FOOD THREAD

[r00]

haha  I figured there would be a shop close to you! 

[rynne]

So, I've never had to cook a straight-up bowl of beans before, but I gave it a shot when our power was out last weekend (yay for gas stoves!).  Since we couldn't store the leftovers, Mrs. rynne took 'em to work, where they apparently were quite a hit.  Not bad for basically making it up as I went along. 

I soaked the beans then cooked 'em for a few hours with onion, garlic, thyme and chipotle pepper flakes.  When it was time to eat, I reheated them with caramelized onions, chopped tomatoes and brown sugar. They ended up spicy-sweet and pretty yummy.

[r00]

sounds very yummy.   I <3 gas stoves too.  I don't think I could ever cook on electric again.

[r00]

Since I have been pulling at least 25 tomatoes per week out of my outdoor garden this month. I decides to make a ton of tomato chutney courtesy of my English in-laws recipe.  Canned 4 pints tonight and could easily can another 10 pints if I had the time.  Goddamn it tastes good.

[kristin]

sounds delicious!

[naut]

Electric stoves are shithouse!

[Aaron]

Electric stoves are shithouse!

I have never used a gas stove. So I wouldn't know...



I've been looking up how to make Stuffed Bell peppers. And they look really easy. Just cooking different things and mixing them up and then putting it all together... Really, I only needed to know the times and temps... The rest I'm gona wing... Ya... It shouldn't be to hard to not fuck it up. And even if I do, I'll bust out the hot sauce and eat them anyway...

[individualzero]

Hotsauce: Life's answer to "Aw, shit, I fucked that recipe up!"

[dee]

Am learning to count carbs now that the older half decided to get diabetes. The recipes are pretty amazing and tasty as well. Only things I do differently from the prescribed recipes is I always use butter and I can't use artificial sweeteners unless I make a separate dish. (They trigger my migraines) After a month of this new eating/cooking regime, I'm losing weight. I may just get back to my pre-injury weight yet. 

[r00]

chutney chutney and more chutney.  Made a few jars of a more spicy Indian tomato chutney recipe.  It's much too awesome.  Very sweet at first and then the heat kicks in, but not overpowering.  Excellent with an aged cheddar and crackers. 

Right now I am making green tomato chutney.  I have tons of green tomatoes still on the vine that will be frost food in a couple more weeks and I need to use them for something.

[Aaron]

My roommate has family in town. (very rich family in town) and they bought hella king crab. My roommate even liberated me a claw. So I'm about to get my seafood on. OH YA!  I should also buy a claw cracker... My knife worked. but I ate a little bit of shell. Still though, KING CRAB. (I really love the stuff, however, at like 15 bucks a pound...)


So the claw beats the hell out of what I was gona have... Cup of noodle. (Not cuz I'm that broke, but cuz I like them, and they are hella cheap...) 

[luna]

mmmm starbucks salted caramel mocha
(which btw is the same as the toffee mocha from last fall except with caramel sauce and salt on top, num!)

[Aaron]

Crazy they salt it...

I bought stuff to make Poutine. Only I couldn't find cheese curds so, I bought string cheese and am gona cut it up small.


Also bought two honeycrisp apples. Which are amazing. And spendy. 4.50 for two... BUT they are amazing...

[kristin]

salt + caramel (or chocolate) = amazing combo. I haven't tried that starbucks drink yet- I've heard mixed reviews, but it sounds too good for me to pass up.

[chimera]

The Salted Caramel Hot Chocolate (which they introduced a year or two ago) is also muy deliciouso.