Recipes by pirate johnny (cc by-nc-nd)
"I have cookbooks. I have recipes printed out and shoved into cookbooks. I have recipes in Evernote. I have recipes pinned on Pinterest. How can I get all of my recipes in one spot and display them while I cook?"
Bartje Boemboe // Frank Festival by Merlijn Hoek (cc by-nc-nd)
Phunniemee asks, "What's the next level after basic? What should I keep in my fridge and pantry to enable me to cook slightly more interesting than basic food?" The primroses were over kicks off the answers with a great tip on lemons 🍋 and furnace.heart brings the link love for various pantry staples by cuisine.🌶
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Meanwhile, over in Fanfare, people are talking about the novel In an Absent Dream 📖, and the film The Old Guard 🎬 among other things.
127 - With kheer to follow by Crispin Cresswell (cc by-nc-nd)
When it comes to comfort food, what I crave isn’t sweets, or melted cheese, or creamy pasta, or brothy soups. Like many Kashmiris, I long for rogan josh, our traditional lamb dish, spicy and rich, whose recipe my mum holds hostage in Michigan. ChuraChura posts Priyanka Mattoo's How to Extract a Mother’s Rogan Josh Recipe Over Zoom.
Shiromi Mentai - close-up - Shira Nui AUD5.50 each by avlxyz (cc by-sa)
Omnomnom asks, Every time I go nuts about food, it involves umami. Can you be a chef in my imaginary themed restaurant and create a two- or three course feast to let me revel in umami?
Cooking & Eating by ☼☼Jo Zimny Photos☼☼ (cc by-nc-nd)
A digest of recent food culture posts on Mefi:
The Food Timeline, evolution of foods dating back to before 17,000BC ⏳; Maria Orosa, Filipina food technologist, chemist, humanitarian, war hero 👩🏽🔬; The D.C. Region Doesn’t Have Full-Time Food Critics of Color. Why That Matters 📰; Archeology of Taste is a project about childhood memories 🍭; Consider the potato: How do you prefer yours? 🥔; The Food Flow Model, a web of connections across the continental U.S. 🚚; What Makes Good Comfort Food? A LitHub conversation 🍝; The most taxing work in the kitchen is brain work 🧠Iceland’s last McDonald’s burger simply won’t rot, even after 10 years 🍔.
From Ask Metafilter: The mystery of the impossibly savory mushroom vegan couscous 🍄; seeking this Platonic ideal of a dish towel 👩🍳; tasty, portable bready things 🥐; robust stew to eat over the course of the week 🥘; what am I trying to wash off my lettuce, exactly? 🥗; vegetarian showstopper recipes 🍛🍲
Knoblauchmayonnaise. Aioli by marcoverch (cc by)
Looking for dead simple sauces I can make by stirring things together: in Ask Metafilter, CiaoMela asks for your easiest, no-hassle recipes.
I'm putting money on Major Clanger to reach the finals — roger ackroyd
In FanFare, Major Clanger has been making recipes from this season of GBBO, check it out: Cake Week; Biscuit Week; Bread Week; Dairy Week.
Cooking authentic Pad Thai in Bangkok by ToastyKen (cc by)
People think they want authentic Thai food until they're eating unrefrigerated squirrel gristle salad made with partially rotted paddy crabs and fermented fish sauce. All of a sudden the gentrified stuff seems pretty appetizing. Eat what you enjoy!
Fascinating insights from telf on Thai nationalism, Pad Thai, the question of authenticity and "the concept of Thainess" in smoke's interesting post about the history of Pad Thai.
Vegan fried rice by Lablascovegmenu (cc by)
danceswithlight asks, "What else should I add to rice, that goes in the pot directly when I’m making it, that will taste delicious?"
rolls royce mayonnaise by jules:stonesoup (cc by)
Alright. I've been a high end cook/chef and I've also worked for as 'Big Mayo' a company as you can in the world. I know mayo inside and out - from making it in small batches, to mass production and sourcing, to which demographics and some indication as to 'why' those demographics buy it ...
Plate with sliced peaches by wuestenigel (cc by)
Pull up a chair and sit down, as EmpressCallipygos 'splains what to do with
millions of peaches (or other produce)
Elsewhere on our plate:
Salad Fight! | 1,500 year old New Mexican beans | An Alphabet of international bread recipes | Reclaiming Canadian indigenous cuisine | As Muslim-American as bean pie | We all scream for ... mayo ice cream? | Sugartime by Ruby Tandoh | Forgotten Southern Recipes | An illustrated compendium of Chinese baos | Verbing the taco | The story of Chop Ayam
And finally, for those of us less culinarily evolved, have we even been opening our cans the wrong way?
Butterfly Gold Corelle Vintage by Vintage19Something (cc by)
Did your family have Corelle dishes? "All those memories in the little things like cups and place mats and jelly jars."
Eat by Thomas Hawk (cc by-nc)
Recently served on Mefi:
Making 4,000-year-old stew | Wiki-Food and (mostly) Women | Let's Cook History vids | Epicurious asked 50 people to do some basic kitchen prep work and filmed the mayhem | Thinking about Chicken tenders | Donug‽ | The popular Budget Bytes recipe collection / blog | Bowl food | A Taste of South Sudan | The Weird and Wavy History of Wine Coolers | Feelings about cottage cheese
Happiness in your hands by MamiGibbs (cc by-nc-nd)
Bella Donna has assembled a collection of ideas for cheering ourselves up a bit when we're feeling sad or stressed.
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