Steph Posted December 4, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 4, 2015 Hamburger flavored before cooking with copious amounts of Teriyaki sauce, ginger and onion flakes, plus not so copious amounts of crushed red pepper. Yum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lstmmrbls Posted December 5, 2015 Report Share Posted December 5, 2015 Had an executive chef show up at a company thingy today and showed us how to make chocolate truffles. Making the Ganache is actually quite easy. I had a little luck, the sesame chipotle are my fave. The box is now half almost empty. Only in California(LOL) Bunch of construction workers bumping elbows with sales women making chocolates and putting them in pretty little boxes, it was fairly amusing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted December 5, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 5, 2015 fun! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbobam Posted December 7, 2015 Report Share Posted December 7, 2015 Okay. It was a week or so ago. I'm only thinking about eating it 'right now'. Because in this movie, the girl on the right asked the one and only question that's on my mind that time of year. And got the answer she and I would both be hoping for. And did the little 'yes dance' just like I would. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted December 7, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 7, 2015 A coupla days ago I thought about making green bean casserole. I didn't grow up with it and no one currently in my life makes it. Just tried it a couple of times. But pretty sure I want some. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lstmmrbls Posted December 8, 2015 Report Share Posted December 8, 2015 Green bean casserole was invented to sell Cambells cream of mushroom soup, so I heard. I love the stuff Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbobam Posted December 8, 2015 Report Share Posted December 8, 2015 Mushrooms are the one thing to which I'm seriously allergic. There seems to be a 'threshold' where I can have a tiny little bit, but no more. For this stuff I'm willing to take the risk. ( : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted December 10, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 10, 2015 Mini terriyaki-ginger bagel burgers Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lstmmrbls Posted December 12, 2015 Report Share Posted December 12, 2015 Slow simmering a pork roast in pot full of 16 types of beans. Wondering if there will be explosions in the house later tonight(LOL) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted December 13, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 13, 2015 16 huh? I was thinking earlier today about a how many types of beans I could name. I guessed it would be less than 13. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbobam Posted December 13, 2015 Report Share Posted December 13, 2015 (I have a school essay somewhere that I wrote when I was a little kid. There's a big red circle around my description of all of us as 'human beans'.) Back to the present! Apparently Galen doesn't (or didn't) suffer from the rare condition referred to by 'Sheldon' here. I hope very much that our dear friend is still 'with us' and didn't turn himself into an incendiary device. ( : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lstmmrbls Posted December 13, 2015 Report Share Posted December 13, 2015 Bags says it contains 16 of the following. They sure seem to be stretching things a bit(LOL) But it was really really good, and explosion free!!!!! And over 1/2 a gallon left to freeze. Baby Lima, Green Split Peas, Lentils, Great Northern Beans, Large Lima Beans, Black Eyed Peas, Black Beans, Light Red Kidney Beans, Pink Beans, Dark Red Kidney Beans, Pinto Beans, Small Red Beans, Yellow Split Peas, Small White Beans, Garbanzo Beans, Cranberry Beans, Yellow Eyed Peas, Green Whole Peas, Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted December 15, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 15, 2015 That sounds yum. .... The lima is scary .... but I'm willing to try them again. Tonight I added raisins to my teriyaki-ginger-crushed-red-pepper burgers. I mix up the fixings for about six burgers at a time. Where will this madness end? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted December 20, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 20, 2015 MSG be darned, I got a box of ramen-ish noodle soups. (Actually hubby discovered that the box which I already had was the exact right size for his Atari cartridges, but he needed a second box, so more soup for me!) Buttttt ... it's very spicy and so I cook two portions of noodles with one portion of seasoning. Soooooo .... now I have a jar full of seasoning packets and am not sure what to do with them. I do occasionally pull a packet out for seasoning, but I'd like to have more ramen-ish noodles to go with them, and I don't know where to find anything at all close. Tried rice noodles and they're edible but not close enough to the same. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbobam Posted December 21, 2015 Report Share Posted December 21, 2015 Putting 'flavor' of this sort into the water used for cooking actual rice can be a fun thing to do. ( : Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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lstmmrbls Posted December 24, 2015 Report Share Posted December 24, 2015 Not eating it yet but just fished getting it ready for the Oven tomorrow, once again it is the TURDUCKINIG . That a big ol chicken in a big ol duck in a big ol turkey with smoked bacon all through it and between the layers. All boned out and put back together . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted December 25, 2015 Author Report Share Posted December 25, 2015 That looks like a lot of work. Was it everything you hoped for? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lstmmrbls Posted December 26, 2015 Report Share Posted December 26, 2015 It was as tasty and succulent as I had hoped. I forgot to flip it over for cooking so it seperated a bit but did not hurt anything but the looks. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted January 2, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 2, 2016 Cilantro burger. After too much cilantro in a burrito-thingy and in a salad, I put exactly the right amount in my pound of ground beef. Plus some dried onions, terriyaki sauce, raisins and crushed red pepper. A little bit less than usual of all those things in case the cilantro was already on the too-much side. But everything was perfect. And then I froze the rest of the cilantro bundle because I've run out of things to try it in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbobam Posted January 3, 2016 Report Share Posted January 3, 2016 Your food almost always sounds really good. Except for the raisins. Grapes, in themselves, aren't so great either. There is only one legitimate and noble use for grapes. (With the exception of Welch's Jelly) The pursuit of truth! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted January 3, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 3, 2016 The raisins are soooooooo good. Only a few this time and was happy about going with less. Every bite of the burger was scrumptious. But it was still good back before I thought to add the raisins. Savoury. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted January 3, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 3, 2016 LOL ... sorry ... I won't try to convert you to raisins. Well, not very hard. I didn't much like 'em as a kid. Just very much enjoying them as a cooking ingredient. Making ramen (well, udon) with bok choy right now. No raisins. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
kbobam Posted January 3, 2016 Report Share Posted January 3, 2016 Huh! I didn't know about udon. (Almost said 'from' instead of 'about'. Must be feeling New Yorky today!) It looks more appetizing than ramen. Maybe 'better for you' too. Although I have no idea if reports about ramen not being the healthiest thing in the world are over-exaggerated. These might be based on the traditional situation of impoverished students eating nothing else for long periods of time. I think I've had a couple times where ramen noodles have caused a problem, and I'm guessing it's because of their 'quick cooking' nature. (Similar to 'instant' rice) Proper cooking time needs to be surprisingly precise because of this, since small variations are a large percentage of the 'overall' time involved. If you cook them too long, they turn to mush. Not good, but I guess you can live with it. The problem I'm talking about is when you don't cook them quite long enough. They haven't finished absorbing liquid in the cooking process, so they do it in your stomach. Picture a classic cartoon animated version of 'Good Old Bob' eating these undercooked noodles. Next you hear a bunch of strange gurgling sounds. Then there's a sudden 'Pop!' and you see him appearing to be eight months pregnant! Of course it's hilarious on the surface, but it's somewhat unpleasant in practice. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steph Posted January 3, 2016 Author Report Share Posted January 3, 2016 My problem with the noodles is that I start eating them when they're too hot. So by the time they get down to a good temperature for eating, I'm on my last bite. This time I let them cool while I did something else which I couldn't put off, so I was able to enjoy the bowl for longer. They did end up mushy, and had absorbed more than the usual amount of the spicy liquid (mama mia), but yum. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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