Forum: Eat, Drink, and be Merry

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...

It's been done. It's being done again.

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...

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...

PETA's latest advertisement campaign involves a bikin wearing Pamela Anderson being marked up into the various cuts of meat that can be carved from a carcass. Now, it looks as though PETA are obviously not butchers because they missed plenty of...

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...

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,...

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...

And it was darn tasty. Don't know why I was so afraid of it all these years.

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

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...

Well?

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. ...

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...

Really, must this happen? http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/chi-ap-il-gooseisland-anheu,0,1829489.story

Yeah so I realized I don't think I've ever had real salsa verde, or for that matter tomatillos in any form. Hopefully I can find some around here. So, if I do, how do I make a good salsa verde? Hopefully something simple, with a good kick -- I'm not...

I've got peach schnapps, orange juice, vodka, cranberry juice, whiskey (bourbon and irish), coca-cola, and can probably muster up some wine and/or beer, what cocktails can i make??

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...

What are your favourite recipes? :madsci:

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: ...

I love food and cooking, so when I read recipes here I often respond with "wow, that sounds great, I'm going to make it soon!" Then reality sets in, and, um... I don't actually follow through. But I have made at least two recipes from here ......

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...

Rosemary Garlic Chicken --1 whole chicken --1/2 stick of butter --8 cloves garlic --2 sprigs of rosemary --some lemon juice --2 cups of broth --8 potatoes (optional, obviously, they're not very low carb, but they were in the original recipe...

Anyone got any good recipes for either cabbage rolls or pyrogies?

What's the better part of a fish?

Do tell...

Making cookies with your waffle iron. Guess who's going to be trying this tomorrow.

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...

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)

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

Boolnog and Gwen just arrived hear from Gloknith, a small but influential nation on Mars (Think U.K.). They're starving, and have asked you to prepare for them a meal that best represents the cuisine of your planet. Let's say you do this in...

I'm currently burning 2 sticks of incense to drive the nauseating stench of garlic out of my room. All day I've been thinking about pasta. Fettuccine alfredo, to be precise. I simply had to have fettuccine for dinner. So I got some, thinking that...

I need some! Especially baked goods...quick breads, muffins, etc. Anyone have anything to recommend?

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...

Besides throw it at people. I have a whole chicken sitting in my fridge since last night. My plan is to throw it in boiling water and let it cook for a good chunk of time and pull off all the meat and save it and ? the carcass and ? the water. ...

We picked up a couple of new beers tonight! Join us! First up: Harpoon Leviathan. Christened an "Imperial Red" by the brewery, this monster weighs in at 9.2% ABV. For those counting at home, that's roughly double the strength of the average...

This thread is the result of me buying some cocktail sauce last night. Yum! In high school I worked--for seven hellish months--at a Long John Silvers. There I was exposed to both cocktail sauce and malt vinegar. I can live without the...

and it is really pretty good. Really. Not great, and still not good enough for anyone in Chicago to pass on a local pie, but perfectly acceptible. And a deal. Can't say I would ever order it again, we have a list of local places we...

Do you like raw onions?

Add any you want to share! Chocolate Cinnamon Ice Cream 2 cups heavy whipping cream 1 cup milk 1/4 cup cocoa powder 4 ounces bittersweet or semi-sweet chocolate 1/2 cup sugar

My mother is planning to sell her house next year (hopefully the market will have recovered a bit more by then.) and so we're starting to look at what has accumulated within the house over twenty years of occupancy. For the last decade, until...

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...

Two thoughts here. First off, when making chili, do you use a recipe, or is it just "some of this, some of that, look what I found in the back of the fridge, and oh, a few of those?" That's the poll. For those of you who use an actual...

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