Cooking Thread

[Firemind]

Braised lamb shank, Bloomsdale spinach, Minted white bean beer chili, peppadew peppers.

 

[Erzyal]

I like to make bacon wrapped chicken breast with garlic mashed potatoes.

Or sometimes stuffed bell peppers

 

[MrRazot]

Braised lamb shank, Bloomsdale spinach, Minted white bean beer chili, peppadew peppers.

Looks amazing :O

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I'm a student Chef so if anyone needs some quick insight on something that went wrong, I'd be glad to see if I can figure it out with you
I've worked in one of South Africa's top restaurants which is cool.

Last night I made my honest all time favorite Spaghetti Bologna.
It's my favorite because it's very easy to play with the flavors and still end up with something super amazing.

- Heat up your favorite thick base pan. It needs to be a biggish one, at least 24cm. Only other equipment you'll need is a wooden spoon and a stove.
- Add a little oil and allow it to heat up and spill across the pan.
- Fry your spices to infuse the oil and release the aromas. Last night I used Rosemary and dried Garlic.
- Fry your mince until there's no more pink. You want to keep on mixing it to coat with the oil and spices and break up any large chunks.
- Add tinned tomatoes or fresh tomato that has been skinned and thinly sliced. I personally will use 1 tin per 250g of mince.
- Add more spices! I would add 1 bayleaf per tin of tomato, a healthy grinding of black pepper, salt, a bit of tomato paste and dried basil.
You can also add things like Red wine (The alcohol will cook out), Red pepper, Hot sauce or what I used last night - Red Harissa paste.
- Leave it to reduce, mixing it all in every now and then, until it's the consistency of your liking.

Serve on our favorite Spaghetti or Tagliatelle pasta (or even make your own) with Parmesan cheese.

 

[LylaJade]

bacon wrapped chicken is the best. speaking of which. there's chicken in the freezer. where's the bacon?

 

[MrRazot]

bacon wrapped chicken is the best. speaking of which. there's chicken in the freezer. where's the bacon?

I recommend also stuffing the chicken with mozzarella and basil leaves or garlic.
Something magical about chicken and bacon...

 

[DonKarnage]

When I want to boil water, it always turn into ice cubes

 

[LylaJade]

I recommend also stuffing the chicken with mozzarella and basil leaves or garlic.
Something magical about chicken and bacon...

Sounds amazing.

 

[DonKarnage]

sometime I use a commercial sauce and I had some mozzarella cheese in and its great.

But nothing beat a home made spaghetti sauce

 

[Mei]

Fried shrimp and tofu in rice noodles with peanut sauce.

Stupid... pictures... wont... work....!!!!! *throws computer against the wall*

 

[Tao]

I've been finding and eating lots of mushrooms from the woods. In the past 2 weeks I've had cauliflower mushroom, indigo milk cap, snow fungus, some oyster mushrooms, chanterelles, penny bun bolete, and portobellas. Yum mushrooms.

 

[Yarra]

As a side I boiled pole beans from our garden in water with bacon, garlic, olive oil, salt, and pepper tonight.

 

[Azure]

i should do something

just not sure what

maybe i will do play by play thing this weekend

maybe

with photos

maybe

 

[Dandorm]

I wanted to revive this thread cause COOKING!

Any peeps like to cook? I prefer baking myself but enjoy making a hearty meal from time to time. Probably my favorite thing to make is Nutella Cakes because I have a crazy sweet tooth Post your cooking things, post 'em post 'em post 'em!

Nom
(Can you tell I've had sugar?)

 

[TheDukeofRawsome]

Heck Yeah! (Im glad someone brought this back) Tonight's dinner is Grilled Pork Tenderloin with Campari Tomatoes and Red Peppers over cilantro rice. When I figure out how I made it exactly ill post the recipe.

 

[Simo]

Heck Yeah! (Im glad someone brought this back) Tonight's dinner is Grilled Pork Tenderloin with Campari Tomatoes and Red Peppers over cilantro rice. When I figure out how I made it exactly ill post the recipe.

Sounds tasty! I love cooking, as well, and am happy to see this thread back.

I just ended a one year experiment with being a vegetarian: Conclusion: It was hard, and I wasn't getting enough protein. I don't eat a ton of meat, but damn, it's like a whole new vista is open, again!

Last week, I made sea scallops, and they turned out really tasty:

I heated olive oil to a very high temp in a skillet, tossed in the scallops, let them cook to about halfway, flipped them, then added a dash of potato vodka which flamed up, and sorta caramelized them. Took maybe 3 minutes, tops.

I then served them on plated drizzled with a reduction of lime and fennel, with a bit of honey and water, to balance the acidity/consistency, that I made earlier, and yum, yum! Was one of those ideas I had that seemed like it would work, and did...this is not always the case.

Gordon Ramsey, watch out!

 

[Lasvicus]

I can scramble eggs...

 

[Dandorm]

Sounds tasty! I love cooking, as well, and am happy to see this thread back.

I just ended a one year experiment with being a vegetarian: Conclusion: It was hard, and I wasn't getting enough protein. I don't eat a ton of meat, but damn, it's like a whole new vista is open, again!

Last week, I made sea scallops, and they turned out really tasty:

I heated olive oil to a very high temp in a skillet, tossed in the scallops, let them cook to about halfway, flipped them, then added a dash of potato vodka which flamed up, and sorta caramelized them. Took maybe 3 minutes, tops.

I then served them on plated drizzled with a reduction of lime and fennel, with a bit of honey and water, to balance the acidity/consistency, that I made earlier, and yum, yum! Was one of those ideas I had that seemed like it would work, and did...this is not always the case.

Gordon Ramsey, watch out!

Wow, that sounds very impressive! I've never made any kind of reduction before so I gotta give it a go one day