/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>9757401
Cooked down. Yes. This much.

>>9757394
Cooking.

>>9757387
Blitzed smooth.

>>9757381
Coconut cream.

>>9757376
Coriander root, shredded young ginger bulb, shallots and garlic cloves.

>>9757360
Turmeric powder.

>>9757356
Blitzed to powder.

This may take a while. Keep with me. Also, apologies for being tardy.

>>9746494
Cumin, coriander seed, black lemon (homemade!), dried shallot (homemade!) and peppercorns.

>>9746557
Even if the only things you'd eat in it are the carrot curry and rice? The beetroot has Nip smoked fish flakes (katsuobushi) in it which is the closest stuff I can find to maldives fish where I live, which is what would be used. It's like 9/10 similar.

I made three (or four, depending on your definition) side dishes, combined into one meal. I'll post photomuhgraphs when I can.
This couldn't really be an entry, but you can consider that way if you'd like, because I don't wanna enter with such a small number of people.

I cooked
bittergourd in egg curry
coconut cream sauteed beetroot with chilli and garlic
"quick carrot curry," a common side dish in my family so-named cuz it takes all of five minutes to whip up
and saltfish in curry gravy

Served with rice, which is the main, and the other dishes are all sides.
Again, I'll up the pics when I can, though I doubt any o' y'all're interested.

>>9656553
My idea also includes potatoes.

Yay! I'm first loser. Congrats to Snowman.
>side dish theme

I'm not sure what constitutes a side dish for most people since lots of foods people consider 'sides' seem to be things I'd consider a main (like macaroni cheese, for example), but I'm thinking to make one dish I grew up eating alongside butcher's sausages. I would guess that this dish will, undoubtedly, rustle every autist's jimmies.

>>9570523
AFAIK, octopus should be cooked before eating, always. I know Koreans eat live and wriggling octopi, but I'm not aware of any other cultures which do that. It's always cooked. Always.
I boil water, add a whole, cleaned 'pus (to me, cleaning involves beating the fuck out of it like it owes me money then also brining it in solution that includes papain), then bring the water back to the boil.
Next, i turn off the heat and lid the pot and have the bastard sit there to think about what he's done. He knows what he did.
Finally, I take him out and rinse in cold water then drain and dry well before cutting him up and dressing him with lime juice, minced red chilli, mince onion, chopped coriander and prawn salt and let him marinate in the fridge for, like, a half hour or so.

>>9563375
I suggested "mexican without tortillas" originally, yes.
Then someone said that people would sperg about muh authenticity. Then I acquiesced that it could be Mexican-inspired and that I didn't wanna just see food X shoehorned into a tortilla. Numbaz didn't take the bit about tortillas or not in when choosing this month's suggestion, though.
I was gonna make something I was planning to call tamalesaña. It was gonna be kinda similar to >>9556091's tamale pie, but in multiple layers, like a meat-and-corn-dough Vienetta. I'd been very unwell so wasn't able.
When I was feeling better, I saw Snowman's entry and had a cartoon villain moment ('curses! foiled again!'). Then I remembered someone was talking about Chamorro food, which is completely Mexican inspired. And I know Chamorro food. So I made titiyas yan kelaguen uhang but relabeled it as prawn ceviche and coconut tortillas, forgetting I'd originally suggested 'no tortillas lol.'
Sorry. plz2noh8

>>9559412
Second picturemuhbob in case the first one looks bad.

>>9559407
I love eggs benedict. What will make it Mexican eggs bennies, though?

>>9559176
1) Red chilli.
2) Chopped.
3) Onion.
4) Also chopped.
5) Lime.
6) Zested.
7) Halved and juiced.
8) Prawn. (not show: coriander leaves and prawn salt*)
9) Flour, bicarb and salt mixed with coconut milk. (not shown: a dash of vinegar, to react with the bicarb for a bit of lift)
10) Mixed.
11) Divided.
12) Rolled.
13) "Baking."
14) Other side.
15) Cucumber, carrot and radish shreds.
16) Prawn after marinating in the lime juice with the chilli, onion, coriander, prawn salt and zest.

Prawn ceviche with coconut tortillas and mixed veg slaw.

>*not sure the word in English; salted baby prawns that are dried out then ground into powder, used to enhance the flavour of seafood dishes

>>9556093
>>9556091
Mother. Of. FUCK.
That's what I was gonna make, too. Guess it's a good thing I wasn't well enough to cobble it together, then, because after seeing this, I went in a wholly new direction. It's been prepared. Pics have been taken. Just need to edit and I'll have it up.
Will post soon.

I lied. May have to do it tonight. Not feeling too great. ):

Expect my entry in about 14 hours. Keep this shit bumped till then.

Looks like I'm gonna be making my entry this Sunday.
Wish me luck. And if anyone knows of any commercially available product for the permanent removal of famous opera singers, please let me know. I've got a bad opera singer infestation here and I need to be rid of it ASAP.

:(
I cooked chicken enchiladas for lunch but didn't snap any pictures because this thread wasn't up before I started cooking. And I doubt anyone wants to see pictures of the leftovers.
Well... guess I'll do another semimexi thing sometime in the next week or so and post that. Maybe Chamorro food, as was talked about last thread since it's all Mexican inspired anyway.

>>9495890
Just googled again and apigigi' (with the apostrophe, yes) looks similar, but that's made with cassava flour rather than masa harina. I did find Chamorro red tamales made with masa harina and achiote, stuffed with pulled chicken, though, while googling 'chamorro tamales.'
Those people are basically Aztec/Mayan/Polynesian/Asian hybrids and so is their cuisine. You wouldn't expect it.

>>9495647
>>9495018
I've had titiyas, both the sweet and plain flour types but never had the corn ones. Both the ones I had tasted really rather nice. Had the plain one with Guamish beef ceviche (pretty much the same thing as Mexican ceviche... just with lean beef mince instead of chopped fish plus the addition of shredded coconut).

What's the name of those sweet tamales Chamorros make with masa harina and coconut milk stuffed with banana and steamed in banana leaf (rather than corn husk)? I tried googling it a while back but couldn't find it.
That shit was delicious.

>>9494607
That makes about as much sense as giving pottery classes to limbless orphans.

>>9494719
Why thank ya. You as well. And congrats to Snowman, too. And I called it right after he posted his entry, too. Shoulda bought a lotto ticket.