What Have You Cooked Recently?

[Internet Wizard]

Same recipe, different oven

By far the chewiest cookies I've either made or had, they might look like raw dough in the pics but trust me they felt firm until bitten into.
I really miss when I had free time/energy to bake one of the joys of being home

Spoiler: Recipe

 

[MoffAlbert]

Made chili last night with a chuck roast. Trimmed the fat with some of the meat so I could have little chewy steaks while I cubed and browned the rest and put it in a Dutch oven with cooked down onions, garlic, and green pepper. Added tomatoes and some tomato paste. Seasoned it all with some MSG, celery seed, and a poultry blend made for chicken tacos that works with every kind of meat I've tried it with, let it go for 5 hours, and added some canned black and kidney beans in the last hour. Best attempt at chili yet, made even better by the fact the wife made some fresh corn bread to go with it.

 

[✨Tard-Star✨]

I made blueberry lemon muffins for a Bible study last week. This week I'll be making a coffee cake.

I've done some field research (yum) and Ive looked at some recipes.
Here's my plan:

This will be a cinnamon brown sugar coffee cake. I'll be making the base with a sour cream and yogurt mixture. There will be strussel topping and a ribbon of it in the middle of the cake.

I want to see if I can add walnuts or almonds, but that may be a bridge too far.

If anyone has extra tips or anything let me know

 

[souschef]

Same recipe, different oven
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By far the chewiest cookies I've either made or had, they might look like raw dough in the pics but trust me they felt firm until bitten into.
I really miss when I had free time/energy to bake one of the joys of being home

Spoiler: Recipe

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They look great IMO. I like mine out of the oven before browning them too much. They'll continuing cooking after you take them out of the oven so it's easy to overbake them. I just don't get the corn syrup on the recipe though.

 

[AnOminous]

They look great IMO. I like mine out of the oven before browning them too much. They'll continuing cooking after you take them out of the oven so it's easy to overbake them. I just don't get the corn syrup on the recipe though.

Corn syrup gives a nice candylike flavor and chew to cookies. I don't usually use it but don't mistake it for high-fructose corn syrup, which is liquid evil.

 

[newport100s]

Birthday meal I made. Lobster tails steamed, charcoal grilled t-bone, at least an inch thick, with a dry rub and brocoli simmered in oyster sauce and sesame seed oil.


Also I've been making street style tacos. Making salsa from scratch. I got an immersion blender for Christmas and I love it. Roast the tomatoes, garlic, chili's, onion and jalapeños by broiling them for 10 minutes or so, then add salt, cumin, and chili powder as well as some Chipotle peppers and bam.

 

[souschef]

Corn syrup gives a nice candylike flavor and chew to cookies. I don't usually use it but don't mistake it for high-fructose corn syrup, which is liquid evil.

I don't like the idea of candylike flavor on baked cookies but i've never tried. I'll try it sometime so i can actually have an opinion. What i like to do is use browned butter for a distinctive taste.

 

[pwintheth]

Got together with friends, everyone brought a soup. I made chicken gnocchi soup, and it was the only one that was gone by the end of the night. (Humble brag i know but I take pride in my cookin')

 

[AnOminous]

I don't like the idea of candylike flavor on baked cookies but i've never tried. I'll try it sometime so i can actually have an opinion. What i like to do is use browned butter for a distinctive taste.

When I feel like that candylike flavor I use blackstrap molasses. I like a touch of bitterness.

 

[zombifiedgirl]

pork cutlet and rice yum

 

[Mandy Stroyer]

Oven baked chicken bites with teriyaki glaze. I had no recipe, I was just throwing shit together to accompany a salad kit I needed to use before it went bad but they're insanely good and I wish I made more glaze since some pieces didn't get fully coated.

Spoiler: Carrot cake I made yesterday

Not a fan off too much frosting, topped with crushed pecans. It keeps well in the fridge since it's an oil cake. Usual dietary restrictions considered. 10/10, worth grating a bunch of carrots.

 

[PositiveMonk]

Oven baked chicken bites with teriyaki glaze.

I've been playing around with coconut aminos as a soy sauce alternative. I ended up with something of a teriyaki feel to my marinade for my leftover tenderloins. It was Garlic, Honey, Coconut Aminos, Olive Oil, and Paprika.

 

[Dawdler]

I tried the thing where you finish cooking the spaghetti in the sauce on a pan and it is amazing, I cannot believe I haven't done it before...

You can try to semi-bake it in a pan. It gets even better

 

[Mandy Stroyer]

I've been playing around with coconut aminos as a soy sauce alternative. I ended up with something of a teriyaki feel to my marinade for my leftover tenderloins. It was Garlic, Honey, Coconut Aminos, Olive Oil, and Paprika.

Most of my asian cooking usually revolves around some combination of garlic oil, maple/sugar, tamari, scallions, ginger, and pepper flakes. I haven't tried coconut aminos and opt for tamari since it's just soy sauce with no wheat and more soybeans, using it interchangeably with any soy sauce since it tastes the same to me. The glaze I made was garlic infused olive oil, tamari, water, brown sugar, pepper flakes, ginger, and scallion. I use the same thing with a different ratio of water as a dipping sauce for dumplings. A very quick and easy go-to meal is scallion noodles. I just slice up the scallions with scissors, cook them in garlic infused olive oil, throw in some pepper flake, tamari, sugar, and maybe an egg or spare tofu and there's plenty of rice noodles to choose from which. Usually done in 20 minutes.

 

[CallmeCicada]

Grilled lamb and artichokes, Italian rice balls from left over risotto and a beet fennel feta salad.

 

[Szfynks]

Weeb era got suspended. We're Balkan LARPing now. Homemade pita with cat tax.

 

[Troonos]

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[Genuine Orientalist]

I made New England baked beans with some really nice heirloom yellow eye beans I was gifted as well as a cut of salt pork, onion, molasses, white sugar, ginger powder, mustard powder, and black pepper. It certainly was not the healthiest, but it was all traditional and they were the most baked beans-tasting baked beans I have ever eaten.

 

[Kosher Salt]

I've been playing around with coconut aminos as a soy sauce alternative.

Are you avoiding soy specifically, or...?

"Aminos" is a health food woo term for what you get from the protein hydrolysis process, which uses heat and acid to turn something into an amino acid soup. This is exactly the same process that is used to make "cheap" soy sauce, and it's a quick and dirty approximation of the longer process used in "traditional" soy sauce where fermentation breaks the protein down with a slightly richer and more complex result.

The main distinction is the type of protein they start with, and there shouldn't really be much of any protein left in the result, but if you're allergic to soy I could understand finding an alternative just to be on the safe side. Basically any protein that is high in the amino glutamic acid can be used as its basis, and the glutamate that you get from glutamic acid is exactly the same as the glutamate from processed MSG.

 

[PositiveMonk]

Are you avoiding soy specifically, or...?

It was to avoid wheat.

Why not just use tamari?

Just happened to stumble upon coconut aminos when looking for a soy sauce alternative and figured I'd try it.