What are you cooking/eating today?

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We have breakfast and lunch and "give me your dish" threads, I know, but this parallels the other "today/now" threads and isn't recipe-oriented.

I had odds and ends of leftover fruit, so decided to toss them together into mini cobbler tart type things in the ramekins I usually use for creme brulee. Apples, blackberries, raspberries, and these pears I'm not crazy about -- great taste, but that pear texture I've never liked much. A little sugar, because the berries have dried out slightly, and a little sour milk because ... I don't know why. The cat actually gave me a look like "what're you doing?" and I had to be all "back off, man, I'm a scientist." We'll see how it goes.

Eating a slice of cheddar and a slice of the apple. I never seem to be able to write while the laundry's in, so I'm cooking instead.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 1 September 2003 15:33 (twenty-one years ago)

i am going to chinatown and therefore (probably) not cooking

unless there is a chef-taken-ill emergency and i a chosen to pilot the airliner down via only the control tower's instructions in my headphones a la karen black

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 1 September 2003 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I just finished off my flapjacks. Oh-er.

― jel -- (jel), Monday, 1 September 2003 15:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm going to have a couple of Cornish pasties later

― MarkH (MarkH), Monday, 1 September 2003 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I am making rigatoni with leftover/spare lasagne sauce later. Matt and I spent last night singing Auberg(in)e by Chris Rea as we cooked it. Oh the larks.

Highlights of weekend eating: POPOVERS! (I take back everything I sneered about American cheese etc, because clearly you invent the BEST food ever!) And torte caprese which is the most ridiculously artery-clogging cake. It doesn't even have flour in it, just chocolate and almonds and gallons of eggs and sugar. Mmmmmmmmmmmmmm...

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 1 September 2003 15:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I always thought popovers were British! (Because they're so associated with New England cooking in my mind, which seems to have taken the most boring and stodgy of English cooking hundreds of years ago and dressed it up with molasses, lobster, and the worst of Irish cooking. New England cooking, that is ... not my mind.) But James Beard says I'm wrong, so get in.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 1 September 2003 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't cooked anything today - but I ate half of a very nice pork pie.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 1 September 2003 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I baked cookies yesterday. I am going to a make a tuna and egg salad sandwich for lunch. Sometime this week I am going to make something from the Campbell Soup Cookbook. I should also make rice and beans again this week.

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Monday, 1 September 2003 16:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I am having a nice soft crusty bread with some Mrs. Kirkham's Lancashire cheese (from IJ Mellis) & baby plum tomatoes for dinner tonight.

― Cozen (Cozen), Monday, 1 September 2003 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I have a vegetable curry that came in a pouch. But it's pretty good anyway. Even a little bit spicy.

― JuliaA (j_bdules), Monday, 1 September 2003 16:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I love living alone in Glasgow. :)

― Cozen (Cozen), Monday, 1 September 2003 16:07 (twenty-one years ago)

Vegetable and bacon risotto. First time I've tried to make it. Let's hope it works out.

― Jamie Conway (Jamie Conway), Monday, 1 September 2003 16:08 (twenty-one years ago)

The popover site makes me happy.

― Archel (Archel), Monday, 1 September 2003 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Now I'm having a Suzy Q, which I should feel guilty about. It's not even fried!

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 1 September 2003 16:31 (twenty-one years ago)

just ordered pizza with cheesy breadsticks.

― teeny (teeny), Monday, 1 September 2003 17:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Black bean omelettes....mmmmmm.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Monday, 1 September 2003 18:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Fresh OJ and a small bread roll first thing in. A few homemade tortilla chips and salsa towards lunch. Right now a cup of tea, then probably an apple.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 1 September 2003 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I will most likely do this:
Take thinly sliced politically incorrect mean (pork, boneless) and.....

introduce it to olive oil, garlic, and shallots in a sizzling pan.

when they are properly acquainted they will come into intimate contact with...

---the herb salad, resting plurshly on top of the soft bed of greens.

Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper will drizzle from on high,

and the fork will dance.

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 1 September 2003 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

oops that was meaT with a "t"

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 1 September 2003 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I had a crapload of basil around yesterday, so I made pesto -- kind of. Macadamias instead of pine nuts, and I used the food processor; so sue me. (I'm normally a pesto rockist.) It's very, very, very, very green. And I've put some on pasta for the girlfriend just now, and it's really pretty good. And very, very, very, very green.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 1 September 2003 19:51 (twenty-one years ago)

i just put some biscuits in

― gabbo giftington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 1 September 2003 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

i shouldn't be eating lunch, but i'm weak

― gabbo giftington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 1 September 2003 19:56 (twenty-one years ago)

tep you sure do eat a lot.

― gabbo giftington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 1 September 2003 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

(i envy you.)

― gabbo giftington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 1 September 2003 20:00 (twenty-one years ago)

i love hearing about Tep's culinary exploits.
I want him to eat *more*

― Orbit (Orbit), Monday, 1 September 2003 20:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I do not! I made fruit tarts which'll be dessert tonight; I made pasta for the girlfriend (well, I had a bite to see how the pesto was). I've had a piece of apple and cheese, a Suzy Q, and leftover chicken from last night!

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 1 September 2003 20:03 (twenty-one years ago)

i said i was envious motherfucker!

― gabbo giftington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 1 September 2003 20:03 (twenty-one years ago)

But I haven't eaten enough for you to be envious! (I do have complete meals more often than I ought to, but that will stop now that classes are starting and I'll be on campus all day two days of the week [no ILE Tep on days what start with T]. I need to cook for other people more.)

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 1 September 2003 20:06 (twenty-one years ago)

ha trust me pal, you've eaten enough for me to be envious. (this says more about me than you.)

― gabbo giftington (dubplatestyle), Monday, 1 September 2003 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)

affinois/baguette, and some canary melon

― jonas lefrel (jonas lefrel), Monday, 1 September 2003 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

mmm pork and yam chinese hotpot

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 1 September 2003 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm baking some chicken breasts right now. I *never* cook. Damn diet.

― Texas, Biyatch! (thatgirl), Monday, 1 September 2003 20:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Feeling too lazy to actually cook, so am eating a ham & turkey sandwich w/dijon and harvarti on Brownberry Hawaiian bread (never had this bread before--pretty good).
The bananas I bought are already getting black spots on them so I should probably go eat one of them.
Then it shall be a lil bag of Whoppers malted milk balls for a mini-dessert. Haven't had them for years and years but Luna reminded me of their existence.

― oops (Oops), Monday, 1 September 2003 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)

my grandad wouldn't eat bananas until there was not a spot of yellow left on the outside

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 1 September 2003 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I had a pastrami sandwich with salad cream earlier. And a Rolo pudding.

― Chriddof (Chriddof), Monday, 1 September 2003 21:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahaha my girlfriend brought me Chinese takeaway. Chicken and cashew nuts. Hmm, they may have scrimped a little on the chicken, but still...

― Ally C (Ally C), Monday, 1 September 2003 21:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I had chicken stuffed with camambert. then later I got the munchies and had the rest of camambert on toast.

― Matt (Matt), Monday, 1 September 2003 22:18 (twenty-one years ago)

made basmati rice
with spinach onions garlic
and coconut milk

then (pre-dinner) scarfed
fries and coffee at Perkins
with some apple pie

now my wife's making
her famous pasta sauce and
I'm too full to eat

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Monday, 1 September 2003 22:45 (twenty-one years ago)

olive oil potato mash. fucking yummy!

― Chris Radford (Chris Radford), Monday, 1 September 2003 23:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Okra, in quantity. Carp too.

― Jacob Barss-Bailey (Jaacob), Monday, 1 September 2003 23:47 (twenty-one years ago)

that combination must play with yer guts Jacob!

― Chris Radford (Chris Radford), Monday, 1 September 2003 23:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Dinner is an Italian sheep's milk cheese and a dry chorizo.

― Tep (ktepi), Monday, 1 September 2003 23:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Cooked nothing today.

Started the day with a little biscuit left over from yesterday morning and some water.

Spent most of the day at the hospital, so I had a hospital-grade hamburger, fries, more water, and a candy bar from the vending machine.

Went for a couple of hours to a cousin's 20th birthday party, but took along some grape-flavored Hawaiian shaved ice with me because I wasn't feeling up to eating anything heavy, e.g. the barbecue they were going to fix.

Am currently debating whether or not to fix anything to eat now; wish I had some popcorn, though.

Am looking forward to eating leftover homemade lasagna for dinner tomorrow, though. Yay!

― Just Deanna (Dee the Lurker), Monday, 1 September 2003 23:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Haven't eaten for about 5 days (experimenting on myself as part of my process of going on the caloric restriction diet full time but whatever) but I drank about 6 L. of thick green tea and 1 L. of red wine. I shouldn't post with this state of mind, like, I have the attention span of a regular Fox viewer or somethin'.

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 02:24 (twenty-one years ago)

sebastien, you should write a book. and then read it. again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again and again.

― RJG (RJG), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 02:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Lately I've had to economise, and this means back to cooking lots of my own meals that'll carry over for lunch as well.

This week's was a flan/quiche thing, filled with onion, roast capsicum, mushroom and brocoli. Makes 4 large slices, plenty for lunch and dinner, with some rice.

I just ate a sausage roll with my last bit of the flan. I feel a wee bit ill now.

I can't decide what to make for dinner, but I'm thinking some kind of stew or stroganoff or something I can make with the steak and veg I have.

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 02:44 (twenty-one years ago)

flan thing??

― Texas, Biyatch! (thatgirl), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 02:49 (twenty-one years ago)

thinking abt the pate.
i am a pate fiend.

*slinks to fridge stealthily*
*cracks door*
*reaches in and deftly removes pate*
*retreats smoothly, with crackers*

gggrrrgggggllleeeee

― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 02:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Flan=quiche. Pastry shell, eggs&cream fillinf with veg and cheese on top, baked... is that not a flan? I call it a quiche... I dunno... my brain hurts :(

― Trayce (trayce), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 03:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Flan=mexican creme brulee at least in the US

― Orbit (Orbit), Tuesday, 2 September 2003 03:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Skipping 101 messages at this point... Click here if you want to load them all.

made some valrhona cocoa this afternoon -- and i just ordered some hot wings and plantains from the weird-ass sino-mex-ghetto identity crisis takeout place a few blocks away.

― jody (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 1 March 2004 00:36 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

baby octopus is $2/lb right now in chinatown. i boiled a pound and a half in salted water for 20 minutes, then threw them into a pot of leftover claret and simmered for a further 20 minutes until the wine had reduced. i cooked cannellini beans and spinach with carmelized garlic and balsamic vinegar while waiting for the octopus to tenderize, and now i'm having all of it mixed up together in a warm salad. DELICIOUS.

― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 16 May 2004 22:54 (twenty-one years ago)

i am coming over, ok?

― Ian Johnson (orion), Sunday, 16 May 2004 23:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I cooked some nice daal curry and basmati rice earlier.

― roxymuzak (roxymuzak), Sunday, 16 May 2004 23:12 (twenty-one years ago)

i am coming over, ok?

dude, i have a lot left over.

― lauren (laurenp), Sunday, 16 May 2004 23:15 (twenty-one years ago)

kekekekekeke.

i am actually eating a burger now. :(

― Ian Johnson (orion), Sunday, 16 May 2004 23:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I am raiding my mothers freezer, defrosting chicken breasts to make fajitas tonight.

YEAAAH BONERS

― Ian Johnson (orion), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 22:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I am making stir fry w/lots of onions, broccolli and carrots as I am now somewhat grudginly a vegetarian.

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 22:35 (twenty-one years ago)

dump her, dude.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I am grudgingly kind of on the Atkins diet for (I suspect) similar reasons as christhamrin.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 22:44 (twenty-one years ago)

What I need is a fudge burrito.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 22:44 (twenty-one years ago)

wusses.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 22:46 (twenty-one years ago)

i made:

-orange balsamic chicken w/ string beans & red pepper
-warm spinach salad with cucumbers and mandarin orange segments, served with pumpernickel bread and walnut ricotta dressing

earlier i made a lemon margarita.

― stockholm cindy (Jody Beth Rosen), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 22:48 (twenty-one years ago)

Dear maternal figures of ILX:

Pls cook me dinner.

kthx.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 22:50 (twenty-one years ago)

oops OTM w.r.t. christhamrin

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 22:51 (twenty-one years ago)

regret.

― hstencil (hstencil), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 22:51 (twenty-one years ago)

vegetarian pad thai from trader joe's. good, and only a buck ninety-nine.

― x Jeremy (Atila the Honeybun), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 22:52 (twenty-one years ago)

vegetarians don't know how to properly handle meat.

― to the curb with her (Oops), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 22:57 (twenty-one years ago)

i love how this has turned into a vegetarian hate thread.

fuck vegetarians.

― Ian Johnson (orion), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 22:58 (twenty-one years ago)

I just found a nice piece of cheese in the office fridge. I'm saving it for the drive home.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 22:59 (twenty-one years ago)

no no, vegetarians are perfectly okay. vegetarians who force others to be vegetarians can eat my meaty manhood.

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 23:01 (twenty-one years ago)

fuck vegetarians.

Well, I guess I'd rather fuck [a] vegetarian(s).

― christhamrin (christhamrin), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 23:02 (twenty-one years ago)

holy shit lauren (and jbr too)!

― teeny (teeny), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 23:04 (twenty-one years ago)

i am helping a friend move tonight and i will be paid with indian food and beer at a local curryhouse.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 23:08 (twenty-one years ago)

It's not quite dinner time yet, but dinner will be a spinach, arugula, and radicchio salad with chunks of apple, salmon, and feta cheese. Topping is some olive oil and balsamic.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 23:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I want to meet one of these vegetarians who forces people to only eat vegetables. I picture them knocking paper plates out of peoples' hands at BBQs.

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 23:19 (twenty-one years ago)

(just before oops offers them his cock as punishment)

― Tracer Hand (tracerhand), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 23:20 (twenty-one years ago)

for dinner, i'm having leftover green curry that i made last night. lots of baby bok choy, soybean sprouts, orange peppers, and tofu. volcanically spicy. i'm forcing no one to eat it.

― lauren (laurenp), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 23:30 (twenty-one years ago)

i have no time to make dinner so I'm eating a apple cinnamon cereal bar and some Stilton cheese. (was gonna have it with crackers but some assbunny did the ole 'leave two crackers in the box so I don't have to throw it away' trick)

― oops (Oops), Wednesday, 19 May 2004 23:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I made an enormo bowl of noodle soup last night with chicken breast, dried Chinese mushrooms, spring onions, shredded Savoy cabbage, garlic and ginger. It was very simple and very satisfying. Ahh. And a can of milky bubble pearl tea to follow.

― Liz :x (Liz :x), Thursday, 20 May 2004 09:39 (twenty-one years ago)

two months pass...

I am now partially through cooking the first ever proper homemade soup I have ever made, thanks to receiving a huge amount of tomatoes from a friend's garden yesterday, combined with my insatiable love for tomato soup. I am following this recipe, suggested by Stripey:

http://www.tenspeed.com/inside/page.php3?ftr=274

It already smells absolutely delicious, and I will have some fresh bread and a good red wine with it.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 29 July 2004 00:23 (twenty years ago)

whooo! soup is one of my favorite things to make. now you've got me craving the tomato soup with italian chicken sausage i whipped up a few months ago.

― Maneating Leopards of India (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 29 July 2004 00:27 (twenty years ago)

italian chicken sausage

Argh, I want that, it sounds good. Bring some with you next time you're out.

The soup is coming together tremendously well, I am about to take it off the heat and add the basil (like the tomatoes, fresh from said garden).

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Thursday, 29 July 2004 00:29 (twenty years ago)

make gazpacho! i just ate a can of black beans.

― caitlin hell (caitxa), Thursday, 29 July 2004 00:46 (twenty years ago)

i ate a bratwurst earlier, and will probably eat one later!

― Ian c=====8 (orion), Thursday, 29 July 2004 01:05 (twenty years ago)

I've just a had a cup of miso soup and a small portion of chilli con carne with brown rice. I'll be making an asparagus and chorizo risotto tonight.

― leigh (leigh), Thursday, 29 July 2004 10:29 (twenty years ago)

BR: Kashi Go Lean cereal (ehh...) for breakfast
LU: Two plums, my mom's home-made pumpernickel bread, moxie!
DI: Hummel Und Erde (sweet potatoes mashed with fresh applesauce, cinnamon, ginger, and allspice), cherry tomatoes, mesclun, sunflower seeds.

― x j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Thursday, 29 July 2004 11:00 (twenty years ago)

Asparagus and chorizo risotto sounds heavenly. How do you ensure you don't have those horrible gristly bits that puts me off most chorizos?

I am eating a bagel wot I made myself for desk lunch. It has honey roast turkey, sun blushed tomatoes, red jalapenos and cream cheese in it.

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 29 July 2004 11:05 (twenty years ago)

I am making [read eating as i go] ryvita crackers with cheese & red onion. mmm yummy, but all gone. *cries*

― PinXor (Pinkpanther), Thursday, 29 July 2004 11:07 (twenty years ago)

mark, if you cook chorizo a lot less than you would think (ie only a few golden/black bits) then it's way more tender. Assuming you're using the softer cooking chorizo that is. If yr using the hard stuff then you'll always get the hard bits even in the best.

try and get to Brindisa for their own brand, it's blooming marvellous.

― Porkpie (porkpie), Thursday, 29 July 2004 11:29 (twenty years ago)

kashi go lean tastes like styrofoam.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 29 July 2004 11:36 (twenty years ago)

a slice of two boots "big maybelle" and a black & white cookie.

― Maneating Leopards of India (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 29 July 2004 20:28 (twenty years ago)

i'm going to have a few slices of heavy-duty organic 5-grain bread with olive tapenade and tomato slices for dinner, and a lot of blueberries because they're about to go bad and i feel guilty if i waste them.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 29 July 2004 20:43 (twenty years ago)

Tonight will be lambchops with a side of steamed green beans, some of my special steak sauce, and some zinfandel. I may have to invite someone over - or maybe not and just enjoy 2 chops myself!

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Thursday, 29 July 2004 20:46 (twenty years ago)

last week i had cinnamon-raisin buttermilk pancakes with blueberries. YUM.

― Maneating Leopards of India (Jody Beth Rosen), Thursday, 29 July 2004 20:47 (twenty years ago)

i love pancakes, but i haven't had any in ages. i was rarely allowed them as a kid because of all the sugar in the syrup and the relative lack of nutritional value, and i think i still have a mental block.

― lauren (laurenp), Thursday, 29 July 2004 20:50 (twenty years ago)

I cannot stop eating these new twisty cheez-its. THEY ARE SO GOOD THEY SHOULD BE ILLEGAL.

― Homosexual II (Homosexual II), Thursday, 29 July 2004 20:52 (twenty years ago)

seven years pass...

srsly amazing Chinese BBQ sauce (making this ahead of time for some lamb meatballs) (i used a nice mango honey from whole foods and it really makes a difference):

1 cup dry sherry
1 cup hoisin sauce
1 cup ketchup
4 tbsp. minced peeled fresh ginger
4 tbsp. rice vinegar
2 tbsp. honey
2 tsp. sriracha or hot chili sauce
1/2 tsp. five-spice powder
2 garlic cloves, minced

Preparation:
Combine all sauce ingredients in a small saucepan over medium heat; bring to a simmer. Cook mixture 5 minutes, stirring frequently.

― Sgt. Dee Dee The Brass Cupcake McCall (get bent), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 00:17 (thirteen years ago)

also, organic ketchup = no HFCS

― Sgt. Dee Dee The Brass Cupcake McCall (get bent), Tuesday, 1 May 2012 00:21 (thirteen years ago)

that sounds good. in fact, i'm at a near-hallucinatory state of starvation atm and p sure i could str8 drink that right now

― arby's, Tuesday, 1 May 2012 00:29 (thirteen years ago)

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