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[pisskop]

I miss the structure of a job.  Some days I wake up and feel like tackling the world.

Other days I wake up and wonder if I even need to shower.

[nenjin]

Sounds real rough. You poor thing.

[McTraveller]

Oof just did my open enrollment for 2024 health care.  My annual out-of-pocket just for the premiums is over $6000 a year.

Gross.

[hector13]

It’s better than universal healthcare.

Allegedly.

[Eric Blank]

Its better for somebody, not you though.

[Frumple]

Put cinnamon in the seasoning pile of the curried potatoes I'm going to turn into a sorta'-hash and, like.

This is a scent I have never scented before. It's a food smell I've never smelled.

Super conflicted about it, too, 'cause like. It doesn't smell like food? But it does, and it smells good? But it smells friggin' weird and it's bouncing between good weird and just weird.

Proof's in the eating but this is the strangest thing I've had in my kitchen in decades.

E: Smell once done cooking is just flat good, though. Not sure if I'd call it better smelling than just the curry, but it's not worse. More of a side-grade. The spud on its own tastes. Okay? About as good as just curry potatoes, which is to say good but not as good as it smells.

Taste as part of the hash, though, with the brown sugar in the meat? This, this is, I think, the best hash I've yet cooked. A+, will put cinnamon on my curry potatoes again.

E2: Like, I actually have words for this: The cinnamon adds a sort of smokey (not, like, smoke, smoke, as smoked foods go, but somewhere in that vicinity of cooking flavors) tasting depth to the flavor. Definite improvement.

[King Zultan]

Cinnamon curry potatoes does not sound like something that would be good, what made you decide to put the cinnamon on it in the first place?

[Frumple]

Had read something in the last few days that noted cinnamon being used as seasoning for stuff like veggies and rice, and did the usual "well hell, let's see what happens". Apparently it's something of a thing in some middle eastern cuisine, or... something like that? Already forgot the details, but at least if some random author is to be trusted it's an existent practice in some real-life cultures.

Worst came to worst it'd just be somewhat funky tasting spud, and it actually turned out pretty good, so...

[Il Palazzo]

I put absurd amounts of cinnamon into my chicken korma, and it tastes great.

[Frumple]

I've done cinnamon glazed chicken before (not terrible, not amazing, though that could have been user error more than aspect of the dish itself), as well as ham (amazing) and pork chop with apple and cinnamon (best way of making pork chop I know, put applesauce on top of, pour in a good bit of cinnamon, shake it up and let it marinate for a day or two). Cinnamon on meat is a good one, I'd just never actually got around to trying cinnamon on potato (or rice or noodles, for that matter... bread and cereal, obviously, but not other starches).

[pisskop]

raw powdered cinnamon or cut into sugar?

[Frumple]

Raw powdered, at least with the potatoes (other seasonings was the curry, parsley, and a bit of cayenne, preseasoned with a smidge of olive oil to help coat prior to air frying). The sorta'-hash it was turned into had a bit of brown sugar (and more curry and rosemary) in the meat, though. Full thing had a bit of butter, some cheese, and a sprinkle of bacon bits, topped with unsalted ketchup (not sure who else sells it but heinz... it's a little sweeter than salted ketchup, and I've gotten where I actually like the taste better).

The glaze stuff I was doing with powdered sugar, iirc... it's been a while, so it's entirely possible I was doing something else and have just forgot, heh. The porkchop actually used unsweetened apple sauce last time I made it -- above and beyond actually preferring the taste, I was cooking for a diabetic as well and just plain apple sauce is plenty on the carbs front.

[dragdeler]

Would that be a special kind of heinz or is the normal (fifty...four... or seven? i dont recall) heinz the one you're talking about?


Cinnamon is weird and interesting, I wonder if there are many plants like that and mint and such, with powerful aromatic compounds that we are missing out on, or worse, allready went extinct ages ago. It allways sounds really fancy in english too, i've known some "zimt" confections but over here these products are with the old timey candy and bakery products, not the exciting new and colorful stuff.

[Frumple]

Would that be a special kind of heinz or is the normal (fifty...four... or seven? i dont recall) heinz the one you're talking about?

is this thing Normal kind, just a variety of it.

It's one of the ones that do the potassium thing in regards to salt reduction, though, so if you got issues with that on top of salt it's not any better than regular ketchup.

[King Zultan]

Maybe my problem is that I don't like cinnamon.