The Cooking, Drink and Food Forum
I've only recently moved to a place where I have my own kitchen, so this is probably the first of many of these sort of questions I bought some beef from the butchers to make a curry on Thursday. It turned out to be rather more than I actually...
Yes, you read that thread title right. I seriously grossed out a friend when he asked me what I was doing yesterday. "Oh, just pickling a bunch of tomatoes." They're simple refrigerator pickles mostly with some firm little yellow pear tomatoes...
Please share any of your own sushi inventions. I am very traditional in my personal tastes and prefer to work only with classical Japanese ingredients. My favorite creation is the "Shrimp Fried Rice" futomaki roll. 1 Large Tempura Shrimp...
I'm always looking for ways to use up leftovers...especially chicken. There's a great book called The Dinner Doctor that has some good ideas for quick meals, made with stuff you might have around the house. The following is a recipe I adapted from...
The Coffee thread. Inspired from Chat. I found the Starbucks coffee is overpriced and overcooked. I also found the coffee itself is not very good and skunks surprisingly fast. A good Drip Maker is fast and easy. I think it is mostly...
I love to bake, and over the years have developed a list of the best-of-the-best kinds of homemade cookies that (barring a specific dislike of a particular ingredient like nuts or coconut) everyone loves. It's actually 20 recipes long now, but with...
Cheezits. Yuck. Yours?
Turns out my fiancee has a fierce hankering for cabbage. Ok....I know how to make corned beef and cabbage and cole slaw. What else can be done to make this faux-lettuce into a delicious something?
Buttered popcorn jelly beans. It sounds disgusting. It should be disgusting. But I love them. What sounds wretched but is delicious?
Anyone else a fan? Really enjoyed his show. Especially enjoyed the books, and am reading through them again now with my daughter. The circumstances surrounding his dropping out of the public eye are disturbing, an seemingly true, as he...
http://www.kozyshack.com/assets/images/Puddings_Tapioca_ppanel.jpg I'm a big tapioca fan.
They're full of Omega-3 fatty acids and they're also pretty high in protein and, at least I assume, pretty cheap. But the thought of eating them is a little scary -- I've never actually tried a can of them, but my impression is that they're...
Sometimes we have really odd combinations of food on the dinner table, because I hate throwing out food so I serve up the last little bits even if it doesn't match whatever else we're having. For example, last night we had spaghetti and meatballs...
Mine is smoked gouda.
My husband and I decided to have an Oktoberfest feast tonight, just for fun. The menu so far consists of: Sauerbraten Pork Loin Spaetzel & Gravy Onion Pie Red Cabbage I would make Sauerkraut, but my husband doesn't like it, so I'm not...
Yesterday for my birthday I went to a local bakery that is so freaking wonderful I only dare to go there once or twice a year. It's too dangerous otherwise. Last night, I saw something in the display case that instantly caught my attention. It...
Let's see who wins out in the breakfast bread battle royal.
In chat this morning, we were discussing pineapples. Someone--possibly ivan asikov, but I wasn't paying attention--commented that it's hard to imagine how anyone ever thought to hack through the outer shell to find the tasty goodness inside;...
What's your favorite comfort meal? Not necessarily the best meal of all, but the one that makes you feel the best? Smothered Chicken Livers and Onions over Rice Green beans Sweet tea Banana Pudding (with those vanilla wafers and meringue)
I appreciate wine, but I'm not a wine person. Know what I mean? If you're like me, this is your thread too, and I hope you'll contribute your favorites. Only rule is that it's got to be under $20 for a 750ml bottle. Here's a starter: ...
It was 250 years ago today that the lease was signed on a disused brewery in Dublin. Long live the black stuff, one of the greatest drinks ever created. And creator of some excellent adverts as well. Like this one
Yes, let's speak up. How many of you have planned your meal, and had all the ingredients ready. And then, something else came to your attention, and you just had to add that. And a little more of this. Oooh, and some of those. And these go with...
I need some! Especially baked goods...quick breads, muffins, etc. Anyone have anything to recommend?
Yes, that's right. Let's hear your salsa recipes. Tomato, peach, pineapple, mango, tomatillo, whatever kind of salsa you make. I've got to bug my mother for her recipe for the tomato-based salsa she canned this year. It's really great. But until...
I have a can of honey roasted peanuts on my desk, and I can't stop diving into it! What are your favorite addictive snacks?
I haven't had them in ages, because they aren't usually available in these parts and I'm too lazy to make my own (as if I could get masa harina anyway). But they had some in the store the other day, so I got them. Now, I must be sure to use them...
My son is coming over in a little bit, so I'm fixing some of his favorites. I fried some gigantic pork chops and I plan to smother some with onions and gravy and leave a few as is. I'm making a pot of mashed potatoes. I might toss a simple...
This is one of my favourites, and it's actually good for you, even though it feels like a indulgent bad food when you eat it. Ingredients A bunch of pumpkin cut into bite sized pieces, steamed Diced tomato or a handful of cherry tomatoes...
What was Tilapia before it was the hot new fish? There was no Tilapia when I was a kid. Never saw it at the fishmonger's or at a restaurant. Beginning a few years back, it seemed that every menu offered it. Every fishstore sold it front and...
I just got an easy recipe for vichyssoise on the Giraffe boards that I'm going to try this weekend. I've made regular potato soup before, but this is a new one for me. I'm excited! I'm in a soup-y mood. Any other recommendations? (with recipes,...
I posted this in Chat when Threnody said she loved biryani, so here it is again, just in case anyone's interested: OK, first things first, ingredients: Biryani masala from your local Indian store. Probably comes in a box, with a brand of...
I rarely make any type of stew and after I'm done with soups, I'd like to move to stews. A good stew over plain white rice is an almost perfect meal. My mom's stews just kept getting better and better as the week would wear on. I know she would...
So today, I decided to make a baked potato. A large well scrubbed russet potato, slow baked at 350F for 3 hours. It was divine with grated mature cheddar and butter. The inside was fluffy and soft, the skin was crispy and tasty. The sucker was...
I was rooting around the Royal Bacon Society, but as I went deeper and deeper into the site, and came across the bacon caramels, I started getting a little nervous. What sent me fleeing the website was the manufacture of bacon bourbon. There is...
Anyone got any good recipes for either cabbage rolls or pyrogies?
If you post here, I'd like you to commit to tasting the food you're assigned to try. Name 3 easy to procure food items that you've never tasted. The poster, below you chooses one of the items and you have 3 weeks to taste it and to post a...
Everyone should "rep" their cultural heritage.What would you bring to the table? (recipes encouraged) Collard Greens - for my AA heritage About 3/4 pound of smoked turkey necks or wings or legs Big bunch of collards (2 or 3 of those x...
So you guys are getting ready for Turkey Day tomorrow, but I'm not. :( I wish I was. :( So, instead I made 2 batches of pepper jelly. :D Only takes about 10 minutes, really worth the little trouble: 1 small green pepper (I used a largish...
I'm going to do some baking this weekend because I want to give out gifts on Monday. I've got a few tried and true recipes (including some unbelievable sugar cookies) but I always like to experiment with new things. Does anybody have any traditional...
My mother once told me that a wise man never looks too closely at his food, or else he might stop eating. She may have been right, but some of the things I've found in my food I'm quite happy I found instead of actually eating them: An artery...
So the bad news is my marriage fell apart, I had to move out of the house, and I no longer see my young son every day. The good news is with my own apartment I get to indulge all my wildest culinary desires. I'm attempting to make kim chi,...
If you see a dessert or other dish advertised as containing "nuts", which kind to you expect? I want to see if this confirms a certain suspicion, but of course I don't want to taint this highly scientific poll just yet.
I just mentioned in the appliance thread that for years I didn't own even a manual can opener, as we never consumed canned food. Things have changed, though. As much as I hate to admit it, I keep the following canned food around: tomato paste,...
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Making cookies with your waffle iron. Guess who's going to be trying this tomorrow.
Thread title says it all - so, what was it? The most delicious thing I ate was only peripherally tied to the holidays. My mother came for a Christmastime visit and had health problems, so we ended up in Singapore for medical treatment. In between...
In no particular order: Green Apple Banana Strawberry This goes for a lot of things, like Splurpees, not just candy. Fake apple is hideous.
I decided to try the waffle iron cookie thing, only I didn't want to mix up "real" chocolate-chip cookie dough. Mostly because I didn't want to put in the time commitment this afternoon. So, I googled a recipe for quick CC cookies, and found one...
Ok, let's talk about food quality from the post- WW II era through about the late sixties. Why were there so many crazy recipes? Why was everything so horrible looking? I'm sure part of it must have been the lack of variety of fresh, healthy foods...
Was chatting with someone yesterday about how set in our food ways we tend to get. Tell a Chicagoan that you eat your fries with mayo and they will likely gag. Likewise, tell some Belgian you dip yours in catsup and they'll likely cringe. ...
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