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Here are some of the pics of my various recipes I have taken. I take step-by-step pictures really - but I'll just show the finished food here. NOTE: most of what I have online right now is italian. Lasagna & Meatballs Baked Ziti Chicken Parmesan and Spaghetti Homemade Pepperoni & Hot italian Sausage Pizza (dough and everything) Brocholli Oreganato Linguini & White Clam Sauce with Flounder Thanksgiving Dinner (Turkey, Gravy, Stuffing, Brocholli Oreganato and Mashed Potatoes) Turkey Soup
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Excuse me while I wipe the drool off my keyboard... That pizza looks so good, and the turkey soup... mmmm...
Bread-making certainly seems to be half recepie, or at least knowing the right proportions of say, milk and salt, and half feel and instinct. It's more feel than specifics with flour, you just have to add it until the dough has the right consistency. Too much flour or not enough yeast though, and your dough will turn out like the lump of suck I had to throw out. What better way to learn though...
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Turkey sandwiches, with mayonnaise, cranberry sauce, stuffing and a little pepper is our post Thanksgiving (and Christmas) fare. I never get tired of those, no matter how big our turkey is. Quote:
I've also learned a lot by royally screwing up things in the kitchen (as you mentioned), narrowly avoiding disaster, or doing something difficult well (the first time I made bread was brilliant, even though I came close to disaster a couple times). If something is remarkable, you'll remember what you did, or what you should avoid. I think that you get a certain instinct for cooking. If my grandma is cooking a roast or a turkey, she might take it out of the oven random minutes before the timer rings. It appears random, but she just knows it's finished. Every time, it's cooked to perfection. There is an epilogue to my disaster bread story. I was disappointed with my adding too much flour and decided to screw around with it. I can't believe it worked, but I somewhat resurrected half the dough! The bread is not only edible, but somewhat tasty! (I needed this bread, and I had put a lot of effort into it too.) However, our oven, unlike the ones I'm used to, has this quick heat up feature, but you have to make sure to turn it to normal when you're actually cooking. I forgot, for the first time ever since I moved here. This resulted in the top of the bread, in the middle, being burned to absolute crap, even though the rest is fine. The one other time I had a trainwreck of a kitchen distaster (the muffin batter incident), only one person was there. Well this same guy was the only one in the kitchen when the top of my bread was burned. He must think I'm the worst cook ever. Oh well. I'm happy I salvaged that bread. Somehow. My goal next weekend is to make really good bread, not just snatching it from the jaws of defeat.
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But all your fixens look good there JD.
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Here is the pizza before it's cooked, when I first put it on the pizza stone. What is basically does is it makes your conventional oven into a brick oven.
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Bwahaha, I actually make homemade mac and cheese, with a tomato and bread crumb topping, and aged Canadian cheddar. Nothin' but the best! It's been a while since I made that. (Cheese is so expensive here! )
I think I'll wait until I have my own house to get something as specialized as a pizza stone. Same with a double boiler, a large stock pot, a lemon zester, melon baller... all those useful little tools that are only needed for a few dishes. Right now, aside from using the common pots, pans and knives (we have a pretty well-equipped kitchen) I own a quality 8" Global cook knife, a standard sized loaf pan, and a coffee spoon. The essentials! (I'll leave the loaf pan here though.)
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Altitude and weather? Holy crap. Suddenly I want to go eat a piece of my bread now...
I guess that's all the more reason to let the dough speak to you! Be one with the flour...
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What I find really funny is my father, who is a really good cook, called me up and asked me about making brisket. I've gone over it several times with him, but he says it doesn't come out as good as mine. So this time I told him - you just cook the hell out of it. Basically you just add water to a pot so it's about covering the brisket and let it simmer for 5 hours straight (first you braise the brisket on the fat side, then turn it over - then add the water, to be exact). His problem was - he wasn't cooking it long enough. To me - brisket is one of EASIEST things in the world to make. You put it on the stove and basically forget about it all day - except to replenish the water that evaborates out. Here is something I haven't made in a long time, but I would love to have it again. I've really been getting a craving for it. Quote:
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That does look delicous! When's dinner? I'll bring wine. Or beer. (Doesn't really sound like a beer meal though.)
Where do you live now that you can't make it? Do you not have the sort of kitchen equipment you want, like maybe a lemon zester for the orange peel? (That one is an easy fix though. When you need some huge item, then there's problems.) On the bright side, at least you don't have to eat in a cafeteria. I shudder at the memory. How do you screw up rice? Rice was the third thing I learned how to cook, after fried eggs and real mac and cheese.
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JD! How do you make "real" pizza? I adore pizza, and I want to know how to make it even better! Do you think you could tell me, or could I find it in a cook book, or what? I usually just make it sort of like SGH does, but I don't get the same brand. I buy the crust and sauce and cheese all separate. So come on, how do you do it for real?
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