/ck/ - Food & Cooking

it's rare that I'm hungry either before bed or if I wake up in the middle of the night (more often I'm dehydrated), but my "can't get back to sleep" ritual is to bake a couple of those cheap pillsbury croissants that come in rolls, make a cup of decaf coffee for dipping them in, and put on some futurama. even if I need to get up at a fast approaching time, I enjoy it immensely and still manage to sleep well afterwards

>>5062004

for a 7th grader to take that initiative just to lose weight is pretty impressive. back in 7th grade unless it was in the context of sport they enjoyed I knew of maybe 4 or 5 other kids who exercised just for health and/or aesthetic reasons. that's a shitty thing that happened to you

do you not like them? or are they just whatever and you want to _really_ like them

if the former, I'd probably start by identifying which aspect of the tomato I disliked. taste (is it too bitter, too sour, the foretaste, the aftertaste, and so on), texture, smell, etc. if you can do that, you can get help with dishes that incorporate tomato in a way that mask its disagreeable quality/qualities, then ease into other preparations

if you don't really have a problem with them but just want to appreciate them to a greater extent, my favorite way to eat them is to salt a tomato slice, add some fresh ground pepper, and enjoy. finding good tomatoes may or may not be a problem, there's an issue with "tasteless red orb" tomatoes in supermarkets that look amazing, but are tasteless as the name suggests. you might have to look around

>>5060844

the most terrifying thing in this thread

I guess if you went with no more tomatoes you could still make derivatives like mango salsa

out where

regardless of the answer, probably nachos as long as they're from a place that does them well

any sweetened aloe vera drink with pulp or blood orange italian soda

put sake, sugar (preferably brown), and soy sauce in equal amounts in a mixing vessel. add half a tablespoon of ginger paste and a tablespoon of rice vinegar. mix. place salmon in mixture and coat both sides. heat oil on high, then cook salmon for 2 or 3 minutes each side depending on thickness. simmer the sake-soy sauce mix until however thick you want it, once salmon is done drizzle it over the salmon

steam some broccoli and bake a potato also

have some rice pudding for desert

>>5059827

you probably need to eat more. also increase your protein intake and make sure your routine is decent. if you want to be cautious, increase your calories by 500 and weigh yourself at the end of the week to see if you've gained weight. just keep doing it until you see a change

you'll do great once you find that calorie sweet spot

make sweet potato fries

maybe even sweet sweet potato fries with sugar, nutmeg, and cinnamon

someone posted their maple cookies in a thread a while ago and they've been on my to do list ever since. they looked great and I don't remember ever trying cookies flavored with maple, or if I did it was an extremely subtle component in the cookies

probably a live hippopotamus prepared in the traditional ikizukuri style, served in whatever body of water it's wading in

>>5057450

delicious! you can probably tell by the recipe, but the spice is very mild. I originally hesitated about going with lamb because I wasn't sure how strong it was going to be, or if the mildness of regular lamb would be overpowered, but it worked perfectly

I used lamb shoulder that I deboned, and during the cooking period (after browning it for 5 mins) I let it simmer at low-medium heat for 2 1/2 - 3 hours (stirring it every 15-20 mins or so) and it was tender and juicy. it worked excellently with the spice level

the recipe says to cut up 3 large potatoes which would have been weird for me. maybe the large potatoes the author uses are smaller, but had I cut mine up into quarter they would have been gigantic pieces. in the pic, you can see them cut up into eighths. I boiled them so that they were relatively firm so that they didn't turn to mush

I lightly salted the yoghurt when I first prepared the meat for marinading and it needed no seasoning adjustments after that point

it's very hearty especially with rice, tasty, and easy to make. the most time consuming part was deboning the lamb and just the onion/tomato/potato prep I think. thank you [>>5055149] for linking the recipe

(pics are top row: onions browned, meat and yoghurt added, water and tomatoes added, left to simmer. bottom row: more simmering aka including pic twice accidentally, potatoes added, all done, plated and consumed)

>>5059285
>I thought everyone did this.

of course they do, unless they don't value proper nutrition. if you're not adding enough sugar to your soda or water to turn it into a slurry, enjoy your short life span and thorax displasia when you're old

5'8" 154lbs

spent a lot of money on a home gym, lifted 3 times/week on icf 5x5 for a year, and went from ~140 skeleton to 170. then single poorly performed rep during a shrug (traps failed on 8th rep, but I didn't let go of the bar like an idiot. so weight fell the entire range of movement and tugged on my wrists) fucked my wrists and forearms. physical therapy 3 times/week for the last several months and I can hang in the chin up position without much discomfort, but can't perform even one without terrible pain. it's a sharp pain in the wrists, then a stinging pain that shoots upwards along the top of the forearms

according to my sports doctor and physical therapists, it's a tendon and connective tissue injury. also there were no abnormalities in the mri. a time consuming and pretty depressing lesson learned the hard way about just dropping the weights if you need to

>>5058613

you're not juicing the leaves though, you're steeping them, also if they're dried leaves there would be no juice to extract

it's a bit like arguing that soy milk should be called soy juice (although I'd say that's more correct than referring to tea as tea juice), when the point isn't necessarily to call it the absolute most factual accurate thing. "milk" is correctly used as a name for milk-like substances (soy milk, coconut milk, milk of magnesia, etc)

>>5058553

those are neat looking. at first glance I thought they were sippy cups based on the thumbnail. seems like they're not readily available in the US, and the ones on ebay appear to be $30 or more plus shipping. a steep price, you might say

>>5057672

did the same thing here, except I never tried it with sprouts. toasted the bread and added thin slices of tomato. also TLTs (tempeh lettuce tomato)

>>5056520
>>5056985

the fries are certainly not bad, and outrank 100% of the big national chains. they taste like potato, and are not over-salted. my personal preference is to order them well done and put black pepper on them. I've found that fries well done are more successful with people who haven't had in n out than regular fries are

>>5055046

is that supposed to be a single meal, or three meals throughout the day

if you lowball the weight of the food and assume the pizza, pancakes, and the brownie/cake/bread/muffin or whatever it is stack weigh 1lb each, he's eating 6lbs of food in a single meal, plus drinks. even if he was doing heavy lifting earlier and was famished that's pretty intense. in reality, it weighs much more than 6 pounds, more like 10 I'd guess (~1.5lbs for pancakes, ~1.5lbs each for pizza, ~3lbs for stack of dense baked stuff) if you count that glass of milk, over 10 if you count whatever else he drank. I don't doubt that he could finish it if he really wanted to and spread it out over a few hours, but I doubt that he did

>>5053264
>Carp a l'ancienne

had never heard of this before. interesting

my vote is for pressed duck (french, not chinese)

does it have separate dorsal fins or did the spear entry wound just make it look that way?

>>5056363
>Even if they could recognize a decent bagel when they saw it, they'd just throw some sprouts and avocado on it.

having spent a lot of time in noah's bagels as kid and teen, I never witnessed this. if a bagel place had avocado and sprouts as an available option, it makes sense people would get it since it's rare to find it elsewhere probably. now that you mention it though, spreading some avocado on a toasted bagel with salt and pepper sounds pleasant enough. sprouts I'm not so sure about

getting a toasted bagel with cream cheese and a bottle of orangina from noah's after school were great times

>>5055388

all ready to try this (as per recipe in [>>5055149]) tomorrow. went ahead and used lamb in lieu of mutton

>>5056111

agree with this. jasmine green tea is what I enjoy every morning usually and have tried tons. no tea bags have ever come close even to the cheap loose leaf jasmine green at my local peet's

in comparison, the tea bags are usually either significantly more bitter even if you take care to avoid it while brewing, or so weak that you need two of them to taste it. the jasmine fragrance isn't as good either. it's easier to just get loose leaf for delicate green tea flavor and light scent of jasmine that you can smell and taste without it overpowering the green tea or being nonexistant