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melty said:
It's for sure a lazy ingredient. Why reduce a sauce to thicken it when you can just dump in corn starch lmfao
That said I find its a great way to make crispy buffalo wings. Dust the wings in starch, bake them, and now they're nice and crispy and have a surface that can hold the delicious buffalo sauce.
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that's true, it is very useful for breading type uses
 
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I tried making shrimp chow mein and gyoza for the first time. It was pretty good but there were a multitude of fuckups on my end. I used a little too much sesame seed oil (I've never used it before so I didn't know how strong it is) and I bought the wrong kind of wrappers for the gyoza and was absolute shit at folding them. I also burned them. I didn't fully trust steam to cook meat properly but the next batch proved me wrong. Either way, it was nice cooking something out of my comfort zone.
 

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BanalEntropy said:
I tried making shrimp chow mein and gyoza for the first time. It was pretty good but there were a multitude of fuckups on my end. I used a little too much sesame seed oil (I've never used it before so I didn't know how strong it is) and I bought the wrong kind of wrappers for the gyoza and was absolute shit at folding them. I also burned them. I didn't fully trust steam to cook meat properly but the next batch proved me wrong. Either way, it was nice cooking something out of my comfort zone.
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That sesame oil will get you. It's incredibly flavorful. It sounds like you had fun and that's what it's all about.
 
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Ndnd said:
I baked a Black Forest cake for my mom’s birthday this weekend.

My two and a half year old niece’s reaction was priceless! She kept insisting that the cherries on top were “baby apples”. :feels:
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OK, that's adorable. I'm a terrible baker and not much of a sweets person, but I do love Black Forest cake. I wish I could make it because outside of a proper bakery it's impossible to find around here.
 
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Cooked some really good meatballs the other night. Used chopped garlic, breadcrumbs, parsley, oregano, basil, parmesan and Romano cheese. Browned em on the outside in a pan and cooked em on the oven for 20 minutes after and they ended up perfect. I didn't do any measuring, so I'm wondering if I'll be able to replicate em.
 
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Whatthefuck said:
OK, that's adorable. I'm a terrible baker and not much of a sweets person, but I do love Black Forest cake. I wish I could make it because outside of a proper bakery it's impossible to find around here.
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She’s the cutest! If you’re ever craving some cake at home and feel up to recreating it, just follow the instructions from this recipe. It was surprisingly easy to put together!


I especially like her chocolate cake recipe. it’s a lot more dense and moist than the traditional German recipes.
 
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I am getting into retro/vintage recipes for my brown bag lunches since I've been returned to the office post-pandemic. Primarily gross sounding sandwich spreads. I made this Olive-Nut Spread for my lunches this week. It's really, really good! It's got a good texture from all of the walnuts and a nice briny flavor from the olives. I followed this recipe (except used olive juice instead of milk to thin it out) and spread it on a dense sprouted whole grain bread.

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I'll probably make the rest of those spreads too. The shrimp one looks good.
 
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ricecake said:
I am getting into retro/vintage recipes for my brown bag lunches since I've been returned to the office post-pandemic. Primarily gross sounding sandwich spreads. I made this Olive-Nut Spread for my lunches this week. It's really, really good! It's got a good texture from all of the walnuts and a nice briny flavor from the olives. I followed this recipe (except used olive juice instead of milk to thin it out) and spread it on a dense sprouted whole grain bread.

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I'll probably make the rest of those spreads too. The shrimp one looks good.
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I have an autistic love for retro cookbooks. It's just fascinating to see what the culinary fashion was at certain times and you do find some gems from time to time or at least outlines that you can punch up. Of course, that's how I treat all recipes. I'll make it according to the recipe the first time and then going forward I'll add things to taste. I'm a southern home cook, that's what we do.
 
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Whatthefuck said:
I have an autistic love for retro cookbooks. It's just fascinating to see what the culinary fashion was at certain times and you do find some gems from time to time or at least outlines that you can punch up. Of course, that's how I treat all recipes. I'll make it according to the recipe the first time and then going forward I'll add things to taste. I'm a southern home cook, that's what we do.
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Hit me up with a decent corn bread recipe (no wheat flour please, I'm a massive gluten-dodging faggot).
 
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Whatthefuck said:
I have an autistic love for retro cookbooks. It's just fascinating to see what the culinary fashion was at certain times and you do find some gems from time to time or at least outlines that you can punch up. Of course, that's how I treat all recipes. I'll make it according to the recipe the first time and then going forward I'll add things to taste. I'm a southern home cook, that's what we do.
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The Betty Crocker Cookbook is interesting and quaint in some of its incarnations, and can even be useful if you discount some of its specific uses of Betty Crocker products. One of the more amusing aspects of the 1940-70 cookbooks is how many recipes were generated trying to find as many possible uses for some product as humanly possible, resulting in some real atrocities.
 
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Something I've been cooking for the fam lately:
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It's not cooking as much as warming up a lot of frozen shit (the fried fish, the rice, and corn) but it looks very pretty and it both filling and healthy. The topping is one of the zesty ranches that Hidden Valley came out with recently. We've been using that on everything.
 
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Fuck you I'm drunk and it's only 10:53pm but I'm making a bacon, egg and cheese and none of y'all can stop me.

Also fuck you. But also love you x

Edit: fat cunts I live with ate all the bacon. Fuck.
Edit 2: I found chorizo muthafuckaaaas. Suck it.
 
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