Which Cooking Are You?

[Dusty Chalk]

Chili w/3 cans of red kidney beans, onions, and wild rice

[mikeymad]

broccoli soup...  

[Augsburger]

On 3/24/2020 at 8:56 AM, Dusty Chalk said:

Chili w/3 cans of red kidney beans, onions, and wild rice

Shame on you for using canned beans.

[Dusty Chalk]

1 hour ago, Augsburger said:

Shame on you for using canned beans.

Why?  Is there something I don't know?

[n_maher]

Grilled pizza tonight, complete with homemade dough. COVID home living has got to be good for something.

 

[grawk]

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[n_maher]

Rainy Sunday = Green Chili and cast-iron-skillet-corn bread.

 

[Dusty Chalk]

Weekly goulash, soon to be twice weekly.

[Voltron]

Variation on the @Absorbine_Sr kale, white bean and sausage stew that is an awesome shelter in place meal. 

[Absorbine_Sr]

Looking good Bro.


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[n_maher]

Lily still loves cooking shows and recently has been bugging me to have a cake-off with her. It was my turn this weekend to make my cake for judging. She helped me in preparation for making her cake next weekend.  It's a chocolate cake with dark chocolate frost and chocolate ganache and raspberry filling between each of the three layers of cake, topped with more frost and ganache.  It was fun to make, I'll report back with how. it tastes later.

Maybe not professional grade, but at least the flour that I buy at the grocery store is going to good use. I rode 30 miles to prepare for the fact that this cake is allegedly nearly 1000cal/slice. 

EDIT - not sure I ever posted a "complete" picture of the kitchen, if not, this gives you a good idea of what it looks like now.

[grawk]

that's awesome

[Voltron]

Amazing. And the kitchen looks great as well.

Chicken provencale, cauliflower gratin, and rice tonight.

[Voltron]

First I made chile crisp and then I made tofu and green beans with chile crisp. 

[Augsburger]

Interesting, I made chile crisp greenbeans for Lance tonight!

 

[n_maher]

Got a favorite chile crisp recipe that you want to share?  

[Voltron]

I used the Serious Eats recipe as a start and used their method, and looked at others for ideas. It can be flavored many ways to your preference and with things on hand, so I had to make various substitutions, including the following:

I used dried arbol chiles, some dried small chiles I grew, and some dried peppers from my cousin's house in France. I didn't have Sichuan peppercorns so I used a peppercorn blend. I don't have MSG or dried mushroom powder so I skipped those and added some good soy sauce for umami. I subbed a cinnamon stick for star anise and cashews for peanuts. Cardamom pods are green, but the seeds are black--this confused me especially in a tiny quantity so I opted to get out the seeds from three pods and crush them. Lastly, they don't expressly say it but I chopped up the fried shallots and garlic before adding them, and tossed the cinnamon stick of course. Came out pretty tasty.

https://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2018/04/homemade-spicy-chili-crisp.html

https://www.chilipeppermadness.com/recipes/chili-crisp/ 

Tofu and Green Beans With Chile Crisp

https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1020993-tofu-and-green-beans-with-chile-crisp?smid=ck-recipe-iOS-share 

[n_maher]

Thanks Al!

[Hopstretch]

Love you Al, but I am not upvoting tofu.

 

[Voltron]

I quite like tofu, but this dish could easily substitute chicken or pork to make it at least more Stretch Worthy. 

[Grahame]

Or as Joanne once said in relation to tofu,

"What's that thing that's not food?"

[Dusty Chalk]

1 hour ago, Hopstretch said:

Love you Al, but I am not upvoting tofu.

Gotta disagree with you.  You’re not upvoting tofu, you’re upvoting tofu as an ingredient.  Pad Thai isn’t really complete without those little bits of tofu, just as an obvious example.

[EdipisReks1]

I made my first demi-baguette in many years.  It turned out okay. I made roasted garlic vegan "butter" as a topper.

16 hours ago, Hopstretch said:

Love you Al, but I am not upvoting tofu.

Tofu is delicious.  I freeze it, then press it, then brine it, then batter and fry it.  

 

[Voltron]

Last night Claire made this super easy recipe last night and it is great. And easy. And great.

Five-Ingredient Creamy Miso Pasta

https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1020979-five-ingredient-creamy-miso-pasta?smid=ck-recipe-iOS-share

Tonight, I made a pork tenderloin stuffed with herbs and capers. A little harder but still pretty great. I also roasted some creamy potatoes.

Pork Tenderloin Stuffed With Herbs and Capers

https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1018725-pork-tenderloin-stuffed-with-herbs-and-capers?smid=ck-recipe-iOS-share

[EdipisReks1]

Crisping up some tofu for a sandwich. 

Sourdough salted boule.