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A Cooking Thread?
Welu:
I want all that, it looks so good.
Aziraphale:
--- Quote from: hedgie on 30 Apr 2015, 22:56 ---Aye, that is falafel. And as far as the soup goes, I'll have to dig up the recipe. It's Thai style, in coconut milk.
Edit: I'll have to look online, since it isn't where I keep such things. My haphazard approach to cooking means that I didn't bother writing down what I *actually* did (I tend to improvise). But Thai spices and chillis, obviously, mushrooms, cherry tomatoes, lemongrass, basil, not much else. I think there was chicken or vegetable stock in there as well. Low heat, obviously, and throw the softer ingredients in towards the end.
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Thanks for looking, at any rate. I improvise quite a bit too. Between that and my inexact measurements (I do lots of dashes, pinches and handfuls unless I'm baking), nothing's the same twice.
hedgie:
--- Quote from: Welu on 01 May 2015, 07:55 ---I want all that, it looks so good.
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It was, each time. I tend to spend a lot of time, sometimes starting the night before for *some* of the prep work (for the cold items) beforehand. There are a lot of things I hate about being single, but one of the worst for me is that I rarely find the impulse to cook. As far as my own food goes, I'm content enough to just throw a sandwich or salad together or maybe make soup out of a can. I much prefer to cook for others, and since I don't entertain much, I usually don't do stuff like that. IT SUCKS BOLLOCKS. I know that I could never take the stress of working in a commercial kitchen, I'd just rather do it for others. Hell, the last time I spent 6 hours in a kitchen preparing a 5-course meal, and even a separate one for their dog, I couldn't even take time to enjoy the food since I was still making sure that the next course would be ready at the proper time.
--- Quote from: Aziraphale on 01 May 2015, 12:26 ---
Thanks for looking, at any rate. I improvise quite a bit too. Between that and my inexact measurements (I do lots of dashes, pinches and handfuls unless I'm baking), nothing's the same twice.
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Yeah, I tend to find stuff online that I want to cook, and then just modify the recipe to taste. Much of the time it's mostly "what would be good now?" But searching for Thai soups and using your imagination after finding something works pretty well.
The Seldom Killer:
I have a bit of a glut of rhubarb out of the garden at the moment. Crumble is an obvious one and we've done a bunch of that. I've done a couple of rounds of muffins and they've gone down well. I still got a lot in the fridge and short of making jam, which my partner doesn't really like, I'm pondering some other things, preferably not loaded with vast amounts of sugar or fat. Turns out one of my favourite vegetables isn't conducive to healthy eating and I'm finding it hard to keep justifying it's use in unhealthy recipes.
Aimless:
So lunch was great although my photographic documentation needs improvement :o one of each item was borked so I got those but forgot to take photos of the nicer ones.
Kalix löjrom on butter-fried sourdough bread. The white stuff is a kind of sourcream with chopped shallots and fish-roe and the bread was rubbed with some raw garlic after being fried.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kalix_L%C3%B6jrom
Sous-vide chicken-breast with a ton of chimichurri + thin puff-pastry cup filled with fried wild mushrooms, shallots, parsley, a little cream, Västerbotten cheese, all topped with a sous-vide egg cooked at 75 C for about 13 mins. The chicken-breasts were brined overnight together with some spices. The puff-pastry turned out not to be a disaster :o the eggs got a little too cold and this one broke a little because I was slow and clumsy.
For dessert we made fro-yo. Drain vanilla yogurt overnight, mix with lemon-zest, cream and cornstarch, churn, freeze, serve with fruit and a little honey. Next time I'll probably mix in some Turkish yogurt too because this was a little too sweet but it tasted great and the texture was fantastic!!
Best of all... we could prep most things beforehand and putting it all together was relatively easy and painless which meant we could both enjoy hanging out with my in-laws.
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