What have you been cooking?

[piichinu]

ive been eating scraps. i eat a carrot or something it Takes me like 12 hours to eat. then sometimes i eat candy or cake. i put all my energy into video games instead of eating. i usually try to find a protein so i don’t die

i used to cook levantine cuisine but it’s soooo labor intensive. jew’s mallow, hummus, assorted desserts with orange blossom, raw lamb, kebabs, stuffed zucchini, zucchini gratin, tabbouleh, and so on and so forth. wait i forgot i stewed tomatoes lamb and green beans the other day. diversity win

 

[Fridaynightcatlady]

I've been doing lots of recipes by Allison Roman (if you don't know her, look her up on Youtube!). Her videos are super funny and entertaining and the recipes are honestly not that hard. I recently made some tofu and kimchi stew and it was delicious! My favorite recipe from Allison is the egg plant parm (egg plant is probably my favorite vegetable, lol).

 

[Kumori]

It's FALLLL so I do a ton of comfort food cooking, like beef stew or chicken risotto. One of my favorites to make though is chicken paprikás, something that my great grandmother from Hungary used to make.

You need a pack of chicken thighs (I prefer boneless/skinless but bones and skins are absolutely acceptable),
butter or lard,
one large onion, diced or slivered,
two cups of chicken broth,
a quarter cup of paprika,
salt and pepper to taste,
a generous half cup or so of sour cream
and some flour.

Heat some butter in a heavy pot and brown both sides of the chicken thighs for 5-7 minutes, then set them aside. Add your chopped onions to the hot pan, toss them a little and then cover and let them sweat for 10 minutes. (I usually turn off the burner completely and let the pot do the job, but it might depend on your stove!) Then add the quarter cup of paprika, stirring until fragrant (I usually go for about 20-25 seconds), and then add the chicken broth, add back the chicken thighs (with whatever juices came out of them) and your salt and pepper. Then you're going to turn the heat to low and cook it for about 40-50 minutes.

While that's cooking, mix some flour with your sour cream. If you want to, you can cook up some pasta or rice or nokedli, which are like little stubby spaetzle dumplings. I haven't perfected the dumpling-making part yet so I usually go with rice.

Anyway, when the chicken is done cooking, you're going to want to temper your sour cream and flour mixture by mixing spoonfuls of the broth into it at a time and stirring it through. This'll heat up the sour cream mixture enough that it won't curdle when you add it to the paprikás. Give it a few minutes to heat all the way through once you've added the mixture in, and it's done!

 

[Autumn247]

I meal prepped some veggie/turkey wraps today.

Wheat tortillas
1 TBSP of Greek olive hummus per tortilla
2 slices of deli turkey
Cucumbers
Shredded carrots
Avocado
Lime juice
Salt

Excited to have something fresh (veggies) to eat

 

[EmmaFrost]

I lowkey already started holiday baking. I don’t have anyone to give the stuff to. I just plan on eating it while playing animal crossing and being depressed

 

[moo_nieu]

made some vegan pumpkin muffins yesterday morning and they are so delicious i think the banana substituted for the egg actually improves the flavor which is a double win

 

[Neb]

I made a cheese enchilada. It’s one of the only things I know how to cook. It wasn’t amazing, but it was alright.

 

[Jhine7]

Lots of chicken and steak dishes lately. Yesterday, my fiance and I cooked a lemon garlic chicken with mini roasted potatoes and asparagus. Tomorrow we'll be cooking steak fajitas.

 

[ahbramey]

Anyone here into baking sourdough? I recently made a pumpkin sourdough and it turned out so great. Plan to experiment and do something similar with sweet potato and other squashes this weekend. My roommate ate the entire boule I made almost completely by herself lol so gotta try it again!

 

[amemome]

hope y'all don't mind the thread bump but I've had a pretty fruitful cooking day today and i wanted to brag lol.

made some janchi-guksu today!! I made an anchovy-daikon broth; stir-fried onions, zucchini squash, and carrots; and then seasoned some diced kimchi with sugar, sesame seeds, sesame oil, and a touch of soy sauce. it was a pretty hearty meal and my mom praised me for it

i'm also trying out a tortilla recipe right now but I misinterpreted the instructions a bit so i rolled the dough out before letting the dough rest hoping it's salvageable still...

and finally, i made a new batch of sos czosnkowy (polish garlic sauce) to eat as a chip dip (and hopefully it goes well with the tortillas). i had a friend back in kindergarten who ate a similar-tasting sauce with polish sausages, so I'm itching to go grocery shopping for sausages now.

i'm thinking of making sour cream coffee cake because we have some sour cream left in the fridge. plus, we're low on tea/coffee foods!

hope everyone else is having a good time cooking, I know I am!

 

[Autumn247]

I'm glad you bumped this thread, I was just thinking about this thread and thinking about trying to find it to post in it. I think I might make pumpkin bread tomorrow

 

[WhiteLily210]

I am very new to cooking, but in the morning I was going to make scambled eggs. I mixed up the eggs as usual, but I thought to try something a little different by trying to cook an omlette.

It ended up going WAY better than expected, and got a very good ham and cheese omlette!
I was so proud of myself!

 

[zissou]

I love this thread. Y'all are so talented (and to those just learning, I'm in the same boat as you. Keep it up gang)

I'm just learning how to cook cook (like, more than make some instant noodles) for myself consistently. My go-to meal is roasted vegetables (I'm a converted broccoli / brussels sprouts lover) with a roasted protein (usually fish or chicken). And I use a ton of seasoning (salt, pepper, oregano, onion powder, chili powder, and sometimes some garam masala for the heck of it).

However, I'm also trying to learn how to cook * real recipes *. A quick skim of this thread makes me want to learn some Korean recipes (jigae and tteokbokki, for example). They look perfect for winter.

This Thanksgiving, I made an apple pie from scratch and it was absolutely delicious. I then proceeded to get overexcited and make a blueberry pie without following a recipe, which went... differently.

 

[Sidney]

Right this moment I’m making slow cooker pot roast (my least favorite, but my mom wanted...)

But, recently I found and learned and AMAZING meatloaf recipe. Fresh ingredients, lots of spices- very tasty!!! I love meatloaf now and it’s one of my favorite things to cook. I got the recipe from my Joy Of Cooking cookbook I got for Christmas last year. Hoping for more cooking and baking supplies this year

 

[LuchaSloth]

My girlfriend and I handmade gnocchi the other day.

Super easy, and pretty fun too.

 

[-Blue-]

Haven't done it yet, but I'm hoping to put aside a day to bake some holiday cookies like chocolate chip, peanut-butter, snicker-doodle, sugar ect. Really looking forward to that.

 

[AeroFunk80]

I made parmesan-crusted chicken with brown rice and these amazing sweet potatoes with honey and cinnamon.

 

[TheWildShadow55]

I'm glad this thread was bumped too! Yesterday I made tacos with shredded beef, they turned out AMAZING. I wish I remembered to take a picture of them!

 

[Alyx]

I am not currently cooking anything, but I have created an amazing recipe for breakfast burritos. It's eggs, ham, cheese, hashbrowns, seasoning, some sriracha, and a little bit of ranch/other dressing.

 

[amemome]

here to post about some stuff i've been making in the new year! mostly korean food.

- made fresh kimchi (geotjeori)
- made pine-nut + rice porridge (jat-juk)
- made karaage (japanese-style fried chicken)

I'm hoping to squeeze in a couple more recipes in before January ends!