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Does anyone enjoy cooking or do you have a gift of knowing how to prepare very good food?
It's one of my few talents. I can make a dish i have never made or even tried. I may look at a recipie once for guide lines but do not use them. If you can read instructions then it doesnt make you a good cook as you are not creating anything.
There are people who read recipes and will put garlic in at the same time as onions or other vegetables that take longer to cook. ???
Also people who don't know how to cook grains without instructions.
This is not what I mean. I mean real cooking? As in person who realize preparing food is an art form.
I am actually doing it now in exchange for a place to sleep.
I created a pretty good Mexican pasta last night. A variation of a Thai coconut soup , a french potato dish that I know by heart and tonight somthing easy which is a version of fried rice that I will add some sort of indonesian twist to.
whatever feels right. I have to cook for an entire hippy commune. It must be organic and have no meat.
It's a challenge that I gladly accept. Not vegan luckily.
I very much enjoy combining flavors from completely different regions.
Anyone else enjoy this? If so please share detailed posts of what you create.
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I'm more of a heat it up kinda person I can made the odd thing and do enjoy it though i tend to buy the sauce, pasta dishes curry etc. I find it really satisfying when you have made it yourself though Gordon Ramsay need not worry.
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That is a talent I wish I had... I can cook, kind-of, but it's all a bit basic...
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I think anybody can cook. What most people don't like and which keeps them from cooking is that cooking has a lot to do with organizing. The preparation before the cooking. If you keep that in mind and take it as a part of the cooking, its easy to do.
First you should know what you want to do.
Then get all the ingredients, which is the least fun part of the job for me, and sometimes it just depends on that one, little special thing which makes a meal special. Coconut milk, or a fruit or special spice. Thise things you normally don't have at home.
Then you have to prepare everything that you are going to need before you start. Put everything in bowls or what you have, for instance measure the 300g flour you need later, before you begin and have it ready. And then you can start cooking.
Anybody has their own sense of taste and thats the point for improvising. Add everything you like to that standard recipie and see what happens. Add orange juice to the tomatosauce you normally do, add a bit of white wine to vegetables you frie in a pan with butter. Put a sour or sweet apple in your spicy salad.
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I love to Grill since that is cooking I would say this is one of my favorite things to do in summer and now that the weather is better here in New York. Just Yesterday I started my 1st BBQ of the summer threw some Brazilian Lobster tails , Bay Scallops and Jumbo Shrimp on skewers chicken and beef shish kabobs a thick sirloin steak and some hot dogs on the grill for my birthday and since that happens to fall on Memorial day holiday I have the day off to cleanup the mess.
Like someone said it takes a lot of prep work before you eat. I have to clean the grill both the bottom of the kettle and the cover use a steel brush to scrape off the left over and burn parts of the past cooking on the grill then whatever meats you get the seasonings and spices to marinate and using a charcoal grill ( Gas is for w**ps) ;) you have to get the fire going then using your experience gauge the tempertaure on when to put your meats on and how much you want it to cook for I do that in my head.
There is something just Primal about cooking meat over a flame plus it taste good too. ;D 8)
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I love to cook and often think I could do better than some of the offerings you get from so called profesionals!
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But the prep work is enjoyable for me. Cooking for people at home is always easier than doing it in a restaurant as quick as possible.
What i hate and is when i go to a cafe and they don't season the food correctly. or overcook steak. I ate the so-called best burger in Manchester and it was over-cooked! The meat was dry! I would never serve a paying customer something like that.
I get what you mean MaggiD.
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Love cooking and baking.
:)
I run the cooking club at school for the kids aged 5 - 7 getting them to prepare/cook/try new foods. All easy cheap meals that are healthy.
Leek and bacon pasta, veggie chilli, Moroccan stew, bean burritos, tomato pasta, sweet sticky orange chicken...loads of scrummy stuff the kids all say they don't like but manage to eat all of it !
Baking a carrot cake now for Mark's birthday.
:)
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sweet sticky orange chicken
Cor, that sounds good !! Actually, so does the rest you mentioned ;D
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I am about to purchase some Le Creuset cookware and a couple of Global knives along with a potato ricer i have my eye on. I doubt i will use them but that kind of stuff looks good.
The very best cooking utensils attract me somewhat but i cant cook for shit!
FIFA sounds like an organisation that like cooking, especially the books.
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it would never happen in rugby
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sweet sticky orange chicken
Cor, that sounds good !! Actually, so does the rest you mentioned ;D
Here you go.
Enjoy !
http://letsgetcookingathome.org.uk/recipe/citrus-sticky-chicken
:)
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I like cooking. But I am more of a one pot kind of guy - timing dishes is harder for me.
I have a reasonable feel with spices as to what goes with what and can invent as I go along. Marinating chicken in five spice powder, soy, ginger, and rice wine vinegar makes a great dish but not much use for Amandistan's hippy commune!
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I like cooking. But I am more of a one pot kind of guy -
Me to. Did myself a Pot Noodle last Sunday. :)
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Who needs cooking when you live above a Chinese n your boss and landlord owns a chippy lol
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I am now doing it again for work. I am learning traditional Cornwall dishes on this island. English cooking is completely different. A lot of potatoes and butter basically. Fish and lobster and cream as well. It's fairly easy too.
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A lot of potatoes, butter, fish, lobster and cream!
Yep everyday cooking here in the Wild West Midlands! ;D
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Can you do a good curry?
Cheers
jc
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Scottish cooking is easy you just deep fry everything lol 😁 apologies to my fellow citizens
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You really eat a meal deep fry without heating after taking it out of the fridge (and the wrapping)? ;D
My best remember of scottish cooking is: we walked into a kind of Mc Donald (take away with some seats to stay) and they offered a very special meal: fried potatoes with spaghetties (no sauce or something else) !!!
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I like cooking. But I am more of a one pot kind of guy -
Me to. Did myself a Pot Noodle last Sunday. :)
I do enjoy a Pot Noodle sandwich... ???
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I like cooking. But I am more of a one pot kind of guy -
Me to. Did myself a Pot Noodle last Sunday. :)
I do enjoy a Pot Noodle sandwich... ???
Mmmm... Pot Noodle sandwich. With mayonnaise?
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I like cooking. But I am more of a one pot kind of guy -
Me to. Did myself a Pot Noodle last Sunday. :)
I do enjoy a Pot Noodle sandwich... ???
Mmmm... Pot Noodle sandwich. With mayonnaise?
Oh, that's just wrong.
;D
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Pot noodle sandwich :o
Sir, I am in your debt
what a wonderful idea ;)
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I enjoy a piece on soup How can that be I hear you ask.
Well you need a thick soup to start with broth, potato lentil etc you know a granny type soup. Drain as much of the liquid as possible by using another bit of bread or tilting the plate and slurping etc, when your left with the vegetables or lentils or whatever remove it with a spoon roughly spread on your bread and enjoy
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You really eat a meal deep fry without heating after taking it out of the fridge (and the wrapping)? ;D
My best remember of scottish cooking is: we walked into a kind of Mc Donald (take away with some seats to stay) and they offered a very special meal: fried potatoes with spaghetties (no sauce or something else) !!!
I bet it's actually good. If you soak the bread in butter, smear caused garlic on top and throw it in an oven.
Then fry the noodles, then make a very nice mayonnaise add a bit of crushed red chillies and garlic.
JC, I have never tried curry but could do it with a bit of research, trial and/ or error and tasting. :)
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I like cooking. But I am more of a one pot kind of guy -
Me to. Did myself a Pot Noodle last Sunday. :)
I do enjoy a Pot Noodle sandwich... ???
Mmmm... Pot Noodle sandwich. With mayonnaise?
Oh, that's just wrong.
;D
Try it and you'll discover it's actually very, very right...
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Does the foil lid not hurt your fillings.
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Does the foil lid not hurt your fillings.
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No, but I've cut my tongue on the plastic a couple of times ;)
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recently i discovered a tasty, simple wonderful dish, cheap and easy to do and now i'm eating it a lot:
bulgur salad
you need:
- bulgur
- parsley
- fresh mint
- garlic
- olive oil
- tomatoes
- spring onions
- lemon
so first the mise en place:
take the garlic, cut it in tiny pieces, pour some salt above it and press it with a knife so that you get a paste like thing, the salt will take the fluid of the garlic. put it in a vessel, pour olive oil into it and lemon juice. some salt, that will be the dressing.
cut the tomatoes in little pieces, try out the tomatoes you prefer, i prefer egg tomatoes or meat tomatoes but also cherry tomatoes do well, cut the green parts of the spring onions and cut the parley and mint.
boil about as many water as bulgur, like 150g bulgur and 150ml water. you can also use vegetable stock instead, gives more flavour, and just pour the water on the bulgur when it's cooking. stir a bit and let it rest a little.
put the tomatoes and the onions in when the bulgur is still warm. pour the oil with the lemon and garlic in and add th eparsley and mint.
et voila!, a tasty salad. 200g of bulgur are enough for 4 people i would say.
then make your own hummus, even more easy than the salad.
you need:
- chickpeas
- tahin, sesame paste
- cumin
just put the chick peas in a vessel, add some tahin and puree it. spice it up with cumin ..and then you can start to add what you like..garlic, lemon, joghurt...
and the best combination is some arabian flatbread with hummus and the bulgur salad.
bon appetit!
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I actually had to look up what bulgur was... :-\
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don't worry master ray, i had to look up almost every ingredient and what is the englisch word for it though i had to learn them during my education as a cook 8)
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Bulgur is made from wheat.I can say it's a kinda rice.We use it and cook it a lot.More healthier than white rice.Good for diets also.
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Yesterday i made blackbery and plum jam - 5 jars and a dozen blackberry muffins. All produce used was either from my own garden or picked from the hedgerows.
Scrummy and dirt cheap.
:)
On Monday I made marrow and plum chutney. The marrows are 89p in Lidl at the moment again, so cheaper to make 6 jars at home than by 1 in the shops.
:)
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Yesterday i made blackbery and plum jam - 5 jars and a dozen blackberry muffins. All produce used was either from my own garden or picked from the hedgerows.
Scrummy and dirt cheap.
:)
On Monday I made marrow and plum chutney. The marrows are 89p in Lidl at the moment again, so cheaper to make 6 jars at home than by 1 in the shops.
:)
Im always dubious with blackberry. They grow on an annoying invasive weed and Im never sure if some wild animal may have peed on them :(
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Yesterday i made blackbery and plum jam - 5 jars and a dozen blackberry muffins. All produce used was either from my own garden or picked from the hedgerows.
Scrummy and dirt cheap.
:)
On Monday I made marrow and plum chutney. The marrows are 89p in Lidl at the moment again, so cheaper to make 6 jars at home than by 1 in the shops.
:)
Im always dubious with blackberry. They grow on an annoying invasive weed and Im never sure if some wild animal may have peed on them :(
There is a good chance that some kind of animal has peed on them but that goes for any fruit/veg/pulse that,s planted really when you think about it....don't even think about where honey comes from or how figs develop !!!!!! ;D
I always give the fruits a good rinse through before I use them and leave the rest to my imune system. ;)
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Do you eat eggs Bunny?
Cheers
jc
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Do you eat eggs Bunny?
Cheers
jc
Hi JC
No mate, they mess me giblets up!!
WW, Im also Fructophobic. Thats partly why I couldnt eat Blackberry!!!
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Love Blackberries and going Blackberrying...........(before my hips gave in) Love them stewed in a pie,crumble/with apples,hot ,cold in jam....An old Folk Tale says you must not pick them after September 29th.As the Devil may have spit or pissed on them.... :o
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Love Blackberries and going Blackberrying...........(before my hips gave in) Love them stewed in a pie,crumble/with apples,hot ,cold in jam....An old Folk Tale says you must not pick them after September 29th.As the Devil may have spit or pissed on them.... :o
Love a bit of Devils Piss !
Sounds like a dodgy cider !!!
;D
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Sounds like a GREAT cider to me................... :)
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So to conclude: Fox piss bad, Devils piss good. Rock n' Roll !!!! ;D 8)
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We don't have Foxes in Jersey......... Plenty of Devils............. ;D
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Sounds like a GREAT cider to me................... :)
;D
I went to The Dorchester Cider Fest on Saturday and they were all off their faces on stuff like that !
:)
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Yesterday i made blackbery and plum jam - 5 jars and a dozen blackberry muffins. All produce used was either from my own garden or picked from the hedgerows.
Scrummy and dirt cheap.
:)
On Monday I made marrow and plum chutney. The marrows are 89p in Lidl at the moment again, so cheaper to make 6 jars at home than by 1 in the shops.*
If you've got loads of plums then making plum vodka is a must.dDo it the same way as sloe gin(1/3 plums,1/3 sugar and 1/3 cheap vodka)Oh yeh and you need to use old sweet jars with a big mouth as trying to squeeze plums into a bottle is impossible ;D
:)
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My plum tree was pretty pants compared to the last couple of years. I think it had puffed it's self out !
I hope next year I will be back to collecting 2 washing up bowls of plums every day so I can really go to town on the jams.
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My plum tree was pretty pants compared to the last couple of years. I think it had puffed it's self out !
I hope next year I will be back to collecting 2 washing up bowls of plums every day so I can really go to town on the jams.
I am seriously biting my tongue with a Carry On-esque one liner. Someday I hope to reach maturity!!
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kick out the jams!
;-)
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My plum tree was pretty pants compared to the last couple of years. I think it had puffed it's self out !
I hope next year I will be back to collecting 2 washing up bowls of plums every day so I can really go to town on the jams.
I am seriously biting my tongue with a Carry On-esque one liner. Someday I hope to reach maturity!!
OOOoh Matron !!
:D ;D
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Nice thread, Amandistan.
I really love cooking nowadays. It became a special thing for me when I turned on to veggie diet as a 18 year old chap. I had to learn everything from the start (but not again because before turning vegetarian I ate mostly basic convenience foods). So now it takes for 24 years vegetarian diet and recently a year being vegan.
I'm interested in orient food culture. Their long and ancient tradition with wheat gluten "meat", or seitan as it's renamed since 60's is interesting. Hoi sin sauce is lovely. I also like to bake food in an oven. Potatoes, herbs, etc. Edible seaweed, sprouting beans and seeds is interesting. My wife picks up berries and mushrooms from the forests. They're edible here in Finland and super healthy.
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I started a little experiment today. Wanted to test some footage of cooking for advertising purpose.
This time the food didn't work out as planned, but it should have been an omelette with mushrooms, bacon, potatoes and cheese.
I wanted it to roll it in the pan when you shake it, so you can make a nice roll.
But here it is to see, for your entertainment :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI-TwbhqKoE
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I started a little experiment today. Wanted to test some footage of cooking for advertising purpose.
This time the food didn't work out as planned, but it should have been an omelette with mushrooms, bacon, potatoes and cheese.
I wanted it to roll it in the pan when you shake it, so you can make a nice roll.
But here it is to see, for your entertainment :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aI-TwbhqKoE
I'd eat that. ;)
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I did 8)
But the question is: Would you buy that?;-)
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I did 8)
But the question is: Would you buy that?;-)
I would.
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Hooray, it works!!
;)
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A wonderful dish for the hot days, easy to do and very tasty:
Watermelon + Sheeps's Cheese + Fresh Mint
(https://i.postimg.cc/4nkZGbXD/20190630-165754.jpg)
Well, this could have looked a little better on the foto, but this wasn't the best watermelon, it lacks some of the deep-red colour and i've kept my fresh mint in the fridge for almost two weeks, rolled in wet kitchenpaper, so it has lost some of the nice green colour, but it still tastes good. The basil shows you how it could have looked.
Still hope to maybe inspire some of you to try this out. I love this!
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For the burger fans...
I got this present for christmas, a box with special salts from around the world. In there i discovered: mexican smoked salt!!
Wow, what a taste explosion! This is incredible..salt that was smoked with wood and it is black and tastes so smokey wonderful..
Inspired by that i bought some smoked sweet pepper (paprika)
And then i did this:
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and that
(https://i.postimg.cc/kgVVPPjs/20200127-182313.jpg)
For the burger i mixed the meat with some smoked pepper and normal salt, put in some very fine cut onions and let it rest for a while.
I made some joghurt+lemon+parsil+garlic+smoked salt creme ( i always combine joghurt with some sour creme, because it has more fat and the consistence is better) and i had some bacon prepared.
In one of the burgers you can see some paprika, which i potted in oil, vinegar, pepper, sugar and i used the smoked salt again for that and it tasted so good (put paprika in the oven with 180 degrees, let the skin become black in spots (like about 30 min) and then you can peel the skin right of. prepare a mix of the ingredients i just wrote about, make it more than you can take in the taste, because the pepper is going to make it more sweet and the juice of the pepper will make it more soft)
The burger meat ( i used mixed pork and beef and also only beef) with the smoked paprika had such a great taste, it will become my standard now for doing burgers.
Cut some onions in big rings, put them in flour and roast them in the pan (in the picture it shows a normal onion, that's also ok, but if you go that extra mile with the flour..and you can add some spices too )
So i had a potted smoked paprika, with some good meat and some fried onions, a little mustard on the beef, some cheddar cheese put on the beef while cooking, a joghurt sauce with smoked salt, some potted cucumber...and a good beer!
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Open up a restaurant serving that kind of food and I'll be right over, buddy! :D
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Open up a restaurant serving that kind of food and I'll be right over, buddy! :D
...and i was so close.. ;)
I really find the only hard and difficult thing about cooking, is to cook for yourself. If you have friends and guests coming over or you live with somebody together you try to make this effort for them, go that extra mile to prepare something good, but when alone this motivations lacks like hell and you get your fastfood or just heat some pre-processed food just up. Well, that's my experience;-)
Here i want to share and maybe give some tips and also some inspiration to cook something for yourself at home.
So, where are your creations or foods you love to do?
I wanted to show you the salt i was using, look at this:
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I think this little box would cost about 10€ and that could seem much for salt, but you really get some taste out of it. Well, if you like smoke..;-)
I used a mortar to make it more fine.
(While writing i found a set containing 3 different styles of smoked salt for 22€)
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Well, tonight I cooked up a whole bunch of oven chips, enough to pile up on a plate, threw in some 'bacon bits', melted a shitload of cheese on top, splattered barbecue sauce over the whole pile and had a bottle of mayo on the side just in case I found a bit later on that wasn't 'gooey' enough.
I'm expecting my second heart attack any day soon. ;)
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Wow, what a menue! And did you have a bottle of Chateau d'expensive Wine go with it?;-)
So that one here is for you
Heart Attack Man (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oi3sB8ROAZ0[/url)
;-)
But i have some questions: you used frozen potatoes and put the bacon and cheese on and in it and then alltogether in the oven?
i use sometimes tortilla crisps with some cheese on it in the oven and the eat them with salsa.
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McCains frozen oven chips, cook through 75% of the recommended cooking time, then turn them over. In the meantime, slice a decent cheese (I'd recommend White Cheshire, it's tasty and crumbly) into thin slices, throw in the bacon bits, mix them all up and then pour over the chips for the remainder of the cooking time. Should be all gooey and hot by the end.
Best drink to go along with that is ice-cold Diet Coke, seeing as you'd have to be drunk as hell already to cook up such a thing... ;) ;D
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Well, that's a recipe!
Thank you for sharing your secrets about the wonderstuff. I'm tempted to get drunk right now in the morning, so i can cook that thing up for lunch;-)
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For the record, I do usually eat healthier dishes, but once in a while it's fun (and so tasty!) to just cram on the calories and DARE your arteries to complain about it... ;)
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I'm really convinced that the most important part of staying healthy is to enjoy what you do. So i think your meal was healthy 8)
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Here are the fruits of my labour in the spring:
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Doesn't that look good? I've got potatoes, paprika, peperoni, zucchini, parsnip (love that one, the white turnip on the right, tastes a little between parsley and celery) kohlrabi, spring onions and lovage as a seasoning.
I made a stew out of it and it was so delicious!
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Great produce you can't beat fresh home grown veg..............i really miss my allotment... :(...
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Yep, havin a piece of land, a garden is a real treasure. I moved next to my parents ground, where i grew up, i mean really next, so i can work in their garden. I must admit that i'm way too lazy to become a good gardener, but all the vegetables there i planted myself. And before that i worked on the ground, to plant them in.
That will be the next thing to do, to prepare the ground for the winter and spring.
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I have just made a batch of mixed Bell Peppers and Celery soup.....and very tasty it is too (even if i say so myself)..... :).....
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As this is cooking related, posting here...
Happened a month or two ago. I was cooking at home, had NMA playing in random mode from my laptop through stereos, I was a happy camper. As a side dish I steamed/fried sliced carrots and kohlrabi. As sauce I used ready-made asparagus soup from supermarket, added black pepper and cream. Diced some pork meat, threw it into the frying pan, nice & sizzling, spiced it with salt, black pepper, garlic and....... then realized I didn't have any thyme left. Shops were already closed plus the rest of the food was nice, ready & waiting. If you didn't already guess what song happened to be playing from stereos at that exact moment, I can reveal to you that it indeed was "I Need More Time". Yes. I did sing it along, with ever-so-slightly altered lyrics. I put a lot of emotion to the end of the song, dramatically singing "I need more thyme.... I need mmooore ttthyme!!"
You know, that was kind of a food that thyme was like Dude Lebowski's carpet, it really tied the whole thing together.
Needless to say but for a while, this incident ruined one of my favourite songs for me. (If it did the same for you now, I'm sorry for posting this.)
Now I have a proper stash of thyme at home and, I'm again able to listen "I Need More Time" as it should be listened.
All is well that ends well.
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;D that's brilliant.
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This morning pickling shallots.............this afternoon making pork and stilton sausage rolls...a slightly different recipe to the one i normally use..hope they are as nice.... :)...
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This morning pickling shallots.............this afternoon making pork and stilton sausage rolls...a slightly different recipe to the one i normally use..hope they are as nice.... :)...
Made me drooling...
During Christmas/new year, eating all cookings all my friends made, I've been so over-fed that I haven't been able to cook anything myself for a while... Was so proud today: I made some salad! Like, healthy stuff! It's been a while... :)
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It was again those time, when you are working the weekends and loose track of what day it is, so that you notice you have no bread and want to buy one, but it is sunday. So finally i was prepared for that event and made my own, which i wanted to do for a long time, but maybe was too lazy. And it always seemed like a huge undertaking to make the dough, but it just isn't.
With prepared i mean, that i bought some dry yeast, the only ingredience i normally have not at home.
So this is like ten minutes work, wait for an hour for the dough and the in the oven...
I used this:
- 250g flour
- one teaspoon dry yeast
- one teaspoon salt
- one teaspoon sugar
- 1,5 teaspoon coriander
- caraway seed
- three tablespoons yogurt
- 100ml milk
- shot olive oil
So easy!
Dissolve the yeast in some warm water
Mix the flour with the seasoning, make a whole in the middle and pour in the yeast and yogurt and work on that dough. Add the milk so that you get a good feeling for a firm dough.
Let it grow for about an hour in a warm place
I also experimented with the cooking, i made some in the oven and tried some for the pan. Both ways are good, but the oven is more easy to do and has less fat.
The two darker ones in the foto are from the pan.
(https://i.postimg.cc/nV5NCzPN/20210119-173836.jpg)
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Mmmmmm...now they do look good... :)...
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I'm on my way over ;D
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I'm on my way over ;D
You're welcome, bring some wine! ;-)
..and Ghosttrain you can also join :-) Well, any friendly, hungry and nma loving person is invited. Getting kind of lonley here in stay-at-home-only-going-to-work-allowed-lock-down-mode..
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I'm on my way over ;D
You're welcome, bring some wine! ;-)
..and Ghosttrain you can also join :-) Well, any friendly, hungry and nma loving person is invited. Getting kind of lonley here in stay-at-home-only-going-to-work-allowed-lock-down-mode..
I'll grab a bunch of wine, good eats and listen to some NMA
Sounds like a great plan to me!
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Sounds like one of the best! ;-) Seriously, i live in Germany, near cologne. Invitation is active!;-)
But now on with the cooking. Since i lost my fear of dough, i recently tried out a pizza dough, and what can i say. So easy, and fantastic! ;-)
Try this:
- 300g flour
- 200g drum wheat semolina (now this sounds strange, hartweizen-grieß in germany)
- about 4g dry yeast
- salt
- olive oil
Now the thing is that you also can do the dough without drum wheat semolina and even without yeast. I'm going to experiment a little, trying to find the right amount of drum wheat and flour. The drum wheat makes the dough more crispy.
Very easy to put together, take your time to knead it properly, let it rest for about 2 hours.
Then you can cut the dough in like 4 to 6 pieces and don't have to use it all at once. You can wrap the dough and put it in the fridge for some days or you can freeze it.
I made two pizzas with the dough and one onioncake with bacon and still have one portion in the freezer.
(https://i.postimg.cc/CxGFmBdt/20210206-121023.jpg)
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cthulhu, if you keep flashin' around your pizzas and other yummy stuffs so recklessly, your flat will be full of us soon ::) :P
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Tonight Im cooking keema mince pie. Which is basically a cottage/sheppards pie, with a curry twist. Really nice if I do say so myself.
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Tonight Im cooking keema mince pie. Which is basically a cottage/sheppards pie, with a curry twist. Really nice if I do say so myself.
I do love shepherds / cottage pie... my stepdad added a somewhat different twist by adding minestrone soup into the mince. Well worth a punt if you fancy trying something different!
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I have soaked my mixed dried beans over night and i am going to make our traditional dish...Jersey Bean Crock,I make mine with cubed pork,beans,carrots,onions,garlic and veg.stock..it is supposed to be cooked very slowly in the oven....i cheat and use my Slo-Cooker......serve with cabbage loaf..if i can get one,if not a crusty loaf or baguette.......an excellent dish for a cold winters day..
PM......Ironically it has turned out to be the warmest day for a while..... ::)....
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On Monday I wanted to have some chicken with masala spices, onion and peppers… First of all, there were no other peppers in my next-door shop than those slim ones, and ready-packed in a huuuge bag. Like, what I, as a single person, am supposed to do with so many peppers? Whatever, fine, I've always secretly enjoyed watching fresh things shrivel and die on my table. [side note: everything kinda pissed me off that day] Got home, opened a beer I thought I had deserved after spending some time pissed off, and started cooking. Couldn’t really wrap my head around what I was doing as I didn’t seem to be able to concentrate on anything, one of those days. Onions and peppers ended up too mushy-mushy and when I was applying spices I think that maybe a few times too many I went like ''whoops''. In the end my flat smelt so much of spices that my eyelids curled and, as I don’t have that ventilation-thingy, I had to check whether the ceiling was peeling off paint. I did pour lots of cream into the dish but nevertheless, I think I was bending space-time while eating it.
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Today i wanna praise one of the best and important tools of a kitchen. In germany we call it "Zauberstab" like Magic Stick. Well, we do so in the restaurant kitchens rather than in the privat area, and there i also learned some more german nick-names for tools, which i just cannot mention here. :o
But anyway...beware, the
Zauberstab
(https://i.postimg.cc/pdNWm0z2/20210429_190559.jpg)
I use it very often. You may now think: "what the heck..this is just good for mashing up some things.." and that's of course kind of true. But there is a much bigger picture there in the dark unknown shadows of using the Zauberstab for just mashing up.. EVERYTHING. ;D
So, what is that in the pot in the foto above? Potatoes! Totally creamy, mashed up HOT potatoes. That's one thing i find about that tool so very useful and that is that you can put it in hot, cooking elements. You can make the best soups with it. Just cook some vegetables and then mash them up into a creamy soup. I'm a big soup fan! 8)
Cook some potatoes, don't put too much salt in there, you want to process that further and add salty things to it.
Like some fried bacon, very crusty..
(https://i.postimg.cc/m2D2J1TG/20210429_191611.jpg)
and some sausage maybe..
(https://i.postimg.cc/wvpjGWjW/20210429_192423.jpg)
you could put some fresh red onions in there also..
(https://i.postimg.cc/yYbYH6N3/20210429_192432.jpg)
A total must have spice for potatoes for me is: lovage ! and i also would recommend some savory. parsley of course also later when it's done, if you like. And besides salt and pepper i would also use nutmeg!
I just love that creamy tasty feeling of the soup and then have the crunchy bacon in it...
And the Zauberstab is essential if you want to do some of your own spiced-oil. I always have some garlic oil. Just put some garlic in oil ;) ;D
(https://i.postimg.cc/N0T0bhB9/20210429_191559.jpg)
This is a picture of the oil being already produced but not used and the particles are at the bottom. Just stir it up a little and then it looks like this
(https://i.postimg.cc/rwDs00H9/20210429_193130.jpg)
Just use lots of garlic!!
Think about doing your own pesto! Shush?!? ;)
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Here is my version of that: "i've just got to eat more vegetables and less meat..yeah, maybe become a vegetarian..maybe..." feeling i sometimes get. And that was my solution...
It's: green asparagus, brokkoli, zucchini, parsnip, paprika, mushroom...and 90g of some fine beef filet..
with a tomatoe sauce
(https://i.postimg.cc/QMmSjmpX/20210430-212439.jpg)
I think this cearly comes near to an almost vegetarian meal! ;)
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I bet the poor cow would'nt agree........ ::)......
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Well, this would not be the case if the cow was
The Ameglian Major Cow (also referred to as the Dish of the Day)
...was one example of a race of artificially created, sentient creatures which were bred to want to be eaten. It appeared in the television adaptation of The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy in the second novel, The Restaurant at the End of the Universe...
Meet the meat! (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5HLy27bK-wU)
;D ;)
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...The Ameglian Major Cow... Brilliant! ;D
And cthulhu, thanks for your recipes! Now I know where to stick my magic stick next time... Mmmmmm, potato soup...