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fried breaded hard boiled eggs
I might have dreamt up an original finger food recipe
Sounds like the Scotch egg, a hard or soft boiled egg wrapped in sausage & bread crumbs, lightly fried or baked, eaten with mustard, honey mustard, gravy, salsa, ranch, etc.
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I made a cake for my friend’s birthday. It’s not the prettiest but it’s not supposed to be because we both prefer “farmhouse” cakes.
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It’s chocolate, with both a toffee chocolate bar and raspberry chocolate bar chopped and mixed into the batter, and a layer of a raspberry jam chocolate bar in the middle. Soaked in maraschino cherry syrup with dark chocolate poured on top, garnished with cordial cherries and nuts.
Extremely delicious and decadent, it was a big hit at the party.
This I'll also have to try, pork schnitzel sounds intriguing.
I grew up with schnitzel as a staple at home, and still eat a lot of it. In my opinion, the best way to make it is to season the flour with salt and pepper, use a 50/50 blend of regular bread crumbs and panko, and fry in ghee or lard. Usually served with a squeeze of lemon.
Pound it flat, flour, egg, breadcrumbs, fry until golden and serve. It also goes great with a mushroom gravy, or even marinara or tomatenragout, and you just can’t beat a leftover schnitzel sandwich.
 
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I made a new soup from my 500 count recipe book. Southwestern Chicken Soup. It has onion, garlic, chicken, rice, beans, tomato, and avocado. I'm not normally a fan of beans or avocado, and I don't particularly like tomatoes in soup, but this made me curious and I'm happy with how it turned out, especially with how nice and colorful it is. Love me a good chicken soup, and the beans were very nicely subtle and didn't force me to notice their shit ass texture. The only changes I made were the cumin (I already cut it down since 1tsp seemed like too much, and the half tsp I added was also very strong.) and I baked and seasoned the chicken myself, since the recipe called for store bought rotisserie chicken which isn't an option for me.

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This looks rather pathetic in a big bowl, but I also made some scrambled eggs with a dash of my Rickeys brand King of Kong hot sauce I got with discount code KARL LOBST. I'm not too big on hot sauce on sandwiches or wings (I don't like wings in general, but that's besides the point.) I'm wondering if there are any other recipes where hot sauce can be incorporated besides just scrambled eggs. (And in case anyone is curious about the sauce, it's pretty good but the vinegar component is a bit much, so the initial impression of it is more of a tangy vinegar reaction rather than heat)
 
Made a chicken sandi :)
The talk about schnitzel made me want to make a fried chicken sandwich.
Butterflied a breast, I did simple salt pepper, panko. On an onion roll with spinach and I guess burger sauce (ketchup, mustard, and mayo) + a pickle
 
I was thinking about doing chicken legs in the crockpot with seafood boil seasoning. I have a 9lb container of the shit I need to use. Any thoughts as to why that might be a terrible idea? I've never had it on chicken before. Only like crab and lobster and stuff.
 
Doing prep for what will be a big batch of chicken pot pie filling and also creamy chicken soup.

Took four chicken leg quarters and roasted them off while I chopped up a medium white onion and almost a pound of crimini mushrooms. Pulled the chicken and let it cool a bit and picked the skin and meat off. Returned the skin and bones to the roasting pan and packed the meat into a quart-sized storage container and chucked in the fridge.

Roasted the bones and skin for another half hour and moved them and all the drippings into a pan with just enough water to cover. Ran that on low heat just under a simmer for three hours, picked out the bones and skin and strained it into a container. Placed that in ice water and now it's going into the fridge to separate, so I'll have super flavorful chicken aspic with a giant layer of schmaltz sitting on top, both of which will be useful for my soup/pie filling later:

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Doing prep for what will be a big batch of chicken pot pie filling and also creamy chicken soup.

Took four chicken leg quarters and roasted them off while I chopped up a medium white onion and almost a pound of crimini mushrooms. Pulled the chicken and let it cool a bit and picked the skin and meat off. Returned the skin and bones to the roasting pan and packed the meat into a quart-sized storage container and chucked in the fridge.

Roasted the bones and skin for another half hour and moved them and all the drippings into a pan with just enough water to cover. Ran that on low heat just under a simmer for three hours, picked out the bones and skin and strained it into a container. Placed that in ice water and now it's going into the fridge to separate, so I'll have super flavorful chicken aspic with a giant layer of schmaltz sitting on top, both of which will be useful for my soup/pie filling later:
I've always rendered my chicken skin schmaltz separately, never thought to just throw the skin in with the stock and scoop it off the top afterwards. Thanks for saving me an hour of extra work.

Thread tax, rockfish tacos:

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That looks great, what's the sauce?

It's been a couple days, and I never write down what I do with my sauces, but going by memory:

Equal parts sour cream and mayo, canned chipotle sauce, some habanero chili sauce I keep around (don't remember the brand, but any spicy, not-too-vinegary variety will work, or some toasted dry chilies if you have a couple extra minutes) cilantro, salt + msg, lime

If I had the extra time, a roasted head of garlic also probably would have made its way in there, and if I wanted heat, a couple fresh red thai chili peppers
 
I made an avocado smoothie earlier today. It was aight. Probably gonna use half an avocado next time, so I don't need to add so much sweetened condensed milk to get it to taste right.
 
I made a cake for my friend’s birthday. It’s not the prettiest but it’s not supposed to be because we both prefer “farmhouse” cakes.
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It’s chocolate, with both a toffee chocolate bar and raspberry chocolate bar chopped and mixed into the batter, and a layer of a raspberry jam chocolate bar in the middle. Soaked in maraschino cherry syrup with dark chocolate poured on top, garnished with cordial cherries and nuts.
Extremely delicious and decadent, it was a big hit at the party.

I grew up with schnitzel as a staple at home, and still eat a lot of it. In my opinion, the best way to make it is to season the flour with salt and pepper, use a 50/50 blend of regular bread crumbs and panko, and fry in ghee or lard. Usually served with a squeeze of lemon.
Pound it flat, flour, egg, breadcrumbs, fry until golden and serve. It also goes great with a mushroom gravy, or even marinara or tomatenragout, and you just can’t beat a leftover schnitzel sandwich.
I'm not a sweet tooth person or a baker but this looks like drugs. Please tell me who you did it.

I agree on how you do schnitzel, as an American, when my German born family made it we kinda had to make our own pankoesque stuff 30 years ago.

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For Pascha some of the guys and I stayed up all night and roasted a lamb.
I fucking love lamb, only upset... I didn't get an invite.

I made some ribs, both beef and pork. Beef 4 hours pork 1 hour. (foil wrap on both) gotta prep em, dry rub and little liquid for a steam, so good.
 
I'm not a sweet tooth person or a baker but this looks like drugs. Please tell me who you did it.
I’m also not into saccharine desserts, I particularly dislike frosting because it’s just way too sweet. Most of the desserts I make tend towards richness.
I used a basic cake mix from the store, but instead of oil and water I used butter and milk. I chopped up two dark chocolate bars, one with toffee bits and one with raspberry bits, and mixed it into the batter along with some cinnamon and espresso powder. I poured half into a bunt pan, put a layer of dark chocolate with raspberry jam and then poured the rest of the batter in.
After baking and turning it out I brushed it with the juice maraschino cherries come in because I couldn’t find kirsch at the store. Then I melted some more dark chocolate and poured it over the cake, and garnished with the cordial cherries and nuts while the chocolate was still warm.
It was a hit. At risk of tooting my own horn I am known as the best baker and dessert maker in all my friend groups. I made my dad a key lime pie for his birthday, everyone at the party was shocked at how good it was and nobody even touched the store bought cakes the other people brought lol.
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The secrets for this one was adding finely ground toasted macadamia nuts into the crust, browning the butter for the crust, using three parts key lime juice and one part regular lime juice with some key lime zest in the custard. Garnished with whipped cream, orange zest, nuts, and just a sprinkle of lime-infused salt from my jars of salt-packed limes.
Can’t beat it, it’s the perfect key lime pie.
 
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For you people that care about food please review Patrick Tomlinson's mystery gook birthday dinner
 
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For you people that care about food please review Patrick Tomlinson's mystery gook birthday dinner
Did he purchase all of that from The Shape Store™?
 
For the first time in my life I started making salads because I had a bunch of leftover kale. Now I discovered that I actually enjoy them. I started making them with kale, spinach, romaine, cucumber, and roasted chickpeas to substitute for croutons. What else would you guys recommend adding?
 
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