On Vox: cooking

[lauralh]

I've decided I need to save more money by not dining out. Here's what I've been trying:

• French bread. Making dough in the mixer is so awesome, and a three hour rising time makes it pretty quick, relatively speaking.
• "Vegan" chili. Besides grating cheese over it, I fry the onions in bacon grease.
• Braised beef ribs and stew. Basic and simple. Braise the ribs in either homemade or storebought beef stock, then add more stock and cheap beef, coarsely chopped potatoes, onions, carrots and mushrooms. Cook in dutch oven or slowcooker for at least 4 hours at 250.
• Cookies. Various kinds off the back of the wrappers. Probably going to stop though, they're too damn good.
• Roasted veggies, potatoes, chicken. Chop coarsely, season, coat with oil, cook for an hour at 350.
• French toast. Found a Denny's French toast recipe online that works well. Cut the above mentioned bread into really thick slices.
• Sausage with rice. This was just what Reg wanted the other night. I made breakfast sausage and short-grained Japanese sticky rice.

I also had to reseason my cast iron skillet, which made the kitchen smell amazingly. Bad, that is. Smoke everywhere. Dayamn.

Originally posted on herbaliser.vox.com

Comments

[spqr-ragazza.livejournal.com]

I love that the word vegan is followed by the words cheese and bacon grease. I LOVE YOU!

[russ3ll.livejournal.com]

That reminds me that I wanna make more beef barley stew, mmmm.....

If you like the sausage asian rice combo, try stir frying italian sausage (de-skinned and broken up in chunks) with cauliflower, onions, green onions, soy sauce and some sesame oil. The sausage cauli combi is frickin' amazing....

[mercyorbemoaned.livejournal.com]

Let's have a cooking party!

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

my apartment kitchen is woefully inefficient, how is yours?

(also I am slightly afraid of meeting internet people)

[mercyorbemoaned.livejournal.com]

I just had dinner with candid last week, and did not murder him or his lady friend.

I have a well-equipped guesthouse kitchen until the 20th. Then I will be moving into a house with a large, but completely unequipped kitchen.

[ashlin519.livejournal.com]

In my memory you should cook a puerto rican dish. Pretty much rice, beans, meat and fried food. Throw in a plantain or two and you're golden

[discogravy.livejournal.com]

throwing golden raisins and almond slivers makes rice a tad less boring. (also breaks the monotony of eating 2000 of something.)

[herbaliser.livejournal.com]

reg likes it boring

[sarahbliss.livejournal.com]

Awww. That homage made me add Mitch to my iPod.