SNH COOKING THREAD

[Viineri]

I made shrimp okonomiyaki and somen for dinner. Very light.



Then I saw my friend's BF make a bibimbap burger for dinner. I got hungry a little. I'll try to make it. I think it's fairly easy.

That looks so fucking delicious

[Naan_Bread]

taro root

This is the most awesome root veg ever. I had it a few times in Vietnam but haven't tracked it down back home yet.
Just on its own with crunchy peanut sauce


Nasty looking fuckers mind

[slothrop]

Do you realise that okonomiyaki means 'as you like it', so you can basically make an omlette out of whatever you want?

Up to a point. But if you skipped the taro root and bonito flakes and ao-nori and okonomiyaki sauce and made it with potatoes and peppers and onion you might as well call it a spanish omlette and you're not going to get anything particularly new and enlightening out of the process, unless you've never had a spanish omlette before.

[test_recordings]

Do you realise that okonomiyaki means 'as you like it', so you can basically make an omlette out of whatever you want?

Up to a point. But if you skipped the taro root and bonito flakes and ao-nori and okonomiyaki sauce and made it with potatoes and peppers and onion you might as well call it a spanish omlette and you're not going to get anything particularly new and enlightening out of the process, unless you've never had a spanish omlette before.

Yeah, I suppose it's the batter that differentiates it... sounds delicious though!

[slothrop]

Basically I'm all in favor of hybridizing and switching stuff up and not sticking rigidly to allegedly "authentic" recipes, but sometimes it's good to get all the right stuff and do things as properly and "authentically" as you can. Find out what you're messing with if you know what I mean. Get out of your comfort zone and make the effort to use some new ingredients.

The next day I stuck some of the bonito flakes in an egg mayo sarnie. But that wasn't as good as I'd hoped it would be...

[Clean]

I plan on revisiting this thread in about 3 years.

[test_recordings]

Basically I'm all in favor of hybridizing and switching stuff up and not sticking rigidly to allegedly "authentic" recipes, but sometimes it's good to get all the right stuff and do things as properly and "authentically" as you can. Find out what you're messing with if you know what I mean. Get out of your comfort zone and make the effort to use some new ingredients.

The next day I stuck some of the bonito flakes in an egg mayo sarnie. But that wasn't as good as I'd hoped it would be...

Yeah I normally use recipes as a 'base' to start off with and modify as I deem appropriate...

E.g. I'd swop the wheat flour in okonomiyaki for besan/chickpea flour to get rid of the gluten content and get more minerals in it!

[slothrop]

That's fair enough. Thinking about it, I think my point is that I follow recipes as a way of trying out new stuff - new ingredients, new combinations, new techniques - so subbing out all the stuff that I don't already have in the cupboard would lose a lot of the point. Subbing stuff for a specific reason like that makes more sense.

Also, doing it more or less by the book was nice - I think the okonomiyaki sauce and the taro root and the fish flakes and nori flakes were definitely part of the appeal.

[slothrop]

By the way, the king of books for people who like to cook without following recipes is this:



Can't recommend it highly enough.

[PinUp]

By the way, the king of books for people who like to cook without following recipes is this:



Can't recommend it highly enough.

[test_recordings]

Interesting but I eat for effect, not for flavour.

[Naan_Bread]

Interesting but I eat for effect, not for flavour.

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[meanmrcustard]

By the way, the king of books for people who like to cook without following recipes is this:



Can't recommend it highly enough.

Been meaning to get that for ages now but completely forgot about it, cheers for the reminder!

[test_recordings]

Interesting but I eat for effect, not for flavour.

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Basically, I think there's no point eating just to have an interesting experience on my tongue. You have to eat to live and your health is pretty much predominantly determined by what you eat, give or take a few other extreme activities. I know of 80 year old people who have not exactly done a lot of exercise, smoked almost their entire life and regularly smoked opium but they eat healthily and are in generally good shape - they probably are not going to die in the foreseeable future or have their skin turn grey any time soon.

Flavour for me is a byproduct of ingesting nutritious things. What I eat is of course flavourful but I'm not aiming for that because it misses the point of eating.

[Naan_Bread]

Eating healthy food is great but it's by no means mutually exclusive to flavour. If eating is something you do three times a day or whatever you may as well try make it pleasant.

[BNanni]

Making mozzarella and mustard stuffed chicken tonight. Thought I'd write the recipe down as I know a few ninjas have shown interest, when mentioned previously.

Usually I make it for 4, so double, half or whatever you need to do to get the right amount.

Grab yourself:
- 4 hefty chicken breasts
- 150g mozzarella
- 50g cheddar
- Pack of prosciutto (smoky bacon works just as good)
- Wholegrain mustard - couple teaspoons of.

Preheat your oven to 200c and get ready to cook.

Step 1:
Cut into and up along the side of the chicken breast. Do this for each one and set aside. Easy!

Step 2:
Grab a mixing bowl and tear/cut/grate both your cheeses into said bowl. Put in a teaspoon or two - depending on how much you like it, of your wholegrain mustard and mix that shit up.

Step 3:
Stuff your wonderful cheesy/mustard mix (if you haven't already eaten most of it, like me) into your chicken and wrap that beauty up in a couple slices of prosciutto.

Step 4:
Bang it in the oven for about 20 mins.

Usually I serve this with new potatoes and green beans.
Tip: Most of the time the cheese will run out onto your tray. Don't waste it - put it on your veg.
Enjoy

[PinUp]

Making mozzarella and mustard stuffed chicken tonight. Thought I'd write the recipe down as I know a few ninjas have shown interest, when mentioned previously.

Usually I make it for 4, so double, half or whatever you need to do to get the right amount.

Grab yourself:
- 4 hefty chicken breasts
- 150g mozzarella
- 50g cheddar
- Pack of prosciutto (smoky bacon works just as good)
- Wholegrain mustard - couple teaspoons of.

Preheat your oven to 200c and get ready to cook.

Step 1:
Cut into and up along the side of the chicken breast. Do this for each one and set aside. Easy!

Step 2:
Grab a mixing bowl and tear/cut/grate both your cheeses into said bowl. Put in a teaspoon or two - depending on how much you like it, of your wholegrain mustard and mix that shit up.

Step 3:
Stuff your wonderful cheesy/mustard mix (if you haven't already eaten most of it, like me) into your chicken and wrap that beauty up in a couple slices of prosciutto.

Step 4:
Bang it in the oven for about 20 mins.

Usually I serve this with new potatoes and green beans.
Tip: Most of the time the cheese will run out onto your tray. Don't waste it - put it on your veg.
Enjoy

I do basically the same thing but with pesto instead of mustard

[test_recordings]

Eating healthy food is great but it's by no means mutually exclusive to flavour. If eating is something you do three times a day or whatever you may as well try make it pleasant.

Yeah standard but trust me you get over things you 'don't like the flavour of' after eating them a few times. Some things do need some covering up though I must admit...

[meanmrcustard]

Surely 'getting over things you don't like the flavour of' and 'covering up things' is setting the bar pretty low? Food can taste fucking awesome and be healthy too. There aren't many (any?) things that I don't like, that I eat just because they're good for me...and I don't eat badly by any means.

[noam]

Eating healthy food is great but it's by no means mutually exclusive to flavour. If eating is something you do three times a day or whatever you may as well try make it pleasant.

i think what he's saying is the opposite, that most people eat for flavour at the expense of eating healthily

this is something i realised i did, at the expense of my health

i dont exactly eat some magnificent diet of only raw veg and whole foods now, but i eat a lot more fruit and a lot less dairy/fat than i used to and feel better for it

in that bacon thread, i neglected to mention that i ate bacon and eggs almost everyday for breakfast - IMAGINE how bad that is?! i cooked it differently all the time, im now a fucking DON of cooked breakfasts, but its a) boring to me now and b) nice to have occasionally as a change

i'll never be fully vegetarian but moderation in everything is the key and the real point im making though long winded is that when i was eating bare fat and bare salty foods i forgot how it even tasted, now when i eat something that fatty and salty it kind of tastes good but i notice the salt or the sugar or whatever wayyyy more than i did before and its not overly enjoyable to be honest

even food with lots of preservatives, they tend to give off a sulphury smell when you open the packet and that literally makes me feel sick now, i opened a bag of walkers crisps at work the other day and almost vommed instantly cos of the amount of preservatives in them which literally smelled like someone had farted in the bag and sealed it before i bought them....