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One option is to just make a big pot of soup or w/e on the weekend and eat it for several days, with very simple sides/snacks/sandwiches/simple meals thrown in if you need a little variety. That way you just buy ingredients the day of/day before and don't have to sweat long term planning. Another thing you can do is roast a whole chicken or beef/pork roast and then you've got a ton of precooked leftovers to throw into stir fry, soup, etc. with whatever veggies you have on hand (If you're doing this, just throw the already-cooked meat in at the end to warm up and absorb sauce, don't cook it again the whole time or it will get gross.) Always keep carrots, onions, and celery stocked. They don't spoil quickly and they make lots of things taste delightful (even if you don't like them raw, don't skip them--it's quite different when they're chopped up and cooked as part of a larger dish.) They're foundational to a lot of European cooking for a reason. EorayMel posted:Always add more garlic and/or paprika to your dishes. if the recipe says to add only 1 clove of garlic they are lying to you because they want to keep all the tasty food to themselves
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Plenty of veggies can just be washed and put in the oven (olive oil, salt, pepper). Baked succulents can be ground to a paste and added to anything or frozen for a later date.
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the holy poopacy posted:
Or they're loving cowards who'll never know the joys of the stinking rose and die unloved.
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I haven't seen a beginners cooking technique book to recommend and I'm worried SEO has ruined the method that taught me around the turn of the decade 2010. But basically take an ingredient and a method and just Google it. "How do I cook broccoli in a frying pan." "How do I cook zucchini in the oven." Combine that learning with some priming from more organized recipes and you can look in your big chest freezer of things and be like "it's curry time."
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My considered opinion is to buy a cooking encyclopaedia, doesn't have to be Larousse Gastronomic but you want something that'll teach you many cooking techniques rather than another recipe collection you'll never use because internet.
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I make big quantities of things usually in the instant pot or sous vide or Dutch oven and just accept having to eat the same thing for days. It really doesn't bother me if it's something good, so I put a decent amount of effort in and cook a bunch.
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i still throw away wilty lettuce every week though. some things just aren't sized for a single person unless that person really loves eating white bread sandwiches or whatever
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zedprime posted:I haven't seen a beginners cooking technique book to recommend and I'm worried SEO has ruined the method that taught me around the turn of the decade 2010. But basically take an ingredient and a method and just Google it. "How do I cook broccoli in a frying pan." "How do I cook zucchini in the oven." Alton Brown "I'm just here for the food"? AARD VARKMAN posted:i still throw away wilty lettuce every week though. some things just aren't sized for a single person unless that person really loves eating white bread sandwiches or whatever Buy heads, not bags. They last easily 5x longer. And fun to stir fry with soy sauce!
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https://forums.somethingawful.com/forumdisplay.php?forumid=161 Ya'll need this
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AARD VARKMAN posted:i still throw away wilty lettuce every week though. some things just aren't sized for a single person unless that person really loves eating white bread sandwiches or whatever
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OP—sounds like you learned how to follow some recipes, but haven’t really necessarily learned how to cook yet if you really want to learn how to cook, you should focus on basic technique with staple flavoring ingredients. like, just learn how to cook mirepoix, or soffritto, or trinity or whatever the common base is for the sort of food you like and learn how to build meals on top of that don’t keep a ton of spices and flavor building ingredients around, just the basics. some onions and/or garlic and peppers or whatever. just salt and pepper, or just some soy sauce, or whatever basic seasoning. figure out the basic-rear end-bitch setup for one style of food that you like and stick with that until you understand the ingredients limit yourself to just a couple basic starches for a few months, such as potatoes and rice. cook them by the simplest recipe you can find until you can succeed without thinking about it. i’m talking stuff like plain white rice and boiled or roasted potatoes. keep it up and really pay attention. take in all of the smells, the noises, the feelings, the flavors. you’ll get really good at it before you know it similarly, limit yourself to a few basic veggies. learn some super simple recipes for stuff like stir-fry cabbage or roasted brussels sprouts where all you’re adding is a bit of oil, salt, pepper, and heat same again for proteins. don’t go crazy, limit your choices and stick with recipes that are basically meat or a meat-like-cruelty-free-product + your basic-rear end flavor enhancers then start cooking lots of the same basic stuff over and over again. stick with the paradigm of starch/veggie/protein for your meals for now. might be frustrating at first, but keep on pushing. eventually you should have a breakthrough moment where you start to get it. the lights will turn on and you’ll understand flavors kind of how you understand language and you’ll have the skills you need to communicate those flavors through the medium of a home cooked meal
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OP just don't cook like this goon and you will already be significantly more successful:MageMage posted:As someone whose "done le cordon bleu thing", when you launch out into the industry, forget you ever made that. VV get hosed freak EorayMel fucked around with this message at 22:06 on Nov 10, 2023 |
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buglord posted:With the help of Mark Bittman’s How to Cock Everything,
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I’ve tried to get chatgpt to produce 5 distinct dishes that require the least amount of ingredients, but it never works
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How often do y'all cook using a recipe? I almost never do.
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redshirt posted:How often do y'all cook using a recipe? I almost never do. every once in a while, when i want to try something new, otherwise i just cook the stuff i know how to cook and maybe tweak it a bit to see if i like it better. finding your own way to make something is fun. but again if i've never cooked something then i google recipes and try a few
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Regarding carrots and soup: If you are making a blended soup like tomato or carrot and coriander, go ahead. Just be careful about adding them to a broth or minestrone type thing. After 2 days in the fridge the carrots will start to break up, even disentegrate and it's not pleasant. It's also a good idea to boil pasta separately and keep it in a different container for minestrone. I've added elbow macaroni to soups to store in the fridge and came back to find something looking like mac and cheese - only red.
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That sure is a lot of food for one lady to eat.
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Marie doesn't gently caress around
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# ? Nov 11, 2023 00:33 |
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If you see cheap Tupperware grab it
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How to cock forty humans
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Carlos Lantana posted:If you see cheap Tupperware grab it Are you crazy?? I've got so much tupperware (or related products). I've got entire cabinets of nothing but. Too much tupperware! Now, a nice set Pyrex containers....
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Don't throw out plastic ice cream tubs either. Or those plastic dishes you get from the chinese takeaway.
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Carlos Lantana posted:How to cock forty humans
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zedprime posted:There's two practical choices to cooking with perishables that depend where you are and what your capacity to go shopping is. Meal prep is the way for single cooking Make a nice chickpea curry base or whatever and separate it into 7 mason jars. That's 7 days of dinners. If you want to mix it up or add some variety you can cook some veggies or meat in it when you're ready to eat. Do something different every day! Breakfast is easy to meal prep too. For example you can make Chia Pudding which is literally just putting some chia seeds and milk (real or nut-based or whatever) in a mason jar and letting it sit in the fridge overnight so the chia soaks up all the milk and gets swole and soft. Then you can cut up a little bit of fresh fruit in the morning and bammo, a healthy meal that tastes good for less than 5 mins of work.
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On Sunday I grab my whiteboard and plan out the next 5 days with the help of recipe blogs online. I try to use the same ingredients where I can for multiple days. Monday after work I buy the groceries and when it's dinner time, I don't really have much to worry about. Once I started doing this I've pretty much eliminated going out to eat and as a bonus, I get to try lots of new dishes. oxyrosis fucked around with this message at 21:57 on Mar 4, 2024 |
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Buy everything fresh the day you plan to make it
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make meals, put leftovers into containers for meals to have for a few days (how long you can stand eating the same thing minus one day), freeze the rest. heat up the frozen stuff when you need something to fill in.
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get a chest freezer if you dont have one and your situation allows
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buglord posted:With the help of Mark Bittman’s How to Cock Everything, I'm not eating at your house.
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Haverchuck posted:get a chest freezer if you dont have one and your situation allows Big old tittie freezer
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theres a thing called a freezer that is great to keep cookes food in. look it up
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Soups are a great way to use up excess vegetables. Get a crock pot and throw a pound of meat in there, add water to cover the meat, and start dumping in vegetables. Experiment with different mixes. You can add rice and/or beans too. Beef tends to make thicker broth, but any meat will work. Cover the vegetables with water, and Let it cook in the crock pot (4-6 hours or all day on low heat). If you’re cooking it all day, add more water; if you’re cooking it for shorter periods, you can check the water level every now and then. Start with a smaller batch until you figure out how much you can eat in a couple days and then make more if needed. Be prepared to make some really good foods and some really nasty food. Toss out the gross stuff and learn from it.
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batter and deep frying provide a dry exterior crust that helps to prevent spoilage and locks flavour in therefore op should get an industrial deep fryer
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Just lower your standards OP. You'll be fine.
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