WHAT'S COOKING ? - Let's Talk Food

[Aerie]

A place to talk about preparing food, recipes, the best way to reheat leftover restaurant food (doggie bags), how to turn on the oven, and why you should always keep the beaters down in the bowl when running the mixer, and other complicated cooking processes.


In other words, let's help Aerie hang on to a guy by teaching her to cook.


It all started with dzero and his brownie pan.

you should get a Bakers Edge pan like I did

It finally came after New Years Day, I was out of town and when I came back the first thing I did was bake some brownies mmmmmmmmm good . Best thing about the pan? It comes with it's own spatula....it's smaller , the regular size ones wouldn't fit.

It cooks all the brownies, cookies, lemon bars or


whatever like they are from the edge of the pan. The best brownies are always the ones from the edge, the ones in the middle aren't nearly as good. Those three metal bars create the effect of everything being an "edge" piece.

When he was asked the important question:

Did you use a mix or did you make them from scratch?

His answer:What am I? McGuyver? From Scratch? That's the silliest thing I've ever heard

Then mari jumped in.

Oh yes, yes, yes . Food is always a good thing, especially foreign food.

Reheating chinese food in the microwave. ;D That should cover it.

Never heard of cream cheese frosting, but it sounds yummy. (Do you have to keep the cookies in the fridge then, so the cheese won’t turn sour? : Any chance you could tell me the recipe… or is it an ultra-secret family recipe only to be passed on the deathbed?

We've already learned a lot. Brandy doesn't like cream cheese frosting but Mari wants the recipe, which was passed on to me at my great grandmothers death bed.

hee, I'm off to find the cook book to find the recipe.

[spikeloud]

what about mac -n- cheeze with lil lil hot dogs??
or haggis night

[mari]

aerie said:

and why you should always keep the beaters down in the bowl when running the mixer

Very true ;D. (The same goes for not leaving a hand-mixer mixing on its own while searching for another ingredient, trusting that it stays in the bowl . Good thing I have fast reflexes ;D.)

aerie said:

Reheating chinese food in the microwave. ;D That should cover it.

Ah, don’t underestimate the difficulty of microwave-cooking. Not funny to scratch exploded chestnuts from the walls . (And no, for once, it wasn’t me)

spikeloud said:

what about mac -n- cheeze with lil lil hot dogs??
or haggis night

Definitely qualifies as exotically foreign food with me. The combination sounds a bit strange, but then I’m just eating a wholemeal-roll with cheese, wood-garlic-pesto and curry… ;D.

spikeloud said:

or haggis night

Makes my vegetarian stomach turn , just like this true German classic: blood and liver sausages, mashed potatoes and sauerkraut. (Though I liked it as a kid)

[Mia22]

mari said:

Definitely qualifies as exotically foreign food with me. The combination sounds a bit strange, but then I’m just eating a wholemeal-roll with cheese, wood-garlic-pesto and curry… ;D.Definitely qualifies as exotically foreign food with me. The combination sounds a bit strange, but then I’m just eating a wholemeal-roll with cheese, wood-garlic-pesto and curry… .

So first I read wood-garlic and I though it would have a smoky taste, then I used my brains and googled it first before asking.

Noun1.wood garlic - pungent Old World weedy plant
Allium ursinum, Ramsons, wild garlic
alliaceous plant - bulbous plants having a characteristic pungent onion odor

That makes a little more sense with the curry, than the pesto which I was imagining. In fact with the right cheese I’m sure that was a rather nice snack/meal.

Makes my vegetarian stomach turn , just like this true German classic: blood and liver sausages, mashed potatoes and sauerkraut. (Though I liked it as a kid)

Yea makes a true carnivore such as myself a little queasy as well. One of my friends loves blood pudding, just hearing about it always makes me lose my appetite.

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I just had a thin crust pizza (very crispy) with sesame seeds on the crust with mozzarella, arugula, prosciutto and drizzled with truffle oil (or at least that’s what the pizza place claims because I have no idea what that’s supposed to taste like).

I just ate (as I always do) the entire pie by myself and I still want more!!! (It was a small and I could have totally devoured a large)

(imagine just one smiley)

It’s one of those weird phenomenon’s of growing old anything salad related on my pizza would always cause outrage in me when I was younger and now I dive into it (though I still stand by the weird iceberg lettuce and dressing on pizza from my youth is NASTY).

Pizza the world’s perfect food (when not cooked by me – though I swear I was not responsible for the fact that we lost half our crust to the clay thingy we cooked it on last time ) no work involved whatsoever, you can skip any scary reheating incidents by eating it cold the next damn and it’s just as good if not better.

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So random question about microwaves after reading about the exploding chestnuts. This falls into the 'how not to use your microwave' category...

Anyone else have a mom on the block inappropriately use her microwave and set her panties on fire in their youth? (Not mine I swear, she wouldn’t have lived through putting her undies where my food goes).

[Tweed Pants]

I'm hungry. I was hungry before i started reading this but now that i have, i could eat a horse - if i ate meat of course.

Things to remember when cooking:

If you are re-heating take out, remove foil tins before putting it in the microwave. And remove plastic containers when putting it in the oven.

When you have a craving at 3am for french toast, don't burn it and set off all the smoke alarms.

[spikeloud]

when i was posting them foods..i had da on the brain

i still remember the outake where jess picked a rat by the tail and it accidently got stuck the peanut butter sandwich

[dzero]

aerie said:

However, the guy that gave me the "Cake Mix Doctor" cookbook, as an early Christmas gift, has been kicked to the curb.

aerie said:

In other words, let's help Aerie hang on to a guy by teaching her to cook.

ummmmm The contradiction here is shall we say....interesting. ;D

[Aerie]

The contradiction here is shall we say....interesting. ;D

I've been trying to understand my behavior in regards to guys giving me gifts that I consider domestic. ***

Any guy that sees me more than once knows I'm lacking the domestic gene. I might have a triple helix DNA and was dropped off by my real parents on their way home to Alpha Centauri.

I don't want encouragement in the domestic arts.



I'm also missing the sports gene. I cannot understand any sane person wanting to watch a sports game, unless it's their hometown team and they know a player, ref or coach. Or if the uniforms are their favorite color. Or if they have been foolish enough to have money on the game.

I just left a Super Bowl party because I had tried all the appetizers and there was no music because the TV was on, very loud. Not one person was listening to TV or listening to any one in the room. Basically, every person talking at once.

I snuck out the back. What's a girl to do when there is no music.





*** I might be interested in ordering one of dzero's brownie pans but only because of the science involved in the tricky little baking idea going on here.

[dzero]

No music? they had Prince doing a Foo Fighters song



Don't like sports? Good thing you're not in Las Vegas . I just got in today. Arrived right as the Game was starting. After getting to my room I went down to watch a little of the game ( which I admittedly don't care about : at one of the bars or restaurants and I couldn't get a seat anywhere . Came back to the room to order room service haven't eaten all day and wait for the game to end before I go back down to the poker room .

I am rooting for the Bears . Only because the Quarterback for the Colts does these annoying radio ads for Sony TV's. His redneck accent saying "Tee Veeeee" over and over bugs the hell out of me .

And I highly recommend the pan. Excellent Brownies . The first batch of Chocolate Chip Cookies didn't turn out so great but I think I screwed it up. Tried to use two boxes of mix at once because just one didn't look like enough when I should have just left it alone .

[Mia22]

What's a girl to do when there is no music.

AAAH that’s what it is!!!

I’ve been trying to figure it out all week why I’m so anti Super Bowl when I’m down for every other drinking holiday.
St. Patty’s Day, Cinco de Mayo, The Fourth, Labor Day weekend, Halloween, Day before Thanksgiving, New Year’s Eve… (probably missed some in there)[/i]

There were at least three houses I could have gone to, plus bars with friends yet I stayed home and hibernated. And THAT is the reason.

You need the sway of music to ease along the conversation and the lulls in it and to strengthen your stamina to sustain the boring conversation.

aerie said:

I've been trying to understand my behavior in regards to guys giving me gifts that I consider domestic. ***

Who gives domestic gifts without having someone request it?
Unless it’s for a life event, like a new apartment.

Though I have given a muffin pan before, but that was only because the guy made muffins for me without the muffin pan.
Not something I’d suggest to anyone out there.

My cooking hint for the day:

No tin=No Muffins

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I am now off to throw a temper tantrum that I'm here, in the frigid boring cold and Dzero is in Vegas.
Life is so unfair...

[dzero]

mia22 said:

I am now off to throw a temper tantrum that I'm here, in the frigid boring cold and Dzero is in Vegas.
Life is so unfair...

If it makes you feel any better, I just woke up and looked out the window to a completely overcast sky .

[spikeloud]

i had take out ribs and watched the game at home..tooo damm cold here to go out(sub zero)
that and my car needs new breaks

[Aerie]

With that weather and your car not being able to stop seems like staying home and having ribs is a great idea, spikey.

I know people that go to the mall during the superbowl because it's not crowded.



I am soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo jealous that dzero went to Las Vegas without me.

He probably took someone else. Men are such dogs.




Back on topic of food. Can chocolate chip cookie dough be put into the Brownie pan?

[spikeloud]

chocolate chip cookie dough goes into a brownie pan just fine...
but it goes even better in my mouth ;D

[dzero]

aerie said:

I am soooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo jealous that dzero went to Las Vegas without me.

He probably took someone else. Men are such dogs.

What an interesting way of asking me who I went with. ;D

aerie said:

Back on topic of food. Can chocolate chip cookie dough be put into the Brownie pan?

Yeah that's what I was going to try next.