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Baked a strawberry shortcake for my niece's birthday. I don't have a photo rn but it was pretty good.
 
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Big baking project this week. Old style apple strudel.
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Archeops said:
It's technically not a proper meal, but I've been practicing how to caramelize onions in preparation for eventual summer barbecues. I've also been on the lookout for a nice bacon-onion jam recipe for the same reasons.
Properly caramelizing onions takes a long-ass time, but I've read about people using a pinch of baking soda. It raise the Ph level in the onions and speeds up the caramelizing process to a point where it cuts your cooking time in half. The only downside is that it'll make your onions REALLY bitter if you overdo it with the baking soda, you only need A PINCH of the stuff and nothing more.
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Carmelizing onions is actually how I learned to cook :)
 
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Eh I'm not proud but no pics. Mrs Bass, wanted to be white girl AF. So we had beef ground tacos for cinco dey mayo.

I made some incredible (to me) pork but she doesn't like as much. Also our area is having e coli risk so we had to defrost old beef, I couldn't even get chuck cut in time.

Still we had a lot of fun making tacos she drank way too much and yelled at game of thrones.

Key is DIY refried beans so easy cheap too.
 
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I worked at an Italian place years ago, that had penne with Gorgonzola cream sauce and green peas as one of it's regular items, and I think that continues to this day. It's a great dish, but for some reason I assumed it was somehow a complicated thing to make.

Well, I made some Gorgonzola penne this week for my girlfriend and I and it was terrific - and couldn't have been easier. It's literally 4 things to make the sauce. Whipping cream, Gorgonzola, grind some black pepper into it, and a pinch of salt. Top with a bit of fresh grated Parmesan and you're really in business. I've done it with green peas one time, and spinach another as the green component, both work nicely. Highly recommended.
 
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Braised pork roast with onions and carrots and seasoned with salt, pepper, and a dash of rosemary that I hope my plain Jane family won't mind. Just think an aromatic would help it out.

Will probably roast some taters too as well.
 
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Bassomatic said:
Key is DIY refried beans so easy cheap too.
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A Mexican coworker recommended mayacoba/peruvian beans for homemade refried beans instead of pinto and I haven't looked back, can't recommend enough. Not sure how easy they are to find outside of the Western side of the US though.
 
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Cacio e pepe pasta... one of the simplest (ingredient wise) pasta dishes. Ate it in a restaurant half a year ago, am still hooked on it. Still have issues with cheese clumping at times, but tastes fantastic none the less. Also a great excuse to get a mortar and pestle out to save up on time grinding pepper.
 
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Made some curry with peas and carrots, and a side of rice. I haven't made curry in a long while, so it was a bit of a treat for me.
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Oh yeah, I tried making a more Japanese styled curry recently with a sauce containing coconut milk, prepackaged curry, carrots and chicken. It was really good, the sweetness of the carrots really complimented the sauce and the leftover carrots made for great snacks. I forgot how much I love carrots.
 
Fettuccine Alfredo. Refrigerator section noodles, sauce from heavy cream, butter, shredded Parm and bit of some other misc shredded white cheese blend, minced garlic in olive oil, salt, and dry parsley. Pretty good, but alfredo sauce is pretty easy. Dump the shit in, stir it a lot on low so it melts but doesn't burn, make it all real fat so it tastes good.
 
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I made that Curry Chickpeas recipe @Angry Shoes posted in the Open Recipe thread. It smelled good, but I couldn't really taste it? Think it needs a little salt. I used less tomato because I don't like tomatoes, if that affects anything.
 
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Not so much "cook" as "heat", but I had some Costco hot dogs. Like from the multi pack version of the ones from the food court. Not bad.
 
dutch oven hash browns with red peppers and onions and also roasted asparagus because its in season.
been putting lemon pepper on everything i eat, like roasted asparagus.
 
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