For lunch I had pasta where I made matchsticks and fried off some rashers of bacon till crispy, then threw in tomatoes and capers until soft and saucy. Toss the pasta in the bacon grease/tomato and caper juice sauce and serve. Takes 10 total minutes.
It made me think about MikeV talking about easy recipes a while back. I think easy comfort food is an interesting subject, so in addition to your regular weekend loungey delinquency add your favorite quick and easy recipe.
I’m drinking a perfect Manhattan now. That’s about the extent of my culinary skills.
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Apparently they’re quite good with 100 proof SoCo.
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Ew!
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I ruined SoCo for 2 of my friends when we were 20. Also, as SoCo
Manhattansounds gross.Fixed that for you -dfa
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I’ve heard otherwise, but I don’t like Manhattans anyway.
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if I would have read this last night with my 101 degree temp, I would have thought gross, drinking is gross.
In fact today in no fever tunnel vision, too cold and shaky I still think “gross, drinking is gross”
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i could make you soup
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that is very sweet, but I have people for that
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are you saying that im not a person
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haven’t you been diagnosed with leukemia in the past few days?
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Are you saying that Im your girlfriend?
your SLF might want to know about this.
Good thing we have 2 lounges. We have some serious loungin’ to do tonight.
As I said in the other lounge, soft-boiled eggs and toast.
My favorite dish? Amy Adams! ♥♥♥
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Rec’d!
TNT showed Rise of the Planet Of The Apes, Terminator Salvation, and The Book of Eli tonight. All of them feature San Francisco. Weird.
Also, it’s great that in all depictions of post-apocalyptic worlds, the pretty girls never run out of make up.
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Avon survives all…
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It’s like a cockroach or something.
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Canseco the cockroach.
Tonight I made tri tip that I covered and broiled with pesto and then did a simple avo tomato mixed greens and a mustard vinaigrette salad.
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I made tri tip also.
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Details, man. Details!
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I had tri tip also. Didn’t make it.
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Me too!
Holy Sh!tb!scu!ts i
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That sounds delicious!
There is a safeway in town that does a really, really good kentucky bourbon marinade – in fact I think I’ve brought them to a tailgate or two.
nothing special, seared and then slow cooked on the BGE. I think I actually overcooked it just a tad, it was 140 internal then I wrapped it and brought it over to the girl who i am to good for’s house.
Still came out good, I don’t think I’ve ever got a bad cut of meat from that safeway in town.
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GAH FUCKING REPLY FAIL
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Sounds great. But yeah, pull it a little bit earlier, say at 125 or so.
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Yeah, I pretty much ignored the continued cooking from foil wrapping and transporting in a dry ice chest.
It wasn’t horribly overdone, but for my tastes (ie walk it through a warm kitchen, slice it, put it on the FKing plate) it was way too cooked.
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I wonder how the ice chest influenced the juice retention.
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It was only in the ice chest for about 10 minutes, just for transport. I think double wrapping it with aluminum foil did more to keep the juices contained, however for longer storage, foil wrap, then a towel, then an ice chest is an amazing way to retain heat.
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yeah… But I usually rest my meat for about 20 min
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As you get older, you’ll need longer.
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asvd
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yeah. I screwed it up. was sorta preoccupied and going by the actual instant read thermometer. Somehow thething went from 120 to 145 in like 5 minutes. Oops.
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Im sure it was still good.
fucking insta reads…
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It happens. I learned the hard way that dry-aged beef cooks faster than un-aged.
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The specific temperature of water is high so less of it means that less energy is needed to cook.
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I didn’t think about it. The steaks were an impulse buy, and I cooked them for as long as I normally do, without really keeping an eye on them. They were dry and disappointing as a result.
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that makes sense.
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Specific heat.
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i could have sworn thats what i wrote. clearly bed is imminent.
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140? thats super medium. I do 120 ish… basically it has to pass the springy finger test.
I get my tri tips from Costco in the giant bag. Spend 70 buck and get like 6 tri tips and the quality is good too. plus i go through a bag quite quickly.
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Costco meat is fucking bomb. have you ever gotten a FULL filet mignon there? It’s like 120 bucks but holy shit
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I haven’t… Im not a huge fillet guy, not because it doesn’t taste good but its a special occasion meat for me.
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Yeah. Also if you haven’t yet, the Costco pork baby back ribs are omfg amazing
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I dont have a grill so I generally avoid ribs, since oven ribs are kinda disappointing without the charcoal taste.
my uncle smoaked a standing pork rib roast from costco for christmas. That shit was incredible. Best pork Ithink i have ever had.
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generally Costco is awesome. Treat their employees great as well.
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yup!
the smoke turned the fat into an almost ham like meat and the interior was so juicy.
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Slow cooker ribs. OMFG good.
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Go on….
For pure comfort, pasta with either sesame oil and grated cheddar (if I’m really hungry/lazy) or sauteed sliced zucchini tossed in a beaten egg (using the heat of the pasta to cook the egg).
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how sharp a cheddar? I would think the sesame would clash with it.
My mom’s okra. Slice up fresh okra in roughly 1/4 inch pieces, and let it sit out at room temp for a few hours. Heat up some ghee or canola oil. Toast cumin seed and black mustard seed. Add onions (half moons), and salt lightly. When the onions are translucent and soft, add the okra. Salt lightly again. Cook until the sliminess is gone.
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Ill eat oakra but i have never been excited to do so
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Hers is pretty much the only okra I’ll eat.
I thought Mike’s favorite dish was boobs?
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Pretty much
Now that the ducks are laying, a simple but very satistying not just for breakfast dish:
potatoes sliced thinly, fried with onions, two over medium duck eggs and wilted greens.
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Oh, that sounds awesome.
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I’m out of potatoes this morning. So I made this:
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cute
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I realized after I finished that I can take it one level further and eat it outside with the ducks.
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Ooh, look at me! I’m eating your babies!
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I want to eat your ducks
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I like big ducks, and I cannot lie.
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I wanna new duck.
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I see you riding ’round town with the girl I love, and I’m like “Duck you!”
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So you keep saying…
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Yes! That is always an awesome way to do egg and toast. Did you use a lot of butter? Also, what is on the side there? Chard?
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Moderate amount of butter and yes, chard.
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mmm… chard
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I like mine fried in duck fat with sriracha
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I usually go with garlic and vinegar.
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Garlic and tamari, or garlic, cream, and parmesan.
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Try that with pancakes. Oh. My. Gurd.
Most of my go-to recipes are soups, so they are easy but not that fast.
Sauté an onion in olive oil. Deglaze the pan with half a cup of white wine. Add 1 cup lentils, 4 cups water, and 3-4 canned chipotle chiles (the kind that come packed in adobo sauce). Bring to a boil, then simmer until the lentils are soft. Add 1-2 chopped carrots, 1-2 chopped celery stems, any other vegetables you feel like. Add chicken or vegetable broth to reached the desired soupiness/saltiness. Continue cooking until the vegetables are ready.
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I do a really easy chicken noodle soup that is fantastic for when you or friends are sick.
Brown 8 bone in chicken thighs that you have salt and peppered and allowed to come to room temp for about 30 min. Reserve when brown.
Saute one onion that you have cut into a large dice in the chicken fat till they start to become translucent. Add two bunches chopped carrots (about 12 medium carrots with greens removed) about four stalks of celery also diced and one large clove of garlic crushed. Taste the salt level but regardless, add about a table spoon of fresh ground black pepper. When the vegetables are soft, add the chicken thighs back in. Cover in water, and let simmer for about 2 hours, straining the chicken fat off the top from time to time. Check pepper and salt level you should be able to taste the black pepper in the broth. Before serving use tongs to pull the meat of the chicken off the bone (I leave the bones in the pot for when I reheat it) and ladle the desired amount of soup into another pot. Add noodles with a little extra water if desired and cook until the noodles are aldente. Saving the noodles till the end eliminates soggy noodles.
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I used to do a pretty mean whole chicken braise that is pretty similar to your recipe, except without adding the water. But my fiancée is pescetarian, so I hardly ever cook meat any more.
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fk pescetarians. Seriously there are like 6 fish left in the entire ocean. Eat a cow. We have lots.
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Sure – who needs rainforests anyway.
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Ding ding!
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because there were rainforesets in oaklahoma
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We don’t really eat all the much seafood either. So mostly vegetarian.
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The Columbia salmon counts are higher than they’ve been in decades. Probably same for a lot of other rivers.
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Yep, we were able to get local king salmon pretty much all summer here (in previous years it had been only a month or so, and before that not available at all for a year or two).
I also read about a couple fish (coho and steelhead maybe) being found in urban streams for the first time in years.
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Actually I guess it was chinook (king) and possibly also steelhead in Codornices. Wild.
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Yeah, well for the last couple decades the were close to getting eaten out of existence so progress! still most white fish and tuna are so far below their historical standards not just in numbers but also in size that eating a lot of seafood is a not particularly good proposition.
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We generally follow Monterey Aquarium ratings when we choose our food. When we go out and I order fish, I always ask where it’s coming from to make sure it’s 1) plentiful; and 2) not coming from a toxic waste dump.
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If the fish is plentiful I always order more.
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Great site on this subject. Of course, you have to trust that the restaurant is telling you the truth about what they serve and where they get it. The major things to avoid are Chilean sea bass, orange roughy, and shark.
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Growing up, before my dad discovered salmon (when I was ~12 yo), the only fish we ever ate was orange roughy. My mom probably got it super cheap and it stank up the house for 3 days. I have no desire to ever eat orange roughy again.
Most restaurants here are pretty good about listing where the fish comes from on the menu. If they can’t tell me where they got it from, I won’t order it.
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Orange roughy used to be called slimehead, until someone figured out that no one wants to eat something called slimehead. It lives up to about 120 years, but takes 30 years to reach sexual maturity, so it’s very susceptible to overfishing.
In general, the world’s large fish population has declined by about 90% in the last century.
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just like eating tuna is the equivelent of eating a tiger.
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Depends on what part of the tiger you’re eating.
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Prolly tastier, though. The tuna, I mean.
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Damn it you beat me to it by 6 minutes
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asvd.
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Farm-raised catfish, baby!
Not exactly seafood, but fishy and efficient and relatively cheap
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talapia would also qualify
last night I was craving juice and bread.
but I did watch game one of the 1970 world series on tv
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If you have to find a chart and butcher your own cat I don’t think you can call it a simple dish.
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Hm, perhaps I should have chosen a different thread for that.
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Nope is a happy spot for mine. Fuck you is only bad for one of them.
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so is there a good cut for pan searimng?
Cereal.
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Donuts.
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Beer
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All such simple recipes.
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Killer.
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Puh puh puh PA puh puh puh puh PA PA PA
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I second this! If I’m on a roll, I’ll eat cereal three times a day.
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I love a bowl for dessert.
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I’ll usually hit breakfast, right after work when I’m too hungry to wait for dinner, and 10pm before I go to bed.
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What kind of cereal(s) are we talking about here?
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Raisin Bran is my favorite. But sometimes I mix it up with Joe’s O’s or Barbara’s shredded spoonfuls. I used to love Puffins, but they changed the formula and now it’s not so great.
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peanut butter puffins are my personal crack cocaine
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I used to snack on Life cereal dry. Fruity pebbles were my childhood dream, but I only got them rarely.
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When I was a kid we got one box of sugar cereal a year on Christmas. I always went with Apple Jacks.
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There’s now a brown sugar & cinnamon jacks.
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For us it was our birthday.
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I liked life when I was a kid, the only sugar cereal were were allowed at my moms.
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It’s crazy how much better Joe’s O’s are than Cheerios. Cheaper too.
I also like Puffins, but I wish they were slightly less sweet. Maybe it’s the new formula I don’t like.
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Honey Bunches of Oats with Almonds, Cap’n Crunch, Weetabix.
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mmmm Cap’n Crunch, but the pure stuff only, no Crunchberries.
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I’m a Lucky Charms guy. Pretty much anything with the stale marshmallows. Cheerios aren’t bad as a snacky food too (honey nut & the frosted).
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Lucky Charms and Honeycombs were my go to cereals, as well as Cinnamon Toast Crunch and Life (yes, Mikey likes it.)
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MMmm Honeycombs are good too. They had that nice sweet texture to them.
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All good ones.
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Agreed on CTC. Lucky Charms didn’t work for me, but Mrs. N still buys them sometimes.
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When you’re right, you’re right.
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Vanilla and almond style Special K for me.
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today i eat a lot of the new england superfood cereal that you can get at Berkley bowl or Rainbow.
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yuppers
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I have never seen that for sale.
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Me neither. I have no idea what it is.
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It’s Cap’n Crunch, except in the shape of flying saucers instead of the little squares. As a fellow Cap’n Crunch fan you would love it, and would also prefer Quisp over Quake.
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I dunno. I don’t feel comfortable exposing my cereal to the Soggies without the Cap’n there to make me feel safe.
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Wha? No way!
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is this new
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so no
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Stop. Hold on. Wait just a goddamn minute. You mean I can enjoy the taste of Cap’n Crunch while pretending that I’m eating aliens inside their little ships???
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Where can I sign up?
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Also, from SA:
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If I’m on a roll, it’s usually smooshed.
Hey nm, right now I’m making the dal recipe from that America’s Test Kitchen slow cooker book. Have you tried that one before? Based on how my apartment smells, I’m pretty confident that it will be awesome.
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I haven’t tried it. Please report in!
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I thought it was really good. My fiancée liked it, but with a bit less enthusiasm.
I used yellow lentils instead of red lentils, because that’s what I had on hand. It makes a *ton* of food too, so I’ll be having leftovers for the next several days.
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I don’t think I’ve ever made a lentil-based recipe that didn’t make enough to feed an entire co-op.
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fking hippies
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I just make my mom’s recipe. Simple, delicious.
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Step 1: Call mom. Step 2: Ask her to make it. Step 3: Wait for her to bring it over. Step 4: Eat it.
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I’ve been calling in help from my parents so much lately they joke about opening a business. “Mom and Dad’s Catering and Coddling”. Dad called a few days ago to see if something he was doing for me fell under the category of catering or coddling. He said, “…because I cater, I don’t coddle.”
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Food deliveries from CA to SC don’t usually work out very well. I have to cook it myself. I know, I know. It’s horrible. But I’m tough, and I won’t let life beat me.
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My mom calls me for cooking advice.
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When it comes to actually cooking, my mom can handle anything I need to know. When it comes to food questions, the ex is my best bet.
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Mine too.
By the way, next time my mom calls you, tell her that stoves consist of four burners, not two burners and a knickknack shelf.
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My mom’s lentil soup recipe shows up in this lounge as well, but it’s not dal.
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My mom doesn’t make lentil soup, but she makes great dal.
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Friday Off Breakfast:
1/2 sweet potato – diced. Sauteed with mushrooms in coconut oil. Add in a chopped up chicken apple sausage and a handful of spinach, then scramble 2 eggs and some tapatio into the whole mess.
FK I’m pretty good at this breakfast thing. Now I just need to find a well endowed hot chick who is good at cooking dinner and, um, other stuff so I can make breakfast afterwards.
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You want a shemale?
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No thank you.
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I brought a princess cake to nursey school today. And I got everyone Avengers cups filled witch chocolate. Drinks and STEAK tonight. And I got new melty bead things. Woo. My pretend birthday is going so much better than last year’s real birthday when my mom called me at 0500 to tell me my aunt died.
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OOOO. And a school friend got me Avengers socks, Avengers cups, a Wonder Woman cup, and an Avengers shirt.
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Witch Chocolate!!! Wooo!!!!
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Filled witch chocolate, bitch.