Basically a carbonara with extra steps - fry your guanciale cubes, set aside. Reserve the fat from the guanciale. Then, fry the meat from a fennel salsiccia, add a bit of passata. Mix cooled down guanciale fat with pecorino and egg yolks in a bain marie to create a creamy sauce. Precook pasta for half the time it takes to fully cook it. Add pasta and a little pasta water to pan, finish cooking pasta until all dente. Combine with sauce, fried guanciale and serve with parmeggiano cheese and fresh black pepper.
A mix of sweet and hot Italian sausage.
Peppers and onions were done in the wok to get some char on them.
One of these is pickled sweet pepper relish I made last year.
Fries were twice fried like Five Guys. I didn’t tell my wife that. As she started eating them she said “this needs malt vinegar” and I knew I had won. I got her some malt vinegar.
I was out of provolone so I went with cheddar.
This is a stupid simple meal that is very satisfying. You can use sour cream instead of avocado to cut costs but don’t try and use both because it will overwhelm the potato goodness.
Mushroom galette with farmer’s cheese, onion, and dandelion greens. I ate it with a vin de France from La Rocalière, in northern Rhône, which was better than my dough. Flavor on the dough was nice, texture was decent to good, but I’d have been smart to use an egg wash.
Most definitely late, but I did make these over the weekend. These are pork and wombok dumplings. The worst part of these is that they take so much time to prepare, but only 5 seconds to eat. However, I don’t make these often, and they’re worth it. I make extras and freeze them for quick (lazy) meals.
Got a little bit of money. Almost wet out for Mexican but decided to do it at home. Flank steak burritos with store bought salsa, guacamole, tortillas and side of refried beans. Probably the most expensive Mexican meal I’ve ever had outside of a restaurant. But they didn’t have any tomatoes or ripe avocados.
Made roast beef last night, medium rare. Used bolar blade, marinated for 24 hours. Turned out really well, and photo shows that I don’t know how to slice meat properly 😂 Also had potatoes and carrots roasting under the meat.
We have an 18” kettle grill (254 in^2) that my family of 5 has finally outgrown. We don’t need anything huge, I think 50% more cooking area would suffice. Our needs:
- We mostly do quick-cooking stuff like burgers/brats
- Less often we do chicken thighs
- We use charcoal
- I’d like to try cooking ribs
- We’re not interested in smoking
I had one piece of steak, an aging bell pepper, aging mushrooms, half an onion, processed American cheese slices, flour, lard, salt and baking powder, two potatoes and some peanut oil.
Like where can i start if im not good at cooking? how do i decide what i want to attempt to make aswell? i dont want to spend to much to begin but is there also a low cost way to start by chance?
novice at cooking here. know the basics and can make some decent tasting dishes without the need of a recipe, but not enough to know the full ins and outs of cooking.
Woke up from my nap and didn’t know what dinner was. I looked through the cabinet and found my emergency dal makhani and remembered I had some leftover rice from the fried rice.
Made dinner for my fiancé last night. Sous vide strip steak, roasted brussel sprouts with balsamic reduction, sautéed mushrooms, and baked potato. Really happy with how it all turned out!
I have like 15% use of my left arm right now. Chop some onions, melt some butter, open a jar of homemade turkey stock, open a can of crushed tomatoes, add some basil, thyme, salt and balsamic. Let it simmer for an hour and use an immersion blender to make it all soft. Add some cream whf serving.
Freshly pound spices and dried shrimp in my new huge granite mortar and pestle. Coconutmilk basmati rice with dried pandan leaves, boiled egg and msemmen. Vegetables not pictured.
Scratch English muffin.
Scratch strawberry and blackberry jam including scratch made pectin from backyard apples.
Scratch made elderberry mead from backyard elder plants. 6 years old
Toss some palm heel striked garlic and onions in your favorite hot sauce for a few hours. Then drain and cover in a neutral oil. I like my using my toaster oven, but any low and slow constant heat source works. Heat at about 200-250°f for two hours bumping it up to 400 for the last 10 minutes.
Eggplant and potato moussaka. Snuck in some zucchini to the top layer, and chopped mushrooms to the meat. First time making this and I think it turned out pretty well, just a bit watery. Will simmer the meat for longer next time.
restaurants put in too much stuff I don’t like so I have to make it myself. Other than no seafood or seafood based ingredients, anything goes but my preferences would bias towards fairly high spicy burn and not too sweet.
It only hit 28C today, and it didn’t even feel warm after the 40C+ days. I was so tired today after work that I even settled for what I thought was a soup (I do not have Italian heritage nor have I visited Italy, so I apologise ahead of time for any terms I use incorrectly).
This is very much just a MY family thing. But most of my family members cannot stand when I eat kimchi in the house. I love it so I’m not going to stop but gosh, they get so grossed out.
Leftover chicken fried venison from last night, fresh baked rolls, quick pickled onion and carrots, a sauce of home fermented horse radish, Dijon mustard, mayo and black pepper.
In North America, we have McCain hashbrowns that are tiny cubed potatoes you find in the freezer aisle. In Australia, hashbrowns are hashbrowns patties, and we don’t have the cubes. I haven’t been able to find them anywhere.
I’ve always liked to cook, but I’ve never really delved into baking. It always seemed so fussy. However, as they say, the first step in being kinda good at something is being really bad at it, so I decided I should try anyway. All said, pretty pleased with the result, especially the evidence of laminated layers.
Part of the problem with buying cabbage is that you need to buy pounds when you only need to buy a little. This was my attempt to use up the rest of what I bought for yesterday’s dinner.
Deep fried the potatoes, pan fried the sausage and cabbage, added a little red pepper flake and once it was almost done I added the potatoes so they could get to know the rest of the flavors.
Made a 30h slow cooker girello (top eye of round) the other day and turned it in to a girello and cheese toastie on sourdough bread for dinner tonight. Mixed in gravy and fermented BBQ sauce with the meat. It’s 39C, I’m not making anything elaborate today!
Our local meat store, can’t honestly call it a butcher, recently started carrying flank steak and skirt steak. Angus flank and skirt steak. For 7.69 a pound.
Instead of my traditional ground pork I went with ground turkey at half the price. There is literally a 2:1 turkey:pasta ratio. The sauce is a heavily seasoned can of crushed tomatoes.
Garlic knots have been hiding in the freezer forever and were free back when I got them.
Made chickpea curry with potato last night. Recipe called for less potato, but my potatoes were starting to become sentient beings so I had to put them to use.. And who doesn’t love potatoes?!
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