Cooking 😋
-
You forgot the garlic
Sorry .... garlic is almost automatic for me at this point when I cook, it's almost like salt and pepper ... I never think of it.
And I'm at the point where I buy about 20lbs of garlic from my local farmer every fall (I just bought my supply a couple of weeks ago) to last me the winter.
-
Been trying to figure out how to explain to my little kids that they don't like the taste of onions, they like the flavor.
They love McDonald's cheeseburgers, chips of all sorts, all with onions. They're small, biting an onion is too much for their taste buds, so they think they hate onions.
Anyone help me articulate the idea? LOL, it's funny I think on it so much.
Pickled onions.... yum!
-
What about the wonderful stink of cumin?
It's a personal thing, but the smell of cumin kills my appetite. I had a bad experience with it once and I can't shake the association between the smell and the experience.
-
Sorry .... garlic is almost automatic for me at this point when I cook, it's almost like salt and pepper ... I never think of it.
And I'm at the point where I buy about 20lbs of garlic from my local farmer every fall (I just bought my supply a couple of weeks ago) to last me the winter.
Wow & I thought I liked garlic, I feel amateur by those standards. Your food must taste amazing & I bet not a vampire in sight too!
-
Salt, sugar, fat, acid
wrote on last edited by [email protected]fat acid heat. Just missing sugar for the quardfecta.
-
Not enough garlic in that picture
-
Is that because it doesn't have a nose?
My dog has no nose.
-
Coward. I use both. And then salt the fuck out of it. Every meal takes a year off my life, but fuck if I'm not enjoying the ones I'm left with
salt the fuck out of it.
I misread this as 'fuck the salt out of it' for just a moment.
-
Been trying to figure out how to explain to my little kids that they don't like the taste of onions, they like the flavor.
They love McDonald's cheeseburgers, chips of all sorts, all with onions. They're small, biting an onion is too much for their taste buds, so they think they hate onions.
Anyone help me articulate the idea? LOL, it's funny I think on it so much.
wrote on last edited by [email protected]they don't like the taste of onions, they like the flavor.
I don't think the distinction between "taste" and "flavour" is the right way to frame it. Raw onion on its own can be overwhelming. If you eat a hamburger with raw onion on it, the amount of raw onion per bite will be pretty small, and it will be one taste in a whole bunch of other tastes. Your kids probably wouldn't like eating pure salt, or pure pepper either. But, food with some salt tastes great.
Having said that, fried onions are a whole different game. After 5 minutes the onion loses a lot of its potency and gets a bit sweet. After 30 minutes it's basically a very slightly pungent candy. For a French Onion Soup, you can cook them for up to 2 hours before they're ready. A pot that's full to the brim of raw onions reduces down to a thin layer at the bottom, and they taste more like gummy worms than onions at that point.
I love French Onion Soup, and occasionally make it. I'd make it more, it's just that slicing up more than a kilogram of onions is a whole process. It's so difficult it makes me cry every time I do it.
-
Sorry .... garlic is almost automatic for me at this point when I cook, it's almost like salt and pepper ... I never think of it.
And I'm at the point where I buy about 20lbs of garlic from my local farmer every fall (I just bought my supply a couple of weeks ago) to last me the winter.
How do you ensure the garlic lasts through winter?
-
Wow & I thought I liked garlic, I feel amateur by those standards. Your food must taste amazing & I bet not a vampire in sight too!
I'm not exactly a gourmet cook, I've just been learning how to cook for years. One Italian friend of mine recommended that I should always try to get fresh garlic as much as I can because it is better. Canned, preserved, precut, minced, bottled garlic ... or even dried, dehydrated garlic is not the best ... not only does it not have as much of a strong garlic flavour, most of it comes from Asia and specifically China where it is produced cheaply and under very shady circumstances.
Watch a Netflix documentary series called 'Rotten' ... Season 1 Episode 3 is titled 'Garlic Breath' ... and it details where a lot of cheap prepackaged garlic products come from ... namely cheap Chinese prison labour where in some factories, prisoners are not allowed any sharp objects to peel the garlic by hand so they have to resort to using their fingernails, which they eventually wear out and then later resort to using their teeth.
After watching all that ... I really took my time to search for a local farmer and pay double the amount for fresh garlic and I just buy the stuff in bulk now because it's cheaper in the long run.
-
How do you ensure the garlic lasts through winter?
I keep mine in a very loose burlap bag which my farmer gave me years ago ... then I hang the bag on a hook from the ceiling in my basement (about six feet off the floor) where humidity lingers about 50-60% year round ... no natural light and temps are about 17-20 Celsius year round.
I learned that hanging is better because everything gets equal amounts of air. If you sit it on a shelf or near the floor, the bottom layer will get damp fast and give no air circulation. My farmer said that he had a few customers complain that their supply of garlic went bad midway through the winter ... he suspected that they kept their bags on the floor or on a shelf.
Last year I kept 20lbs starting from about October and I used the last of it at about June the following year with only about three or four bulbs going bad ... and bad meaning they just shrivelled up and dried out.
-
Salt, sugar, fat, acid
And Umami
-
And Umami
And my ass
-
A better combination is onions, carrots and celery
Or onions, green peppers, and celery. I guarantee.
-
I have seen this picture of an onion before
It looks nice.
-
This post did not contain any content.
Garlic and onion in oil is enough to trigger my hay-fever and irritate my nose so that shit doesn't actually smell good to me
-
Garlic and onion in oil is enough to trigger my hay-fever and irritate my nose so that shit doesn't actually smell good to me
A cursed existence
-
Garlic and onion in oil is enough to trigger my hay-fever and irritate my nose so that shit doesn't actually smell good to me
Skill issue
-
I'm not exactly a gourmet cook, I've just been learning how to cook for years. One Italian friend of mine recommended that I should always try to get fresh garlic as much as I can because it is better. Canned, preserved, precut, minced, bottled garlic ... or even dried, dehydrated garlic is not the best ... not only does it not have as much of a strong garlic flavour, most of it comes from Asia and specifically China where it is produced cheaply and under very shady circumstances.
Watch a Netflix documentary series called 'Rotten' ... Season 1 Episode 3 is titled 'Garlic Breath' ... and it details where a lot of cheap prepackaged garlic products come from ... namely cheap Chinese prison labour where in some factories, prisoners are not allowed any sharp objects to peel the garlic by hand so they have to resort to using their fingernails, which they eventually wear out and then later resort to using their teeth.
After watching all that ... I really took my time to search for a local farmer and pay double the amount for fresh garlic and I just buy the stuff in bulk now because it's cheaper in the long run.
I didn’t know the half of that, and I was mildly happier for it
Usually Chinese garlic is also a different plant than European garlic. You can notice it by the fact that the roots of the garlic fall off in a neat chunk for Chinese garlic but stay attached for European garlic.
