The Corsican version of Casu Marzu, sheeps milk cheese with fly larvae. It’s delicious.
Maple sap, direct from the bucket. The flavor is quite complex compared to syrup since the volatiles haven’t been boiled off.
Prahok, fermented fish paste. Used as an ingredient, condiment, and main. It isn’t terrible, it’s just not very good. I expected I would love it, but meh.
I love cookmate. There’s an ad free version that I happily pay something nominal annually ($20?)
The import from website works the vast majority of the time (sometimes you gotta fiddle the steps getting condensed to one or something), the screen stays on while the app is up and it has a lot of custom tags/categories that’s helpful when meal prepping. Been using for at least the last five years and I’m a pretty active cook/baker - I use it just about every time I’m referencing a recipe
I use ones from recipe books. I like that the recipe is in a book because
The screen doesn’t turn off when I’m cooking.
The recipe usually fits on a page, so I don’t need to touch it after I start.
I can scribble my modifications on it with a pencil.
I mark the good ones with torn up bits of paper sticking out.
I like having a bunch of recipe books around. Most of them were gifts, so cooking from them reminds me of who I got them from.
I’ve tried bookmarks to websites, copying recipes to Google Docs/Keep. It feels like work. Worse, when I’m cooking, I need a way to keep my phone/tablet screen on. I’m usually listening to a podcast or using a timer on my phone, so then I need to switch apps, etc.
I’m lazy and use the paprika app. It’s imperfect but does have a grocery list, downloads recipes and automatically removes the fluff and allows adding tags (so I have tags like slow cooker, vegetarian, chicken thighs etc.)
Chocolate covered crickets. What made them interesting is they tasted nothing like chocolate and I kinda suspect the person who gave them to me of having sucked the coating off them first.
Haggis is delicious, and when I first had it, I assumed I wouldn’t like it, but had to try, only to really love it.
A lot of stinky cheeses taste really good, but if you’ve never given then a chance, it’s hard to make yourself eat. Humboldt Fog is a favorite of mine, but basically none of my peers will try it.
The first one. The potatoes should be completely cooked. Some of them might get mashed just from being handled, but most of them should still have their shape.
You can make it either way depending on your preference. By default they will be chunky, but you certainly could mash them before adding tte topping and baking.
Objectively, yes. They do stain easily if you’re not careful. I’d say they’re between a properly seasoned cast iron and Teflon in non-stick, so better than iron, but not sliding around like Teflon.
J. Kenji Lopez-Alt of serious eats is probably my current fav. I like how he takes the scientific method approach to testing different ways of cooking something with only one thing adjusted, for a true test. And the write ups for the recipes are usually pretty insightful unlike a lot of the other ones I’ve come across. As far as a bigger celebrity chef Ramsay is always entertaining to watch.
Chowhound used to have a Dish of the Month which was fun. Lemmy has 52 weeks of baking but I think a week is too short, it doesn’t have much traction. For me most of their topics are not interesting either, I think the current one is ‘Piping’.
Thank you, this is a great idea. If we can get a good amount of recipes posted, I’d like to highlight a “recipe of the month” type thing as well. Thanks for the feedback!
I like this idea. Although I think there are times throughout the week when someone might want to post a question on a Thursday but can’t because it’s not the correct day of the week. And make them megathreads so they can be referenced throughout the week.
I think themed days for techniques, methods and practices of cooking would be fun. How about something like Ferment Friday or meal prep Sunday (I know it’s stealing from Reddit but eff Reddit, Spez or whatever the case may be)
Although I think there are times throughout the week when someone might want to post a question on a Thursday but can’t because it’s not the correct day of the week.
Agreed, I don’t think there’s any benefit to forcing questions in the weekly one. If you have a question, please make a post. The weekly posts would be more of a prompt to stir up an idea.
I think themed days for techniques, methods and practices of cooking would be fun.
Yes, meal prep would be a great one. I know a lot of the meals I cook end up basically being meal prep since I have leftovers for days.
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