What Have You Cooked Recently?

AnOminous said:
Lmao boiled hamburgers.
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Sir, the formal term is "Poached". To be boiled they would need to be fully submerged in Stock good sir! There was only enough stock to cover the bottom of the pan sir! It was not BOILED. I would not countenance the thought!

This is what it looked like cooking btw

 
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I've been slacking making proper meals lately, but got in a good groove this week of cooking real dinners every night:
Mon: peanut chicken stir fry
Tues: pizza from scratch
Wed: Tuna cakes (like a crab cake made with canned tuna, works with canned salmon as well) with broccoli and mashed potatoes
Thur: sweet and sour beef meatballs with peppers, onions, and rice
And tonight I'm making minestrone soup.

I'd like to bake some bread or bagels over the weekend. Will see.
 
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Finally not cold enough to do some real cooking so I made some gyudon beef, air fried some shrimp tempura, and chicken fried rice. With a side of some miso soup

Had a side of this mango habenero sauce to dip the shrimp in and it was so good I driizzled some on the beef.


I like air fried tempura shrimp, the tails get crunchy enough to eat for me.
 
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It's not "cooking", but I'm not sure what other thread is best.

Fire cider (apple cider vinegar steeped with lots of herbs, spices, roots, etc.) is stupidly expensive to buy. Like $20-$30 for 16 ounces. A month ago I decided to make my own by buying all the ingredients, chopping and sticking them in a bottle with ACV, and putting them in a cool dark place (shaking every other day). Now I'm going to strain them and add a little honey to half.

I'm not sure how much I'll end up with, but probably 2 whole quarts for $30 or so. Literally a quarter of the price. Also PSA to wear gloves when cutting turmeric or you will be orange for a couple days.
 
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Turkey, cheese, spinach, and tomato on one half of the croissant, butter and apricot jam on the other.
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I love how the tomato slices ended up looking like little hearts, my dad grew it in the garden and it initially looked very....uhh...

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I made a pizza from scratch. It was gud, but I did a poor job on the sauce. I was trying to avoid over sweetening the sauce, but I'm not 100% sure where I fucked up.

I watched a video that said not to use whole milk mozzarella because it will slide off the slice and ignored it because I've never made one with whole milk moz before. The first slice, the cheese did slide off as warned, but the taste made up for the inconvenience, and the cheese adhered to the rest of the pizza fairly well. Now I know why people sperg about low moisture.

I feel like if you use low moisture, you're sacrificing some stretch there.

I was chuffed that my dough turned out well, usually my dough turns out looking like the Necronomicon from evil dead, but this time I floured the shit out of it, and it stretched without resistance, which was nice.
 
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Filet mignon was on sale, about a quarter of its usual price, so I made some with red chili flake/rice wine vinegar broccoli and aligot.

Been in a bit of a cooking rut making the same 20ish dishes because work has been insane for my husband, should slow down soon but the holidays and beyond always suck. I think we've had saag paneer four times since Christmas, lol. Not complaining since they are all staples for a reason, but I haven't really felt inspired to post recently.
 
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I got a bit of marked down beef, frozen veggie "chinese" mix and crummier instant ramen we had left and made REALLY delicious crap.
That meat was nothing but connective tissue (it was some ~healthy food brand...come on, these bits in meat may be good for my lady health, but my teeth disagree) and my sister refused to finish her piece and the dish in general and ordered pizza.
But I liked the result. I threw in a bit of breading cause I had a ton of water trying to soften the fucking meat, and it was a bit slimy, but flavour ended good.
 
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I dont have a photo of it but the other day I made this 'lemon kale salad' with a mustard dressing, pistachios and cranberries. I have a small lemon tree and around December had like 20-something lemons on it get ripe so I was looking for a bunch of recipes with lemon in it that werent all sweetbread or deserts, and Ive made this a few times and its pretty good.
Its pretty easy and you can even eyeball ratios but I would say I do feel like it works best with the lacinato type of kale, although I feel like whatever you use will be fine as long as you cut it into thin strips (1-2 cm) and massage it.
 
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I've recently begun making spaghetti meat sauce in my Dutch oven and boil the pasta in the sauce directly. I really like how it turns out, my Italian ancestors might be annoyed, but I have delicious pasta, so I don't care

I also made a browned butter apple spice cake with a streusel top. The spices I used was leftover lebkuchen I made for the holidays.
 
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Cooked some salmon in the air fryer last night. I put it directly on the rack and it got nice and crispy on the edges around 15 minutes on 380. Just put some rosemary, salt and pepper and butter on it. Keep it simple. Sockeye was on sale and while not as hearty as King it's a good meat, a little leaner. Lucky enough to live in a part of the world where fresh salmon is reasonably priced and available pretty much year round.

Thinking of trying a mango salmon ceviche if it's still on sale this weekend.
 
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Tried some soup. Not bad. Decided to add rice to it and pair it with chicken on wraps. Chicken was oven roasted a day earlier, pan fried today with the rice mixture once it was fully combined with the soup.
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The soup in question: https://www.spraguefoods.com/store-us/organic-soup-sweet-potato-coconut-curry

Not bad. A little bland in taste, so I'll definitely add salsa to it going for the remainder of the leftovers.. but still a decent meal. Will absolutely do it again, but next time I'll make the soup from scratch to ensure its less sweet(yes I know its in the name, I was still shocked how sweet it was though lol).
 
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