i really like making a simple squash soup just by roasting it and then putting it in with stock, onion, garlic, ginger and coconut milk and then immersion blending. very easy light meal.
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Wednesday, 28 June 2017 16:27 (seven years ago) link
sunday is fish day. whole roast plaice with cherry tomatoes and thyme, handful of samphire with lemon and olive oil. glass of vinho verde.
baked apricots with brown sugar and some leftover cream.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Sunday, 9 July 2017 19:14 (seven years ago) link
mmmmm yum
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 9 July 2017 20:36 (seven years ago) link
i just looked up samphire and still don't recognize itintrigued!
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 10 July 2017 12:46 (seven years ago) link
it's sometimes called sea asparagus - it's like a salty quite coarse green - very nice and cooks quickly. think it was faintly popularised by foraging chefs over here, i guess it's plentiful in the uk as you can buy it in most supermarkets now.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Monday, 10 July 2017 12:49 (seven years ago) link
not only have i not seen it, i haven't heard of iti guess i'm nowhere near the sea, might have something to do with it?
the name is very appealing
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 10 July 2017 12:50 (seven years ago) link
often sold at the fishmongers or fish counter or whatever. give it a go if you can find some. it's mostly a side for fish but i think i've seen it in pastas and stuff before as well.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Monday, 10 July 2017 12:54 (seven years ago) link
i'm always into a new vegetablesomeone should make an ESG omelette with it -- eggs, samphire, gruyere
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 10 July 2017 12:57 (seven years ago) link
there's a place in oakland that only does mac+cheese called homeroom. stumbled upon their cookbook a couple years ago but filed recipes away and hadn't used any. made their vegan sauce recipe yesterday and it was un-flippin'-believable. added sauteed mush/onions and some chopped kale to it and baked it covered for awhile then topped with panko breadcrumbs til they got toasty. this gets regular rotation status consideration. was one of the simplest things in the world to make (the sauce involved no cooking!), too
― freedom is not having to measure life with a ruler (outdoor_miner), Thursday, 13 July 2017 15:50 (seven years ago) link
just had a google, might give it a try. i am basically vegan (i eat a piece of pizza with cheese on it every once in a while/will eat vegetarian if I'm somewhere where it's the only option logistically) and have tried a few different vegan mac and cheese recipes, but this one looks fairly different to others I've tried.
i made this vegan "carbonara" on friday, it was very good http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2017/03/vegan-carbonara-pasta-recipe.html
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 13 July 2017 16:41 (seven years ago) link
Oh! That looks killer. Yeah I've tried 3 other v good vegan Mac recipes and don't think I'll be going back to them. Sauce in this one is pretty loose but came together perfectly when baked
― freedom is not having to measure life with a ruler (outdoor_miner), Thursday, 13 July 2017 22:50 (seven years ago) link
i didn't like this very much! haha. oh subjectivity.
i don't get too upset at "failures" of this kind though, it's always worth trying new things out and you won't love everything
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Friday, 14 July 2017 16:31 (seven years ago) link
dang, sry to hear that. the three people that i ate it with /seemed/ to enjoy it as much as i
― freedom is not having to measure life with a ruler (outdoor_miner), Friday, 14 July 2017 19:07 (seven years ago) link
it wasn't too bad (i just ate leftovers for lunch at work) but i think i prefer other vegan macs I've made that were cashew based more
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Friday, 14 July 2017 19:11 (seven years ago) link
tonight - whole roast rainbow trout stuffed with parsley, lemon and garlic. and a baked potato. i got quite excited about having a baked potato cos they're so impossible midweek when time is scarce, realised i hadn't cooked one in years. topped it with grated manchego and chopped scallions. glass of gruner veltliner relieving a horrible hangover after some friends' 40th celebrations yesterday :)
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Sunday, 16 July 2017 19:30 (seven years ago) link
very nice!
i'm in the middle of a move and devoting a disproportionate amount of time to unpacking/setting up the kitchen bc i miss cooking.
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 16 July 2017 19:33 (seven years ago) link
moving update: my rad induction range was delivered today so i celebrated ironically by burning the hell out of my finger on a pan that was under the broiler.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 19 July 2017 01:39 (seven years ago) link
made this tonight, it really livened up a fairly bland dinner of boiled potatoes and a chicken breast: https://food52.com/recipes/12000-old-bay-aioli
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 19:34 (seven years ago) link
ooh i love old bayit's really good on popcorn
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 19:46 (seven years ago) link
been alternating butter chicken (from Ajanta book), vegetable korma, and paneer kofta (also Ajanta) for about one year, and I'm still not tired of it somehow
― Gaspard de la Nuit: III. ScarJost (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 20:38 (seven years ago) link
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Wednesday, August 2, 2017 3:46 PM (one hour ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
i just discovered this and it is otm
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 20:51 (seven years ago) link
must try that. it's not so commonly available over here, i had to order a big tin on amazon. it is seriously addictive stuff.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 21:05 (seven years ago) link
you probably know this, but you can make it yourself
― Gaspard de la Nuit: III. ScarJost (Sufjan Grafton), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 21:10 (seven years ago) link
yeah i guess so - it is just a bunch of other stuff.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 2 August 2017 21:12 (seven years ago) link
food - just a bunch of other stuff
― gbx, Wednesday, 2 August 2017 22:45 (seven years ago) link
yeah old bay is something you can make but it's also worth it to buy it because you get a free shaker to dispense it and it is already made! if you couldn't order it on amazon i would offer to mail it to youthat's how tasty old bay is
my junkfood-approximating popcorn is drizzle of olive oil, old bay, nutritional yeast, and if i am feeling like i need a really serious treat, a little parmesan cheese
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 3 August 2017 00:07 (seven years ago) link
i went to a restaurant in a coastal town last weekend and we decided to get some popcorn shrimp--their interpretation was literal with fried jumbo shrimp in a box w/old bay popcorn.
― call all destroyer, Thursday, 3 August 2017 01:41 (seven years ago) link
I've never heard of it, what's it like? I thought you meant like a really dried up bay leaf
― kinder, Thursday, 3 August 2017 16:44 (seven years ago) link
a delicious spice mix, lots of paprika iirc?
https://www.target.com/p/mccormick-old-bay-seasoning-6oz/-/A-13477467
― sleeve, Thursday, 3 August 2017 16:46 (seven years ago) link
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Bay_Seasoning
it is tasty, it really does go well with seafood
― marcos, Thursday, 3 August 2017 16:57 (seven years ago) link
my brother made crab cakes with it a few weeks ago when we went down to the north carolina coast, they were amazing
I did actually google it, I was hoping for poetic descriptions of what kind of taste sensation it was!
― kinder, Thursday, 3 August 2017 17:04 (seven years ago) link
old bae
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Thursday, 3 August 2017 17:13 (seven years ago) link
taste is v similar to "shrimp/crab boil" seasoning
― sleeve, Thursday, 3 August 2017 17:15 (seven years ago) link
yea it is just kind of salty and little spicy but not too much
― marcos, Thursday, 3 August 2017 17:41 (seven years ago) link
i think there is celery salt in there too? I was hoping for poetic descriptions of what kind of taste sensation it was!it's good but it doesn't deserve that kind a treatment imo ;)
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Thursday, 3 August 2017 17:59 (seven years ago) link
celery salt is a magical thingcelery seed too
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 3 August 2017 18:32 (seven years ago) link
tried to make cacio e pepe tonight, failedugh. how can something so simple evade me so spectacularly. i ended up with oily peppery pasta that tasted vaguely of cheese. i think i needed way more cheese
anyone have a good tried & true method/recipe?
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 7 August 2017 02:56 (seven years ago) link
i've only done this successfully once: https://talesofambrosia.com/2013/03/04/how-to-make-spaghetti-cacio-e-pepe-like-a-roman/
and failed like 4 other times. but this is the one i want to get right. butter and evoo dilute cacio e pepe terribly.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 7 August 2017 03:04 (seven years ago) link
this recipe i used called for a ton of oil & not much cheese
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 7 August 2017 03:13 (seven years ago) link
well the one i posted will solve that prob; my uneducated take is that the temperature where pecorino melts into a sauce is pretty hard to come by. recipes that use lots of oil or butter force a sauce by just making more liquid where this one can make a coagulated mess if the cheese heats up too much.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 7 August 2017 03:36 (seven years ago) link
Inspired by SG's post above a bit making mushroom matar.XpostThis cacio recipe is killer and seems sorta foolproofhttp://luckypeach.com/recipes/cacio-e-pepe/
― freedom is not having to measure life with a ruler (outdoor_miner), Monday, 7 August 2017 15:49 (seven years ago) link
interesting, i'll try that technique next time.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 7 August 2017 16:08 (seven years ago) link
intriguing!
― Yoni Loves Chocha (VegemiteGrrl), Monday, 7 August 2017 16:12 (seven years ago) link
bless anyone that provides weights and temperatures in a recipe. I am going to try that one this weekend but without fresh pasta (I don't have a way to make it). outdoor_miner, please share a good mushroom matar recipe if you have/find one. I am trying to get away from using the same book for everything. I made some tandoori mushrooms with a cashew tamarind sauce (from ajanta) and some mushroom, chard, and corn tacos last week. So I am very much into the hongos rn.
― Gaspard de la Nuit: III. ScarJost (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 8 August 2017 05:29 (seven years ago) link
Oh, that all sounds yumm.reminds me that I miss having huitlacoche around to play with.MatarMatar recipe came from my heart beets that u linked originally. Nice recipes there, thx for the tip!Shrooms seemed to b enjoyed by everybody,was easy/wld definitely make again.
― freedom is not having to measure life with a ruler (outdoor_miner), Tuesday, 8 August 2017 14:29 (seven years ago) link
I haven't had huitlacoche, but Rick Bayless sure seems to love it in the red book. I will check out the matar (thanks). I found the korma from google, and I need to try some more of her recipes.
― Gaspard de la Nuit: III. ScarJost (Sufjan Grafton), Tuesday, 8 August 2017 15:58 (seven years ago) link
huitlacoche is very good
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 8 August 2017 16:46 (seven years ago) link
cooked this on saturday and it was amazing
http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2015/02/sichuan-braised-eggplant-vegan-experience-food-lab-recipe.html
― -_- (jim in vancouver), Tuesday, 8 August 2017 16:47 (seven years ago) link
lol i did this seriouseats chinese eggplant recipe last night: http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2012/02/braised-eggplant-with-tofu-in-garlic-sauce-recipe.html
also good!
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 8 August 2017 16:52 (seven years ago) link