Cooking/food thread.

[gamez]

Kia, if you've never had pierogi(perogies), you should totally buy one of the cheap grochery bags of those in the frozen foods for lazy meals if you're sick of baked potatoes. They're just mashed potato dumplings with cheddar or bacon or onion taste mixed inside.

Boil'em for a couple minutes, just until the water starts to boil so like 5 minutes, not even that long just enough to thaw them out a little. Strain'em, fry them on half heat in a pool of butter or canola oil, 5 minutes, flip them when they're golden, cook another 5 minutes, dump them on a plate, throw cheese ontop, nuke them to melt it really fast(doesn't change taste) and dip'em in whatever the hell you want.

Simple as hell, costs like $8 for 100, and 10-12 is a meal, god send to budget eaters and they last forever in the freezer.

I have recipes for homemaking them for unlazy folks if they want lol.

[gamez]

Advice.

You saw nothing.

[Shiroikage]

To be honest, there's not a huge difference when they're homemade, and coming from where I come from, I know a thing or 2 million about perogies.

[Kiarax]

I have baked potatoes once every few months at most. I am certainly not sick of them. Those sound good though and I shall try them if I remember the next time I actually leave the house and go to the store (which will probably be months away).

[gamez]

To be honest, there's not a huge difference when they're homemade, and coming from where I come from, I know a thing or 2 million about perogies.

I know you do, pretty much all the perogies I buy come from your area.

I have baked potatoes once every few months at most. I am certainly not sick of them. Those sound good though and I shall try them if I remember the next time I actually leave the house and go to the store (which will probably be months away).

I shop like this now usually. But I live with new people who do all the groceries, and try to eat healthy/stock the pantry with all this cooking crap. I've become a lot different in how often I cook compared to how often I eat food pre-made. Still I have a ton of knowledge of living on a shit budget of $250 a month for groceries per person. If you own a slow cooker, you can make some awesome things that you'll pick left overs off for a week with about 30-40 minutes of effort total and a fuck ton of microwave time.

I used to make the mistake of trying way too fucking hard in adding flavor to things, not realizing how different spices actually worked rather then just thinking they added taste like sauce rather then actually changing how meat cooked with them.

[Shiroikage]

I used to make the mistake of trying way too fucking hard in adding flavor to things, not realizing how different spices actually worked rather then just thinking they added taste like sauce rather then actually changing how meat cooked with them.

I used to be a picky eater until very recent, pretty much eat anything now. It's like I have a fresh set of taste buds. I can tell exactly what something's going to do to a dish by smelling or tasting it on its own.

[Shiroikage]

Absolutely the only perk about that.

[gamez]

I've honestly never ate lobster, shrimp, or crab. I'm not big on sea food texture though so perhaps that has something to do with it.

But I'm debating trying out some squid now because it looks delicious and fun to cook when done right. My family is actually hugely dieting on traditional pasta/homemade italian food. Which is healthy, though there's not a drop of italian in our blood(it's all english-irish canadian, most people are in Lucan County>Middlesex County if they're white around here).

[Shojin]

marmite

Oh dear god

[Kiarax]

I despise seafood. The smell of fish alone can make me gag. But crab sticks were always the shit, I should probably try crab/lobster one day since I can't imagine them to taste much different to crab sticks.
http://i44.tinypic.com/2w2ngqq.jpg
Look at these delicious things.

[Kiarax]

Oh dear god

Best not be insulting Marmite.

[Sera]

crab stick is fucking divine

[Shojin]

How can you eat that you insane woman. It's like a yeast infection in a jar

[Shojin]

It's so bad even the commercials are like "Look, you probably won't like this", one of those things you either love or hate

[Shojin]

Now marmalade on toast...

[Kiarax]

It's always true, you are clearly a tasteless faggot who hates it, I am a wonderful person who loves it.

[gamez]

I have the same reaction to the smell of strong sea food, I suppose it reminds me of our nasty gangrene/leprosy looking landlord who always boiled lobster and stunk of it constantly, he was like 400 lbs. and his skin looked like cauliflower up his entire arms.

I -might- try lobster soon, I'm baffled at people who seem to think it's a luxury food, so I'm hesitantly curious. I'm also curious what the fuck marmite/vegemite is in terms of texture and taste, so I might try those as well...

[Shojin]

It's always true, you are clearly a tasteless faggot who hates it, I am a wonderful person who loves it.

I will let this go, and blame it on the French. They must have corrupted your taste buds over there.

[Kiarax]

If you try Marmite or Vegemite make sure you spread that shit very lightly. Every foreigner who I've heard or seen try it has slathered that shit on so thick it would make even me gag, and I love Marmite.
IT SHOULD NOT LOOK LIKE THIS
http://www.chow.com/assets/2006/12/marmite_inline.jpg
MORE LIKE THIS
http://www.chewonthis.org.uk/fat_sal...salt_bread.jpg
It is definitely not for everyone though, the adverts advertise it as "You either love it or you hate it" and that statement could not be any truer. I have not found a single person who doesn't mind it or anything, it's always really liking it or hating the stuff.

[gamez]

I'm going to find recipes that you can use with marmite now. Just to attempt to find a way that people might actually like/hate it more. I honestly am hesitant about buying it simply to put on toast so much as other things.