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What's the most impactful cooking lesson you've learned recently?
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Decide what you want to eat. Pick-up can or ready meal of product… read ingredients and place back on shelf. But ingredients separately. Go home. Make approximation of meal you wanted. Edit and repeat until happy.
Got my "super fast red pesto" recipe this way. I had a glass of red pesto sauce which I put on my spaghetti and it tasted nice, so I read the ingredients.
Bell pepper, olive oil, cashew nuts, parmigiano (something like that plus preservatives)
I thought "that I can do myselves".
When I prepare it I throw everything into the blender while the pasta is cooking for its 7 minutes, blend it and add in a small ladle of starchy salty pasta cooking water.
Fastest homemade pasta sauce I know and quite tasty.
Optional: Garlic, Sundried tomato, chili or whatever you have at home you think might fit in. I like to experiment.
Red pepper pesto really shines if you roast the peppers and take the skins off. It’s a hassle though.
Looks like someone is having “Pesto Rojo Rapidissimo con Pasta” for dinner next week.
Thanks very much.
Where do you buy your E-321 butylated hydroxytoluene?
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Good idea actually!
It’s apparently available from Lychees… thanks Wikipedia.
I used to just buy ingredients that i liked but my partner always wanted to know what her meal was “called” so this is a kinda compromise. She can choose a meal and I’ll knock-up an approximation based off the label.
I'm guessing made up names didn't work? Like Whispering Orchard Risotto when you dumped whatever felt tasty
I made some kind of lentil pockets yesterday. Flour based dough I roll out thin like roti, and fold it so it can hold the filling, and pan cook it.
Hasband was starving and took the first one from the pan. To cool it faster, he opened it up so you can see the filling. He goes, look, its an alligator mouth. Now I cant unsee it. Now they are henceforth known, as alligator pockets.
I toyed with that idea - but what happens if I can only remember the name but not the contents when she asks for it again a few weeks later? My scam would be busted. I still like the idea though…
Oh if she's that inquisitive I wouldn't risk it. Or keep notes, but that kind of defeats the purpose of getting away with made-up dishes.