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my favorite food right now is roasted broccoli with olive oil and salt and cumin and old bay
should i buy a rice cooker? let's talk about it all, here, in the cooking thread
let me know if you have any questions about roasting broccoli
Yes, buy a rice cooker.
OH MY GOSH
I came into this thread to recommend my current favorite snack: roasted broccoli with olive oil and salt and paprika and cayenne pepper! Hatmoose, are we culinary twins?
Okay okay, I'll contribute a different thing: baked kale! Tear kale into bits, mix with way less olive oil than you would think, lay out on a foiled baking sheet, salt a wee bit, pop into the oven for 10 minutes at 420. So easy, so amazing. You can also cook the broccoli in the oven that way, though it takes like 20 min at 380.
this is the closest i've ever felt to a person
talk about your diet in general and what you like to consume
i like plain foods i guess? my favorite breakfast, besides bagels, is oatmeal made with water and rolled oats. my favorite spice is cumin. i really like cooking onions.
I work the artisan bread shift at a local bakery, so if you guys have any bread-related questions, I'm your dude.
Currently surviving on $10 lumberjack sandwiches from Safeway and multivitamins because I'm poor and sold out.
Favourite foods are basically anything Greek or Italian, especially ravioli. I'll eat your fucking hand if you throw some olives and feta cheese on there.
what the fuck is b read
breads?? tell me more about 'em
I keeping reading this thread title as "cookie thread." I recently had chocolate chip cookies made with almond flour. I haven't wanted to eat anything else since.
speaking of cookies I heard you can substitute butter for avocados which sounds amazing
Quote from: Initwiththealiens on June 13, 2014, 11:33:35 AM
speaking of cookies I heard you can substitute butter for avocados which sounds amazing
I think you mean substitute avocados for butter, because the other way around makes me think of a fat kid eating guacamole made with butter.
What do you guys want to know about bread?
i feel like i am pretty good at cooking, but i don't enjoy it one bit, which is a shame as i really like eating.
someone mentioned kale, i could happily live on fried kale with soy sauce and garlic. you could also substitute kale for broccoli and i'd be happy.
Quote from: hatmoose on June 12, 2014, 07:00:33 PM
talk about your diet in general and what you like to consume
My spice cabinet only consists of cinnamon, garlic powder, cumin, red pepper powder, paprika, and nutmeg. Literally every dinner I know how to cook starts off with sauteing some onions and garlic. I like to make vegan sloppy joes with lentils, sweet potato and black bean chili with brown rice, split pea soup with hella cumin and some red pepper, white bean chili, pinto bean tacos, etc. Basically, I eat almost only the same seven or eight very similar dishes for dinners.
you and i could live together, and wring our hands over cumin covered piles of onions and garlic frying. i am all about cooking onions and then putting them on something else
Quote from: bee on June 13, 2014, 05:30:47 PM
i feel like i am pretty good at cooking, but i don't enjoy it one bit, which is a shame as i really like eating.
someone mentioned kale, i could happily live on fried kale with soy sauce and garlic. you could also substitute kale for broccoli and i'd be happy.
You don't substitute all of the butter for avocado but just like half I believe because it makes the food healthier
man, Sketchward is right, you totally mean substitute avocado for butter.
substituting butter for avocado would mean like, making guacamole out of butter and that is fucking disgusting.
Quote from: jer on June 13, 2014, 07:54:37 PM
man, Sketchward is right, you totally mean substitute avocado for butter.
substituting butter for avocado would mean like, making guacamole out of butter and that is fucking disgusting.
"This is great guacamole, what's in it?"
"My secret is, it's just butter mashed up in a bowl with a spoon."
How to make pancakes in a rice cooker. (http://en.rocketnews24.com/2014/06/14/how-to-make-epic-pancakes-with-your-japanese-rice-cooker)
Rice cookers are good investments, but if you have a pot with a glass/clear lid, you can just keep an eye on the rice until you don't really see any moisture bubbling up from the rice anymore. After you turn off the heat, leave the lid on for 5 minutes. I've been making foolproof rice this way for a while.
I bought a slow cooker a year or so ago... I like the concept of them, but a lot of stuff that I've made with them turn out super bland and watery. :-\
Seriously? There are so many internet people elbowing into conversations about cooking to yelp about how amazing and unhyperbolically life-saving their slow cooker is, I'd have thought slow-cookers can do no wrong!
we have a slow cooker we've used like twice and it doesn't seem very worthwhile.
I love sauteing some mushrooms, it used to be the only thing I knew how to make. I really like any kind of quick cook veggie thing. I'm not a very good or varied cook, though.
Dude, a skillet is the best for stuff like that. Any combination of veggies, plus some olive oil, salt, pepper, and heat, and it's yummy with minimal skill!
Totally where my skill tapers off, but if I'm cooking for myself, that leaves me with no room for complaints.
Black bean brownies are pretty delicious.
I should probably buy plates sometime.
Quote from: Pwoink on June 16, 2014, 11:33:34 AM
Dude, a skillet is the best for stuff like that. Any combination of veggies, plus some olive oil, salt, pepper, and heat, and it's yummy with minimal skill!
And that's why they call it a skillet?
Right now I'm making some Baba Ganoush, yum! I will let you know how it turns out. The eggplant slices are currently draining in a collindar.
Side fact, I saw talk of bread:
My favorite toast is that Food For Life shit. The Sesame kind to be exact. I definitely can't always afford it, but I fucking love that stuff. Goes great with sauteed kale/onions/garlic scrambled into a fresh egg. Best brunch ever. Always keeps me going for a long day of working out in the sun.
i tried making garlic tostones last night and i just burned the garlic. i know garlic burns easily but i don't see how this works then because you still have to fry up the plantains fuck this
i also made rice and beans, which involved me finally just making sofrito
i have enough for a year now and i didnt have/couldnt find any culantro
Quote from: avivatigerlily on June 19, 2014, 10:08:28 AM
i tried making garlic tostones last night and i just burned the garlic. i know garlic burns easily but i don't see how this works then because you still have to fry up the plantains fuck this
i also made rice and beans, which involved me finally just making sofrito
i have enough for a year now and i didnt have/couldnt find any culantro
Try making a garlic/olive oil/lime mix to drizzle on top of the tostones. Delicious, easy, no burnt garlic. Or if you have time, mofongo is the way to go for garlicy-plantain goodness! How did you make your sofrito? I haven't experimented with mine in a while
I'm eating a bowl of Kroger-brand Grape Nuts right now for the first time. My mind is officially blown.
Get a rice cooker. We were pretty good at making rice without one but we still got one even though I was skeptical. It makes it easier and you can time it and keep it warm. We use it seriously like 3 or more times a week. We do rarely use our slow cooker but it is mostly because jer doesn't really like a lot of the kind of stuff you can make in it. I would use it more if I was just cooking for me. If you like soups, stews, chilis, or like the "bowls" they do at veggie restaurants, you would probably use it a lot more. It is nice to be able to chop everything up when you have a chance during the day and just have it ready at dinner.
I've been thinking about getting a rice cooker too! we have sooo little room in our kitchen though. i really wish we had the counter space to keep a few small appliances all operational (ie. plugged in) at one time. can you make seasoned rice in a rice cooker or just plain rice? also can you cook quinoa in a rice cooker?
i went through a phase of using our slow cooker a few nights a week, mostly when we were both going to be out until after 10 or something. i think it's helpful for times like that and you can find some okay recipes (most need at least a little tweaking in my experience) but it does get old that the texture of the meat (sorry) is ALWAYS the same and stuff takes a lot of seasoning to be good. lately i've only been doing like shredded bbq chicken or jerk chicken that we put on top of salads. i did make a reeeeally bomb thai coconut curry soup in the slow cooker once though. search pinterest for recipes!
me and my boo have been trying reeeally hard to have a pretty strict/healthy/no junk food diet lately. finding variety and affordability when you're trying to stay under 400 calories per meal is a challenge. BUT i'm also learning a lot about different foods and the difference in how my body feels is amazing. i feel like i'm running on clean fuel for the first time in my life!
Quote from: momitsnowme on June 26, 2014, 11:31:04 PM
It is nice to be able to chop everything up when you have a chance during the day and just have it ready at dinner.
except all of the recipes for slow cookers call for like 20 minutes of "precooking" stovetop, so at that point the slowcooker is worthless as all it does it keep shit warm. the ones that don't require that are just bland, tasteless piles of farts.
slowcookers are the worst things to ever happen in history.
I never use a slow cooker, but one would think "bland tasteless piles of farts" is an oxymoron, I dare say.
if you eat enough plain food you have a ghost fart that doesn't smell like anything, a bland and tasteless fart. it's very rare but it's worth it
also i have used a slowcooker before and it was not the worst thing that ever happened to me, but i can't really think of anything to make it not a chili machine. i need to up my stew game. i should wait for the seasons to change though
Quote from: Anna Karina on June 27, 2014, 11:17:55 AM
I never use a slow cooker, but one would think "bland tasteless piles of farts" is an oxymoron, I dare say.
oh look at mr. fancyfarts over here
Today I'm cooking vegan kebab pizza, which is a scandinavian cultural abomination. Will post pics later.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVeKx7Op8BE
Yes, this is what life is like in Sweden.