What Have You Cooked Recently?

[Jaded Optimist]

I discovered something life changing, instead of butter on the outside for grilled cheese I'm now using toum. Holy crap it's delicious. Also sprinkling some chopped capers inside is pretty tasty if you want a salt bomb.

 

[Triple Flutz]

Had mapo tofu yesterday, homemade. Made veg stir-fry with tofu for the kids instead because though they're getting good with spice, the numbing effect of the sichuan pepperorns isn't to their taste... Yet.
Thinking about ordering something for pickup tonight, it's been a while and kind of sounds comfy. I'll update this comment if we decide to make a night market trip and I end up cooking, though.

 

[dvnc]

I made a garlic chicken stir fry. My first attempt at it and pretty proud of how it came out. I added rotini noodles, cubed chicken, broccoli, carrots, and corn. A pretty basic dish but the noodles soaked up the garlic juices really well.

 

[Arkenas Einbrecht]

Went Korean mix of normal middle Eastern marinade. Went well. But need more sugar. So I just ate these with a kansas style bbq sauce. Delicious.

Also chicken is more affordable to eat now than courgettes. Strictly price wise. As every other way its got courgette beat anyhow. Thats how nuts groceries have gotten.

49c / 40p of courgette/zucchini View attachment 5432764
1.50gbp /1.80 usd chicken drumsticks View attachment 5432765

Fuck. Now I want to do Korean BBQ porkloin roast. REEEE How dare you inspire me to make good food! I wonder if lightly air frying vegetables in a small portion of mixed herbs and olive oil would be a good companion to the loin roast...

This will be my next project once the stew is depleted! I have 2 porkloins in the freezer.

I made an apricot and walnut biscotti for the first time. Great combination of flavors and pretty easy to make.
10/10 would recommend.
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Holy hell this looks awesome(I thought they were fruit cake wedges at first glance). I love apricot and walnuts. The one time I had biscotti I enjoyed it. Willing to bet I'd like this.

I think I have to make some home made trail mix / granola at this point. Orange, apricots, raisins. Honey and coconut oil to flavor for the oats. Will it work? I do not know, but I'm damn well going to find out!

 

[AnOminous]

U.S. Senate bean soup. It's nearly identical to the bean soup I usually make other than sauteeing the onions in butter and adding them at the end.

 

[anustart76]

I tried making some simple pasta in my pressure cooker, with chopped air-fried chicken, but it didn't turn out great. I think I used a little too much water in the pasta, and the sauce was a little old, so the sauce ended up not really sticking to the pasta the way I would have liked.

 

[TheBigZee]

Chicken pot pie.

Spoiler

I'm trying to clean out my freezer. I used a bunch of frozen butter to make fudge and cookies. I used the frozen beef to make taco meat. I'll probably make some kind of tater tot monstrosity

 

[Jimmy Hill's Blarms II]

Just some London Broil with a green salad.

 

[𝕺𝖑' 𝕯𝖎𝖗𝖙𝖞 𝕱𝖆𝖙𝖘𝖔]

Half-assed tex mex migas - basically scrambled eggs with some crushed tortilla chips and cheese tossed in, then topped with a ton of salsa. The elote seasoning from TJs is fantastic for this as well (or any eggs)

My other tip for scrambled eggs is to beat them with a cornstarch slurry. 1 tsp of starch and 1 tsp of milk or cream for every two eggs.

 

[𝕺𝖑' 𝕯𝖎𝖗𝖙𝖞 𝕱𝖆𝖙𝖘𝖔]

I got a fuckton of carrots and no idea what the fuck to do with them. Maybe I'll blanch and freeze them tomorrow.

Shred them and toss with chopped flat parsley and a honey Dijon vinaigrette. Carrot salad is the best

 

[derpherp2]

Finally got enough shit to try using a waffle iron monte cristos again but adding some mcgriddle shit.

Apparently the maple syrup stuff they put into the buns is actually hard as hell to emulate. So I was keeping notes about it while I was doing it.
tl;dr - I have no fucking idea. But just outright mixing it into the batter isn't going to work. Or injecting it.

Maybe boiling it? Apparently it makes it into like some weird chunky shit.

 

[Francis York Morgan]

I discovered something life changing, instead of butter on the outside for grilled cheese I'm now using toum. Holy crap it's delicious. Also sprinkling some chopped capers inside is pretty tasty if you want a salt bomb.

My life-changing grilled cheese hack has been mixing some butter or mayo with lemon juice to spread on the outside along with some chopped herbs (just rosemary and thyme since that's what I had).

 

[naaaaiiiiillllll!!!]

Made the Tasting History historic Irish stew again (I'm calling it "Oney Stoo" these days). I didn't have back bacon and/or Canadian bacon to make it authentic, so I substituted some cheap spicy Cajun sausage. With the spicy hang-time, I could probably call it something like "One-Two (Punch) Catholic Stew" or something (Irish and French/Acadian peasants would happily consume this).

In any case, it's divine.

 

[$80 Nude Haircut]

I tried replacing vodka with tequila reposado in vodka sauce. This is some old fad but I was surprised at how much better the sauce was.

 

[a terminal posture]

I tried making some simple pasta in my pressure cooker, with chopped air-fried chicken, but it didn't turn out great. I think I used a little too much water in the pasta, and the sauce was a little old, so the sauce ended up not really sticking to the pasta the way I would have liked.

Uh, even the thicker pasta shapes cook in 15 minute tops, this is not what a pressure cooker is for.

 

[Kit Marz]

U.S. Senate bean soup. It's nearly identical to the bean soup I usually make other than sauteeing the onions in butter and adding them at the end.

That soup always reminds me of New Year's. My dad would always make with a homemade stock using the ham bone and would use the left over ham for the soup. I looked forward to it every year

 

[Francis York Morgan]

Made the Tasting History historic Irish stew again (I'm calling it "Oney Stoo" these days). I didn't have back bacon and/or Canadian bacon to make it authentic, so I substituted some cheap spicy Cajun sausage. With the spicy hang-time, I could probably call it something like "One-Two (Punch) Catholic Stew" or something (Irish and French/Acadian peasants would happily consume this).

How is the Tasting History cookbook? I keep thinking about it but we have a lot of cookbooks already.

 

[Nitro!]

Pork chops and mashed potatoes. I tried my hand at something with apples and onions in it as as side, starting with a roux, but that came out pretty bad.

I'm pretty sure these flavors go together. Gonna keep trying.

 

[Triple Flutz]

I did end up picking up food, we had dry-fried green beans and singapore style noodles. NGL I like the ones I make better because I can tailor it to our tastes, but it was such a treat to not cook. It's one of my foremost hobbies and was even prior to being a housewife, but it's nice to get to rest sometimes.
Today, I'm making pork belly stir-fry with onion, green onion, peas, and carrots.
Tomorrow, red curry with beef, green onion, poblanos, jalapenos, and broccoli. Serving it with rice noodles because we're craving the texture even though I usually do rice.

 

[AnOminous]

That soup always reminds me of New Year's. My dad would always make with a homemade stock using the ham bone and would use the left over ham for the soup. I looked forward to it every year

I usually make great northern beans with a ham bone. For this I used ham hocks.