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

[Greg Nog]

I would eat that KFC, for sure.

Went to a free beer-and-cheese tasting last night!  Had this fantastic cheese called "Terrantez," I believe; it was an "alpine" style cheese, but tasted a lot like a cheddar.  So good.  Ah, I know so little about cheese.

[peacocks]

I want an Auntie Ann's cinnamon sugar pretzel so so so bad right now. I haven't had even a bite of one of those in like three years. rrrrgh

as soon as I read this I walked to publix and got a cinnamon fried donut and a little bottle of orange juice even though lunch is in a half hour. No regrets.

[davy]

New favorite $2 snack!



Fucking yum.

[clare]

peas are great. Have you tried the wasabi ones?

[davy]

Wasabi peas and I go way back. This is actually the first time I've tried non-wasabi seasoned peas.

[elpollodiablo]

D made tacos al pastor today, with fresh salsa verde! Everything took forever, but it's delicious and bursting with flavor. I'm lucky to live with such a good cook.

[G.C.R]

I had a huge squash that I didn't know what to do with, so I'm currently making chutney with it! This is the first preserve/pickling/thing that requires bottling thing I've ever done, and I'm finding it immensely satisfying  so far.

[Good Intentions]

And you will find it satisfying for weeks on end! I've used the curried-green-bean recipe I've posted on here for carrots, tomatoes, etc. It's getting the right time of year to make more use of preserves as well.

[YojimboMonkey]

Yesterday and Saturday I made a pretty delicious grilled cheese variant for breakfast: cheddar, caramelized onions and bacon. Wish I'd had some better bread but it was pretty delicious on just plain old grocery store sandwich bread. Inspired by the fact that I was gonna fry myself an egg but Mindy was all hungover and sent Ian to tell me "Mommy wants scoombled orange eggs" "she wants scrambled eggs?" "No SCOOMBLED" so I went in and asked Mindy who was still all sacked out on the bed, "Did you send Ian to ask me for scrambled eggs?" and she lifted her head about a quarter of an inch and said "Scrambled eggs." And also there was a pan of caramelized onions on the stovetop from the night before (though they were not so good the next day so I made more)  So I cooked the last 2 eggs in the fridge for her and made this sandwich for myself instead. And yum it was so good I made it again the next day. Hooray for delicious things!

[Greg Nog]

Went to the farmer's market, picked up a red tomato and a green tomato!  Made two BLTs, one of which had fried green tomatoes as the T.  Both had a nice roasted-garlic chiptole mayo slathered on 'em.

[elpollodiablo]

Make me a sandwich

[Greg Nog]

Show up at my apartment and ye shall receive!

While the lady and I were at the farmers market, we'd picked up some cheese, too.  We got home, and realized we didn't have any crackers, so I cut up some white bread and deep-fried it in hot oil and we used those as crackers. 

The ladyfriend was blown away by how much she loved trying fried bread; it was her first time having it, which suggests she is much less prone to drunken hot-oil late-night culinary experiementation than I am.  In a related note, she probably has less spatter-burns across her torso than I do.

[dumbfish]

Spatter-burns are God's way of marking you as a creator of deliciousness.

[Thermofusion]

I've gotten to where I kinda like the kiss of hot oil droplets shooting off a skillet onto my arm

[jm]

I sorta feel like you're not doing it right if you're not getting injuries, however minor.

[Antero]

Spatter-burns are God's way of marking you as a creator of deliciousness.

Also, the slight-diagonal went-to-get-something-out-of-a-hot-oven forearm burn scar.

[FreddyKnuckles]

Spatter-burns are God's way of marking you as a creator of deliciousness.

Also, the slight-diagonal went-to-get-something-out-of-a-hot-oven-while-drunk forearm burn scar.

fixed, at least for me.

[elpollodiablo]

All of the chefs I've ever known have had forearms that looked like those of My Chemical Romance fans

[Ignatius]

Like extremely pale and blessed with fine, downy hair or something?

[clare]

Spatter-burns are God's way of marking you as a creator of deliciousness.

Also, the slight-diagonal went-to-get-something-out-of-a-hot-oven forearm burn scar.

Oh yeah, I have a bunch of them. Mostly acquired while sober, though I think the worst one might have been when I was slightly inebriated...

[Greg Nog]

When in the midst of all our deep-frying, I saw my ladyfriend reaching for the thermometer that was sticking out of the fry oil, so that she could wash it.  I immediately barked, "NO!" and she jumped back, and then I had to sheepishly explain that I have made that same mistake a number of times, where I forget that the metal thermometer is not only an indicator of 400-degree heat, but also a conductor of same.

[elpollodiablo]

Like extremely pale and blessed with fine, downy hair or something?

Ain't they cutters? That's like the single thing I thought I knew about em.

[Ignatius]

I dunno I'm callin 'em out as cutting poseurs I guess!

[silentsigh89]

My boy is a bit new to cooking, and watching him makes me cringe because there is a LOT of thermometer touching (our oven doesn't have a preheated light, just a little metal thermometer that sits inside and can move around), leaving metal things in pots of boiling stuff, holding things in his palm while cutting them, and forgetting to use oven mitts when removing big pots from the stove.

I, on the other hand, am fully aware of the dangers surrounding me in the kitchen and get burned anyway simply because I am clumsy (ie I use a potholder to get the pasta pot, but dump the boiling water down my stomach when I pour it).

[G.C.R]

Eyowch! please don't do that Beth!