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cooking

Oct 16, 2006 21:14

I have a few traumatic stories early on in my life concerning learning how to cook. I could go through the gory details, but I’m not trying to gain your sympathy or get in touch with my inner child. Suffice it to say that these early experiences helped establish a pattern of ignorance and apathy towards all cooking related activities ( Read more... )

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anonymous October 19 2006, 22:12:07 UTC

I didn't see it on your ingredients list, so I thought I would mention the little secret about flour. If your cooking chili (or anything with a sauce) for a while and letting water steam out, some people put in a little extra water and about a tabelspoon of flour. It just thickens up the sauce so it doesn't all boil away and you can simmer it longer. Alternatives to flour are cornstarch, bread crumbs, or oatmeal. Just a little tip I thought you might find handy.

-morgan23

make_manifest October 23 2006, 03:59:21 UTC

I'll have to try that sometime. The chili was thick enough on its own, but I'm sure that information will come in handy quite soon as I've been dealing a lot with sauces.

Cooking... boogieman October 20 2006, 19:58:19 UTC

Heh, I do the same thing. I always cook on Fridays or Saturdays if I'm home, but during the week I will usually make something on Sunday that gets me through the next 3 or 4 days before I have to worry about it again.

Cooking without a recipe is sometimes the best way to go! I make this corn chowder that's basically been a 5 year work-in-progress. Everytime I make it, I change it up just a little bit. Eventually I'll get it just where I want it, heh.

Thanks for the Invisible Republic link BTW. I really dug "Kerouac Came out of Jazz."

Re: Cooking... make_manifest October 23 2006, 03:56:30 UTC

Glad you like the I.R. stuff as well. I really enjoyed the "Welcome to the Working Week" track, mostly for the samples from some documentary on artists in the early twentieth centure (I'm guessing?). I also really liked the manipulation of the MLK quotes. Even though the album is a few years old, I'm always really excited when I stumble onto a random page of new media.

Corn chowder, huh? That seems like a good one for changing up the ingrediants list on...a lot of options.