The Cooking Thread
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If a particular Uncle is the host (we all take turns hosting it), we usually have something else as the main part of the meal (ham, soup, duck, etc...), though there is still usually some turkey to be had.
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Finally got Thursday's Thanksgiving dinner kitchen mess cleaned up. I like cooking, but I really hate cleaning up afterwards.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Cooking Thread:
Finally got Thursday's Thanksgiving dinner kitchen mess cleaned up. I like cooking, but I really hate cleaning up afterwards.
That is why dishwashers are miracle devices.
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@dkf My step mother (she does have a dishwasher) realized this year, that Thanksgiving clean up is so much harder now because my dad would cleanup things as she cooked (us kids, not so much).
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Yesterday 7pm, neighbour calls and offers me some wild boar. That's not how I planned to spend my evening, but hey, free food!
Pics or it didn't happen
The bowl in the middle is bones (and sinews, fat...), the top/right ones are meat. I haven't weighted it but I'd say at least 6-7 kg, maybe even more. I could have cleaned the bones much, much better but 1) it was enough unplanned work for one evening (I'm tempted to put our usual emoji here, but looks very much like a boar!) and I can always give it another go tonight (or use them for some stock... if I'm motivated enough...) and 2) they'll go to the dog so it's not like it's entirely lost and 3) I already have more than enough meat for now!
Tonight, the feast will start! And the cutting in more manageable portions and freezing of the rest.
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@dkf said in The Cooking Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Cooking Thread:
Finally got Thursday's Thanksgiving dinner kitchen mess cleaned up. I like cooking, but I really hate cleaning up afterwards.
That is why dishwashers are miracle devices.
Indeed. Unfortunately, I am still in the extended stay hotel (next paycheck, I should be able to start taking advantage of the monthly rate instead of the weekly), and hotel rooms rarely have dishwashers.
@Karla said in The Cooking Thread:
@dkf My step mother (she does have a dishwasher) realized this year, that Thanksgiving clean up is so much harder now because my dad would cleanup things as she cooked (us kids, not so much).
That's one reason I'm sad to be 1800 miles from my son; I could have told him to do much of the cleanup. It would probably have taken a couple of days for him to get around to doing it, but it took me 4 days, so that would still have been an improvement.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Cooking Thread:
@dkf said in The Cooking Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Cooking Thread:
Finally got Thursday's Thanksgiving dinner kitchen mess cleaned up. I like cooking, but I really hate cleaning up afterwards.
That is why dishwashers are miracle devices.
Indeed. Unfortunately, I am still in the extended stay hotel (next paycheck, I should be able to start taking advantage of the monthly rate instead of the weekly), and hotel rooms rarely have dishwashers.
@Karla said in The Cooking Thread:
@dkf My step mother (she does have a dishwasher) realized this year, that Thanksgiving clean up is so much harder now because my dad would cleanup things as she cooked (us kids, not so much).
That's one reason I'm sad to be 1800 miles from my son; I could have told him to do much of the cleanup. It would probably have taken a couple of days for him to get around to doing it, but it took me 4 days, so that would still have been an improvement.
This whole saga reminds me of washing up after Christmas one year when the dishwasher broke on the morning of the 24th (no time to get a replacement until after the holiday). Horrendous, and not helped by it being vital to do the job within a few hours of finishing the meal. Not at all the nicest way to sober up...
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Clean as you go, it is way faster than waiting until the food is all dried out and caked on.
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@Dragoon I agree. Usually in family dinners (Christmas or other occasions), a few people semi-spontaneously gather in the kitchen to do the washing up (of what doesn't go in the dishwasher, but sometimes with fancy silverware etc. that's almost everything) while the rest is slowly drifting towards the lounge, and they're done in no time (especially since they keep chatting, and the kitchen sometimes becomes the Place to Be to Have Fun).
Cleaning up isn't really a bit issue if it's not done by a single person when everything is dried out.
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@Dragoon said in The Cooking Thread:
Clean as you go, it is way faster than waiting until the food is all dried out and caked on.
The problem with something like Thanksgiving is that I'm usually trying to get everything to be ready at the same time, so most of the stuff is only really ready to be cleaned right before we're ready to eat. At which point I want to eat while the food is still hot.
Of course, prep materiel can be cleaned while things are cooking.
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@Dragoon said in The Cooking Thread:
Clean as you go, it is way faster than waiting until the food is all dried out and caked on.
In theory, perhaps. In practice, I am somewhat disorganized and inefficient at cooking (as at so many other things), and I am scrambling to get everything done before everything else is overcooked or cold, and the meal is late, and people are hungry and complaining (even if the people are just me). It tends to rather chaotic, with little opportunity to clean between more urgent tasks.
In this particular case, there wasn't much to clean as I went. There was a total of 3 pans — Crock-Pot, cast iron skillet, and small sauce pan — all of which were in use until I had finished eating and put the leftovers away, along with one measuring cup and a few miscellaneous utensils. Everything except the cast iron skillet either got washed fairly promptly, or was filled with soapy water until later. The only problem was the "until later" was rather too much later, but it didn't make the cleaning up, when I got around to it, more difficult; it just meant I had to work around the dirty Crock-Pot taking up very limited counter space in the meantime.
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Unfortunately, my only Thanksgiving cleanup to do is the toilet. Though last week was so bad on that front, I should probably just throw it away and buy a new one. (I think I had one slice of leftover pizza or something on Thanksgiving, that was about all I could force myself to eat because I have no appetite when I'm sick.)
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@remi said in The Cooking Thread:
Cleaning up isn't really a bit issue if it's not done by a single person when everything is dried out.
When I live alone, both the cooking and cleaning up are all done by a single person, because I'm the only person available to do it. Even when I had a family, I still did most of it. I did most of the cooking, because I enjoy it and I'm good at it (in the outcome, if not in the process), and I did most of the cleaning up, because the kids were not very helpful and my ex-wife's attitude was, "you made the mess; you clean the mess."
I don't find the food being dried and stuck on to be that much of a problem, because some combination of non-stick cookware and/or letting it soak. It's overcoming the to get started that's the main problem.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Cooking Thread:
It's overcoming the to get started that's the main problem.
I hear that. I made pies for thanksgiving and my two pie pans are still dirty (though everything else is clean). They will probably get cleaned tonight.
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@Dragoon said in The Cooking Thread:
I made pies for thanksgiving
I would have loved to have made a pecan pie (with gluten-free crust, of course), but alas, like dishwashers, hotel rooms are seldom equipped with ovens.
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Made a pumpkin pie and a Banana Cream Cheesecake, both were successes, or so my family said.
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@dkf said in The Cooking Thread:
Not at all the nicest way to sober up...
Pffffffbt. I can beat that.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Cooking Thread:
pecan pie
My favorite. I broke my sabattical on carbs just for pecan pie.
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@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Cooking Thread:
pecan pie
My favorite. I broke my sabattical on carbs just for pecan pie.
I couldn't make pecan pie, so I've just been eating pecans by the handful. Pecans, like other nuts, are high in fiber. Consumption of large quantities of dietary fiber has, um, side effects.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Cooking Thread:
alas, like dishwashers, hotel rooms are seldom equipped with ovens.
That's true, I've rarely seen a dishwasher equipped with an oven.
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@remi said in The Cooking Thread:
The bowl in the middle is bones (and sinews, fat...), the top/right ones are meat. I haven't weighted it but I'd say at least 6-7 kg, maybe even more.
After portioning out everything to freeze it, and cleaning the meat much better, the total is about 6.5 kg of "clean" meat, and at least a kg or so of additional waste & bones that I hadn't removed on the first pass. So my guesstimate wasn't that bad!
Now to pick how many different recipes I'll try...
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@remi said in The Cooking Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Cooking Thread:
alas, like dishwashers, hotel rooms are seldom equipped with ovens.
That's true, I've rarely seen a dishwasher equipped with an oven.
Dafuq you talking about? Most dishwashers' ovens are ready for buns by age 12, earlier even in these modern times!
/garage
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@Tsaukpaetra said in The Cooking Thread:
@remi said in The Cooking Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Cooking Thread:
alas, like dishwashers, hotel rooms are seldom equipped with ovens.
That's true, I've rarely seen a dishwasher equipped with an oven.
Dafuq you talking about? Most dishwashers' ovens are ready for buns by age 12, earlier even in these modern times!
/garage
see..... you see that line back there, the one in your rear view mirror? yeah... that one. You just crossed it........eww.
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@remi said in The Cooking Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Cooking Thread:
alas, like dishwashers, hotel rooms are seldom equipped with ovens.
That's true, I've rarely seen a dishwasher equipped with an oven.
Not to worry, though, because you can innovate...
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@Vixen said in The Cooking Thread:
@Tsaukpaetra said in The Cooking Thread:
@remi said in The Cooking Thread:
@HardwareGeek said in The Cooking Thread:
alas, like dishwashers, hotel rooms are seldom equipped with ovens.
That's true, I've rarely seen a dishwasher equipped with an oven.
Dafuq you talking about? Most dishwashers' ovens are ready for buns by age 12, earlier even in these modern times!
/garage
see..... you see that line back there, the one in your rear view mirror? yeah... that one. You just crossed it........eww.
Sorry sorry, @mod feel free to jeff this to the colourful jokes topic.
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I think I'll be trying these out this year:
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@boomzilla Crunchy/soft meringue with chocolate chips... that sounds absolutely delicious, I need to try that!
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@boomzilla My mom used to make those. I don't remember her ever putting chocolate chips in them, but the same basic meringue cookies, usually with peppermint flavoring.
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@boomzilla Can confirm (having enjoyed these for years) they are amazing.
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From the Nope thread...
@boomzilla said in Nope:
@boomzilla said in Nope:
https://laughingsquid.com/frenchs-yellow-mustard-flavored-ice-cream/
I actually like mustard but
I actually like mustard and I actually kind of want to try that.
As luck would have it, they included a link to the recipe...
Should I?
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@brie said in The Cooking Thread:
From the Nope thread...
@boomzilla said in Nope:
@boomzilla said in Nope:
https://laughingsquid.com/frenchs-yellow-mustard-flavored-ice-cream/
I actually like mustard but
I actually like mustard and I actually kind of want to try that.
As luck would have it, they included a link to the recipe...
Should I?
What have you got to lose?
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@Karla Ingredients, basically.
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@dcon Since that would presumably be mustard ice cream, not much of a loss.
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@brie said in The Cooking Thread:
Ingredients, basically.
Correction... I didn't have the ingredients. Well, not all of them... so it's going to be honey mustard ice cream. Hopefully replacing the corn syrup with honey won't ruin it. It'll be interesting to see how the texture comes out; my main thought about using honey is that it might freeze a little differently than corn syrup would.
I also skipped the yellow and green food color because hey, it's just color. That shouldn't affect the recipe at all though.
In any case, based on the flavor before freezing it, the mustard flavor isn't very strong but it's noticeable... I think it'll turn out edible.
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@brie said in The Cooking Thread:
I also skipped the yellow and green food color because hey, it's just color.
I had a housemate in college who added random food color to a dinner he made for the house because hey, it's just color; it doesn't affect the taste. Bright pink pasta, anyone? Or maybe the pasta was green and something else was pink. (That may or may not have been the same dinner that resulted in a huge food fight. It was definitely the same housemate who "fumigated" the bathroom with a mix of bleach and ammonia.)
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@brie said in The Cooking Thread:
I also skipped the yellow and green food color because hey, it's just color. That shouldn't affect the recipe at all though.
If it was a Microsoft CRM kitchen it would.
Did I mention I hate CRM?
Oh wait, wrong thread.
<me leaves to go to my bitching help thread>
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@TimeBandit Some are even worse. (Salesf
oarce, by reputation; fortunately, it's completely unrelated to what I do, and I've never had to get anywhere near it.)Edit: I just noticed that my phone apparently corrected my intentional misspelling.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Cooking Thread:
@TimeBandit Some are even worse. (Salesforce, by reputation; fortunately, it's completely unrelated to what I do, and I've never had to get anywhere near it.)
I unfortunately have.
It's not that it's worse (or better) just that some of the ways it's terrible are different.
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@brie said in The Cooking Thread:
It'll be interesting to see how the texture comes out; my main thought about using honey is that it might freeze a little differently than corn syrup would.
It will be more grainy, larger ice crystals.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Cooking Thread:
@brie said in The Cooking Thread:
I also skipped the yellow and green food color because hey, it's just color.
I had a housemate in college who added random food color to a dinner he made for the house because hey, it's just color; it doesn't affect the taste. Bright pink pasta, anyone? Or maybe the pasta was green and something else was pink. (That may or may not have been the same dinner that resulted in a huge food fight. It was definitely the same housemate who "fumigated" the bathroom with a mix of bleach and ammonia.)
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@boomzilla The BAD IDEAS thread is
Not in the least because the Kool-Aid would affect the taste.
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@boomzilla That looks like an alien beast just hatched! A perfect Halloween meal...
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Currently baby-sitting two pans. One of them is stewing goulash which I'm pretty confident of.
The other is intended to be Gluhwein, which is my first attempt ever and I'm not even completely sure if I used the right wine. Still, I will probably be forgiven even if it does not work out.
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Double Cooking Status:
- Got really lazy. I made some cheapo meat sauce (won't call it a Bolognaise because that's way too fancy) last night and have now eaten it twice on some crusty bread. Like a french-bread pizza, except with just sauce+meat, no cheese or anything else. Usually I do half the loaf (cut lengthwise) with that and the other with butter and garlic. Not bad, and easy, especially when you've got meat sauce left over.
- First time using a double-boiler. Wasn't nearly as hard as I've been led to believe. Made a "chocolate silk pudding", using tofu instead of the usual custard (due to dairy issues). We'll see how that goes once it's had a chance to harden.
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@PleegWat Both were a success
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@PleegWat said in The Cooking Thread:
@PleegWat Both were a success
This answer after @Benjamin-Hall's post makes it look like you two were cooking together.
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@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
@PleegWat said in The Cooking Thread:
@PleegWat Both were a success
This answer after @Benjamin-Hall's post makes it look like you two were cooking together.
Not that I know of. And since I was cooking alone...