this is about where i'm at

meaning: i cook a few basic concepts but i feel i do them well

when youre talking rice and veggies and curry there are easily a bazillion different variations on the theme

that's enough of a playpen for me to run around in for the time being

i've recently grown out of favor from the hotter, red curries and moved toward the more flavorful yellow curries. less tomato and more mango or coconut. lately have been having a showdown between korma and mango curry to see which i like more.

pretty much. that's the cool thing. make it to your mood. I've learned to make sambals as well, then i use that to fry the rice in. less oil. healthier. tasty as fuck. i think my new favorite thing is fried noodles. another endless options dish and so simple once you get it down.

i've never been crazy about yellow or green curries. some are nice but I'm down for masala and coconut most of the time.

i haven't moved to noodles yet but am looking to soon. masala and jalfreezi are great don't get me wrong but i'm definitely more of a korma/mango/yellow/green man myself.

it probably has more to do with my vegetable choices than anything. but yea i've been eating variations of this dish daily for almost half a year now and haven't grown sick of it in the slightest. soo many veggies and soo many sauces to choose from.

laksa and tom kar ftw

I'm a total home cook - I can follow more complicated recipes and I'm pretty intuitive in the kitchen because I started young. One of the benefits of being the oldest child and only daughter, in a family where both parents have undiagnosed, untreated mental health issues. If I wanted my family to sit down together and eat a dinner other than ramen noodles, there were nights when I had to make it myself. When I was 11 I started making a lot of mac and cheese, pumpkin soup, and frittata - and fruit crumble for dessert. I cooked everything from scratch because I didn't know there was another way - my parents both liked fairly unprocessed food. Then my family would laugh at me and criticise whatever I'd made, so I have crippling anxiety about cooking for other people.

I still make a lot of pumpkin soup. Trying to be gluten free because i get really bad bloating if I eat it.

basmati rice, broccolli, chick peas, and eggplant, in a jalfreezi sauce

basmati rice, garbanzo beans, sweet peas, and broccoli in korma curry.

basmati rice, double cheeseburger, ghee, fenugreek, paneer, mashed into a paste, coated in pea flour and deep-fried until crisp

cherry tomatoes with basil, olive oil, burrata, maldon salt, freshly-cracked black pepper and three dirty martinis

beef wellington and a bottle of low-end chateauneuf-du-pape

Pffft snob

is beef wellington good? i've never had it

i'm pretty sure it's not, because gordon ramsay serves a lot of it and although he's entertaining he seems like a pretty terrible cook

i love to cook and i'm not bad at all, but i do end up cooking some awful shit from time to time because i like to try new recipes that i only use as a outline.

surely gordon ramsay does not have that kind of power over traditional recipes

i'm going to try it

this looks pretty good http://www.seriouseats.com/2012/12/t...-ultimate.html

i made french onion soup once. I did good. It was a pioneer woman recipe.

yuck, foie gras!!

http://www.veganpeace.com/animal_cru...s/FoieGras.jpg

http://www.veganpeace.com/animal_cru.../FoieGras2.jpg

http://www.stoptac.org/uploads/image...20gras%202.jpg

http://www.animalliberationfront.com...therearend.jpg

http://www.allanimalrights.org/images/fg.jpg

http://www.renovegans.com/media/imag.../foie-gras.jpg

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Mankind is psychopathic.

Yesterday someone sent me pictures of Darigold farms and how they treat milking cows. Disgusting. appaling. distressing, all those words. I can't even enjoy dairy anymore. I've slowly become near vegetarian and now it looks like i'm gonna be done with dairy. Sure the odds are the milk I buy is from ethical farms but who knows for sure anymore? I can't put money into this. It's hard enough living with myself everyday.

The thing is all vegan fake dairy sucks. I can't even enjoy alternative milks. Rice, soy, almond. They suck and are expensive. I guess i'm gonna drink water, eat fruits and vegetables and grains like a goddam hippie. Ignorance really is bliss.

How do people doing these jobs live with themselves? I hope they have long and painful deaths. Fuck making a living , it's not worth this. If I was down to a job like this, i'd rather throw myself off a bridge.

Well why do I give a shit, we're on our last leg as a species. Our end can't come fast enough.

i don't know enough about foie gras to have an opinion, but i would've forgone it anyway so whatever. but a few pictures aren't a compelling argument

i used to see things differently (i was vegetarian for about five years, vegan for a few months) but as far as i'm concerned now, humane farming is fine from a welfare perspective. the environmental argument is stronger IMHO, but hey west antarctic ice shelf how you doin

even then that's still wishful thinking

MEAT ROBOTS

I switched between vegan/vegetarianism for 7 years and I'm omnivorous now but still eat a lot of plant food. I think animal husbandry and slaughter is ok provided we're not wasteful (which we are) and we genuinely care for the animals while they're alive (which often, we don't - particularly in some instances, like cage eggs, sow crates, veal, foie gras, etc.) It isn't good for them or us, to mistreat them or not take their life with some sense of regret and gratitude.

self interested animal welfare advocate. george carlin totally nailed that one. the planet is fine!

was it necessary to post all that shit

like i just wanted to read about cooking and you posted a deluge of foie gras pictures.

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