[BBBS]

I always mess up somehow if I stray from the instructions, but I cook well if I don't!

Real cooks don't use instructions! They just read recipes and learn how to cook with what they've got or for who they're with. Amazing dishes like caesar salad have been ad-libbed, and god knows how many cocktails and deserts.

You'll know you're there when you cook something tasty from shoes and an old bicycle, because that's all you had to hand.

 

[Clayton SF]

I've started my onion soup base for a bowl of Phở later this afternoon.
 

 

[Eee Pee]

And then!?

 

[Clayton SF]

The Phở was abandoned until a future date.
I got hungry and decided to make a vegetarian snack of stewed daikon and shiitake mushrooms.
It looks very plain but the stewing liquid gave it a nice subtle earthy sweetness.
I drank the broth on the side.
 


 
 
Unusually delicious. I've never

 

[chrislangley4253]

I had a really bad experience with a daikon attempting to make raw vegan soup.

Actually! Every attempt at raw vegan soup has been absolutely terrible.

 

[Eee Pee]

Some randomness
 
 

 
 

 
 
 

 
 
 

 

[Clayton SF]

Yummy as they look, I hope you didn't eat all of those delectable sammiches and dishes in one sitting!

 

[silversurfer616]

First time that I am happy with my "latte art"!
Hope coffee qualifies as "cooking"!

 

[Argyris]

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Hope coffee qualifies as "cooking"!

 
I'd say it does. It might not be food, per se, but it still takes some skill to do some of the more fiddly variations well.

 

[Staal]

Not much of a cook and most of the time it's just plain chicken breast, green veggies and brown rice (gym rat), but I do like to make a big batch of vegetable soup now and then, especially now that the streets are covered in snow and it's freezing outside.
 

 

[Clayton SF]

Is that kale and potatoes or taro root? The broth looks purple. That looks very satisfying.

 

[Staal]

The purple colour is from the red kale. There's some potatoes, parsnip and carrots in there as well as some "raw" rosemary twigs. Tastes great - especially with a slice of good bread on the side. 

 

[SemiAudiophile]

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Some randomness
 
 

 
 
 

 
That almost looks like a Loco Moco..
 
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I've started my onion soup base for a bowl of Phở later this afternoon.
 

 
Onion soup base? Interesting...I need to learn how to make that delicious broth!

 

[Eee Pee]

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That almost looks like a Loco Moco..

 
I crave Loco Moco every now and then.  To make do, I used a pork chop.  Not sticky rice, and no Macaroni salad either, but hey.  The Loco Porko Moco! 

 

[234537]

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First time that I am happy with my "latte art"!
Hope coffee qualifies as "cooking"!

This is a proper cappuccino! Congratulations!