Have I got a tip for you. Long story short, every Wednesday all the ingredients for 3 meals for two show up in a box. They generally take half an hour or so to make. All the mis en place is done, for the most part, and if you've got a knife, a pot, a pan, olive oil, salt and pepper you're there. Comes to $10 a plate which, for largely-organic, artisan-grade stuff is pretty cool. Also I've started cooking with whacky shit like chayote squash and stuff. We're on Week 5 or so and loving it. Haven't ordered take-out since June.
Oh my god where has this been all my life. These ingredients look good, too. How is this so cheap?
I'm making pork chops right now. I started 15 minutes ago and am waiting for water to boil (and leeks to bake). I'll shoot a pompous food photo when I'm done.
Remember that this is all under the sub-discussion of slow cooker food.
FUCK YEAH Know who makes the best goddamn Chicken en Mole? Martha Mutherfucking Stewart. Caveat - you have to add about 4 T of cocoa powder. I use this shit. And where it says "one large chipotle in adobo" I go 5. We tried 7 once (I hate abandoning two chipotles in the can) but it was...challengingly hot. Serve on rice with greek yogurt and scallions and guacamole and chips.
Growing up, chicken en mole was a treat in our family. Whenever my mom went to mexico, she came back with this: It's supposed to be used for hot chocolate, but she used it for mole too. It was awesome stuff. I should probably learn that family recipe.
FTFY c'mon, man, throw me a bone. I'm up in this bitch making Martha Stewart Mole. (although truth be told Ibarra ain't no thing. You can get it at any Kroger-chain grocery store up and down the west coast and into the Rockies. It's about 90% cheap-ass cane sugar. She's probably got some other eldritch magic you aren't sharing)I should probably SHARE that family recipe.
I believe it. Have one of her cookbooks and a lot of the stuff in it is stupid good. Will try this.
I'm too broken up over my biscuits right now... I don't want to see anybody else's success...
Well, my wife signed up for it so it's a complete and utter surprise to me. If I were on the mailing list it wouldn't be. Chayote may be old hat for you, but I grew up in a place without, like, sushi. When an Olive Garden opened up two hours away it had a 2-month wait list. Suffice it to say it's not an ingredient I've ever sought out, so being given a path to understanding has been nice. We did catfish, too. I was traumatized by catfish as a youth because my family does an annual catfish fry. The problem being they catch their catfish from Elephant Butte Reservoir where the catfish mostly feed on sewage and corpses. As it turns out, they ain't half bad with a proper diet!
. . . I . . . see your point. I'm pretty sure that this is just what catfish eat. My ex wouldn't eat catfish for the same exact reason, but personally I am a catfish fan and will eat it 8/10 times when given the opportunity. I have this thing about eating eggs though. Corpse-eating fish are no problem, turtles are no problem, snakes are no problem, congealed blood is no problem, boiled, chopped goat testicles were . . . doable but man oh man, eggs are the grossest thing ever to me. Everyone's got their thing I guess.When an Olive Garden opened up two hours away it had a 2-month wait list.
The problem being they catch their catfish from Elephant Butte Reservoir where the catfish mostly feed on sewage and corpses.
I read the free sample and didn't go further, primarily 'cuz it was full price. As I read it, I wished it were written by Mary Roach.
It was a while ago. I attempted to read "Stiff." I didn't finish I'm pretty sure. I think my opinion of Roach suffered as I had recently read both Complications and possibly also Better by Atul Gawande and I found I enjoyed his writing style much more, while bth authors were discussing similar subject matter (bodies, medicine). The book seemed "pop"-py to me. It was not as bad as Gladwell (I read "Blink" and hated it) but I remember feeling as if the subject could have been covered better by others.
See, and I haven't read Stiff and don't want to. Packing for Mars is all I got - and it's very poppy. But it's an "everything you wanted to know about space travel but were afraid to ask" manual that spends a chapter and a half on the toilet on the space station and "poppy" is the way to go.
Complications is (somewhat sadly) definitely better than Better. There was supposed to be a third but it looks like that never came out. The Checklist Manifesto I found valuable, but it expands beyond the realm of medicine - so in that way very different from better. I would pick either Checklist or Complications, I am wondering if you would prefer Checklist because it's broader - but Complications is very good.