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I think flan is flan all over.

― Texas, Biyatch! (thatgirl), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 03:59 (twenty years ago) link

hmm, i'm getting a visual on that that is rather strange....

― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 04:00 (twenty years ago) link

Very sick today, but have made a bruiseberry pie anyway: standard fruit pie, four parts blueberry to one part blackberry. I'm eating a piece of it now, and didn't let it cool down enough to actually be pie so much as "bowl of hot fruit + crust."

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 12 September 2003 23:43 (twenty years ago) link

Oh yeah, and you gotta splash a little port in with the fruit, just a little. No lemon juice, port. (Usually I would use more blackberries but I wanted a mostly blueberry pie today.)

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 12 September 2003 23:46 (twenty years ago) link

I'm kinda jealous of Tep. But you're old, right? Plenty time, plenty time...

Our kitchen is too messy to cook right now. Bah.

― David. (Cozen), Friday, 12 September 2003 23:50 (twenty years ago) link

SPAGHETTI

― s1utsky (slutsky), Friday, 12 September 2003 23:50 (twenty years ago) link

I think I'm not quite old enough to mind being called old :) But yeah, I've been cooking for a long time, and have cooked most of the meals I've eaten in the last .. what, thirteen years now, I guess. (My mother worked many hours when I was in high school, so I did the cooking, which meant "microwaved marshmallows" wasn't gonna cut it anymore.)

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 12 September 2003 23:58 (twenty years ago) link

How old are you then Tep? If you don't mind me asking.

― David. (Cozen), Saturday, 13 September 2003 00:00 (twenty years ago) link

I've been assuming he's a "young" 79.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Saturday, 13 September 2003 00:01 (twenty years ago) link

28!

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 13 September 2003 00:04 (twenty years ago) link

Yup, old.

― David. (Cozen), Saturday, 13 September 2003 00:05 (twenty years ago) link

I like to think of it as "too old for clowns, too young for golddiggers."

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 13 September 2003 00:07 (twenty years ago) link

Do 21, do 21!!!

― David. (Cozen), Saturday, 13 September 2003 00:08 (twenty years ago) link

No no, I was really bad at being 21.

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 13 September 2003 00:09 (twenty years ago) link

I had some Thai Beef Salad (cucumbers, tomatoes, red onions, grilled beef and hot pepper sauce), some flank steak fried rice with jalapenos, steamed pork dumplings and a reeses. (nb, i cooked none of this however I supervised it's cooking.)

― Texas, Biyatch! (thatgirl), Saturday, 13 September 2003 04:58 (twenty years ago) link

I had a slice of pizza and ice cream. But I made bread last night and corn pancakes. I also made roast vegetable and black beans this week.

I am going to try to make chicken stock and with that make matzo ball soup again.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Saturday, 13 September 2003 05:34 (twenty years ago) link

Today we'll have pasta with aubergines and olives for lunch. This morning I had a banana smoothie, peach yoghurt and chocolate paste toast. This evening probably salad with tuna or sth.

― nathalie (nathalie), Saturday, 13 September 2003 06:40 (twenty years ago) link

a Sloppy Guiseppe Pizza Express pizza.

which I must defrost! thanks for reminding me, Tep.

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 13 September 2003 09:38 (twenty years ago) link

Oh yeah, speaking of reminders, my new watch -- once I learn how to wear it (I'm taking it to a watchatician) -- doesn't have an alarm, so I'll be burning more things, I guess.

On deck today: ribs. It's Saturday. Ribs.

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 13 September 2003 15:01 (twenty years ago) link

about to make a hearty breakfast w/ eggs and toast. just made some extra-strength coffee.

― smoky topaz (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 13 September 2003 15:13 (twenty years ago) link

had scrambled eggs, toast, hash browns and sausage this morning. Should've eaten something else as I'm now on my way to work and will probably regret not eating again shortly. oh well.

― Texas, Biyatch! (thatgirl), Saturday, 13 September 2003 21:10 (twenty years ago) link

pad thai. now cleansing my palate w/ rainbow ices.

― smoky topaz (Jody Beth Rosen), Saturday, 13 September 2003 21:18 (twenty years ago) link

Paging Jode: clean the kitchen, it's a shithole, I can't cook in it.

― David. (Cozen), Saturday, 13 September 2003 21:36 (twenty years ago) link

pizza was nice. Just had some peanut butter sandwiches. And an apple. I discovered today that there was one tree which i'd somehow failed to notice when I picked the apples a couple of weeks back, so once again I'm inundated with the things.

― MarkH (MarkH), Saturday, 13 September 2003 21:37 (twenty years ago) link

a boiled egg

― duane, Saturday, 13 September 2003 21:44 (twenty years ago) link

breakfast: two crumpets with cream cheese and guavas.

― The Lady Ms Lurex (lucylurex), Saturday, 13 September 2003 22:24 (twenty years ago) link

we just woke up
i made some espresso and vogels toast with either marmite or tuna but i dont feel like eating the toast now. the coffee is v good tho

― hellbaby (hellbaby), Saturday, 13 September 2003 23:02 (twenty years ago) link

i made bread pudding w. caramelized bananas! 's good! i also poured in a little whiskey and now it's uber-good! mmm whiskey

― geeta (geeta), Saturday, 13 September 2003 23:41 (twenty years ago) link

The girlfriend ended up staying in instead of going out, so ribs might wait (depends on how late I work). Chicken pot pie's about to come out the oven.

― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 14 September 2003 00:18 (twenty years ago) link

coffee, H2O,
tofu with corn peas garlic
pineapple hot sauce,

huge salad dinner
with sourdough, fresh tomatoes
(mac and cheese for kids)

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Sunday, 14 September 2003 00:25 (twenty years ago) link

Pasta with a homemade (uncooked) tomato (homegrown), onion, basil, garlic, vinegar, olive oil sauce. With garlic bread and a bottle of red.

― nickn (nickn), Sunday, 14 September 2003 01:11 (twenty years ago) link

Dumpster delight. A 50 cent can of Heinz cheezy beans, with home grown tomatoes, on some of the bread rolls found in a dumpster (a few hundred of them), and some Lay's BBQ chips also found in a dumpster (a whole van load.) Next week a hundred or more people are going to get free meals from this stuff.

― sucka (sucka), Sunday, 14 September 2003 07:28 (twenty years ago) link

It's Sunday! So, sausage butties, obv.

― Matt (Matt), Sunday, 14 September 2003 13:03 (twenty years ago) link

Matt, you need to post recipes. Any time you mention food, it sounds like something out of a Roald Dahl book. In a good way, though!

(I say this having made toad in the hole before, of all things. Why? Because it's frickin called toad in the hole, how could anyone need another reason?)

― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 14 September 2003 16:06 (twenty years ago) link

Sausage Butties: Cook a sausage, butter a roll, add the two. Apply ketchup.

― David. (Cozen), Sunday, 14 September 2003 16:13 (twenty years ago) link

Well, admittedly that sounds less exotic.

― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 14 September 2003 16:20 (twenty years ago) link

getting ready to make a simple sunday dinner treat.
the lamb chops, in my throw-together simple style--in the pan, olive oil, garlic, shallot, rosemary, a few Cabo tomatoes, throw it on a bed of greens and sprinkle some cheese over it (haven't decided which kind)

― Orbit (Orbit), Sunday, 14 September 2003 23:17 (twenty years ago) link

Since my vow to start doing more cooking, I bought a filet of tilapia at the market yesterday. Trouble is, I dont know what I'm supposed to do with it. Someone help.

― phil-two (phil-two), Sunday, 14 September 2003 23:21 (twenty years ago) link

boiled egg again
not as good as yesterday, didnt boil it long enough

― duane, Sunday, 14 September 2003 23:26 (twenty years ago) link

pad thai with american broccoli and tofu. not spicy enough thouhg . .

― Texas, Biyatch! (thatgirl), Sunday, 14 September 2003 23:30 (twenty years ago) link

I bought a filet of tilapia at the market yesterday. Trouble is, I dont know what I'm supposed to do with it

This is one of my favorite fish to cook, but I haven't done very many things with it because it's so well-suited to my favorite way to cook fish that isn't salmon: simple coating in either crackermeal (breadcrumbs or Panko are substitutes) or sesame seeds, with a little salt and often whatever spices sound good at the moment, searing on both sides in a hot pan with enough oil to coat (they're not very thick, right? Searing will do nearly all the cooking), and then serving them with a squeeze of lemon, greens (collard, kale, mustard, what have you, washed well and dried, either cooked for several hours with beer and soy sauce and tasso, or stir-fried at as high a heat as the oil can stand with a little garlic thrown in at the last minute), and occasionally Teptartar sauce: bit of mayo, bit of chopped up pickled hot peppers, bit of green onion, bit of garlic.

Alternately, you can substitute tilapia for the chicken in my Blackened Chicken With Satsuma Vinaigrette recipe, on the "hit me with your best sauce" thread.

― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 14 September 2003 23:31 (twenty years ago) link

As a more useful/general note: tilapia is vaguely sweet, in that fish-that-isn't-salmon-or-tuna way, and usually mild. Any recipe that calls for catfish can use tilapia instead. It pairs well with tropical fruits, especially citrus, and takes well to spice (but I think that of all fish and most of everything else).

― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 14 September 2003 23:33 (twenty years ago) link

Tep you are my hero.

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 15 September 2003 01:40 (twenty years ago) link

But we don't need another hero!

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 15 September 2003 01:44 (twenty years ago) link

You're my hero anyway ;-)

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 15 September 2003 01:46 (twenty years ago) link

I made my garlic pot roast.

― Lord Custos Epsilon (Lord Custos Epsilon), Monday, 15 September 2003 01:47 (twenty years ago) link

Describe!

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 15 September 2003 01:48 (twenty years ago) link

Sausage Butties: Cook a sausage, butter a roll, add the two.

There is an art to cooking sausages however. None of this grilling nonsense unless you want to lose the flavour. They should be fried very gently in a heavy-bottomed pan, turning regularly to ensure even cooking. On no accoutn whatsoever pierce the skins as this reults in a disastrous loss of moisture (this is also why I don't hold with piercing chicken to see if it's done), this is why the cooking needs to be gentle. Cooked in this way the sausages should a ccrue an intensely savoury and sticky gel around their skins. Should take about twenty minutes to half an hour.

Then you put them between two slices of bread.

― Matt (Matt), Monday, 15 September 2003 11:04 (twenty years ago) link

reheated chinese from last night, it reheats quite well, cos the food is very high quality to begin with from the place near here.

later I was thinking lamb chops, there's a nice rosemary and salt seasoning down there.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 15 September 2003 11:10 (twenty years ago) link

Matt,, I do sausages for about an hour! lowest light with a diffuser, turn every 15 minutes or so, nummy caramelized skins.

I won't be cooking tonight as I'm out boozing, but tomorrow I'll make some Thai green curry and also I'll marinade some chicken in yoghurt and spices for Wednesday as we picked up a big box of free range chicken pieces at the weekend.

Last night it was a small rack of young lamb, pink in the middle, puy lentils braised with pancetta,garlic and shallots, carrots done in a mixture of (a small amount of) water and butter and a few carraway seeds, and roast beetroot with red onions. It was weird to make a dinner with no rice, couscous or potatoes, but it worked quite well.

― chris (chris), Monday, 15 September 2003 11:16 (twenty years ago) link

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