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My own dry rub for meats
Sweet Smokey Rub Ingredients 1 Cup Brown Sugar 1 Package Onion Soup Mix 1/3 Cup Smoked Paprika Method Place in the blender and blend on high until all of the onion bits are fully powderized. Using...
Sweet Smokey Rub
Ingredients
- 1 Cup Brown Sugar
- 1 Package Onion Soup Mix
- 1/3 Cup Smoked Paprika
Method
Place in the blender and blend on high until all of the onion bits are fully powderized.
Using
Dip your meat in oil then in the dry rub.
As it cooks the sugar melts and creates a nice crispy coating.18 votes -
‘People are simply not buying them’: That’s a wrap for Fantales in Australia
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Big Meat just can’t quit antibiotics
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By studying dig sites, sagas and ancient cookbooks, a culinary archaeologist is recreating dishes the Vikings ate – and rewriting the popular view of these people in the process
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What are some of your favorite cookbooks that you find yourself returning to time and time again?
Hey ~food! I'm relatively new here, but I would love to share my love of cookbooks with you all and discover some new ones to add to my collection. While Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat and The Food Lab are...
Hey ~food! I'm relatively new here, but I would love to share my love of cookbooks with you all and discover some new ones to add to my collection.
While Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat and The Food Lab are certainly some of my favorites. I have discovered others that I have repeatedly gone back to that aren't as decorated with rewards.
One of my favorite authors as of late, Olia Hercules, has a couple of cookbooks that I absolutely adore! She specializes in Ukrainian dishes and her recipes have helped dispel the myth of potatoes and cabbage being the only slavic ingredients. Mamushka is her first cook book with several great recipes, including a chicken marinade that is impossible for me to get away from. Summer Kitchens is another lovely cook book by her that reads like a love letter for documenting Ukrainian cuisine and has so many great vegetable recipes.
I'm curious to hear about other people's recommendations! Please give me a another reason for needing a devoted bookshelf for my collection.
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What is your most used piece of kitchen equipment / what surprised you in its usefulness?
Inspired by https://tildes.net/~food/16kl/what_is_your_least_used_piece_of_kitchen_equipment_what_do_you_regret_buying
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Came up with some cocktails to represent my D&D party :)
Was a fun little project. I worked on the drinks myself first, then gave them to my roommate for a blind taste test, and asked her to describe the kind of character she thought the drink was...
Was a fun little project. I worked on the drinks myself first, then gave them to my roommate for a blind taste test, and asked her to describe the kind of character she thought the drink was about. If she wasn't at least mostly right, then I'd have to try again - but they somehow ended up a lot more accurate than I expected to be, despite the fact that she knows nothing about this D&D game, haha. I guess we're just really on the same wavelength?
Anyway, without further ado, here are the recipes! If there are any other mixologists on here, I'd love to hear what you think - and you want to try (something like) any of these drinks but are missing an ingredient or two, let me know and I'm happy to try to suggest a few possible substitutions.
Avery
- 0.75 oz chartreuse
- 0.5 oz montenegro
- 0.5 oz black walnut liqueur
- 0.5 oz distilled water
Liz
- 0.75 oz peated gin
- 0.75 oz crème de violette
- 10 drops lemon juice
- yuzu bitters
Matoya
- 1 oz mezcal
- 1.5 oz lemon tonic
- cardamom bitters
Morgana
- 1 oz plum gin
- 1 oz white rye
- 1 oz distilled water
- lavender lemon bitters
Sylvaire
- 0.75 oz cognac
- 0.25 oz pomegranate liqueur
- 0.25 oz grand marnier
- 0.75 oz peach juice
- peychaud’s bitters
V
- 0.75 oz peated gin
- 0.25 oz galliano vanilla
- 0.25 oz absinthe
- 1 oz peach juice
- hibiscus rosehip bitters
- cucumber twist (i.e. take a thin lengthwise slice of a baby cucumber and curl around the inside of the glass)
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Why Britain's curry houses are in decline
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It's time to buy some new non-stick pans... need recommendations
The non-stick pans I bought last year are chipping already, so it's time for some new ones. I don't mind Teflon pans, but I hate having to buy them every year. I also dislike they they are...
The non-stick pans I bought last year are chipping already, so it's time for some new ones. I don't mind Teflon pans, but I hate having to buy them every year. I also dislike they they are aluminum cores - that does weird things in the dish-washing machine. If you have some non-stick pans that you have been using for more than one year, please share!
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Cooking starter kits
If you were to set up someone with a brand new kitchen, what are the components that you would suggest to them for getting that 80% of functionality for 20% of the investment (Pareto Principle)?...
If you were to set up someone with a brand new kitchen, what are the components that you would suggest to them for getting that 80% of functionality for 20% of the investment (Pareto Principle)? These are especially things that I would consider to be worth a healthy investment as a buy-once-have-it-forever situation. Some things that come to mind:
A cast-iron pan: high skillcap and can cook almost any type of food
Stainless Steel Stock Pot: cooks most things stovetop that the pan can't handle
Chef's Knife: A good quality, sharp knife makes all the difference in the kitchen
Mason Jars: Preserve food, bring them to bulk stores, drink water out of them... top-tier utilityThings that are on the fence in my mind:
desktop blender/immersion blender/food processor: I love all of these appliances, but how important are they? A food processor is maybe the highest utility & makes meal prep way easier. Also unlocks recipes like hummus and salsa.
a large cutting board: small cutting boards suck, but how high of a priority is upgrading it?Let's have a discussion where you state your case for an individual appliance/tool (or argue one of these suggestions) and see what other people have to say!
Seeing that this is taking off a bit, I'm going to try compiling some of the response data here:
Level 0 - Starter Kit
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Stainless Steel Pan (+3)
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Aluminum Stock Pot (+3)
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Vegetable Peeler (+3)
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Plastic Cutting Board (+3)
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Spoons / Spatulas / Ladles (+3)
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Chef's Knife (+2)
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Paring Knife (+2)
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Serrated Knife (+1)
Level 1 - Booster Pack
- Weighing Scale (+4)
- Baking Trays (+2)
Level 1a - Cooking I
- Immersion Blender (+2)
- Box Grater (+2)
- Dutch Oven (+1)
Level 1b - Baking I
- 2L jug (+1)
- Measuring Cup (+2)
- Pain De Mie Tin (+2)
- Wire Rack (+1)
Level 2 - Intermediate
- Instant Read Thermometer (+1)
Level 2a - Cooking II
- Food Processor (+1)
Level 2b - Baking II
- Immersion Whisk (+2)
Level 3 - Advanced
- Cast Iron Pan
- Mason Jars
- Air Fryer
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Put alcohol in your cereal
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Shepherd's Pie recipes over time
At the moment some people will say that Shepherd's Pie and Cottage Pie are the same thing (mince meat, sometimes vegetables, covered with potato mash and oven baked), and other people will say...
At the moment some people will say that Shepherd's Pie and Cottage Pie are the same thing (mince meat, sometimes vegetables, covered with potato mash and oven baked), and other people will say that Shepherd's Pie must be minced lamb or minced mutton and Cottage Pie must be minced beef. I don't care, call it what you want. But I was interested about what people said in the past, so here are some old recipes I found in the Internet Archive.
One of the problems I'm having is that some books use "shepherd's pie" and some use "shepherd pie" and the OCR of older books is not great so searching for the correct terms doesn't always return the books, because the OCR is saying something like "Shepherd He" instead. I'll be poking around a it more on Sunday and adding a bit more as I find them.
Lots of these recipes are submitted to news papers and magazines by readers.
1850 - 1899
Rural New Yorker
1850Edit: sorry, it's 1916https://archive.org/details/ruralnewyorker75/page/986/mode/2up?q=%22shepherd+pie%22
"Shepherd Pie. — The left-over meat should be sliced instead of chopped for this recipe. Butter a baking dish and cover the bottom with hot mashed potatoes. Pour on the gravy and sliced meat, cover with more mashed potatoes. Pile the potatoes on lightly and leave the top uneven. Dot with butter and place in hot oven for 10 minutes."
Nor'west Farmer
1882EDIT, sorry, this is 1915 (I was looking at the IA date, not the date printed on the page)https://archive.org/details/norwestfarmer3419unse/page/28/mode/2up?q=shepherd+pie
mentions that scraps of left over meat can be made into shepherd pie
La cuisine anglaise et la pâtisserie : traité de l'alimentation en Angleterre au point de vue pratique, théorique, anecdotique et descriptif 1894
https://archive.org/details/lacuisineanglai00suzagoog/page/n108/mode/2up?q=shepherd+pie
I don't speak French but I'm pretty sure they're asking for beef cuts here.
Cookery by Amy G Richards. 1895
https://archive.org/details/cihm_12438/page/n127/mode/2up?q=shepherd+pie
The recipe says "1 lb cold meat - 1/2 gill gravy - 6 large potatoes boiled and mashed - pepper and salt - 1 tablespoon milk - 1 oz butter. Cut the meat into small pieces, sprinkle it with pepper and salt, put it into a pudding dish, pour the gravy over. Add milk, butter, pepper and salt to potatoes, cover the meat with them, smooth with a knife and mark over with a fork, or the potatoes may be put through a forcing tube. Bake three quarters of an hour. Serve hot."
1900 - 1920
The complete Indian housekeeper & cook : giving the duties of mistress and servants, the general management of the house, and practical recipes for cooking in all its branches (Caution, lots of colonialism) 1909
https://archive.org/details/b21528640/page/278/mode/2up?q=shepherd+pie
The book mentions Shepherd's Pie: "This is a form of potato pie made with mince, or it may be made with raw collops, or raw meat minced fine and seasoned with pepper and salt." (A collop is a slice of meat.)
The recipe for potato pie appears a page or so earlier: The recipe says "Potato Pie is seldom seen in India. Mash a sufficiency of potatoes thoroughly with milk, pepper, and salt. Make a good thin gravy, and use this to cover thin slices of mutton sufficient to half fill a pie-dish. Pile your mashed potatoes over, trim neatly, and score with a fork. Push into the oven, and serve very hot." (interesting to me that the scoring the potato with a fork appears so early)
Magnet cream separator cook book 1910
https://archive.org/details/cihm_78529/page/n17/mode/2up?q=shepherd+pie
The recipe says "Shepherd Pie - put cooked meat through chopper, season with salt, pepper, and onion juice, moisten with gravy, mash potatoes, add a beaten egg, melted butter (size of an egg), place this on meat, dot with pieces of butter and bake until thoroughly hot and nicely brown on top. A good dish for leftovers".
Onion juice, or thinly sliced onion, become more common in the early 2th century.
The Cook County cook book 1912
https://archive.org/details/cookcountycookbo00asso/page/372/mode/2up?q=shepherd+pie
"SHEPHERD PIE.— Spread over a small platter, thoroughly buttered, warm mashed potatoes, mixed with enough milk to make it a little soft, and set in the oven to brown. When stiffened enough, and as brown as pie crust, pour over it minced cold mutton, warmed in a little thickened gravy. Is a nice breakfast dish. —-Mrs. J. R. Bogen, 2722 S. Dearborn St., Chicago, 111."
I find it interesting that people's names and addresses are published. This recipe specifies mutton (probably cold leftover mutton). I find it interesting that she suggests it's a nice breakfast dish, and deconstructs the formula by putting the browned mash under the meat.
And here's a picture of South Dearborn Street in 1905. https://www.bridgemanimages.com/en/barnes-crosby-fl-1900/south-dearborn-street-chicago-illinois-usa-c-1905-b-w-photo/black-and-white-photograph/asset/6354687
The same book has a recipe for Cottage Pie on the same page. Here's a cut 'n' paste. "COTTAGE PIE. — Chop cold roast 'beef or veal fine. To each 2 cups of meat add 1 teaspoon onion juice, 1 teaspoon fine-cut parsley or 1 tablespoon chopped celery, 1 tablespoon chopped green peppers, if liked, 1 teaspoon salt, and 1/2 cup gravy stock or boiling water. Mix all together, pack in a buttered dish, cover with a layer of hot, very soft mashed potatoes, about 1 inch thick. Brush the top with milk or wthite of t^^. Bake in a hot oven until the potato is well browned. — Mrs. M. Evans, 2019 S. Clark St., Chicago, 111."
To me this reinforces the point that shepherd's pie and cottage pie were both ways to use up meat leftovers, and while some people were making a distinction between lamb and other meats lots of people weren't.
Recipes: Proved and Approved 1913
https://archive.org/details/recipesprovedapp00unse/page/30/mode/2up?q=shepherd+pie
"Mince fine, cold meat of any kind and two small onions, season with pepper and salt. Place in an ordinary pudding dish, pour over all some gravy. Boil six large potatoes, mash, and add one beaten egg, a little salt and a tablespoon of butter, beat well, then spread over top of meat and place in hot oven to brown."
This adds an egg to the mash, and uses more onion than we've seen so far.
Low cost recipes by Harbison, Edith Gwendolyn, comp 1914
https://archive.org/details/cu31924003573932/page/n49/mode/2up?q=shep
"Chop some cold cooked mutton quite fine. Measure and for each pint add salt and pepper to taste, 1/2 teaspoonful of onion juice, a dash of curry powder and 1/2 pint of brown sauce. Mix and spread in a greased dish. Cover with a thick layer of hot mashed potato, dabbling the top with a little beaten egg yolk. Brown in a quick oven."
The meat is quite specific: cold, cooked, mutton. I'm not quite sure what 1/2 teaspoon of onion juice is going to achieve here, it doesn't sound like enough to do anything.
* Cook book 365, no. 2* by Pechin, Mary Shelley 1915
https://archive.org/details/cookbook365no200pech/page/62/mode/2up?q=shepherd+pie
"Cover the bottom of a well greased baking dish, with mashed potatoes, if the potatoes seem too stiff, add a little milk, then fill in the dish with beef cut into small pieces, add a little onion juice and the gravy left from roast, or some hot water seasoned with salt and pepper, and a little melted butter, cover the dish with a layer of mashed potato sprinkled over with bits of butter, place in hot oven and just reheat the meat and potatoes. Serve hot with some pickles."
More onion juice, and also this covers the bottom and top of the dish with mash.
The Kitchen Encyclopaedia 1916
https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.148252/page/n345/mode/2up?q=shepherd
"This is made in the same way as Mutton and Potato Pie (p. 333), but with less onions — about 1 tablespoon chopped onion. The surface is either roughened with a fork or smoothed down with the blade of a knife, brushed over with yolk of egg and the whole baked in a moderate oven till browned"
Here's the recipe for Mutton and Potato Pie
"Line a pie-dish with alternate layers of sliced parboiled potatoes, sliced blanched onions, and small thin slices of cooked mutton. Season with salt and pepper, moisten with stock, cover with a greased paper and bake for 1 hour in a moderate oven. Remove the paper 15 minutes before serving, to brown the potatoes."
Make a little meat, go a long way: Use savoury stews and meat pies (with Italian translation (US Department of Agriculture) 1917
https://archive.org/details/CAT31328029005/page/n3/mode/2up?q=shepherd+pie
"This is the name of a meat pie with a mashed potato crust browned in the oven".
Here's the recipe for Meat Pie.
"MEAT PIES Another good way to use a little meat. Have you ever used rice, cornmeal mush, or hominy for a crust? This is less work than a pastry crust and saves wheat.
4 cups cooked corn meal, rice or hominy
1/8 teaspoon pepper
1 onion
1 teaspoon of fat
2 cups tomato
1 pound raw meat or left-over meat cut up small
1/2 teaspoon of saltMelt the fat, add the sliced onion, and, if raw meat is used, add it and stir until the red color disappears. Add the tomato and seasoning. If cooked meat is used, add it with the tomato and seasoning, after the onion is browned, and heat through. Grease a baking dish, put in a layer of cereal, add the meat and gravy, and cover with the cereal dotted with fat. Bake half an hour."
And then just because, here's a recipe that I'm not going to comment on just to show how far some recipes deviate from the lamb / mutton mince plus mash formula:
Northfield Press 1930
Mackeral Shepherd Pie
https://archive.org/details/1930-05-30_Northfield-Press/page/n5/mode/2up?q=shepherd+pie
"Shepherd Pie with its fluffy topping of mashed potatoes is well-known everywhere, and when fish takes the place of meat in the pie its popularity grows apace. To make Mackerel Shepherd Pie drain an 8 ounce can of diced carrots and add to half a cup of canned peas. Stir gently into two cups of thick white sauce. Flake the fish from a one-pound can of mackerel and fork very carefully into the sauce so that it remains in fairly large pieces. Pour into a buttered baking dish and pile fluffy, well-seasoned mashed potatoes on top. Brush with melted butter and bake in moderate oven until very hot and the potatoes are a golden brown."
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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!
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For those who partake, what beers have you been enjoying lately and what style are they?
In the spirit of the whiskey thread I wanted to do the same for beer. What’s the style of the evening or week? I just returned from Indianapolis and IPAs definitely dominate the taps. I’ll drink...
In the spirit of the whiskey thread I wanted to do the same for beer. What’s the style of the evening or week?
I just returned from Indianapolis and IPAs definitely dominate the taps. I’ll drink most anything but I’m much more of a wheat guy, myself. Hoegaarden and Weihenstephaner are my go-to’s!6 votes -
Vegetarian cabbage recipes?
Hello! I was just wondering if anyone has any tried and true vegetarian/vegan cabbage recipes? I got a local farmer's produce box and have been receiving a whole head of cabbage each time. I'm...
Hello!
I was just wondering if anyone has any tried and true vegetarian/vegan cabbage recipes? I got a local farmer's produce box and have been receiving a whole head of cabbage each time. I'm running out of ideas on what to make. So far I have made:
- Korean Vegetable Pan Cakes
- Veggie Stir Fry
- Ginger Cabbage Gyoza
- Cabbage Stew
- Sour Kraut
- Veggie Lasagna
- Atkilt
It's to the point where I'm tossing cabbage into whatever (shredded cabbage ontop of tacos or on
veggie burgers, mixing it into spaghetti sauce, etc.). So any recommendations on additional things that can be made with cabbage would be most appreciated!23 votes -
Cheese lovers: What's your go-to/favourite cheese?
Always a tricky question, and always an interesting answer - personally my favourite cheese right now is Blacksticks Blue, a creamy blue that goes excellent melted on a pizza (subject to change at...
Always a tricky question, and always an interesting answer - personally my favourite cheese right now is Blacksticks Blue, a creamy blue that goes excellent melted on a pizza (subject to change at a moment's notice, mind you).
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What coffee have you been brewing at home recently?
Have you recently come across some nice beans? What roasters do you usually buy from? What's your recipe and what does your coffee tase like? Espresso and filter both welcome.
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Restaurants in Denmark, the recent darling of the culinary world, are outdoing each other to emulate Noma
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Any cocktail enthusiasts/mixologists here? Feel free to share or workshop some good cocktail recipes!
After seeing the recent espresso post, I figured I'd start a thread for cocktails. I've been recently getting into decent rums (Smith & Cross is a favorite) and have been playing around with...
After seeing the recent espresso post, I figured I'd start a thread for cocktails. I've been recently getting into decent rums (Smith & Cross is a favorite) and have been playing around with different recipes and uses.
So far, I've found a good spring/summer spritzer of cachaça (raw sugarcane distillate from Brazil, with a grassy, vegetal flavor), elderflower liqueur, and tonic water. I need to refine it, but I think I'm at a 2/0.5/4 ratio of spirit/liqueur/tonic. I love the way the herbal-sweet elderflower mixes with the cachaça, balanced by the bitterness of the tonic.
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Yeti just released their own re-branded Butter Pat 12" cast iron skillet priced at $400
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Vegan recipe log
Hi all. I cook as often as I can and thought it might be fun to chat about any recipes you’ve tried or would like to try! I’m vegan so anything I post in this thread will be too. Maybe even share...
Hi all. I cook as often as I can and thought it might be fun to chat about any recipes you’ve tried or would like to try! I’m vegan so anything I post in this thread will be too. Maybe even share snacks or restaurants that are you’ve tried that you’ve liked!
To start is a simple sauce/stir fry recipe I make when I’m pretty tired after a long day:
Spicy salty sweet sauce:
1-2 tbsp gochugaru
1 tbsp white or black rice vinegar
1 tbsp mirin
1 tbsp soy sauce
1 tbsp agave or maple syrup
1 tsp corn starchI usually put all of the ingredients together except for the corn starch and then set aside as I do the rest of the prep.
The rest of the recipe is a bit more variable as I have certain ingredients but looks like this:
1 cup cooked white rice OR hand pulled noodles
Noodle recipe:
250g all purpose flour
125 ml water
1/4-1/2 tsp salt
Canola oilI add the flour, water, and salt to a bowl, mixing with my fingers. It starts to form pretty quickly into a mass. I knead the mass of dough into a ball until uniform. With the large, smooth dough ball I cut it into 8 pieces with a knife, roll them into a sort of prolate spheroid shape, and coat with canola oil. Put the oiled dough shapes into a bowl and cover with a damp towel. Let them rest for about an hour or so.
Heat a pot of water. Flatten the dough pieces into rectangles with a rolling pin. Use the rolling pin (if it’s a thin one, otherwise I use large chopsticks), to press the dough lengthways to create a sort of seam. Hold each end of the dough and slowly pull to stretch. Slap on counter as you pull a few times. Stretch it as long or short as you’d like. On the seam you made with the rolling pin, split the noodle apart so that the noodle is now a large loop. Put into the boiling water and wait roughly a minute /or until it’s floating. Can cook a few noodles at a time, though I usually do one or two and roll/pull while they boil.
With the noodles or rice done or going and the sauce almost ready, start to chop vegetables, maybe a cup or so of 2-3 types. I like Napa cabbage, squash, green onions, bell pepper, and carrots but really get whatever you’d like or have on hand at the time. Sauté the vegetables in a tbsp or so of oil (I use canola or olive), starting with onions/garlic and then adding others as you see fit. Once the vegetables are done to your liking, add the noodles or rice, then the sauce (adding in the corn starch to the sauce at this point) and stir.
Often I’ll actually fry a half block or block of tofu I’ve cubed before adding vegetables into the oil. I usually do this as the noodles (or if I’m doing a pot of rice, as it begins to cook) are about done resting, maybe with 15-20 mins to go, since frying tofu can take awhile.
I like to serve in bowls, topping with a dash of sesame oil, black sesame seeds, and fresh green onion.
I’ll post more recipes in the thread as I make them but this is probably the most frequent thing I make in a given week. Feel free to share your own!
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We collected clams (and fried them!) for the first time since moving to Nova Scotia
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Why is real balsamic vinegar so expensive (Part 1 of 3)
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Mondelez, facing widening corporate boycotts in the Nordics over continued presence in Russia, has asked to meet the Norwegian government to protect its local business
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Cucumber sauerkraut | Makin' It! Episode 1
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I got to meet culinary legend and personal inspiration Jacques Pépin
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What is the simplest possible marinade recipe?
I'm looking for the simplest possible marinade recipe. Something with very few ingredients that will work on any cut of meat. My plan is to use that as a base and learn to modify it based on the...
I'm looking for the simplest possible marinade recipe. Something with very few ingredients that will work on any cut of meat.
My plan is to use that as a base and learn to modify it based on the meat, dish, and flavor profile I'm going for.
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Taco Bell's iconic Crunchwrap goes vegan
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Any espresso enthusiasts here?
What kind of setup/equipment do you have? Preferred roasts? Maybe you don't have equipment, but a favorite drink or place? My setup isn't anything special, but it works for me. I have an Expobar...
What kind of setup/equipment do you have? Preferred roasts? Maybe you don't have equipment, but a favorite drink or place?
My setup isn't anything special, but it works for me. I have an Expobar Office Lever that I bought in 2017. Daily use and a bit of minor maintenance along the way, and it's been a solid machine. Paired with a Quamar M80E grinder.
Also have a second, more entry-level machine at our cabin - Gaggia Classic Pro (which is having some issues right now) and a DF64P grinder.
For beans, I've been using a subscription from Bottomless for the last 1.5 years and have been super happy with it. I enjoy trying different roasters from all over the country and the service has been super reliable and not all that expensive for the fact that you get just-in-time freshly roasted beans at your doorstep.
Anyway, what are you guys drinking?
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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!
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Found a hole-in-the-wall gem and wanted to share
Was looking for the best club house sandwich in Vancouver, BC. Found “Green’s and Beans Deli” across from Royal Colombian Hospital in New West. Not only were their sandwiches priced as if it was...
Was looking for the best club house sandwich in Vancouver, BC. Found “Green’s and Beans Deli” across from Royal Colombian Hospital in New West.
Not only were their sandwiches priced as if it was still 20 years ago, but the owner new everyone’s preferences and their urgency to go back to work (“Sorry, let me take her order first - she’s only got 15 minutes.”). When it came time to pay (credit card tap), there was NOT TIP SCREEN. If you’re from the area you’ll know what I mean and probably fall out of your chair.
Oh, and the sandwiches were obviously amazing. Highly recommend.
Any places you recently found worth raving about?
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What whisky/whiskey have you been enjoying, and what's your opinion on them?
What have you been drinking, sipping and enjoying, in the world of whisky/whiskey spirits lately? Discussion about Scotch whisky, Irish whiskey, international whiskey, bourbon, etc. are all...
What have you been drinking, sipping and enjoying, in the world of whisky/whiskey spirits lately? Discussion about Scotch whisky, Irish whiskey, international whiskey, bourbon, etc. are all welcome. Please don't just make a list of titles, give some thoughts, reviews, and tales about the spirits if you like!
I myself was thoroughly surprised at a whisky bar today with the Hatozaki 12. I went to the bar to try out my first Japanese whiskey's and found Hatozaki 12. It was absolutely lovely, bottled with integrity and at a fair price ($8/oz). I was not expecting such fruity and floral notes. I tried out a few from Nikka and Suntory and was not impressed. The Nikka Yoichi tasted off and a wee bit musty. The Suntory felt too light and like it belongs in a highball. I am looking forward to continuing the journey of exploration with Japanese whisky in the future. It is a stark change from the Islay Scotch whisky I drink regularly.
- Hatozaki 12 - Small Batch - Umeshu Cask: 87/100
Owner: Akashi Sake Brewery LTD
Region: Kaikyo Distillery, Akashi City, Hyogo, Japan
Nose: Vanilla, honey, floral, cream, red apple, fresh fruit
Palate: Vanilla, toffee, cherry blossom, peaches in cream, lavender
Finish: Vanilla, floral, lavender, cream linger for several minutes after
Note: Non-chill filtered, Natural Color, 46% ABV, speyside feel with some added bonus
My grading chart:
- 98 – 100 (A+) = Booze Nirvana.
This is the promised land where every sense is satisfied and, unless it’s a perfect 100, you have to search and nit-pick for what’s wrong instead of what’s right about this whiskey because it’s so on point. - 93 – 97 (A) = Exceptional – Superior in every way
These are the best of the best and within spitting distance of Nirvana. They embody everything that category is about and then elevate it to another level. These are ones I HIGHLY recommend. - 90 – 92 (A-) = Excellent – want to buy a case
Whiskeys that hit this rating are extra awesome. They’re delicious and complex Daily Drinkers and even though they are not quite best-in-class, they’re among my favorite whiskeys and I would wholeheartedly recommend them to anyone at any time. - 87 – 89 (B+) = Great – always want to have a bottle
These are whiskeys that as soon as you taste them you say, “I want to own a bottle” and if you already own the bottle, you just smile because it’s yours. It’s not a record breaker by any means, just a good solid delicious whiskey. - 83 – 86 (B) = Good – not a “must”, but a nice-to-have
The majority of my baselines are found here. This range is where the “daily drinker” status starts to emerge and where I find whiskies that’re good to drink but may rotate in and out of my collection. They’re not something you’d miss when it’s out, but good enough to give a moment’s consideration when at the liquor store. - 80 – 82 (B-) = Not-too-bad – no major flaws, worth tasting
This is the stuff I’d recommend you try at the bar or at a friend’s house before buying a bottle. There’s nothing really wrong with it, it’s just not… quite… there. - 77 – 79 (C+) = Average – not good, not bad, just is
There might be some minor flaws, all-in-all it’s not offensive, but it might be boring. There’s just nothing at all noteworthy about this whiskey. Would recommend to starters. - 73 – 76 (C) = Below average – drinkable, but better as a mixer / party booze
It’s not like you or I actually WANT to drink this stuff, but sometimes you’re at a wedding or a shitty bar and it just happens to be there, and a beer just doesn’t sound great, so you grin and bear a glass or, when possible, ask for it in a cocktail. If the bartender sucks, you might even take a bit of solace in the knowledge that they didn’t ruin a good whiskey with their terrible cocktail. - 70 – 72 (C-) = Not good – nearly undrinkable, wonder why the hell they made it
When I drink this stuff, I wonder if the Master Distiller is actually proud of what they’ve put out or if it’s something they just shove out to make a quick buck. I then wonder about the person who habitually buy it and wonder what admirable qualities they find in it that I can’t. - 60 – 69 (D) = The only thing this should be used for is making Jungle Juice, and even then, Seriously, I start to wonder if it’s even safe for human consumption at this point. - It’s just plain vile.
- 59 – 0 (F) = Horrifically flawed – the worst
This is when I call the FDA because I’m pretty damn sure it’s not safe to drink this swill.
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