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It is 2019! Let us all huddle around the [cooking] fire and reminisce.

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  • PinfeldorfPinfeldorf Yeah ZestRegistered User regular
    I like to throw a little gochujang, mirin and sometimes ponzu into my curry. But I think I make a pretty boring curry without those other ingredients.

    Though this is getting me to thinking maybe I'll make some curry with leftover turkey and some wild rice for dinner tonight.

  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
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    Andorra!

    Now, Andorra is a land-locked microstate with a population about the size of Chino, California. What kind of unique cuisine could it have, I hear you ask?

    Andorra is the only extant sovereign state with a majority Catalan population, you hypothetical dope! And so until the fascists in Madrid see the writing on the wall, this is the only chance for an alphabetical cookery tour to dip into the rich well of Catalan cuisine!

    I have cooked Escudella, a ridiculously meaty stew that includes bone broth, chicken, prosciutto, and some homemade sausage I made with my parents and nephews a couple of months ago. It's possibly the richest thing I've ever eaten, and exactly the kind of food I'd want if I was pulled half-frozen out of a snowdrift and needed to be nursed back to life.

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    Hilariously, after I drove halfway across town to get some good neck bones from a carniceria for the broth, I found that my local grocery store didn't sell any cabbage. And kind of looked at me like an asshole for assuming they'd have cabbage. So for greens I substituted spinach instead. Screw cabbage anyway, that stuff kind of sucks.

    I just thawed the half of this soup that I originally froze, and I melted some goat cheese into it that I had left over from my Thanksgiving sweet potatoes.

    Listen. It turns out that you can turn any soup into a rich chowder by melting goat cheese into it, and I don't think I can live my life the same way ever again.

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  • Lost SalientLost Salient blink twice if you'd like me to mercy kill youRegistered User regular
    I'm gonna turn my leftover turkey into green chili with turkey thanks to my Mexican-restaurant-running friend who can get me fresh tomatillos in a tomatillo-less country, wooooo

    Also it's worth mentioning that different types of shrimp paste can be VERY VERY different, so like. Be prepared for a lot of variation. It's probably not practical to get a different shrimp paste for each cuisine you want to cook, but some will be TURBO FUNK SHRIMPY and some will be more salty and some will be... you get the idea. (I don't use it because I don't shrimp.)

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  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    Good thing Costco sells goat cheese by the log.

  • Lost SalientLost Salient blink twice if you'd like me to mercy kill youRegistered User regular
    Oh also

    Your place is going to smell a lot like shrimp funk

    Brace yourself and open your windows

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  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    edited December 2019
    I'm gonna turn my leftover turkey into green chili with turkey thanks to my Mexican-restaurant-running friend who can get me fresh tomatillos in a tomatillo-less country, wooooo

    Also it's worth mentioning that different types of shrimp paste can be VERY VERY different, so like. Be prepared for a lot of variation. It's probably not practical to get a different shrimp paste for each cuisine you want to cook, but some will be TURBO FUNK SHRIMPY and some will be more salty and some will be... you get the idea. (I don't use it because I don't shrimp.)

    Tomatillos rule. Also, if you boil that down thick enough and throw in some diced tomatoes, you'll have a hell of a burrito filling.

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  • PinfeldorfPinfeldorf Yeah ZestRegistered User regular
    For a long time I thought tomatillos were just underripe tomatoes, and I couldn't figure out why I liked them and hate tomatoes.

    Turns out nope.

  • sarukunsarukun RIESLING OCEANRegistered User regular
    Damn, I would love to be able to get tomatillos.

  • XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    I wandered through hmart for 45 minutes and the only shrimp paste I found that was definitively labeled as such was whole tiny shrimps (krill?) that didn't look anything like the any other shrimp pastes that Tynic posted or that I saw on amazon

    So oh well =(

  • webguy20webguy20 I spend too much time on the Internet Registered User regular
    You know what's fucking good? Costco Chicken Pot Pie. It is straight up comfort food that has a pretty good cost per serving ratio, and re-heats great.

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  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Xaquin wrote: »
    I wandered through hmart for 45 minutes and the only shrimp paste I found that was definitively labeled as such was whole tiny shrimps (krill?) that didn't look anything like the any other shrimp pastes that Tynic posted or that I saw on amazon

    So oh well =(

    I haven’t ever seen any at hmart tbh
    If you don’t wanna hit Chinatown, Amazon definitely has a few brands

  • XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    The nearest Chinatown to me is about 75 miles sadly

    .... though I will be nearby on the 15th!

  • BrainleechBrainleech 機知に富んだコメントはここにあります Registered User regular
    These were just the oddest holiday cookies I have ever seen
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FnFi9dMoVFs
    I never heard of isomalt before

  • LuvTheMonkeyLuvTheMonkey High Sierra Serenade Registered User regular
    I've used isomalt! Chefsteps has a cornbread recipe that uses it.

    That is some good damn cornbread btw

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  • XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    I made my green curry paste

    I hope a 14oz can of coconut milk mellows this stuff out because goddam is it powerful

    Recipe was:

    1 serrano pepper
    3 green thai chilis
    1 large shallot
    1 medium green bell pepper
    1 tsp cumin
    1 tsp coriander
    1 tsp black pepper
    1 tsp salt
    1 tbsp fresh ginger
    1 tbsp fresh galangal
    1 tbsp fresh turmeric
    2 small lemon grass stalks
    1 lime zest and juice
    1 tbsp lemon juice
    2 tbsp evoo
    1 tbsp palm sugar
    5 cloves garlic

  • RightfulSinRightfulSin Registered User regular
    So hey. I am want in to try a novel idea, at least to me. Savory oatmeal. Anybody know of any or have any recipes for it that bring the vegetables? Extra points if it has a way of being able to be portioned out for a week worth of lunches.

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  • SilverWindSilverWind Registered User regular
    I always eat savory oatmeal! Apparently this is weird to the rest of the world except possibly Scotland so I've mostly just done it on my own

    Never tried veggies-- I eat it like congee at breakfast, occasionally adding chili powder, cumin or such, but mostly just eating it plain salted. Oh and chunks of cheese that end up half melted (though I guess you could shred it / stir it to combine). Sooooo goooood

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  • ApocalyptusApocalyptus Registered User regular
    I made savoury porridge with garlic shoots, a fried egg, salt and pepper, and olive oil once, it was delicious!

  • AtheraalAtheraal Registered User regular
    Im more of a fan of cream of wheat or grits, I find oatmeal's texture a little off-putting

    But those are good savory too!

  • XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    Savory grits are amazing

  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    edited December 2019
    Been fucking around with Mirin and MSG in my cooking recently, and goddamn it's made my speciality chicken breast recipe even better

    For those that want it:

    Get some chicken breast. 1/2 breast per person is my usual yard stick. Ideally, skin on.

    Season with salt, pepper, msg on both sides, make sure to rub it in.

    Preheat your oven to 200c (For you imperial folks... I shun you! SHUN!)

    Melt some butter in a frying pan, dial it up to a decently high temp, then pop the chicken in once the butter's melted. Dribble just a dash of soy sauce on each breast once it's in. Sear on both sides until it's starting to get that lovely crispy brown on both sides. Pop into a deep glass cooking dish that's got a lid. Then throw some mirin (White wine also works, your choice), 250ml+ of stock (Chicken is obviously good, or use veggie if you want. hell be crazy, do beef) into the pan, deglaze it, and pour that over the chicken. you dont want the chicken floating, but you want it pretty happily immeresed in the liquid

    Stick it in the oven for at least half an hour, lid on (Dont want to loose ANY of that lovely liquid) - shouldn't need much more than that to cook all the way through. Worth flipping once or twice in the oven, esp to help the skin get nice and crispy.

    Other end, pull it out and put it to sit on a plate. Use all the liquid as a base to make gravy - i usually just add a sachet of gravy powder partly because i'm lazy, but also because i find it's good, easy results, but feel free to thicken it with cornflour and add your own spices to taste. Add more stock/water/white wine/mirin as needed depending on amount of gravy you want - better to expand with water/stock though, so it doesn't get too rich

    Serve with oven roasted potatoes, kumara (Sweet potatoes), peas, corn, and all that goodness.

    Delicious

    (I've even got some gravy and chicken breast saved from my latest batch, whcih i'm going to combine with udon noodles and make into some sort of extra delicious stirfry and broth thing, i think)

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  • PeenPeen Registered User regular
    I've been this close to buying the big thing of MSG at Costco a few times now, I should probably sneak some into the cart the next time I'm at the international grocery store.

  • PsykomaPsykoma Registered User regular
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    I just watched this and now I'm slightly obsessed

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1Alkctc1Vk

  • XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    Thai green curry is a go!

    It ended up tasting great, but needs a bit more kick

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    Psykoma wrote: »

    Conclusion i got from that is it's like any seasoning - used well, it does well, used excessively or not at all, and... eh. +/- usual tastes are different between other people.

    Ceartinly in my current iteration of the chicken breast recipe, i think it's the mirin doing the heavy lifting, but the msg is helping add some subtleties.

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  • JedocJedoc In the scuppers with the staggers and jagsRegistered User regular
    I bought a shaker of Accent seasoning a while ago, and it's been really nice. I like having just a pure shot of MSG to add to any dish that takes my fancy.

    I'll say that it has yet to make any leftovers worse, so far.

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  • KetarKetar Come on upstairs we're having a partyRegistered User regular
    I need to bake something that would be good to share with a large group this weekend, for a neighborhood holiday gathering. I've done a lot of cookies lately with the kids and don't really want to make any more right now. It can't involve nuts or nut flour at all since I don't know what allergies any of the kids there might have. Something like a cake is out since this is going to be outdoors in cold weather - it will need to be something I can bake in individual servings that can be passed around easily on a plate or similar. And yes, cookies make the most sense but I don't feel like making any more damned cookies right now. Especially since everyone else will probably be bringing either cookies, cupcakes or cakeballs.

    I'm thinking madeleines. Maybe one traditional batch with lemon, and a batch of either pumpkin or gingerbread. Financiers would be great, but all of my favorite financier recipes rely on nut flours. Hmm.

  • Metzger MeisterMetzger Meister It Gets Worse before it gets any better.Registered User regular
    I would still like some tips for Danish dough or dough laminating if anyone's got some. I think I can manage the bread, I pretty much nailed it last time (hold applause please) but I've never made something as complicated as a homemade Danish

  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    All I know about Danish pastry dough is from great British bake-off. You could see what Paul Hollywood has to say on the subject

  • KetarKetar Come on upstairs we're having a partyRegistered User regular
    edited December 2019
    I would still like some tips for Danish dough or dough laminating if anyone's got some. I think I can manage the bread, I pretty much nailed it last time (hold applause please) but I've never made something as complicated as a homemade Danish

    Practice at home before you try to do it while traveling. You're going to want practice with both the lamination, and any fancy cutting and shaping/twisting you might want to do to end up with interesting looking Danishes.

    Make sure you'll have a nice length of counter or similar workspace for rolling out dough before you get started. If you don't, it won't really be doable.

    Make sure to keep your dough and butter properly chilled. When you're rolling out your dough and working on your folds, if it starts getting too warm and soft, stop what you're doing and chill it again. If your butter is warm enough to soften too much you'll just end up pushing it into your dough rather than creating nice layers and beautiful lamination. Transfer it to a sheet pan and put in the freezer for a bit. Not so long that it actually freezes though - frozen dough/butter won't be any good for working with either.

    So in regards to the last tip, give yourself more time than you think you should need the first time or two you try laminating dough. Build in an extra hour or two for chilling dough to keep it cold, so that if you find yourself working too slowly while rolling the dough out and making your folds - especially if you start getting into the weeds while trying to square off your corners and make sure everything is nice and even - you have enough time to chill it properly and still finish with enough time for sufficient proofing before you need to bake. Speed will only come with confidence, and confidence is only going to come with practice.

    Try to watch some video tutorials ahead of time - they'll be more helpful than written recipes and pictures in a cookbook or on a cooking blog.

    Also maybe consider doing croissants your first time. The recipe and technique is extremely similar and the shaping is easier (especially for chocolate croissants).

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  • The Zombie PenguinThe Zombie Penguin Eternal Hungry Corpse Registered User regular
    took the rest of the gravy i had lying around from the last batch of roast chicken i made, threw it into the wok with water from making udon noodles, said noodles, a chopped up chicken breast, carrot, onion, garlic, and broccolli.

    Came out delicious.

    ...Also as far as i can tell i basically accidentally made ramen, so i can no longer say i've never eaten ramen. Whatever! it was still SUPER TASTY.

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  • ToxTox I kill threads he/himRegistered User regular
    A tip you can use to help with dough temperature regulation is keep a deep sheet pan in the freezer and when the dough feels warm put a sheet of parchment over it followed by said sheet pan. I've heard that's a go-to for pie dough, at least, so not sure how well it'd work for the thicker stuff

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  • XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    Tomorrow I go in search for dock seeds and shagbark hickory!

    I'll be bringing my metal detector too but that's nothing to do with cooking

  • Lost SalientLost Salient blink twice if you'd like me to mercy kill youRegistered User regular
    on the one hand i'm trying so hard to be good calorie wise this holiday season

    on the other hand I have this halvah sitting and waiting to be put into tahini and halvah brownies

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  • ButlerButler 89 episodes or bust Registered User regular
    I made carbonara tonight. The really traditional stuff: Guanciale, Pecorino cheese, spaghetti, black pepper and eggs, nothing else.

    Surprisingly, I struggled more with the saltiness than the fattiness in the final dish. The guanciale rendered down beautifully and its oil disappeared into the pasta without becoming heavy or gluggy, but the salt was about at the upper limit of what I or my Dad could tolerate, and I hadn’t added any beyond what was necessary for the pasta water. I think I would have to cut the amount of meat by about 30% if I were to make it again.

    Guanciale is something else, though. Very different to bacon, underneath the saltiness the flavour is more complex and less obviously smoky, like an enhanced version of a really nice piece of pork crackling. Definitely worth trying in its own right.

  • CampyCampy Registered User regular
    Xaquin wrote: »
    Thai green curry is a go!

    It ended up tasting great, but needs a bit more kick

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    Thai green curry is my jam! From your recipe above one thing that would recommend, nay insist on, would be kaffir lime leaves. To me they are pure distilled thai green curry flavour, find some and give em a sniff and I think you'll agree!

    Plus they make the paste much greener, as per its namesake.

  • XaquinXaquin Right behind you!Registered User regular
    Campy wrote: »
    Xaquin wrote: »
    Thai green curry is a go!

    It ended up tasting great, but needs a bit more kick

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    Thai green curry is my jam! From your recipe above one thing that would recommend, nay insist on, would be kaffir lime leaves. To me they are pure distilled thai green curry flavour, find some and give em a sniff and I think you'll agree!

    Plus they make the paste much greener, as per its namesake.

    I was going to buy some but they were fairly expensive so I omitted

  • tynictynic PICNIC BADASS Registered User, ClubPA regular
    Butler wrote: »
    I made carbonara tonight. The really traditional stuff: Guanciale, Pecorino cheese, spaghetti, black pepper and eggs, nothing else.

    Surprisingly, I struggled more with the saltiness than the fattiness in the final dish. The guanciale rendered down beautifully and its oil disappeared into the pasta without becoming heavy or gluggy, but the salt was about at the upper limit of what I or my Dad could tolerate, and I hadn’t added any beyond what was necessary for the pasta water. I think I would have to cut the amount of meat by about 30% if I were to make it again.

    Guanciale is something else, though. Very different to bacon, underneath the saltiness the flavour is more complex and less obviously smoky, like an enhanced version of a really nice piece of pork crackling. Definitely worth trying in its own right.

    Personally I would first try just not salting the pasta - it's my standard approach if I'm making anything that involves cured meats or anchovies in the final dish. (This is probably a personal thing, but even with simpler dishes I find that salt in the cooking water can easily dominate a lot of the subtler flavours of the pasta itself, so I'm pretty conservative with it. And I like salt! )

  • Mai-KeroMai-Kero Registered User regular
    edited December 2019
    Psykoma wrote: »

    Conclusion i got from that is it's like any seasoning - used well, it does well, used excessively or not at all, and... eh. +/- usual tastes are different between other people.

    Ceartinly in my current iteration of the chicken breast recipe, i think it's the mirin doing the heavy lifting, but the msg is helping add some subtleties.

    I made the BA gravy recipe for friendsgiving this year and popped a healthy dollop of MSG into it before serving, and I will say it's the best gravy I've ever had. That said it's also the first time I've made completely homemade gravy including the stock so that could be a factor to.

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