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What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking?
What food and drinks have you been enjoying (or not enjoying) recently? Have you cooked or created anything interesting? Tell us about it!
What food and drinks have you been enjoying (or not enjoying) recently? Have you cooked or created anything interesting? Tell us about it!
I've been in a relationship with a Persian woman for 1.5 months now, so I've been experiencing new food all the time :-)
Last thing I ate was: Tahchin
Not only does it look impressive, it's very tasty!
I've been doing sourdough, it's fun and all my breads were really good, even if a bit flawed in one way or another (I'm not chasing the super open crumb style that is popular online though). I recommend giving it a try if you never did any.
I've been on a baking tear all week. No especial reason (though I could probably make something up like we came to the end of a heatwave and now everything is back in the 50s again.) Made Hokkaido milk bread (ok), Swedish cardamom buns (fab), and now I'm in the middle of burger buns for Memorial Day.
We moved to a house with a gigantic Viking Pro stove which has a grill built in so I'm going to try making the burgers on that.
Cardamom is a spice I've been slowly warming up to. I've never disliked it, I've just found it to easily overwhelm. Those buns looks delish, and I'm going to have to remember this recipe come fall.
I can definitely understand the overwhelming part. Cardamom is perfumey and pungent, especially if you're taking them from the pod and grinding fresh.
In my googling I found several recommendations for this recipe specifically. I didn't think it was too cardamom-y.
I made homemade piña coladas recently. Equal parts Malibu coconut rum, Coco Lopz cream of coconut, canned pineapple juice. A little bit of lime juice. Throw it in a blender, fill the rest with ice, and blend until frothy. (And don't think about how many calories are in the Coco Lopez alone.)