The look what im eating now thread

[Steph]

*bolognese

It's a dish I started making lots with my scottish friend, and his accent makes it sounds like bolognaise. I never bothered to look it up until now.

edit: and yes it tasted fucking amazing. Pork > beef

[FatFreddy]

Pork > beef

nop nop nopnopnopnopnop

[Laerise]

Not eating it right now, but this evening

[cillisia]

just made some raisen, walnut, apricot and cinnamon muffins

[TZeer]

Had this last night, deer meat.... mmmm, together with a bottle of red wine.

[Don Pellegrino]

Had this last night, deer meat.... mmmm, together with a bottle of red wine.

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HNGGNNNNNNNNN

goddamn

[Tellenta]

Today I made a rather easy meal, but it's excellent and more people should know this "recipe".

step one: buy pork something to rub on it and Catalina beans, on average I need one can per serving because people want seconds.



Step two: rub ze pork! I used a cajun spice mixed as pictured above but what you are really doing is less flavoring the pork and more flavoring the beans. As an example using a 1/4 salt 3/4 pepper mixture is also great


step three: sear ze pork in oil, don't use as much as I did. The only reason I used so much (if you can tell) was that just before I cooked the pork a wild hair in my ass grew and I finally pulled the stove out of its nook and I moved the levelers around so the damn thing was flat. The oil was an impromptu level.



step four: add ze beans


step 5: bring to boil reduce to a lowish heat and cook until the liquids reduce by about half, or 30-45 minute. Do not cover.
step 6: put on plate and eat.


It's a very simple recipe, serve with a bread of some sort because you'll want to soak up the liquids an nom it. Any bread will do really.

[Space Panda]

that's a pretty nice and healthy dish. i will have to try it! i wonder if adding some white wine to ze beans' reduction would make it even tastier.



i just ate one of these for the first time. you hardly ever see them, since they are asian as fuck. tastes like a subtle kiwi.

[Mynxee]

The Fruit course of this evening's Olympic snacks:



Store-bought Bing cherries, blueberries, Ranier cherries, raspberries, with a sour cream/vanilla yogurt dip, plus fresh cantaloupe out of a friend's garden. Mmmmmmm...

i just ate one of these for the first time. you hardly ever see them, since they are asian as fuck. tastes like a subtle kiwi.

Looks delicious!

[kopf]

My wife is Indonesian, gonna +1 that tempe goreng fucking rocks.

[Tellenta]

that's a pretty nice and healthy dish. i will have to try it! i wonder if adding some white wine to ze beans' reduction would make it even tastier.

White wine could work, though I would make sure to use a non-sweet white wine. I'm reasonably certain that making the beans taste sweet would be awful, maybe a red?

[Diicc Tater]

made these on Saturday.

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[cheeba]

Mon petit dej

[Mrenda]

This is the first bit of serious cooking I've done in a year or so (since my Moules Marinere.) It was all inspired by having a goulash at a bbq which was really tasty. It was then I decided I like stews. So, indi gave me a link to a good recipe site and I found this recipe, African Chicken Peanut Stew. I like chicken, I like peanuts and I've never had sweet potato so it seemed like something I should give a go.

The recipe called for a lot of meat and sweet spuds, and I think I actually used more. I'm imagining the two to three pounds of chicken was it weight on the bone, I went for a little under two pounds of off the bone chicken. Mostly deboned leg but with two breasts mixed in. I went for about two and half pounds of sweet potato. In hindsight probably two much, and I'm not sure if I cut them small enough.

All the ingredients.


Prepped


The first step called for browning the chicken and setting it aside to add into the stew when it starts.


More prepped stuff, this time with the chicken cut up.


I did the chicken in a big frying pan because it's easier to heat. When that was done I switched over to the stewing pot and put in the oil from the chicken with the chopped onion.


Softened the onion for five or so minutes and added the ginger (which I chopped as I didn't have a masher/press)


And garlic and fried them with the onion for about two or three minutes.


Added the sweet potato and mixed it all up to coat it in the garlic/ginger/onion mix before...


Immediately adding the stock (just stock cubes)


bolognese sauce as my derp room mate said we had crushed tomatoes when we didn't.


Then I added the peanut butter and roasted peanuts


Before mixing in a tablespoon of ground coriander and a teaspoon of cayenne.


Then I made a cup of tea


And let this to bubble away under the slightly ajar lid. (Yes that is a steamer we have no other big pot, this does fine if you have the lid open a little.)


I then went to worry about my dish. The first time cooking in a year, at least my first serious attempt at something I didn't know how to make already. I got so anxious I stopped feeling hungry at all. With trepidation I tasted the orange mix (it's meant to be fucking yellow according to the recipe site.) And it tasted fucking fantastic! \o/

I added a fair bit of black pepper, left it, came back and tasted it again and added more black pepper.

I had initially bought rice to go with it because I thought it might be a little liquid and moppage would be needed. It's actually reduced and the chunks of sweet potato that I thought were too big are dissolving away leaving only the bigger lumps, so there's no need for rice (less cleaning and less boring cooking.)

I'm writing this up while it's simmering away. So I imagine my tenses are all over the place. The next picture and few lines will be post-eating. I'm looking forward to it.

I have eaten!

The result.


I told my room mate a few hours ago what time it'd be ready. He said he'd take a nap before hand. I called him, he came out of his room, ate a few bites and seemed to be genuinely enthusiastic about the meal. Then put it in the fridge, said he was going back to napping and would eat it later. So I dunno.

I liked it, but I made some mistakes with it for definite. My biggest mistake was making such a sweet potato based recipe without ever having eaten sweet potatoes: I didn't realise how sweet they were. When people said sweet potatos I thought it was a bit of hyperbole, a little exageration for a food that was similar to potatos but with a tinge of sweetness. Now maybe I'm wrong about them and they aren't that sweet. Maybe I did just over do it with the peanut butter, I used about a third to a half extra to what was in the recipe. That being said I did actually cook probably more of everything in the recipe so it should have scaled up. Still, the dish is quite sweet. Not unpleasantly so, there's a little cayenne and pepper twinge to it, along with the flavour of the ginger adding ginger's particular effect. However, I think the meal needs something with it. My immediate thought is to pair it with either a strong, bitter coffee or a a very dry white wine. Simply because the amount of effervescing fullness on your tongue is a little hard for me, not normally a sweet person to get around.

I have a thought about adding more onion, seeing as I went a little light on it not being an onion person. However to me onions are kind of sweet. A tart sweet at times, a fullsome sweet at times, but definitely sweet. Also, I think the recipe vastly understates the need for Cayenne and Black Pepper, although it's about right for coriander. The other thing I was thinking of was mixing it with a yoghurt or even a cheese. Or to go even further I'd have this as a side dish to something else. That brings in problems of using chicken as a side dish though (although it would absolutely work as an omelette ingrediant.) However the chicken is where it's really nice. The chicken I got was excellent, really flavourful leg meat (the breast was a waste) and I'd even go for this with dark turkey meat. Because the sweetness really needs a strong chicken flavour to be balanced against if you're going to take it as a full meal.

All in all, I had a good time cooking it. I think my room mate was really just being tired and actually quite liked the dish (he has a sweet tooth.) However, I think I'll be using the remainder of it as something I have for lunch. A small amount, with a lot of energy in it to get me through to a dinner later in the day. And in future I won't presume anything about Sweet Potatoes.

Anyway, this is/was my slightly abnormal "Look what I had to eat today" post.

[cillisia]

Just made some chocolate, chilli and lime bread from the green and blacks chocolate book, recipe is here http://paperplanes.ca/wp-content/upl...Lime-Bread.pdf

My attempt

[cillisia]

that's a pretty nice and healthy dish. i will have to try it! i wonder if adding some white wine to ze beans' reduction would make it even tastier.



i just ate one of these for the first time. you hardly ever see them, since they are asian as fuck. tastes like a subtle kiwi.

They're fairly common in uk supermarkets, i saw em growing a lot in vietnam though

[cillisia]

Made some Banana & Blueberry muffins (recipe here : http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/1...berry-muffins- )

[cillisia]

A friend gave me a sourdough starter thanks to that herman the friendship cake thing link

I decided to make a variation on the standard apple, raisin and cinnamon version with chocolate, almond and raspberry, kinda wish i made the standard version though as this is just an ok quality chocolate cake, nothing special

[Kalil]

that's a pretty nice and healthy dish. i will have to try it! i wonder if adding some white wine to ze beans' reduction would make it even tastier.



i just ate one of these for the first time. you hardly ever see them, since they are asian as fuck. tastes like a subtle kiwi.

Always wondered what the western name was, now I know. Growing up in Hong Kong we called em dragon fruit or dragon eggs. Tastes pretty bland imo.

[Cool09]

that's a pretty nice and healthy dish. i will have to try it! i wonder if adding some white wine to ze beans' reduction would make it even tastier.



i just ate one of these for the first time. you hardly ever see them, since they are asian as fuck. tastes like a subtle kiwi.

Always wondered what the western name was, now I know. Growing up in Hong Kong we called em dragon fruit or dragon eggs. Tastes pretty bland imo.

Called dragon fruit in the West too.