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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!
It's mushroom season. I've been picking a ton of mushrooms, and mostly just pan frying them in butter with pepper.
Also, different mushroom risottos (and "barley-ottos"), mushroom cream pastas, mushroom soups etc.
The weather has been wet for a long time, so this mushroom season has been crazy, and will likely last for a long time to boot. That means it's around 2-3 weeks between pick and I can go back to the exact same place and pick just as much once more.
Yum, mushrooms!
I love “wild” mushrooms (that are commercially grown from a supermarket because I am way too health paranoid to actually use foraged mushrooms) fried in garlic oil on sourdough toast.
I have not evolved to cooking yet, but the costco chili is finally back in the prepared section and I love it. Plenty of meat, and some beans (kidney & pinto) for fiber. I wish they carried it year-round but I know it’s less popular in peak summer.
I also have gotten into their “cashew clusters” which are essentially sugared cubes of nuts and they’re perfect for throwing on top of the plain greek yogurt for an easy snack. Much easier than drizzling sweetener in the yogurt and it adds texture. 😋
Thats hilarious, chili is one of the easiest things to cook!
Even if you don’t have a crockpot you just throw in cans of beans, ground or chopped meat if you’re into that, 1 part cumin and chili powder and a dash of pepper. Cook till it boils down, my stovetop its like 20 mins on crockpot its 4ish hours on high
In the summer we have fresh chilies so I chop those up and put them in.
The only thing I ever didn’t like in chili was green beans, but some people are into that. Seen folks add cubed potato/sweet potato/mushrooms/squash varieties too and thats always good. One thing I haven’t seen or tried but want to is raisins or nuts.
😅 I’ll try it sometime when I unearth the instantpot maybe. Thank you. But… raisins? nuts??? I applaud you for advancing the frontier of culinary vision
The frontier of culinary vision lmao nah like its chilli you can do whatever you want and it's not wrong, its the first style of dish I learned how to cook besides instant mac and cheese
I was thinking like, minced chicken, pumpkin? or sweet potato chunks, black beans, pinto beans, maybe peas idk and then cinnimon nuts and raisins. walnuts probably. oh and maybe add some spinach and cook for 5 mins after.
obv im not the first person to think of cinnimon in chilli https://www.thefreshcooky.com/firecracker-chili/
but like throw some walnuts in with the onions here, and raisins in when it's almost done, and boom
one day..
Since you're in an experimental chili mood, let me recommend adding about 1 T cocoa powder to your pot for every 2 - 3 quarts of chili. It's a secret ingredient in a number of cook-off winning recipes, and really enriches the flavor.
Experimented with Salmon and Broccoli again. Last time I tried this, I had some flavored Pringles chips so I just crushed those up and covered the fish with them, worked pretty well. This time, I did a more conventional recipe, using dijon mustard as a binder for panko breadcrumbs. I unfortunately put way too much mustard on the fish so that overpowered things but the fish still turned out decently well.
Both times, I roasted some broccoli along with the fish and I don't know why i haven't roasted broccoli until now. It just tastes so much better! My roasted broccoli "recipe" is just salt, pepper, garlic/onion powder, and some olive oil, roasted with the fish at 400F for 12-15 minutes.
If you're looking for more salmon (with greens) inspo, I'd recommend this recipe: https://ottolenghi.co.uk/pages/recipes/zaatar-salmon-tahini. It's unbelievably good, and a totally different spin on salmon than I'd had before.
Personally, I tweak it by using frozen spinach that I add straight to the tahini mix, so skip the wilting step. Makes it a bit simpler, and I usually already have frozen spinach on hand.
Ooh that looks amazing! Don’t have any of those ingredients but may try a scaled down version with what I do have, thanks!
Roasted broccoli is great, if you like salmon and broccoli combo, try this, it’s an easy mid week family favourite!
Ooh that. looks great as well, I've tried sprouting broccoli/broccolini in other dishes, definitely need to experiment with it and fish as well!
I saw this video for making an easy michelin star quality apple tarte tatin so I bought some puff pastry and apples to give it a shot. I used a small ramekin instead of a pot or pan since I don't have any with oven-safe handles, and it took 2 failures to dial in the time and temp to work with my oven. The third and final try still wasn't as caramellized as it was in the video, but still turned out pretty dang good if I do say so myself.
I have just rewatched the video and realized that he specified 160 degrees Celcius, while my initial two tries were done in Fahrenheit. Makes a lot more sense in hindsight but oh well, I'll get it right next time.
Still had some puff pastry leftover from that, so I made a chicken pot pie with just a top crust (puff pastry gets all soggy on the bottom). Wild how much it adds to the dish despite being just flaky butter bread, both taste and appearance wise. I should buy puff pastry more often.