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Termyn8or -> RE: I can't cook (7/21/2008 3:40:28 AM)
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If you like rare meat this will be the best thing you ever ate, but honestly I mean it in a bit of a sarcastic tone.
Go to the store, look in the BEEF department, do not do this with anything else. Go find a piece of meat of the size you think you would like to eat.
Find a pan, if you can find some real grease, get someout of the can, anditis not a spray on. That shit is poison.
Turn the gas up all the way and wait till a drop of water bounces across the pan. Throw the meat in, DO NOT TURN IT DOWN. Do not touch the meat, instead shake the pan and eventually it will release. When it does you flip it over.
If you don't liike your meat rare, you might want to turn it down then and throw in some salt or something. Otherwise as soon as it will come out of the pan it is time for it to come out of the pan. You will really taste meat. No sauce no nothing. Just enjoy the meat.
It's called black and blue. It's similar to blackening, which you can look up. It too means very rare meat, but it has a coating of cracked peppercorns on it. That is done the same way, at maximum heat.
Now take about a half pound package of macaroni, boil the water. Put it in. Tell by tasting it whether it is done or not. Get out some butter and milk. Throw about a half stick of butter in it, then the milk. Then throw about a half pound of good cheddar cheese in. Keep mixing it. Now you got a steak and mac and cheese. Enjoy, but I ain't doing the dishes, that shit sticks, but that is part of the deal.
Wanna really spice the deal up ? Go get some asparagus, clean it up a bit if you feel like it, throw a stick of butter in a frypan and throw it in.(that you fry slow)
Now you got a home cooked meal, a nice steak, your carb side because I know alot of people need that, and a veggie. That would actually be a good Sunday dinner to me.
We used to have the potroast alot, every Sunday just about, until it got hot out, then we would fire up the grill. When I say we I mean two people, that is not that much different than one. The spuds, usually two veggies and even though we fed the neighborhood there were always some leftovers, which came in handy by about Wednesday along with the microwave.
We got tired of it, or I did. I got tired of the cookouts no matter what we made. I actually got tired of filet mignon. Last bunch of that I found in the freezers I made into stroganoff.
Thing is, there is so much you can do. Like roast ? make it !. It is simply not that hard to do. In a couple days you can make soup out of it. Hint - use the pot you roasted it in.
You want to continue to eat, so think about that. Say you get to the point you can make a good spagetti sauce, it ain't that hard really. So on the first day, like a Sunday you cook up some of this real ritzy angel hair pasta and have a great time. On Thursday you are hungry. You throw half a box of macaroni in a pot and then mix it all together, destroying your meatballs and fucking the sausage all up, all up. Throw it in a bowl and get a big spoon. But when you do that I suggest you have also a bowl of salad. And eat it first, you don't want to get too carbed up.
And if you like fish, leave the skin on, and even if you bread it you must remember which side has the skin, and you always fry thwe other side first, and I mean completely, then you flip it. Only way to keep it from curling up unless you want to remove the skin, but I don't go for that. I think it has mutrients in it.
But you don't have to get all fancy like that for everyday eating. You learn how to make soups, stews and chili, you will eventually learn how to make it how you like it. Forget kash for now, I just about got a taste for a decent beef stew about now. And there is another feature stew has, you actually can nuke it. Nuking kash is precarious, you have to be very careful, but regular beef stew, don't give it a third thought.
But to make the stew, first of all YOU decide what you want in it. Obviously potatoes carrots whatever. How much onions is up to your taste, garlic, all that shit. Some people like corn and greenbeans in it, and I do as well, if they are fresh or frozen. Everything out of a can is mush, I did not set out to cook mush.
But you bought this package of meat, now you just need to figure out the potatoes and carrots. And celery makes it good too. These things come in packages of a certain size, you just gotta pay up, but they might not be done in one day. Today's potatoes for the stew might be Tuesday's french fries, if you got oil.
(oh shit, peach, should I even go there ?)
OK, I am Jacktracking this thing here (no this is not a hijack)
To not want to cook is to deny part of your self. Eating is fundamental. When you avoid it, I see someone with some sort of a hangup. And hey, I am not saying I don't have any, but I callem like I seeum.
Once you start, I think once you start smelling the food cook, getting used to it, I think you would love it. And the more you learn, most of which won't be from us, the more you will want to know.
And walking in fresh like that you might develop a certain style of your own. When you find out what you like, I think you'll be hooked. And then someday you might invent something. Coming in with little or no preconcieved notions could be a good thing.
And be forewarned, the balck and blue steak and the mac-n-cheese, the mess is horrible. Don't even try to do the dishes. Leave them on the stove and get some water. Het the pans, then add the water. As it gets hot it will dissolve everything off the bottom at least, which is really usually where the worst of it is.
Well buddy it goes like this. I like giving out a few pointers like this, and I actually had alot of time on my hands, but it is now six AM here and that is no longer true. I gotta get going. You know I haven't caused any trouble all day, and now all night. Well unless you burn your house down trying to make Termy special number 3.35. (the fried asparagus is the 5 part, but if you don't like it you can do it with fresh or frozen greenbeans and it is pretty damn good)
Question, you have a gas stove or electric ? I almost burrned the house down once, I still cook with gas, but this one day I was pretty wild with the heat and it almost became unmangeable. I actually wanted the fire, but it got to be too much and it really got my attention. An answer to that would be nice, as well as more about just how much of a newbie you are in the kitchen.
For example, if you get one of those things you use to make french fries on the stove.....The best fries are made by putting the cut potastoes in water, and then putting them in the freezer. You don't want them to freeze but you want them as cold as possible. But then you want the oil as hot as possible. I am talking like 475-500 degrees. You know what happens when those cold wet fries get dumped in there ?
If you got an electric stove it doen't mean shit, but if you got a gas stove you could die. Before you drop the fries you turn off ALL the flames on the cooktop.
After a few seconds you can turn it back on, but I tell you if you make fries like this, they will be about the best you ever had. It also makes a mess and you will have to scrub down everything. But if you do it right they are the most kickass fries ou ever had.
Even if they kill you, try to at least live to eat them.
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