adding it to the list, thanks.
― latin hypercube in shitspace (Sufjan Grafton), Monday, 2 March 2020 21:00 (four years ago) link
Have been doing variations on the them of lemon nabe (hotpot) - kombu dashi broth with pork, chicken or fish with tofu, mushrooms and vegetables, slices of lemons too. Would like to try it with oysters and pork but my wife is allergic to oysters so will have to wait till she goes away.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 2 March 2020 23:14 (four years ago) link
that sounds freaking nice. (except for the pork part bcuz i'm pescatarian).
― medicate for all (outdoor_miner), Monday, 2 March 2020 23:27 (four years ago) link
do you make your dashi from scratch? i keep thinking about it.
― Yerac, Monday, 2 March 2020 23:28 (four years ago) link
I've done it. It's so simple and 3 ingredients iirc
― medicate for all (outdoor_miner), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 00:24 (four years ago) link
Freezes nicely too if there's extra
i learned to make dashi from scratch a couple years before i realized that the instant option is more common.
― call all destroyer, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 03:06 (four years ago) link
I feel like muragami udon used to have a recipe online for their dashi but now I only see a general thing.
― Yerac, Tuesday, 3 March 2020 03:27 (four years ago) link
Kombu dashi is even more simple. Take a piece of kombu and steep in not quite boiling water, you can then use that as a basis for other things like Katsuo dash but on its own is fine for this.
I put fennel in the one I did last night, fennel and lemon is such a good combo.
A variation on this lemon nabe theme his lemon shabu shabu which is basically the same broth with lemons and mizuna in it. Then dip sashimi grade kingfish in it.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Tuesday, 3 March 2020 05:15 (four years ago) link
Did the farmers market this morning and made the spring veg vignole from six seasons. pretty good. Might have to go all in on fava beans this spring.
― latin hypercube in shitspace (Sufjan Grafton), Sunday, 8 March 2020 02:50 (four years ago) link
i go hard on favas every spring, they're the absolute best
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 8 March 2020 03:25 (four years ago) link
A couple of months ago I saw a recipe for crab rangoon cheese sticks, a brundlefly of crab rangoon filling and standard fried mozz sticks. Couldn't stop thinking about it so I gave it a go today.
https://scontent-ort2-2.xx.fbcdn.net/v/t1.0-9/88280863_10159341366703709_45977238356623360_n.jpg?_nc_cat=107&_nc_sid=110474&_nc_ohc=lWgz6vSB058AX9KpTRJ&_nc_ht=scontent-ort2-2.xx&oh=837947a2d145c53977e72922d6ffe176&oe=5E95B865
Really good, though a bit of work.
― Miami weisse (WmC), Sunday, 8 March 2020 19:41 (four years ago) link
whoa that looks like quite a concoction if you like crab rangoon! nicely fried!!
i am recovering from a terrible week by cooking: so far, shrimp & grits, miso soup, ceviche, and I'm about to make some spinach pies. I heard a dude on the Freakonomics radio program today talking about how making stuff, even food, can be very soothing and good for the brain. i need it bad apparently!!
my experiments with indian food have been going well and last week I made an excellent hariyali chicken dish that was exactly the combination of flavors i wanted, will make again for sure + increase the chicken to 2 lbs (this recipe https://myheartbeets.com/instant-pot-green-chicken-curry-hariyali-chicken/)
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Sunday, 8 March 2020 21:05 (four years ago) link
wow those look greatI rarely try new recipes but keep buying recipe book regardless!
― kinder, Sunday, 8 March 2020 21:10 (four years ago) link
*books
― kinder, Sunday, 8 March 2020 21:11 (four years ago) link
that green chicken curry looks excellent!
do you use an instant pot for it? i am this close to breaking down and getting one. i hate watching over my stovetop pressure cooker so the set and forget aspect is very appealing.
― call all destroyer, Sunday, 8 March 2020 23:04 (four years ago) link
I resisted the instant pot for a long time but my SHITTY new work schedule motivated me to try one. So far so good! That green curry recipe was a perfect example of something I made in about 25 min total including chopping (5 min cooking time?! What??) and I made a lentil soup w dill to go with it, and that took about 20 min. So ~6 meals that I actually want to eat in under an hour? I’m glad I tried it. I’m sure I’ll put it away when the semester is over and get it out in the fall again.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Sunday, 8 March 2020 23:40 (four years ago) link
Also it’s good for making broth for ramen or whatever.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Sunday, 8 March 2020 23:41 (four years ago) link
yeah, i want to do ramen broth, i want to cook more dried beans....there's a lot of things i could get done during the day (since i usually WFH) if i could just set it up and leave it alone. the stovetop pressure cooker works fine but i can't really wait around to see when it comes up to pressure.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 9 March 2020 00:21 (four years ago) link
The instant pot is great for the things you just mentioned — what’s blowing my mind is how easy it is to make the sort of food that would normally take like 4 hours of attention. Still gotta do all the shopping/chopping/assembly but the ability to walk away from the cooking and take a shower while my broth cooks is very very VERY nice.
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 9 March 2020 00:29 (four years ago) link
I’m still getting over the undesirable feeling that I’m relying heavily on the device but that’s silly. What matters is the edible end result and it turns out I can apply my knowledge of cooking to this new task and reap the rewards as I eat my dinners alone before class on Friday nights 😢
― weird woman in a bar (La Lechera), Monday, 9 March 2020 00:32 (four years ago) link
I have a comical and unwarranted skepticism towards instant pots, air fryers, and the like, as unnatural aberrations.
― college bong rip guy (silby), Monday, 9 March 2020 00:36 (four years ago) link
yep, i do have to remind myself that pressure cooking is a legit technique (huge in india as well as other places) that produces much better results than slow cookers. my inclination is always to do everything the most basic way first before i try gadgets and hacks, but i do have multiple weeknights where i could stand to be much more efficient while still making good food.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 9 March 2020 00:39 (four years ago) link
otoh the air fryer is extremely dumb
I’ve been mulling a pressure cooker. Winter is coming and I want to up my soup curry game and to get the chicken legs right you really need a pressure cooker. Instant pots are so massive, Stovetop seems the way to go for me, though as the stove has a constant temp setting.
(I did see some good small plug in pressure cookers in japan, which would complement the zojirushi rice cooker our friend left us went back to japan, so maybe that’s the way to go if a lot more expensive)
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 9 March 2020 00:40 (four years ago) link
Rice cookers on the other hand are the divinely inspired work of the Lord.
― college bong rip guy (silby), Monday, 9 March 2020 00:42 (four years ago) link
oh yeah, love my rice cooker
― call all destroyer, Monday, 9 March 2020 00:42 (four years ago) link
I have an instant pot that I have barely used because I would need to put it in the step down transformer and am suspicious of that. The toaster oven did not want to work with it and so I may have prematurely given up. I would like to use it because in the summer it's sometimes too hot to want to cook with a stove/oven.
― Yerac, Monday, 9 March 2020 00:48 (four years ago) link
This was such a great gift. Friend, who was a visiting academic in my wife's department brought this one from Japan (because his wife packed him off with one) and he bequeathed it to us, along with a bunch of crockery and all his left over food when he went home. Its a really small one and will cook down to half a cup of rice, which is sometimes all you need.
Definitely, pressure cooking is a legit technique, in the aforementioned soup curry you can't get the chicken leg to that fall apart consistency without one, and it is such great time saver on things like beans.
XPOST
Need to have a fairly big transformer for some of these devices. I have been thinking of wiring in a couple of 100/110V sockets for Japanese/american gadgets.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 9 March 2020 00:54 (four years ago) link
i shipped everything from the US to the 220 v here so we have a bunch of transformers all over the place. I feel comfortable for, like my sewing machine and wine fridge. But the toaster oven kept tripping it. I kind of expected the instant pot would do the same.
― Yerac, Monday, 9 March 2020 01:01 (four years ago) link
making a huge batch of chili verde from Art Of Simple Cooking , 4 servings my ass! I like to throw in extra diced tomatoes and some flour to get that saucy goodness.
― sleeve, Monday, 9 March 2020 01:26 (four years ago) link
sorry that's Art of Simple FOOD, Vol. II
It’s all about the power rating. For a toaster oven you probably need 1500W and I might go all the way to 2000W for a bit of headroom.
We’ve got a great place here that sells transformers any size you want, so when I got one for my wife’s Technics decs it was a matter of reading the max draw, doubling and adding a little on for safety. I’d probably get a 3000W one for a double outlet and I feel like this might be my next little electrical DIY project.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 9 March 2020 02:32 (four years ago) link
ohhh, i don't think we did the double thing on the draw. it was a couple of years ago when we got them for the appliances here. I need to look at them all again tomorrow. Good to know. I've only blown out a stick vacuum because I spaced out and plugged it into an adaptor instead of the transformer.
― Yerac, Monday, 9 March 2020 02:47 (four years ago) link
why the hate for the humble air fryer?
I haven't got one, or the space for one, but I've been served some sublimely succulent chicken tikka cooked on one which is well beyond my capabilities, so I have a respect for it
― ogmor, Monday, 9 March 2020 10:44 (four years ago) link
i'm not sure what it does that you can't do with a hot oven and a roasting tin, particularly an oven with a convection fan.
― call all destroyer, Monday, 9 March 2020 12:41 (four years ago) link
it gets hotter quicker tho right, which gives you the ability to cook without oil? for south asian food it seems like an upgrade on an oven, half a step closer to the domestic tandoor i crave
― ogmor, Monday, 9 March 2020 12:45 (four years ago) link
Air fryers are extremely good, we would have one if not for the logistics (one of us is vegetarian, and there’s nowhere to put it). Rice cookers are also extremely good, but I once started a fight at a previous workplace over this between people who agreed with me and people who thought it wasn’t a “proper” way of cooking rice.
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Monday, 9 March 2020 12:50 (four years ago) link
what is the proper way of cooking rice? A pot? I feel very un-asian when I cook rice in a pot because I gave away my rice cooker.
― Yerac, Monday, 9 March 2020 12:52 (four years ago) link
xpost ed, you are right. I just checked all my transformers and I max at 1000W.
― Yerac, Monday, 9 March 2020 12:55 (four years ago) link
Believe so! They considered rice cookers to be an East Asian thing and that rice should be done in a pan. I pointed out other half’s south Asian father used one, to no avail.
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Monday, 9 March 2020 12:57 (four years ago) link
if one eats rice every day it's kind of stupid to not have a rice cooker.
― Yerac, Monday, 9 March 2020 12:59 (four years ago) link
I have cooked rice in a cast iron pot thick enough to retain heat for the last 10 years or so and it has been coming out v nicely imo, not sure what the benefit of a rice cooker wld be, def behind air fryer in the queue
― ogmor, Monday, 9 March 2020 12:59 (four years ago) link
You can just shunt rice into it and leave it be while you do other things. That’s a big benefit for those of us who frequently fuck up the rice/water ratio (me).
― gramsci in your surplice (gyac), Monday, 9 March 2020 13:10 (four years ago) link
I dislike rice buuuuuut I eat enough sushi and poké that I should probably buy another rice cooker. Cooking it in a pot is very annoying even if it's only 1-2 times a week.
― Yerac, Monday, 9 March 2020 13:17 (four years ago) link
I've been kind of watching to see if they start making more rice cookers that make mochi.
― Yerac, Monday, 9 March 2020 13:21 (four years ago) link
our zojirushi makes rice so much better than we can do in a pot. I'm making fried rice tonight and ran the rice cooker earlier so that it'll have time to cool. since I soak rice before using it, it takes a while, but I mostly work from home so it's no big deal for me.
― Joey Corona (Euler), Monday, 9 March 2020 16:48 (four years ago) link
Very much a convenience thing. My wife likes to eat rice every day and it’s so simple to throw in some rice a slice of konbu water and walk away. It’s getting to autumn here so I should do some takikomigohan with red beans/mushrooms/chestnuts etc.
Walking around a Japanese department store I often get slightly lustily over the ridiculous, and ridiculously expensive, earthenware and iron pot rice cookers that make rice ‘just like grandma used to’. The ridiculous bit is, of course if you do have a heavy iron pot (as ogmor does) it will retain enough heat to cook the rice and even make it crispy if you get the timing right.
― American Fear of Pranksterism (Ed), Monday, 9 March 2020 19:59 (four years ago) link
i made double chocolate cookies under the guise of getting rid of the two almost used up containers of baking cocoa in the cabinet
i also bought lard today. went to a farm stand that had meat and i was trying to make decisions. "i know, i'll get lard!"
― forensic plumber (harbl), Monday, 27 April 2020 00:51 (three years ago) link
http://imgur.com/gallery/RmC41Ur
Chicken, marinated in harissa and celery seeds, smoked over hickory, served with sumac onions, laffa bread, and tehina.
― He Ain't Heavy D, He's My Brother (PBKR), Sunday, 3 May 2020 23:22 (three years ago) link