So today is my birthday, and I’m wanting to cook myself something special! I have carte blanch to make a huge mess that my partner will clean, so I’m rearing to throw down. What are your fav celebratory meals? Could be simple, could be complicated, could be expensive, could be cheap af. Just looking for some inspiration....
I had been craving nachos (my favorite food group!) for several weeks. Going out with my partner to get some has been challenging because of our hectic schedules lately so I decided on my free evening after work last Friday, I would get busy making my dreams come true....
I always cook for myself alone which means I’m used to cooking just one portion, or 2 portions which I end up eating in one sitting anyway. I usually improvise my meals and my brain just seems hardwired to measure quantities for a single portion meal. Does anyone have any tips for scailing your cooking up to cook for groups?
Am trying to make a dark rye loaf like you’d find on a stall or in a shop. Not the really dense ‘pumpernickel’ style but round or oblong tin shaped....
So I’ve eaten everything from sardines and toast to balut. I have never really found foods I don’t enjoy, except for Indian food…and balut but that’s a whole other story....
Recipe: www.themediterraneandish.com/farinata-recipe . It cooks a bit like a Dutch baby, but you have to soak the flour longer and it doesn’t puff up....
Why are store bought whole pickled beets so much smaller than the beets you’d buy or harvest fresh? Are they picking them when small? Whittling big ones down to one-bite size?...
This was my favorite chicken but I don’t remember how I made it aside from using honey and seasonings. Someone else ate most of it and left me the last piece which I dropped at 3am. I think that means I did a good job lol.
Does asafoetida smell amazing to you? and if yes do you consider yourself someone with an accurate sense of smell (e.g. identify if someone needs dental work in a conversation, smell who someone has been hanging out with, identify spices and herbs used in a meal with high accuracy, identify the perfume someone wears etc)
I was finishing a jar of extremely hot peppers (7 pot primos) that I had fermenting on Thanksgiving day. I made a hot sauce with them and cantaloupe. I had them in a pan at a low simmer to meld the flavors. The problem was the steam coming off was potent as hell. It filled the house when everyone was arriving and coughing from...
I recently went to Boston and had crab cakes at several different restaurants and they were delicious. Don’t @ me, Maryland, but they were better than anything I’ve had in the Baltimore and DC area. For one, The “crab” was very forward rather than the “cake” part. Like good crab meat with enough “cake” to make it...
Hello, I know this is a bit random, but I have a question about the preparation of microwave sandwiches specifically the likes of white castle sliders and jimmy dean breakfast sandwiches I follow the instructions as well as I can, and yet it either ends up frozen in the middle, or really hot and yet cold. it’s strange really....