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MAKE NO BABBYS posted:Buddy, literally every Negroni is 1oz vermouth, 1oz Campari, 1oz spirit.
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# ¿ Nov 30, 2020 01:22 |
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# ¿ Apr 24, 2024 22:29 |
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more like boner broth
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# ¿ Dec 6, 2020 01:24 |
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bartlebee posted:Bought a ravioli press to do dinner on Christmas Eve or New Year's Eve since we can't go anywhere. What fillings should we do? Saw one online that sounded good with I ground beef, a little bacon, Swiss chard, garlic, and parm. Excited! Pair it with simple red sauce: can of tomatoes + 5 Tbsp butter + half an onion + simmer for 45 minutes, done. I usually add some oregano (I use Mexican oregano because I pretty much always have it on hand), a squeeze of tomato paste, and adjust the salt using fish sauce. If you want something more fancy pants for a holiday dinner, you could go with something super finicky like Ramsay's lobster ravioli, or some less fussy version.
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# ¿ Dec 18, 2020 02:00 |
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bartlebee posted:Definitely saving this sauce. Sounds straightforward and good.
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# ¿ Dec 19, 2020 02:36 |
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Buy cognac, use some to make pâté and the rest to make sazeracs.
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# ¿ Jan 12, 2021 13:15 |
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Helith posted:If that is the case, then I wonder why you want to cook this recipe.
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# ¿ Jan 15, 2021 19:09 |
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What was the name of the pre whirled peas regular who used to melt the gently caress down whenever anybody talked about this?
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# ¿ Jan 16, 2021 21:18 |
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angerbeet posted:Mommie Dearest? They liked a good meltdown.
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# ¿ Jan 22, 2021 13:35 |
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Eh. I've been making duck ramen about once a week since the start of the pandemic and while it's a multi-day thing, if you've got a freezer it's not like you're investing a day's worth of prep for one meal when you make stock. And noodles are one of those things that takes a little practice to get the basic mechanics down, but once you get a feel for it, it's mostly just doing it. I mean not trying to talk you into it or anything, but holy poo poo am I glad I wasn't scared off of trying it because of the perceived difficulty because now it's a favourite for both me and my girlfriend. Really I think the stuff where I'm more likely to say gently caress it and just get it from a restaurant is the stuff where it requires a bunch of ingredients that I don't already use for a bunch of other stuff, like pig's knuckles and congealed pig's blood for making Bún bò Huế. Which I could also eat a bowl of every loving week until it fuckin' killed me.
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# ¿ Feb 1, 2021 11:08 |
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Small, medium, large.
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# ¿ Feb 1, 2021 22:29 |
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BrianBoitano posted:I normally avoid lifehacker's cooking content but I may actually do this one:
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# ¿ Feb 18, 2021 07:30 |
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um excuse me posted:Not sure in which direction you mean granular, but sticking with stuff common to super markets would be nice to have some consistency. So all kosher salts are "less salty" than standard table salt because they all have a larger grain size and therefore a tsp (or whatever) will weigh less. Different kosher salts will vary among themselves depending on the size and uniformity of the flakes.
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# ¿ Feb 20, 2021 23:00 |
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Hawkperson posted:Yeah same. I miss being able to feel free to vaguely wander around the grocery store looking for inspiration, now I feel the double pressure of 1) not spending more time in there than necessary and 2) making sure I've got enough poo poo to last me at least a week so that I'm not making too many trips And haven't seen bread flour in stock locally since like last summer, so I've been buying all my flour online from mills that sell direct to consumers, and that means planning ahead and storing a bunch so as to not get killed on the shipping costs. Which all means that I've had to more or less completely change the way I plan meals. And, you know, I'd rather go back to doing it the other way but holy poo poo I've always known where my next meal was coming from and haven't had to deal with any major power outages or anything so I'm counting my loving blessings.
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# ¿ Feb 21, 2021 11:46 |
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um excuse me posted:Here's another dumb question. Where do y'all get wasabi or saffron? I'd love to explore both but the cost makes it intimidating to play with. For wasabi I doubt many people seek out real wasabi because the coloured horseradish is what is almost universally used, to the point I think most people would find the taste of real wasabi weird in e.g. sushi. Could be wrong about that. I don't know a supplier for real wasabi as a bulk spice, but if you're real serious about it and live in a reasonably cool environment you can grow your own. Like most edible rhizomes, if you have the conditions it likes they're pretty easy plants to take care of.
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# ¿ Feb 21, 2021 22:17 |
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Enfys posted:The rhizomes take about two years to mature, and they're very finicky plants prone to dying unless you have conditions exactly right, so you're better off buying some from a commercial supplier unless you're really invested in long garden experiments.
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# ¿ Feb 25, 2021 11:18 |
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pile of brown posted:I've always heard much the opposite, that real wasabi is extremely difficult and expensive to grow and that's why the green horseradish is so ubiquitous. I remember reading something about how the only domestic producer of wasabi in the us (in oregon) had an electric fence and a loving moat to ward off espionage. But while this is perfectly workable and isn't even particularly arduous as far as home gardening gymnastics goes, it isn't really workable at commercial scales. And it probably isn't optimal for producing the largest possible yields, and so on. Which also isn't really a problem if you're not trying to juggle factors to min/max your cost/value curve or whatever. There are a lot of heirloom cultivars that are commonly grown in home gardens but are seldom if ever found on commercial farms just because of peculiarities of their lifecycle or growth habit--low germination rates, slow maturity, narrow growing season, reliance on hand pruning, difficulties in harvesting, poor keeping characteristics of the resulting crop, or whatever. This kind of poo poo can kill profitability of a commercial crop, but if you're not worried about your garden supplying all your food or making you money it's no problem.
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# ¿ Feb 28, 2021 21:28 |
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Mr. Wiggles posted:What else would you do when you run out of Flavacol? I think I'm about halfway through the carton I bought in 2011.
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# ¿ Mar 13, 2021 22:21 |
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Could be MAP instead of just vac sealing as well. A lot of cheeses, even things like sliced sandwich cheeses, can last for months in an atmosphere that slows the ripening processes.
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# ¿ Mar 21, 2021 07:55 |
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Flash Gordon Ramsay posted:My girlfriend bought some sort of sprouted whole grain bread (I think that’s what she called it) and when she finally opened it it smelled like alcohol or acetone or possibly both. What happened?
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# ¿ Mar 25, 2021 01:36 |
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mediaphage posted:they may have just bagged it hot, too, i suppose. one of the major smells of baking bread is the alcohol being driven off. And there's the possibility that it fermented again after baking, either from a fraction of the yeast surviving baking or subsequent contamination from the environment. I guess you could try making prison kvass/pruno using a slice of the bread to find out.
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# ¿ Mar 25, 2021 02:17 |
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Undergoing meatosis my blood and urine are full of meat.
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# ¿ Apr 3, 2021 01:19 |
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therattle posted:We had Beyond Burger hamburgers for lunch today. They’re better than about 95% of hamburgers I’ve had, including higher-end burger chains like Byron, Honest Burger, Gourmet Burger Kitchen, etc. I don’t ever feel the need to eat a beef burger again. They are pretty pricy though. Same with pizza. Pizza is hugely popular, but an astonishing number of pizza places produce pizza that's just execrable. Not quite as popular but still common, and to illustrate it's not just American food staples, sushi is also a hugely hit or miss genre of food. Good nigiri and/or a good bowl of chirashi is among one of my favourite things to tuck into, but most randomly sampled sushi places are just kinda bad. This could be amplified by the fact that sashimi is one of those things where the drop-off from "great" to "good" is pretty narrow and the drop off from "good" to "bad" is much, much wider. On the other end of the scale I feel like the average bowl of phở I've had is always at least "good" (and phở isn't even my favourite Vietnamese soup).
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# ¿ Apr 4, 2021 21:57 |
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enki42 posted:Another thing to consider is that you probably get more discerning about something the more you have it, or when you're exposed to better examples of something. As one example, we're probably the opposite on pho vs. sushi - I'm generally pretty unpicky about sushi, and don't have much of a palette for the really good stuff at all. I'll happily eat grocery store sushi, and while I can recognize that restaurant sushi is better, it doesn't feel miles away at all, and any time I've had really nice sushi, it hasn't registered as heads and tails above anything else for me. The only time I can think of sushi being unacceptably bad is at an all-inclusive in Dominican Republic. I also don't think that finding a soggy fast food burger disgusting is due to me having some kind of highly developed gourmand sensibilities about fast food burgers.
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# ¿ Apr 6, 2021 02:05 |
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BrianBoitano posted:For some reason now I want to insert angel hair into bucatini. Would that make me a Tik Tok chef?
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# ¿ Apr 20, 2021 20:22 |
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Why do you think it's not technically fermentation?
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# ¿ Apr 22, 2021 06:43 |
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Guildenstern Mother posted:I suppose it is, but I just associate that word with a funky smell
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# ¿ Apr 22, 2021 08:43 |
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Force de Fappe posted:so does that mean bread is technically beer There is a wealth of documentary evidence (mostly in the form of legal documents) through which the economic fortunes of different regions can be traced in terms of how much and what type of various grains people of different social strata were consuming.
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# ¿ Apr 26, 2021 22:31 |
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# ¿ Apr 27, 2021 22:05 |
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bartolimu posted:I usually browse YouTube for small channels I've never heard of preparing the recipe. It's not a guarantee of quality or whatever "authenticity" means, but it's more likely to be someone posting a thing they know and care about than some schmuck trying to make a quick YouTube dollar. It was really helpful when I was making albondigas to see how a few Mexican households did it, what the common ingredients across everyone's recipes were, etc. And when I struggled with getting pitas right, videos of home cooks talking about what works for them helped a ton. I mean, my pitas are still pretty mediocre, but they're way better than when I started. Like I think that the "standard" references are better at sorta blocking out the basics of a recipe or whatever--okay, what kind of things am I actually going to need to make this--but for a lot of poo poo there's a stretch between "okay I can mechanically go through the steps and get something but it's not even close to what I want" and "okay this isn't exactly what I want, but it's basically correct". Getting from that initial "I know how to cook but I don't know how to cook this" to "I know how to cook this but I'm going to have to do it a several more times fiddling with things until it's just right" is almost always going to come from someone who does that thing all the loving time, instead of someone who's just a general how-to-cook-poo poo source. Plus, you know, that final portion that has to come from first-hand experience/repetition.
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# ¿ May 2, 2021 21:28 |
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signalnoise posted:Deep fried eggs could be aight To make the floaters, just crack and egg and dump it into the hot grease. It'll sink, then puff slightly and float to the top. Fish it out with a slotted spoon, slap it onto a tortilla with a rasher of bacon, garnish with whatever else you like if you're feeling fancy, done. It sounds horrifically unhealthy, but if the oil is hot enough it pretty much just crisps up the exterior of the eggs and if you let the excess oil drain off they're not greasy at all.
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# ¿ May 14, 2021 20:36 |
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therattle posted:You and I have different meanings for the word “floaters” Guy I learned it from worked in food service in Texas in the '70s. For some time I thought it was just something he came up with, but I subsequently (in the '80s) worked third shift at a truck stop in east Texas and a version of it was something we served (fried in the fryolater instead of a dutch oven, served on toast instead of a tortilla). Dunno how common the name was, although a GIS for "deep fried egg" reveals several versions (in addition to a bunch of Scotch eggs, an entirely different thing).
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# ¿ May 14, 2021 22:22 |
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Mr. Wiggles posted:I buy the Angry Lady brand mix when I want spicy hot pot, then add extra garlic and stuff on top of it.
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# ¿ May 23, 2021 09:22 |
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Liquid Communism posted:That's honestly the only thing that saves me. Made potato chips/crisps via a similar method a couple times earlier in the pandemic.
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# ¿ May 26, 2021 23:48 |
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Has something changed in the egg supply chain that results in eggs lower in lechtin or something? I make a small amount of mayo every couple weeks for sandwiches and so on, and starting like two months ago suddenly every loving time the mayo wants to turn into a soupy mess. I've been making mayo for roughly forever and I think I might've had the emulsion fail maybe twice. And now it's every loving time unless it's babied like crazy.
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# ¿ Jun 5, 2021 02:15 |
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BrianBoitano posted:I'd wash and rinse the gently caress out of your bowl and mixing implements. Sounds like some soap hiding in a scratch mark or crevice to me. And it isn't just a single egg supplier, it's definitely at least two different brands and maybe three--first time it happened I wrote it off as being due to the eggs being on the old side, and I think it was also a different brand than either of the ones I usually get. But I wasn't really paying attention until it started happening consistently. And just doing the standard low-effort stick blender mayo thing: oil, egg, mustard in a delitainer, hit it with the blender, done. Made it probably literally hundreds of times that way with no fuss or bother, and like I said I think I've had it fail like twice. Now I'm having to start with the egg and slowly drizzle in the oil, like you would if you were doing it by hand. And if I forget to be cautious--like I did earlier today--it's just oily yellow egg soup.
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# ¿ Jun 5, 2021 12:24 |
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therattle posted:Are your oil or mustard any different? I don’t know if that could affect matters. And I mean this ain't my first rodeo. I've dealt with egg emulsions breaking before, and like I said I can work around this and baby it to get it to work. Its just that up until a couple months ago the stick blender thing was always loving bulletproof. And I've probably made mayo using the same method, same gear, dozens of times using the same brand of oil, same brand of mustard, and one of a couple of different brands of eggs since the start of the pandemic. And it's not like it comes and goes. Before: never a problem. Now: always a problem.
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# ¿ Jun 5, 2021 12:45 |
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dino. posted:Subg not to be funny but it might be possible that your blender is losing its mojo. Maybe try a new one and see if it helps? I sincerely doubt that it’s a technique issue. If more people aren't reporting it then it's probably not something like buttergate. I'm kinda suspecting something in handling or storage. Like it's a known issue that egg emulsions are weaker when you use older eggs. And, anecdotally, I've noticed that eggs have been more prone to getting floaty closer to their marked "best by" date. So maybe some change in handling due to the pandemic, if not on the production end, maybe subsequently--I've been doing mostly curbside or delivery since around November, so maybe something in the handling at the store/delivery end that's leading to eggs not keeping as well? I don't know any way of intentionally mishandling an egg to force this to happen, and it's happened with eggs that were less than a week old, so I don't know how plausible the "handling" hypothesis is. I can definitely give it a whirl, so to speak, using the Vitamix instead of the stick blender to see if that makes a difference. But hearing that someone say she basically quit trying to make mayo because it suddenly kept breaking every time makes me doubt its a mechanical problem causing it.
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# ¿ Jun 8, 2021 01:47 |
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Eh. Giving consumers better information, and more of it, is an empiric good. But I think there's a semantic shell game hiding under calling any food "processed" as a way of differentiating it from a "natural" variant. It isn't like "natural" cheese is harvested from fields or gets secreted from the paps of cheese cows. And the only differences worth mentioning between what you do when you make a modernist mac and cheese and what Kraft does when it makes a box of glow-in-the-dark yellow "pasteurized processed cheese food product" are differences in the quality of the ingredients, not the type or amount of "processing".
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# ¿ Jun 14, 2021 21:30 |
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And remember that there are plenty of things, like dal and congee, that are tasty and can be eaten without chewing (or be prepared to be eatable without chewing) without having to go all lol blender on it. Same with puréed veg soups. You can make a cream of whatever soup out of virtually anything that's currently in season by starting out with something like a basic potato leek soup as a base, adding seasonal veg, hitting it with a stick blender, and finishing with cream. For a lot of human history, the majority of calories consumed by the majority of people was in the form of porridge of some sort. We've worked out a lot of ways to make it palatable.
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# ¿ Jun 21, 2021 14:24 |
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# ¿ Apr 24, 2024 22:29 |
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Like right now is already prime gazpacho season. That's basically your blended pizza, only designed from scratch to be blended.
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# ¿ Jun 21, 2021 14:29 |