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Girded for battle Member  |
I see this thread as designed more for the kids that ride the short bus when it comes to cooking, the kids like me.. The kids like you, on the other hand, revel in Advanced Cooking Geekery. I aspire to be you. 
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Miss Kitty Fantastico Member  |
Advanced Cooking Geekery! I love that title!
 I would have thought the end of the world is everyone's responsibility, wouldn't you? ~Death in Thief of Time Minister of Kraftwerk in the Realm of U & P, Order of the Pineapple with frond for advancement in Nap studies. |
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Dawn Treader Member  |
Okay so I'm late, but I made squash risotto eventually. And I'll do the summer berries thing this week too, though my favourite thing to do with summer berries is just eat them.
 Risotto, in pictures:             ---------------- Never stare into a car's headlights and freeze, because you'll either be run over or shot. |
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She: "Stab, stab, stab stabbity- STAB!!" He: "Okaaaayyyy... Bit more cayenne, next time?" |
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is part of the international oatmeal conspiracy Member  |
huzzah!
i haven't got my summer berries done either...but i'm running late too so i'll leave these to cooking challenges up for another week but feel free to ponder what to do next weeek! High Ranking Official of the Realm of Unproductivity and Procrastination, Dean of the UUP, First Class member of the order of the Pineapple. scruffy ambulating reanimated hypothetical vegetarian leigonairre of the undead. ~ Cav Look, I've got a cape and a tendency towards violence. It does not make me a superhero! ~ Domitella |
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Surprise Inspector Member  |
haha. i inadvertently had this one down last night. I made a raspberry thing. with mushed raspberries, fresh from my aunt's garden in scotland, a couple of teaspoons of sugar and a little glug of rosewater. served on top of a good dollop of crème fraiche. GORGEOUS.
"Are you a princess? I said & she said I'm much more than a princess, but you don't have a name for it yet here on earth." -Brian Andreas Limertilly: A pagan deity forgotten by man and therefore banished to the realms of memory and darkness now remembered by a young girl in downtown L.A. in the form of a dream and therefore freed to reap your revenge on the people who discarded you, thereby forcing said girl to learn to use her innate yet awesome powers as a soothsayer to gather forces of the Earth to defy you and once more banish you to your cold, cold prisoooooon |
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Miss Kitty Fantastico Member |
I have berries growing wild here - strawberries get picked and eaten, grazing method. Black raspberries get picked and frozen - those will be squished for juice and then add a bit of sugar and vanilla and that will be raspberry syrup for iced tea or over ice cream if someone is so inclined.
Blackberries are up next and those get squished for juice to make jelly. One year I made a really lovely, fluffy, berry mousse (with just the juice, I can't have the seeds) and I have no idea what happened to that recipe, I just remember that it had gelatin in it and it was a delightful dessert on a very hot, humid summer's day. I would have thought the end of the world is everyone's responsibility, wouldn't you? ~Death in Thief of Time Minister of Kraftwerk in the Realm of U & P, Order of the Pineapple with frond for advancement in Nap studies. |
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That beautifully cubed squash was my handiwork, thank you very much.
______________________________ I wear the cheese, the cheese does not wear me. |
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Has no front teeth Member  |
Nicely cubed Jayelle
I don't really follow a recipe- this is one of those "handed down through the generations" things, but for berries (if I'm not just munching them)I like to do Summer Pudding. That's right all you English types, it came over and I learned it from a full-blooded Danish woman.  But I found this recipe, which is close. You can certainly add strawberries for any part of the other berries, or plums or peaches or nectarines. For the bread, brioche or challah or another egg bread is wonderful, but you can use any sturdy white home-style bread. I have found potato bread works well. Just make sure it's not fresh- let it go stale or dry it out in a 200 degree oven. If you have a gas oven with a pilot, just put the bread on a cookie sheet and let it dry our for several hours. You can get picky about the bowl, but I've used lasagne pans, souffle dishes....anything you can get a close fit with the bread in. The trick is to make sure the cover of it all fits and get weighted down at least 8 hours or overnight. If it doesn't, then hey- scoop it into a bowl and put on the whipped cream or ice cream. It'll taste just as good.
______________________ Fandangling across the moony sky, went the Beezee bold as brass, side-saddle she sat, on a big painted bat, shooting moonbeams out of her a(censored)e. ~Joe ________________________ Isn't sanity really just a one trick pony, anyway? I mean, all you get is one trick, rational thinking! But when you're good and crazy¦ooh ooh ooh the sky's the limit! |
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is hogging the Comfy Chair Member  |
This reminds me - I made bread-and-butter pudding this week with some frozen Value (ie: nasty) pizza bases. They don't work as pizza bases - wrong taste, wrong texture (too biscuity), fall apart, so I'll just make my own damn bases in future. I needed the freezer space, and was feeling guilty about the prospect of throwing them away, then thought: hey! Inappropiately biscuity! They will made decent bread-and-raisin pudding! And they did.
*********************** There once was a bard of Hong Kong Who thought limericks were too long. - Gerard Benson. |
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Has no front teeth Member |
Is food! AND salad! Which reminds me- since son+ and I iz po' right now, we are eating from the garden (well, we would anyway). For dinner this week I cooked some baby red potatoes in the microwave - or steam 'em- cut them into chunks and let them cool a bit. I cut a ripe tomato into wedges, put the whole lot on a bed of lettuces, poured on some bottled Ceasar dressing and sprinkled on some green onion and some hard-cooked egg. That was SO good! ______________________ Fandangling across the moony sky, went the Beezee bold as brass, side-saddle she sat, on a big painted bat, shooting moonbeams out of her a(censored)e. ~Joe ________________________ Isn't sanity really just a one trick pony, anyway? I mean, all you get is one trick, rational thinking! But when you're good and crazy¦ooh ooh ooh the sky's the limit! |
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Miss Kitty Fantastico Member |
*jealous of your tomatoes from the garden* Mine aren't ready yet. But we grow heirlooms and they tend to be later than early hybrids.
I used snow peas in a sort of casserole! Since I was lazy and didn't pick them, they started growing peas, so I just used a lot of them as snap peas? (I popped the peas outta the pods) boiled them in chicken broth with some rice, softened cream cheese, mixed it with some Frank's hot sauce and buttermilk and leftover sour cream - and leftover shredded chicken, mixed that all up, plopped in on top of the rice n peas, crumbled some blue cheese over that and popped it in the oven at 350F for 20 minutes. It looks... well... casseroles usually look disgusting But it tastes good!I would have thought the end of the world is everyone's responsibility, wouldn't you? ~Death in Thief of Time Minister of Kraftwerk in the Realm of U & P, Order of the Pineapple with frond for advancement in Nap studies. |
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Dawn Treader Member |
Okay, summer berries:
I made a cake. Not very complicated, but I think it ended up looking and tasting great. Not pictured here--grinding almonds to use instead of flour. Then whip egg whites and fold them in with the rest of the batter. [notpictured] Then put the cake in the oven  Cook it  Frost with whipped cream  Add berries  And voila!  Rich yet fluffy, not too sweet, and I love the way it looks! ---------------- Never stare into a car's headlights and freeze, because you'll either be run over or shot. |
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Has no front teeth Member |
*applauds*
*drools* That looks marvelous! ______________________ Fandangling across the moony sky, went the Beezee bold as brass, side-saddle she sat, on a big painted bat, shooting moonbeams out of her a(censored)e. ~Joe ________________________ Isn't sanity really just a one trick pony, anyway? I mean, all you get is one trick, rational thinking! But when you're good and crazy¦ooh ooh ooh the sky's the limit! |
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is part of the international oatmeal conspiracy Member |
mmmm...cake
i am going to make Eton Mess tonight. anyone want to lay out the next challenge? High Ranking Official of the Realm of Unproductivity and Procrastination, Dean of the UUP, First Class member of the order of the Pineapple. scruffy ambulating reanimated hypothetical vegetarian leigonairre of the undead. ~ Cav Look, I've got a cape and a tendency towards violence. It does not make me a superhero! ~ Domitella |
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Surprise Inspector Member |
i'm doing chocolate brownies, so i think i shall make a "cooking with chocolate" challenge.
"Are you a princess? I said & she said I'm much more than a princess, but you don't have a name for it yet here on earth." -Brian Andreas Limertilly: A pagan deity forgotten by man and therefore banished to the realms of memory and darkness now remembered by a young girl in downtown L.A. in the form of a dream and therefore freed to reap your revenge on the people who discarded you, thereby forcing said girl to learn to use her innate yet awesome powers as a soothsayer to gather forces of the Earth to defy you and once more banish you to your cold, cold prisoooooon |
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Guess what's behind door number pi! Member  |
I bought a bar of chocolate and cooked ın my backpack ınto a wonky sphere shape wıth flecks of foıl ın ıt.
Deeelıcıous! (\__/) (O.o ) (> < ) |
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Surprise Inspector Member |
hehe, sounds good to me. I also bought double cream to have with my brownies. this makes me very happy. i shall try and remember to take photies as i go.
"Are you a princess? I said & she said I'm much more than a princess, but you don't have a name for it yet here on earth." -Brian Andreas Limertilly: A pagan deity forgotten by man and therefore banished to the realms of memory and darkness now remembered by a young girl in downtown L.A. in the form of a dream and therefore freed to reap your revenge on the people who discarded you, thereby forcing said girl to learn to use her innate yet awesome powers as a soothsayer to gather forces of the Earth to defy you and once more banish you to your cold, cold prisoooooon |
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is in perfect karmic alignment Member  |
Berries? what berries. There are never any left for cooking anything with.
*ahem* nom nom nom ~You are a *Taverner*. Sometimes patrons want to go where everybody knows their names, though it helps when half of them are named John. When people want to celebrate, or commiserate, they gather to your establishment. You provide the atmosphere, the warmth, rum, and even an ear to bend. Did I mention the rum? Years before the language will be mangled with terms like facilitator and networking and interpersonal communication, you've overseen it all, and broken up a few bar fights, to boot.~ -Royko |
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Surprise Inspector Member |
i forgot to take piccies. i'll have to do another lot next week.
"Are you a princess? I said & she said I'm much more than a princess, but you don't have a name for it yet here on earth." -Brian Andreas Limertilly: A pagan deity forgotten by man and therefore banished to the realms of memory and darkness now remembered by a young girl in downtown L.A. in the form of a dream and therefore freed to reap your revenge on the people who discarded you, thereby forcing said girl to learn to use her innate yet awesome powers as a soothsayer to gather forces of the Earth to defy you and once more banish you to your cold, cold prisoooooon |
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