Cooking TNL Part II

Be careful of infection. Neosporin or any antibiotic ointment.

Yeah definitely keep your arm clean and protected while you heal.

Those Guinness fries sound ridiculously awesome. Makes me wish i had access to a fryer.

Most chefs/cooks I know don't eat particularly well. For example I'm having a wonderful dinner of Ovaltine right now.

I mean I could go in the kitchen and whip something together, but I've been doing that for 10 hours already today.

If I had a specialty it wouldn't really be a cuisine; more like using very limited ingredients for a great result. Stuff like Fettucine Alfredo made out of whatever's on hand.

Sounds kind of like authentic Italian. Let great ingredients do the work, not the process (like the french).

I think over the past two years or so, I have slowly stopped using formal recipes for cooking. I never have half the stuff required, anyway, and I hate buying something unless I know I'm going to use a lot of it. I keep my pantry full of rice, beans, canned tomatoes, spices, and baking goods, and I have what I need, and I don't have much that I don't use often.

Baking, however, is a completely different matter. I don't fudge with the recipes much, unless it's adding nuts or something. Most baking is simply too dependent on proportions and such to guess. Outcome is 30% following instructions, 20% quality of ingredients, and 50% knack/finesse/feel.

I need to start baking. I know I could do it, but I just never do it. I don't know why.

I also don't really follow formal recipes. I do try and check out the ingredients, I just don't follow the measuring all that much. I do know if I bake I have to follow it verbatim.

Impaled in the missionary position in the hotbox ftw imo.

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Looks tasty. I am awaiting the results.

That looks really really good. Plus the pic didn't ruin it!


Stormy - http://img142.imageshack.us/img142/444/6247332jd4.jpg


$20 at wal mart.


Also Icarus I hope you heal up quick. I feel your pain!