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[Ghosttrain]

Mmmmmm...now they do look good... ...

[Digital Man]

I'm on my way over 

[cthulhu]

I'm on my way over 

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..

[Digital Man]

I'm on my way over 

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!

[cthulhu]

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.

[Tarsier]

cthulhu, if you keep flashin' around your pizzas and other yummy stuffs so recklessly, your flat will be full of us soon

[Bunny]

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.

[Master Ray]

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!

[Ghosttrain]

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..... ....

[Tarsier]

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.

[cthulhu]

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. 
But anyway...beware,  the

Zauberstab

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. 

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!

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..

and some sausage maybe..

you could put some fresh red onions in there also..

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


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



Just use lots of garlic!!

Think about doing your own pesto! Shush?!?



 

[cthulhu]

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



I think this cearly comes near to an almost vegetarian meal! 

[Ghosttrain]

I bet the poor cow would'nt agree........ ......

[cthulhu]

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!

 

[Tarsier]

...The Ameglian Major Cow... Brilliant! 

And cthulhu, thanks for your recipes! Now I know where to stick my magic stick next time... Mmmmmm, potato soup...