Seems to be the obvious food chat thread to start :)
I had toasted sandwiches earlier. And I might just eat some garlic bread now, which is horrendously unhealthy of me but on the plus side means not having to go anywhere for hot food.
Eggs and Spam. :)
Eww.
I've eaten much much stuff today because of alcohols and sleep deprivations. Largely freshish baked goods from sainsburys but also a pretty decent tomato, beetroot and salad sandwich. And some icecream for breakfast. And now I'm going to toast a little baguette thing and fill with with fried onion and mushroom and purple sprouting broccoli heads and mustard and cheese and omonomonom.
I intended to go out and buy food but I'm feeling too flat from piling through masters' forms (or rather compiling an extensive list of questions on them).
Soooo... should I do more toasties, or more garlic bread, given those are the options from my fridge? :p
Mmmm toasties.Or go and buy food, I like doing mundane armadillo that involves movement after stuff like studying or similar.
Skittles....
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and beer.
You've been eating beer?!?! :o
I've been trying to eat really healthily, which is fine, because I love vegetables, so I've been adding them to everything :p
I had no idea how much I'd crave chocolate though D:
Hahaha, what about Skittles? :P
I've been tactically inviting people over for tea because I've realised it's one of the only ways to regularly remind myself to eat. :/
I never forget to eat. If you want I can text you when I'm eating as a reminder.
Quote from: The Khan on November 13, 2014, 12:18:04 AM
Hahaha, what about Skittles? :P
I've been trying to cut down on sugar :P
But seriously, I had no idea how addictive chocolate could be :O
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Quote from: comrade_general on November 12, 2014, 12:54:43 AM
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and beer.
I'm going to eat pizza later.
I made a Thai green curry with chicken and vegetables in. :D
I even made the rice into little rice-castles :P
I ate pizza earlier.
Beer, more beer and yet more beer. Also stews because its winter here.
You don't know what winter is. :|
Brace yourselves... ;D
memes are coming? :P
We had snow briefly (10 sec or so)...Therefore it is winter.
No snow where I live, winter or otherwise. Unless, of cause, you are in the mountains.
Meaty pierogies and onions. I'm always a bit concerned that the specific meat isn't specified...
Hahahaha, I'm sure whatever it is, it's edible. :P
'Mystery Meat'? If you get the shakes soon....You just ate a person.
:o Isn't there some story about a pie shop and uses human for meat?
Quote from: The Khan on November 17, 2014, 09:35:02 AM:o Isn't there some story about a pie shop and uses human for meat?
You might be thinking of a film called
Delicatessen (IMDb link (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0101700/)). It features a butcher in a post-apocalyptic world; he's also a landlord, whose tenants occasionally "disappear".
Or Sweeney Todd, demon barber of fleet street?
Sweeney Todd I believe is the classic example, dating from the mid 19th century. I haven't seen Delicatessen but it sounds like a riff on the same theme.
I'd've said Sweeney Todd - It's not a true story though, thankfully :P
Back on topic - had an actual meal in college earlier. My life is a tip and my washing up is piling up out of control :(
:o Same! You should see the floor of my room, it seems it's taken to my style of clothing, it wears the same thing every day though.
Clean it up you slobs!
Yeah what he said.
I should not be eating breakfast at 3 am. But I did so I had second breakfast at 5 am.
There was much oats.
Scones with clotted cream and jam at three in the morning make for a good life.
My jam has gone mouldy, it is a tragedy :(
About to have garlic bread again.
That would never happen to our jam since we use so much damn sugar. :P
Jacket potatoes! :D
Quote from: comrade_general on November 21, 2014, 08:25:53 PM
That would never happen to our jam since we use so much damn sugar. :P
It would never happen to my jam either because I'd eat it first.
Much like C4, jam is meant to be used, not stored.
Green Thai Curry chicken and noodles.
Remarkably turkey mince is amazing in chilli. Who knew?
I need to get round to eating.
I had an éclair and some Cheetos for breakfast.
Dear Llama, here's one with bacon! :o :o :o :o :o :o
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Eww.
That's a mouth orgasm right there.
A Greek salad thing tonight (Feta cheese is the best) made by MoD. It was delicious :D .
Quote from: Son of the King on November 26, 2014, 08:34:40 PM
A Greek salad thing tonight (Feta cheese is the best) made by MoD. It was delicious :D .
Awwh :P
The 'thing' was in fact, just Greek salad. :P
Am about to re-heat a cold pizza. So much class.
Just eat it cold.
Cold pizza is better than fresh hot pizza, I expect its much better than reheated pizza.
I think it depends on the type of pizza tbh.
I recommend heating it up in a frying pan. Delicious!
Pasta again today.
Achievement for this term has basically been to increase the list of meals I prepare for myself such that it includes very simple pasta. The fact this is an achievement probably says something about just how non-functional a human being I am much of the time. :P
Today we shall attempt a second round of turkey chilli. Wish us luck!
What other appropriate response is there to man who so fearlessly announces he shall soon be facing the terrors of producing a turkey based chilli dish than to wish good luck unto him and all of his lineage?
Cereal, Nutri-Grain. :)
Quote from: Pentagathus on December 09, 2014, 07:59:37 PM
What other appropriate response is there to man who so fearlessly announces he shall soon be facing the terrors of producing a turkey based chilli dish than to wish good luck unto him and all of his lineage?
The dynasty of Fox survived another meal. It was delicious. I'm still amazed that I've found anything worthwhile to do with minced turkey.
Why are you trying to find things to do with minced turkey? Turkey sucks the big one and its expensive.
Minced turkey is relatively cheap, about £5 per kilo (vs. £4 per kilo for beef). Originally we stumbled upon a recipe and curiosity compelled us to try it. After all, turkey does indeed suck the big one! Remarkably it doesn't in the recipe we use. I was as shocked as you!
Ewww minced turkey. :(
Why not a solid whole turkey?
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A whole one is like chicken only drier and less tasty in every conceivable way. Mince can at least be encouraged to become something nice!
You should come to Thanksgiving at my grandma's. It'll change your mind. :o
So, it's 4pm, but I finally got round to making myself eat something!
And what was it?
Two toasted sandwiches - one with salami, one with chutney, both with red Leicester as the cheese.
Pizza, pizza. More pizza. I love to cook but not when I'm this run down. Oranges and tea to help things along :)
Pizza, ben and jerrys, fajitas, eggy bread. Its a hangover day, which means a day for eating and then eating some more. Omnomnom.
Food much improved since getting home - sadly been too ill to really appreciate it most of the time :(
:( Get well soon!
I really want noodles. But we have none.
I always want noodles. :(
I made this for my girlfriend last Thursday. ;D
Christmas came early for us since we'll spend it with our families.
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You the wolf, Man. :)
Beats my last attempt at catering for a significant other, which was tomato & chorizo pasta :P
That looks yummy, SW :D
I've not been eating many of the things in my freezer. In protest it has all defrosted and started to smell.
Instead I shall be eating cheeseburgers!
Quote from: Flamekebab on December 29, 2014, 10:10:26 PM
I've not been eating many of the things in my freezer. In protest it has all defrosted and started to smell.
Ick. Not fun, and usually rather expensive :( I'm guessing it took offence at being left alone for Christmas.
It was mostly a blessing, to be honest. We lost some cheap meat and fish as well as vast quantities of stuff that should probably have been binned ages ago.
Meanwhile, they're not eaten yet, but I have just cooked 750g or so of Brussels sprouts and stuck them in my own freezer. They were going very cheaply at Asda yesterday because they had reached their best before date, and since they're one of my favourite vegetables, I got quite a lot. Now to discover how well they freeze...
Delicious beef casserole made by my grandparents for tea tonight :).
^ That was delicious :)
Lots of noodles. Noodles in dark soy sauce with a drizzle of sesame oil have become a staple of my diet D:
I made a beef roast with gravy, red skin potatoes, and peas for New Year's dinner and then pancakes (American), bacon, and scrambled eggs for breakfast the next morning.
Quote from: comrade_general on January 03, 2015, 02:22:48 PM
I made a beef roast with gravy, red skin potatoes, and peas for New Year's dinner and then pancakes (American), bacon, and scrambled eggs for breakfast the next morning.
I am SO HUNGRY now :P
Sounds divine!
We've mostly been eating ultra-simple stuff like fish fingers and chips. Essentially it's comfort food as we've been feeling so run down lately. Soon we shall get back to our proper cooking and things will be delicious. Nom!
Bought smoked salmon, cream cheese, and oatcakes. YUM. :P
Need to lose weight after the holidays, made a lot of winter coleslaw. It is delicious, maybe the next week won't be so bad afterall.
What is winter coleslaw?
Coleslaw made with red cabbage instead of white I think. Its what I made anyway. No mayo either but that might just be how my family makes it.
Cooked pork loins with mash and cauliflower cheese. Simples and tasty.
I had some of our home-baked bread with humous on this morning :)
Want to make lentil soup but am working up the energy to leave the house to buy some extra ingredients :(
Was going to make hummus, forgot to buy chickpeas :-\ so i stuffed my pitta breads with salad, red onion and mushroom instead :)
Quote from: Pentagathus on January 05, 2015, 03:07:45 PM
Was going to make hummus, forgot to buy chickpeas :-\ so i stuffed my pitta breads with salad, red onion and mushroom instead :)
That sounds really good :)
Lentil soup is made! Going to crumble some oatcakes on top and have it as a kind of starter for tea as I missed lunch :P
Seafood pasta tonight, got some lobster tails, mussels, prawns and shrimp.
Why did I read this thread hours after my tea? Now I'm just hungry again. Fortunately I have some bitchin peppermint tea.
Quote from: Pentagathus on January 05, 2015, 08:30:50 PM
Fortunately I have some bitchin peppermint tea.
Peppermint tea is SO GOOD. :D
Some Wendy's yesterday and then at home chicken, bacon, and ranch wraps.
I've never heard of ranch wraps before, so I googled.
They looks funny. Like gringo burritos. :P
Got back yesterday, took me until mid-afternoon today to get round to going and buying food. Have finally eaten now though.
Doing some more cooking over the weekend. Doing a pud Friday: steam syrup, cajun chicken on sat and pulled bbq pork sunday :D
Since it's been sort of a trend lately...
Peppermint tea and chocolate coated cashew nuts. ;D
Went round to a friends earlier to play chess, cept his chess set hasn't arrived yet so we played jenga. And more relevantly, had spaghetti carbonara which was very nice. Going to have fajitas at another friends later this evening, and then a cheese board :o .Life is good.
Oh, also had dinner with a different friend on wednesday night, her fiancee baked a chicken which had been molested with a beer bottle. It was very good. As was the herring thing he made. And the bacon thing. And the potato wedges. It was all good really. And the beer.
Yesterday involved the first Castle Burger of the term (I have the same thing pretty much every time I go to the pub).
Today, I'm cooking pasta, and will probably add pesto to it, as a culinary creation that will surprise nobody whatsoever. :P
Quote from: Pentagathus on January 09, 2015, 05:53:29 PM
her fiancee baked a chicken which had been molested with a beer bottle. It was very good.
Wait, was the chicken good? Or was it the act of molesting? Or perhaps the bottle?
Quote from: Jubal on January 09, 2015, 07:39:13 PM
Today, I'm cooking pasta, and will probably add pesto to it, as a culinary creation that will surprise nobody whatsoever. :P
Well, when you put it that way....
Pesto is used in a lot of recipes of seen around the net.
However, I've never used it since it's not that popular around these parts and usually isn't easy to come by. :-[
It's useful if you really can't cook, you just buy a little bottle, dump half of it in pasta, hey presto (or should that be "hey pesto"), it feels far more like a valid meal.
Yes the chicken was good, quite moist inside due to the beer.
Cheese board was good. Fajitas were also good but dat cheeseboard tho.
Cheeseboards are good.
I may have become a weasel.
Yes, I'm eating pizza: I have succumbed to laziness and a certain amount of nostalgia, and got a take-away.
So I didn't have the ingredients for spicing up chicken appendages. Therefore I made up a sauce out of paprika, cumin, cayenne pepper, butter and a couple of other things I've probably forgotten. Guess you could say I was.......winging it ;D
Made a barbeque sauce this morning and smothered some pork in it, at the moment it's cooking. After 10 hours I'll see how pulled this pork will be.
EDIT: Argh, failed horribly. The sauce had absolutely no taste, couldn't tell I put anything on it and the pork was not pulled at all. It's weird, followed a Nigella recipe to the letter, very unhapy. :/
That chicken sounds great! Shame about the pork :( .
We had chilli again today. I also made a 15 minute pasta bake yesterday - pasta, garlic, "Italian Seasoning", salt, pepper, tinned tomatoes and tomato purée topped with cheese - like being back at uni. The spring onions for the salad we had planned had shrivelled up :( .
More turkey chilli for me. My gods, it melts my brain with its deliciousness!
Chilli is good, I need to make myself some :D
You ever do carbonara pasta bakes SotK? I've wanted to but haven't tried it yet because I'm notoriously bad at pasta. I didn't know it was possible either :P
EDIT: Forgot to post what I'm making, oops.
Sweet potato chilli pepper chips (paprika, ground black pepper) with....something out the freezer /shrug.
Beans!
Beans and pancakes! :P
Beans on pancakes or beans and then pancakes?
Thai Green Curry!
As for myself, this evening has led to pasta again. This time with cheese, a bit of red tomato paste, and a lot of dead pig bits (specifically, cubed pancetta).
Quote from: Pentagathus on January 20, 2015, 07:06:41 PM
Beans on pancakes or beans and then pancakes?
The latter. ;D
Breakfast is the worst - I never know what to eat D:
Unless it's continental in a hotel, then it's the best.
Also, I love pasta alla puttanesca.
The most underrated of pasta dishes.
I'm tempted to try and make some Nutella espresso pancakes one of these days. :)
http://tworedbowls.com/2013/09/25/nutella-espresso-pancakes/
I'll post pictures if I actually do it. ;D
They sound good SW - you should do it!
Really craving sweet stuff at the moment D:
Think I'm going to cut carbs.
Nah portugal that.
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Went all chinese again and I made sesame chicken, chillie'd pork, salt and pepper jumbo prawns and I'm almost certain I've mastered noodle cooking.
portugal yeah.
Duck load of liquorice allsorts. Should probably stop.
Home food now. Home food is good :)
Cinnamon whirls/swirls (whatever they may be called in whichever shop they come from) are delicious.
Crisssps. ;D
Yissss :P
-.-
Despite my generally messed up first week here I've been doing OK for food - nothing exciting, though I did make slightly classy hot dogs the other day (which is to say I used decent sausages that were on offer rather than those icky reconstituted things that are normally sold as hot dog sausages). I feel I should learn to do more rice dishes, as Selly Oak seems to be better for buying rice (there's a place here that literally sells it by the sack) than pasta, though pasta generally seems easier to do things with quickly.
Get rice noodles, win win.
Too many sandwiches were eaten today. Also apples whilst apple-picking.
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With cucumber and everything, yeah.
Picard likes sammiches.
Sandwiches are amazing and excellent things.
I made chicken with ramen noodles today.
I've sliced chicken breast into bite sized squares, chopped up some onion into squares, added chicken seasoning mix, a pinch of salt, a lot of ground paprika, a pinch of chilli, some white pepper, and a moderate amount of basil. I marinated it in oil and a pinch of white wine (Riesling if I remember correctly).
Once the chicken was done, I added ramen noodles and mixed them up together on a light temperature for a minute or two.
It was pure perfection. ;D
I also made a similar curry version not so while ago.
Quote from: Jubal on October 02, 2015, 11:55:48 PM
Sandwiches are amazing and excellent things.
Proper open-faced ones assembled right before eating I hope?
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AS for me, I had some korean spicy fried chicken last night with friends and a Newcastle to top off the evening. Tonight a turkey patty with some roasted veggies and rice + red red wine 8)
Do I observe a smorgasbord? :)
I usually either do open assembly sandwiches or toasted sandwiches. Occasionally I have to buy sandwiches when I'm out, which is less nice. Though the other continual issue is that there are almost no bakeries in Britain so fresh bread for good sandwiches is hard to come by.
Also, that is a really nice tankardy thing!
Ah gotcha. My pic above is a typical Polish breakfast. I was just visiting my gramps back home and had to take a snapshot. Brought back some of the delish sausages too ;D
Ah, awesomes :) It's easy to forget how normal it is, given the whole thing of cheese & meat for breakfast doesn't really happen in Britain. Which is sad because I really like cold meats, salamis, etc :/
Quote from: Koobazaur on October 17, 2015, 09:14:09 AM
Ah gotcha. My pic above is a typical Polish breakfast.
I can vouch for this. ;)
I ate cold pizza today. Both meals. And some apples.
I've been vegetarian for a while, so I ate lots of vegetables today. I've kind of gone slightly veganish and I really miss cheese. I might just say portugal your happiness domestic animals and start eating cheese and steak and stuff.
Struggles.
I had a stir fry yesterday though, it had noodles. That was good.
When did you go vegetarian? I never knew that had happened!
How do you know someone is vegetarian?
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THEY'LL LET YOU KNOW :P
@ comrade_general - też jesteś z Polski?
Quote from: Jubal on October 17, 2015, 09:54:26 PM
I ate cold pizza today. Both meals. And some apples.
Pizza is one of those rare foods that does actually taste better 2nd day straight from the fridge :p
True. I'm also one of those rare people who does well out of ordering a full size takeaway pizza because it will last me over a day's worth of food. I don't understand how some people eat whole ones in a sitting!
I should learn more Polish, I never got much beyond "czesc" - I have my plate rather full with learning ancient Greek at the moment though which (oddly) is actually more vital to me than a modern language would be!
Nie, ale moja dziewczyna jest. Hopefully I responded correctly, I only knew a few of the words so had to ask Mr. Google. :)
Quote from: comrade_general on October 17, 2015, 11:37:10 PM
How do you know someone is vegetarian?
Spoiler
THEY'LL LET YOU KNOW :P
You mean of course that we are all considerate and pragmatic enough to let our hosts know we have particular dietary requirements?
It was pretty recent joobs, just stopped eating dead animals when I moved back up to the frozen north. Still got no problem eating roadkill or game though so I'll probably stuff my face with carcass around Christmas.
I should probably eat less meat, but then there are lots of things I should probably do.
In other news, it's pasta time.
@jubal - im with you, couldn't eat the whole thing on one go. Well, i could, but not without feeling absolutely horrible after :p
And i dunno about polish. Unless you really want to live in Poland there isn't much use for it, and it's a pretty hard language. We conjugate nouns... in 7 different ways hehe
@Comrade - yup you got it :)
Aye - there are other things higher on my language list which I want for research. Those sadly include Georgian which is famously absolute hell to learn :/
Lots of egg fried rice (with lots of veg). Good job I like it since I made so much it's nearly all I'll be eating tomorrow.
I ate sausages. Then too much shortbread.
@Pentagathus - ha I eat stir fries probably like 5 days a week, it's the perfect meal (quick, easy, cheap, and with good variety). Tho I tend towards meat/tofu/fish and like to mix my "carb" too (rice, pearl barley, noodles etc.)
I'm not a huge fan of stir fries for some reason. I should eat more rice though, rice is good. I tend to do pasta excessively.
Rice is overrated, stir fries are indeed the dogs bollocks. Bought some tofu earlier so I might well have a stir fry for tea, but I also bought stuff to make falafel so I might do that instead. Exciting times.
Rice + prawns + chorizo + green pepper + Doctor Who equates to a good end to an evening :)
Quote from: Jubal on October 22, 2015, 09:40:45 PM
Rice + prawns + chorizo + green pepper + Doctor Who ...
And what does Time Lord taste like, pray tell? Are they better roasted or boiled? :P
This was Peter Davison, so probably lightly fried in butter and garnished with celery :p
(Though the pedant in me is screaming that Doctor Who is the name of the show rather than the character, so that either implies a much wider diversity of fare than a Time Lord - and no shortage of salt and pepper shakers - or a lot of crunching old BBC tape reels...)
Quote from: Pentagathus on October 22, 2015, 03:05:29 PM
Bought some tofu earlier so I might well have a stir fry for tea, but I also bought stuff to make falafel so I might do that instead. Exciting times.
Keep us posted, we await in anticipation.... :o
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Well, that explains a lot.
Quote from: comrade_general on October 18, 2015, 12:57:44 PM
Nie, ale moja dziewczyna jest. Hopefully I responded correctly, I only knew a few of the words so had to ask Mr. Google. :)
Sounds about right, but I might be wrong.
Polish is sometimes pretty similar to Croatian. ;D
For example, the same sentence would look like this in Croatian:
"Ne, ali moja djevojka je."
Language families are fun! :)
I went with falafel last night. Was good. Had stir fry today. Also had a armadillo load if peanut honey crunch cereal. And tea cake.
I've been on a diet of crappy hospital food (don't ask) and let me tell you, after two days of pain and no food, jello is the most deliciously exquisite meal ever ;p
Now home luckily and back to my scheduled eggs and polish sausage I brought back from when I visited , om nom nom
Was visiting friends last night, consumed much cheese and alcohol. Back to a less daring diet when I get back to Birmingham!
Yay for cheese and alcohol.
Just had sausages and onion in a roll. Need to get less cack-handed with pouring, put too much oil in the pan and it got a bit spitty.
Also made cake, which will be a separate thread.
I've mostly eaten pasta or some variation of chicken with rice for the last month. I'm finally starting to broaden my cooking now, and am actually writing down meal plans!
Broaden it whilst you can, I guarantee your repertoire will contract again when lots of deadlines or exam revision start hitting :p
I'm trying to do at least one new thing a week until I'm prepared for the inevitable laziness during exams. :P
I might try and do some more baking this week since my workload isn't too bad :)
Ate a whole bag of CRISPS this evening. And I don't mean one of those little individual packets. A portugaling bag. Like for a party. Yay party. :(
Had a toasted sandwich because I couldn't be bothered to cook. Also too tired to do the washing up. Bleh.
Crisssps.
Toasttoasttoast :)
I made more bread and fed it to the CTS :)
People don't serve warm lager here, that would be madness.
Quote from: Pentagathus on November 04, 2015, 11:50:03 PM
madness.
You probably thought I was going with the remix, but no, here in Sparta we eat that black broth pork and blood scheisse.
Went to Souplantaion (http://www.souplantation.com/) for lunch and pigged out on eeeveeerythiiiing....
Breakfast today: a lemsip. Throat too sore to want to eat much, hopefully it'll calm down by lunchtime. :/
I recently made this: http://allrecipes.com/recipe/83493/chicken-bogg/
I strongly endorse it.
Today I made "Bacon and pea stuffed potatoes", recipe for which is here: http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/bacon-and-pea-stuffed-potatoes
I also recommend them, although I suspect they would have been better had I remembered the cheddar at the right point :P
Chocolate ripple cake. Best thing to come out of Australia other than wifi and fridges.
https://www.google.com.au/search?q=chocolate+ripple+cake&ie=&oe=
Actually, all aussie food is pretty good. Other than vegemite. Vegemite is crap. take it from an aussie.
Quote from: Armadillo on December 05, 2015, 04:59:17 AM
Chocolate ripple cake. Best thing to come out of Australia other than wifi and fridges.
Judging by the pictures and recipes, it looks delicious. I doubt I can get the correct Arnott's biscuits anywhere nearer than London, but I imagine it will be fun trying British alternatives :)
Quote from: Armadillo on December 05, 2015, 04:59:17 AM
Actually, all aussie food is pretty good. Other than vegemite. Vegemite is crap. take it from an aussie.
I haven't had it, despite spending nearly 6 weeks in Australia in 2007. I do like Marmite (the nearest British equivalent), in carefully controlled doses, so I still want to give vegemite a try some time.
Marmite is amazing in soup.
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What is wrong with you people?
QuoteJudging by the pictures and recipes, it looks delicious. I doubt I can get the correct Arnott's biscuits anywhere nearer than London, but I imagine it will be fun trying British alternatives :)
Any biscuit that looks like the top right one here should be perfect:
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Really, any crumbly biscuit that turns "cakey" when wet would work.
Really I'm not sure why Arnotts haven't extended over there, I feel like Ripple biscuits and tim tams would be big hits in other countries.
Sure, Australia has it's problems but to me I feel like we have the best junk food. Well, I guess that may not be considered a plus.
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Fixed.
Cookies. :)
Went to the pub with some Tolkien people yesterday. Nice to have better food than I can cook for once! Though it wasn't cheap, alas.
Quote from: Armadillo on December 05, 2015, 11:17:57 PM
Really, any crumbly biscuit that turns "cakey" when wet would work.
Hmm... I will see what I can find. I might also need some
experimental subjects volunteer tasters to try the result on: I fear eating a whole ripple cake myself, appealing as it might be, would give me a cholesterol overload :(
Quote from: Armadillo on December 05, 2015, 11:17:57 PM
Really I'm not sure why Arnotts haven't extended over there, I feel like Ripple biscuits and tim tams would be big hits in other countries.
They probably would, but we have our own well-established biscuit companies, selling broadly similar products to a pretty much saturated market. It's very difficult to break into a new market in a country thousands of miles away; even within the European Union, I don't think there's very much trade in things like biscuits across national borders.
Really into making soups at the moment - our latest one was carrot, parsnip and swede. :)
Yesterday I made crumpet pizzas - basically take crumpet, take a creamy blue cheese (Gorgonzola usually, I used Sant Agut and that worked fine), and walnut pieces, put cheese on crumpet, top with walnut, put in oven for a bit. Very nice and very simple meal :)
Been living on cabbage/vegetable/bit of beef stews and skillet burrito.
Sometimes when I need a break from game dev, I whip up my Polish cooking skills...
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v474/Koobazaur/polish-cooking-kotlety_zpso94hdhor.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Koobazaur/media/polish-cooking-kotlety_zpso94hdhor.jpg.html)
Wow, that all looks very tasty. What are they all?
Taters, fried beets and ground pork cutlets! aka kotlety mielone i buraczki :) Polish goodness
I want to learn to do some more interesting recipes, but rarely seem to get time :(
My parents bought us some stroopwafels back from The Netherlands (They were actually away in Rome but they had a flight transfer there) and they are delicious!
I'm going to have a second attempt at crumpet pizzas and hopefully do it better this time!
So how did the pizza go?
Well! I didn't get photos though sadly :(
I need to photograph/film some of the recipes I've tried recently, I've been doing some Georgian cooking which is really nice (though it's also liable to bankrupt me because walnuts are basically in everything and they're quite costly in the UK :/ )
Any interesting food news from the Koob? :)
I've not generally been eating a lot because I need to cut weight but then last night I misjudged how much rum is in a small bottle of rum and I ended up eating a pizza and some things that came with the pizza which IIRC were potato wedges and I think I ate some birthday cake too. Weight cut may not go so well. Also none of those things were veganish. Ahh well.
Pentagathus - ever the answer to the question "why is the rum gone?" :P
Rum - ever the answer to the question "why is the Pentagathus gone?"
Aww that reminds me of my friend making these absolutely AMAZING no-bake chocolate rum balls for xmas. Dear god they were divine :0~
Any chance of quietly obtaining the recipe? :P
That sounds amazing.
Weigh ins tomorrow night so I've been eating prunes, lots of prunes. But also its too late to lose or gain much dry body weight at this point so I've been eating delicious tasty fats again. Omnomnom.
Sadly, no recipe, my friend didnt know since it was her mom that sent it to her :/
And I am actually just a few pounds away from being underweight so I should probably eat up but... ugh, kinda find it hard. After 20years of being a fatty and finally losing almost half of myself over five years, its hard to break out of mentality. Plus, I did let myself gain a ton of weight about a year ago when I slipped into the underweight category and was feeling like crap, but frankly it hasnt improved my wellbeing much. Been cutting again since and finally in my desired range I've been hovering in for a while.
So little rant aside, umm nothing noteworthy! Just a steady diet of awesome Korean food as I live in a Korean area of LA. Gimme mah kimcheez. And I do enjoy a mean scone and coffee every now and then :)
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I don't have any pics but I did get around to making chimichangas!
Made a light batter from bicarb soda and covered chicken strips which I then deep fried, put the tortillas on a pancake frying pan for just a few seconds each so they wouldn't tear. Heated some refried beans and put the chicken and beans in the tortilla along with a little garlic and cumin, used egg whites to stick the tortilla in place and deep fried the whole thing. Served it with salad.
Chicken in oyster sauce
Cook noodles in a pan of boiling water for about 2 minutes, then drain and leave them until the end.
Cook some chicken cubes, garlic and ginger in a wok until they were almost done, stir fry some veg on top- I went for carrots, spring onion, green beans and red pepper. When they've softened but still have some bite add de-seeded red chillis, a little shaoxing rice wine and enough oyster sauce to make everything sticky but not drenched then finished cooking noodles.
To finish the noodles, empty the wok of everything else, add a drop of groundnut oil and a drop of sesame oil, heat until it smokes then add noodles (I also added more de-seeded chillis but that may be excessive for some) which will be clumped by now and pour on light and dark soy sauce at about 70/30 dark to light, keep turning the noodles with tongs or wooden spoon or chopsticks and they'll separate again.
To cook any chinese food: Add garlic, ginger and spring onion to anything.
For instance I cooked some pork belly in the oven, cut it into strips, added garlic, ginger and spring onions to it and threw it in the wok with great vengeance. Steamed some veg and served with jasmine rice. That's real authentic chinese cooking according to my main man Ken Hom.
Today's offering; rice, with fried chorizo, prawns, green pepper, onion, and garlic mixed in. Simple but quite nice :)
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I made pizzas today from scratch, dough and everything. Given that I cook for a minimum 6 people a night, I ended up making 9 pizzas and they all got eated.
Oh food. Omnomnom.
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Yeah pizza's pretty bitching. Managed to make a cheese free pizza that was actually pretty good (put marmite in the pizza sauce) but I made a really armadillo base because I couldn't be bothered with proper bread dough. Is it a pretty simple dough to make?
Quote from: Clockwork on February 27, 2016, 10:24:21 PM
I made pizzas today from scratch, dough and everything. Given that I cook for a minimum 6 people a night, I ended up making 9 pizzas and they all got eated.
You do so much cooking! :O
I'm currently really full of mashed potatoes with leeks.
I just feel inadequate about my rice now!
I guess I kinda lose economies of scale in always cooking for one. I've got stuff for more crumpet pizzas though so I will try and photograph some finished ones this time :)
Quote from: Jubal on February 27, 2016, 09:59:11 PM
Today's offering; rice, with fried chorizo, prawns, green pepper, onion, and garlic mixed in. Simple but quite nice :)
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Yum that looks scrumptious! I'm a big stir-fry guy myself as well (tho lately been skimping on the rice). Back when I was interning between college semesters and trying to be cheap I'd routinely dump one of those frozen veggie mixes and chicken in a pan to go over rice. For flavor I used the Ragu/Preggo tomato-y pasta sauces.
I tried to make that again a while back, and it was predictably terrible xD I like to think I improved in that respect haha.
@Penty - Yeah, 0.5lb strong white flour to 7g quick yeast (I know, metric and imperial...It's a quirk) and some water hot to your hand but not boiling. You want just enough water to make the dough pliable but not so it's wet. I realise how that sounds, add water but so it doesn't get wet....
After that's all mixed up, leave it for 5 mins, put more flour on a surface that you'll be kneading the dough on. Knead the dough for 5 mins, leave for 5 then knead again for 5. At this point make sure you've got all your kit that's going on them and a pizza tray out or whatever and you're ready to roll them.
EDIT: If you're going cheese free, one thing I like is hoi-sin as a base and putting stuff on top of that. Fried pork is best imo.
Quote from: Lady Grey on February 27, 2016, 10:39:53 PM
You do so much cooking! :O
Oh yeah! I'm planning meals 2 days in advance, checking we have ingredients at that time and getting what we need. 2 days long enough to pick things up while short enough that everything should stay fresh. It takes up rather a lot of time I have to say, but since time is something I'm not using, I might as well ;)
Plus I quite like it and it's something I'm getting slowly better at. I really don't have a knack for it but I get so much practice that I'm just trial and error'ing to betterment :P
@Jub Cooking for one is sometimes harder mate, I know when I'm home alone for a week or whatever I just descend into a deliciously easy pit of frozen burgers xD I've been wanting to try making those crumpet pizzas!
Tonight I'm cooking 4.3 kilos of pork. The thing is an absolute beast.
Frozen stir fry and pizzas for me.
I can finally present, from the Jubal school of totally incompetent cheffery (because cheffery is a word now), the walnut and blue cheese Crumpet Pizza! To make, simply lightly toast as many crumpets as desired, squish liberal (and I mean liberal, go full JS Mill on this one) quantities of blue cheese on top, add bits of walnut on top of that, 5 mins at gas 6, and ta-da :)
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Too healthy. :(
10/10 man, looks fantastic! :D
I cooked this (http://www.budgetbytes.com/2013/11/creamy-pesto-pasta-chicken-broccoli/) tonight. There's no photos because the whole lot got scoffed pretty sharpish. Delicious and quick to make.
I think I'm back to a few days of the "cook carbohydrate, add some fried goods or vegetables, eat" strategy.
Probably the main thing I need to do to diversify is make more sauces and stuff. I'd like to try some more unusual recipes as well...
Quote from: Flamekebab on February 29, 2016, 12:28:16 AM
I cooked this (http://www.budgetbytes.com/2013/11/creamy-pesto-pasta-chicken-broccoli/) tonight. There's no photos because the whole lot got scoffed pretty sharpish. Delicious and quick to make.
Chicken pesto pasta is so good with broccoli in! :D
One of my mates introduced me to oatcakes today, they were incredible!
Quote from: Lady Grey on February 29, 2016, 09:41:28 PM
Quote from: Flamekebab on February 29, 2016, 12:28:16 AM
I cooked this (http://www.budgetbytes.com/2013/11/creamy-pesto-pasta-chicken-broccoli/) tonight. There's no photos because the whole lot got scoffed pretty sharpish. Delicious and quick to make.
Chicken pesto pasta is so good with broccoli in! :D
The creamy sauce is what really made it happen :o
Quote from: Lady Grey on February 29, 2016, 09:41:28 PM
Quote from: Flamekebab on February 29, 2016, 12:28:16 AM
I cooked this (http://www.budgetbytes.com/2013/11/creamy-pesto-pasta-chicken-broccoli/) tonight. There's no photos because the whole lot got scoffed pretty sharpish. Delicious and quick to make.
Chicken pesto pasta is so good with broccoli in! :D
Everything is good with Broccoli in it :p
I pity those unable to appreciate the wonderfulness of broccoli.
Quote from: Othko97 on February 29, 2016, 09:45:42 PM
One of my mates introduced me to oatcakes today, they were incredible!
What type of oatcakes?
@Clockwork (too lazy to quote) hoi sin sounds like a damn good idea, will probably try that next time. Made pizza for lunch/breakfast today, used a vegan cheese sauce to replace cheese and it worked rather well. Much deliciousness.
I made Crème Brûlée tonight. It was good. It did not, in fact, have any broccoli in it.
QuoteIt did not, in fact, have any broccoli in it.
0/10 try harder :P
Cooked steak today for I think the first time. It went okay, but then again everyone here likes their steak blue so it was more a case of the meat looking at the griddle than actually cooking.
Regardless, I made a pretty great rub for it, kind of peppery, kind of barbecuey.
I like a good peppercorn sauce with steak. Admittedly that's basically single cream, a dab of proper soy sauce (none of that watery Blue Dragon stuff), and a buttload of black pepper. NOM.
Tonight we had fish in panko crumbs with a sauce from some sachet brought back from Sweden. To go with it I fried up some garlic and onions and then mixed those into rice. Pretty easy but rather tasty.
My main take away from this is that the fiver we spent on that rice cooker (http://www.tefal.co.uk/instructions-for-use/Products/Food-and-Drink-preparation/Multicooker-and-electric-Pressure-cooker/Rice-cooker/Rice-Cooker-RK701115/csp/1500633239) was worth every last penny. The super cheap rice (~40p per kilo) and some salt and it turns out perfectly every time. NOM.
I bought a packet of peanut butter Oreos and then I ate them all and then later on I bought a muffin, a cookie, a donut and a chocolate swirl from sainsburys bakery thing and I ate them all. I'm really good at this weight cutting thing.
Pasta, because ill and can't be bothered to cook anything more difficult.
Tonight we had a burger night. It was good.
More frozen pizza and stir fry. Bit of yogurt and cottage cheese. Popcorn. Guinness. #bachelorpad
Also much tanking up on lemsip here :( Though I may eat some more of my fridgecake as well...
Guess what. I've been eating food!
Well done :D
I had a cinnamon swirl after lunch today. They are SO GOOD. :D
Mmmm we have lots of Amish bakeries around here that make the best cinnamon rolls, as we call them. :)
Do they cover them with icing too..?
I loathe icing on kanelbullar.
portugal yeah they do that's the best part. :)
Khachapuri :D
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waaaant :0~
Wotsits
Quote from: comrade_general on March 15, 2016, 02:14:52 PM
Mmmm we have lots of Amish bakeries around here that make the best cinnamon rolls, as we call them. :)
We have cinnamon buns here - they're kind of cake/bread like with thick icing on, our cinnamon swirls are pastry based and have a drizzle of icing over them :)
Ours are like both those things kinda?
Ah, I always thought our cinnamon buns were the 'American-style' things :)
Mmmmm I eat good when I go to my parent's place. :)
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Can't see the picture :(
Portugal. What about now?
Edited your post and fixed it :P
What was wrong with it? Link looks the same as first one i tried. :(
Not sure, since I didn't see the code behind the first try.
CG - that looks gooood! :D
Good news everyone! I have come to the conclusion that since mussels and clams and such have no brains or CNS they very probably don't have any sort of self awareness so I should have no ethical qualms about eating them as they are effectively just plants that happen to be made out of delicious tasty meat. Therefore I have been eating pasta with broccoli and mussels and a vegan creamy cheesy sauce and it has been wonderful.
Just cooked some Polish Bigos for a few friends last night. Turned out bomb, way better than any of my previous attempts :D
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I think I might have eaten and enjoyed bigos on a visit to Poland in 2003, possibly with more pork and less sausage (kiełbasa?). Yours looks very tasty - would you mind sharing the recipe with us?
I just had some for lunch today that my gf made for me back in January! ;D (been in my freezer of course)
I made bread! :)
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Nice one! I've wanted to try my hand at that but I haven't really thought about it for a while.
I made beef pot roast! It was great, used tomato paste (you can use actual tomatoes but I don't like the texture of cooked tomatoes), bbq sauce, worcs sauce, onion, garlic and honey then put in as many carrots as could fit. Then topped the slow cooker up with water and let it cook for 7 hours before adding bulgur wheat to it then cooking for a further 2 hours. Beef was tender af, sauce was vegetable sweet. I'd probably add some hot sauce next time but then 99% of my cooking is adding hot sauce.
Fresh bread is gorgeous. I sorta wish I'd eaten two of them last night, they're never so good in subsequent days.
And ooh, nice :) Can't get behind the hot sauce thing, and don't have a slow cooker, but that does sound great. I went back to pasta today, standard frying pancetta, half a chopped onion, and a clove of garlic and then mixing w/pesto and pasta.
Steak again today. Just grilled meat. portugaling yum.
Fried sausages and onion, ate in a roll. Good meal :)
Now drinking tea. Always need moar tea.
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Baked beans with bacon and hotdogs, tater tots, and CORN. Feast fit for a king, or a bachelor!
Like.
I keep accidentally not ending up home which is putting my food bill through the roof. Had some nice random veggie lasagna today though.
I miss proper iced sweet tea so much! :(
It also turns out I really like american style bacon.
Austin was awesome :)
Yes we have the best tea and bacon. :)
I'm not so much a fan of iced tea. The bacon thing I will grant you though.
I've been travelling across Europe for the past month so had literally the best Pizza of my life in a small pub in Italy:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v474/Koobazaur/itaian-pizza_zpsxfm43a0n.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Koobazaur/media/itaian-pizza_zpsxfm43a0n.jpg.html)
And today an obligatory sausage and kaiser roll in Vienna
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Also an amazing 5-course traditional Lyon meal in France my friend took me to, but no photo there sorry!
Now I'm hungry. :(
That's amazing! What were the five courses?
Read all about it (and actual pics I did take) here :) http://koobazaur.com/life-musings/europe-travel-2016/eurotrip-part-6-lyons-hidden-art-delicious-cuisines/
Great blog mate, very good read ;)
It's great to see you back. Looks like you had fun! :D
"Had" ? What's with the past tense? ;) More updates are coming to the site!
"Had" during the time of your much-lamented absence from these parts of the interwebs :P
Look forward to seeing what comes next anyhow! :)
Aww thanks, nice to hear someone actually missed me ;) I wish this site was more lively so there was more to participate in besides this thread really!
Yeah, I do my best to recruit and push things forwards but I have an exam and a conference coming up which are taking a lot of time, and I need to get more done on our 2016 convention organising too :/
What sorts of things/threads do you think it would be good to have more of?
Also (sorry for doublepost) to get back on topic:
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Omnomnom smoked salmon. :)
Ewwww I'm not big on fish unless it's deep fried.
Cooked/baked fish I'm less a fan of, but shellfish and smoked fish are the best of things.
Smoked salmon is not quite regular fish tho; while it has fishy taste it's a category of its own. I used to hate fish growing up but after Japan and some good sushi I changed my mind ;p
As for my eating, I just tried Halusky, noodle-dumplings in goat cheese with bacon. I'm not big on noodles but these were daaaamn good. Altho we don't have this specific dish Slovakian food is quite similar to Polish, unsurprisingly. We have "kluski leniwe" which are bit similar but thicker and served sweet most of the time.
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Quote from: Jubal on May 08, 2016, 07:09:15 PMWhat sorts of things/threads do you think it would be good to have more of?
Well, anything partaining to my interests hehe ;) But in general, I always find the "what game are you playing / movie watching / book reading / etc. right now?" type megathreads to be pretty popular in other forums. Otherwise, I think its more about a good community with sufficiently similar interests than one particular type of thread.
I'm in Spain at the moment. I've just had some "bacalao dorado" - the name translates as "gilded cod", so I wasn't quite sure what I was going to get. It turned out to be flaked cod, mixed with scrambled egg, chopped boiled potatoes (I think) and some other vegetable a bit like beansprouts. Very tasty and filling :) I think I've had something similar in Portugal, under the name "bacalhao a Bras".
CG: you should visit Portugal some time. They reputedly have a different way of cooking cod (bacalhao) for each day of the year, and plenty of other fish on the menu too. I'm sure you'd find something you liked.
I had that while I was in Spain, it's great!
@Koob, I made a couple of threads to share anime/web shows and I'll make one for vidya gaems.
Traveling cross-Europe reminded me how mediocre Polish beers are... Le Sigh
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v474/Koobazaur/polish-beer-zubr-stir-fry_zpsc9avs3hq.jpg) (http://smg.photobucket.com/user/Koobazaur/media/polish-beer-zubr-stir-fry_zpsc9avs3hq.jpg.html)
Yay for the European Bison though? :)
I might do some baking tomorrow, I have all the ingredients to...
I really want to start eating more healthy foods, so I'm currently marinading some chicken to have with bean salad for lunches. I've been finding that things like pasta, bread, potatoes etc. have been making me feel too full recently.
I bought some rosemary recently. It turns out it goes well on my bread recipe and on the crumpet pizzas :)
Chicken is nice :) I feel I should eat less meat & dairy in general, but I'm not entirely sure what to eat instead. I'm not a huge fan of cooked pulses; I should probably try more vegetarian pasta options but a lot of those seem to be either quite dull or quite costly.
Oi i used to bake bread for my roommates when i was in my masters. I'd put all sorts of herbs to make it more interesting. I remember rosemary working particularly well indeed :) gave it that genuine Italian taste ;p
I should try making Italian breads at some point, I've mostly made Caucasian and central Asian ones to date.
Rosemary bread is so nice!
It was so hot here today, so we had caesar salad for tea. :)
not sure where you are but in good ol australia its been quite the opposite
Really? We're led to believe the weather in Australia is gorgeous!
We're in Manchester, England, shockingly :P
well i like the cold and rain anyway so it doesn't bother me atleast, but most other areas of australia are pretty sunny and hot
It's been pretty nice here.
Had a post-conference barbeque last night at which I ate and drank a lot (certainly by my standards and considering my low alcohol tolerance!)
I'm thinking I'll be going for pasta tonight, something simple given how absurdly tired I am.
I think I got my first sunburn of the year today.
I ate food with dead animal and cheese, I'm taking a break from the vegan life.
Dead animals are the best ;D
On my end, the last beer of Poland before I return to the US... le sad!
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Some of the first cooking experiments in the new house!
A first khachapuri for the new place:
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...and then some dumplings (filled with a mix of tomatoes, onion, garlic, and walnuts). The first steaming set are fresh ones, the browned ones have been re-heated by frying them (which was a considerable improvement, especially given my rather inadequate dough-making skills). The dough/style of dumpling was loosely based on a recipe for khinkali, but with a very different filling and made so inadequately they a) don't deserve the name and b) need a knife and fork to eat, which the internet assures me is definitely the wrong way to eat khinkali!
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Burger and fries for lunch and microwaved hotdogs for dinner. I've got too much going on to cook anything.
Guess as so much of my day and work is at my desk I find cooking useful to get up and do something!
Dudes I forgot to share my latest, greatest invention!
I made some halloumi at home so I've been trying to find great uses for it and I came up with this: fry halloumi and chorizo in a pan, with the cheesy/chorizo'y oil, fry an egg and put all that in a sandwich. Such a great breakfast.
Well that makes me wish I had halloumi and chorizo in my fridge.
I just made late evening khachapuri, was out working across suppertime. Downside of tutoring, evening work :/
Just baked some bread, yeee. Pretty basic, little undersalted, but at least I got the process down again. I can start experimenting with ingredients now :D
edit: srsly, this forum should scale images to max page width :-\
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Manually scaled it - yes we need to do that, we haven't really had functioning tech support on this site for some time, hopefully we'll get some improvements in the next month or so. It's just Glaurung and I covering the staffing work at the moment so we're a tad stretched.
I made a good rosemary, walnut & sea salt mokhrakuli khachapuri tonight - I overdid the salt but other than that it was a really nice meal. :)
If you can get my access to the forum CSS I can add it in pretty easily. I do webdev consulting on the side.
Quote from: Koobazaur on April 11, 2017, 08:12:45 AM
If you can get my access to the forum CSS I can add it in pretty easily. I do webdev consulting on the side.
That sounds great - I'll drop you a message about it soon :)
EDIT - dropped you a PM.
Revisiting my home-country. Obligatory "Bar Mleczny" feast. All this for under $15 ;D
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Ooh, lovely - and yes, that seems very good value! Your home country being Poland, right? :)
And what are the various dumpling-like things? It all looks very edible but I wouldn't know what most of the items were...
Also, woops, should move this thread to somewhere accessible now the Food forum has been archived.
Moved to the Boozer.
From left to right it's:
* Pierogi Ruskie (with cheese and potato)
* Kapusniak (cabbage soup)
* Salatka (red cabbage salad)
* Pierogi z kapusta i grzybami (sauerkraut and mushroom)
* Plate of potatoes, fried beets. salad and "schabowy" (polish pork cutlet)
* Far right: leniwe (potato dumplings in sweet sauce)
Awesomes :)
(What do you think of the board reorganisation btw now it's done? It doesn't go quite as far as some of your ideas, but it's very significantly reduced the scale of the main index and we've archived quite a lot of subforums)
I've been doing a little vegetarian experiment mostly not eating any meat. I've been trying all the vegan faux meat products and they're surprisingly good.
The lightlife Italian sausage was damn good, the tofurkey deli slices pretty good too. the morning star breakfast patties are good too, but they're more like falafel haha. None of it really tastes like meat, but the flavor is good on its own and the lightlife texture was pretty close
I could see myself eating more of this stuff in lieu of meat but... I donno, I'm not entirely convinced an industry produced reconstructed soy product with 30 other additives is really healthier than antibiotic infused chicken
Yeah, I think the main reason if I went vegetarian (which I probably won't) would be wider environmental impact rather than personal health, stop quite so much rainforest being mowed down to farm cows and so on. I am quite interested by some of these new pseudomeat products, and the possibility of actually lab-growing meat, though; could well be that in a few decades animal farming will be a much more minority activity.
I've heard that creating all the faux meat substitutes isn't necessarily environmentally friendly either, but I don't have any good studies to cite.
Aye, I can imagine that some of them aren't. Always hard to know with these things!
Hi there!
I'm always into eating, so right after registering I'm into eating thread.
Well I moved some time ago, so I'm eating palermitano, general armadillo.
prezzo speciale is a white bun with filling, i'm vege, so beschamel, spinaci and mozzarella
pizza - margherita or marinara.
and my skin is dying.
Eating is always good :)
I'm being really unimaginative with food lately... I should get back to teaching myself more Caucasus recipes, but I'm finding myself struggling with most things as I'm really exhausted a lot of the time :(
I'm trying to cook more recently, a) because I find it a fun and relaxing activity and b) because it means I actually have to eat the stuff I cooked... :)
I don't really do recipies (unless I'm baking or stuff), it's more of an experimentation, but things usually turn out fine... :)
I made steamed carrots with parsil and a smidge of butter today, was nice...
I've been eating weirdly the last week or so, I've been tired all the time for as long as I can really remember and apparently this is a common symptom of autoimmune diseases (although this is just mental fatigue for me, I've never had an physical symptoms apart from mild skin conditions). Since my mum was diagnosed as gluten intolerant (actually I think she was originally misdiagnosed as full celiac) for seven years I thought perhaps I might have celiac. And gluten free diets have been shown to alleviate symptoms in other autoimmune disorders. So going gluten free seems worth trying (although I'm going to have to start eating gluten again soon so I can get an accurate test for celiac).
Now a gluten free diet alone is not that weird. But since it seems a lot of folk have had success dealing with chronic fatigue, depression etc by using elimination diets I thought I'd give it a go. So basically my diet for the last week has consisted of a fairly limited variety of veg, a portugal load of meat, bit of rice and some fruit smoothie. Except for the entire bar of chocolate I ate today because I'm coldly and armadillo.
What am I doing?
Why?
Eurgh.
Today, two Shrove Tuesday traditions: my pancake, and an Austrian "krapfen" - an apricot jam doughnut - which are the usual food for the day here :)
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Moved back to the Kitchen, and pinned.
I don't know what to eat this evening. Between bad RSI and general exhaustion and a lack of hot water for washing up, kitchen stuff is really tricky at the moment. Might be a cheese on toast night, I guess. I have mostly been keeping a normal diet up during quarantine, but everything does feel just that much more effort than usual.
We've been having varieties of bread for dinner the last couple days, that is a very low maintainance solution to making dinner... (btw, shouldn't you have gotten hot water on Friday? Or did I get that wrong?)
You are correct, I should have got hot water on Friday. The should is doing a great deal of work in that sentence.
I did have cheese on toast in the end.
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And today I had pasta. I feel like I'm managing to stay fed, but uninventively so.
That food looks pretty tasty though. My mom made ham baked in bread for Easter, it's tradition... I had a lot of bread... :D
I just had pizza today. The Jubal Food Forecast is fairly unexciting this week - I bought a new bottle of gin and some plants as bonus shopping items on Friday, so didn't get so much variety of food stuff. I also forgot to get tonic, so I ended up having a gin with lemongrass cordial for family easter drinks today - there wasn't a whole lot of taste of gin in it, the cordial was a bit overpowering, but it was nice enough.
I am getting to eat outside a bit though, which is nice, though my table seems to need constant cleaning more or less which is a pain.
I made quesadillas yesterday... And almost lost it with the dough multiple times... Last time I'm making tortilla wraps from scratch... The quesadillas turned out nice though... We had them with wild garlic dip, which was a great combo...
I've been doing grilled pork ribs with a dry-rub lately. Ground paprika, salt, cracked black pepper, chilli powder, ground cumin, garlic granules and a sprinkling of cayenne pepper applied liberally to two half-racks of pork ribs. Grill them on the barbecue for about twenty minutes all up, let them rest on a wooden board, order some chips from the fish n' chip shop down the road and serve.
I'll post some pictures one day. :P
The local butchers sell whole chickens for 3 or 4 Euros right now, and the local Turkish grocer has lots of fresh herbs, so I have been stuffing some chickens with things that grew or were imported to western Eurasia in 1492. I may freeze one but freezer space in my shared housing is very limited (especially due to former roomies who forget food when they leave).
My diet continues to be boring but balanced, though I'll try posting some stuff about herb/kitchen gardening soon as I'm trying to do some more of that - I have big bunches of oregano and rosemary drying at the moment. I've also got strawberry and tomato plants outside which will hopefully do well, and I planted cucumbers and didn't expect them to all germinate and now I have twelve or thirteen tiny cucumber plants and need to somehow obtain a lot of large flowerpots without breaking the proverbial bank.
In more direct food production, I did make biscuits recently which turned out overly crumbly but chocolatey and edible.
I've just had a pastel de nata (a.k.a. Portuguese custard tart) from my local bakery. It's run been by a Portuguese couple for several years, after the previous owners sold up. They do a good range of traditional Portuguese baked goods, many of them sweet rather than savoury - Portuguese culture has a pronounced "sweet tooth", as do I, so this suits me well. I've visited Portugal a lot in the past, and intend to again, so though I can't do so at the moment, this helps me bring to mind happier times, past and future.
For anyone in the Cambridge (UK) area at any point, it's the Norfolk Street Bakery (https://www.norfolkstbakery.co.uk/). A little off the beaten track in terms of location, but worth seeking out.
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Il polastro fino e bono dello libro per cuoco o Anonimo Veneziano (in traduzione inglese (http://helewyse.medievalcookery.com/libro.html)). I have to say I did not mange to make the stuffing into "a paste as for fritters."
The side dish is rice cooked with saffron and chicken broth.
@Glaur: Indeed I don't think I've been to that bakery - maybe next time I'm in town!
@Dubs: That chicken dish looks fantastic :) I never do bigger meat dishes really, the only levels I have to cater at are "party" for which meat is too much effort for the numbers or "one" in which case meat is too much effort for one person. So I've never really learned to cook chicken despite it being a major staple: I usually have some meat in my diet but only via bits of speck/pancetta/kabanossi added to a pasta, or ham or salami for lunches. But I do like those bigger meat dishes on occasion.
Some ordinary recent fare chez Jubal:
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As you can see, my basic attitude to how dinner works is "cook basal carbohydrate, add small bits of other ingredients and something vaguely sauce like". The pseudo greek pasta salad (cook pasta, add chopped green olives, tomato, cucumber and feta, basic dressing made by shaking up a little bit of oil and vinegar in a 3:1 ratio) is a particularly nice option and manages to feel pseudo healthy whilst also containing cheese which is a win-win. I'm getting better at rice, too.
Also I made biscuits a little while back:
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They had some structural integrity issues so I needed to bake them for longer, which turned out to be too long, but they were very edible. Super simple butter + sugar + flour recipe with raisins and dark chocolate chips mixed in.
Quote from: Jubal on April 29, 2020, 07:15:57 PM
@Glaur: Indeed I don't think I've been to that bakery - maybe next time I'm in town!
I'll try to make sure we get there. We must have walked past it umpteen times in the past - it's on my regular walking route to the city centre.
More cookies I made recently:
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I've also been trying some asparagus pasta recipes - asparagus seems to be a comparatively big thing in Austria, which works for me as I quite like the stuff. Using creme fraiche and lemon juice mixed as the pasta sauce with it worked nicely. Drink-wise I currently have all of white wine, fizzy water, and cordials on hand, so pfirschspritzers and kaiserspritzers are both possibilities (I'm not sure how well a lemongrass spritzer would work. I might try that sometime). Not been doing much seriously experimental though.
To celebrate getting the first proofs of my first book, I gilded a chicken (baked it in egg-pepper-ginger-salt sauce). The original recipe in the Harleian cookbook had saffron in the sauce; I served it with saffron rice instead. The original used ginger powder, I used fresh ginger. The original thickened the sauce with flour until it was like fritter paste, probably so it would stay on the bird while it turned on the spit, but my kitchen is not equipped with one of those (maybe if they lent me the keep of Festung Höhensalzburg ...) I also stuffed the body cavity with some mushrooms and onion and herbs which I needed to use up.
Some of my housemates have been cooking very elabourate dinners because of Ramadan. I may switch my big meal to lunch so I am not in the way.
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Some more cake :) A basic chocolate cake with melted dark chocolate on top and an apricot jam filling (chocolate and apricot jam is a fairly Viennese cake combination, being the basis for sachertorte). I'm surprised at how not-chocolate-coloured it came out despite me putting quite a bit of cocoa powder in, maybe it needed even more.
That looks amazing, and I imagine it tastes amazing too.
Yeah, it turned out with quite a nice moist sponge, and one can't go far wrong with the taste combination. :)
What a great cake and interesting ingredient mix too!
One of the nice things about travel and living in different places is picking up different flavour combinations I guess :) Do you cook/bake much?
Yes, travelling must mean you pick some great cooking ideas! I try to sometimes bake, at the minute its cupcakes I seem to be baking every now and then :)
Cooked chicken in a pommegranite-bacon-onion-cinnamon-pepper sauce. These sauces make a great mess in my frying pan ... is there a trick or a type of pan which is better for things which will be on the heat for a long time?
What kind of pan do you use?
So, I had a salad recently with some purslane from my garden, plus lettuce, gorgonzola, prosciutto ham, pear slices, and a white vinegar/olive oil mix dressing. Worked well :)
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Also I made crumpets! I've had crumpet rings sitting around for a while. They went fine, a bit flatter than I'd hoped and I'm not sure why that is, but still basically crumpety, they tasted right. I didn't try keeping any to toast later this time, but may do on a future occasion. I had a few with jam/honey to start with (Caradilis dropped by for the first time in months and also found them edible), and then did the below ones with cheese, herbs and walnuts for supper.
Unfortunately one of the rings broke when I washed them which is a bit rubbish - the joins in the metal seem a bit poorly made.
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Good effort! That salad looks healthy
Given the quantity of ham, cheese, and oil involved, it may be a deceptive appearance! It tasted nice, whatever the nutritional value :)
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Vietnamese-American ginger beef (with vinegar instead of fish sauce)
That looks interesting. What's the recipe?
450 g beef (thin sliced sirloin or hamburger)
Canola oil
3 cloves garlic
1 large yellow onion
1 cm long piece of fresh ginger
*1 stalk lemongrass (I more often use this in a similar recipe with white pepper replacing the ginger but I wanted to use it up)
5 mL sugar
30 mL Vietnamese clear fish sauce
Dried and hacked coriander leaves
Hack onion, lemongrass, and ginger fine. Oil frying pan and sautée beef and ginger until lightly brown. Throw in vegetables and spices and stir fry about 3 minutes. Garnish with coriander leaves and serve over rice.
Gilded another chicken in egg yolk-flour batter spiced with saffron, ginger chunks, salt, and pepper after the Harleian MS (Pleyn Delit 2e no. 94 Chike Endored). I found that this was not such a success, the batter ended up too thick and baked into a hard dough instead of a soft moist crust. It probably works better if you apply the mixture immediately after mixing it and use a brush to spread it over the bird.
I had some pork that needed eating.
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Because of some life circumstances, I decided to try out the sauce where the cinnamon, ginger, sugar, and almond are in a pommegranite base (Santich's The Original Mediterranean Cuisine p. 57). Make sure that the cinnamon dominates, saith Mestre Robert!
I recently finally went and found a Russian supermarket, which had been recommended to me by a colleague a while back, and sells a decent array of foods from former USSR countries. Unfortunately it doesn't have some of the things I'd most like, like Sulguni cheese, but it does have a comparatively very reasonably priced Georgian wine selection and some mini khinkali which turned out more edible than I'd expected (though one can't eat them in the proper way for khinkali, they're too small to hold by the twist of the dough).
The aforementioned mini khinkali:
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Also some other recent meals. A simple salad & bread dinner when I ran out of other stuff:
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And tonight's meal which was roasted garden vegetables (see the kitchen gardening thread (https://exilian.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=6152.msg141038#msg141038) for why I suddenly had to eat the veg) and garlic with toasted nuts in a pasta, which was very nice:
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Had fried chicken in butter-lemon-pepper sauce on rice and boiled vegetables, main dish after https://littlespicejar.com/skillet-garlic-lemon-butter-chicken/
This thread definitely needs some more going on with it again. One of my recent experiments - making flammkuchen, an Alsatian recipe similar to pizza. I got a pack of bases from a supermarket. All that's then needed is creme fraiche spread right across it and some toppings added - traditionally bacon and onion but there are many other possibilities. It's then cooked at a high heat (200+ degrees ideally) for 15-20 mins.
Here's the base, and what it looks like with the creme fraiche added.
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Topping possibilities: pine nuts, rosemary and red onion, and white onion, bacon and dill.
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Here's one result. Not getting the edges very very burned is difficult, but also not hugely important as one can just hold the outside by the burned edge and eat the middle which is absolutely fine. Definitely tastes nice, quick to make, and will be trying it again :)
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I ran out of bread during my Covid lockdown so I made some more (this was Friday so I had passed my weakest point health-wise by then, there was no way I'd have been baking at the start of the week). The results aren't spectacular, it's wholemeal because that was the flour I had and it's a bit too dense, but it's Definitely Bread. It's something I should really make more often.
Another take on flammkuchen - this time with a topping of apples, bacon, and some bits of camember, with oregano on top :)
Before cooking:
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Fully cooked:
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Oh wow - bacon/cheese/appley goodness all in one mouthful!
I don't usually do much meat cooking, but I did a simple chicken recipe tonight (just cooking it in oil for an hour really, with garlic/herbs and occasional basting, adding pine nuts at the 45min mark). And it worked well, I think, I had it with rice and it was very nice :)
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This one was a bit experimental: it's a pastry base, then I made a sort of binding + glaze with egg and a bit of lime juice and honey, then put red cabbage on the base poured most of the egg mix over that, then put the turnip slices on and painted them with the rest of the egg mix, and then added herbs. I cooked it for about 25 mins with a foil lid over it to help give the cabbage time to cook properly as it likes a fairly long, slow cooking process, then for another 20-25 with the lid off until the turnips were browning. It tasted pretty nice!
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Further recent food notes! Mostly things I've eaten rather than made this time:
This was shrove Tuesday for me - from the nearby bakery, the 'waldvierteler krapfen' (jam doughnuts being the Austrian pancake equivalent for the day). This one, unlike the classic apricot jam versions, had a filling of powidl, a thick jam-like plum mix (unlike a traditional jam, no sugar is added to powidl, it's just cooked down for far longer than a jam would be and stirred constantly, giving it a heavy, thick texture compared to jams). And on top there's mohn (poppyseed) as well as the sugar.
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Also from the nearby bakery, a Fastenbrot. I'm not sure why it's that shape! These seem to be a lent special, hence the name, and contain onion and sauerkraut which gives the bread a pretty distinctive flavour:
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At the end of Coding Medieval Worlds I got a turkish takeaway where they seem to have accidentally given me the bread art asset from a standard fantasy computer game, it was practically half a loaf:
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And one thing I did make, this was a sort of savoury strudel attempt - sour cream, mixed with onion and red pepper and herbs, spread on a flat sheet of premade pastry which was then rolled round and baked. I brushed a bit of milke on top to give it a little bit of a glaze. Simple but worked well.
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Another recent khachapuri:
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Check what you're buying from markets folks - recent enjoyable embarrassment of mine was this purchase, which I'd assumed was an early rhubarb variety on account of the pink and white stems. It isn't, it's chard, chard tastes like cabbage and does
not work well when the stems are cooked down in sugar.
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Also some salads and bread, it's getting to that time of year. Things like halloumi, olives, and jonjoli are nice, and there's a good range of breads available here (the left hand one is a cheese and bacon bread which I don't get often but is very good).
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And some recent badrijani, they're never the best thing for my digestion because of all the raw garlic and nuts, but they are very nice. I should do the traditional thing and top them with pomegranate seeds more often.
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A recent chaos meal: a semmelknodel with a salad of, uh, boiled asparagus, nasturtium leaves, serrano ham, and jonjoli. Actually worked surprisingly well?
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Looks nice!
Today was relatively mild, a vegetarian South Indian meal with lentil soup, and a variety of cooked vegetables, all to go down with a type of pepper-herb soup (which is called rasam in Tamil).
Pepper-herb as in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peperomia_pellucida ? It's not something I'm as familiar with I guess.
Also, a dump of Caucasus food pictures, as I've been eating out a lot in Georgia & Armenia so there's plenty of interesting food to share from there...
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A tamtaki - a fusion "traditional Georgian dish on a soft taco" thing. Here with Skhmeruil, garlic chicken.
Was extremely good. | (https://i.imgur.com/ZJgwprW.jpg)
A meal at Veriko, which is an excellent Georgian restaurant.
The bread item is a kubdari, a meat-filled bread, and the cheese is gebzhalia, a cheese, mint and matsoni dish. |
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Khinkali, some meat some cheese, at the restaurant Shemomechama.
The name of the restaurant is a verb roughly meaning "I ate it by accident". | (https://i.imgur.com/TtCnNOd.jpg)
Trout is quite a thing in Armenia.
This smoked trout & orange bruschetta were at Cafe Ilik, which is now my favourite Yerevan Cafe. |
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I occasionally managed some familiar tea. This with a fairly Armenian-style layered honey cake in the back. | (https://i.imgur.com/sCXkNRa.jpg)
And a less familiar tea in Yerevan, this one made out of sweetened sea buckthorn, a notably sour fruit raw. |
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Georgian has no letter f in the alphabet.
As such, when I saw a Tbilisi waffle shop I had to get one to be amused at it being a wapple. It was also nice. | (https://i.imgur.com/96tRFWH.jpg)
In general I think Tbilisi has better restaurants than Yerevan, but Yerevan does better snacks and street food.
This kiln bread (baked on the side of an open kiln) is absolutely the food of the gods. |
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Good tolma is good, I've had a lot of bad tolma in the past but I really enjoyed the stuff I could get in Yerevan. | (https://i.imgur.com/emnsQ9N.jpg)
Chicken harissa. I enjoyed this one! |
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Back in Tbilisi, a vegetarian kharcho, fried aubergine in walnut sauce, at the vegetarian cafe Leila which is nice & pretty. | (https://i.imgur.com/GL69LBC.jpg)
Chicken in berry sauce from the Corner at Tabidze restaurant. It was excellent. |
I am very hungry now, congrats everyone
A food update of Things I Have Been Eating in the first part of 2024! :)
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Pasta with sour cream, chives, lemon juice, and smoked salmon as a sauce. The sprinkling on top is sumac. This was excellent.
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Canapes from my in-person birthday celebrations. Sadly wasn't able to serve these at the online event. |
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One of my classic fried khachapuris (is this my signature recipe? Is that a thing I have now?) | (https://i.imgur.com/DdlCs4a.jpg)
Cheese polenta with tomatoes and berberis berries: looks like very much A Lump but was actually very good. |
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Pancake day, the savoury side: melting cheese with old doverhouse chutney onto a crepe as it finishes frying. | (https://i.imgur.com/h5KjzFM.jpg)
Pancake day, the sweet side: melting nutella with bananas onto a crepe. |
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I made some little pastries to use up some frozen apricots I'd had for ages! | (https://i.imgur.com/CF92qqs.jpg)
Sadly I wildly overcooked them, but they were quite tasty anyway despite the looks. |
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From my Italy travels, a squacquerone (almondy crumble-cake base) cheesecake. This was very good. | (https://i.imgur.com/6xAjO2Y.jpg)
A sandwich from Bologna which was especially good: an Italian blue cheese with I think pork shoulder and a few other things. |
I have set myself a food-related challenge for this year! I am attempting to make at least one dish in a style/cuisine that I haven't attempted before!
January went well, with Jubal providing me with the inspiration to choose Georgian cuisine for my first attempt. I made a nice cheese bread boat and a chicken stew that went well!
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February was interesting: I chose Lebanese, on the recommendation of my future mother-in-law, whose family is Lebanese, and made a chickpea and spinach pie with lentils:
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Sadly it's now halfway through March and I can't settle on something I want to make this month. Any suggestions for me? I've made a lot of Italian/Spanish dishes before, and a few Asian ones, but otherwise haven't branched out much (hence the challenge!)
Quote from: Spritelady on March 14, 2024, 05:44:42 PM
Sadly it's now halfway through March and I can't settle on something I want to make this month. Any suggestions for me? I've made a lot of Italian/Spanish dishes before, and a few Asian ones, but otherwise haven't branched out much (hence the challenge!)
What about something South American? Trying to do empanadas or ceviche or something? I've never got round to making those but they seem fun.
Ooh that's a great idea! Thank you!
Well, let us know how it goes :)
So I decided I had better get on with making empanadas, given that March was half over, and made some beef and chorizo ones last night:
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They turned out pretty well! If anyone has any suggestions for April, let me know!
For April, I decided to make something sweet (and just in the nick of time...): Svarlotka! This Polish apple cake is made using a dough, rather than a cake batter, to sandwich a delicious layer of sugary apple filling.
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Ooh that's pretty! Is it a leavened dough, or more sweet-flatbread-y?
It's more biscuit-y than anything really, it was a very soft dough
Right, an update from me!
I bought some tempeh, partly because I had little idea what temph was and thus to challenge myself to work out what one does with tempeh. I got some mediterranean-herb version of it so it didn't need marinading: the two things I came up with were a fried bread/red pepper/tempeh mix with salad and a sour cream/salt/sumac dip, which worked well, and an olive/red onion/orange/tempeh hot salady thing with garlic bread, which was possibly a more out there idea but also worked.
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Whilst I'll have more full things to say on Liechtenstein later, I'm going to share with you the overpriced food here. I perhaps cheekily saved a bit by making my lunches out of the hotel breakfasts (which had the amusing designations of "lactose free milk" and "milk milk" (https://imgur.com/rpDyNj2) among offered drinks), but the evening meals were about forty euros each which is a lot for what they were. They were nice, and the little Italian restaurant in Vaduz where the owner just walked out and gave me the menu verbally was quite fun, but everything was definitely pricey.
The bottom right meal is not from Liechtenstein, but Konstanz, and besides therefore being better value it's also a more interesting local dish, maultaschen, basically large dumpling-like constructions made of sheets of pasta dough with minced meat inside. Definitely an interesting take on how to combine meat and dough and worth looking out for if one is in Swabia.
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And finally, it's been asparagus (Spargel) season here in Austria so as usual I've made some asparagus dishes. I have to say probably the most successful of these was the top right: steaming asparagus above some pasta as it cooked, and then using a mix of sour cream and lemon juice as a sauce, with tomatoes added in and sumac sprinkled on top at the end. Top left is asparagus with speck (tiny bacon bits), and at the bottom is a non-pasta option which can work quite well, wrapping the spears first in some kind of meat (parma ham or similar) and then in pastry and cooking them. It's easy to overcook them doing this, the asparagus may want more brushing in oil or similar than I gave it, but it's a nice meal or good finger-food if there are guests around.
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May update on my monthly cuisines! This month I picked Brazilian, and made coxinhas (chicken croquettes) and pao de quiejo (cheesy bread)!
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June update! I went Bulgarian this time and made Banitsa and Shopska Salad.
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Very late July entry! I made completely vegan brownies, which was my first attempt ever at vegan baking and it went rather well!
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Looks good! :)
Thank you! For my first time baking anything vegan (and having to substitute one of the ingredients as I couldn't find flaxseeds for love nor money around here), I was pretty pleased with how they turned out!
I think this month's culinary adventure will be homemade sushi so pics to follow!
So I actually made this month's new food several weeks ago and completely neglected to post an update. I'm sneaking it in now before we technically get to the end of August: I made spinach gözlemes, based on a Hellofresh recipe. They were tasty, although I suspect that making my own dough instead of using Hellofresh's shortcut of using tortillas to make the outer layer might have turned out rather better. Next time!
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A classically late but hopefully delicious looking entry for September's food: we made sushi!
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Oh those look super neatly done! Very impressed! :)
I agree! Though I confess I'm not a huge fan of sushi in general, but these look good. :)
I tried Korean pancakes with scallions once, they were good too, but I'd recommend making them with grated zucchini & only a little onion. There are many basic recipes online, generally it's just flour, water and salt and whatever ingredients/veg/spices you like, so very tweakable to your own taste. Maybe I should make some again...
A recent recipe that worked OK: fried chunks of tempeh, green peppers, and dried tomatoes and then put them on a colourful skewer: I added a bit of a spice mix during frying, and drizzled a bit of tkemali (Georgian plum sauce) on afterwards, and served them with couscous. Honestly the skewers didn't really do anything culinarily given I didn't grill them, but I think you could do this via grilling, and the results looked pretty anyway.
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I've never tried tempeh, is it comparable to tofu, taste-wise?
Here's my dinner today, a humble "Blunzngröstl" (Blunzn = Austrian dialect/vernacular for Blutwurst = black pudding; Gröstl = also dialect, comes from "rösten" = to roast, usually in a pan). It's basically just minced onions, then cooked potatoes and the sausage thrown together, and you season it with a little salt & pepper. I always add some parsley too. This is The One (https://www.gurkerl.at/33742-graf-pannonische-hausblunz-n-stange), by the way. A few years ago I ate a prize-winning Blunzn that allegedly was chosen as the best in some international competition in France, and it was terrible, lol.
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Both dishes look delicious!
Here's my October entry in the food challenge: Anzac biscuits! According to a quick bit of Googling, these were made by the wives of Australian and New Zealand soldiers during WW2, to send with their husbands to the war.
I think I probably did a decent job when I made them, since the entire batch (half of which is pictured here) vanished within 4 hours of coming out of the oven!
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Oooh historical recipes are always interesting to try :)
So you all know what day it is, here's my dinner for the occasion! :pumpkin:
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Oven-baked Hokkaido pumpkin & potatoes, and a treat in the form of an apple-streusel-thing which I spontaneously concocted. (Those salad leaves ended up being bunny food, btw, as they turned out too bitter for me to eat...)
What about the pumpkin makes it Hokkaido pumpkin specifically?
Quote from: Jubal on November 01, 2024, 12:10:36 AMWhat about the pumpkin makes it Hokkaido pumpkin specifically?
It's just what they're called, according to German Wikipedia it got its name because it was first grown there, developed from a pumpkin variety brought to Japan from the US in the 1870s and achieving its final delicious form in the 1930s. From then on, world domination.
Looks delicious! I have a lot of pumpkin flesh saved from my carving that I plan to make a pie with. When I will actually have the free time to make it is as yet undecided XD
How did you make the apple streusel thing? It sounds tasty
Quote from: Spritelady on November 01, 2024, 01:45:39 PMHow did you make the apple streusel thing? It sounds tasty
I just made a little bit of dough mixing flour, sugar, butter (I measured nothing, just eyeballed it, but it was approx. 3 tablespoons flour, 1-2 tablespoons sugar, and a ~8x3x1.5 cm piece of butter), then kneading it until everything was, uhm, doughy... then putting a little bit into the (buttered) bowl & forming a base layer. On top of that, two small apples cut into chunks, these I mixed with ground almonds (1-3 teaspoons), cinnamon, cloves, a little sugar and bitter almond flavouring, then on top of that, the rest of the dough in streusel-form. Then baked it at 200°C until it looked good. :-D
I'm always so impressed by people who eyeball recipes for baked goods! I can do that with a few things (estimating a tablespoon of butter for instance, possibly the silliest measurement type for butter and yet hideously common...) but for the most part I have to follow a recipe or I'm incredibly likely to make a mess!
I'm not that good at eyeballing either, actually, but in this case you can't do much wrong - too much flour, add butter, too much butter, add flour... just make sure it's got a slightly crumbly texture so you can make the streusel. I wasn't aiming for a specific outcome regarding the amount of dough, so I just went "whatever", lol. Usually I follow a recipe and measure things, too!
November entry for me! Reece and I made bao buns from scratch, steamed them and then ate them with homemade pulled duck (basically just slow cooked duck with garlic, ginger and hoisin sauce) and some veggies. A pretty successful first go at making any form of steamed dough.
We have also now added a steamer to our Christmas list, as we didn't own one and had to improvise.
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The bao buns look great!
I've been really unimaginative with cooking lately - probably partly life feeling a bit upended. Hopefully soon I'll be back to it.
Some recent food:
I made some bread for the work Christmas event. It wasn't great! As so often with me and bread it just didn't rise enough and was a bit chewy and dense. Possibly I rushed it a bit. Anyway it looked ok even if it was not great (and on the cheese ones the cheese countered the heaviness of the bread).
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This is a basic pasta but with hazel and pine nuts, onion, and kohlrabi - first time I'd really used the latter, I added a bit of lemon juice while frying it and that seemed to work really well.
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And this was from the Exile Princes launch event - basically just a cheeseboard but I also made canapés with a mini pastry and three tops, one with mint-mixed cottage cheese, one with soft cheese as a base for dried tomato and salami, and the third with wild garlic butter/cheese and topped with walnut.
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My own experiments with bread baking also never really succeeded, sadly... The end result with cheese doesn't look bad, though? What kind of dough did you use?
Just regular flour, yeast, warmed milk, and salt, kneaded and left to rise. It probably needed more warmth, darkness, and time?
In other news I used a roll of pastry I needed to finish up and just rolled up cheese, passata and tomatoes into it and gave it a glaze, it was nice :)
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Is darkness an important component to rising dough? I always assumed warmth and time were the key factors but I likewise always have issues with it rising enough...maybe that's where I've gone wrong!
I mean it's ideally meant to be covered I think - it's probably more the sealing than light having an impact though, you're right.
Final entry for 2024 in the food challenge I set myself! To round off the year, I made a South African recipe with a real South African (Reece's mum, Gail)! ;D we made koeksisters, a doughnut-like pastry that's deep fried and then soaked in a lemon vanilla sugar syrup.
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And thanks to Gail being much more inclined to take photographs than I am, we actually have some photos of the cooking process as well as the final result!
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I made a turnip tart, slightly invented recipe but it worked well I think:
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Would anyone be interested in me noting down the recipe? It's a nice thing to do with turnips that isn't just "cut up and have as a side to a meat dish".
Other recent foods:Cheese polenta:
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Apple, cheese and bacon flammkuchen:
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A couple other things, one very standard fried khachapuri like I make, and one meat in a can thing I got given which I bought a semmelknodel and ate and it was fairly good.
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