Food, Drink & Dining Out Learning to cook

[Dagless]

Mix a combination of (2 large) Mashed Sweet Potato, (Salted, Peppered, Ground Cumin and Oregano), mashed (400g can) canellini beans and stirfried (2 cups) kale/ (1) onions/ (2 freshly chopped) chilli/ (2 freshly chopped) garlic cloves.
Mix in large bowl to make pattie base.

Make 4-6 vegetable patties, fry both sides til crunchy.

Preheat grill or oven (200° or medium)

Prep tortilla on a surface, quickly after frying/sealing patties, put mixture on half of tortilla, a handful of cheese and fold in half.

But concoction into oven or grill for 5ish minutes until base has a bit of crunch to it (If grilling, if baking in oven, til cheese has melted).

1 cup of greek yogurt in the side, add some freshly chopped or dried mint, half a cucumber and mix. drizzle olive oil over.

Serve whatever the hell you want to call it with the yogurt sauce on the side and love life.

 

[rippersnipper]

To be a good cook you should have your own show with lots of onion around and then some sort of oriental sauce in which you place the onion and stir for 5mins.

Pause for ad break

Then you come back and say "here's one I prepared earlier" and eat it

 

[The Lemon]

Pulled Pork. Getting around this. Easy and awesome

 

[Richo is God]

Pulled Pork. Getting around this. Easy and awesome

Can only be done properly on a smoker.

Reverse searing two rib eyes tonight in the smoker with a bit of hickory. Delicious.

 

[The Lemon]

Can only be done properly on a smoker.

Reverse searing two rib eyes tonight in the smoker with a bit of hickory. Delicious.

Well we are taking baby steps in the learning thread m8

 

[Scotland]

I went full gour-met tonight and made a Continental side dish pasta to go with my fish and veges. Even did it in the microwave, too.

The instructions called for 3/4 cup (190mL) milk and one cup (250mL) water. I used 150 and 200 and it still came out watery even after nuked it the required time, stirred it repeatedly and allowed it to stand so sauce would thicken.

So I can cook all sorts of dishes from scratch but **** up packet pasta. I am the Glenn Maxwell of the kitchen.

 

[Scotland]

I'm a fan of fritters for something quick and easy if you have **** all to work with.

All you need is a couple of eggs and maybe half a cup of flour. Whisk it up to make a batter and you can add pretty much anything you like. Tinned veges, frozen veges, grated fresh veges, diced meat etc.

I made some the other night with grated cheese, mixed frozen veges (peas, corn, carrot) and leftover roast chicken. Added a bit of paprika and salt & pepper to the batter, mixed it all together and grilled about half a dozen patties around 10cm diameter and 1cm thick in a pan with olive oil.

Loose change worth of ingredients, 10-15 min tops for prep and cooking.

 

[Brad Goodman]

Pulled salsa chicken

2-3 chicken breasts
Jar of Old El Paso salsa
Can of diced tomatoes
Garlic poweder
Chilli flakes
Ground black pepper

Put chicken in slow cooker
Blend other ingredients and pour over chicken
Heat on high for 4 hours or low for 7
Shred chicken

Serves 4, goes great in a wrap or with rice.

 

[Jack Richards]

Cant stuff a parma.. unless you add tomato sauce

 

[Lach72]

Can only be done properly on a smoker.

Reverse searing two rib eyes tonight in the smoker with a bit of hickory. Delicious.

What sort of smoker you got?

 

[Richo is God]

What sort of smoker you got?

It's not really a smoker just a weber kettle. I'd love an offset but too pricey for me atm

 

[Pykie]

Buy a sou vide, water circulator that attaches to a pot/plastic tub, will change your life cooking thick set meats etc, eggs in the morning etc.

 

[Demosthenes]

lol sous vide? 'Wannabe Heston Blumenthal' thread is that way, bro. We're making mac and cheese in here.

 

[Lach72]

It's not really a smoker just a weber kettle. I'd love an offset but too pricey for me atm

Weber smoke's very well. That's mine at the moment.

I just bought a Green Mountain pellet grill.
Be here next week. Then some serious smoking will be happening

 

[TheFreshBanana]

When cooking a small piece of chicken, I put olive oil in the pan.

Would this add to a calorie count?

Is it fine to cook without olive oil? Wouldn't it stick to the pan?

 

[Catfish Alley]

Depends what kind of pan you have. Nothing wrong with using a bit of olive oil though. The calorie count would be insignificant unless you're pouring it in and shallow/deep frying it.

 

[Super Hans]

Breast or leg?

Recall that hotty Poh saying all the Aussies go for breasts and pass on the legs which have more flavour. She would go for the legs. Chicken schnitzel from the leg is darker, but is tastier and possibly not as fatty as the breast.

Hannibal Lecter would go for the chicken oysters like that the guy in Amelie. Supposedly the best tasting part of the chicken.

Chicken breast is much healthier than the thigh. Leanest part of the bird.

 

[Super Hans]

Cooking chicken in some paprika, cumin and turmeric is easy as and takes like 15 minutes to do. Usually there's some spices left in the pan which you can cook some veg in (I do mushroom and peas) which taste good.

I'd say the major mistake I did for ages when cooking was taking my meat out of the fridge and straight into the pan. You don't notice the difference until you leave it out for an hour or so and let it get to room temp, allows the inside to cook through without burning the outside. Made a massive difference to my cooking.