cheese frosting filling with candied ginger pieces.

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For Christmas Eve I made sugar cookies with royal icing.

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I also got my first piece of Le Cruset as a Christmas gift.

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Fun fact, when I make sweet treats I usually give a majority of it away to neighbors and coworkers.

I got a Le Creuset thingy dirt cheap clearance at a Home Goods in some gay pastel color, good shit. Some total gay who's an irl buddy was jelly af over it.

recent cook:
leftover spam slices
onion
dried minced onion
a frozen sausage patty
a weird beef+cow heart+onion patty
butter for the grease
also jarred jalapeno, and on the meat-ish stuff adobo, black pepper, and red pepper flakes
then some jalapeno havarti or some other white cheese
plain yellow mustard and kewpie may on the bun

dank af

 

[AnOminous]

I also got my first piece of Le Cruset as a Christmas gift.

I want to get one of their Dutch ovens to bake bread.

 

[Robotic Richard Simmons]

I want to get one of their Dutch ovens to bake bread.

Bread making seems so satisfying. I want to do a sourdough rye. It's been on my to-do list but always been intimidated by it. Sounds like a good 2022 challenge.

I got a Le Creuset thingy dirt cheap clearance at a Home Goods in some gay pastel color, good shit. Some total gay who's an irl buddy was jelly af over it.

Treat it well, it will last you a lifetime. You can't beat Le Cruset for braising.

 

[Mister Mint]

late, but I made a pretty nice prime rib for Christmas.

 

[𝕺𝖑' 𝕯𝖎𝖗𝖙𝖞 𝕱𝖆𝖙𝖘𝖔]

I'm drunk and making airfryer flatbread pizza

 

[Sundae]

Saw this recipe video a few weeks ago:

Finally decided to give it a try. It turned out pretty good.

 

[Juan But Not Forgotten]

Well, every holiday for me is like a Special Olympics, since I want to send something to my sister, nieces and nephews. And if I put a three layer cake there, they will receive something that looks more like a sweet mash, so I am limited to buns, cookies, etc.

This NY pack consisted of:

Gingerbread cookies

Sweet dried oranges with dark chocolate coating (great way to deal with leftovers btw)

Almond cookies.

Chocolate cookies with pinenuts or walnuts.

And german stollen. I got lucky and it looks like a baby Jesus in sheets, just like it should.

Happy holidays!

 

[MoffAlbert]

After a week worth of holiday food, I'm finally getting back to cooking. Tonight I slow roasted a brined chicken for 5 hours at 250F. Turned out great, chicken was juicy and fall off the bone. We have like 2 dozen bananas to use up because I got some for free at work, and they were past green when I got then, so I fried 4 up in butter and added some brown sugar and cinnamon on top after frying. Damn good dessert!

 

[AnOminous]

After a week worth of holiday food, I'm finally getting back to cooking. Tonight I slow roasted a brined turkey for 5 hours at 250F. Turned out great, chicken was juicy and fall off the bone. We have like 2 dozen bananas to use up because I got some for free at work, and they were past green when I got then, so I fried 4 up in butter and added some brown sugar and cinnamon on top after frying. Damn good dessert!

You do it dry or wet? The one I made for Thanksgiving was wet brined, but it was so big that the only thing big enough to contain it was a 16 gallon trash can which I had to disinfect thoroughly. This obviously couldn't have fit in the refrigerator, so I left it outside and threw in ice when the temperature outside went over 40. I did it for almost 48 hours.

It turned out great, but it was kind of a hassle to do it this way, and I'm wondering if dry brining works as well.

 

[MoffAlbert]

You do it dry or wet? The one I made for Thanksgiving was wet brined, but it was so big that the only thing big enough to contain it was a 16 gallon trash can which I had to disinfect thoroughly. This obviously couldn't have fit in the refrigerator, so I left it outside and threw in ice when the temperature outside went over 40. I did it for almost 48 hours.

It turned out great, but it was kind of a hassle to do it this way, and I'm wondering if dry brining works as well.

I always do poultry wet brined, I didn't even know dry brining was a thing tbh. Maybe I'll look into dry brining.

Also, I meant to put chicken, not turkey. I'm pretty sure a turkey would take a little longer than 5 hours depending on the size you got.

 

[AnOminous]

Also, I meant to put chicken, not turkey. I'm pretty sure a turkey would take a little longer than 5 hours depending on the size you got.

I think doing it two days really was the right way to go. It was a 20+ pound turkey. However, the seasoning in the brine really penetrated pretty deeply and could be tasted in the finished product.

 

[Titos]

Made one of my favorite cold weather dishes that isn't Thai food. Chicken Tortilla soup. Cheap as fuck, easy as fuck, and tasty as fuck. Also freezes extremely well. I have a good 3 pounds of the stuff frozen into ice cube shapes in my freezer and just re-heat it whenever I'm hungry.

-Fry up some corn tortillas until crispy (or buy strips if you're lazy)
-Saute an onion, some garlic, and some jalapenos in a pan
-Add into the same pan some black beans, corn, chili powder, cumin, a can of crushed tomatoes, salt, cilantro, chicken thighs or breasts, and some chicken broth
-Shred the chicken after around 25 minutes of simmering
-Simmer for another 5 minutes
-Add lime juice
-Serve with whatever topping you want, I like Oaxaca cheese

To freeze it for convenience pour it into ice cube trays then once frozen put it into bags. Putting it into ice trays makes it way easier to reheat.

 

[Sweet and Savoury]

I've recently moved away from brine for my Xmas turkey.

I love the moisture it imparts to the meat but my gravy always ends up to salty. And gravy is usually the star of my show as it gets slathered over everything in large quantities cuz it's so damn delicious. And over all, with careful seasoning, lots of basting and spot on temperature control the meat without brine is still very moist and tender.

Also I came across this recipe by my favourite You-tuber chef and it's ball lickingly good. I did up the sugar a wee bit as I found the final product a bit too tart but it went over super well at dinner.

 

[RainwaterDrop]

Saw this recipe video a few weeks ago:
Finally decided to give it a try. It turned out pretty good.

Try their fried chicken recipe with fried parsley, it's fucking amazing!

I made myself some garlic bread with shredded parmesan, pan fried in butter. Very rich tasting and pretty neat, as a single loaf of bread is good for many slices, eat it piecemeal or on a single sitting if you don't mind lol!

Bread making seems so satisfying. I want to do a sourdough rye. It's been on my to-do list but always been intimidated by it. Sounds like a good 2022 challenge.

Baking is an art, it takes time and you will fuck up at first. But it's very rewarding, with the time it takes you will also be hungry and ready to feast on a good loaf once you're done lol!

If your bread turns out good, try and make some garlic bread. It's ridiculously easy to make, the "hard" part is chopping up the garlic and frying it right, but after that it's a breeze!

 

[Screw Danlon]

I made some awesome breaded and fried tilapia with my air fryer tonight. 2 eggs, flour, a heavy pinch of salt, a little curry, a little mustard powder and panko. I suck at breading, so the panko wound up a little sparse, but oh well. Cooked for about 6 mins at 360 then flipped and 8 - 10 mins at 395.

Did 2 whole lbs in 2 batches, so I’ve got enough to last a few meals.

It was my first time actually using the air fryer in place of a deep oil fry (so far it’s been an alternative to a pan fry or baked french fries) and I am really impressed with the results, especially considering how easy it is to ruin fish.