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[Zrk2]

I made carbonara the other day! I didn't take an pictures but it was awesome, and actually quite easy to make.

Juniper berries are apparently a pretty good marinade ingredient.

Won't it end up tasting like gin then?

A splash of gin in a marinade isn't bad either.

But gin tastes like getting face-fucked by a cedar bush.

-snip-

Holy fuck where do I apply?

[Mesa]

Sure, it was a ready store-bought mix, but goddamnit, muesli is really damn good. I might start eating it more often now (with yoghurt because screw milk).

I'm probably not getting the best value for my money that way, but I think it's decent enough for a start and I'm really lazy to make my own, for now at least. That said if you guys have any ideas for what kinda muesli is good (even if it's ultimately subjective like all food ever) then feel free to let me know, though most things are a little difficult to get a hold of over here, I'm afraid.

[nenjin]

Holy fuck where do I apply?

Come to the midwest and ask the dude in the first pic for a job

[Zrk2]

Holy fuck where do I apply?

Come to the midwest and ask the dude in the first pic for a job

There's millions of that dude in the midwest.

[Bumblebee]

I helped my friend to cook cakes for her cake day. We made seven of them and I took some pictures of the process, because everybody should have a chance to have a look at

Spoiler: 700 grams of cookie crumbs (click to show/hide)

at least once in a lifetime.

Spoiler: Using high tech to make the crumbs. (click to show/hide)

For one of the cakes we bought about 600 grams of cherry. I ate 1/3 of them immediately. And the cake after baking looked like something very dead, bloody and delicious.

Spoiler: Here it is in the beginning of its story. (click to show/hide)

To finish the tale I'd like to share the knowledge that making seven cakes is very tiresome.

[Zrk2]

Well, one cake is pretty intense. I suppose seven is... oh... seven times as intense?

[Helgoland]

Heh, last November I made ten Stollen, with marzipan filling. There's people who free up a whole afternoon to make two - I worked not too efficiently and went to bed at 7am, continuing the next day

It's a good thing Christmas only comes once a year.

[Zrk2]

When I made that carbonara it took a couple hours, and that was with slacking off and just baking the chicken in the oven.

[Sheb]

What? Carbonara is pretty fast and easy...

Helgo: Isn't that the cake that has to be baked every day for several day, to let the butter seep in?

[Helgoland]

Whut? If you have a recipe like that, please share - that sounds lovely. But the version I did is baked the normal way, coated in butter, and then stored away for a couple weeks to let the taste develop. No slow-baking here, sadly.

You know what, I make lots of them each year anyway - you'll simply get one too next Christmas

[Sheb]

I did it once, before the two week rest period it was baked a bit every day for three or four days, ill try to dig up that recipe.

[scrdest]

What? Carbonara is pretty fast and easy...

And... chicken? In carbonara?

Spoiler (click to show/hide)

[Akura]

I just realized I have milk, bananas, chocolate chips, and a blender.

[majikero]

Be careful with the amounts of banana unless you want to clean out your guts.

[penguinofhonor]

I've decided that since it's summer and I don't have school, I'm going to try to put in a significant amount of effort to cook something at least five days a week. I'm not really measuring effort in any way beyond "I'm satisfied with how much I've put in" but that doesn't matter a ton. This isn't supposed to be that rigorous; I'm just trying to make sure I don't get too lazy. Here are days #1 and #2 of this week.

Spoiler: curry fried chicken with peanut sauce (click to show/hide)

I made the peanut sauce recipe from Good and Cheap, using like half a banana pepper since I didn't want it to be spicy. I turned the garlic/shallot/pepper into a paste with my immersion blender, which was probably not the best tool for the job but I made it work.

Then I decided to eat it with an idea I've had for a while, curry breaded fried chicken. It's normal fried chicken with turmeric and curry powder in the breading instead of paprika and whatever spices I normally use. The chicken and sauce were both very good, but I felt like something lighter would pair with the peanut sauce better.

There's also a little tofu in the picture. My roommate made that with some of the peanut sauce.

Spoiler: spiced coconut milk chicken (click to show/hide)

Turns out I made a ton of peanut sauce and bought way more coconut milk than I need. So I decided to use the last of the chicken and make that lighter dish to pair with the sauce, chopping up a thigh and simmering it in coconut milk and spices. Turmeric and curry were the main ones. This was tasty, but could have been improved by marinating the chicken a bit. I was surprised the flavor didn't get in deeper considering the chicken was boiling in it for a while.

I still have an excessive amount of coconut milk and peanut sauce. Does anyone have good uses for either of these things?

Helgo: Isn't that the cake that has to be baked every day for several day, to let the butter seep in?

I did it once, before the two week rest period it was baked a bit every day for three or four days, ill try to dig up that recipe.

This sounds beautiful, and so unlike any cake you'd see in America. We get super guilty about the non-buttery cakes.