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Whimseymimple, in What's your go-to comfort food?
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I’m all about cake. If it is good enough, it doesn’t need icing. 🤤

Holdmydrpepper,

I get into a tres leches craving mode occasionally. Super easy cake to make! I do homemade frosting too with heavy whipping cream and top it with fruit. Awful for you but it tastes so good.

janus2, in Cute little mini pepper found inside of a big bell pepper!
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inpepcion :]

ISOmorph, in What do you eat that other people think is odd?

Pizza with hollandaise sauce base instead of tomato sauce. My father almost disowned me for it.

Steeve,

I’ve heard of white sauce base, garlic sauce base, hell even bbq sauce base, but hollandaise? The eggs benedict topping?? I’m about to disown you too

ISOmorph,

eggs benedict

Dude, I’m gonna be super controversial right now, just to tick you off…

Doughy base with toppings and sauce? Remind you of anything? What if eggs benedict are just a type of pizza? Ever think about that?

Glaive0, in What do you eat that other people think is odd?

Toasted Cinnamon Raisin bagel with peanut butter, cheddar cheese, and bananas. - the cheese + bananas is what gets me looks.

Maeve,

People put mayo on cheese sandwiches and banana sandwiches, so why not?

frostycakes, in What do you eat that other people think is odd?
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I love eating a raw potato like an apple, for whatever reason. Any time I’m cooking a dish with potatoes, I’ll wash and peel one for me to eat. My boyfriend looked like I had grown a third arm the first time he saw me do it.

It’s the perfect mix of crunchy and juicy, but not sweet.

Riyria,

Raw potatoes are like semi toxic. Do you not get any GI upset from doing that?

frostycakes,
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No, never. AFAIK they aren’t toxic, just that the starch is poorly digested. Either way, I’ve never gotten sick from it, so 🤷

It’s odd because I have had digestive issues off and on through the years, but the potatoes have never precipitated it. (It’s mostly anything spicy, which sucks as I love spicy food-- it’s a price I pay willingly sometimes)

verall,

Solanine is a glycoalkaloid poison found in species of the nightshade family within the genus Solanum, such as the potato, the tomato, and the eggplant

Raw potatoes certainly are mildly toxic, it’s not just undigestible starches.

frostycakes,
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Most home processing methods like boiling, cooking, and frying potatoes have been shown to have minimal effects on solanine levels. For example, boiling potatoes reduces the α-chaconine and α-solanine levels by only 3.5% and 1.2% respectively, but microwaving potatoes reduces the alkaloid content by 15%. Deep frying at 150 °C (302 °F) also does not result in any measurable change.

They’re no more toxic than cooked potatoes, unless you only eat microwaved ones.

Asimo, in What do you eat that other people think is odd?

My favourite pizza topping is pepperoni and flaked tuna, the good stuff too so it’s meaty oily tuna.

Love it but so many people think I’m odd for it. The meaty flavours compliment each other!!!

Zelsabriel,

I’m not even sure I need to read the rest of the thread after this comment. You win by default! I guess it makes as much sense as anchovies on pizza though.

thrawn21, in [Guide] Tagging posts in Food and Cooking
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[Vegan] and [Vegetarian] are quick ones that come to mind. Maybe also like the region of the cuisine? i.e. [Chinese], [Peruvian], or maybe the type of meal [Breakfast], [Appetizer].

wolfeh,

On this note, I wish there were ways to allow the vegan/vegetarian posts while filtering out the meat ones. I really, really don’t like having random carcasses coming up in my feed.

Suck_on_my_Presence, in How are you able to cook while working full time through the week? Do you have some kind of strategy? How do you plan your food?

I’m far too lazy to meal prep on my weekends. But I will choose 3-4 dinners for the week and write it down like a menu and get the ingredients I need for them. If I know it’s going to be a crazy week, I will cut the vegetables immediately after grocery shopping that way I can just dump them in the pan or bowl or whatever when I’m cooking. Then I have options to choose from several different foods over the week.

I always make enough to have leftovers so I don’t have to plan for lunches too.

Best of luck

varzaman,

A mix of limited menu during the week, and food prepping are the biggest things.

If I know the upcoming week will be busy, I’ll batch cook on Sunday and just reheat the rest of the week.

Otherwise, learning simple recipes I can whip up quick. Practice makes perfect after all, and the more I cook, the faster I get.

Honestly, this might be a hot take but when it comes to food in the modern western world, people are really privileged lol. Why is the expectation that you eat something different every day for every meal?

janus2, in Creative Ways to Use 7 Types of Food Scraps
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reminder that the following are awful scraps from which to make vegetable stock as they’re too bitter:

  • lettuce, cabbage, other leafy greens
  • broccoli
  • brussels sprouts
  • any kind of pepper
poorsocialskills, in Steak Bread Broccoli Potato
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I’ll take “Things That Need Butter” for $500, Alex.

GeekFTW, in Your favourite cooking channels/youtubers?
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In no particular order, and probably forgetting a bunch:

Claire Saffitz - https://www.youtube.com/@CSaffitz
Love Claire, been following her since the Bon Appétit days, she is just amazing.

Emmy from Emmymade - https://www.youtube.com/@emmymade
Funny, adorable, makes lots of weird stuff.

Ann Reardon (How To Cook That) - https://www.youtube.com/@HowToCookThat
Not exclusively a cooking channel, but everyone should be subbed.

Nate From the Internet - https://www.youtube.com/@NFTI
Formerly of TKOR/The King of Random, not a cooking channel but he does food comparison videos and the like.

The Kitchen & Jorn Show - https://www.youtube.com/@kitchenandjorn
Kristin and Jen (formerly of Buzzfeed) typically doing cooking competitions (and food taste tests)

Don't Panic Pantry - https://www.youtube.com/@dontpanicpantry
Featuring Noah Galuten, chef and author and a former host on the youtube channel Tasted (if anyone's memories go back that far lol).

Jun's Kitchen - https://www.youtube.com/@JunsKitchen/
Jun's (from Rachel & Jun) channel where he mostly makes different treats and meals for their kitties. Doesn't post often.

Ordinary Sausage - https://www.youtube.com/@OrdinarySausage
Nothing educational lol

Travel Thirsty - https://www.youtube.com/@TravelThirstyBlog
A non-narrated vlog showing up close and personal the creation of mostly Asian dishes from start to finish in various restaurants and countries. CW: Live sea animals (fish, crustaceans, and the like) are frequently dispatched during videos, viewer discretion is advised for those who do not wish to view it.

Masaru - https://www.youtube.com/@masaru.9268
Masaru, a free dive fisherman and new business owner details his life and adventures in Japan from catching, cleaning, and eating all sorts of different sea life he mostly catches himself. Videos are subtitled perfectly and he puts a lot of production value. Also occasionally does random challenge video series.

B. Dylan Hollis - https://www.youtube.com/@BDylanHollis
Cause we've all seen the Tiktok's by now, and he's genuinely hilarious.

Won't bother adding any I don't like cause if I don't like em, I forget em lol.

lemillionsocks,
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I love Emmymade. She seems so nice and upbeat in her videos and she covers so many recipes, most of which are very doable or at least weird and interesting(like her hard times stuff). I also like how normal she is in the kitchen. At this point I dont know how much of it is manufactured to make her more “relatable” and how much are organic kitchen errors but it gives her this very normal enthusiastic person just cooking vibe that I dig.

Ann Reardon is another fave. From her tiny miniature(as in model miniature) house with functional kitchen, to her genuinely good looking recipes, to her popular debunking series. Everything she creates is well researched and well tested.

storksforlegs, in Your favourite cooking channels/youtubers?
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Foodwishes - The guy is a culinary instructor so his way of teaching recipes tends to stick, also theyre fun. I use his recipes a lot.

Cooking with Dog - Japanese recipes, hosted by Francis the poodle and his human chef.

Matty Matheson - he is a very loud and kinda manic Canadian chef

ouigol, in New Research Reveals Why You Shouldn’t Add a Banana to Your Smoothies

The thing they are missing is that I don’t drink smoothies because they’re healthy, I drink them because they taste good

worfamerryman,

It’s what I have to remind people when they are trying to change their diet to get in shape and lose weight.

I tell them, your not eating for enjoyment, your eating to fuel your body.

I was very fit, but I was eating like canned tuna and Greek yogurt, not mixed but one after another. That’s not a delicious lunch, but it was just the nutrition that was needed.

Opafi,

your not eating for enjoyment, your eating to fuel your body

Yeah? Well, you know, that’s just like uh, your opinion, man.

DharmaCurious, in Does Anyone Have a TIFU Moment When Cooking?
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Decided to make fried chicken. We rarely ever eat fried foods, and so I don’t have fancy things like deep fryers. What I had was a large cast aluminum pot.

Filled it about half way with oil, made amazing delicious fried chicken.

I also don’t have a stop top. Use a single eye burner. Needed the burner for something else, so sat the pot on the counter next to the sink.

Moved wrong, knocked the pot into the sink. Boiling oil goes down the drain.

Know what’s at the bottom of the drain? A trap full of water.

Water met boiling oil as I matrix dodged our of the way and a geysey worthy of yellow stone came flying out of the sink, both sides, shooting boiling oil and steam everywhere. Covering the ceiling, the walls, the floor. Even the dog got hit (thank God for long, thick fur!). I had splatter burns on my legs, which was the only part of me not under the counter when it landed. It came up with so much force it threw the pot out of the sink.

ininewcrow, in Does Anyone Have a TIFU Moment When Cooking?
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I went to spend Christmas with my in-laws about ten years ago and ruined their meal.

I’m not a bad cook, I know my way around a kitchen, my mom ran a fast food joint when I was a teen and she taught me how to work my ass off in a kitchen. From that start I’ve developed into a pretty good cook (or so my wife and friends tell me). I’m not the best but I do know how to cook. I know how to make prepare and serve a full Thanksgiving dinner with all the trimmings and desserts on my own if I had to.

At my in-laws place for Christmas I knew I should help so I just started doing dishes without asking. The place was hectic, the in-laws barely know how to cook and none of them seem to appreciate any spice other than salt or pepper. Everyone was happy I was helping and I kept the kitchen clean as the cooks worked. It was familiar for me and it amazed everyone else.

After a couple of hours of helping I thought I’d do more. They were making gravy and all it was was thin water from the drippings mixed with flour which made a white watery tasteless gravy. I thought I’d amaze them by making a roux with the own drippings, thickening the liquid, browning it to a golden color, adding salt, pepper, spice, a drop of maple syrup, soya sauce and a dash of Worcestershire. I kept tasting it and to me it was delicious. I had practiced for years and I knew how to make it taste good.

The in laws came in and the room went quiet, even the Christmas music stopped … they all looked at me like I murdered the cat and I was cooking it.

They were all upset that I had changed “Ma’s gravy” and turned it into something else. Everyone was either disappointed at best or just sneered at me like I had thrown a brick into the living room window.

I didn’t burn anything, didn’t over salt, didn’t make anyone sick, no fire, no explosions, blood or burns … I had just ruined “Ma’s gravy” of basically water and flour that everyone ate and somehow enjoyed every Christmas.

It was the weirdest TIFU in the kitchen I ever experienced.

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