Lamb Vindaloo.
God I wanna be good at making that. And veggie samosas
I just made that this week and think I may agree with you, or at least I’d not try on a workday again. I didn’t have the right peppers and used dried ancho, jarred roasted red pepper and a little fresh red pepper and it came out really good, sorta new world /old world delicious fusion but my God, toasting, grinding, processing, tasting, resting the paste. Started in the morning and let it rest while I was at work. Also started sourdough naan in the morning & of course made a vegetable dish to go with the meat - everything was good but I was exhausted by the end of the day!
Croissants - 3 days prep time minimum? You have to be very precise with everything and it’s just such a bother.
Cake. Orange cake.
I once made borscht. That is a labour of love I’ll never go through again. I also made a hot chocolate layer cake, including making the marshmallows, and that was a lot of work.
Tofu.
Pressing the water out, marinating for hours, then cooking properly so it’s delicious and not a rubbery mess is just too much hassle.
Just dice or slice it, dust it with corn starch and fry it until crispy. Serve with sauce or in a stirfry. No need for pressing water out. It won’t be rubbery.
I rarely even marinate my tofu, and have never really had issues with it getting rubbery, but the hassle of pressing the water out is enough of a deterrent for me. I’ve considered buying a tofu presser, but I have a small kitchen, so I don’t really like owning such specialized tools.
but the hassle of pressing the water out is enough of a deterrent for me
Get super firm, they are vacuum sealed and pre-pressed. You can skip the pressing step entirely.
Really? That’s what I usually buy, but there’s still some liquid in the package, so I’ve always pressed it. I guess I’ll have to try it without pressing some time.
I like to do a bunch of baking for the holidays, and usually do a mix of easy/familiar recipes, plus some new/challenging recipes. I made caramels, and while I was pretty happy with them, I never heard one person comment on them, and they were a lot of effort compared to things like chocolate chip cookies, so I’ve never made them again.
Edit: Another is pumpkin pie from fresh pumpkins. I’ve done it, it’s not that difficult, but it’s also not any cheaper or better tasting than just buying good canned pumpkin.
Beef Wellington.
I was thinking about making this to surprise ans impress my wife. Watched a video on how to make it and decided that there are easier ways to impress her.
I made one for new years and while there are alot of steps, but the steps themselves are very doable. I prepped mine the day before and just had to cook in the oven on the day.
a *lot of steps
Sourdough
It’s honestly not hard at all.
Do you have a reliable starter recipe?
Cooking in general
Soup dumplings. The broth for the soup has to be make in a specific way to solidify and I think there’s also a complex method of incorporating the soup into the meat and veggies in the dumplings. It’s just a very time consuming process all around. It’s sucks tho because I love soup dumplings and being able to make a huge portion of them would be amazing.
It’s not that hard to get the stock to solidify. You just need to reduce it enough and pop it in the fridge.
You’re right. I must’ve been thinking about something else lol
Homemade pizza. Making the dough creates a mess and requires delicate manual labor in several steps at precise times over more than 24 hours. Looks great on YouTube but that’s just not me.
Edit: thanks for the suggestions, guys. Who knows, maybe one day… 😉
A middle ground I do often is buy frozen pizzas and then add my own extra toppings. They’re usually so cheap and skimp anyhow that I look at it like buying a starter pizza shell.
That’s what I always do since there are decent options available nowadays.
It takes me an hour to make pizza from scratch at home. I’ll grant it’s messy but it’s pretty easy!
- Prepare dough following steps 1-8 in the dough recipe above
- While your dough is rising, prepare the pizza sauce
- Liberally dust your pizza peel with corn meal (use more than you think you need!)
- Transfer the rolled-out dough onto the pizza peel and pinch the edges to form a crust
- Assemble and cook the pizza following steps 10-12 in the dough recipe above. I tend to use about 1/2 cup of pizza sauce, 4oz grated mozzarella, fresh basil leaves, and pepperoni, but the sky’s the limit really
- Enjoy!
The pizza dough tastes better when allowed to rest and rise slowly in the fridge. Using a ton of store bought yeast for a quick rise is fine, but planning out the dough the night before is better.
Well it depends on what you want to achieve. Because there is also the oven, which os important, and your ingredient.
I love making pizza since I was a teenager and I learned slowly. Internet was great for learning cold fermentation or about different type of pizza.
But you can make a decent pizza quite easily.
Maybe try focaccia first it’s super fun. This is the recipe I use.
A ceramic stone in the oven has been a gamechanger for my pizzas.
Yep, if you make pizza in a home oven it’s really important to have a stone plate.
I really like my lodge cast-iron one, but when I’ve used stones they seem to work just as well for New Haven style
Ramen. Like true, 14+ hrs of effort tonkotsu broth.
It’s been a dream of mine for a long time, but fuck is that a long time.
It’s not 14 hours of effort. It’s 14 hours of letting shit boil.
I highly recommend getting slow cooker if you don’t have one. You can do stocks and broths without having to keep an eye on them. I let my bone broths go for two days.
I bet there’s a few Instant Pot recipes, too.
As much as I love barbecue I don’t and won’t own a smoker.
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It’s a ham sandwich. If you can pick your nose up can make a passable bechemal
So I have this problem… I enjoy cooking and when my grandmother passed away, I inherited her recipe book and her Le Creuset dutch oven.
THEN I discovered I lived a short drive from a Le Creuset outlet store AND they have a mailing list that regularly delivers 30% to 70% off coupon deals.
So I’ll find a pan that makes me go “Oooh!” then I look for excuses to use it.
So it’s not really a lack of motivation, but rather I want people to cook for. Cooking just for me? Incredibly lazy. “More time to make and clean up than eat? I’m not making it.” Cooking for OTHER people?
Chuck roast:
Shakshuka:
Chocolate hazelnut chocolate chip cheesecake:
Beef roast:
Pork loin w/ scalloped potatoes:
Ableskievers:
Ableskievers
Where are you from? I didn’t realize anyone outside Denmark or maybe some nordic countries made these. :)
They’re definitely a thing in the US
From Oregon, but we have a large Scandinavian population here.
woah
sweet takoyaki
Hello it’s me ur friend I’m coming over for dinner
Find a homeless shelter and cook for them? Idk, just an idea. Food looks amazing
Cooking at scale is a much, much bigger deal. Hard to maintain quality, both in terms of ingredients and end product.
There’s a good reason why school lunches are garbage. :(
Holy fuck that chuck roast looks good
It was really good, with bacon, veggies, braised in Malbec wine and Grand Marnier.
I found 2 recipes I couldn’t decide between so I just combined them. ;)
1 pack of bacon, diced and cooked in olive oil on medium high until the edges were brown, then removed.
In the same pan, 2 diced carrots, 2 diced celery stalks, 2 diced Walla Walla sweet onions. Cooked on medium high until carmaelized, then removed.
3.37 pound boneless chuck roast. Patted dry, heavily salted and peppered, seared on one side for 5 minutes, flipped and then seared on the other side for 5 minutes and removed.
Added back 1/2 cup Grand Marnier and 2 cups of Malbec Wine. Deglazed the pan scraping up all the brown bits.
Put the bacon back in, put the veggies back in, stirred until well distributed. Added bay leaves, thyme and rosemary, several cloves of minced garlic, topped with the meat.
Brought to a boil then placed in a pre-heated 325° oven for 3 hours.
After 3 hours, beef was to temp and easily shreddable. (Finally! A reason to use the meat claws!) Resting on stove top while I cook some pasta to go with it.
Pasta was super simple. Boiled water and salt, cooked a bag of egg noodles for 8 or 9 minutes. Drained, removed, then melted a stick of butter in the pot, added a small container of heavy cream, added rosemary and thyme, brought it to a simmer then popped the pasta back in and cooked a couple of minutes.
I fear you’re living too far away from me to say “I’ll come and eat that!”
Doing grilling lately so just follow the smoke. :)
