What was the last thing you cooked?

[Jonn]

We shelled them at the table as we ate them.

Where I live, shelling is usually done AFTER cooking, and while at the table.
I think this is the Australian way.
Probably, not the way things are done at Outdated's "side of town", however.

 

[Mary Terry]

Where I live, shelling is usually done AFTER cooking, and while at the table.
I think this is the Australian way.
Probably, not the way things are done at Outdated's "side of town", however.

Americans shell shrimp either before cooking or after cooking. It depends on what we're cooking and eating. There is no "rule" here. The same is true for crawfish. Many Australian recipes call for shelled shrimp so there's no one way to do it in Australia, either.

 

[Jonn]

Americans shell shrimp either before cooking or after cooking. It depends on what we're cooking and eating. There is no "rule" here. The same is true for crawfish. Many Australian recipes call for shelled shrimp so there's no one way to do it in Australia, either.

The Aussie Christmas tradition, over here in the east at least, is to sit down, and shell a big pile of prawns while eating them, making it the main meal.
Shrimp/prawns added to a cooked meal are shelled first.

I don't eat seafood, btw.

 

[Princess Viola]

I made some ramen, mostly following a recipe from Wegmans (substituted the organic chicken bone broth with regular chicken stock because it was cheaper and had to substitute the frozen veggies they wanted me to use for a different frozen veggies cuz the ones they wanted me to get was out of stock).

 

[Mary Terry]

The Aussie Christmas tradition, over here in the east at least, is to sit down, and shell a big pile of prawns while eating them, making it the main meal.
Shrimp/prawns added to a cooked meal are shelled first.

I don't eat seafood, btw.

Crawfish boils, seafood, lobster, and shrimp boils, steamed oysters, crab boils, mussel and clam bakes - all of these celebratory communal feasts are traditional in the US. All are cooked without shelling the shellfish. I add potatoes, corn on the cob, onions, peppers and lots of other things to the pot when we have a seafood boil. When it's ready, everything is dumped on big picnic tables and everyone digs in, shelling as they go. Lots of fun and very tasty.

 

[Jonn]

Lots of fun and very tasty.

I imagine the small amount of processed food in the prawns, due to incomplete removal, adds to the taste.

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

Really Good Stew

2 pounds turkey burger
2 bunches of green onions
6-8 potatoes
1 can green beans
1/3 can corn
1/2 cup chopped kale
1 pint jar of white beans canned in broth
1 pint jar of bone broth
1 pint jar of water

Sautee turkey burger. Add potatoes and green onions. Sautee a little bit. Add all other ingredients. Cook over medium heat with the lid vented, stirring occasionally, periodically scraping the pot licker off the bottom. It's done when the potatoes are spoon tender.

I seasoned it with:

salt
sage
fish sauce

It came out really nice and comforting.

 

[Metalhead]

Homemade Rueben sandwich.

 

[tlc]

I don’t “cook”. I heat things up from the freezer. But this is the last thing I had. My favorite weekend food.

 

[Judge]

Dinner last night was some super-charged stir-fried rice adding green onion, red and green peppers, parsley and bits of ground beef.

 

[Dagan]

Shawarma recipe. I'm almost satisfied with it. It's close and just lacking something of a savory spice needed. Anise or annatto perhaps.

 

[Aspie_With_Attitude]

Here's my latest meal that's been published on to my autistic YouTube channel.

 

[Mary Terry]

I made vegetarian chili yesterday with canned crushed tomatoes, onions, garlic, red and green bell peppers, one jalapeno pepper for heat, a can of black beans, a can of pinto beans, a sprig of cilantro from the backyard, a bay leaf, a tablespoon of adobo sauce, cumin, and dry ancho chili powder. Served it with some lime wedges, grated cheddar cheese, and rice. Yum!

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

Oatmeal Raisin Cookies (Unalaska Aleut Style)

2 cups flour
2 cups oats
2 cups sugar
1 cup raisins
1 tsp baking powder
1 tsp baking soda
1 tsp salt
2 sticks melted butter
3 eggs
2 Tbs black strap molasses

Mix dry in one bowl, wet in the other.

Pour wet into dry, knead together until a uniform cookie dough.

Taste a few spoonfulls of it, for science.

Roll little balls and put them on a cookie sheet 3 inches apart.

Bake at 350 for 10 minutes.

We baked 1 cookie sheet worth of cookies.

The leftover cookie dough, we stuffed in a quart baggie and froze for another day.

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

Warm Cinnamilk

At bedtime, it's often nice to heat up a little milk and stir in a pinch of cinnamon for everyone in the house. Pour into mugs. Drink it by low light, to get extra warm and sleepy.

The milk should be only slightly warmer than a baby's bottle. Comforting, soothing. So if it's too hot, top off the mug with some cold milk.

 

[Mary Terry]

About once a year, I order lobsters from Maine. $250 for 12 flash frozen lobster tails (6-ounce size) and a quart of clam chowder. The package arrived yesterday, and I grilled two tails apiece for us and served them with lemon garlic butter, bread, and a fresh garden salad for dinner. It was incredibly delicious, and I still have two more lobster meals in the freezer for later. That's 3 lobster dinners for about $80.00 per meal for two people, far less than we would spend in a restaurant. It's expensive but we rarely eat out at restaurants so it's a real treat.

I sometimes order live Maine lobsters - the really big ones - and steam them but the frozen ones are less expensive, very fresh and just as tasty.

 

[Mary Terry]

I have a couple of pounds of crawfish meat leftover from yesterday's crawfish boil. Its crawfish season here and kind of a big deal to eat them fresh at least once during the season. Tonight, I'll make crawfish etouffee (which literally means smothered crawfish) and serve over hot rice. Serve with some lemon slices and a big green salad.

 

[AprilR]

Chocolate cookies in my new oven!

 

[Yeshuasdaughter]

Homemade Jambalaya. It turned out pretty darn good.

I also made punch using homemade lemonade sweetened with stevia mixed into homemade apple juice. It's absolutely lovely.

 

[AprilR]

I tried a healthy zucchini recipe, and it turned out actually tasty! Just peeled the zucchini into very thin slices, put it in lemon juice. Cooked with onions, scallions and some fresh mint.