/ck/ - Food & Cooking

-Italian style salad (balsamic vinegar, oil, and spice)
-baked ziti
-caprese salad served with bread
-meatball parmigiana

Also, a picture of me in the background. See the scarf? :)

>>4007333
I took the left over rigatoni, sauce, and meatballs and made a baked dish.

>>4007333
What baked ziti should look like right before you put it in the oven!

>>4007333
The leftovers in full.

>>4007333
Veggie beef used in tacos is sold as a block of crumbled flavored and textured soy. It doesn't look too bad, but you can't eat it like that.

You need a base as shown here, and then...

>>4007344
you put the veggie beef crumble in. Mix it with the spices, chopped peppers, chopped garlic, and chopped onion until the veggie beef is brown. Also, nearly all the oil should be gone as well. Make sure to separate the veggie beef quickly.

And then once that's done...

>>4007344
this. An excellent filling for soft and hard tortillas.

Serve it with...

>>4007344
You put ~1 cup of water in. (a little more is always better) You also dump the taco seasoning packet in. I didn't have it a seasoning packet, so I just mixed spices I had around the house.

Tip - use a 2-3 teaspoon of curry powder as well the onion, red pepper flake etc etc as well as hot sauce

Stir the water and the sauce frequently. Parts may burn while others may not if you don't as it likes to stick to the bottom of the pan.

Once it's done it should look like..

>>4007354
-chopped tomato
-lettuce
-hot sauce
-pico de gallo or any other salsa
-sour cream (not shown)
-hot sauce
-Mexican shredded cheese

To drink? I recommend tejava!

I love stuffed pastas. Here's some pictures of some of the ways I prepare it.

-three cheese style with pea, garlic, and extra virgin olive oil plus spice.

I love stuffed pastas. Here's some pictures of some of the ways I prepare it.

-three cheese style with pea, garlic, and extra virgin olive oil plus spice.

I fry garlic and parsley in extra virgin olive oil, and once the oil is nearly burned off I had the tortellini and stir in the pesto. Serve with parm and black pepper

While most people would say the tortellini should be the main part of the meal, I disagree. As a college student leftovers are the bomb after all.

Here is the oil+garlic+tea tortellini served with afghan rice, and afghan eggplant and yogurt curry.

This was a simple meal made out of whatever was left over or going to bad soon in my fridge.

The tortellini was cooked in a red sauce with peas.

The "burger" is a veggie patty stuffed into a pita pocket that was coated in red pepper flavored hummus as well as cilantro spread.

My first attempt at these was not good at all. It was very dry.

Here it is served with curry spiced refried beans and Spanish rice.

I did not give up though. On my second attempt I added a bit to the cheese stuffing. I cooked tofu 'Mexican' style, as shown here, and then...

chopped it up into very small pieces. I rolled the enchiladas with that, hot sauce, and shredded Mexican cheese. After that I was done I coated the tortillas with cilantro spread, and then

smothered it in even more cheese and (of course) enchilada sauce!

They should look like this when they're done. Serve with sour cream and pico de gallo!

These are great, thank you for sharing!

I really enjoy veggie beef nachos. This is what they look like here. It's just normal nacho covered in veggie beef, cheese, spices, salsa, and so on. I serve them with sour cream and cilantro. As I was invited to a gathering I thought I would make things, but sadly my offer was declined?!

I mean Pic Related, don't these look good to you? Sadly I had to make vegan food. So lemme show you some of that next!

The veggie beef was off. I wasn't sure if the blend I used had dairy products or non-vegan sugar or the 1001 things vegan scan eat that I, a vegetarian who also observe halal yet has no issue cooking meat and fish for others, can.

So, I made my own filling.

I steamed broccerli, barley chopped some onions, barley chopped some tomatoes, barley chopped some garlic, and took my normal spice blend that I use on the "mexican tofu" you see above and added in some veggie oil plus lots of hot sauce. Oh, what did I do with it? I said fuck his shit and blended it. Half way through I added in cilantro and parsley plus a tiny bit of basil and even more curry powder and red pepper flakes plus hot sauce.

My flatmate said this looks gross and no one is going to eat this. I agree, so I did the second step and dumped it in a pan on medium heat. 10 minutes later the oil glob bits were gone and it looked like vegan taco filling!!!

I still wanted vegetarian food, who can turn down mex-cheese?!, so I took out the foil.

On one side I made it vegan, and the other vegetarian. The vegan side was completely encased by the foil, you could have lifted the foil out and used it as a bowl really, and put that in the oven to baked for 15-20 minutes. Here is the so-so picture of the results. The good picture below will tell you what makes one different than the other!

>>4007392
Vegan side
-vegan taco filling, extra
-hot sauce, extra
-pineapple salsa (yes it had vegan sugar!)
-hot sauce
-fresh tomato
-fresh cilantro
-nacho chips
-onion salt
-nothing on side

Vegetarian side
-MEXICAN CHEESE
-pico de gallo with a tad of normal sugar
-a little hot sauce
-nachos
-vegan taco blend filling thingy
-garlic powder
-sour cream on side

So, vegan and vegetarian is possible!

I like asian food, but feel intimidated with cooking it. Here is some Miso soup with soba noodles and a dash of soy sauce-- or well, what is needed to make that happen!

Well, not really. More like mexican seasoning, lots of curry powder, basil, peas, broccoli, and soy sauce cooked in sesame and olive oil.

As I said, Asian food scares me, so this is the best I can do. It tasted wonderful BTW; a lot better than the soup!

Amanda is awesome. She can make thai food like I can make Italian food. I hope one day I can make asian food like this!

You can also just cook it with peppers and serve it plain with tortillas for breakfast. Not the most fancy thing in the world, but it's cheap and yummy.

Cook tri-color rotini, and once the pasta is in the big pot take a medium size pot and put it on medium flame.

Add olive oil, garlic salt, onion salt, cenyee (oh cenyee! It's also in the mexican stuff, sorry!), dried basil, dried parsley, and dried oregano. Once the oil is sizziling add in a half cup of broccerli that you defrosted/cooked by putting it in the microwave for two minutes. Once the broccerli is soft, so like 2 more minutes, the pasta should be done.

Drain the pasta and dump it in the put. STIR IT VERY VERY FAST and put the flame on medium-high (you probly lowered it to not burn the spices after the inital shock for heating it all quick). There. Lunch in 10 minutes!

Serve with salad or random crappy frozen fish dish.

Don't taste as food as the restaurant? Lack some spice?

Microwave broccerli again to quickly defrost it, and then put it in a pan with chopped garlic, chopped parsley, and chopped oregano plus a bit of black pepper and onioin salt. Cook it all together for 10-15 minutes until all the oil is gone but the pan is still very hot and add in the pasta.

As the pasta cooked on the stove put the breadsticks in the oven. Another tip- right before going ask for extra breadsticks. Once they give it to you ask for a to-go bag for them.

Serve like so!

This doesn't work for a lot of their dishes, but it sure as Ash loves Pikachu made the alfredo taste better!

Add leftover red sauce, like a third of a jar, to the oil. Make sure nearly all the oil is gone though so don't add too much like in the other dish that relies on oil for a sauce.

Serve with ricotta. Put parsley on top for extra fancy ricotta.

This is great for when you have left over red sauce and left over ricotta from cooking baked ziti.

Baking also scares me.

I had to try it though. My only secret is two or three cap fulls of rose water. :)

Here is what I used to create red velvet Halloween cupcakes!

This is what they look like 3/4th of the way. Just make sure to have the extra red batter on all of them; I only have the white parts showing to show you guys how there's a creamy center. (and it actually happened! the box wasn't lying about that bit!)

I can bake brownies, so I thought brownie cupcakes wouldn't come out too horrific.

It's griddelli brownie mix where they have the choco chunks in the mix. I added rose water and coconut. I frosted it with orange blossom frosting. The candy is just for fun- it's pure sugar.

I was bored, kinda like I am now, and tried a garlic+lemon+oil sauce with parm and black pepper. Came out decent.

No, if you haven't guessed yet I'm a Muslim Italian-American girl.

I do like Arab food though.

Here is some homemade falafal (first attempt) with (store brought) hummus flavored with red pepper flakes. The salad is persian cucumber with soy+sesame vinaigrette.

after a 10 pounds for 10 USD sale on brarilla pasta at the local grocery store.

My flatmate is hiding behind the block, or is she???

It's nice to see someone on /ck/ that actually knows how to use a camera, Pictures that aren't instagram quality top down blurry 5megapixel cell phone camera messes are a real nice change.

Food looks great too, Definitely going to try some of this

While the rest of this stuff is either from my mom teaching me as a child or me figuring out because I added too much curry powder in this sone time and it came out amazing-- oh yeah trial and error; this is not.

I wanted to make shrimp alfredo, and one of the first results on google was making shrimp alfredo but stuffing it into shells. I thought it came out only ok at best, but my boyfriend devoured that whole pan by his lonesome.

Sadly I must stop sharing my photos as the rest are quite bland.

I shall be here to chit-chat, but here is the final cooking photo. It's of my faveeeeeeee dish

GNOCCHI ALFREDO WITH CHOPPED BROCCOLI AND GARLIC

IT IS THE BEST MEAL EVER!!!

:D

<.<

if you're nice, I'll tell y'all how to make it!

>>4007384
>>4007436

Thank you both!!! It's nice to be able to share my cooking with someone new for once. :D

These photos are just taken with my cell phone actually.

No meat?

>>4007440
Please do

>>4007456
There's meat. The first dishes from Eid al Adha are heavy on the meat excluding the baked ziti.

I don't cook meat often I don't eat it, and it's hard for me to buy. I need to buy halal meat which is Muslim-Kosher for lack of a better term. There isn't much of a price difference, but as my meat eating friends don't request for me to cook meat for them often I end up never stocking up on it and cooking with it even less.

BAMSA?

>>4007457
If you have it, buy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Broccolini rather than normal broccerli.

You chop it up chunky, and put it in a bowl. You then finely chop elephant garlic, parsley, oregano, and maybe even half a teaspoon of basil. Place this is another bowl.

Take out your spices, onion salt and cenyee pepper and parmigiana plus sea salt for the pasta water. Set it aside

Now you start to boil the water in a big pot. Use a lot of water since the gnocchis rise when done-- you don't want them sitting on top of teach other when cooking. Hold back on salting the water till one moment before you dump the to-be-cooked gnocchi package in.

Take a large pan, one where you could put everything in and serve with, and coat it with oil. Once the oil is heated add the brcolini. Saute it for 3-4 minutes. Now add the garlic etc bowl. Once the garlic is browned you add the spices. Let it all cook together for 2 minutes, and now you should be ready to add the gnocchi to the water with the sea salt.

Once this is done, the oil needs to be nearly gone. Add in jar alfredo now. I like to use http://www.classico.com/light-alfredo-sauces/light-asiago-romano-alfredo-pasta-sauce.aspx..

Stir in the spices+seasoning+brocolini int othe sauce. You should have streaks of oil in there, that's ok, just keep on stirring. After a minute or so of doing that put it on medium heat, should be on low heat when sauteeing (or i do that b/c i'm afraid of fires), Once the alfredo begins to bubble stir it again. Turn down to low heat after a minute of bubbling.

>>4007471

Gnoccho should be done now. Strain them. Let them sit as you add in some parm to the sauce. Once the fresh parm is stirred in, add the gnocchi. Just make sure the sauce covers all the past, my picture actually has too much sauce, and then cover it. Let it cook for 2 or 3 minutes before serving straight from the pan onto people's plates.

Serve with garlic bread and salad. :) Have pepper and parm on the side for picky eaters who need even more spice to their food.

This is great...

>>4007333
God this looks amazing. I am so fat.

>>4007483
Penguin believes you can make that too!!!

This is excellent. Thank you for taking time to make this thread.

I like you OP !

I see I am not the only one who enjoy cooking on Eid ! :)

>>4007564
It's so much fun!! I have no family, so I made a family to do it with- my muslim fiance, my buddhist friend from japan, my agnostic chinese-american, and my muslim desi friend. :) plus my christian and sikh roommates. Oh and the amanda girl? She's pagan, but she waited and broke my fast with me so I didn't need to eat alone.

>>4007576
That is so lovely !

Where are the recipes?

>>4007590
I posted a few. See the taco instructions and the gnocchi and the quick pasta and the olive garden redone? :)

just request and i'll post it. they're all in my head.

>>4007399

Yikes, no dashi. Thats just hot water and Miso. Find dashi stock- powdered or otherwise and try it from there. You'll have some of the best Miso soup you could ever imagine.

Thanks, OP! You've given me ideas for the next week.

I use halal meat a lot. But the butchers for the most part really suck. I've never seen a ribeye or fillet steak.

>>4007672
that is dashi...

this fuckin thread

How does this make you feel?

Grocery shopping.

Wanna see what one month of groceries look like? Anyone wanna guess how much this all cost?

Wait won't let me load the photo :'( ugh how do I make it smaller on my phone?

>>4009246
>nowthatswhaticalledgy.jpeg

>>4009246

I find it amusing that this person actually believes that the types of people who riot over stuff like that would frequent 4chan and adopt a tripcode.

As a terrible cook myself, I am majorly jelly.

>tfw the best home cooked meal you can get is out of a can

>>4009512
Yes please, I am terribly entertained by your meals.
Do you work with any kind of budget or do you just say, "fuck it." and get what you feel like?

>>4009608
Alright
Getting on PC now
Just made donner for roommate and cleaned it all.up

>>4009856
never had reindeer before.
Bad humor and togepi aside, we are watching.

>>4009859
>>4009608
>>4009856
Hey guys I'm on my PC now, I was on my laptop last night so I'm going to just make this my pc trip too so that it matches the mobile stuff. Yay 3 computers? haha

So my flatmate was kind enough to drive me to trader joes, so I went shopping for the next month. Test upload to see if these pics work, and then I'll show you the pics and list what I got plus have you guys guess final cost? :D

I do work on a budget as in.. I list what I want to make tonight and try to make it cheaply. If the stuff ends being too expensive I simply put it back, cry in a cornet, and make something else for the night.

>>4009892

I have this huge fetish where I like to see all the grocery items, I bought from my trip all neatly placed together like one happy family of foods that will make me happy as I use and eat my way through all of them. :)

Care to indulge me?

PS. I'm not a woman, although my post would give that impression.

>>4009892
>>4009892
Sweet it worked...

So

-Mini pizzas
-5-6 taco seasoning packs
-bell pepper, tri color 3pk
-3 sets of corn tortillas
-1 set of corn and flour tortillas
-Persian cucumbers
-light sour cream, a pint
-4 jars of Alfredo sauce

>>4009905
-Pomodoro Sauce
-3 Cheese Red sauce
-Marinana Sauce
-3 packages of gnoochi
-16oz of broccercette/baby broccerli/the thing I talk about in a recepie on here
-penne pasta
-spinach tortellini
-cheese tortellini
-2 packages of shredded mexi cheese
-10oz of pre cut onions
-capellini (angel hair) pasta
-Linguine pasta
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>>4009912
-orecchiette pasta
-serrano salsa fresco
-parmesan reggiano
-pesto
-pico de gallo salsa

>>4009914
-cilantro
-veggie beef, two packages
-guarcamole
-shredded green cabbage

Aren't those the best moments? To stare at your bounty of amazing delicacies, each perfectly wrapped and waiting to indulge every taste bud of yours.


Your roommate doesn't deserve you. I'm such a great cook, but with no one to share. ;_;

>>4009920
-crimini brown mushrooms, 8oz
-sun dried tomatoes, two packages
-sprouted (idk wtf sprouted is but it's all they had) tofu, twin pack

>>4009895
It's okay man. I'm the hairy barrel-chested descendent of alpine mercenaries, and I have recurring dreams of visiting a small restaurant and market for gourmet items and hand-crafted goods at a reasonable price with friendly patrons, mongers, and artisans.

...I've tried to drive there. Several times. I end up facing a one-way street in the suburbs.

>>4009925
-package of roma tomatoes
-jalapaeno pepper hot sauce
-peeled garlic (woo hoo save time!)
-herb salad bag
-baby lettuce salad bag

>>guess how much!

>>4007338

Dear god that looks incredible.

>>4009928

We could go shopping at the local farmer's market together every week. Take in samples of fresh cheese and honey with locally grown dates. Argue about which stall sells the best mushrooms for a winter soup. Everyone would think we're gay, but really we're just two dudes with a love for great food.

;_;

>>4009966
I lol'd.

>>4009966
Can me and Togepi come? See, I dress normal! I just wear a pretty scarf and baggy jackets. :)

>>4009999
AAAH! It has boobs!
Just kidding.

>>4009999

I-I guess...are you going to wear that outfit and bring along the pokemon toy...

>>4010016
I'll wear the outfit. I'll carry togepi around like so.

>>4010043

ó_o
Not... really... right?

>>4010044


Man I'm getting add in here.

does anyone want to know how to cook stuffs?

Trader Joe's has a reputation for having better quality stuff right? Sorry, I'm from Canada here.

I didn't even know things like "baby broccoli" and persian cucumbers existed. These little food discoveries please me.


Thank you for the thread, OP.

>>4010060
Yes, it's better quality. It's usually a lot fresher, has random stuff (like you mentioned, but then a small location might lack a simple thing like mozzarella sticks), and ends up costing less.

Since no one guessed- all that food cost me 112$. If I would've gone to the major supermarket, it would've been 250$ at least since some of the stuff like little broccerli is rare.

>>4009905
>>4009912
>>4009914
>>4009920
>>4009925
>>4009931
>my disappointment when mostly pre-prepared foods and small percentage of fresh produce.