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In the process of getting rid of leftovers from Easter. I don't know what it is, but I hate plain leftover mashed potatoes with a passion. So, I decided to make potato pancakes with them instead of leaving them as they are. Just added a single egg, some flour, and some onion powder, fried them in a pan, and put some sour cream on top. Browned up four sausages and had them for breakfast.
 
I too have a leftover ham quiche and I used too many cloves in the preparation of said ham.
Thankfully it all pretty much got eaten up so I cant complain too much. Still have way too much ham so I'll probably do some croquettes later in the week and freeze the rest if it cant be pawned off to someone else.
 
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Easter spread, turkey came frozen prepared same as yorkies. Also with a miniscule amount of gravy. That wouldn't do. So I made a roux. Used my leek and potato soup as the milk. Added the turkey drippings. Added the preoared gravy. And water to thin and then lots of lots of black pepper.

Made cheesy cabbage bake, roasted carrots, some green beans and peas. Mashed tato. Eh viola.

I will just never get turkey tbh. Its just difficult chicken. I would have loved lamb but family preferences are gay ans aids. So turkey that needed using demo the freezer it was.
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I made turkey pie with the leftovers.
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Edit. Broke pic farms right now will edit when I can
 
I will just never get turkey tbh. Its just difficult chicken.
I love turkey, less because of how it is on the actual holiday but because it makes a wonderful breakfast sandwich on toast the next several days. Also brining is a pain in the ass but makes it really delicious. Whenever I make a turkey, I not only eat the entire bird but make bone broth from it. Turkey broth is especially good. And you can make crackly things from the fat. And gravy.

People complain that it's dry but if it's dry you're doing it wrong. Also the dark meat is the best part.
 
I just made French onion soup for the first time. I ended up using random sandwich bread and baking it to get it going for the bread crumbs but overall I really like it. I tried to do it based off this recipe on YouTube:
It's not quite as good to look at as it is in the video but I think I'll get the hang of it eventually. I just need to figure out how to keep the milk from curdling again.
 
It's not quite as good to look at as it is in the video but I think I'll get the hang of it eventually. I just need to figure out how to keep the milk from curdling again.
Don't boil it. I think he fucked that up too. It should barely reach a simmer, there shouldn't be any bubbling.

He even mentions not boiling it, while it's boiling...
 
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Don't boil it. I think he fucked that up too. It should barely reach a simmer, there shouldn't be any bubbling.

He even mentions not boiling it, while it's boiling...
Yeah, I ended up copying that. I figured he meant simmering in a different way than what I initially thought so I ended up boiling it too. It came out kinda gross and acidic which is why I didn't post any pictures. I could tell I was going somewhere with it though so I'll try again and see if I can refine it.
 
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I just made French onion soup for the first time. I ended up using random sandwich bread and baking it to get it going for the bread crumbs but overall I really like it. I tried to do it based off this recipe on YouTube:
It's not quite as good to look at as it is in the video but I think I'll get the hang of it eventually. I just need to figure out how to keep the milk from curdling again.
I watch Max Miller and I always have to remind myself that the recipes he makes are not really up to the same style and flavor profile that they are in modern times, so it's worth noting that. His videos are always fun and I learn a lot. I miss the days when he would theme Pokemon plushes to whatever he was cooking.

He even mentions not boiling it, while it's boiling...
From what I've learned on cooking channels they usually screw up multiple times with the recipes and will annotate or tell you "do as I say, not as I do", Chef John is notorious for this. I can imagine re-recording all of the footage again is costly.
 
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From what I've learned on cooking channels they usually screw up multiple times with the recipes and will annotate or tell you "do as I say, not as I do", Chef John is notorious for this. I can imagine re-recording all of the footage again is costly.
Yeah, but I got more the impression that he still thought "don't let it boil" meant to bring it to a boil and then shut it off immediately, rather than that you shouldn't let it boil at all.
 
I love turkey, less because of how it is on the actual holiday but because it makes a wonderful breakfast sandwich on toast the next several days. Also brining is a pain in the ass but makes it really delicious. Whenever I make a turkey, I not only eat the entire bird but make bone broth from it. Turkey broth is especially good. And you can make crackly things from the fat. And gravy.

People complain that it's dry but if it's dry you're doing it wrong. Also the dark meat is the best part.
I've never thought about it before but can't you spray the turkey like a ham? What I mean is giving it that saltpeter injection. The carcass/bones is always good to have around. I don't know how often people make turkey or other birds but I recommend that people that cook a lot of chicken to load up on the backs and store them in the freezer. Two-three times a year you might have enough to have the equivalent of a laundry day and just spend a sunday cooking broth.

Couple of days ago I bacalo'd rice, in a way. That means I put things on top of the rice that I was cooking, figuring it would heat up everything on top of it. It did, it worked very well. At the top I had some roughly cut onions(quartered then cut into thirds). I'm not sure but I don't think I've ever had steamed onions like that before, they were really good. Really good. Not like grilled/baked/smoked or pickled onions(all good), this was different somehow. Everything else was good but those onions, man. Have to experiment with that in the future.
 
I made some boring pasta with a store bought sauce but i diced an onion up, fried it in butter with a geneous amount of salt and added it into to the sauce if you wanto bring any dish up just dice up an onion fry in some butter and it instantly brings up the flavour profile, microwave dinners, mashed potatoes, burgers, steaks, anything. embrace the fried onion I'm not asking
 
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