The Cooking Thread: Pics or you didn't make it

General Discussion
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So yeah guys have been continuing on with cooking over the past few months, trying to level up my noob skills. I’ve gotten pretty comfortable with the bamboo steamer, also bought myself a wok that I haven’t worked up the courage to use yet. I finally today got a baking sheet and decided to take a stab at some cookies. I don’t have a stand mixer so I tried to use an immersion blender to make them, huuuuuuuuuuuuge mistake. After splattering brownie mix everywhere I just mixed the remainder by hand, and continued on with the recipe. I had a lot of dough so made several batches. The first batch come out really soft, and was moreso a cookie shaped brownie. The second batch I left in an extra minute, and it was still pretty soft in the center but gained a slight crunchiness the first ones didn’t have. The third one I left in too long as I was gawking at some model’s pics, and I ended up having to throw them out as I could bludgeon someone with them due to how hard they were X_X.

https://fbcdn-sphotos-g-a.akamaihd.net/hphotos-ak-xpf1/v/t1.0-9/10525366_2775996081206_5296462541672248922_n.jpg?oh=e3643b6e872e52afede6cf01e47321e3&oe=5449F557&gda=1413746363_3ad5a5d35abedc3ba0cd0ab173e02573

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@BEWD‌ as someone obsessed with using my wok, this is essential viewing DO NOT TOUCH YOUR WOK until you watch this:

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Haha Bewd. Those look like turds.

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^Lmao, I used a box of Ghiardelli’s Chocolate Brownie mix with Walnuts

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My cooking has slowed down greatly. Once my wife stopped working, she started cooking more and on top of that money got real tight, so the available ingredients list shrunk. However, it looks like she got a new job, so hopefully I’ll get back to it over the next couple of months. Though I have picked up ‘grilling’ and I frankly am ‘meh’ skill wise with it, I have gas and trying to get indirect heat on say steak - doesn’t work too well when grease from the steak drips down causing a flair up. As well, grilling hasn’t changed up vegetables as much as I would have liked. Squash is GREAT on the grill, as is corn, but outside of that, some of it is admittedly because of skill - but I’ve struggled to get other veggies to come out well.

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Ugh just went through the past page as a refresher, some of this shit looks good enough to make me consider kidnapping some mfs :rofl: :rofl: gotta keep working on my non-existent skills :rofl:

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Fish Stew

http://i1288.photobucket.com/albums/b484/Tekno-Organic-Virus/Old%20pIcs/2013-08-23220307_zpsaf845a98.jpg

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Rack of Lamb from lunch yesterday.

http://s30.postimg.org/6qwchukvk/DSCN0430.jpg

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Had this for dinner today. It’s a pie with moose meat, mushrooms, leek, and cheese.

http://i.imgur.com/CyPBSCM.jpg?

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I’m thinking about buying a Char-Broil Patio (13,000-BTU) Liquid Propane Infrared Gas Grill. I’ll let y’all know what I find this weekend.

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Next year I will master roux, and making broths

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@Unreallystic‌

http://www.fullcircle.com/goodfoodlife/2012/05/18/top-ten-best-vegetables-for-grilling/

Grilled asparagus especially marinated in minced garlic…oh man :sweat:

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So duck leg recipes…anybody?

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Sadly, no. To be honest, that’s the first time I’ve ever heard of such (not duck as a cuisine, but duck legs).

Does anyone have any ideas of what to do with raw apples? All I ever done was either make fried apples or applesauce, so it would be nice to actually do something different (however, I mainly eat them raw as I find it to be a waste to use them all in one dish). Also, I need to see if there are any Asian markets around in MD, because red pepper powder/paste seems worthy to invest in.

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http://ecx.images-amazon.com/images/I/313XVWXXJZL.jpg

I’m loving my new pressure cooker by Kuhn Rikon.

http://i1288.photobucket.com/albums/b484/Tekno-Organic-Virus/1434306771669_zpsnmlrz3xo.gif

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I do a crazy good apple dessert, but it’s basically fried apples with other fruits, and sweet things (and banana liqueur).

But I also had a recipe for pork chops topped with a cranberry/apple mixture, that turned out fucking incredible. Basically this:

https://strengththroughbrokenness.wordpress.com/2014/01/20/recipe-cran-apple-sage-pork-chops/

I now need to find the ingredients for that dish. I think there is a half decent asian grocery store downtown. I know if you wanna legit make your own pho, it’s pretty much the only place with the ingredients. Gonna have to scope them out.

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edit: I wanna make a Jamaican Jerk pork tenderloin, but virtually every recipe I come across has them just making jerk seasoning or jerk sauce from scratch, whereas I wanna dial it back the first time. Is it ok to just marinate it with a store bought jerk sauce? Also most recipes seem to BBQ it, which isn’t an option for me at the time. Any chance it can be cooked almost as good, in either an oven or a slow cooker?

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Only if the jerk sauce is from a Carribean store. Lot of the jerk spots cut corners and use that anyways. Because admittedly the way from scratch takes the whole day b. And oven is fine.

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New England Shrimp on a toasted roll with Old Bay seasoned veggies. Ayeee.

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gonna necro this thread but i think its worth it.

um, so you guys know that i vape. aand i also mentioned that recently i began getting into diy vaping.
so when i made my firrst batch of e-liquid i made,…first off, keep in mind that aside from the liquid nicotine, all the other ingredients in an e liquid is culinary. the vegetable glycerin, the propylene glycol and the flavor concentrates are all food grade usp ingredients…well anyway,
when i made my first batch…i made the flavor concentrations waaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaay too strong.
i made each bottle with 20% concentration.
i dont know if you guys have ever used or dealt with flavor concentrates…but they are…extremely potent. apparently.

but here is the point to all this.
the human tongue has limits, sorta like human hearing. You know how human hearing has a range? sounds too high or too low the ear cant hear?
Well, the same is sorta true with the tongue.
Using 10% flavor concentrate…i could smell the e-liquid just fine. But when i tried vaping it…i couldn’t taste jack shit. Just blank. Flavorless.
So stupid me increased it to 20%.
expecting that if i increased the amount, the flavor would also, logically, increase.
Nope lol.
On the contrary.

I dont have the scientific explanation as to what happens…but when you overload the taste buds, flavor actually lessens and becomes muted.
Since flavor concentrates are so incredibly potent, and since my ratio was so high, it literally stopped tasting all together. my taste buds just quit completely from the override of the sensation of flavor.

So,…if you guys ever end up using flavor concentrates for baking, mixing drinks, candy making etc…keep in mind that less is more.
the lower the percentage the better.
start at 1% and work your way up in concentration. The average for a single flavor is a 3%.
That pretty much goes for whatever you use a concentrate for.
i know, myself personally, now that i have all these flavors…around 75 flavors…i’ll be using them to make candy, and baking desserts in general.
Hell, i can even make cake that tastes like ice cream and ice cream that tastes like cake.
Do some wild shit like that.

But yeah, even using any ingredient sometimes less is more. The human tongue is pretty limited.

lastly, these pics look delicious. made me hungry. especially Orochizoolander’s pics.