P*****k will probably plant some more this summer. You should go steal some, a bunch went to waste last year. I ate a ton of it, but i think I was one of the only ones. 31st and Harriet, organhaus. I don't live there anymore, so ahhh, go for it, otto.
General rule for a brine is half cup of salt/sugar per gallon of water. The chicken should be brined for an hour per lb. Extra herbs/spices are at your discretion. Putting 1/2 cup of salt into your brine is different than rubbing half a cup of salt onto the bird, can you grasp that?
Basting is counterproductive imo, you're just preventing the skin from crisping up. The parts that gets dried are the inside meat. Do try brining and see for yourself.
Salt is not the enemy! Why are people so afraid of salt? The salt that's killing you comes from processed foods (canned soups, tv dinners, chips). Regular usage of salt in the kitchen is fine. I've seen way too many home cooks under salt because of the public agenda against salt.
If people only knew how much salt is used in a commercial kitchen, they would freak out.
i did what some call "cooking" tonight. its a rather difficult process, but they say it pays off once you eat the food.
and later on this evening i'm going to try this new fad called "jogging". i believe it's pronounced yog-ing, it might be a soft-j. i'm not sure but apparently you just run for an extended period of time. it's supposed to be wild.
sauteed in lemon & garlic omega3 plant sterols, then steamed...
Im going to make this for a friends bday coming up Persian Love Cake from epicurious: "This chiffon cake filled with rose-scented whipped cream is inspired by the aromatics found in Persian, Turkish, and Indian confections. Cardamom seeds have more flavor than the ground powder and are like little explosions of spice in the cake."
I'm thinking of doubling the recipe to make it taller, whatchoo all think?
On a side note...
Today the boy made fun of me cause i had meyer lemons and stubbs rub spice in my purse.
Persian Love Cake I'm thinking of doubling the recipe to make it taller, whatchoo all think?
Looks pretty, but why go taller?
I dunno, i thought it would pretty taller, but not like it should be like a wedding cake, ya know?
hm, maybe i should just stick with the recipe.
I've been really into floral cakes lately.
I made this for Easter: Meyer Lemon Cake with Lavender Cream
it was so gooood. I really need to get a good camera to take pics of what I make.
Yeah, do that. Lavender sounds good. Are yu gonna make the Lav cream urself?
HarveyCanal"a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
Tonight, I made stir fried vegetables over white rice. Eggplant, yelow squash, zucchini, red pepper, green pepper, and garlic with freshly cut cilantro used as a garnish. For the sauce, I mixed vegetable oil, water, soy sauce, sugar, and spices (which minus the oil is also my standard steak marinade). Along with cantelope as an appetizer, it came out nice.
I made the lavender cream for Easter for my family, it was so easy and soooooo goood. That lemon cake is great with Earl Grey hot tea or of course jasmine. Now that I think about it I should make some bergamot cream sometime, even though it does pair with chocolate.
But for the friends bday, Im sticking to the first cake. Candied flowers is a nice touch on a cake.
Tonight, I made stir fried vegetables over white rice. Eggplant, yelow squash, zucchini, red pepper, green pepper, and garlic with freshly cut cilantro used as a garnish. For the sauce, I mixed vegetable oil, water, soy sauce, sugar, and spices (which minus the oil is also my standard steak marinade). Along with cantelope as an appetizer, it came out nice.
HOT SALAD
I made a Coffee rubbed Short Ribs w/ Buttamilk mash potatoes.
I made the lavender cream for Easter for my family, it was so easy and soooooo goood. That lemon cake is great with Earl Grey hot tea or of course jasmine. Now that I think about it I should make some bergamot cream sometime, even though it does pair with chocolate.
But for the friends bday, Im sticking to the first cake. Candied flowers is a nice touch on a cake.
If mad people are coming to the B-Day, id say make it taller, but if its a regular crowd, keep it conservative. 'Who really wants it!"
I made the lavender cream for Easter for my family, it was so easy and soooooo goood. That lemon cake is great with Earl Grey hot tea or of course jasmine. Now that I think about it I should make some bergamot cream sometime, even though it does pair with chocolate.
But for the friends bday, Im sticking to the first cake. Candied flowers is a nice touch on a cake.
If mad people are coming to the B-Day, id say make it taller, but if its a regular crowd, keep it conservative. 'Who really wants it!"
See, im having it come out at midnight on Friday with her fav song playing at this martini bar we work at.
Cause im cool like that.
HarveyCanal"a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
Tonight, I made stir fried vegetables over white rice. Eggplant, yelow squash, zucchini, red pepper, green pepper, and garlic with freshly cut cilantro used as a garnish. For the sauce, I mixed vegetable oil, water, soy sauce, sugar, and spices (which minus the oil is also my standard steak marinade). Along with cantelope as an appetizer, it came out nice.
HOT SALAD
I made a Coffee rubbed Short Ribs w/ Buttamilk mash potatoes.
So, I'm pretty good at all forms of cooking other than chinese. Probably because I've worked at some time in my life at pretty much every ethnicity of restaurant except for chinese. Any body wanna drop the knowledge on chinese food?
Tonight, I made stir fried vegetables over white rice. Eggplant, yelow squash, zucchini, red pepper, green pepper, and garlic with freshly cut cilantro used as a garnish. For the sauce, I mixed vegetable oil, water, soy sauce, sugar, and spices (which minus the oil is also my standard steak marinade). Along with cantelope as an appetizer, it came out nice.
HOT SALAD
I made a Coffee rubbed Short Ribs w/ Buttamilk mash potatoes.
YOU SOUND SINGLE.
Haha..
Id come home to my ex-wife cuttin up some veggies and addin that to a hot skillit w/ olive oil, to serve it w/ rice. She'd catch mad snaps from me..."what the hell u makin a Hot Salad?" Low effort steez IMO. Being from Finaland, her fish game was tight, but after that, shit was doo-doo.
HarveyCanal"a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
Tonight, I made stir fried vegetables over white rice. Eggplant, yelow squash, zucchini, red pepper, green pepper, and garlic with freshly cut cilantro used as a garnish. For the sauce, I mixed vegetable oil, water, soy sauce, sugar, and spices (which minus the oil is also my standard steak marinade). Along with cantelope as an appetizer, it came out nice.
HOT SALAD
I made a Coffee rubbed Short Ribs w/ Buttamilk mash potatoes.
YOU SOUND SINGLE.
Haha..
Id come home to my ex-wife cuttin up some veggies and addin that to a hot skillit w/ olive oil, to serve it w/ rice. She'd catch mad snaps from me..."what the hell u makin a Hot Salad?" Low effort steez IMO. Being from Finaland, her fish game was tight, but after that, shit was doo-doo.
Tonight, I made stir fried vegetables over white rice. Eggplant, yelow squash, zucchini, red pepper, green pepper, and garlic with freshly cut cilantro used as a garnish. For the sauce, I mixed vegetable oil, water, soy sauce, sugar, and spices (which minus the oil is also my standard steak marinade). Along with cantelope as an appetizer, it came out nice.
HOT SALAD
I made a Coffee rubbed Short Ribs w/ Buttamilk mash potatoes.
YOU SOUND SINGLE.
Haha..
Id come home to my ex-wife cuttin up some veggies and addin that to a hot skillit w/ olive oil, to serve it w/ rice. She'd catch mad snaps from me..."what the hell u makin a Hot Salad?" Low effort steez IMO. Being from Finland, her fish game was tight, but after that, shit was doo-doo.
She didn't even have a good jerk in her?
Tragic.
Her Jerk game was
If you drink coffee try makin a dry rub outta some expresso. Put that shit on beef,chicken,fish,whatever.....im tellin ya.
HarveyCanal"a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
Tonight, I made stir fried vegetables over white rice. Eggplant, yelow squash, zucchini, red pepper, green pepper, and garlic with freshly cut cilantro used as a garnish. For the sauce, I mixed vegetable oil, water, soy sauce, sugar, and spices (which minus the oil is also my standard steak marinade). Along with cantelope as an appetizer, it came out nice.
HOT SALAD
I made a Coffee rubbed Short Ribs w/ Buttamilk mash potatoes.
YOU SOUND SINGLE.
Haha..
Id come home to my ex-wife cuttin up some veggies and addin that to a hot skillit w/ olive oil, to serve it w/ rice. She'd catch mad snaps from me..."what the hell u makin a Hot Salad?" Low effort steez IMO. Being from Finland, her fish game was tight, but after that, shit was doo-doo.
She didn't even have a good jerk in her?
Tragic.
Her Jerk game was
If you drink coffee try makin a dry rub outta some expresso. Put that shit on beef,chicken,fish,whatever.....im tellin ya.
Tonight, I made stir fried vegetables over white rice. Eggplant, yelow squash, zucchini, red pepper, green pepper, and garlic with freshly cut cilantro used as a garnish. For the sauce, I mixed vegetable oil, water, soy sauce, sugar, and spices (which minus the oil is also my standard steak marinade). Along with cantelope as an appetizer, it came out nice.
HOT SALAD
I made a Coffee rubbed Short Ribs w/ Buttamilk mash potatoes.
YOU SOUND SINGLE.
Haha..
Id come home to my ex-wife cuttin up some veggies and addin that to a hot skillit w/ olive oil, to serve it w/ rice. She'd catch mad snaps from me..."what the hell u makin a Hot Salad?" Low effort steez IMO. Being from Finland, her fish game was tight, but after that, shit was doo-doo.
She didn't even have a good jerk in her?
Tragic.
Her Jerk game was
If you drink coffee try makin a dry rub outta some expresso. Put that shit on beef,chicken,fish,whatever.....im tellin ya.
Tonight, I made stir fried vegetables over white rice. Eggplant, yelow squash, zucchini, red pepper, green pepper, and garlic with freshly cut cilantro used as a garnish. For the sauce, I mixed vegetable oil, water, soy sauce, sugar, and spices (which minus the oil is also my standard steak marinade). Along with cantelope as an appetizer, it came out nice.
HOT SALAD
I made a Coffee rubbed Short Ribs w/ Buttamilk mash potatoes.
YOU SOUND SINGLE.
Haha..
Id come home to my ex-wife cuttin up some veggies and addin that to a hot skillit w/ olive oil, to serve it w/ rice. She'd catch mad snaps from me..."what the hell u makin a Hot Salad?" Low effort steez IMO. Being from Finland, her fish game was tight, but after that, shit was doo-doo.
She didn't even have a good jerk in her?
Tragic.
Her Jerk game was
If you drink coffee try makin a dry rub outta some expresso. Put that shit on beef,chicken,fish,whatever.....im tellin ya.
I have had my beef rubbed before.
No more after the married life?
HarveyCanal"a distraction from my main thesis." 13,234 Posts
Tonight, I made stir fried vegetables over white rice. Eggplant, yelow squash, zucchini, red pepper, green pepper, and garlic with freshly cut cilantro used as a garnish. For the sauce, I mixed vegetable oil, water, soy sauce, sugar, and spices (which minus the oil is also my standard steak marinade). Along with cantelope as an appetizer, it came out nice.
HOT SALAD
I made a Coffee rubbed Short Ribs w/ Buttamilk mash potatoes.
YOU SOUND SINGLE.
Haha..
Id come home to my ex-wife cuttin up some veggies and addin that to a hot skillit w/ olive oil, to serve it w/ rice. She'd catch mad snaps from me..."what the hell u makin a Hot Salad?" Low effort steez IMO. Being from Finland, her fish game was tight, but after that, shit was doo-doo.
She didn't even have a good jerk in her?
Tragic.
Her Jerk game was
If you drink coffee try makin a dry rub outta some expresso. Put that shit on beef,chicken,fish,whatever.....im tellin ya.
I have had my beef rubbed before.
No more after the married life?
More wet rubs than dry.
Seriously, my wife bastes-slathers-drowns any meat she cooks like it's actually possible to grill meat stew without a pot.
So, I'm pretty good at all forms of cooking other than chinese. Probably because I've worked at some time in my life at pretty much every ethnicity of restaurant except for chinese. Any body wanna drop the knowledge on chinese food?
wok + extremely hot burner + brief cooking time = basic foundation of a lot of Chinese cooking.
Chinese cuisine is perhaps the most diverse food culture of any in the world. The cuisine encountered by N. Americans are represented by the immigrants most commonly found on our shores, namely Cantonese, Szechuan/Sichuan, & Shanghai.
Cantonese - emphasis on fresh ingredients, especially seafood as the population lived close to southern coastal areas. Lighter than other regions since it's situated in hotter climates.
Szechuan/Sichuan - peppers, peppers, and oh just a few more peppers. Lots of preserved foods.
Shanghai - dumprings dumprings dumprings. Cuisine tends to be much sweeter than other regions. A bit oily imo.
best dishes to try cooking for the first time would be simple greens. Discover the joys of gai lan (chinese broccoli), pea shoots, shanghai bak choy (more mustard in flavour than reg bak choy), etc.
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i live for kale.... and cilantro. if i knew you had kale over there you might had caught me diggin in your garden on some lonely, hungry night...
Basting is counterproductive imo, you're just preventing the skin from crisping up. The parts that gets dried are the inside meat. Do try brining and see for yourself.
Salt is not the enemy! Why are people so afraid of salt? The salt that's killing you comes from processed foods (canned soups, tv dinners, chips). Regular usage of salt in the kitchen is fine. I've seen way too many home cooks under salt because of the public agenda against salt.
If people only knew how much salt is used in a commercial kitchen, they would freak out.
Add Butter / Oil to that list too.
Double true.
and later on this evening i'm going to try this new fad called "jogging". i believe it's pronounced yog-ing, it might be a soft-j. i'm not sure but apparently you just run for an extended period of time. it's supposed to be wild.
sauteed in lemon & garlic omega3 plant sterols, then steamed...
HOT SALAD
Persian Love Cake
from epicurious:
"This chiffon cake filled with rose-scented whipped cream is inspired by the aromatics found in Persian, Turkish, and Indian confections. Cardamom seeds have more flavor than the ground powder and are like little explosions of spice in the cake."
I'm thinking of doubling the recipe to make it taller, whatchoo all think?
On a side note...
Today the boy made fun of me cause i had meyer lemons and stubbs rub spice in my purse.
Looks pretty, but why go taller?
I dunno, i thought it would pretty taller, but not like it should be like a wedding cake, ya know?
hm, maybe i should just stick with the recipe.
I've been really into floral cakes lately.
I made this for Easter:
Meyer Lemon Cake with Lavender Cream
it was so gooood. I really need to get a good camera to take pics of what I make.
Yeah, do that. Lavender sounds good. Are yu gonna make the Lav cream urself?
But for the friends bday, Im sticking to the first cake. Candied flowers is a nice touch on a cake.
HOT SALAD
I made a Coffee rubbed Short Ribs w/ Buttamilk mash potatoes.
If mad people are coming to the B-Day, id say make it taller, but if its a regular crowd, keep it conservative. 'Who really wants it!"
See, im having it come out at midnight on Friday with her fav song playing at this martini bar we work at.
Cause im cool like that.
YOU SOUND SINGLE.
Haha..
Id come home to my ex-wife cuttin up some veggies and addin that to a hot skillit w/ olive oil, to serve it w/ rice. She'd catch mad snaps from me..."what the hell u makin a Hot Salad?" Low effort steez IMO. Being from Finaland, her fish game was tight, but after that, shit was doo-doo.
She didn't even have a good jerk in her?
Tragic.
Her Jerk game was
If you drink coffee try makin a dry rub outta some expresso. Put that shit on beef,chicken,fish,whatever.....im tellin ya.
I have had my beef rubbed before.
Post or pre espresso making?
No more after the married life?
More wet rubs than dry.
Seriously, my wife bastes-slathers-drowns any meat she cooks like it's actually possible to grill meat stew without a pot.
I don't mind.
wok + extremely hot burner + brief cooking time = basic foundation of a lot of Chinese cooking.
Chinese cuisine is perhaps the most diverse food culture of any in the world. The cuisine encountered by N. Americans are represented by the immigrants most commonly found on our shores, namely Cantonese, Szechuan/Sichuan, & Shanghai.
Cantonese - emphasis on fresh ingredients, especially seafood as the population lived close to southern coastal areas. Lighter than other regions since it's situated in hotter climates.
Szechuan/Sichuan - peppers, peppers, and oh just a few more peppers. Lots of preserved foods.
Shanghai - dumprings dumprings dumprings. Cuisine tends to be much sweeter than other regions. A bit oily imo.
best dishes to try cooking for the first time would be simple greens. Discover the joys of gai lan (chinese broccoli), pea shoots, shanghai bak choy (more mustard in flavour than reg bak choy), etc.
Depending on the veg, I prefer to cook them w/ ingredients such as preserved tofu, shrimp paste, fish sauce, or steamed w/ oyster sauce for dipping.