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Made meatloaf for Easter dinner
2 lbs 80/20 ground beef
1 lb ground turkey
2 lbs ground pork
bread crumbs
red lentils
diced onions, mushrooms, mixed color pepper diced
one egg
seasonings

did half of it with ketchup on top

cooked the veggies up with garlic olive oil and salt, drained the liquid, mixed them with the lentils and the bread crumbs and the seasonings, took the liquid with some worstichire and dumped that in with the egg after it cooled, beat that, poured that in the veggie and crumbs

mixed the meat, dumped in the veggie slop and mixed it
lined the dish with bacon
baked it for a while at 375

after it was done I took the edge pieces and put them in the oven to crisp bacon side up

drained the liquid and tossed it in the mashed potatoes

Had some random veggies on the side.
 
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Made chicken tendies over the weekend. Instead of using basic flour, I used crushed Ritz crackers. They came out in a golden brown color and was super juicy. Was thinking they were going to come out dry but it definitely exceeded my expectations!
 
It's not that I don't like the idea of cooking real food, it's that it's way, way easier to make packaged shit.
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I made vegetable stew, no recipe just improvised with what I had on hand. Made a big container to eat through the week , I started with a celery, onion and carrot mirepoix, added a can each of stewed tomato and garbanzo beans along with frozen corn and cooked rice + water. Seasoned generously with cumin, chili powder, garlic powder, pepper, smoked paprika and salsa verde. Dirt cheap and delicious :heart-full:
 
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Today’s dinner will be Risotto alla Milanese. No bone marrow, but I do have some good homemade stock. Fuck making anything else to go with, other than a glass of wine.
 
I've had to improve a spice mix for fries and diced oven baked potatoes using paprika and red pepper to replace my cayenne powder. It works shockingly well though I am impressed by how much hotter the red pepper flakes burn.
 
Made some homemade chicken noodle soup because it's too cold for spring. Just chicken broth + roast chicken + noodles and a shitton of black pepper.
It was pretty good, would cook again.
 
Aldi had "use by today" rack of lamb at a dollar a pound.
I'm not into lamb so there was a large amount of "is it supposed to smell like that" as it cooked but it turned out pretty good.
 
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Instant ramen (yeah, yeah, I know) with some onion, basil, ginger and a ton of chorizo chucked in.
 
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I cooked fillet mignon for the first time ever thanks to a big shipment of steak and beef cuts we got for cheap. I very rarely go for steaks as a meal, since my experience with them are they tend to be underwhelming and bland.

Turned out this mediocrity in terms of steak was because for some fucking reason I seem to be the only person that uses salt and pepper while cooking them. The fillet was downright amazing, and formed the best meal I've had in a month.
 
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DuckSucker said:
Made some homemade bread for the first time in a long time. My sourdough starter had gotten thrown away so I was like fuck it, I miss it, I dont wanna do bread anymore for a while. So it was just a regular loaf, but it's pretty good.

Fresh bread is one of those things where you kind of see how people scientifically say humans are addicted to wheat products and carbs like that. It sounds ridiculous but it's true. It's why grocery stores put it up by the check out counter.
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Why did it get thrown away? I had mine on the fridge door, growing like normal and then some certain retard left the fridge door slightly ajar and it went bad. I've never had that issue before with anything fermenting.

I've been eating korean potato pancakes (gamja jeon) all week and I don't even regret it. Seriously, it's some of the best comfort food in the world. Even better when you make it with rice flour and potato flour, so it has a soft squishy mochi like centre and super crisp outside.
 
Oh it got thrown away pretty much for the same reason as yours. You know if you dont feed it for a while it will eventually develop a layer of alcoholic liquid on top--they call it "hooch" and its not harmful or bad, it just looks gross. Basically youre supposed to just stir it back in and then refresh it a few extra times before you want to use it so that it has the right amount of yeast activity again. Well someone saw it with that and thought it had "gone off" so they threw the jar away. But I was pretty broken up about it, I hadnt been using it all that often but I liked having it around just because you can use it in so many ways.

Sourdough is not one of those things that ever "goes bad" because it's a symbiotic colony, it kind of regulates itself where only yeast and those acid-producing bacteria can survive in it. The only time it goes bad is if it starts growing mold and smells awful, which means some new bacteria got in or the balance was thrown off in some way.
 
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Honey glazed salmon in the oven. It tasted great even though I usually hate sweet food and fucked up at caramelizing it under the broiler. 10/10 would make again
 
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DuckSucker said:
Oh it got thrown away pretty much for the same reason as yours. You know if you dont feed it for a while it will eventually develop a layer of alcoholic liquid on top--they call it "hooch" and its not harmful or bad, it just looks gross. Basically youre supposed to just stir it back in and then refresh it a few extra times before you want to use it so that it has the right amount of yeast activity again. Well someone saw it with that and thought it had "gone off" so they threw the jar away. But I was pretty broken up about it, I hadnt been using it all that often but I liked having it around just because you can use it in so many ways.

Sourdough is not one of those things that ever "goes bad" because it's a symbiotic colony, it kind of regulates itself where only yeast and those acid-producing bacteria can survive in it. The only time it goes bad is if it starts growing mold and smells awful, which means some new bacteria got in or the balance was thrown off in some way.
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Yeah, damn. I know what that's like. See, I think someone opened mine to see what it was and didn't properly seal it. It takes a long time to grow these things, people have no respect.
I was looking forward to using it for lots of stuff too, it was all organic whole wheat flour.

I'm making Baek Kimchi today. Whilst it's not technically cooking, it's still assembling and growing the fermentation.
I'm looking forward to it because it has chestnuts and jujubes and pine nuts.
It is one of the most delicious things in the world, fite me.
 
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