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A Cooking Thread?
Barmymoo:
I'm in the middle of making curry. I've fried the onions and garlic, simmered the soya mince with potatoes, added the tomato puree, poured the mince mixture into the onions... and then realised that I forgot the curry powder. DUH. I've added it now, but I doubt it'll be as good as if I'd remembered to fry the onions in it!
Lupercal:
Took me 2 years of university to realise you actually have to season the base ingredients for curries and other such meals. I was so used to chucking all the spices in right at the end, I didn't realise it made such a difference until I tasted it!
My worst cooking faux pas tends to be cooking the main, say chilli, and then realising I have to cook the brown rice for 30 minutes.
Barmymoo:
I also had that - I'm used to white rice as that was all I could get before but now I have brown rice and I forgot how long it took!
Papersatan:
My grandmother told me about the first meal she cooked after she got married. My grandfather off at work, she planned a whole meal to really shine in her new role as (1940's) wife. A roast, a few side dishes and a dessert. Apparently, while she had cooked at her mother's house, she had never planned a whole meal, so they ate in courses as nothing finished at the same time. :)
Barmymoo:
Haha that is how things were when I started cooking - I'm getting better but it still takes a lot of planning if I'm making several things at once!
I've been making some changes to my cooking blog which hopefully will increase the number of visitors and also make it a bit easier to navigate. It's interesting, I've noticed I get far more page views on Wednesdays, and the lowest numbers at weekends. Also visitors have increased since I became vegan, so I've updated my title and descriptions to include that detail. I enjoy blogging but it's much more fun when I know someone is reading and especially when I get comments!
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