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bob dobbs is dead
Oct 8, 2017

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I'll take chocolate gravy

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bob dobbs is dead
Oct 8, 2017

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Nap Ghost
ok, obviously chocolate gravy is a sweet dish based upon the formal technique of gravy making. a gravy is a roux emulsion that contains the fond of a meat dish. obviously, the fond of a sweet dish is... just the crusty parts of a dish, crumbed up. obviously it's a sweet only dish
some blurry pics, sorry

my oven stopped working a week ago and the technician's here in two days so here's an example baked good that i just bought


4 egg yolks. very small egg yolks, you could prolly get away w/ 3 larges


pans


add about a third stick of butter, a bit of flour, some xanthan gum for thickening and emulsification (more emulsification)


it cooks down well


instead of a fond, we just have a little bit of cake


crumbed up, and added to the roux. sorry i don't have an explicit picture of that added to the roux. turns out crumbs absorb a lot more moisture than meat fond, lol


this is our chocolate


bain marie, eggs in, stupid little custard sans cream we're making


chocolate in


chocolate melted


add the fond + roux


voila. finished w/ paprika and sea salt


in b4 :itwaspoo:


full album here
https://imgur.com/a/tuKed

overall experience much like any chocolate custard w/o cream but w/ crunchy bits

bob dobbs is dead
Oct 8, 2017

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gently caress, spoiled myself just now and realized i got waaaay too close

bob dobbs is dead
Oct 8, 2017

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i think i can take mother and child
there should be a listing in the op of these. like, status: suggested, taken, done, i can't keep track

bob dobbs is dead
Oct 8, 2017

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ok, mother and child
obviously the japanese are big on french cuisine, so i interpreted as the only mother and child in french cuisine, which are the mother sauces and julia child

so a mother sauce on boeuf bourguignon. ended up doing a super thick bechamel w/ cream





make the roux







roux was a bit thick

bob dobbs is dead
Oct 8, 2017

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i'ma try american chop suey next

bob dobbs is dead
Oct 8, 2017

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Hailing, as I do, from the great People's Republic of California ("Commiefornia"), it must come to pass that I be not a little alienated from that quantity or quality that makes food American, in the truest American style.

Therefore, I enlisted an Iowa-fed corn-blooded red-bred American to tell me what, of food, was most American, and how it could be incorporated into a Chop Suey.

"The most American food is Steak," the man said.

"and what of the vegetables?"

A thin boy from the state of Oklahoma, his legs bent with rickets, told me in response to this question,
"You will be entirely pleased to find, as a matter of fact, that the truest, most American of methods of preparing vegetables is to not prepare nor eat them at all. If it cannot be helped, at least deep fry them."

"what are the condiments that are usual in this land?"

A welding-man from the state of Ohio with a most curious tattoo on his forehead intoned:

"Cheese. Lots of cheese. Nothing but cheese."

With these encomiums in mind, I set out to create something viable and edible, and with the "pool of grease" that many emphatically required of any cooking that was to earn the title of American.




A magical beast of 600 pounds told me, in a strange suburban land from its rolling-machine, that everything American should have - "sugar. A fuckton of sugar. A mountain of sugar to eclipse the sun. Failing that, corn syrup." Sugar I lacked, but corn syrup I did have.

I would need to avoid the wok hei so beloved of Chinese Chop Suey enthusiasts, or else the sugar would burn.

Cheese... and steak. And, not pictured, the requisite pool of grease.

bob dobbs is dead
Oct 8, 2017

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(the rib, I ate later, because it didn't fit in the bowl)

next for me: Jam Roly-Poly

bob dobbs is dead
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i strived to make a caricature of 'murica
i was outdone by the reality

bob dobbs is dead
Oct 8, 2017

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was gonna do jam roly poly before, but i did the spam frites for the afp thread so i didn't wanna fry more than once. also i ran out of oil. so here's frybread

brioche.






obscenely long chopsticks ftw




the texture was absolutely like donuts but the flavor was absolutely like tempura so i just had it w/ ketchup

bob dobbs is dead
Oct 8, 2017

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also, update the goddamn op

bob dobbs is dead
Oct 8, 2017

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lotta peeps w/ bad suggestion to execution ratios itt

that said, someone's gotta do torpedo juice

bob dobbs is dead
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chitoryu12 posted:

I'm making real torpedo juice for my MRE thread. I'm scared.

0% chance that the non-understood torpedo juice is as lol as the real thing but lol

bob dobbs is dead
Oct 8, 2017

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BastardAus posted:

Cheese on toast

goddamn it
spoiler the fuckin thing

bob dobbs is dead
Oct 8, 2017

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ok, jam roly-poly
i had eaten pillbugs before but i think that probably it's a visual imitation of roly poly instead of the actual thing, because pillbugs taste awful
silkworm grubs is where it's at

steamer


our ersatz pillbugs


cut the marine bits off


some savory jam, in our case bacon and onion jam


mash it to a finer paste


mashed


begin cook


middle of cooking


finish cook


dish, w/ store bought bread


very salty, the bacon jam + lobster combo. definitely needed the bread

bob dobbs is dead
Oct 8, 2017

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next, rocky mountain oysters

bob dobbs is dead
Oct 8, 2017

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gently caress it, gonna do two at once
fat gravy
gonna have to wait till i go grocery shopping again tho

bob dobbs is dead
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LunarShadow posted:

That looks p great, if not even close. These are jam roly polys



Where's the insectoid parts?

bob dobbs is dead
Oct 8, 2017

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you could do an infused corn, instead of despair-flavored corn packet. replace both the bacardi and the vodka with just a straight grain alcohol, then do the flambe to reduce alcohol content

bob dobbs is dead
Oct 8, 2017

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remember the disgusting mug of ridiculous bullshit that that one low-carb goon ate and actually posted a picture of (I think it was the same goon who needed lipitor at 23 or something)? my imagination of fat gravy was exactly that, although i can't find the drat picture. so i aimed to replicate it

some, but not all of the ingredients, excepting tarragon which I made an executive decision not to add


i started with a piece of salt pork. the aim was to get as many possible variations of fat into this thing


cut it up a little bit, let it render with water added


cream and oil


special secret colored ingredient


whereupon it all went to poo poo. you see, i had neglected to think of the fact that cream, in fact, has a lotta loving water in it. also, i added way too much flour. so instead of turning into a proper loving roux for a gravy, this loving thing turned into a dough literally on the pan



i tried to save it by adding oil, but just loving lol


give up try again


oil roux. sorry, no more salt pork left. you will note that it's oil and flour only, and a noncrazy amount of flour this time


wait for it to brown a bit properly before adding the drat cream


the secret ingredient is soy lecithin. you see, i wished to replicate the disgusting slimy scum on top of the gravy. that means it foams beautifully and unhealthily. edible soap, what a miracle heaven-sent


after the foaming


in the mug. ironically, this mug has a pic from my college major, which was full of a bunch of smarty smarty pants. learned how to optimize neural nets in in-major classes, poo poo like that. great mug for use as a monument to bad decisions


you may ask, "where is butter, the glorious king of fats?" well, a certain something needed to be done a la minute



after i poured it out onto a plate


on some bread with jam on the side


taste-wise, this was basically a roundabout way of making something that tastes exactly like 40% oil, 60% browned butter. can't taste the cream but i bet that's part of the butter taste

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RandomPauI posted:

Why not just use the fat dough to make a pancake or something?

i'd already ate dinner
no leaven (altho does the soy lecithin make a quick leaven? don't actually know about that)

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Liquid Communism posted:

Fat, then flour, then liquid. Always.

I knew that, i just figured that the cream was fatty enough to not count as liquid

That was not the case

E: upon investigation, i figured out that i wasnt using my usual dehydrated double cream, which turns to butter if you look at it wrong

bob dobbs is dead
Oct 8, 2017

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coq a vin is disgusting because it's made with roosters. the cook time is designed to make it edible, but it's still pretty disgusting
you see ancient recipes calling for 6, 10 hours cooks with rooster. lol at doing that with a hen

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chitoryu12 posted:

I've only had coq a vin once, at Balthazar in NYC. It was absolutely delicious and even had a distinctive red wine taste to the chicken.

you have poule a vin, then

try to avoid eating old male animals with their balls in general

bob dobbs is dead
Oct 8, 2017

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the most important part of the disgustingness of coq a vin is the coq
roosters are disgusting to eat
this is why we don't eat them anymore

hens are fine

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ExecuDork posted:

\/\/\/ Sounds like a challenge to me. Where can I buy a dead rooster?

you can buy capon meat online
the problem with the capon is it's got its balls cut off, so the thing i said about it being awful is not true. rooster is w/ balls
http://www.dartagnan.com/capon-whole/product/FCAPO002-1.html

you will prolly have to buy an adult rooster and kill it, because they don't sell rooster-with-balls meat
fryer chickens are 7 weeks. chickens are not roosters before 1 year old. most of the roosters eaten in working farms would be >3 years old, maybe >5 years

bob dobbs is dead fucked around with this message at 17:14 on Jan 15, 2018

bob dobbs is dead
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awfulness is in the gaminess. also the stringiness. the wine is also there in the stew to disguise the taste.
pot pie would prolly work, if you do something else for flavoring and the rooster is there for meatiness, and you butcher against the grain properly

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Scientastic posted:

What a fantastically crazy thing to say

have you had it with a 5 year rooster with its balls still in?

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Doom Rooster posted:

Hey all, appreciate the concern. I'm still alive and pecking. Life did indeed get crazy. My wedding is in 12 days, then honeymoon trip to India two weeks later. Will try to get another entry knocked out before then. I'll also go through the thread and update posted creations and suggestions tonight or tomorrow.

lol, this shitpostin thread is less important than your wedding, i say as someone who's spent like $100 on food for this shitpostin thread
go forth
get married have fun

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250 for 3 hours would've given you something actually good. also a lot more salt than you would expect

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