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Food is awesome.
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While I am well known for culinary abominations (though still quite tasty), I am also pretty good at doing some real cooking.
At home right now, I've got a 6 pound pork roast rubbed with sage, thyme, and basil in the crock pot with some potatoes, carrots, celery, onion, and fresh garlic. It's gonna slow cook all day for about 10 hours while I'm at work and so I'll have some awesome food waiting for me when I get home. I also put some mix in our bread machine and set the timer so that it won't start baking until this afternoon and then the bread will be fresh and hot when I get home.
What have you cooked lately or are going to cook?
At home right now, I've got a 6 pound pork roast rubbed with sage, thyme, and basil in the crock pot with some potatoes, carrots, celery, onion, and fresh garlic. It's gonna slow cook all day for about 10 hours while I'm at work and so I'll have some awesome food waiting for me when I get home. I also put some mix in our bread machine and set the timer so that it won't start baking until this afternoon and then the bread will be fresh and hot when I get home.
What have you cooked lately or are going to cook?
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Jordan of Elienor, Human Shaman
All I've cooked lately is meat. I made some charred-rare ribeyes on the grille the other day. Great way to open grilling season! Also I've been trying various types of bratwurst. I acquired some lamb w/mediterranean seasoning brats the other day, and my god they are absolute awesome.
I'm going to open a can of Dinty Moore Beef Stew for dinner. That's the most I've cooked in a long time.
I miss having a grill.
Man I even do burgers nice
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Jordan of Elienor, Human Shaman
I suck at figuring out what to cook, though.
To top it, today is my Comic Book Day.
This is me. Im actually going to look into a cooking class over the summer.
Jordan of Elienor, Human Shaman
Got it as a wedding present. It's very handy, though I don't use it as often as I should. I really enjoy nice fresh baked bread.
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Are you insane, there can never be "too much" bacon.
That money would be better spent on a set of Good Eats DVDs.
Seriously, Alton doesn't just show you how to prepare a recipe, he teaches you the concepts behind making good food so that you can throw something together on your own.
Though I love the idea of bacon-wrapped bacon, turkey bacon is shit.
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Hmmm.... I do enjoy Good Eats, but this idea hadnt occured to me, Ill have to look into prices of each. If the class is stupid cheap (which it robly wont be) then Ill have to go with that.
Jordan of Elienor, Human Shaman
Truth. Alton taught me the fine art of making fudge over the holidays. Learning the science behind proper temperature control and why I continued to make mint-flavored chocolate sludge prior to that made the whole process way more bearable. And the final fudge product kicked ass.
Then I had too much leftover egg and breadcrumb mix, so I mixed them together and put everything in the oven, along with some baby blue potatos. It turned into a salty cookie. Yum.
Either way, if you ever wanna make somethign totally delicious and pretty easy, making a nice thai curry is pretty simple.
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Do you use curry pastes from thailand or domestic pastes? Or do you make your curry from scratch?
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I'm referring to the country of manufacture, so buying them at an asian store doesn't necessarily tell me if they're thai or domestic. I just ask because when I first started playing around with thai coooking I tried some of the domestic brands that are easily found in normal supermarkets in the ethnic section such as Thai Kitchen and found them to be lacking. I later found that this was because they often left out some of the traditional ingredients such as shrimp paste, kaffir lime leaf, and/or galangal. Also they tend to tone down the heat. So I've found that curry pastes from thailand are much better though I'd also like to try making my own curry pastes one of these days.
Also, availability of ingredients varies widely by region in the U.S. I imagine you'd have a hard time finding fresh lemongrass in most areas of Montana but here in Seattle many of the ingredients are readily available in specialty markets.
I wasn't a huge fan of the sauce (I made it from scratch... not that hard to do. I don't think I screwed up, i think it just tasted bad.)
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He's the damn man when it comes to cooking. Nothing too fancy, just a few tips and tricks...then bring on the tasty.
Now, I'd only worked with her this once, but she seemed like a cheery enough lady, full of little wisecracks and amusing little observations about the patients, but not particularly bright, it has to be said. She asked what we were talking about, and the nurse said that I was just explaining about how I want to go to Uni to read philosophy. The other ward assistant had never heard the word, let alone have a clue how to pronounce it.
"So what's philosophity then?"
"It's basically thinking about things." I replied.
"I'll tell you what, the world is a cruel place now compared with then I was a little girl."
And so she launched off into a tirade about how everyone - everyone, from the postman to teachers - nowadays is a paedophile, and how she was young, they played in the street and accepted candy off of strangers all the time and no-one ever got abused, ever. She segued into a damning critique of the judicial system ("they go into prison for two months for murder, say they wont do it again and come right back out") and rounded it off with that perennial favourite, "they ought to bring back hangin's."
Me and the nurse nodded politely giving each other cursory "is she swelling up? oh gosh I think she might be swelling up ready to burst like a balloon" glances, and tutting along with her philosophical diatribe (did you know, and I find this a remarkable true fact, that kids nowadays apparently cannot go to their friends' houses because they will almost certainly be raped by their friends' parents?), before as abruptly as it began it ended.
"It probably did happen," said the nurse "but people are more ready to admit it nowadays."
The woman looked into the middle distance (an impressive feat considering the wall not more than two metres ahead of her) and replied "Well, yes, of course.", apparently failing to understand that she'd just rendered the entire crux of her argument - that kids nowadays get raped a lot more than the past, and as such we should bring back hangings - void.
The nurse excused herself and left, and then the other ward assistant, and I was left in a kind of mental prolapse, with bits hanging out of my psyche where they really shouldn't be.
I just checked, and the pastes I use are infact from thailand... brand Maesri
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Dang.