TVTropes Now available in the app store!
Open

Follow TV Tropes

Following

The Kitchen: all things delicious and disastrous

Go To

Recipes, experiments (successful or otherwise), food you remember from your childhood, eating out. It's all welcome here.

Bur from Flyover Country (Living Relic) Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
TuefelHundenIV Night Clerk of the Apocalypse from Doomsday Facility Corner Store. Since: Aug, 2009 Relationship Status: I'd need a PowerPoint presentation
Night Clerk of the Apocalypse
#4477: Jan 8th 2016 at 10:35:23 PM

<mind blown> Lol. Not really but I should not really be surprised. Of course humanity would find a way to turn anything into soup sooner or later.

Who watches the watchmen?
MajorTom Since: Dec, 2009
dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar
#4479: Jan 12th 2016 at 10:51:27 AM

But no tuna. -shudders-

In another topic, tofus are great. Healthy, tasty, and filling.

Continuously reading, studying, and (hopefully) growing.
Bur from Flyover Country (Living Relic) Relationship Status: Having tea with Cthulhu
#4480: Jan 12th 2016 at 6:57:30 PM

After a ten year hiatus during which my tastebuds expanded greatly in what they enjoy, I can conclusively say that I still don't like liver and onions.

Blech. Now I have rusty liver burps.

TParadox Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: The captain of her heart
#4481: Jan 13th 2016 at 6:18:49 PM

I firmly believe in trying things you know you hate every now and then to make sure you still know your palate.

Fresh-eyed movie blog
MajorTom Since: Dec, 2009
#4482: Jan 16th 2016 at 6:20:00 PM

In another topic, tofus are great. Healthy, tasty, and filling.

But the stuff is so meh in terms of its own flavor. It makes a great filling agent in soups but on its own it's basically meh.

KyleJacobs from DC - Southern efficiency, Northern charm Since: Mar, 2011 Relationship Status: One True Dodecahedron
Rosvo1 Since: Aug, 2009
#4484: Jan 18th 2016 at 9:03:43 AM

Today's dinner was fairly small, a meat patty and noodles.

But I added barbecue sauce which made the patty taste amazing.

Gotta add it more on meat.

dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar
#4485: Jan 18th 2016 at 4:08:42 PM

@Major Tom - Eh, I like it by itself. YMMV, I guess.

Continuously reading, studying, and (hopefully) growing.
TParadox Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: The captain of her heart
#4486: Jan 21st 2016 at 10:16:30 AM

I brought a bag of lunch to work on Tuesday, and accidentally left it there, then had two days off.

Wouldn't be a problem except I was in a hurry Tuesday morning, and so I just threw the components in a tote bag, meaning I'm spending these two days without sliced bread, bologna, or mustard.

Fresh-eyed movie blog
KyleJacobs from DC - Southern efficiency, Northern charm Since: Mar, 2011 Relationship Status: One True Dodecahedron
#4487: Jan 21st 2016 at 8:43:14 PM

Well, burned chicken for the first time last night. I hate, hate, hate, hate electric stoves.

TParadox Since: Jan, 2001 Relationship Status: The captain of her heart
#4488: Jan 21st 2016 at 10:19:27 PM

I don't see a practical difference between electric and gas as far as cooking stuff goes. I prefer electric because it's one less bill and it can't leak.

Fresh-eyed movie blog
OriDoodle Mom Lady from East of West Since: Nov, 2010 Relationship Status: Consider his love an honor
#4489: Jan 22nd 2016 at 12:03:11 AM

Gas stoves allow for a more precise heat.

Doodles
Euodiachloris Since: Oct, 2010
#4490: Jan 22nd 2016 at 4:14:49 AM

I miss my gas stove. If you've never really used one, I can understand not getting the hype.

But, once you have...

NotSoBadassLongcoat The Showrunner of Dzwiedz 24 from People's Democratic Republic of Badassia (Old as dirt) Relationship Status: Puppy love
The Showrunner of Dzwiedz 24
#4491: Jan 22nd 2016 at 11:45:47 AM

Thanks to some difficulties in dividing a pack of steak fries into three equal parts, today's chili fries ended up as a handful of fries and a huge heap of chili.

Not that I'm complaining.

"what the complete, unabridged, 4k ultra HD fuck with bonus features" - Mark Von Lewis
KyleJacobs from DC - Southern efficiency, Northern charm Since: Mar, 2011 Relationship Status: One True Dodecahedron
#4492: Jan 22nd 2016 at 10:12:40 PM

More specifically - induction cooktops and cast iron? Not a good combo. There's only one burner on the dorm stove large enough to fit all of my skillet, and it likes to shut itself off if it even gets hot enough to boil water. The one next to it is too small, so any time I use it there's a solid one-inch ring around the entire pan where the oil isn't getting heated properly. There's an actual visible line, since it pools there. And of course it gets absurdly hot, so a chicken that I might cook on six on my home stove has to go at three here to avoid being burned to a crisp. And of course I can't just turn the heat off when I have to, because then the coil is still hot. Which is a pain whenever a recipe calls for you to drop the heat, which is to say frequently.

Off topic - It's going to be a stay-inside-and-make-chicken-soup kind of weekend. Any recommended tricks to making chicken and dumplings?

dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar
#4493: Jan 28th 2016 at 4:08:13 PM

A question for a Medieval fantasy story I'm writing.

What are some foods that would be affordable for a relatively rich traveller, kinds that are very easy to carry but also pack a lot of calories?

The ones that I can think of are cheese, unleavened bread, dried fruits, and meat jerkies.

Continuously reading, studying, and (hopefully) growing.
Leradny Since: Jan, 2001
#4494: Jan 28th 2016 at 7:35:14 PM

This is more suited to writer's block, actually. But I think aside from basic and high quality emergency supplies, they'd just carry money instead.

Achaemenid HGW XX/7 from Ruschestraße 103, Haus 1 Since: Dec, 2011 Relationship Status: Giving love a bad name
HGW XX/7
#4495: Jan 30th 2016 at 1:28:19 AM

Cured sausages like chorizo and salami would feature, I'm sure.

Schild und Schwert der Partei
Euodiachloris Since: Oct, 2010
#4496: Jan 30th 2016 at 3:53:49 AM

The cheese would also be very hard. Think Sbrinz, Berner Alpkäse, Parmasan, Pecorino Romano and such. You could practically use trail cheese to stab somebody with. evil grin

KyleJacobs from DC - Southern efficiency, Northern charm Since: Mar, 2011 Relationship Status: One True Dodecahedron
#4497: Jan 31st 2016 at 9:03:16 AM

Honestly, they'd probably just eat tavern food.

dRoy Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar from Most likely from my study Since: May, 2010 Relationship Status: I'm just high on the world
Professional Writer & Amateur Scholar
#4498: Jan 31st 2016 at 11:49:18 AM

Okay, sorry for the late reply, folks.

@Lelardny - I actually posted it in the Random Questions Thread too.

@Ach - Good idea, thanks.

@Euo - Hmm...would they be so hard to the point of inedible?

@Kyle - That's an option too, but they would have to travel a long distance and through many countries, so carrying different currencies and such might be a hassle.

........I should do more research on traveling in Medieval times.

Continuously reading, studying, and (hopefully) growing.
Euodiachloris Since: Oct, 2010
#4499: Jan 31st 2016 at 2:35:37 PM

[up]No more than very hard dried meat... and people eat biltong every day. You just use your handy pocket knife to shave the cheese/ meat and eat it with almost as hard tack/ bread.

KyleJacobs from DC - Southern efficiency, Northern charm Since: Mar, 2011 Relationship Status: One True Dodecahedron
#4500: Feb 8th 2016 at 9:09:03 PM

So I have 3 ounces of schmaltz now. Other than matzah balls, what the hell am I supposed to do with 3 ounces of schmaltz?


Total posts: 4,758
Top