The Cooking Thread
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@dkf WoW! Hat off to the supermenu.
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@dkf said in The Cooking Thread:
I think I've forgotten some things here…
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Got my traditional Christmas morning breakfast casserole in the oven
Biscuits & Gravy Casserole
Last time I shared this it got over 200,000 shares, so I'm guessing it's the BOMB…
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This makes for an awesome easy breakfast for the gang...
Ingredients
1 pound sausage
1 1/2 ounces pork gravy mix ( 1 package of Pioneer Brand Peppered Sausage Gravy Mix )
1 cup cheddar cheese, shredded
6 eggs
1/2 cup milk
to taste salt
to taste black pepper
1 Can (8 oz) biscuits ( 1 can Pillsbury Grands Biscuits )
Directions
Preheat oven to 350 degree's. Take a 9x13 pan and spray it with Pam or whatever you like to use. Then take the Biscuits and it into 1" pieces and line bottom of pan. Brown Sausage and scatter over biscuits. Sprinkle with Cheddar Cheese. Whisk eggs and milk with a pinch of salt and pepper and pour it over the pan. Make Gravy mix per package directions and pour over. Bake in the oven for about 30-45 minutes.Well, mostly. We have fewer people so I used a smaller pan (and the "regular" size is way too much for us anyways) and only half the package of biscuits. My daughter asked for bacon gravy so I chopped up some bacon, cooked that in a pan, added breakfast sausage and used the grease for gravy.
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Out of the oven!
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Air fryer grilled cheese sandwich is the best thing ever.
I got one of these for the holidays, so now I have an air fryer I can cook more than a tiny handful of stuff in at a time.
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Made onion rings last night:
Did not use a pale ale. Yuengling. Mmm....so good.
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@boomzilla I mash it with potatoes.
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@PleegWat said in The Cooking Thread:
@boomzilla I mash it with potatoes.
1 part potato to 0 part kale?
Ok, maybe 100 parts potato to 1 part kale.
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@PleegWat said in The Cooking Thread:
I mash it with potatoes.
FWIW, it makes good soup provided you've got a nice bit of ham stock too.
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@dkf this discussion reminds me more and more of how it goes anytime someone mentions nettle soup.
Nettle soup is quite good. Well, nettles by themselves don't have much taste, but fry them in butter (or even better, duck fat!), add some bacon and potatoes, and some spices, and you get a pretty tasty nettle soup.
(FTR, I did cook nettle soup a couple of times, and the paragraph above is entirely true)
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@remi said in The Cooking Thread:
@dkf this discussion reminds me more and more of how it goes anytime someone mentions nettle soup.
Nettle soup is quite good. Well, nettles by themselves don't have much taste, but fry them in butter (or even better, duck fat!), add some bacon and potatoes, and some spices, and you get a pretty tasty nettle soup.
(FTR, I did cook nettle soup a couple of times, and the paragraph above is entirely true)
Why bother with the nettles then?
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@remi said in The Cooking Thread:
Nettle soup is quite good.
Only if you've got young-enough nettles. Otherwise they're far too fibrous to be pleasant.
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@mikehurley said in The Cooking Thread:
@remi said in The Cooking Thread:
@dkf this discussion reminds me more and more of how it goes anytime someone mentions nettle soup.
Nettle soup is quite good. Well, nettles by themselves don't have much taste, but fry them in butter (or even better, duck fat!), add some bacon and potatoes, and some spices, and you get a pretty tasty nettle soup.
(FTR, I did cook nettle soup a couple of times, and the paragraph above is entirely true)
Why bother with the nettles then?
The only reason I ever cooked nettle soup was for the novelty value.
I witnessed a variant of this last summer in a family Whatsapp group, with someone saying they had found some unusual fruit (can't remember what it was... something in the watermelon family, I think?) and that they'd make jam, and someone else saying "why bother, it's tasteless" and the first one saying "no no, if you add vanilla, and sugar, and [some other fruit I forgot] it's very nice."
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@PleegWat
I only do snert
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@Applied-Mediocrity mentioned onion bhajis, which heretofore had only been an element of BOfH for me so I decided to look them up, and tonight I made them according to this (minus the hot pepper at the request of the natives):
Pretty good!
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@boomzilla I love home made onion bhajis. Really should make them more often
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I had been having a difficult time with trying to make pulled pork
t. First I tried the slow cooker method. Then I tried in a dutch oven:But each time I ended up with a bunch of meat at the top of the piece that wouldn't shred. It was still good for eating, but that's not what I was going for. So I decided to use the same technique as I do with ribs and wrapped it in foil and cooked at 250° in the oven. The linked recipe recommended 300° but I figured a slower cook would be more even and hopefully better results.
It took about five hours to get up to temperature (I had guessed it would take 5-6 hours) and the result was magnificent:
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Not "Cooking" for most people, but it t counts as cooking around our home, so:
I get home from a pretty day. I want an Old Fashioned. I can't find a rocks glass. I grab one of my wife's stemless wine glasses. I make a drink. I notice something and I smile.
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@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
Not "Cooking" for most people, but it t counts as cooking around our home, so:
I get home from a pretty day. I want an Old Fashioned. I can't find a rocks glass. I grab one of my wife's stemless wine glasses. I make a drink. I notice something and I smile.
I thought about getting glasses with similar funny comments.
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A while back someone mentioned Hello Fresh and I mentally pooh-poo'd the idea but I don't think that I said anything of the sort on here.
Well, I'm here to admit that I was entirely wrong and it was all due to cooking elitism on my part. My father passed away and we're not the type to order out. We enjoy cooking and several people got us gift certificates to Hello Fresh (and had delivered nearly 7 gallons of my ol'friend Jack, along with a heaping shitload of beer, I'm now on a first name basis with the delivery guy and he's leaned on me for tips on building a RetroPie) and I've been impressed.
It has made us prepare some meals that we never would have chosen on our own and so far they are 5 for 5 on really tasty meals. Their ground beef is also easily the best I've ever cooked. Much better than anything I have bought locally. If they'd sell me ground beef I would fill my freezer with what they deliver.
Everything has been super tasty and unique and I think the best part is that it is just enough for my wife and I. We aren't going to overeat and don't have to worry about leftovers that I will have a good intention on eating but usually forget about.
Great gift. We like it.
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@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
I want an Old Fashioned
Did your wife oblige or did you have to sort yourself out?
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@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
A while back someone mentioned Hello Fresh and I mentally pooh-poo'd the idea but I don't think that I said anything of the sort on here.
We used one of those services for a bit. I don't think it was Hello Fresh, but I agree. There was a lot of good stuff in there. For we didn't keep up with it but it was fun and we got to eat some different things.
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@boomzilla said in The Cooking Thread:
@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
A while back someone mentioned Hello Fresh and I mentally pooh-poo'd the idea but I don't think that I said anything of the sort on here.
We used one of those services for a bit. I don't think it was Hello Fresh, but I agree. There was a lot of good stuff in there. For we didn't keep up with it but it was fun and we got to eat some different things.
I've thought about them before... My eating habits aren't the ..um... best being single (and ). A friend of mine likes it (her brother got it as a (Christmas?) present for her).
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@dcon we mostly stuck to the keto-like options, but I refuse to pay for fish and my wife is allergic to nuts so sometimes there weren't any great options for us.
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@boomzilla that's my fear. Same with eating at restaurants. It's a real pain with food allergies. And dairy is everywhere. At least if I cook for myself I can read all the ingredients myself before I buy them.
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@boomzilla said in The Cooking Thread:
We used one of those services for a bit. I don't think it was Hello Fresh, but I agree. There was a lot of good stuff in there. For we didn't keep up with it but it was fun and we got to eat some different things.
My ex-wife and I used one — I can't remember what it was called; I think maybe it had Chef in the name — that wasn't delivery. You went into their storefront, and they had recipes and all the ingredients. You went around to the various ingredients and dumped a tablespoon of this and 1/2 teaspoon of that into Zip-Lok® bags or aluminum baking trays, depending on the recipe, then took them home and put in the freezer until you wanted that particular meal. It was nice that if you needed 1/4 teaspoon of ground joxquoiefloehs root, you just measured 1/4 teaspoon, rather than having to buy an entire jar that would sit on your shelf forever because you would never use ground joxquoiefloehs root for anything else, ever.
@boomzilla said in The Cooking Thread:
@dcon we mostly stuck to the keto-like options, but I refuse to pay for fish and my wife is allergic to nuts so sometimes there weren't any great options for us.
@Benjamin-Hall said in The Cooking Thread:
@boomzilla that's my fear. Same with eating at restaurants. It's a real pain with food allergies. And dairy is everywhere. At least if I cook for myself I can read all the ingredients myself before I buy them.
Yeah, I looked at Hello Fresh when @Polygeekery posted this yesterday. They don't offer any special dietary plans. They include allergens in their meal descriptions, and their storage and handling supposedly minimize risk of cross-contamination, but no guarantees. "We list the ingredients; it's up to you to read the description and figure out whether any meal works for you." (paraphrased)
Fairly recently I got a coupon for a discount at another such service (Blue Apron?). They do have special plans for vegan, keto, paleo, etc., but not for gluten-free. Some of their keto and paleo meals are probably gluten-free, but no promises.
It's the same problem I have even in the grocery store. There are no gluten-containing ingredients listed, and the label doesn't say, "May contain traces of wheat," but there are sources of gluten other than wheat, and none of them are required to be listed as possible allergens, so unless it explicitly says "gluten-free," it's a risk. A small, low-probability risk in many cases, but still a risk.
Edits: So many typos...
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@boomzilla said in The Cooking Thread:
but I refuse to pay for fish
Is that just a weird way to say you don't like fish?
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@mikehurley said in The Cooking Thread:
@boomzilla said in The Cooking Thread:
but I refuse to pay for fish
Is that just a weird way to say you don't like fish?
I mean...if I'm at a friend's and they serve it I'll eat it but I won't order it at a restaurant or cook it myself.
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This is the best thing I've seen all day:
More here:
Food Thread: Steak Or Chop? With MSG Or Without? These Are The Questions That Try Men's Souls
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@boomzilla that's a single bone bone-in rib roast, extra rare.
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@Polygeekery My mouth is watering, although I would prefer it slightly less rare.
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I might be trying this soon:
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@boomzilla I'm trying this tomorrow night:
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@Polygeekery bookmarked.
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@boomzilla it was pretty great. The wife wants it added to the rotation.
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TIL:
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@HardwareGeek well that's pretty cool. I have quite a bit of used fry oil around here that was destined for starting campfires this spring. I will have to give that a shot.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Cooking Thread:
TIL:
Doesn't sound useful when frying in palm fat seeing how it solidifies, so I guess I'll stick to cleaning the deep fryer using plain old filtering. So far the light paper used in napkins seems to work fine, and I just use its own basket as a strainer to hold the filter material.
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When your bananas die, make banana bread.
When your banana bread dies, make banana bread pudding:
(My daughter likes banana bread, but won't eat it after it's a day or two old. So I end up with some banana bread that's been sitting on her plate for a few hours, and I don't want to eat it at that point. Solution: save it up for pudding!)
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The feminine French chefs have nothing on this dinner:
Prove me wrong.