how many of you guys cook???

[Numbers]

Katsu sando, the Japanese version of a schnitzel sandwich. I cheated and used slightly healthier bread.

 
Looking at that picture making me hungry ,I could eat two plates off that right now looks yummy .

 

 

[HAWKEYE7]

On the menu for tonight I'll be making Chicken and Penne Alfredo and a side salad with a lemon raspberry vinaigrette.
Can't wait, I'm starved.

 

[Pudu]

Way, way at the bottom of the learning curve, I made xiao long bao - soup dumplings - tonight.






The soup filling is easy and super delicious , but forming the little buggers so they look nice requires someone with far more skill and experience than I have. Happily, that means I will have to practice, a lot, and eat all of my mistakes along the way. :tongue_smile:

I find the d(r)ipping sauce of black vinegar, soy, and chili oil to be totally irresistible.

 

[HAWKEYE7]

Man, that looks amazing. What did you fill them with, pork or chicken?

 

[Numbers]

Yea them dumplings look really good,i bet it takes some time shaping them to get them look like that .My favorite dumplings are woo tip they made from minced pork and vegetables.

 

[ProtegeManiac]

Way, way at the bottom of the learning curve, I made xiao long bao - soup dumplings - tonight.

 
What did you use on the soup? My family uses a chunk of pork belly fat, which melts and thickens the soup and my midsection making for very rich bites.  

 

[Pudu]

Man, that looks amazing. What did you fill them with, pork or chicken?

Thanks. Both, actually.

Chicken wings and pork belly in a pressure cooker, followed by a few hours simmering with added garlic and ginger to make the 'soup'. That then goes into the refrigerator to cool and becomes a firm jelly. Then I mixed it with minced pork and green onion. This way you can make the dumplings with a gooey filling but when you steam them, the jelly becomes liquid again and your dumplings are little pockets of soup that explode with flavour when you carefully bite into them.

When the soup cools, there is a thick layer of yellow fat on the top that you can just scoop off. It wouldn't easily mix into the jelly - pork mixture, even if you wanted to include it. But there was plenty of fat in the minced pork - I opted for a higher fat content pork for precisely that reason - richer, more flavourful mouthfuls.

 

[ProtegeManiac]

Thanks. Both, actually.

Chicken wings and pork belly in a pressure cooker, followed by a few hours simmering with added garlic and ginger to make the 'soup'. That then goes into the refrigerator to cool and becomes a firm jelly. Then I mixed it with minced pork and green onion. This way you can make the dumplings with a gooey filling but when you steam them, the jelly becomes liquid again and your dumplings are little pockets of soup that explode with flavour when you carefully bite into them.

When the soup cools, there is a thick layer of yellow fat on the top that you can just scoop off. It wouldn't easily mix into the jelly - pork mixture, even if you wanted to include it. But there was plenty of fat in the minced pork - I opted for a higher fat content pork for precisely that reason - richer, more flavourful mouthfuls.

 
Damn now I'm hungry 

 

[Pudu]

I would have guessed that the Tet Offensive would carry you all the way through the winter.

 

[HAWKEYE7]

Thanks. Both, actually.

Chicken wings and pork belly in a pressure cooker, followed by a few hours simmering with added garlic and ginger to make the 'soup'. That then goes into the refrigerator to cool and becomes a firm jelly. Then I mixed it with minced pork and green onion. This way you can make the dumplings with a gooey filling but when you steam them, the jelly becomes liquid again and your dumplings are little pockets of soup that explode with flavour when you carefully bite into them.

When the soup cools, there is a thick layer of yellow fat on the top that you can just scoop off. It wouldn't easily mix into the jelly - pork mixture, even if you wanted to include it. But there was plenty of fat in the minced pork - I opted for a higher fat content pork for precisely that reason - richer, more flavourful mouthfuls.

That sounds so good, it's almost naughty.
I am definitely going to try this this weekend. I have all the ingredients, just have to put it together. I'm also going to make a deconstructed California roll, sushi salad. My wife is afraid to try Sushi but she will try just about any Asian style rice dishes I make. So I am going to make sushi rice, add julienned carrots, cucumbers, & nori, dice scallions and chunk avocado. Add smoked salmon and lightly dress it with a combination of Ponzu & Wasabi. She will at least try this and then I will tell her it is essentially a California roll. I'm pretty sure she will like it. If not, oh well, more for me!

 

[ProtegeManiac]

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I would have guessed that the Tet Offensive would carry you all the way through the winter.

 

Still eating a jar of kimchi for dinner - I've been partying nearly every other weekend since Nov 28 last year (mostly reunions but obviously they happen around the holidays). Not that I'm done with steak, or that I really want to be healthy and such, but right now as much as an NY strip looks delicious, I'm quite sure I'm not gonna be able to finish it 

 It's like the eating version of having to nurse  your body after a gruelling work out, except this one is a two-month deca-meat-thlon of the best parts of beef (porterhouse and ribeye, plus brisket) and pork (belly and deep-fried foreleg).

 

[Pudu]

Porktathlon? Decathlmeat? Olympigs!



I just bought a huge jar of kimchi yesterday - they were out of the smaller size. I was going to try to figure out a way of sneaking it into some food that the family would eat. Now I remember that there is no way to 'sneak' anything about kimchi. :rolleyes: So now it's all on me.

Making kimchi is one of the things I wish I could do well. I had some close Korean friends in India who would give me jars of fresh made kimchi and it is soooooooo much better than store bought. They all had a separate refrigerator just for storing kimchi ... and beer.


The other thing you really need to make kimchi well is ... someone else's kitchen.

 

[Pudu]

I made cumin lamb tonight. I knew my son wouldn't even look at it, but figured everyone else would be on board. What's not to like about lamb?
(I mean, apart from the whole slaughtering Shaun the Sheep imagery thing.)




Once my daughter saw her brother was having naan pizza, she demanded the same.

And my wife looked at me and said "I don't really like cumin. It's too strong."

:mad:


Anyone wanna swap families? Or just take mine? I'll even throw in some boxes of goldfish crackers and bottles of ketchup.

 

[Clayton SF]

Hi-hi.
 
Has anyone use the pressure cooker function on Tiger Rice Maker for stews or other delights?
 
And this looks interesting:
Clayton’s Cafe Famous Chicken Salad Copycat (Mock Sous Vide Method)
 
 

 

[ProtegeManiac]

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I just bought a huge jar of kimchi yesterday - they were out of the smaller size. I was going to try to figure out a way of sneaking it into some food that the family would eat. Now I remember that there is no way to 'sneak' anything about kimchi.

So now it's all on me.

 

Buy a wok (or a saute pan if you use electric), and use the kimchi in a stir fry in place of the fresh veggies. Try it first with relatively tough beef cuts that need to be marinated in something acidic, that way the kimchi won't stick out in the flavor profile too much. Also, for the acid, use a sweet acidic fruit like orange, since that works better for kids.

 

For example, you can marinade cheap hanger steak (that obviously, unlike hanger from good cattle, will still be too tough even if you sear it medium rare) or sirloin in freshly squeezed orange (include the rind and pulp), orange soda or packed orange juice, soy sauce, vinegar, Sriracha, and Worcestershire. Cut beef into still large but otherwise easy to stir-fry strips along with the kimchi, caramelize onions and garlic, add beef, then about a minute before it's done toss in the kimchi. Season with pepper and salt to taste.

 

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I made cumin lamb tonight. I knew my son wouldn't even look at it, but figured everyone else would be on board. What's not to like about lamb?
(I mean, apart from the whole slaughtering Shaun the Sheep imagery thing.)

 

I never thought of lamb as anything but food because, one, we don't drink its milk, and two, when I was a child, every Sunday I get to listen to a guy say "this is the lamb...(can't say this part on Head-Fi)...happy are we who are called into his supper *bells" and everyone eats a piece of paper. I couldn't wait to get the hell out of there to get grilled lamb chops with a side of sweet corn.

 

Even with animals we get milk (if at least for cheese) from people are shocked that I see them as nothing but food. People around the suburbs (or slums) in the metro here actually have goats still, and I always go, "dude there's our beer chow! go get it!" To be perfectly honest, cats and dogs would probably think the same about that goat if I wasn't around to show them that food can come out of a sack or a can (or my oven). Basically, if we ever have to buy out, they're trained just well enough to not eat my milk source (could be our milk source, but that depends on their lactose tolerance).