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Post by wigwambam on May 19, 2016 20:00:00 GMT
I like to cook, me. I began getting interested in cooking experimentally in my late teens and still cook from scratch more or less erryday. Left to my own devices I will happily live off of tinned sardines and baked beans, I like food but I am lazy if it's just for me. My masochistic love for unobtainable too cool for school arty vegan type girls however has led to me being quite open minded with what I will try making. Quite often the hottest girls seem to be vegan/gluten free veggie blah blah in my experience and to please them it is sometimes useful to know how to whip up a Canoeing vegan gluten free souffle, or a nice risotto with those special mushrooms you rarely see in the shops, or the ability to be able to correctly utilise the entire spectrum of edible herbs if you get my meaning; those sorts of girls. The current one owns a Hasselblad and likes brightly coloured plastic jewelry...hnnnnnhhhggggnn....anyway...Today was a souffle day, chocolate souffle, with no Canoeing eggs or dairy or wheat. Sounds like hell right? I should point out that not once have I ever considered myself to be vegan but it turns out this stuff can be wicked easy to make and tasty.
What have you been making lately, other than sweet sweet love having cooked delicious food for other human friendbeasts? Tease me with your tales of wanton flesh consumption, or post some recipes, anecdotes about that time you ran into Ainsley Harriot in Waitrose...
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Post by wigwambam on May 19, 2016 20:12:59 GMT
Found this recipe on the line. It is actually very good and I have begun to prefer it to regular souffle, plus you can eat the foamy batter goo raw striaght from the bowl or off of other humans with no fear of salmonella etc. Aquafaba is just the water you boiled the chickpeas in. We eat a lot of chickpeas. It's fair to say the stereotypes are true. Did a proper trombone toot earlier.
1 c Aquafaba
6 tbsp of powdered sugar
1/2 cup dark Chocolate
1/2 cup coconut oil
3/4 cup whole spelt flour
4 tbsp cocoa powder
1/2 tbsp baking powder
salt
Whip the disgusting looking chickpea water with an electric whisk. Melt the butter and chocolate in a Bain Marie. gradually whisk in all the dry ingredients, fold in the hot chocolate goo then divide the mixture into 4 souffle cups (go and buy souffle cups if you haven't got any, it changed my life. 20 minutes at baking temperature without opening the oven is all it took tonight and they are decidedly delicious. This one works on the sorts of girls I like. I used buckwheat and gluten free plain flour mixed together as the missus doesn't eat wheat. Try it though, seriously. You might like it!
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Post by Tom on May 20, 2016 6:43:31 GMT
I am much like you in that I am lazy. That being said when I can be rear canoed and get down to it I do quite like cooking. I typically get great pleasure from cooking something delightful using only one pan due to afformentioned lazyness, leads me to making a lot of strange stir fried concoctions. Sadly my current lady of choice is incredibly fussy, which gets on my tits no end. If I want to eat anything exciting or exotic I have to do it alone or on some sort of man date with friends.
Once upon a time I spent a while being an out and out gym fanatic, that lead to an awful lot of experimental baking using protien, had a very similar effect to chickpeas.
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Post by Horney on May 20, 2016 7:46:58 GMT
I used to be a chef. This thread is relevant to my interests.
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Post by Dweenimus on May 20, 2016 8:05:23 GMT
For anybody that's lazy, but also wants to cook some interesting/tasty things check out a website called gusto. Not cheap, but they send you everything you need in the recipes, all portioned correctly.
The gf and I get 4 meals once a month to stop us eating the same old stuff.
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Post by wigwambam on May 20, 2016 8:23:44 GMT
Ah jolly good. Is this where we begin the "My falafel can beat your falafel" type conversations before lobbing fragrant deepfried projectiles at one another before boasting about the many different extravagant proteins we have jerked?!
I had the frightening realisation today that I have accidentally eaten only vegan food for the past few days! Don't get me wrong though, last month on holiday we went out to a restaurant in Broome and I made her wait having finished her salad whilst I merrily put away a seafood platter for two. One battered squid ring remained at the end. For some reason eating that last one would have just been excessive. I would have given it to a cat but I think the saltwater crocs had eaten all of those as the only one I saw was on a lead with it's owners on the beach...
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Post by Don on May 20, 2016 8:24:23 GMT
I enjoy cooking too. Don't often do it though because my & Lindsey's finishing times mean she is always back earlier & gets started on the cooking - and I'm lucky because she's a good cook. These days, when I do cook, I mostly cook curries. Since spending an afternoon with the owner/chef of an Indian restaurant getting tips on how to improve my curry making, I reckon mine are certainly passable for an amateur.
The slow cooker is a greatly underrated piece of kit for any kitchen. If you don't have one you should get one. Absolutely unbeatable for lamb shank, stews, pot roasts, etc, and one of the best ways to cook many curries.
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