What Have You Cooked Recently?

[Goyslop Muncher]

Dinner tonight I made a tinga, I guess. I cooked chicken breast in an Instant Pot with onion, corn, and beans, with adobo sauce. After pressure cooked, removed chicken and shredded, put it back, then simmered for half an hour. Very taste, ate it with tortilla chips and diced tomato.

 

[Bad_Guys_are_Good4EVER]

Just heated up some Pork Ramen.

 

[A Grey Cat]

Now this one I'm *artist kiss* proud of. I give you gourmet bavette steaks cooked rare with cream frace mashed potatoes and roasted green beans served in Sherry shallot sauce.

 

[Syikeblade]

Gonna make some egg and mushroom breakfast sandwiches and for lunch got some grilled chicken to go with my pasta salad I'm making for work this week.

 

[MoffAlbert]

Made some cornbread in one of my cast iron skillets today. Nothing too crazy, just standard corn bread. Buttered it and drizzled some honey on it, delicious.

 

[burntgrilledcheese]

Colcannon soup. Bacon, cabbage, potatoes. Easy, cheap, comforting, delicious. Wish I had some crusty bread for it, but I'm working on a sourdough rye starter still.

 

[A Grey Cat]

Noting as fancy as the steaks last night, just Italian beef melts, think a philly cheesesteak only with mozzarella instead of yellow cheese. and some potato wedges on the side.

 

[burntgrilledcheese]

Pumpkin pie caramels with sea salt and pepitas (feat my shitty Halloween nails lol)

 

[White Baby]

This was actually a couple weeks ago, but: Random Sauce Salmon and mushrooms with garlic, shallots and smoked paprika. The random sauces included thai sweet chili sauce, which is absolutely decadent if you're the type of person who likes honey garlic salmon.

 

[Equivocal_Iki]

Hard-boiled eggs. Apparently my definition of "simmer" is far less than what online recipes think, so I failed a few times. Just do a rolling boil for the alloted time (7.5 minutes or less) and you'll have a good egg. Once done, ice bath for 10 min. Then crack the big end, roll around to crack the entire shell, then peel.

 

[Goyslop Muncher]

Hard-boiled eggs. Apparently my definition of "simmer" is far less than what online recipes think, so I failed a few times. Just do a rolling boil for the alloted time (7.5 minutes or less) and you'll have a good egg. Once done, ice bath for 10 min. Then crack the big end, roll around to crack the entire shell, then peel.

What I like to do is put eggs in single layer in pot and add enough cold water to cover them. Put on very high heat, once it comes to a strong boil turn off heat, cover, wait 10 minutes. Works every time.

 

[Equivocal_Iki]

What I like to do is put eggs in single layer in pot and add enough cold water to cover them. Put on very high heat, once it comes to a strong boil turn off heat, cover, wait 10 minutes. Works every time.

"Cold water" is relative. I boil and put in. Though I'll have to try this to be sure. What doneness are you aiming for here?

 

[Goyslop Muncher]

"Cold water" is relative. I boil and put in. Though I'll have to try this to be sure. What doneness are you aiming for here?

By cold water I just mean straight from the faucet. It comes out firm yellow yolk, not soft or green.

 

[Realistic Elephant]

By cold water I just mean straight from the faucet. It comes out firm yellow yolk, not soft or green.

I've used this method as well and it works perfectly. The heating of the water to boil and cooling off helps cook them gradually.

For myself - just made spaghetti marinara and sausage in the Instant Pot. Looking for easy weeknight recipes and wanted to start with a good basic one that can be customized and expanded.

 

[mindlessobserver]

Because of the inflation surge, I've decided I need to stock up for the winter of our discontent. But I also did not want to waste freezer space. Or rely on it. In that spirit, I decided to try Townsends salt pork recipe.

It was seemed simple enough, but I decided to test it out with some tenderloin before committing. Kept it in my fridge for two weeks and brought it out.



I basically just baked it at 425 for half an hour and topped it with a BBQ sauce made with ketchup, mollases (some more shelf stable stuff incidentally) and chili powder.

It was surprisingly good. Salty absolutely. Very chewy. Texture very similar to country ham. Can honestly say I never tasted anything like it before. But it WAS good.

With the test complete, my next project is around 40 pounds of Boston butt.



Going to cut em up and stick in a 25 gallon container in my shed using the same recipe here soon. It's dropped down close to the 30s now so it's the perfect time.

 

[A Grey Cat]

Seared salmon steaks with Vera Cruz style Mediterranean veggies and brown rice

 

[TC-P]

I have some veggies that needed cooking so I chopped up a courgette, about 200g cherry plumb tomatoes, a red onion, a carton of mushrooms, and added a bunch of black olives. Mixed in a lot of garlic, some oil and mixed herbs. Tossed and baked. After that I made some konjac noodles mixed in some of the veg I just baked and two tablespoons of pesto. Was a great meal.

 

[AnOminous]

Unplanned chicken soup with rice because I made an absolute massacre trying to cut up a whole chicken, literally worse than the first time I tried doing this, and ended up with an undifferentiated body that couldn't possibly be turned into anything other than a monstrosity.

Seriously, this was worse than Scalfani's how to cut up a chicken video. I am personally ashamed of it.

It made good chicken soup with rice.

But I managed to burn the rice, too, the first time. "How do you do that," you may ask? Try being full retard! (I actually stupidly used the "rice" button on the multi-cooker I have for the first and last time.)

This shambolic enterprise was done dead sober, so I don't even have the drunk excuse.

The chicken soup is actually great though. I'm almost tempted to start a channel where I fuck up worse than Jack Scalfani or Kay but the results are edible anyway.

 

[A Grey Cat]

pork udon hot pot and an apple cobbler with oat crumb topping for dessert.

 

[Bassomatic]

Blacken spice chicken grilled some cheddar on whole wheat. Back was bugging me so after grilling I lost all desire to do anything.

For a lazy ass sandwich was pretty good.