Cooking a Good Everything Else
Thought I'd take El D's advice and create another thread for cooking discussion, as steak is wonderful, but pork, meatballs, chicken, pasta, sausage, greens, and charcuterie deserve love too.
Also an appropriate place to discuss cooking equipment from knives to boards to ranges to sous vide setups, smokers, etc.
I'll get it started with a few pics of some of my current favorite dishes including:
Fennel Braised Baby Back Ribs
These things are amazing, and EASY. Absolutely delicious, easy to make in quantity, and a crowd pleaser for sure. I make em at almost every bbq (though the great thing is that you can do them indoors during the colder months)
Pork, Panchetta, Veal Meatballs
These are not a fan favorite, but only because when I make them, I horde them and eat them for a week straight. They're a bit time consuming, but once you have em, you're set for a few days.
Orecchiette with Fennel Sausage
This is a new favorite dish and I don't really even know where to begin describing how amazing the texture contrast between the breadcrumbs, semolina pasta, and sausage is, or how this dish singlehandedly sold me on the value of fennel pollen. It takes some time, but the steps are pretty simple.
My Masamato Gyuto
I love this knife, and while it's a bit pricy for your average housewife, it's a steal by japanese steel standards, and you'll walk away with a whole new definition of sharp from the moment you remove it from the box.
Just some random stuff to get this thread started. I know others have been chastised for posting pork in the steak thread, and the BBQ thread doesn't get much love, so get in here and post about food!!!
i legit prefer the ricotta probably mildly heathily as well
very pretty goons
with lovely brown corners
and congrats on mostly not spilling the filling
Anyone have a chicken salad recipe they love?
I tried Kenji’s on serious eats, but wasn’t that impressed.
Anyone have a chicken salad recipe they love?
I tried Kenji’s on serious eats, but wasn’t that impressed.
i actually made very disapointing chicken salad yesterday so this is something i'd like as well
i love adding cranberries, crushed walnuts, and chopped celery but something about the one i made yesterday just sucked
My chicken salad secret ingredient: 50/50 celery and dill pickles instead of 100% celery. Cut/cube celery and pickles to same size.
Another one I do every blue moon is make some knockoff Willow Tree by putting the chicken in a food processor and turning it into a chicken salad paste. A New England favorite for those not from around here.
I've been making this a lot recently
SV chicken breast with franks, garlic powder, Worcestershire, diced.
Celery
Crumbled blue cheese
Mayo
Frank's red hot
Garlic powder
Doesn't photograph well when mixed up but yeah you should try it. Heavy on the franks to mayo ratio, macros are elite.
Still my favorite chicken salad recipe
Blue cheese crumbles. 👍👍👍
My dear sainted Mother, who I've mentioned before, was a terrible cook. She used to put diced apples in her chicken salad as her 'secret ingredient.' I like apples just fine, but they have no place in chicken salad.
INRE Blue cheese... When I make Cole slaw, I add a few Tbsps of blue cheese dressing or fresh crumbles if I have some on hand. Highly recommend.
That sounds great Jack!
WRT coleslaw. Easily the best I have ever had was at the Seatle airport fish market restaurant (so I gotta assume it's elsewhere in Seatle too). They add some slivered pickled ginger (the pink stuff they give you with sushi that no one eats). OMG, so good. I'm pretty meh on 'slaw, can take it or leave it. I tried it because it was there (fish n chips comes with slaw, I guess). Glad I did! It's been 15+ years I think, still stays with me.
some sort of horseradish always welcome at a chopped vegetable party
also been blending ranch with ample pepperoncini juice to lighten things up
any way some vinegar/tang can be introduced to food is probably a good one
the best coleslaw is coleslaw discarded into the gutter
Coleslaw is elite on a fried chicken sandwich
lol that sounds familiar, pretty sure we've had this same discussion before in this thread 😀
#notslaw
Anyone have a chicken salad recipe they love?
I tried Kenji’s on serious eats, but wasn’t that impressed.
this is a great salad but with beef, dont know why it wouldn't work if you subbed in chicken:
I like this one too:
Doh, forgot I just made this salad yesterday, the receipt calls for vegan chicken but I went with the real thing
Serving 8-9
INGREDIENTS
2 cans black beans (540mL per can)
1 cup edamame (fresh or frozen re-heated)
1 package vegan chick’n **see notes
1/4 cup pickled jalapeño peppers chopped
1 cup halved grape tomatoes
1/2 cup diced jicama
1/2 cup red cabbage chopped small
1/2 red pepper diced
1/2 yellow pepper diced
2 corn cobs roasted with oil on the stove top or BBQ until browned and kernels shaved
1/2 cup chopped coriander
1/4 cup fresh basil chopped
1/2 cup vegan feta - optional
Sweet Cilantro Dressing:
1/3 cup olive oil
1/4 cup white wine vinegar
1 tsp cumin powder
Lime juice from 1 lime
Zest of 1 lime
1 tsp ground coriander
1.5 tbsp chopped fresh coriander
3 tbsp honey or maple syrup
2 tbsp Nutritional yeast
Salt and pepper to taste
Chipotle Lime Dressing:
3/4 cup vegan mayonnaise (or chipotle mayonnaise)
1 tbsp fresh lime juice
1/2 tsp paprika powder
1/2 tsp chipotle powder
1/4 cup olive oil
2 tbsp adobo sauce (from a chipotle pepper jar)
1 tsp oregano
Salt and pepper
Is there a way to post Instagram videos on 2+2?
Thanks Yim. Those all sound great. Especially the first one.
First time making grilled pizza. Thrilled w this. Homemade pesto in a mortar & pestle, cooked down some cherry tomatoes in olive oil & salt, and tossed them in a bit of hot honey.
Also, I’m a stay at home dad now. Big reason I’m cooking so much/posting on here.
delicious pic hans, what's your crust story
Used the crust in this link. It’s supposed to be similar to Al Forno (a Providence restaurant famous for their grilled pizza).
