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Re: What's Cookin'?
« Reply #460 on: February 17, 2010, 09:24:08 PM »

It's lowbrow sous vide.  You can find boil in bag meals at any convenience store.
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Re: What's Cookin'?
« Reply #461 on: February 20, 2010, 08:39:44 AM »

I didn't want to go into a huge long recipe description on my Blackberry, but now that I think about it the best mac and cheese is simple enough. Can you make a bechamel? Add shredded cheese -- whatever you like, although cheddar is a good starting point -- a little at a time over low heat so that it melts evenly. Then pour the cheese sauce on your macaroni and eat it. Or bake it if you're into that kind of thing.

Don't know how to make a bechamel? Make a white roux and slowly add milk until your sauce is as thick as you want it.

Don't know how to make a roux? JESUS DO I HAVE TO SPELL EVERYTHING OUT okay actually this is the hardest part. Equal parts flour and butter (by weight, not volume), melt the butter, dust in the flour, and stir constantly so it doesn't burn. When it's a solid consistency and doesn't have any lumps, you've got a white roux. Keep cooking it and it'll turn darker, adding more flavor but less thickening power. The Girlfriend once kept a roux on the heat for over an hour, it had the color of dark chocolate and made an award-winning gumbo.

ANYWAY

Turns out I've been DOIN IT RONG for years when making scrambled eggs. The heat was too high, I didn't stir enough, and so on. Today I beat sour cream into the eggs instead of milk, cooked over low heat instead of medium, stirred it enough that the curds didn't get huge and lumpy, and threw in a slice of cheese to melt near the end. Salt, pepper, and damn we don't have any green onions. Almost perfect.
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Re: What's Cookin'?
« Reply #462 on: February 20, 2010, 08:40:37 AM »

Thanks for helping me with reading comprehension.  I promise not to eff around in this thread anymore until I have a cooking success or failure to report.

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Re: What's Cookin'?
« Reply #463 on: February 22, 2010, 07:35:59 PM »

Writing a paper on a world-famous chef and eating leftover Chinese takeout just seems wrong somehow.
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Re: What's Cookin'?
« Reply #464 on: February 22, 2010, 07:46:20 PM »

Thanks for helping me with reading comprehension.  I promise not to eff around in this thread anymore until I have a cooking success or failure to report.

MCE should never change her avatar.
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Re: What's Cookin'?
« Reply #465 on: February 24, 2010, 04:28:53 PM »

So who here likes salad?

I'm just curious because I love salads and many kinds of fresh raw vegetables, when a lot of folks hate 'em.

(Doesn't mean that I'm some kind of grazing herbivore who never eats junk, it just means I have other things I like too.)
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Re: What's Cookin'?
« Reply #466 on: February 24, 2010, 04:45:15 PM »

My favorite salad is as follows:

Lettuce and carrots with a nice bit of ranch.
Freshly cooked chicken covered in BBQ sauce. HAS TO BE HOT.
Mozzarella over everything.

Everything is better with 
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BBQ sauce and cheese!
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Re: What's Cookin'?
« Reply #467 on: February 24, 2010, 07:36:05 PM »

My preferred salad is:

- lettuce
- a whole, small tomato (usually cut into 16 pieces)
- a couple of fresh mushrooms, sliced just for the salad
- GOOD croutons, not the shitty dead cubes
- a dash of Eye-talian dressing (you can use regular Italian dressing of decent quality in small quantities, just carefully drain off all that excess oil on the top of the bottle before using it the first time).

Or sometimes a Caesar.
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Re: What's Cookin'?
« Reply #468 on: February 24, 2010, 07:39:28 PM »

Lotton that sounds like something a stoner with the munchies would throw together.
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Re: What's Cookin'?
« Reply #469 on: February 24, 2010, 07:45:04 PM »

I'm bracing myself for the inevitable attacks by Niku and Constantine on everyone else's concept of BBQ sauce.
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Re: What's Cookin'?
« Reply #470 on: February 24, 2010, 08:20:17 PM »

What, with their fucking beef brisket ketchup-based trash?  Barbecue sauce comes from the east coast.
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Re: What's Cookin'?
« Reply #471 on: February 24, 2010, 09:01:47 PM »

Buge, the point is more that there really is no such thing as barbecue sauce in Texas. Barbecue is a specific way of cooking and has nothing to do with shitty sauces. If you barbecue properly, you don't have to put bullshit sauce on your meat to make it tasty.
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Re: What's Cookin'?
« Reply #472 on: February 24, 2010, 10:05:33 PM »

Lotton that sounds like something a stoner with the munchies would throw together.
Actually, it's something a really hungry person makes when he only has a few minutes to cook and eat his dinner because the manager is only giving him a 10 minute break.
Pizzas took roughly 9 minutes to make/bake and then I'd have no time to eat.
3-4 minutes for the chicken to cook and top it. Then I had all that time to eat!


Buge, the point is more that there really is no such thing as barbecue sauce in Texas. Barbecue is a specific way of cooking and has nothing to do with shitty sauces. If you barbecue properly, you don't have to put bullshit sauce on your meat to make it tasty.

True. Best barbecue is all about the meat.
But I like the sauce too. So I get the best of both worlds!
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Re: What's Cookin'?
« Reply #473 on: February 24, 2010, 10:25:24 PM »

What, with their fucking beef brisket ketchup-based trash?  Barbecue sauce comes from the east coast.

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Barbecue sauce comes from the east coast.

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also, not BBQ sauce but it applies
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSxnieYctVM

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Re: What's Cookin'?
« Reply #474 on: February 24, 2010, 10:58:19 PM »

I'm bracing myself for the inevitable attacks by Niku and Constantine on everyone else's concept of BBQ sauce.
What, with their fucking beef brisket ketchup-based trash?  Barbecue sauce comes from the east coast.

i don't know what texas you were in

maybe texas FRANCE

anyway that wasn't what i came into this thread to say

i came into this thread to say that lettuce is the worst food ever invented by god, possibly even worse than cupcakes, and is a blight on everything it touches

spinach for life
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Re: What's Cookin'?
« Reply #475 on: February 25, 2010, 03:49:50 AM »

Iceberg lettuce is basically without culinary merit, but there are other varieties that aren't so bad.
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Re: What's Cookin'?
« Reply #476 on: February 25, 2010, 04:16:28 AM »

Iceberg lettuce is basically without culinary merit, but there are other varieties that aren't so bad.

I usually get greenleaf myself, but that's mostly because the heads are small enough that I can eat all the leaves before they go bad.
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Re: What's Cookin'?
« Reply #477 on: February 25, 2010, 05:11:58 AM »

A Carribean cruise ship had an outbreak of Norovirus, turning it into a floating diarrhea nightmare vessel. And all I could think of reading the article was "Hey, we just covered that in Safety and Sanitation."

And, uh, "Noro~n".
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Re: What's Cookin'?
« Reply #478 on: February 25, 2010, 05:31:41 AM »

Iceberg lettuce is basically without culinary merit, but there are other varieties that aren't so bad.

Yeah, you're right.  Texture is completely meaningless in cooking.
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Re: What's Cookin'?
« Reply #479 on: February 25, 2010, 05:51:55 AM »

every condition you could try to satisfy with iceberg is fulfilled at least infinity as well by some other lettuce.  woops.
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