Cooking is intuitive and experimental until something gets set on fire: FOOD

[DCDave]

I am in the process of turning leftover chili into vegetarian shepherd's pie.

[peacocks]

 

[Bernard]

  floury tasting gravy wtf!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
but everything else was good

[G.C.R]

Is there anything nice you can do with brussells sprouts other than cooking them up and dousing them in butter or vinaigrette?

[jess]

Brussel sprouts are best roasted imo. www.101cookbooks.com/ingredient/brussels%20sprout has some brussels sprouts recipes (all vegetarian) that look awesome that I keep meaning to try though, esp the one with caramelized tofu.

Edit: also if I didn't know you were vegetarian, I'd suggest just roasting them with some chunks of bacon, because that's pretty much the best thing ever.

[Bernard]

Marinate and roast with something that has some of the saltiness of bacon? Parmesan?

[FreddyKnuckles]

So I'm on a pretty money thin crust pizza recipe from Cook's Illustrated.  But, like Bernard's gravy,  the crust was a little bland and floury. I think it might be that the salt is part of the wet ingredients instead of the dry,  and also maybe the extra flour used to stretch the dough and get it to the pizza stone?  I might try adding some dry garlic and Italian seasoning to the dough next time.  But overall in am pretty proud of my thin crust

[G.C.R]

Thanks guys! Roasted it is, though that salad with the hazelnuts looks pretty boss too.

[clare]

Grace! Soup!! Lots of garlic and cream, and potatoes brussels sprouts are great just as they are at this time of year. Once they've had a bit of frost they're so sweet! Yum.

Oh, and milly, do you cook your fries three times? I saw this wild Heston Blumenthal recipe the other day that did that...

(fucking iPhone)

[alex]

Brussel sprouts are best roasted imo. www.101cookbooks.com/ingredient/brussels%20sprout has some brussels sprouts recipes (all vegetarian) that look awesome that I keep meaning to try though, esp the one with caramelized tofu.

I've never been superkeen on Brussels Sprouts (perhaps that's not entirely accurate: like with most vegetables, I refused to try them altogether until a few years ago, and when I finally did, it was more like "yeah, that's not too bad", but never went out of my way to eat them), but that caramelised tofu recipe does look very excellent. I'm a huge fan of thin slices of crispy tofu anyway, so I'll definitely have to give this one a try.

[alex]

Also, hey, I managed to make entirely edible diabetic-friendly muffins this weekend (for the boyfriend's parents)! That felt like an accomplishment, especially after my previous attempt (with a different sugar substitute) turned out to have such a horrible chemical taste to it that there was nothing that could be done other than throwing them away.

[jess]

See, I hated brussels sprouts until I had them roasted—that's a vegetable where the preparation makes a huge difference in the taste and how much that pungent brussels sprouts flavor comes out. If you roast them, you tend to get much sweeter flavors, and if you sautee them, some of that and then some of the raw, green flavor, but boiling (and then cooking more) makes them have that strong flavor that turns a lot of people off. Same thing with asparagus—I never liked it much until I started eating it roasted and grilled, and now I love it.

[Bernard]

Also, hey, I managed to make entirely edible diabetic-friendly muffins this weekend (for the boyfriend's parents)! That felt like an accomplishment, especially after my previous attempt (with a different sugar substitute) turned out to have such a horrible chemical taste to it that there was nothing that could be done other than throwing them away.

Would you share your recipe? Or are you using edible to mean not-inedible?

[alex]

No, I honestly thought they were pretty good. It's just a generic apple-walnut muffin recipe though (and in metric form! and I don't mean poetic meter), I think the trick was not so much in the recipe as in the sugar substitute used, which is an obscure Austrian product that I can't find out much about, except that it does appear to be based on erythritol. But yeah, if you want me to post the recipe, I will.

[ellaguru]

Accidentally poured my vodka shot into the salmon sauce instead of into my drink. I am therefore using the sauce (which is now a little liquiddy) as a marinade instead. Should be just about as good, I figure.

[FreddyKnuckles]

What kind of sauce?  They make vodka spaghetti sauce I think.  You could probably still use it as a sauce, especially if you're going to be cooking a little. 

How drunk are you?

[peacocks]

haha you are going to have a great night.

a friend last night told basically told me that the food I make is "hippie mush" and I would like to change this but how? I eat vegetables. I like to sautee or roast them and season them and then eat them. I've got recipe books. A lot of the recipes I like best are the "hippie mush" kind. I like interesting sauces. Maybe I'll only make an effort if I'm cooking for others.

[ellaguru]

It was supposed to be a mayonnaise/dijon/tarragon sauce for BBQ salmon. It's not ideal, but I think it will work out okay. It's not like vodka goes bad with anything - the only downside is that the consistency is now entirely wrong. But the upside is that now there's vodka in it.

[peacocks]

yessssss

[clare]

ella, that is totally something that the bloke would do (his best one was putting a dollop of fruit yoghurt into his glass of water instead of his cereal) but I like the idea of a vodka marinade, and I never say no to salmon. I was walking past the fish shop with E yesterday, and pointing out all the different fish and seafood to him. They had some salmon heads, and I think some bellies, but I didn't get a chance to ask them as E wanted to look at the crabs (and salmon bellies aren't really on my weight loss menu right now!)

[G.C.R]

haha you are going to have a great night.

a friend last night told basically told me that the food I make is "hippie mush" and I would like to change this but how? I eat vegetables. I like to sautee or roast them and season them and then eat them. I've got recipe books. A lot of the recipes I like best are the "hippie mush" kind. I like interesting sauces. Maybe I'll only make an effort if I'm cooking for others.

Fuck the haters, most 'hippie mush' food is actually pretty good. I mean, unless you are serving up plain dishes of brown lentils.

[ellaguru]

The marinade worked out just fine.

Also: sauteed vegetables are good. Also, lentils.

[peacocks]

yeah! I just boiled a sweet potato, sauteed carrots, red onion, broccoli, and mushrooms and made an interesting sauce of lime juice, chili garlic sauce and soy sauce that is pretty spicy!  I'm gonna put that stuff over rice. My new kitchen makes me look forward to cooking for myself. I stay away from lentils because they feel sandy. I've had some good lentil dishes but I get sick of it quick. I have some quinoa that I've made once and it was ok. I need to practice with it.

[peacocks]

haha I've seen that episode!

[Bernard]

do not even need to click on that to know it's Neil