Food & Drink Recommendations

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Gushers, the fruit snack... I eat them in multiple pack servings, especially the sour ones

1 cup hemp/rice milk, 1 medium banana, 1/4 cup instant oatmeal flakes and a couple huge spoons of almond butter all blended to hell and back then chilled in the refrigerator for a bit.

  On 11/14/2011 at 12:33 PM, RadarJammer said:

1 cup hemp/rice milk, 1 medium banana, 1/4 cup instant oatmeal flakes and a couple huge spoons of almond butter all blended to hell and back then chilled in the refrigerator for a bit.

Now this I like the sound of.

veg sandwich:

1 eggplant

2 zucchini

6 large mushrooms

2 sandwich rolls

2 packages of grape or cherry tomatoes

2 cloves garlic

2 large sweet onions

1 TBSP of coconut butter

olive oil

salt and pepper

1/4 cup olive oil mayo

balsamic vinegar

honey nut scooters

the key to a good dish is not number of ingredients, it's the quality of them.

try a pasta salad with fresh fusilli (it's ok to shop-buy it as long as it's fresh!), extra virgin olive oil, fresh lemon juice, fresh cracked black pepper and good kosher sea salt, and roughly torn basil (just buy a basil plant in a pot - same price as the herb more or less in good supermarkets). maybe some roasted pine nuts - or sunflower or pumpkin seeds if you can't get pine - in there too.

don't use milk in omelette or scrambled eggs - this is a crappy tradition inherited from when eggs were in short supply - try an omelette using eggs and creme fraiche as a base, with just a mix of two cheeses (say, parmesan and cheddar) along with prosciutto, some diced field mushrooms, and red onion. add the cheddar over the omelette base, then sautee the prosciutto and mushrooms for just a minute in another pan. then sprinkle fresh grated parmesan over the lot and fold the egg over the top.

don't boil the shit out of anything. for professional-looking gravy, strain it.

don't think number of ingredients, think quality of ingredients and how you treat them.

my mom makes these baked egg dealies in muffin tins that are just breadcrumb base, an egg and some mushroom soup. bake em, serve them on toast with some of the extra mushroom soup as a sauce. simple and lame but fucking awesome! but i love mushrooms/mushroom soup.

one thing a microwave is good for is eggs. line an eggcup with oil and crack an egg into it. microwave for about a minute - really nice looking pseudo-poached eggs.

garlic bread put in freezer, amount lasts a week. works well as a side dish for most dinners.

getting super creative^

coconut milkshake:

1 thai coconut with coconut water

1 cup spring water

1/4 cup cashews

1 frozen banana

generous amounts of nutmeg

generous amounts of vanilla

sweeten to taste

five guys burgers and fries

and bobby's burger palace

I picked a good amount of http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvatia_gigantea today. Blanched them and then fried them up in butter with some potatoes and onions. I swear this is what Zeus eats. Best. Fucking. Thing.

You cannot possibly beat freshly picked mushrooms. Even the aroma was boner-inducing.

  On 11/15/2011 at 3:00 AM, jules said:

five guys burgers and fries

 

 

and bobby's burger palace

 

two of the ONLY things i envy you guys for are five guys and in-n-out-burger.

Shit, we have five guys in canada. It's good.

Those burgers look great but I always have a problem with huge burgers. Seriously why do they make them so big? It's mostly the height that causes problems for me. Maybe I'm just used to shitty fast food burgers..

another protip if you're serious about cooking:

fuck spending a hundred dollars on a block of knives. spend a hundred dollars on a single good knife instead. you will not regret it.

Here's a recipe for some pretty fucking epic mac and cheese me and my gf came up with. Probably not the best for you but god damnit it's delicious!

1 Velveeta Family Size Shells Mac & Cheese kit

1 Red Bell Pepper

1 Package of Bacon (splash some beer in the pan for extra awesome, I used Shiner Bock)

1 Bag of Asiago Shredded Cheese

Gratuitous amounts of Tobasco sauce

...Add more milk as needed

Serve in a bowl and crush a handful of Flaming Hot Cheetos on top!

Enjoy that spicy cheesy awesomeness!...Serves (3-5)

  On 11/15/2011 at 3:32 AM, kaini said:

another protip if you're serious about cooking:

fuck spending a hundred dollars on a block of knives. spend a hundred dollars on a single good knife instead. you will not regret it.

I'll stand on that.

although you shouldn't have to.

at the very most, fifty dollars will get you an excellent knife unless you're a professional sushi chef or something.

also fuck ceramic knives, they dull too easy. get you one good carbon steel knife. you'll never look back.

I've got my one good knife that i use for everything. It was expensive when it was purchased about 50 years ago. My grandpa gave it to me and holy motherfucking shit does it destroy. it will julienne any knife of lesser worth. i swear by this thing. it is what i would use to do an emergency appendectomy or stab the asshole who is threatening my children. best. ever.

I recently learned about hot dr pepper. you heat up dr pepper to 180 degrees fahrenheit in a saucepan. I'm waiting for the weather to turn cold again to try it.

agree 1000% with the knife deal

but

hot dr pepper?

wha?

I love dr. pepper, I may have to try this

Diet Dr Pepper has to be one of the best diet pops out there. So good.