What did you cook or eat today (September 2024)

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TastyReuben said:
I always laugh whenever I see a repeat video of Jacques Pepin working with jalapeños, because he always gives the same advice, like:

“Always taste a little of your pepper. Sometimes, they will be closer to a green bell pepper, no heat at all, and others, they will, eh, blow your mind, so always taste…”

<pause while he cuts a little piece and eats it, then shrugs shoulders, no change in his placid demeanor>

“Eh…this one is pretty hot…”

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I can always tell the heat level when I am coring a pepper. I start to choke and gag immediately if they are hot.
 
karadekoolaid said:
It was probably Wittering.
Just think they do that all day long. :laugh: :laugh:
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I just did a little digging…and you’re right, it was RAF Wittering! :laugh:

When we first moved to RAF Alconbury, we’d already secured housing off-base in a nearby village, but we couldn’t move into the house for a couple of weeks, and billeting was full on the air base, so they sent us up to Wittering for temporary housing, and MrsT and I got shoved off into unoccupied housing that had no furniture or heat or lights. We had to sleep on the floor, fully clothed.

To this day, I still swear it was abandoned/condemned housing they stuck us in.
 
JAS_OH1 said:
At least yours tries. My DH cooks about 1x a year unless it's something in the smoker (4x a year) and even then I prep everything...even for what goes in the smoker.
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He and his 3 brothers and father all cook. My mil made sure if it. And if he actually tasted things as he cooks it would be fine. But I can't get him to taste test at all, so the modifications that I make to amend recipes to our taste, or in this case take into account a seriously strong batch of cayenne pepper, doesn't get picked up on. And he doesn't ask. So if a recipe is exact and spot on, he's fine with it, but if it says put 1tbsp of salt in for 2 onions, he will and has done. He won't question it, even though he knows I can't have salt and I hate the taste of it as a result. He doesn't think.

So baking he he usually very cook at because he sticks to the recipe (just don't do anything with yeast in because he can't figure altitude changes with yeast). But if it needs a little modification, forget it. I have to write it all out step by step, ingredient by ingredient and so on. It's quicker for me to cook it sometimes and I have offered but he's trying to cook a little too help out, but if I can't eat it, it's not helping out, but making things harder because I can't miss meals very well (the Addison's is like diabetes in some aspects). Then I end up stressed because there is food but I can't eat it, and now expecting to eat, I'm not able to and have to cook and now it's late and I'm shaking. It's not a good mix.

I just want him to test things as he goes.
 
Tofu butter masala over roasted cauliflower and steamed carrots (they're hiding).

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Tomorrow is Persian Onion Soup!
 
Last lunch together today before my boys go back to Bristol after a 5 month ‘summer’ break together.

It probably should have been something special but everyone including myself is so very tired today it ended up being a “whats left in the fridge” lunch!
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Chicken thighs with garlic and cayenne pepper crust, mash made with cream cheese (and an onion gravy for the volcano), spiced whole roasted cauliflower.
Considering it’s the remnants of the fridge it turned out very well, just the sort of comforting home cooked food that makes you miss your mum. Hopefully 😂
 
Cooked a larger (850 g minced meat) portion of a pasta sauce with meat, onion, garlic, tomato paste. Ate over gluten free pasta, and even brought some to work.

It made me sleepy around 6 pm. It's the food and the long early started 6 am to 9 pm day.

No sleep! Do re mi...etc etc😔😀
 
SandwichShortOfAPicnic said:
Last lunch together today before my boys go back to Bristol after a 5 month ‘summer’ break together.

It probably should have been something special but everyone including myself is so very tired today it ended up being a “whats left in the fridge” lunch!
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Chicken thighs with garlic and cayenne pepper crust, mash made with cream cheese (and an onion gravy for the volcano), spiced whole roasted cauliflower.
Considering it’s the remnants of the fridge it turned out very well, just the sort of comforting home cooked food that makes you miss your mum. Hopefully 😂
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You can be my mum! Although I'm older than you so that'd be so sort of weird time travel thing.
 
It was my mother's bi-weekly beautification day (hair dresser) also the day before DH's birthday and we won't be in town for that.
So we took mom to a local Italian joint that I know she likes, after having her hair done.
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DH's Chicken Parm, WAY over done.
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Mom's Chicken Piccata, she ate almost all of it AND had two glasses of the wine I brought, it's a BYOB kinda joint.
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My Garlic Shrimp, I couldn't finish, it was so rich and delicious. I only had one glass of wine by the way. :laugh:
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Cannoli all the way around table for dessert.
We got Mom home by 6pm and she said, "I'm going straight to bed, I'm so full-I've got the kanak attack" :laugh: I've never heard her use that term!
Maybe it was the two glasses of wine :wink:
 
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