What Have You been Cooking?

[Illithid]

Besides collecting Tyranids and punishing my body with exercise, I like to cook (go figure, both my parents are chefs). So I decided to start a new thread where you can add meals that you have prepared that have been above the norm or things that turned into a disaster.

I will start this off with what I cooked last night and what I am cooking tonight:

Last Night was Osso Bucco Lamb Shanks on a bed of mashed potato with steamed vegetables:



Tonight is Pizza Night, so I made three kinds of Pizza:

Garlic and tomato base, with Mozzarella Cheese Amazon Chilli, German Salami, Diced Bacon, Mushroom, Capsicum, Basil Leaves and sliced tomato topped with Halinko Fetta Cheese



Second Pizza is Tomato and Chilli Base, Mozzarella Cheese, Diced Bacon, Capsicum, Diced Tomato and Kalamata Olives



Third is a combination of the Two above, with various aspects of both:

[Deathnid]

I cooked bananna cake ;D
i dont realy take photos of meals though... i guess i will take one of mah famous enchiladas for ya.

[swarm492]

Grilled catfish, seasonings, lemon, and black pepper. Good breakfast.

[Hive Fleet Cthulhu]

A plate of spaghetti, obviously... with a ceaser salad and cheese-garlic toast side


Stirfry and rice


I forget what this was... I think it was a beef stroganoff


And this is a chicken patty with sweet sauce... on noodles.

[swarm492]

Anyone with experiance cooking shark? Recipes I can find I'm more interested in how the meat behaves.

[Helonion]

Damn, now I have to start taking pics of steak! Sucks for all of you! OVEN IS BEST!

[swarm492]

Oven for steak, you mad?? I'm willing to let you explain yourself, what cuts and how are you preping them?

[Helonion]

Jul 13, 2012 17:13:56 GMT swarm492 said:

Oven for steak, you mad?? I'm willing to let you explain yourself, what cuts and how are you preping them?

Oven tastes way better than bbq!

What I do is I put olive oil all over it/massage it in, then sprinkle Lawrys salt and Accent(another seasoning salt) on it. Then put in the oven on broil for 4 minutes, then flip it and put it in for another 4min. Also we only do that to ribeye, mainly.

[Dro]

Jul 13, 2012 16:53:28 GMT swarm492 said:

Anyone with experiance cooking shark? Recipes I can find I'm more interested in how the meat behaves.

Had some Harkal, I wouldn't make that without knowledge of it though.

[Rakuall]

What the deuce HFC? Most of that looks like a weight watchers commercial, not like food. I understand wanting to make it no look like slop, but that some people get so dressy with their food it boggles my mind.

Oven tastes way better than bbq!

No. Just, no. It's possible that I just haven't had a good oven-steak, But I can almost guarantee that the right combo of stuff could make a BBQ steak that you'd fall in love with. Personally I'm partial to my mom's ancient black cast iron propane fueled real charcoal briquette barbie. I can work wonders with that and an old soup can full of water. Those new 'stainless steel' things aren't really barbecues.

[Geneva]

I used to be able to cook. I even got an A1 in school for my practical cookery exam. Since then I haven't touched anything more complex than a pre-frozen pizza though. I should get back into it. These pictures make me want to buy a cook book.

[Overread]

Jul 13, 2012 17:17:45 GMT Helonion said:

Jul 13, 2012 17:13:56 GMT swarm492 said:

Oven for steak, you mad?? I'm willing to let you explain yourself, what cuts and how are you preping them?

Oven tastes way better than bbq!

Eh always one more for a pan than the oven for steak, but yes oven can work wonders on it; esp if you prefer it well cooked over medium or rare.

Actually BBQ's are a nightmare for anything! Worst thing is people get this idea that they must cook on the flame - worst place for it! Unless you can flip and turn the meat in seconds you'll get black charred bits all over it.

For something like steak or chicken legs or anything more meaty than a sausage I'd always pre-cook and just flavour the outside on a BBQ. Otherwise they take for ever *that said chicken legs are not too bad since the skin chars and protects the meat some*




As for cooking; eh don't do much myself, I can cook, but eh I find cooking for one is a lot of work for even a basic meal *and you either end up way under preparing or, more often, way over preparing the amount of food*

[Illithid]

Jul 13, 2012 16:53:28 GMT swarm492 said:

Anyone with experiance cooking shark? Recipes I can find I'm more interested in how the meat behaves.

It is like cooking fish, I made a red curry out of shark the other night - use a skewer/toothpick and poke it occasionally to see if it is cooked.

It can crumble if cooked to long and is not nice like most fish that is overcooked.

[Helonion]

What my mom use to do for chicken is warm it in the microwave then cook on the BBQ.

Also we put our baked potatoes in a towel and roll them. (clearly after being placed in tinfoil). This way since they are warm they mash up inside and we get a backed potatoes but nice and mushy liked mashed potatoes. Makes butter and salt more useful.

Also my mistake, extra virgin olive oil on the steak!

[Illithid]

^That - I do it a bit differently. With baked potatoes, boil them and then rough them up in a strainer. I usually top them with salt, orange zest and rosemary - after cooking them for a further 20mins, I flatten slightly with a masher to get the same effect.