What Have You Cooked Recently?

Smoked a chicken in the ground pit. Brined it for half a day, then stuffed it with three oranges and shoved some sage butter under the skin. Glorious! The pit smoker is gonna be my new slow cooker for small meats. I can literally set it and forget it.
 
  • Like
  • Winner
  • Feels
Reactions: Fìddlesticks, murph, ash9990 and 3 others
Oooo, just discovered this thread, don't have a ton to share this week, made a smoked turkey and will make a dulce de leche pumpkin pie in a few days, will probably be ugly AF though, my shit never looks right but tastes decent
20211114_130544.jpg
 
  • Like
  • Feels
Reactions: Blatant hypocrite, Whatthefuck, Splinters RCVD ✞ and 13 others
burntgrilledcheese said:
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.View attachment 2634381
Click to expand...
I had this on my radar to try out after seeing this post and finally got around to doing it. Pretty good but the recipe I had didn't have much for seasoning besides salt and pepper. To me it felt like it was missing something to make the flavor more complex but I couldn't figure it out so I ended up over peppering it like I often do. It probably needed something to give it more umami. I would definitely go with more bacon than I used but there has to be something that is missing from herbs/spices side of things to elevate it.
 
  • Like
  • Feels
Reactions: Syikeblade, Mesh Gear Fox, Fìddlesticks and 2 others
I thought I had lamb shanks but it turned out they were ham hocks 😖. Ended up making a soup base eating some asparagus and getting a hot dog from 7-11. I have some incredibly stale bread that I'm going to make a bread pudding and stuffing with. Not sure what Devonshire custard is but it has to better than evaporated milk.
 
  • Feels
  • Like
Reactions: Splinters RCVD, Mesh Gear Fox, Fìddlesticks and 4 others
murph said:
Baked some whitefish in foil with salsa and some garlic bread.
Click to expand...
Try out some swai. If you can find a good Asian market you can get it for 2.00 a lb. It's farm raised in Vietnam and there are a few Business Insider articles about how they use it instead of more expensive trout and catfish but it's still really good.
 
  • Informative
  • Like
Reactions: Splinters RCVD, Mesh Gear Fox, Fìddlesticks and 3 others
Barely cooking, but I toasted some pine nuts in the oven and ground some parmesan and added them to the frozen cubes of basil/garlic/olive oil/salt/pepper/lemon juice I made back when I had to take all the basil out of the ground before a freeze a month or so ago, but didn't have those two ingredients.

Turned out reasonably well, although it is better purely fresh. I froze the pesto-minus-cheese-and-nuts in ice cube trays so now I can just measure out however much I want by the cube.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Jaded Optimist, Splinters RCVD, Haram Exercise and 4 others
Yesterday I made mapo tofu with scallions and shredded beef (cooked with salt, adobo, onion powder and tablespoon of veggie oil) that somehow was this perfect mix of savory and extra spicy.

Meanwhile, today I made some curry and rice with a chicken cutlet that's been marinating in extra spicy jerk sauce for the past three days. I cooked over the stove at a very low heat cause I don't have a grill yet. The whole dish didn't turn out as amazing as the mapo, but that's probably cause I make curry and rice a lot so I have energy for the workday.
 
  • Like
Reactions: Splinters RCVD, cowboytakeshi, Mesh Gear Fox and 3 others
Two days ago I made shoyu eggs 🥚 For the first time too, I mixed a table spoon of salt with a cup of soy sauce, mirin and red wine vinegar with a pinch of sediment from some Chinese hot oil, and damn. I’m a chef 👩🏻‍🍳 they’re delicious. You can eat them plain, they’re just salty delicious hard boiled eggs.
 
  • Like
  • Winner
Reactions: Splinters RCVD, cowboytakeshi, Syikeblade and 4 others
PeggieBigCock said:
Two days ago I made shoyu eggs 🥚 For the first time too, I mixed a table spoon of salt with a cup of soy sauce, mirin and red wine vinegar with a pinch of sediment from some Chinese hot oil, and damn. I’m a chef 👩🏻‍🍳 they’re delicious. You can eat them plain, they’re just salty delicious hard boiled eggs.
Click to expand...
Make me some?
 
  • Like
  • Optimistic
Reactions: cowboytakeshi, Syikeblade and PeggieBigCock
Joshuan Moon said:
I had this on my radar to try out after seeing this post and finally got around to doing it. Pretty good but the recipe I had didn't have much for seasoning besides salt and pepper. To me it felt like it was missing something to make the flavor more complex but I couldn't figure it out so I ended up over peppering it like I often do. It probably needed something to give it more umami. I would definitely go with more bacon than I used but there has to be something that is missing from herbs/spices side of things to elevate it.
Click to expand...
Hmmm maybe try adding some cider and cooking it off after you do the sweating of the veg. Finish with serving with a dollop of sour cream or creme fraiche?

Oh you mean herbs.... trying to think maybe sage - it's a great partner for pork. Garnish with chopped chives?

Haven't been cooking at all really as I've not been well. But here is some ricotta spinach chicken with pork puffs "breading" and fried garlic powder seasoned courgette 20211012_173310.jpg
 
  • Like
  • Feels
  • Winner
Reactions: Blatant hypocrite, Robotic Richard Simmons, Wisseau and 10 others
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back