What Have You Cooked Recently?

[AnOminous]

Adding a pinch of baking soda is supposed to help them caramelize faster. Something about the way pH affects the Maillard reaction that's responsible for them browning as they cook.

This works but by a pinch, it's really a pinch. If you can even taste it, it's too much. I find it's better just to take your time with it and only do that if for some reason I really need everything done at the same time and I've waited too long to start the onions.

 

[Goyslop Muncher]

Gooey ham and egg sandwich with onion and cheddar. My 20 year old George foreman finally quit working, so I guess I have no excuse but to buy a real panini press now.

 

[Niggernerd]

Chili with beef and beans

 

[Quoookie]

Fish(Cod)and Home Fries. Don't have much of an appetite today but this made the tummy happy enough.

 

[Soobysoob]

Meth

 

[OrionBalls]

Made a mornay sauce (E- just a bechamel with gruyere added, because we have some that needs to be used) for the hot turkey sandwiches tomorrow. Going to do it up like a Devonshire, with the tomatoes. So grilled turkey sandwich butter toasted both sides on rye with bacon, tomatoes, and mornay. Mashed pot on the side. Hope it sells!
E- I hate February. So many fun dates like Valentine's and Fat Tuesday, but no one is eating out. If I make Jambalaya and beignets for Mardis Gras and no one buys them, I'm gonna be ticked.
E2- We sold fifteen sandwiches! After such a slow week. Had to 86 because the bread ran out. So frickin happy, because most money is made from specials.

 

[Coffee Druid]

Me and my bf have tried Hello Fresh (one of those companies that send pre portioned ingredients and a recipe) once a week for a few weeks. It's not bad. Tonight was my favorite, a brown sugar bourbon pork chop with an apple onion sauce, and mashed potatoes and roasted green beans.

I like Hello Fresh since it lets you try new recipes you wouldn't normally go for, but I also feel like I can just look up recipes and get ingredients for similar pricing from the store. It's convenient though.

 

[Goyslop Muncher]

Me and my bf have tried Hello Fresh (one of those companies that send pre portioned ingredients and a recipe) once a week for a few weeks. It's not bad. Tonight was my favorite, a brown sugar bourbon pork chop with an apple onion sauce, and mashed potatoes and roasted green beans.

I like Hello Fresh since it lets you try new recipes you wouldn't normally go for, but I also feel like I can just look up recipes and get ingredients for similar pricing from the store. It's convenient though.

You get what you pay for. Hello fresh is convenient and a good learning tool for people who want to learn culinary. If you want to break out of that mold, I recommend watching and practicing cooking youtubers. My favorites are chef John aka food wishes (American food mostly, little bit of everything. Real retired chef), seonkyoung longest (all Asian food), souped up recipes(strictly Chinese), j Kenji Lopez (everything, real chef).
There's a lot of meme chefs out there. Cooking with babish has a decent beginner series but he's kinda dumb. Stay away from Joshua weissman.
You could also watch what not to do from channels like Kay's cooking and Jack Scalfani.

 

[Quoookie]

Something like a pizza just on flat bread. It had chicken, onions, and a couple different cheeses on one. Second had the same just spicier chicken and sauce. Not very filling one but two did the trick. 7/10 for the first. Second one 8.5/10.

 

[burntgrilledcheese]

It's my birfday, so I made a cake. Coconut macadamia cake with spiced white chocolate frosting and rosemary citrus curd filling.

I'm way out of practice, so it's ugly af, but the taste is there. I wish I had made it more citrusy and rosemary ish, to cut the sweetness, and put more nutmeg and cardamom in the frosting. I modified the pistachio cake recipe from the Milk Bar cookbook, and slapped the rest together on my own.

 

[Haim Arlosoroff]

• In a giant metal bowl, I mix 1/4 cup powdered skim milk, 1/2 teaspoon salt, 1 tablespoon brown sugar, and lastly 1/4 oz Yeast.
• I add 1 egg, 2 tablespoons of Soybean oil, and 1 1/3 cups of 105ºF Water and mix.
• Then I measure out 4 cups of flour into another bowl and mix slowly until you have to knead the last bits in.
• I put plastic wrap over the top and place it inside a cupboard for 6 hours.
• While the 6 hour wait is happening, I place a package of bacon into a food processor until it is even mush.
• I place the meat pate in a bread pan and cook at 375ºF for 20 mins or until semi-cooked (just under done).
• I then food processor the resulting bacon loaf just enough to break into pieces.
• I wrap the result into paper towel and place into a glass bowl with plastic wrap over the top.
• If I have pepperoni that is emptied atop the paper towel inside the bowl.
• 6 hours later, I spread enough soybean oil to lightly soak parchment paper around a 12 inch flat pizza pan.
• I stretch the dough to the edges of the paper.
• I then top the pizza with the sauce and 1/3 the cheese.
• I add the rest of the bacon and pepperoni, followed by the rest of the cheese.
• Cook at 425ºF for 15 mins, broil the remainder until the top seems cooked.

 

[FatFuckingClown]

Vegan sausage and peppers and holy SHIT was it delicious

 

[FatFuckingClown]

It's my birfday, so I made a cake. Coconut macadamia cake with spiced white chocolate frosting and rosemary citrus curd filling.

I'm way out of practice, so it's ugly af, but the taste is there. I wish I had made it more citrusy and rosemary ish, to cut the sweetness, and put more nutmeg and cardamom in the frosting. I modified the pistachio cake recipe from the Milk Bar cookbook, and slapped the rest together on my own.

When people talk about how something obviously beautiful is ugly, they’re usually just trying to solicit a compliment and it’s off-putting.

But I legit believe that you’re just that humble, (TRUE kitchen wizards usually are), and you shouldn’t feel like you have to be because Jesus Titty-Fuckin’ CHRIST that looks great. Hbd, btw!!!

 

[burntgrilledcheese]

When people talk about how something obviously beautiful is ugly, they’re usually just trying to solicit a compliment and it’s off-putting.

But I legit believe that you’re just that humble, (TRUE kitchen wizards usually are), and you shouldn’t feel like you have to be because Jesus Titty-Fuckin’ CHRIST that looks great. Hbd, btw!!!

Lol that is good advice, I will remember it. And thank you very much.

 

[MoffAlbert]

Tonight's dinner is minced beef and pork cutlets and potatoes with gravy. The cutlets are made part and pork part beef, salt, pepper, minced garlic and onion powder. The potatoes likewise have minced garlic, some parmesan cheese, and salt and pepper, breaded in panko. The gravy was from a packet, but it's pretty good. Overall rather tasty, would do again.

 

[TFT-A9]

Tonight's dinner is minced beef and pork cutlets and potatoes with gravy. The cutlets are made part and pork part beef, salt, pepper, minced garlic and onion powder. The potatoes likewise have minced garlic, some parmesan cheese, and salt and pepper, breaded in panko. The gravy was from a packet, but it's pretty good. Overall rather tasty, would do again.
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Basically a TV dinner but not shit

 

[AnOminous]

Tonight's dinner is minced beef and pork cutlets and potatoes with gravy. The cutlets are made part and pork part beef, salt, pepper, minced garlic and onion powder. The potatoes likewise have minced garlic, some parmesan cheese, and salt and pepper, breaded in panko. The gravy was from a packet, but it's pretty good. Overall rather tasty, would do again.
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I bet that would be great with tonkatsu sauce.

 

[TFT-A9]

did kind of a "fajita stew" thing, ground beef, chili powder, cumin, cilantro, onions, black beans (pissed that I didn't have any corn to toss in), bit of salt, green peppers (would have done chopped poblanos if I could find any), chopped tomatoes, a bit of lime and rice

topped the whole mess with some sour cream and guacamole/salsa verde, pretty good

 

[CapricornusRex]

I got some beef stew meat for dirt cheap on Monday so tonight I used part of it to make beef and vegetable soup. Diced carrot, celery and a quartered onion with 2 cloves stuck in it along with a little too much red chili flakes. Once the beef was done I added diced yukon potatoes. My lips are still tingly, my sinuses are clear, and I'm a little sweaty after eating it. Just the way I like it.

I will use the other portion of stew meat for chili.

 

[Quoookie]

God you people above make me so hungry when I'm really not ^^^(several posts above) On topic just some burgers on my mini grill. Holy shit just the right grillin. Good marks but not burnt. I seem to grill shit just right drunk but fuck it up sober. Almost all the fixins. No lettuce though. I can and will get over that. Perfect breakfast/lunch... Might need to heat up one of those pizzas in the over later for dinner. I got a meat supreme in there.. or just sleep it off. Either or will be great