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AceOfFlames posted:Got any recipes? Not really except for baking. I think about meals I’ve had at restaurants and try to recreate them. I literally google for recipes from the spammy recipe websites and tweak them until they work for me. Fortunately there’s hella time for recipe tweaking these days. I spend probably a couple hours a day cooking and eating and sometimes all day on the weekends. Cooking is dope. a_pineapple has issued a correction as of 07:15 on Jun 14, 2020 |
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AceOfFlames posted:How much time do you spend per day cooking and taking care of this stuff? Just curious. fwiw my sleep is hosed and i don't eat 3 meals a day, usually just one main meal and snacks or something throughout the day, and it depends on if I'm cooking one meal to split or two separate meals. we have a lot of pre-packaged shelf stable stuff for my wife to cook since she isn't very kitchen-savvy, but even that stuff doesn't take very long. 15-20 min for packaged pasta dishes or something. we have bread for sandwiches. canned tuna. soy curls. lunchmeat. easy stuff to prepare and shove in your face. we make pizza dough or flatbread from scratch and I stock up on packaged cheeses and cured meats I made chicken thighs in the oven and rice on the stove yesterday and it was mostly hands-off, took a little over half an hour. ate it with kimchi I made a couple weeks ago i made smashed burgers last week and it takes about fifteen minutes to season meat, toast buns, get the cast iron ripping hot and cook burgers, plus tossing some frozen fries in the oven bc I can't get fresh potatoes easily oven roasted vegetables, fresh or frozen, are very hands off, just season with oil, salt, pepper (I use msg too) and roast at 450°F, and flip once or twice until they're at your desired doneness. I make them with chicken thighs a lot, cook them both at the same time, same temp. it's important to season stuff to your preferences. including prepackaged poo poo. the biggest thing though is that I enjoy cooking, it's fun for me, and I have years of "experience". I rarely use recipes unless it's something new, baking, or like a sauce that requires precise measurements to be the right consistency. I don't need a recipe for a bechamel sauce bc I know the ratio by heart, but for a general tsos sauce I still refer to one since I have to make substitutions. I make things I like to eat. but that requires knowing cooking basics in the first place and applying them to what you're making. I am trying to teach my wife how to cook stuff other than scrambled eggs and ramen, and I guess it's easy to forget how tough it can be starting out. she doesn't have any knife skills, wouldn't know how to cook meat, and would probably prefer eating pizza and hot dogs all the time. but if I get sick or die I need her to be able to care for herself, and for me if needed, so we gotta do it idk what the grocery situation is like in the netherlands to be fair, obviously american stores have a lot of prepackaged poo poo and it's nice to have that around when you don't /really/ feel like cooking. as for being satiated, 
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AceOfFlames posted:I probably should have clarified: here in the Netherlands the health authorities swore up and down that masks were unnecessary and to this day they are only mandatory on public transportation and even then washable ones are enough. They still discourage people to buy them because "healthcare professionals need those masks". Now there are a lot more but the fact remains that they LIED and not a single apology. This is PSYCHOTIC. If I cannot trust authority, who can I trust? And for gently caress'S SAKE, don't say "my fists". ur fists
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i only eat frozen trader joes pizza, my bones are honeycombs
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Giga Gaia posted:man i got no idea, my choy plant actually sprouted flowers and became more of a curiosity over food before i pushed its limits. really cold crisper? luck? i had a red lettuce go for 40 days somehow. the outer leaves got wilty, but the inner leaves were fine. i only seem to lose peppers. my celery goes limp but its still fine for the freezer or stock pot. yeah I regrew a bunch of my spring onions!! I put a celery rear end in some dirt to see if it'll do anything. I'll have to try with carrots and stuff too.
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Jun 14, 2020 07:39
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cool effort post, wish I was asleep
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snoo posted:as for being satiated, great post, better ending
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AceOfFlames posted:If I cannot trust authority, who can I trust? I'm with you on this and very sympathetic. but also lol
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Hardon Crime posted:great post, better ending  cooking isn't hard, it's just easy to be lazy and not want to cook in a busy rear end life. but at the same time, like it's a basic human skill that you need to survive on some level (how do I take ingredients and turn them into food I actually want to consume). I don't really get how people don't want to acquire that skill, especially given a likely future of decreased 100% food availability from climate change I also totally understand not always having energy to want to put in the effort to cook, but that's the magic of making extras for leftovers and buying the type of convenience products snoo mentioned so that you have a few easy choices to go along with all the good, healthy, long lasting staples you should always be stocked with and able to throw a satisfying meal together from
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what were the doomsday predictions from just going full 'herd immunity' approach again? like i seem to recall dire warnings about total collapse of the healthcare system, what else was there?
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gently caress COREY PERRY posted:
I want to acquire that skill. It's just that somehow a lot of people seem to know recipes that are just "throw this stuff in the pan" but no one posts them online since it's redundant. My mom stayed home full time so she would always do very elaborate dishes and passed almost none of them to me, instead just sending me assorted tips like "eat more eggs!" and half hartedly sending a recipe or two when I ask. I do agree that food will become scarce. So why does every recipe require 10 ingredients and even ones with less requiring dirtying so many dishes? I admit. I am dumb when it comes to food. Please explain the exact amount of stuff I can stir fry for 5 minutes and get all the nutrients I need to stay healthy. Literally the only book I have found that helps in that regard is this: https://www.amazon.com/Cooking-Terrible-Misha-Fletcher-ebook/dp/B078KCBNVM AceOfFlames has issued a correction as of 07:56 on Jun 14, 2020 |
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:what were the doomsday predictions from just going full 'herd immunity' approach again? like i seem to recall dire warnings about total collapse of the healthcare system, what else was there? We'll have too many masks because everyone is immune.
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Farmer Crack-rear end posted:what were the doomsday predictions from just going full 'herd immunity' approach again? like i seem to recall dire warnings about total collapse of the healthcare system, what else was there? 2 million corpses in the US
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AceOfFlames posted:It's just that somehow a lot of people seem to know recipes that are just "throw this stuff in the pan" but no one posts them online since it's redundant. the reason is that those "recipes" aren't really recipes, it's just using general cooking experience to make things that go together I would imagine most people cooking without recipes aren't often writing down the amounts and ratios when they do, they just make stuff that tastes good to them or their family
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Cooking is easy. You just do whatever and then you eat it and tell yourself it was fine. Eventually you get better at lying and it's no problem.
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Salt Fish posted:Cooking is easy. You just do whatever and then you eat it and tell yourself it was fine. Eventually you get better at lying and it's no problem.
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AceOfFlames posted:I want to acquire that skill. It's just that somehow a lot of people seem to know recipes that are just "throw this stuff in the pan" but no one posts them online since it's redundant. My mom stayed home full time so she would always do very elaborate dishes and passed almost none of them to me, instead just sending me assorted tips like "eat more eggs!" and half hartedly sending a recipe or two when I ask. thing is dude, no one acquires any skill by dumb luck. you acquire a skill through learning theory, practice, and repetition - all those together, for anything you need to learn. what tastes do you like from dishes you've had before? okay, why do you like them - the interplay of flavours? the texture? we don't know your tastes, so there's no simple magic make awesome food trick. doesn't work that way. like anything, you start basic, and you work your way up. pick a dish. any dish. you like mac and cheese? okay cool, start to examine that dish. what goes into it? what ingredients are common in recipies? look up a few, see the common stuff. what is different though? okay, what role do the differing elements play in the dish? are they a thickening agent to provide it the gooey texture associated with mac and cheese? are they a different type of core component like noodle or cheese? if so, how do those core components change the flavour? what flavours do I like/want in the dish? are there spices? what are the spices supposed to add? just ask questions. ask questions of everything you do. we are blessed to live in an era with the fuckin internet, in our pockets at all times. where at any moment you can have the answer to a question. you just need to ask em. i hate washing dishes and focus on specializing in one pot dishes since i'm a lazy bastard at heart. but sometimes dishes that take hours to cook only last ~30 minutes of actual involvement beyond the occasional stir. once you start to think through the process of what you're making, it becomes a lot simpler over time. it's daunting to start, but just pick a dish you want to learn to make - it can be a lazy five ingredient one pot thing, who gives a gently caress. but then learn to make it, learn why it works as a dish how you've made it, and start to expand from there thinking through the same knowledge you've learned. learn to learn, and it'll make literally everything in your life easier
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there are people like my wife that see eating as a chore or at least not enjoyable and therefore don't see the point in cooking from scratch if it's just calories to power your flesh prison whereas I'm a fat sack of poo poo that loves food and finds cooking fun
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How to cook; Start with oil or butter in a pan. Slowly add things in the rough order of what fries slowest. When in doubt do onions first. Add tofu or meat or whatever. Try some vegetables. Eventually you'll have basically a slurry that isn't quite frying because it has too much water in it. Just keep cooking it until you get bored or till the water is gone and it's mushy enough. You can add water if it's not mushy. Add an egg and mix it in and throw some salsa and salt on it. Last step is to wrap the whole mess in a burrito shell.
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Morbus posted:AceOfFlames continuing to be utterly bewildered at things which people have been doing for 100,000 years. to be fair, existence is bewildering
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btw there's a cooking forum on this web site. it's not as busy as this hellscape but there's shitloads of good info there
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what I'm saying is make a chickencheese or salsachicken
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AceOfFlames posted:How can you get groceries once A MONTH? What do you EAT? Do you just avoid any sort of fresh produce? What the hell is this
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me: I'm not gonna earnestly engage I'm not gonna I'm not also me: *earnestly engages*
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COVID-19 posted:What the hell is this A valid question. Fresh greens last about a week until they start rotting. Aguacate goes after a week too if tou them firm. i dont get your point either
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it's called being in the middle of a pandemic and realizing you can't do the same poo poo you used to unless you wanna put yourself and others at risk
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was I supposed to be eating vegetables for the past several months? poo poo
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ahh I'm in a pandemic I better be buying fresh low calorie lettuce that rots if you look at it wrong instead of vegetables that last longer
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snoo posted:it's called being in the middle of a pandemic and realizing you can't do the same poo poo you used to unless you wanna put yourself and others at risk
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im cool with frozen broccoli and green beans
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like what the gently caress it isn't a hard concept yes your life is different right now, it is a loving PANDEMIC. deal with it.
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snoo posted:it's called being in the middle of a pandemic and realizing you can't do the same poo poo you used to unless you wanna put yourself and others at risk Oh woops i forgot abt the pandemic and thought the question was in general.
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btw feel free to shop more than once a month. go hog wild, I don't think it's an extreme risk to go more frequently.
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Frozen veggies, dried fruit, canned veggies and lentis, and then gorge on berries like a bear when you finally re-up.
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Solarin posted:btw feel free to shop more than once a month. go hog wild, I don't think it's an extreme risk to go more frequently. I don't begrudge anyone who goes out once every 10-14 days as that is still reasonable, but it really isn't hard to plan a bit more and tack on another week past that. Given it's lives your dealing with, it's worth it IMO. Salt Fish posted:Frozen veggies, dried fruit, canned veggies and lentis, and then gorge on berries like a bear when you finally re-up. canned veggies motherfucking suck, stick with frozen for anything you need long long term gorging on berries is 100% fact though on any re-up, those first few days are a glorious fruit sugar coma
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augias posted:Oh woops i forgot abt the pandemic and thought the question was in general. 
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sorry any excuse to post that cat
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snoo posted:the reason is that those "recipes" aren't really recipes, it's just using general cooking experience to make things that go together well I have OCD so everything I cook goes in a text file. If it's a process, I write down the whole process, then a separate section for things to try next time, then next time I cook it I go down the list of steps and turn those lessons into bonifide steps of the recipe. I refine ingredient portions, I write down stuff that was annoying (don't put this tool away yet, you'll need it again in 3 steps), etc. until it becomes a brainless process where I can feel safe not reading ahead to the next step at any point. "Pour in .5cups of sour cream" is a lot nicer to read within one step than "Pour in the sour cream" and then having to scroll all the way up to the ingredients list to see the measurement. Here are some of the shorter recipes I see in my recipes.txt file offhand quote:Peanut butter cookies (Gluten free) quote:Baked potatoes quote:Baked taco cups (This was just mimicking a friend's facebook photo of food once, but I made up these steps and tried them and it worked)
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