Food

Perfecto!

I don't see how anyone who professes to enjoy food, and the process of making it, can buy pre-prepared frozen mirepoix... Fucking weird...

Say that to someone with a 2 yr old.

Ps what happened to your after pics of ragu?

They look pretty similar now, just a bit darker... Flavour is awesome, been lazy the last two days and just tipped a can of beans and a ladle of the sauce into a Tupperware container for lunch... Delicious...

The rest is in the freezer... Made more chicken soup tonight, fuck, the roasting thing takes it to another level... It gets better every time I make it... Gave all the meaty bits off the bones to our canine guest so everyone's happy tonight...

Say that to someone with a 2 yr old.

Nah, not buying that... My parents never bought convenience foods...

Bliss

All of this.

Getting your mise together is the best part of cooking.

what's with all the fancy pants frenchy cooking words >>>>

I don't see the problem with it. Frozen vegetables aren't bad vegetables. It also means that veg which is deemed not suitable for the fresh counters can still be used, so reduces waste.

Much like @mashton I'm perfectly happy spending an hour or so working through the process - but similarly if I get in at 9pm after work I know I can get a sauce base going in two shakes

if you're getting in at 9pm and not shovelling a box of heroin chicken in your face you're a better man than i.

Been massively into two things recently.

Making Poke and Chinese steamed eggs with plain rice and soy, which I've now perfected with the Annova.

If Mrs CYOA is around then dandy but if I'm on my own and he's running around climbing my leg like I'm a palm tree while I've got a razor sharp knife in my hand then i think I'd prefer to take my chances with some frozen stuff. Good frozen veg is great.

Getting your mise together is the best part of cooking.

So. Much. This.

My wife doesn't understand why we need so many small decorative China bowls.

The cooking bit of cooking should be like Saturday Morning Kitchen, without the junta if cunts, obviously.

And you can wind up certain people by using fancy French cookery terms.

Extra win.

I've gone with stainless steel, lots of different sizes... Feels good... I bought a few more recently, you can't have too many stainless steel bowls...

Nice. Do they match your tiles OK?

I want stainless but they all look like something that should be full of ketchup, next to a mini fryer basket of chips, on the wooden board with the towering pub burger held together with a bamboo skewer.

That doesn't sound horrible.

Tall poncy burgers cannot be eaten. They must be squished or worse, cut up. I can't bite into that. You can't even get all the toppings involved to balance flavours.

If I wanted a fucking steak haché with a side salad I would have fucking ordered one.

I ordered a burger. So bring me a burger that will hold its fucking shape when I pick it up and that doesn't eject the entirety of its contents on the first bite.

Amen brother.

And apols to greenlel for consecutive posts referring to wooden serving boards and using French food terms.

Reported for le bulleyeauxing

C'est un cop juste....

On a fucking slate rectangle.

Wouldn’t a roof tile be more up his rue?

Any recommendations for a nice birthday dinner out in town? Went to the Quality Chop House last year and that was perfect. Had a look at Luca but it’s a bit spenny. @Tenderloin?