/ck/ - Food & Cooking

>>4956673
Baking's a good choice, usually. I think Good Eats covered this in an episode.

Here we go: Season 10, Episode 3, "House of the rising bun". He tries to figure out what scents would be good to have in a house if he's trying to sell it. He makes the following dishes:

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/overnight-citrus-ginger-ring-recipe/index.html

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/overnight-cinnamon-rolls-recipe/index.html

http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/alton-brown/overnight-monkey-bread-recipe/index.html

The suggestion is that cinnamon, bread/yeast, etc, are all good.

I think meats tend to smell a little off as the day wears on, and I'd avoid fish and the like altogether.

>>4956673
Anything with garlic for me. God do I love garlic.

>>4956673
Seafood or a nice Thai or Malaysian curry.
I'm partial to seafood, a good fish cooking smells great to me.

inb4 bacon.

bacon

>>4957094
Aye, bacon, garlic, and red onions cooking in a cast iron skillet with a bit of oil really smells awesome. It's a good base to use before adding other ingredients.

>>4956673
Just about anything done in a slow cooker makes the whole house Snell amazing. I do chili in mine, and that always turns out amazing.

Cinnamon rolls, apple pie, caramelized onions, garlic, yeast breads.

If you just want the scent of baked goods, but don't wan to have to bake, you can fill a pot with water, and add a stick of cinnamon, a few cloves, and some vanilla and simmer it on low heat for hours. Orange slices are good in there too. A fresher, more clean smell can be made by adding sliced lemon, fresh rosemary, and a little vanilla to the water (this is what they use in Williams-Sonoma stores to give the stores a pleasant, homey scent).

>>4956673
>What are the best smelling dishes to cook?

Risotto
Pot roast
Chili
Turkey

>>4956673

Pretty much everything... god I love walking into a house when someone is cooking or has just finished cooking. You don't really realize the smell while you are doing the cooking but if you walk away and come back you can really smell it. Man... I'm hungry just thinking about the smells.

>>4957094
>>4957096

This. I cooked Spanish Mussels (fresh, had to clean them myself) with Chorizo in a tomato-wine sauce last night. The house smelled so fucking good. My roommates were practically drooling over it.

>>4957132
A recipie for that would be nice, don't keep it top secret to yourself!

Pretty much anything cooked in a crock pot.
It just sits there all day, slowly cooking, slowly emitting those sweet aromas.

>>4957094
Definitely.

Garlic, onions and rosemary go together very well in the nose. Onions in first, pretty soon (30 seconds?) after, add the garlic and rosemary.

I also like roast chicken, I rub a herb and spice mix (usually includes garlic) on my chicken drumsticks before roasting, smells great.

A home made curry, preferably with some coconut milk in it. It's so fragrant and wafts through the house

>>4957253
>i'm indian

>>4957132
might as well make a paella at that point

>>4957256
Not him, but I'm in no way Indian and I love the smell of curry. I wouldn't say I make it from scratch though.

>>4957180

It's actually really simple. The hardest part was cleaning and prepping the mussels (you could buy pre cleaned or frozen if you'd prefer).

>2 lbs of mussels
>1 lb of chorizo (either ground or sliced approx. 1/2")
>1 yellow onion, finely chopped
>4-5 tomatoes, seeded and chopped
>4 garlic cloves, minced (more or less depending on your preference)
>2-3 tbsp of fresh finely chopped parsley leaves
>1 1/2 - 2 tsp of roasted/smoked paprika (the recipe called for 1/2 tsp but I wanted more)
>2 tsp of crushed red pepper flakes
>1-2 tsp of freshly ground black pepper
>4 tbsp of butter
>1 cup of white wine
>1/2 cup of heavy cream (more or less depending on desired "creamyness")

1. prep the mussels
2. brown the chorizo in a large saute pan (6 minutes or so). Remove chorizo with slotted spoon and place on paper towels. Remove any little bits from the pan but save as much of the fat from the pan as you can (about 1 tbsp or so).
3. Add the butter and fat back into the pan
4. When the butter is melted, add the onion, paprika, red pepper, and pepper. Cook and stir until onions are tender (4 minutes)
5. Add in the tomato and garlic, cook and stir for about 2 minutes
6. Add the wine, heavy cream, and parsley. Stir in chroizo. Add mussels and bring to a boil.
7. lower heat a bit and cover, cook until mussels have opened (6-8) minutes.

Make sure to serve right away and goes great with french bread (I served it with grilled sourdough last night). Also remember to discard any mussels that have not opened.

Hope you enjoy it.

Baking always smells good and by scent pastry > cakes > cookies.
Stews and roasts work too, but the smell of baked goods is sex.

A dish where you start frying onions and green bell pepper such as a stir fry
>DAT bell pepper smell mmmm

Adobo.

Carnitas slow roasting in the crock pot.

>>4956673
Dead hooker au vin.

>>4956673
My family's spice cookies.

The smell of fresh spices and freshly baked cookies that are soft and tasty and buttery. God, I wish I could have some right now.

Any kind of sweet bread, especially anything with cinnamon. Something about the scent of yeast, sugar, and spices.

>>4956673
> sex leg forever

Say what?

This

>>4958814
Spice cookies? Are those somewhat like gingerbread cookies? If so, I share your love of them. I love that warm spice smell.

>>4959605
oh dear god I just came

>>4957206

Pork & Sauerkraut

Bread and coffee