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

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