I am Obsessed with......
1. Mastering the perfect omlet.
2. Holding my poached eggs together.
3. Learning how to correctly cut-up a fryer chicken.
And you???
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1. Figuring out how to control things in my oven to get (approximately) the bread crust I want.
2. Trying to replicate my great-aunt's peanut brittle (it only took me 10 years for my grandmother's biscuits...).
3. Figuring out how to eat like my doctor wants me to without using processed foods, spending more than my budget, or sacrificing my enjoyment of my food.
4. Learning how to make Indian, Chinese, and Japanese favorites at home.
jenilowrance at 12:46AM on 10/30/08
1- Finding the best Yu Xiang eggplant recipe.
2- Making the perfect barbecue sauce.
3- Eating everything as a taco.
4- Japanese adult video.
SqueezeBottle at 1:45AM on 10/30/08
@SqueezeBottle: Bukaki?!
1. Making perfect biscuits.
2. Being able to make decent Asian food.
3. My Thanksgiving menu.
4. What four meals to cook for my boyfriend the next time we get a sizable chunk of time together.
5. Making wonderful, from-scratch meals on a ridiculously small budget.
6. Chocolate making.
7. Making "fall themed" desserts, i.e. pumpkin brownies, an "autumn cheesecake," spice cookies, etc., etc.
PumpkinBear at 4:10AM on 10/30/08
1) Learning to make awesome vegetarian Indian food
2) Cooking outside of my comfort zone (I'm going to try experimenting with home-cooked Thai next week)
3) Finding pumpkin puree in London (I bet the Whole Foods in South Kensington has some)
4) Eating all of my frozen leftovers before I make anything else!
5) Everything is better with more cheese
ChristineB at 4:37AM on 10/30/08
1) Making decent southern-style biscuits.
2) Learning to cook things more slowly so they're juicier and more tender.
3) Figuring out what makes "classic" Michigan food.
4) Making eggs and omelets that are perfect every time.
LunaPierCook at 5:18AM on 10/30/08
1) Learning how to scramble eggs properly
2) Figuring out how to make buckwheat pancakes like the Original Pancake House
3) Cake decorating (I curse the Wilton Rose)
4) Thanksgiving, Christmas, New Year's Eve, Mardi Gras and Easter Menus
5) Not destroying cast iron (thank God for pre-seasoned)
6) Egg custard pie
7) Coconut cake
8) High-quality cookware and kitchen tools
9) KitchenAid Stand Mixer and Food Processor Accessories
10) Cookbooks
Thankfully, biscuits are not on the list. After 15 years of failure and anguish, I finally got 'em right: http://nujoikitchendiary.blogspot.com/2008/10/redemption.html
NuJoi at 8:20AM on 10/30/08
I dont have a link to it but Tyler Florence has a simple and good recipe for tasty, light biscuts.
huneybumper at 8:36AM on 10/30/08
1. Every holiday menu. I always start planning & pondering at least 2 months in advance.
2. Picking, preserving, pickling, jamming and freezing fresh produce (the season is almost over...)
3. Finding a good recipe for Portuguese egg tarts and finally making my own.
4. Finding a proper duck for and learning to cook real Peking duck.
brooke29 at 9:03AM on 10/30/08
French fries.....
Markbb at 9:13AM on 10/30/08
Right now, I'm obsessed with . . .
1. The perfect cup of coffee, which is why I only use a french press.
2. Dips and Spreads. I love trying new recipes and testing them out on friends and family. The BLT dip I made last week was soooo good!
3. Getting my Thanksgiving and Christmas menus planned.
caramel at 9:44AM on 10/30/08
1. Avoiding foods with vegetable oil (soybean oil, corn oil)in them, as they make me sick, therefore I am trying to eat bacon grease, butter, cream, olive oil and coconut oil in as many recipes as I can where fat is called for. This is forcing me to try new recipes for homemade salad dressings.
2. Making a good baked apple pancake, like the one in my dreams at my favo pancake restaurant. I have yet to master this.
3. Lard -- finding pig fat to make good lard.
4. Used to be obsessed with finding the perfect recipe for Yu Xiang Pork, but I have given up. It is restaurant-only fare, which peeves me, as I think it probably has cheap-o vegetable oil in it.
5. Getting plain ole yellow cake right.
Rosebud at 10:08AM on 10/30/08
Perfect pie crust -- but with all butter.
CookiePie at 10:13AM on 10/30/08
Currently:
1. Making my own loose tea blends
2. Becoming a more versatile bread baker
3. Striking a balance between eating the treats I want and having a healthy lifestyle
Laurel E at 10:20AM on 10/30/08
1. Growing a blog I am overwhelmingly passionate about.....
http://gonzogastro.wordpress.com
vinovamp at 10:25AM on 10/30/08
1) New York/New Jersey Italian Deli/specialty shop foods
2) perfecting my slow cooked baby back ribs (I think I've finally done it)
3) making sure my two beautiful babies eat healthy
4) trying to feed four people in this economy on a very small, ridiculously tight budget, while still eating fresh, delish food that doesn't all have ground beef in it!
5) figs
6) seafood (again, how do I successfully keep this on my family's table during these tight economic times???)
7) finding a decent loaf of crusty Italian bread down here in Atlanta. Is this even possible? I'm thinking not.
8) finding a decent pizza down here in Atlanta.
9) finding decent chinese food down here in Atlanta. (seeing a pattern here?)
juliebugsmama at 10:53AM on 10/30/08
@Rosebud: I used a recipe for an Apple Cider Vinaigrette from Epicurious that ingredients include cider, cider vinegar, honey and a cinnamon stick...it's delicious!
That being said, I'll answer the question now:
1) Not over-spending on food
2) Brioche
3) My Thanksgiving contributions to the family dinner
4) The Perfect birthday cake for my mom in November
earlybirdkate at 10:57AM on 10/30/08
1. Spicy Chinese Mustard.
2. Wintry dishes - stews, chili, risotto
3. Wee Brie!
4. Lindeman's Framboise Lambic
5. Couscous, in a thousand different ways.
lo82070 at 11:31AM on 10/30/08
Seeking out the best... Ice Cream brand (so far, LaSalle, Sadutto); pure maple syrup (grade B); Vanilla (Neilson Massey); making my own special blends of ground coffee (Starbucks combo House Blend, Colombia, French; and Fairway Sumatra)
Also, never using commercial brands of salad dressing (I always make my own); and, I consider anyone who stores tomatos in the refrigerator to be a bad person! So there.
SavtaShayna at 12:12PM on 10/30/08
1. Tasting steaks from different ranches
2. Cooking outside my comfort zone as per @ChristineB
3. Food blogs, to help with #2 (plus, so many are truly entertaining!)
OliverRanch at 12:57PM on 10/30/08
@caramel Try it with 100% Kona coffee! It's the best!
*giggle*
1. Cooking healthier
2. Reading food blogs
3. Getting my boyfriend to want to eat in more often
4. Reawakening my baker side
nightowl at 2:38PM on 10/30/08
Nothing.
izatryt at 3:38PM on 10/30/08
1 Finding the best Bah Minh that Columbus, OH can offer
2 Perfecting smoked pulled pork with extremely inadequate equipment
3 Cooking new and exciting things with my boyfriend, and watching as our cooking skills drastically improve and expand
Alyrmc at 3:55PM on 10/30/08
At the moment I am obsessed with:
- SeriousEats.com
- Adding peanut flavour to almost anything I can
- Naturally adding colour to my foods (ie. beets, spinach, tumeric)
- Feeding my kitties Whiskas Temptations (absolutely halarious!)
- I'm always with nightowl and obsessed with cooking healthier!
- Sneaking more veggies in my boyfriends' diet
- Bringing food into the 'bedroom' ;) Mostly whipped cream...
- Cream Cheese: Camembert, Brie, Philly
@SqueezeBottle: What kind of japanese adult videos? Does this involve food by any chance? Some 'Saki'? LOL
hungrychristel at 10:13AM on 10/31/08
@ lo8270 4. Lindeman's Framboise Lambic
I haven't heard of this variety? I assume it's a red--do you go through phases of wine obsessions? Or is this an ultimate obsession? I'm looking to stock my wine cabinet shortly and need some new flavaas
hungrychristel at 1:25PM on 10/31/08
@hungrychrstel - it's a beer. a delicious raspberry beer...
http://www.flickr.com/photos/pete4ducks/434142638/
lo82070 at 5:27PM on 10/31/08
@lo82070 ~ Isn't that the absolute dream beer!
izatryt at 5:34PM on 10/31/08
That's the first beer I ever finished! It's SOO good. Now, if only I could find it for less than $7 a bottle.
nightowl at 6:41PM on 10/31/08
1) Getting good deals on food. Not necessarily cheap, but not paying more than I need to. I'm positively gleeful when I find a sale on a cut of meat or when I wrangle a good deal at the farmer's market. I swear, sometmes we eat cheaper than prisoners. Then I splurge on another meal, which I guess is my overall plan.
2) Finding the best tools for all the jobs in the kitchen. For example, I don't need five things for shredding cheese, I only need the one that works the best. Or one for when I'm just shredding a little cheese and one when I need a massive quantity. Those can be two different tools, but I don't need three or four or five things that have the same function..Same for everything else in the kitchen. I've gotten rid of a lot of cruddy pots and pans and gadgets and things I never use, and slowly I'm building up an arsenal of the absolutely perfect things.
3) Organizing my kitchen so that it's the most efficient.
4) Not overbuying. I need to use up some of the stuff that I've got in the pantry, and I need to learn that I don't HAVE to buy four bottles of wine vinegar when it's on sale. It's not like the world will run out.
5) Trying to get my MIL to understand my food point of view. Not to change her; she's never going to change. But to get her to stop trying to change me. She's always saying, "You don't have to do it that way." and I know that I don't have to, but I want to. This is how I like to cook. Deal with it.
6) I would dearly love to help my MIL cook better things. It's not going to happen, but it would be nice. The funny thing is that cooking was about the only thing my own mother and I saw eye-to-eye on, and it's the one thing where my MIL and I are furthest apart.
7) World peace (cookies)
dbcurrie at 12:40AM on 11/01/08
The recipe for Bruenner's Bagel chicken salad recipe.
Learning the art to smoking foods.
Organization in the kitchen (I have a small one).
Learning how to prepare Indian foods, the spices ect..
pjracz10 at 4:59AM on 11/01/08
Making the perfect divinity candy.
egoldham at 10:09AM on 11/01/08
@ iz @lo82070 - *drewl* Belgain Beer
hungrychristel at 9:03AM on 11/03/08
1) Making unique desserts no one has tried before
2) Creating new quiche fillings as that has become a small hobby
3) Perfecting my pin wheel cookies...just can't get the shape right
4) Wood fired pizza
5) Finding new unique places to eat
FrostyGhost at 1:02PM on 11/07/08