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A Cooking Thread?
Papersatan:
I have a trip (tentatively) planned to a bulk baking supply store this Saturday. We are buying a huge bag of flour, sugar and some large quantity of yeast. We cook a lot from scratch and so these are our staples. We also are getting rice, bulk dried beans and I have started buying some canned goods that are on sale to replenish our supply.
Today I made mini quiches. I was invited to someone's house and this is my "dish to share".
dr. nervioso:
Do you have a recipe for those mini quiches?
I suggest you make some seafood. I once had a really good curry with some kind of fish. I quite liked it. Lamb's good too, especially if it's a really good cut
As for baking kind of stuff you could make a souffle. And pies. I really like baking fruit pies around this time of year
Unfortunately, I don't know about stuff that you can keep for a long time... Although you can try your hand at making homemade jam/jelly/preserves. It's tasty and goes great on all kinds of breakfast stuff.
Barmymoo:
Those look AMAZING.
I'm trying to find a recipe to try out my KitchenAid. My mum bought it for my 21st birthday but it lives at her house because it's too expensive and special to leave at uni (I'd either have to leave it in the kitchen at the mercy of my corridormates, or lug it back and forth and break my back) so I haven't used it yet. We'd have to cook reasonably late in the evening so I need something quick, ie not bread!
Redball:
--- Quote from: Papersatan on 27 Jun 2012, 11:53 ---What else should I tackle?
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You didn't say how much refrigerator/freezer space you have. That might help with suggestions.
Papersatan:
--- Quote from: dr. nervioso on 27 Jun 2012, 13:42 ---Do you have a recipe for those mini quiches?
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I feel like we had a pie crust discussion recently, but I can't find it.
Crust:
2 1/4 C flour
1/2 cup butter
1/2 cup shorting
1/2 cup ice water
cut the fats into the flour until it looks like crumbs then mix in the water slowly until it just holds together.
Then I press little balls of crust into mini muffin pans poke them with a fork and blind bake at 350 ish until they start to set. 15 min maybe?
The filling is cooked broccoli, gruyere cheese and bacon. Then the egg stuff
3 eggs
1 1/2 cups cream
salt, pepper, nutmeg, cayenne
put in a bit of each thing and bake at 350 until they are set.
--- Quote from: Barmymoo on 27 Jun 2012, 14:24 ---I'm trying to find a recipe to try out my KitchenAid.
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I mostly use my Kitchen Aid to make frosting, whipped cream, anything with beaten egg whites or large quantities of mashed potatoes.
Are you looking for a meal? If not, angel food cake with whipped cream (and fresh fruit) would be a good thing that makes good use of that motor instead of your arm. :)
--- Quote from: Redball on 27 Jun 2012, 16:38 ---You didn't say how much refrigerator/freezer space you have. That might help with suggestions.
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A bit of fridge space, not a ton of freezer space and oooodles of pantry space. I was more looking for creative things to make to eat in the short term than things to make and save up. Things that are fun to make, but which take too much time/effort to make regularly from scratch (and which don't call for too many crazy single use ingredients, bearing in mind I cook a lot, so unless something is really specialized I'll use it).
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