The Cooking Thread
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Making a pumpkin dump cake. Yellow cake mix, spices, pumpkin, eggs. Mix, oven. Cool, eat.
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@PleegWat Negative calories even!
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@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
Or you salted them too early. Eggs are one of the few things that shouldn't be salted along the way, only salt them right as you take them off the heat.
We put in salt at the same time as all the other ingredients. As I said, the only difficult bit at all is stopping the cook at the right time, and that takes real practice to get right. The window for error is not wide at all. (I use a microwave and I'm typically thinking “is this going to be a 15 second, 20 sec or 30 sec cook before I take it out and break the eggs up again?”)
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@dkf said in The Cooking Thread:
I use a microwave
@dkf said in The Cooking Thread:
eggs
Okay, so you just lost all cooking credibility.
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@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
@dkf said in The Cooking Thread:
I use a microwave
@dkf said in The Cooking Thread:
eggs
Okay, so you just lost all cooking credibility.
i'll microwave my mason jar omlets for breakfast..... but that's more because i just put 1/2c filling, 2 eggs in a mason jar, bring it to work, shake the living carp out of it, then pop it in the microwave for 2 minutes.
they're really not the best eggy scramble onlet things in the world, but they are fast, they are cheap, and they taste good enough that i want to eat them.... and for a lazy workday breakfast that's not bad......
if i'm not going to work tho..... i get out the cast iron and do my eggs proper wise.
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@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
Okay, so you just lost all cooking credibility.
Why? Because it works? Microwaves are simply a way of heating things. (Also, it frees up space on the cooker for lots of other breakfast things that actually need to be fried.)
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@boomzilla As long as it's just those two days...
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@boomzilla said in The Cooking Thread:
I'm just glad that this is a leap year so we only have to do the challenge for 2 days.
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@brie said in The Cooking Thread:
I'm just glad that this is a leap year so we only have to do the challenge for 2 days.
I was going to say "and next year it will be expanded to 3 days"
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@boomzilla said in The Cooking Thread:
I did some grocery shopping last night, and among other things, I bought a meat loaf frozen entree. I haven't had meat loaf for months, and I don't have an oven in the hotel kitchenette, so making it is a challenge; I could probably do something with the slow cooker like I did for the Thanksgiving turkey, but . Anyway, it's a brand of entrees I buy fairly often, and it was clearly labelled gluten-free, so I didn't look at it all that closely.
Until I was putting it in the freezer, when I noticed it isn't meat loaf; it's veggie loaf. Well, that explains why I hadn't bought that particular item before. Apparently I was more observant on previous shopping trips.
But at least now I know when to eat it.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Cooking Thread:
@boomzilla said in The Cooking Thread:
I did some grocery shopping last night, and among other things, I bought a meat loaf frozen entree. I haven't had meat loaf for months, and I don't have an oven in the hotel kitchenette, so making it is a challenge; I could probably do something with the slow cooker like I did for the Thanksgiving turkey, but . Anyway, it's a brand of entrees I buy fairly often, and it was clearly labelled gluten-free, so I didn't look at it all that closely.
Until I was putting it in the freezer, when I noticed it isn't meat loaf; it's veggie loaf. Well, that explains why I hadn't bought that particular item before. Apparently I was more observant on previous shopping trips.
But at least now I know when to eat it.
Never?
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No, on Feb. 30th and 31st clearly.
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@Benjamin-Hall Did you even read the thread? 30 and 31 February.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Cooking Thread:
@Benjamin-Hall Did you even read the thread? 30 and 31 February.
Guess I ed.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Cooking Thread:
But at least now I know when to eat it.
When you're constipated?
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A winner is this sauce:
https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/member/views/balsamic-cream-sauce-50025300
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Well, that sounds tasty.
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@Dragoon yes. It's good with or without the Parmesan (I tasted before adding).
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@boomzilla How much can you taste the onion in it? I'm not a huge fan of onion but if I could have a relatively easily made sauce to go with various chicken dishes that'd be neat.
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@e4tmyl33t it would probably still be good without the onion. Definitely not an overpowering part of the sauce. Do you really not like caramelized onion?
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@boomzilla The only thing I can usually stand onion in is onion rings. Almost anywhere else, raw or cooked, I can't stand it.
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@e4tmyl33t not a big fan of raw onion but I really love them caramelized.
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@boomzilla said in The Cooking Thread:
@e4tmyl33t not a big fan of raw onion but I really love them caramelized.
Not a big fan of either cook or raw onions, themselves. I love the flavor onions give dishes when they're cooked, but I prefer the onions either chopped finely enough that there's no obvious "this is a piece of onion" taste while I'm eating, or left in big enough chunks that it's easily removed when the cooking is done. Raw onions I don't really have any use for (except turning them into cooked ones).
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@boomzilla said in The Cooking Thread:
@e4tmyl33t not a big fan of raw onion but I really love them caramelized.
The best way to eat a raw onion is like an apple.
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@jinpa said in The Cooking Thread:
@boomzilla said in The Cooking Thread:
@e4tmyl33t not a big fan of raw onion but I really love them caramelized.
The best way to eat a raw onion is
like an apple.on a cheeseburger
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The best way to eat a raw onion is
like an apple.on acheeseveggie burger
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@jinpa said in The Cooking Thread:
The best way to eat a raw onion is like an apple.
I've done that before just to creep people out. Plus I actually like raw onion.
@dcon said in The Cooking Thread:
The best way to eat a raw onion is
like an apple.on a cheeseburgerYou're both right.
@jinpa said in The Cooking Thread:
The best way to eat a raw onion is
like an apple.on acheeseveggie burgerWell....right up until that. Now you're wrong.
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Veggie and Burger are mutually exclusive terms.
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@jinpa said in The Cooking Thread:
veggie burger
vegan
noun: vegan; plural noun: vegans
Old Indian word meaning "bad hunter"
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@jinpa said in The Cooking Thread:
@TimeBandit said in The Cooking Thread:
"bad hunter"
Redundant phrase.
No.
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@Dragoon said in The Cooking Thread:
Veggie and Burger are mutually exclusive terms.
There are some excellent bean-based pattie things that can be placed inside a bun and served in ways very similar to a burger. They don't taste like a burger, but they do taste nice. (They used to be my favourite item on the Burger King menu back before I went to college. Long time ago…) Now, I never suggest eating (or not eating) anything for moral reasons. I suggest eating it only because it is actually good. (There's also plenty of factually terrible dishes made out of animal products. Why anyone would have tripe when they could have a nice steak instead, I'll never know.)
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@jinpa said in The Cooking Thread:
@boomzilla said in The Cooking Thread:
@e4tmyl33t not a big fan of raw onion but I really love them caramelized.
The best way to eat a raw onion is
like an appleE_GOOD_WAY_NOT_FOUND.That's not a food, it's a chemical weapon.
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@Dragoon said in The Cooking Thread:
Veggie and Burger are mutually exclusive terms.
Incorrect... burgers can have veggies: pickles, lettuce, tomato, onion (the lettuce is negotiable, actually). "Veggie burger" is a contradiction, however, as "burger" is short for hamburger, which is by definition meat (hamburger) and the sandwich isn't a burger without it.
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@dkf said in The Cooking Thread:
factually terrible dishes made out of animal products.
Like the savoury pudding containing sheep's pluck (heart, liver, and lungs), and cooked while traditionally encased in the animal's stomach made by your neighbors to the north?
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@mikehurley said in The Cooking Thread:
@boomzilla said in The Cooking Thread:
Wouldn't the smell give it away?
It'd be a funny trick to play on someone when they were sick and couldn't smell but they wanted some comfort food. And by funny I mean completely evil and the resulting homicide would probably be justified.
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@mikehurley said in The Cooking Thread:
Wouldn't the smell give it away?
Serve it with a glass of tang that's actually made out of the cheese powder. Maybe they won't notice the smells are coming from the wrong thing.
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@brie said in The Cooking Thread:
glass of tang that's actually made out of the cheese powder
:sort_of_want.mdb:
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I think the real question is, if you take a bite of the tang-noodles and a sip of the cheese drink, could you trick your brain into accepting the situation?
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@brie said in The Cooking Thread:
I think the real question is, if you take a bite of the tang-noodles and a sip of the cheese drink, could you trick your brain into accepting the situation?
I was a lunchroom clown in high school. I'd often take my food, mash it all up with a fork, and mix it into a carton of chocolate milk, then drink the whole thing just to disgust other students. So I think it would be acceptable in my case.
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