What Have You Cooked Recently?

[Soycast Guy]

Dinner tonight was once again steaks cooked to around rare.

And then, and I wish I could eat more of this, I made white rice and corn cooked in the steak juice. Absolutely delicious. (And the steak juice goes together better with the white rice because it’s more soft and flavorless.)

 

[WhatInTheActualFuck]

Baked a pair of cheesecakes for the turkey day family get-together. First is a mostly traditional one, but with bananas mixed in along with a vanilla wafer and pecan crust (take the Tyler Florence recipe and replace half the sour cream with mashed overripe bananas), while the second is a basque style burnt cheesecake. Both have been huge hits at previous gatherings, so this is me playing it pretty safe.

 

[Tingle]

Tonight to treat myself after the hell that has been Thanksgiving week, I bought steak and made myself a delectable meal of oven-roasted diced potatoes and yams with pan-fried steak topped with butter and rosemary alongside sauteed mushrooms and pub sauce. It was the first time I pan fried and then transfered steak to the oven to finish, and it was way easier keeping it from burning the crust doing that. Took me about 40 minutes total but God it was worth it.

 

[graywolf88]

Beef Bolognese with garlic and marinara sauce

 

[ElHijodeDeficienciaCogni]

I took the Nutmeg Noels recipe that @candlejack gave me and turned them into Whoopie Pies. Also pictured the eggnog I was able to make with my last remaining six eggs following The Incident™.

Also slow roasted a dry brined brisket for six hours until it was falling apart. Made some orzo & rice pilaf with shallots and criminis. Roasted broccoli with garlic and parm. Had some stale bread so I chopped it up, added a bunch of seasonings, and made some ghetto stove top stuffing. Boiled up some cranberries in sugar, salt, and lemon juice and used that as the sauce for the brisket.

 

[pot of sneed]

Made a pretty simple chicken soup but with garlic and chilli added. It tasted pretty good; getting aftertastes of garlic every now and then but it should be good for our immune systems. Basically leftover chicken from Sunday's roast along with some nice diced veggies (peas, sweetcorn, broccoli, chilli, garlic, parsley, ect)

 

[Still Exceptional]

Tonight I spent hours making stuffed mushrooms for Thanksgiving hors d'oeuvres. 60 mushrooms of 3 different types. White mushrooms stuffed with parmesan and garlic, more whites stuffed with spinach artichoke cheese, and baby bellas stuffed with smoked gouda with caramelized onions and bacon.

I also baked 4 pumpkin cheesecake pies, which was hard as fuck considering my oven chose today of all days to die. Had to bake them in my air fryer. But they turned out good.

And 2 dozen classic deviled eggs.

Should be a helluva thanksgiving feast tomorrow. Thankfully I don't need to cook a damn turkey because I was invited to someone's house for Thanksgiving and was just asked to bring the deviled eggs. But one of the people who invited me doesn't like deviled eggs, so I made the mushrooms as an added treat.

 

[Aiōn]

I made a pumpkin pie for Thanksgiving, the recipe used egg and cream and with the added nutmeg it tasted a lot like an egg custard tart. I was originally going to make something with a chocolate layer but the ganache split when I tried to defrost it so I made some candied pecans instead, many of them were broken so I just piled them on top.

I also made some steak and stout pies, I don’t typically like suet but this pastry recipe is great. I made a big one the first night and then some individual ones with the remaining ingredients. I used Guinness and quite a lot of mushroom and cut them really small.

 

[Mandy Stroyer]

Gluten/Dairy free pizza, homemade crust and sauce. I've been using this recipe and tinkering with it. Swapped half the water for almond yogurt/milk mixture, extra 10g of sugar for the yeast to eat, extra teaspoon of salt and half teaspoon of xanthan gum. Brushed it with olive oil and sprinkled with jew salt before topping with vegan mozz and parm, green olives, and some ronis. I used a preheated baking tray to get the crispy underside. Inside was soft and fluffy. If you've ever had to eat gluten free pizza, you know this is a feat of engineering.

 

[Tingle]

Gluten/Dairy free pizza, homemade crust and sauce. I've been using this recipe and tinkering with it. Swapped half the water for almond yogurt/milk mixture, extra 10g of sugar for the yeast to eat, extra teaspoon of salt and half teaspoon of xanthan gum. Brushed it with olive oil and sprinkled with jew salt before topping with vegan mozz and parm, green olives, and some ronis. I used a preheated baking tray to get the crispy underside. Inside was soft and fluffy. If you've ever had to eat gluten free pizza, you know this is a feat of engineering.
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Nice, looks like that turned out really well for something gluten and dairy free. I've tried making a gluten-free pizza in addition to gluten-free ciabatta bread before and had mild success, but that looks way better than anything I managed.

 

[Mandy Stroyer]

Nice, looks like that turned out really well for something gluten and dairy free. I've tried making a gluten-free pizza in addition to gluten-free ciabatta bread before and had mild success, but that looks way better than anything I managed.

Thank you, the dough itself can be made with no dairy/dairy alts whatsoever but I added them for flavor and extra fat/moisture so it stays softer when I reheat it. I highly recommend The Loopy Whisk for any sort of gluten/dairy/egg/whatever allergen free baking since I have yet to find a recipe from her that doesn't work and she offers a lot of substitutions based on your dietary needs. It was thanks to her I had a decent cinnamon roll for the first time in 6 years. She also has a ciabatta recipe but I haven't personally tried it.

 

[666NASTYFUCKINGFREAK666]

I made some Fettuccine Alfredo, its the first dish that actually required effort besides putting something in the oven/air fryer/pouring a jar into a cooked product.

I forgot to take a picture of the completed product but here is a photo from the recipe page:


The recipe actually called for making your own Alfredo sauce with heavy cream, butter and cheese so it tastes really good, especially with the salt/pepper/garlic salt mix in the recipe as well

 

[AnOminous]

I'm still really struggling with finding uses for celery. I can't seem to buy it in reasonably small amounts, but I need it regularly for mirepoix at least once a week.

This is exactly my situation. I'm glad it's pretty cheap because I buy it for mirepoix and then it sits there and withers. And there's only so many times you can smear peanut butter on it and eat that.

 

[There She Glows]

This is exactly my situation. I'm glad it's pretty cheap because I buy it for mirepoix and then it sits there and withers. And there's only so many times you can smear peanut butter on it and eat that.

I recently discovered this copycat recipe (from a restaurant in New York that I have never been to) of... furikake dipped celery sticks I guess? It's surprisingly good as a snack.

 

[Friedchickenfan]

Made peanut brittle with my grandmas recipe, ate a shit load of it, broke out in hives, may be allergic to peanuts. (Worth it though it’s delicious)

 

[Friedchickenfan]

This is exactly my situation. I'm glad it's pretty cheap because I buy it for mirepoix and then it sits there and withers. And there's only so many times you can smear peanut butter on it and eat that.

If you have a dog celery is good for them. chop some up and mix it with their food. Not too much though.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

Made Vermont Curry with rice. Soupier than what I would've liked but turned out very well and made good leftovers.

I hope to make my own curry sometime, the roux block has an eccentric list of flavors (apple, garlic, tomato, cheese, banana, honey).

 

[gobbos]

Made some pretty basic meatballs recently, just using the usual stuff like parsley, paprika, diced onion and garlic, salt, black pepper, parmesan cheese, and bread crumbs to bind it all together.

It came out looking and tasting very good but i think it needed a tad more spice.

 

[Marvin]

Made Vermont Curry with rice. Soupier than what I would've liked but turned out very well and made good leftovers.

I hope to make my own curry sometime, the roux block has an eccentric list of flavors (apple, garlic, tomato, cheese, banana, honey).

Oh yeah, I love those japanese curry blocks. Java curry is good too.

And yeah, I've accidentally made curry stew before. Later attempts I eased up a bit on the water.

 

[Xarpho's Return]

The nice thing is it is good leftover, and I've been eating it as lunch for the last three days, often with a fresh fruit.

If I was aiming for a low-meat/more vegetables diet this is the kind of thing I'd want that I'd eat and not still feel hungry. Of course, I love rice (major component in this), and lots of white rice has high glycemic levels.