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Post by silverdragon on Jun 7, 2015 11:16:12 GMT
Maybe if someone offers me some sometime, I may try a slice, but, I dont think I am that intrigued to go out and buy some...?...
We are all different, after all.
BTW, Not a personal question, its just the Myth, I need to ask, does it really make peoples pee smell funny?...
Some people say it does, some say it dont.
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Post by OziRiS on Jun 7, 2015 11:29:50 GMT
Maybe if someone offers me some sometime, I may try a slice, but, I dont think I am that intrigued to go out and buy some...?... We are all different, after all. If you happen to have fresh asparagus and sliced bacon in the house at the same time, I can definitely recommend it  BTW, Not a personal question, its just the Myth, I need to ask, does it really make peoples pee smell funny?... Some people say it does, some say it dont. It seems the focus shouldn't be on whether asparagus makes your pee smell or not, because it definitely does. The focus should be on whether you're able to smell it or not: www.webmd.com/food-recipes/why-pee-smells-funny-eat-asparagus |
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Post by the light works on Jun 7, 2015 14:38:29 GMT
doesn't that work for pretty much anything? Wrap it in bacon... Like pigs in Blankets.... But I have perfectly good Pork sausage to wrap in bacon, why waste them and use vegetable instead?... let's be clear. we are talking about how to prepare asparagus, not about how to prepare bacon. kind of like the show chopped. (if you don't have it over there, they give them a basket with strange things and they have to make a serving of food with them in it. - for example, it may have parsnips, marmite and jelly beans, and they have to make a dessert. |
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Post by ponytail61 on Jun 7, 2015 16:21:18 GMT
Since we're on the subject of bacon, has anyone tried "Pig Candy"? You take raw bacon and coat both sides with brown sugar and bake. It's quite good. I served it at our first couple of Xmas parties and it was a hit. Cooking time depends on the thickness of the bacon, but it's somewhere around 20 mins at about 325F.
Some recipes call for red pepper flakes or chili powder, so if you like it a little spicy that's an option. You can also make it using maple syrup instead of brown sugar. I've made it with both. Put a thin coating of maple syrup on first, then the brown sugar. It helps hold the brown sugar with certain types of bacon. You can also add some chopped nuts if you like.
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Post by mrfatso on Jun 7, 2015 16:31:27 GMT
Wrap it in bacon... Like pigs in Blankets.... But I have perfectly good Pork sausage to wrap in bacon, why waste them and use vegetable instead?... let's be clear. we are talking about how to prepare asparagus, not about how to prepare bacon. kind of like the show chopped. (if you don't have it over there, they give them a basket with strange things and they have to make a serving of food with them in it. - for example, it may have parsnips, marmite and jelly beans, and they have to make a dessert. Parsnip cake for a dessert with jelly bean sprinkles. A few dishes like this were in WWII cookery books using starchy vegetables of also sorts to provide sweetness when sugar was rationed here in Britain. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/20Wy8k6FGRQpGCZXbkbmpxp/parsnip-cakeMarmite just throw that away yuck. Although some people have done so. laythetable.com/cakes/full-size-cake/chocolate-cake-with-marmite-caramel-buttercream/I prefer to use pancetta rather than bacon, it goes cripsier for asparagus, though just lightly grilled with lemon juice is good. |
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Post by silverdragon on Jun 8, 2015 5:51:23 GMT
We had the "father" of that show, Cant cook Wont cook, from the 90's onwards.....(cancelled about 2001?..)
Hosted by the Chainsaw Carrot, Ainsley Harriot, ex celebrity chef.
We have a similar show now, but its not as good.
And no, I wouldnt entertain someone else doing that to me, if its a case of you have to choose some but not all of the ingredients, fine, they do that on the show MasterChef, but of you provide all the ingredients, you must already know what you want, so why make me guess?.. either give me the recipe you got in your head, or stop havin' a bubble, you windin' me up or something?...
I dont experiment much in the kitchen these days, its just I cant afford to waste good food, and I am not a food laboratory.
Some people eat Fish.
For me, the smell of fish that has been stored for any length of time makes my stomach hurl.
Either treat it (smoke it) or cook it and eat it the day its caught.
Or Freeze it.
I cant say that I ever bothered with fish in the places I worked, I never went that way, and probably I would be different if I had chased that area of career, but I went into Bar management instead.
The pay was better, and less hours, I only worked 18hr days instead of the full 25.
Some foods I will not eat.
And asparagus is one.?..
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Post by The Urban Mythbuster on Jun 8, 2015 13:04:47 GMT
let's be clear. we are talking about how to prepare asparagus, not about how to prepare bacon. kind of like the show chopped. (if you don't have it over there, they give them a basket with strange things and they have to make a serving of food with them in it. - for example, it may have parsnips, marmite and jelly beans, and they have to make a dessert. Parsnip cake for a dessert with jelly bean sprinkles. A few dishes like this were in WWII cookery books using starchy vegetables of also sorts to provide sweetness when sugar was rationed here in Britain. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/articles/20Wy8k6FGRQpGCZXbkbmpxp/parsnip-cakeMarmite just throw that away yuck. Although some people have done so. laythetable.com/cakes/full-size-cake/chocolate-cake-with-marmite-caramel-buttercream/I prefer to use pancetta rather than bacon, it goes cripsier for asparagus, though just lightly grilled with lemon juice is good. Unfortunately, with the Chopped format, you could not throw away the Marmite. If you did choose not to use it, regardless of the quality of the dish you prepared, forgetting/missing an ingredient could be your ticket off the show. |
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Post by the light works on Jun 8, 2015 14:33:59 GMT
We had the "father" of that show, Cant cook Wont cook, from the 90's onwards.....(cancelled about 2001?..) Hosted by the Chainsaw Carrot, Ainsley Harriot, ex celebrity chef. We have a similar show now, but its not as good. And no, I wouldnt entertain someone else doing that to me, if its a case of you have to choose some but not all of the ingredients, fine, they do that on the show MasterChef, but of you provide all the ingredients, you must already know what you want, so why make me guess?.. either give me the recipe you got in your head, or stop havin' a bubble, you windin' me up or something?... I dont experiment much in the kitchen these days, its just I cant afford to waste good food, and I am not a food laboratory. Some people eat Fish. For me, the smell of fish that has been stored for any length of time makes my stomach hurl. Either treat it (smoke it) or cook it and eat it the day its caught. Or Freeze it. I cant say that I ever bothered with fish in the places I worked, I never went that way, and probably I would be different if I had chased that area of career, but I went into Bar management instead. The pay was better, and less hours, I only worked 18hr days instead of the full 25. Some foods I will not eat. And asparagus is one.?.. on chopped, the contestants are allowed to add most anything to the ingredients in the basket - and I have seen some wildly different dishes from the same round of competition. |
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Post by alabastersandman on Aug 15, 2015 5:03:38 GMT
Here is the recipe for my deliciously smooth and creamy tropical fruit salad. Of course feel free to add or remove ingredients to suit your own tastes. It is hard to go wrong with fruit salad. Attachment Deleted |
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Post by silverdragon on Aug 16, 2015 14:51:02 GMT
Pasta.
Get some fresh made pasts sheets, you are making Cannelloni rolls, so if its home made all the better, roll it out thin, do not pre-cook.
Make your own, its easy, all you need is an egg and some "Semolina" Durum flour.
Mix enough flour in to make a dough, set aside in a fridge for an hour or two to relax, then roll it out tin, just wide enough to fit the pan you cooking it in, and hand roll with a rolling pin covered in flour.
And THIN.... too thick its gets all gluten, too thin, it will fall apart when handling.
Get a good quality cheese sauce on the go, milk and cornflour with fresh grated strong cheese.
French have over 2000 recipes for Cheese, keep going lads, you'll discover Cheddar eventually?...
Make the sauce Not too thick.
Fry off some bacon, either whole and chopped into chunks afterwards, or cut it up first, but fry with a diced onion.
Now roll up the onion and bacon mix into a roll inside the pasta, put a layer of cheese sauce in a oven dish just big enough to hold the rolls, place the rolls gently on top of that layer, then cover the whole lot with cheese sauce, and some more grated cheddar.
Now into an oven, until the top starts to brown. 20 mins or so, or a little more, gas mk 5 or 180deg. (Fan)
The Pasta will absorb some of the milk in the cheese sauce, so dont make it too thick.
Serve.
Enjoy.
Its comfort food, you dont need spices if the ingredients are good enough.
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Post by ironhold on Feb 29, 2020 6:23:29 GMT
Okay. A few weeks ago, YouTube channel Atomic Shrimp did a video in which he challenged himself to last a day on a single British pound, plus tap water and whatever he could legally scrounge. For example, he discovered some discarded fast food wrappers that had a token he could redeem for a free coffee. Since then, I've been thinking about what I'd do on my end with a comparable budget. Given current exchange rates, I'm ball-parking it at 1 British pound being the same as $2 American. We use a sales tax here in Texas rather than a VAT, but most food items aren't taxed and so that shouldn't be an issue. Regional chain HEB - www.heb.com/browse/shop - has an online shopping service in which you can purchase your items at home and either pick them up or have them delivered, so I'm going off of the raw prices they have listed to see what I could do. A few things that have caught my eye so far: $0.88 / loaf for store-brand white bread $0.44 / can for off-brand chili $0.50 / can for store-brand tomato paste $0.50 / can for select store-brand vegetables $0.50 / can for select store-brand soups $1.14 / six-pack of instant ramen noodles $0.20 apiece for limes $0.68 apiece for cucumbers $0.20 apiece for small navel oranges $0.39 apiece for a specific type of organic onion $0.34 apiece for fresh red potatoes $0.29 apiece for Roma tomatoes $0.33 apiece for fresh small gala or Granny Smith apples $0.31 apiece for store-brand yogurt cups $0.50 apiece for store-brand canned beef or chicken stock $0.30 apiece for packets of store-brand brown gravy mix $1 apiece for packets of instant mashed potato mix Some things immediately came to mind, such as: 3 * cans soup + 1 can of corn to leaven it out = $2 (I'd be leavening the soup with the corn) loaf of bread + chili + tomato paste = $1.82 (I'd mix the chili and tomato paste, then have chili sandwiches) I'm puzzling matters out from there. For example, I could probably get two meals by mixing the mashed potatoes and chili together due to my being a bit of a big eater, leaving me $0.56 to figure out the third meal of the day (can of soup? yogurt and a lime?). I imagine it'll be something I'll be pondering for a while. |
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Post by ironhold on Feb 29, 2020 6:31:44 GMT
$0.35 apiece for store-brand flavored gelatin mix.
Take a pack of that, chop up a lime, and mix it in with the gelatin before it sets and cools.
For $0.55 I'll have a serving of vitamin C with each of the day's three meals, leaving me with $1.45 to split on everything else.
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Post by the light works on Feb 29, 2020 6:44:00 GMT
used to be, here, we could get pork and beans for .25 a can. (roughtly equivalent to british tinned beans if Cyber's interested in the topic.) Ramen can get as low as 10 for $1.00. but really, I'd be looking pretty hard at the sale rack. stuff there tends to average 50% off.
however, if you really want a mental challenge - try it with a slightly bigger budget - say $5.00 a day - and no cooking or refrigeration, to see why they say it's expensive to be poor.
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Post by wvengineer on Mar 26, 2020 19:29:50 GMT
One thing my family did a lot when I was a kid is 5 Can Soup
1 can corn ($0.50)
1 can green beans ($0.50)
1 can tomato Soup Concentrate ($0.98)
1 can vegetable beef soup concentrate ($0.98)
1 can chili ($.99)
Dump contents of all cans into a pot and heat through.
For $3.95 for a batch, that can easily be 5 to 8 meals worth.
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