oh, nice! there was a strong Zen monastery connection back in the day b/w Tassajara and Green's (from where i got recipe) iirc, so any similarity makes complete sense
― form that slug-like grex (outdoor_miner), Tuesday, 8 January 2019 17:15 (five years ago) link
if i have a cooking goal for the new year which i don't really it would be to convince myself that making dough is not the massive pain in the ass i always imagine it will be.
to that end, i made this basic but delicious galette today: https://smittenkitchen.com/2007/10/butternut-squash-and-caramelized-onion-galette/
and banged out the dough quickly and easily.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 14 January 2019 03:02 (five years ago) link
just made pasta for the first time. It wasn't so bad. So strange, though, to work with such stiff, barely put together dough. I don't understand why they want you to fold the dough and pass it through the roller a few times to knead again. You let the dough rest for > 1 hour to hydrate and relax. And now you are making it rubbery again? fuckin recipes, man.
― why date Ryan Adams in the first place? (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 14 January 2019 06:02 (five years ago) link
Did you use a recipe that was mostly eggs?
― Yerac, Monday, 14 January 2019 13:56 (five years ago) link
13 egg yolks to 5.33 cups of flour
― why date Ryan Adams in the first place? (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 14 January 2019 15:08 (five years ago) link
Yeah, I had a hard time when I did all the egg yolks. I also don't like the texture as much as when it's less egg and more water.
― Yerac, Monday, 14 January 2019 15:11 (five years ago) link
This is the dough specifically for the scarpetta spaghet! There's another recipe for "pasta" that uses fewer yolks.
― why date Ryan Adams in the first place? (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 14 January 2019 15:17 (five years ago) link
Oh blah. I think my problem when I made that type of dough is that I measured everything. Usually when I make dough for DUMPLINGS! or pasta I just slowly add in the liquid until it seems right. With the egg yolks, i just went for it and I think it was too dry (maybe the eggs were too big). I probably should try again and not stick so much to the recipe.
― Yerac, Monday, 14 January 2019 15:21 (five years ago) link
Too small I mean. I like making orechiette now because it's just semolina and water. That is it.
Yeah, I had to add more water than the recipe said to get the dough together. Next time I'll do it the opposite way and add flour to the liquid I have. I'm not sure it was too dry. It didn't crumble in the roller or easily stick together. It's just a very different dough experience.
― why date Ryan Adams in the first place? (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 14 January 2019 15:47 (five years ago) link
I just saw that mcdonalds india has a fried paneer sandwich. <<<My plans for this weekend. To make.
― Yerac, Thursday, 17 January 2019 21:17 (five years ago) link
ysi?
― form that slug-like grex (outdoor_miner), Friday, 18 January 2019 00:22 (five years ago) link
intriguing but I don't see it being better than paneer kofta. but I also ate a samosa sandwich at disneyland that sounded great but was pretty meh. we are eating some of the homemade spaghetti noodles tonight. i hope they are at least...ok. will be tragic to waste known good sauce, etc on a failed dough experiment.
― why date Ryan Adams in the first place? (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 18 January 2019 00:28 (five years ago) link
is the idea to fry a rectangle of paneer? or is it a crumble? do you fry the paneer or the whole sandwich? many iterations returned by google.
― why date Ryan Adams in the first place? (Sufjan Grafton), Friday, 18 January 2019 00:39 (five years ago) link
it's a breaded bit of paneer, in a patty form like a filet o fish
― ( ͡☉ ͜ʖ ͡☉) (jim in vancouver), Friday, 18 January 2019 00:40 (five years ago) link
that's a lot of cheesegodspeed
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 18 January 2019 01:01 (five years ago) link
Hey ilx,
I made a thing. It was my mom’s recipe for “tuna mac” that involved some kind of fiber enriched pasta shells, tuna fish from a can, chopped up celery, chopped up carrots, chopped up onion, chopped up green pepper, a small amount of mayo and salt and pepper. I only used like one pepper and one stalk of celery, one onion, etc, but it created a huge amount of chopped vegetables. I couldn’t even eat all of this after an entire week.
― Trϵϵship, Friday, 18 January 2019 01:05 (five years ago) link
I do not think this is a “good” meal per se but it was a milestone to make my own dinner for a whole week.
did you eat this every day for a whole week?
― call all destroyer, Friday, 18 January 2019 01:07 (five years ago) link
Yeah
― Trϵϵship, Friday, 18 January 2019 01:09 (five years ago) link
are you sure? i can't imagine eating week old canned tuna?
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Friday, 18 January 2019 01:09 (five years ago) link
good for you. i suck at eating the same thing consecutively and using leftovers.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 18 January 2019 01:10 (five years ago) link
So the thing is i don’t care toooo much about food. I appreciate a great meal but generally i am fine eating the same thing a lot, as long as it isnt something gross like canned soup. I want to get more interested in food though—its a goal
― Trϵϵship, Friday, 18 January 2019 01:10 (five years ago) link
Not the whole week, just like, monday through thursday. Four days is ok right? My fridge is good. I somehow have great appliances in my apartment
― Trϵϵship, Friday, 18 January 2019 01:11 (five years ago) link
i eat the same breakfast and lunch for 75% of the week but basically require a different dinner every night.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 18 January 2019 01:12 (five years ago) link
Interesting.
I buy one of three ludicrously expensive salads every day for lunch.
― Trϵϵship, Friday, 18 January 2019 01:16 (five years ago) link
I fear that if i brought lunch i wouldnt get to walk anywhere in the middle of the day. I’d just be chained there for 9+ hours
― Trϵϵship, Friday, 18 January 2019 01:17 (five years ago) link
totally. i work from home 90% of the time which is great at limiting options. today i went to an office in the city and was overwhelmed by the presence of a cafeteria, 6 food trucks, 4 dumb "healthy bowl" and/or salad places, and all the lunch places in chinatown.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 18 January 2019 01:19 (five years ago) link
Yo i’m all about that healthy bowl
― Trϵϵship, Friday, 18 January 2019 01:26 (five years ago) link
However i went to the cvs blood pressure machine and it said i have hypertension so maybe the healthy bowls are not that great. (Gonna go to the doctor—skeptical of this reading)
― Trϵϵship, Friday, 18 January 2019 01:27 (five years ago) link
It was from this: https://thetakeout.com/fried-paneer-sandwich-cult-fast-food-hit-mcdonalds-1831693084
I am going to try to make paneer from scratch too for this. I have never done it before (plus fresh milk here isn't really a thing but I've seen it recently) so we will see how it goes.
I used to really like putting a can of tuna in my regular tomato sauce pasta. That does seem like a of vegetables. I probably would've done half of each of them and maybe left out the carrot completely (but I am not really a cooked carrot fan, I would never make a mirepoix on purpose). I actually would be fine eating the same thing everyday. I can eat pasta or sushi everyday and never get tired.
― Yerac, Friday, 18 January 2019 01:56 (five years ago) link
Oh no it was all raw vegetables! This was a cold dish
― Trϵϵship, Friday, 18 January 2019 02:01 (five years ago) link
real talk due to a childhood aversion i had never eaten canned tuna until like 2 months ago when i took the plunge with the ortiz brand from spain. that shit is delicious but i'm still never trying any non-bougie tinned fish.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 18 January 2019 02:02 (five years ago) link
xp wait what? raw onion/celery/carrot? no wonder it was too many vegetables.
Oh, I see. Hmmmm. Well, dumping a can of tuna in any heated pasta dish is fine too. It was an easy way to get some protein.
I bring my lunch to work 90% of the time and eat at my desk and then take walks to run errands or whatever during "lunch." It gives me heart palpitations to think about spending $10 on salad (because I don't want to eat them anyway). Plus one time I got a spinach/steak salad when I worked in the met life building and that led to some emergency running to the bottom of grand central so I could hide out in the public bathroom with the super loud hand dryers. I am still distrustful.
― Yerac, Friday, 18 January 2019 02:03 (five years ago) link
Oh if only it was $10.
― Trϵϵship, Friday, 18 January 2019 02:04 (five years ago) link
My mom used to make a cold tuna casserole but it didn't have that many raw vegetables ( i think just celery pretty much?). But it's probably good for you.
― Yerac, Friday, 18 January 2019 02:05 (five years ago) link
I work near union square and there like a zillion “healthy bowl” or salad places. Most are pretty delicious but $$$$$$, and shouldn’t really be in my budget
― Trϵϵship, Friday, 18 January 2019 02:06 (five years ago) link
Yeah i think traditionally this has more mayo and just celery and onion. But i loaded it up with vegetables so i would eat more vegetables
― Trϵϵship, Friday, 18 January 2019 02:07 (five years ago) link
I don’t know thatttttt much about nutrition but i am a believer in vegetables
I hadn't been back in NY/the US in a year and when I went back a couple of months ago and was working downtown near bowling green I was surprised how expensive everything got in a short amount of time. Like 20-30% more. And all the poke places are ridiculous and expensive.
― Yerac, Friday, 18 January 2019 02:08 (five years ago) link
imo, this will get you three-quarters of the way there all by itself.
― A is for (Aimless), Friday, 18 January 2019 02:11 (five years ago) link
Try adding green olives to the tuna salad, great combo.
― nickn, Friday, 18 January 2019 02:12 (five years ago) link
Poke is a racket, i agree yerac
― Trϵϵship, Friday, 18 January 2019 02:12 (five years ago) link
as far as lunch today i checked the 4th "healthy bowl" place off the list and it was prob the worst of the 4. i should have just gone back to gene's chinese flatbread cafe and gotten the insanely glutinous xi'an noodles again.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 18 January 2019 02:16 (five years ago) link
The seasonal miso salad at sweetgreen minus the rice is extreemely good. As is the fish taco salad, subbing in 1/2 romaine for the arugula to get some crunch. I’m financually ruined by these salads though.
― Trϵϵship, Friday, 18 January 2019 02:18 (five years ago) link
It's super easy to make poke (we make it once a week).
I still have never been to sweetgreen. Yeah, I always swap out what I could buy with the money for a salad/lunch with something else. Like a bottle of wine. Or get a manicure.
― Yerac, Friday, 18 January 2019 02:20 (five years ago) link
sweetgreen salads are really good but i hate eating salads for lunch. too many uncooked greens in the middle of the day for me.
― call all destroyer, Friday, 18 January 2019 02:20 (five years ago) link
I have thought of getting manicures. I bite my nails and i think i might be inspired to stop if my hands looked great
― Trϵϵship, Friday, 18 January 2019 02:20 (five years ago) link
I love uncooked greens
― Trϵϵship, Friday, 18 January 2019 02:21 (five years ago) link