What are you cooking?

[jaylach]

I make my own stuffing, bread cubes fried , mushrooms, onions and seasons

My mom always did so also. She would start out with sheets of bread in the oven to dry. I like to cook but am a bit too lazy for all that. I just use Stove Top and doctor it.

 

[jaylach]

I need to dig through the freezer and see if we have any beef or venison left. Starting to crave some stroganoff.

LOL! If you find send me some venison. I need some chili.

 

[jaylach]

Just remembered something I loved when I lived in Ft. Worth TX. They called it Mexican corn bread and was a staple on New Years Eve. I'll be grocery shopping later this week and just may have to get the stuff for it. It is actually pretty easy but totally yummy. Make the corn bread batter and put half in the baking pan. Cover with taco style ground beef then the rest of the corn bread batter. To serve you put a chunk in a bowl and cover with black eyed peas. Sounds sort of odd but is REALLY good.

 

[gwand]

I’m making an Asian Pho tonight. Stock made from beef bones, dried mushrooms, Chinese black vinegar, miso and soy sauce. Simmering slices of sirloin with cilantro and then adding noodles. Top it off with Korean gochujang.

 

[jaylach]

I’m making an Asian Pho tonight. Stock made from beef bones, dried mushrooms, Chinese black vinegar, miso and soy sauce. Simmering slices of sirloin with cilantro and then adding noodles. Top it off with Korean gochujang.

I *LOVE* Asian food. Unfortunately I'm not good at it. Actually I have to admit to using jarred sauces. Fortunately my local grocery store carries Panda Express products. Panda Express is an oriental chain that I frequented a lot when I lived in Texas. Their sauces are REALLY good, a whole better than I can do.

 

[jaylach]

I hope it is OK to ask cooking advice here also...

This is probably mostly a question for our UK members. I'm going to be doing some fish & chips with either cod or halibut in a beer batter but want to add mushy peas which I've never done. I know that mushy peas are normally flavored with butter, lemon and mint... or at least that is my understanding. Thing is that I'm not big on mint. Would it be sacrilegious to replace the mint with fresh basil?

 

[Essjay]

Mushy peas are not usually flavoured with anything. They are just processed peas in a sort of semi soup consistency. Here we either buy them in tins or from a chippy (proper name fish and chip shop, a take away type shop) though I suppose there are recipes for cooking from scratch.. The tinned ones come as ordinary or chip shop style. We don't cook them ourselves from raw ingredients. The nearest to cooking ourselves is the pack of frozen mushy peas in this link -

https://groceries.asda.com/search/mushy%20peas?cmpid=ahc-_-ghs-_-asdacom-_-hp-_-search-mushy-peas

The nearest I've seen to cooking at home is back when I was a child. We had dried peas which had to be soaked overnight in water with a tablet of bicarbonate of soda added, but they weren't the same as the mushy peas we have now.

 

[gwand]

What’s the best frying oil for fish and chips?

 

[Essjay]

When I deep fried them I used sunflower oil. (Nowadays I use frozen oven chips cooked in the microwave/oven/grill on the frozen potato setting and microwave fish without batter. Salmon, my favourite fish, isn't usually battered)

 

[WhistlingBadger]

I pretty much lived on fish and chips last time I was in England. Never could get into mushy peas, though. Right up there with "toad in a hole" for unappetizing food names.

 

[Essjay]

I'm not that keen on mushy peas either. My husband loves them though. So we compromise. He has Brains faggots (a type of meatball) and mushy peas while I have a pasta sauce with bits of frozen cooked left over chicken, peppers and spinach with pasta.



Brains faggots

 

[gwand]

You could not use the word faggot in the US. It is taboo now.

 

[WhistlingBadger]

I'm not that keen on mushy peas either. My husband loves them though. So we compromise. He has Brains faggots (a type of meatball) and mushy peas while I have a pasta sauce with bits of frozen cooked left over chicken, peppers and spinach with pasta.



Brains faggots
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OK, for unappetizing food names, Mr. Brain's Faggots tops 'em all.

 

[outofwater]

Work from home day. Brunch was oatmeal (organic rolled oats) and pancakes/waffles, made from scratch.

 

[outofwater]

You could not use the word faggot in the US. It is taboo now.

Lmao. I do. Not here of course