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literature and pastries/art forum crossover
next time you cook something, take a picture of the ingredients before you start and the finished product. i guarantee it will be satisfying.

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delicious

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3/4 of it still needs eating
you should come and help me with it :)

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i wish :)

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Whimsy Overcomes Him Joined: 18 Dec 2005 Posts: 8611

oh man :)

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guys cook something and show me your pictures?

Christmas came early Joined: 16 Feb 2005 Posts: 9225

i really wanted to do this the other day when i made pasta sauce for the first time

but i didnt have the camera

Joined: 11 Aug 2005 Posts: 1921 Location: At the GUN SHOW

I am so on this when I cook tomorrow night.

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knicola just the other day i made a pot roast
i wish you'd made this thread at 2:30 PM EST on thursday

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Stir fry!

Chicken, Brocolli, Red Pepper, Scallions, Ginger, Garlic, Cilantro, Cumin, Nutmeg, Chili, Sesame Seeds, Lime Juice, Soy Sauce, Palm Sugar, Pepper, Salt, Rice. Not in any particular order.

Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 9:53 pm

Here's the after picture of my strawberry cupcakes with dark chocolate icing that were supposed to be for a bake sale, but due to a series of mistakes in the mixing and cooking process they ended up in the reject pile I took to work.

If this thread had been a week earlier I would have taken before pictures.

Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 10:02 pm

Elliot your cooking is so tidy!

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It's true! I always put things in neat piles on the cutting board and have all my ingrediants out before I start cooking, but I must admit that I neatened things up a bit to try to impress you guys.

And really bye "you guys" I just mean "knicola"

Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 11:13 pm

Elliot wrote:

I always put things in neat piles on the cutting board and have all my ingrediants out before I start cooking

I do that too it's so fun. A lot of times I'll put them all in their own seperate appropriately sized bowls, just like on the cooking shows.

Posted: Sat Mar 24, 2007 11:23 pm

I line up all my ingredients like that too, and then I put them away as I use them so I never lose my place or accidently put in salt twice or something. I forget who taught me to do it that way.

I've got a friend who's a chef and she always lays out all her ingredients in their own bowls and jars and takes pictures before and after. She's one of those freaks who don't need to measure their ingredients.

Joined: 11 Aug 2005 Posts: 1921 Location: At the GUN SHOW

I'm one of those freaks!

There really is just something so satisfying in having a nice pile of whatever ingredient you are using, sliding the edge of my kitchen knife under it to pick it up, then dropping it in the pan.

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really just getting hungry whenever i open this thread

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elliot, where do those pre-cut vegetables grow? that must be pretty handy.
this made me wish i hadn't bottled out of the thai supermarket misson :(

thew, those do not look rejectable

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I cut them with my mind using sheer force of will.

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There is nothing quite like a bit of food porn. It makes me wish I had a camera.

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Hope none of you are on dial-up!

All the ingrediants, roughly left to right: palm sugar, salt, coconut milk (unsweetened), scallions, broccoli, fish sauce, lime juice, garlic, soy sauce, chicken, red curry paste, curry powder, tumeric, cumin, coriander, nutmeg, cardamom, pepper, jasmine rice

Spices:

Scallions, broccoli, garlic

Simmer the coconut milk, add the curry paste

Spices added, chicken and scallions added

In goes the broccoli!

Finished product

Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 12:15 am

damn that looks good

Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 3:21 am

That's what SHE said!

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That looks great, but I see green onions, not shallots. Given there is garlic already, though, green onions is probably better.

Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 4:09 pm

ps basmati rice plz fu jasmine

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logcabinrepairman wrote:

That looks great, but I see green onions, not shallots. Given there is garlic already, though, green onions is probably better.

Dear me I meant "scallions" not "shallots." For some reason those two names always cross themselves in my head.

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basmati rice more like buttmati rice

Posted: Mon Mar 26, 2007 6:54 pm

jasmine rice more like barf

Christmas came early Joined: 16 Feb 2005 Posts: 9225