The Smells in My Kitchen

[Gravity Defier]

I'm not knocking the taste (since I don't know) but I'm imagining putting butter on an actual banana to try to help get an idea and, well, no thanks. With that said, should I try it sometime?

[Petra456]

Yes! You should try it sometime (buttering the bread, not the actual banana, I wouldn't imagine that would be too good...).

[mr_thebrain]

mmmmm cannelloni

I make the pasta, wife makes the filling. together we make the delicious!

[Young Val]

YUM!

Do you have a pasta roller? I don't; I can never get mine as thin as yours!

[Mich]

That. Looks. Delicious. And I just ate. I am full. And I want to eat that.

[mr_thebrain]

yeah. well kinda. we borrow my dad's roller. they're hard to find (and afford).

we got the recipe for those from her mother, as well as a bunch of other Italian dishes. like gnocchi- i have a bunch of potatoes to use up so i'll probably make a ton of that (it freezes well).

i want to make calamari like her mom makes too but we can't find any here in wisconsin. still looking.

perhaps i'll share some more of our favorite dishes if i think of it.

[steph]

Mmmmm. If my heartburn wasn't so bad at the end of pregnancy, I'd want to eat up that whole pan! It looks amazing!

[Gravity Defier]

I saw that picture when I got home and was hungry. I decided to take a friend/coworker up on an offer for Italian food thanks to that and am now drunk for the first time in...forever. So, thanks and cheers!

[Petra456]

Mmm, that does look amazing! I'm a sucker for almost anything Italian! My favorite food, hands down.

[Eaquae Legit]

Tonight I made beet borscht. It is such a delicious recipe, one of the only things I've EVER liked beets in.

I also made fresh veggie stock. It's so much nicer than from powdered.

[buckshot]

My cook shack smells of kickass ginger chicken potstickers ! Top that

[Caspian]

Our apartment smells like delicious cinnamon apple soda bread, courtesy of Jan. Mmmmm.

[buckshot]

Dude' I'm impresed with that (those) avatars !

[Petra456]

Homemade chocolate cupcakes and homemade marshmallows. My house smells awesome : )

[Eaquae Legit]

Haggis.*





* No meat or meat by-products were used.

[Jayelle]

Then it was... just oatmeal then...?

[Eaquae Legit]

It was this basic recipe, with a few modifications. The end result came out very close to what I'd tried in England, so it's a good recipe in my book! I like it generally better than the vegetarian meatloaf recipes I've seen, and I think it will be added to the rotation. I think next time I will try a variety of dried pulses instead of the straight-up chickpeas (which I used instead of kidney beans because they were on hand).

I actually recommend it. Great results!

[Dr. Mobius]

As long as you realize that "vegetarian meatloaf" is an oxymoron and omnivores shake our heads and stifle a laugh every time you use crazy terms like that.

[Mich]

Whenever I come down to visit, my parents ask me to cook something for them. Normally I do something super-easy, like handmade pizza or spaghetti. This time I decided to do spaghetti, but with a twist: homemade sauce. I'm using this extremely simple recipe that I tried a few weeks ago. I couldn't get it to thicken at all last time I tried it, so I'm going to simmer it for longer and cross my fingers.

It's currently boiling on the stove and makes a lovely tomato-y smell.

[Petra456]

Rice Krispy treats with the aforementioned homemade marshmallows.

Mmm, and they're green.

[LilBee91]

Sour cream cookies! In clover shapes!
And belatedly, my roommate and I made chicken pot pie and this raspberry-lemon-banana cream pie on Sunday. It was quite awesome.

[Graff^]

Choclate chunk brownies. Yuummmm!!

[Petra456]

My best friend made a corned beef tonight and the whole time it was cooking I could not believe how yummy it smelled.

[locke]

tonight I made a recipe from Julia Child's cookbook. Fish poached in white wine with mushrooms.

Last week I made fish poached in white wine, it was really tasty, this week I did the next one, which adds mushrooms to the poaching then takes the poaching liquid, turns it into a sauce and broils it. I think by the end there was more dairy than fish

and since I've not made any of Julia's sauces before it went like this

Butter pan
Dot fish with butter
combine butter and flour, add to poaching liquid and add cream
dot fish with butter and add cheese


four steps of butter

I really like butter, but all that was a bit much, it was good, but by the end, the sauce wasn't as good as the fish. it was really fun to make, but I'd take about 1/10 of the sauce just as an accent or prefer a simple lemon butter option.

I did forget to add lemon to the sauce, cue sadface now.

And honestly it was sort of like fish with gravy. :-p but WAY WAY better than any gravy I've ever had, velvety smooth, intensely but not overwhelming flavored and an absolutely sumptuous mouth feel.

[megxers]

P-web foodies, I need help! (I was reminded by Satya's thread, barf)

I have difficulty making lunch to take with me to work. I leave for class ~5 hours before I eat lunch and some days, I probably should bring dinner (and breakfast, but that's easy) with me too. Here is a list of things I eat: vegetables, fruit, rice, quinoa, milk, soy, corn & chocolate. Ideas on things I can keep semi-refrigerated and will stay okay for 3 hours w/o refrig? (this is where we run into problems...)

[Jayelle]

Bento boxes are great! You can always use an ice pack to keep things cold and a thermos to keep things hot. If you get a good thermos (metal is great), it will keep things hot for hours - so you can heat your soup or even rice and veggies at home in the microwave before you go.

A good site for bento ideas:

http://justbento.com/

[Eaquae Legit]

Ugh. The smell in my kitchen tonight was burnt dry chili flakes and coriander. It was UNGODLY.

[megxers]

Oooh thanks! I have a marginal thermos that is more in the 3-4 hour range of effectiveness and also invested in some better tupperware this weekend, so I am hoping to get more creative. I only have a real problem with the keeping things cold/hot for an extended amount of time 2 days a week, the rest I have access to a fridge/microwave. But some of those recipes look immense...the spicy lentil snacks mmmmmm.

[LilBee91]

It didn't smell much, but my friend and I made a delicious Oreo cheesecake. I love it lots.

[Wil]

Spongebob Sugar Cookies I made for my Niece's birthday.

[thoughtreader]

Shepherd's pie

[Jayelle]

I have the best husband ever. When I came home from visiting my parents this past weekend, Paul had made three pies - one lemon meringue, one cherry-mango-almond and one chicken-pot-pie. He also baked two loves of bread and made two meals to go in the freezer.

AND HE CLEANED UP AFTER HIMSELF.

[ValentineNicole]

I love to cook, but lately, my apartment smells like delivered pizza. Laziness has gotten the best of me!!

[locke]

coffee,

[Petra456]

Home made hamburger stew. Mmm, smells amazing.