The Cooking Thread
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@boomzilla That's called
paleo diet
, isn't it?
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Almost ready for Christmas
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@homoBalkanus I spent far too long trying to figure out the meme that didn't exist. I was really trying to shoehorn a Loss meme into it.
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@homoBalkanus Those look yummy (except the gingerbread men; not a fan of gingerbread). I wish I could eat them. Those chocolate ones with powdered sugar — I can't remember what they're called, but my mom used to make them.
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@HardwareGeek said in The Cooking Thread:
the gingerbread men
Huh. I thought they were stars at first glance, but you're correct...
(I like some styles of gingerbread far more than others. I don't know why I particularly don't like lebkuchen, but the Swedish style is wonderful.)
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@dkf said in The Cooking Thread:
but the Swedish style is wonderful
A person in my dog class is from Sweden - she brought a tin of those cookies at our last class.
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@dkf what's Swedish style?
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Stuffed with rotten fish?
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@dcon said in The Cooking Thread:
@dkf said in The Cooking Thread:
but the Swedish style is wonderful
A person in my dog class is from Sweden - she brought a tin of those cookies at our last class.
For the dogs?
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@homoBalkanus said in The Cooking Thread:
@dkf what's Swedish style?
You can get them commercially available (probably). Anna's get pretty close to how they should be.
I've got a recipe, but I'm not quite sure which book has it and that's running into the . Also, the recipe is itself quite a bit of work and needs the dough to be cooled down and things like that.
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@dkf Actually, what she brought was ginger snaps - not ginger bread (oops!). They weren't quite as sweet as what we typically have here and the ginger taste was stronger. Definitely the best ones I've ever had.
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@dcon said in The Cooking Thread:
ginger snaps
Why did I think that
snaps
was a misspelled germanschnaps
?
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@BernieTheBernie said in The Cooking Thread:
@dcon said in The Cooking Thread:
ginger snaps
Why did I think that
snaps
was a misspelled germanschnaps
?
Because you're an alcoholic?
No judgement. At least not from me.
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Christmas dinner menu:
- Roast duck w/ orange sauce
- Stuffed acorn squash
- No-sugar-added apple pie
- (Almost) sugar-free pecan pie
Christmas dinner status:
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@HardwareGeek
Christmas dinner menu:- Roast ribs of beef, sourced from a local farm via a good butcher. Well aged, cooked just right.
- Gravy (made from the meat juices).
- Yorkshire pudding.
- Roast potatoes.
- Boiled new potatoes.
- Roast parsnips.
- Sprouts.
- Peas.
Plus ones choice of condiments (mustard, horseradish, pickles).
Followed by:
- Summer pudding, with pouring cream.
Only the sprouts went wrong, ending up overcooked because there were so many things happening at once.
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@HardwareGeek I haven't slain the , but I shoved it aside at least enough to blind-bake the crust for the pecan pie and look at the cooking directions for the duck. I needn't rush; roasting time for the duck should be only about 1:45, and I have at least 4 hours for an 18:00 dinner time, or more for a later dinner.
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@dkf said in The Cooking Thread:
@HardwareGeek
Christmas dinner menu:- Roast ribs of beef, sourced from a local farm via a good butcher. Well aged, cooked just right.
- Gravy (made from the meat juices).
- Yorkshire pudding.
- Roast potatoes.
- Boiled new potatoes.
- Roast parsnips.
- Sprouts.
- Peas.
Plus ones choice of condiments (mustard, horseradish, pickles).
Followed by:
- Summer pudding, with pouring cream.
Only the sprouts went wrong, ending up overcooked because there were so many things happening at once.
How long can you keep that fresh? I can book a flight.
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Christmas eve supper menu:
- beer soup
- fish dumplings
- leek salad
- herring in oil (obviously)
- cheesecake
- gingerbread cookies
- lotsa wine[edit]
None of that done by me. I just eat and judge.
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@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
How long can you keep that fresh? I can book a flight.
Not very long. My brother is bringing his family up to visit tomorrow.
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Christmas dinner:
- mushroom soup
- roasted turkey with rice
- [celery\corn\pineapple\egg] salad
- cabbage\mushrooms dumplings
- cabbage stew
- fish pate
- roasted pork loin
- lotsa wineRight, I'm going to lay down and die of overeating now.
[edit]
Eh, herring in oil is on the table, time to get up.
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@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
How long can you keep that fresh? I can book a flight.
Just a friendly reminder that Belgium isn't that far from the UK, so you may
burn some housevisit some friend while you're there
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Tsk tsk. As if @Polygeekery couldn't do arson remotely from the comfort of his own home.
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@Zerosquare It's called Home Fires Automation for a reason.
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My usual supermarket only carried ground cloves. Which I cannot make Gluhwein with. So I had to resort to going to a different store which did stock whole ones.
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In the process of doing this recipe for a New Year dinner tonight. The venison is currently in its marinade...
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@dkf Hmm. Cooked very nicely, but rather boring. Maybe would be better with some tweaking.
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Definitely interesting though I don't think I'd actually trust it inside. Also:
The GE Profile Smart Indoor Smoker is out for purchase at a retail price of $1,000.
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@boomzilla said in The Cooking Thread:
I don't think I'd actually trust it
The product name includes "Smart". So you're absolutely correct.
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@dkf said in The Cooking Thread:
@dkf Hmm. Cooked very nicely, but rather boring. Maybe would be better with some tweaking.
Follow up #2: The sliced up left-over venison was excellent on sandwiches. It just needed a bit more seasoning.
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@boomzilla said in The Cooking Thread:
retail price of $1,000
About the price of a large Big Green Egg which doesn't just make crappy BBQ inside, and probably with proprietary overpriced packets of sawdust with RFID serial numbers and always online requirement for the DRM.
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@boomzilla wait until he gets to Robert Alton Harris. Better be hungry that day, and hope he likes nonfilter Camels.
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But of all of the last meals, the one that (morbidly) amuses me the most was there was a convict that requested a huge spread of food and included a slice of pecan pie. This particular convict had previously attempted suicide that resulted in brain damage so he said he was going to save the pecan pie for later.
There was no "later".
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I read that earlier today. I had no idea he had brain damage ; I thought that was just a great example of gallows humor.
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@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
@Zerosquare said in The Cooking Thread:
gallows humor
Literally.
Uhm, actually he was executed by lethal injection.
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@Zerosquare said in The Cooking Thread:
I read that earlier today. I had no idea he had brain damage ; I thought that was just a great example of gallows humor.
I finally went and looked it up to make sure I got the story right.
After killing a man in a restaurant and fleeing, Rector spent three days on the run before he agreed to turn himself in. However, instead of giving himself up, he shot the police officer who had negotiated his surrender in the back. He then shot himself in the head in a suicide attempt. The attempt effectively resulted in a lobotomy.
Rector was subject to a unique overlap of controversies in 1992, during his execution in Arkansas. An oft-cited example of his mental insufficiency is his decision to save the dessert from his last meal "for later," which would have been after his execution.
As for the fellow I mentioned before that, his last meal was:
- 21 Piece Bucket of KFC
- Two Large Domino's Pizzas
- Ice Cream
- a Bag of Jelly Beans
- Six-Pack of Pepsi
- a Pack of Camel Nonfilter Cigarettes
There was another convict that requested a single olive with the pit intact. They found the pit in his pocket after his execution.
Another one that stands out was an inmate in Texas that ordered an absolutely retarded amount of food and when they brought it to his cell he refused to eat a single bite. He said he wasn't hungry. Because of him Texas ended the tradition of honoring requests for last meals. Another inmate in Florida did something similar and because of that they limited requests to $40 of locally sourced foods.
Or how about the inmate that ordered a vegetarian pizza and requested that it be delivered to a homeless person? What a dick. At least order a meat lovers pizza and some bread sticks and something to drink.
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@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
Or how about the inmate that ordered a vegetarian pizza and requested that it be delivered to a homeless person? What a dick. At least order a meat lovers pizza and some bread sticks and something to drink.
Given that the prevalence of mental illness is higher among the homeless, it's much more likely that they'd prefer the vegetarian pizza
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@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
But what he knew as "grilled cheese" is not what most people would call grilled cheese. He was from Baltimore or Philly or somewhere that a grilled cheese is a single slice of toasted bread with Cheez-Whiz spread on it and then broiled until the cheese was hot. NFC why that is a thing. It is as though someone looked at the Depression Era peasant food that is the American grilled cheese and thought, "That's fine and all, but could we make it more white trash?"
BTW, this is basically what I grew up with, except it was a toasted cheese sandwich", not grilled cheese, and importantly, real cheese, not Cheez-Whiz. Real cheese meant cheddar, which for some reason was always this:
Not good cheddar, but at least it wasn't Cheez-Whiz.
My dad also liked Muenster, and I think he sometimes used it for sandwiches, but for some reason we never had it when I was a kid.
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@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
As for the fellow I mentioned before that, his last meal was:
21 Piece Bucket of KFC
Two Large Domino's Pizzas
Ice Cream
a Bag of Jelly Beans
Six-Pack of Pepsi
a Pack of Camel Nonfilter Cigarettes@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
Another one that stands out was an inmate in Texas that ordered an absolutely retarded amount of food
So the first one didn't order a retarded amount of food?
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@Zecc said in The Cooking Thread:
So the first one didn't order a retarded amount of food?
Normal Murica size
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@HardwareGeek said in The Cooking Thread:
@Polygeekery said in The Cooking Thread:
But what he knew as "grilled cheese" is not what most people would call grilled cheese. He was from Baltimore or Philly or somewhere that a grilled cheese is a single slice of toasted bread with Cheez-Whiz spread on it and then broiled until the cheese was hot. NFC why that is a thing. It is as though someone looked at the Depression Era peasant food that is the American grilled cheese and thought, "That's fine and all, but could we make it more white trash?"
BTW, this is basically what I grew up with, except it was a toasted cheese sandwich", not grilled cheese, and importantly, real cheese, not Cheez-Whiz. Real cheese meant cheddar, which for some reason was always this:
Not good cheddar, but at least it wasn't Cheez-Whiz.
My dad also liked Muenster, and I think he sometimes used it for sandwiches, but for some reason we never had it when I was a kid.
We'd call it a tosti. Two slices of bread, with a layer of Goudse and a layer of ham, heated between a contact grill until the cheese started melting.
Unfortunately I developed an allergy for milk and cheese, so I can't have them anymore, but I instead prepare something similar from canned tuna and vegetarian pesto.
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Yes, please!
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@boomzilla said in The Cooking Thread:
Yes, please!