Exciting food moments
After my failure at cooking chicken on Thanksgiving, I promised myself I wouldn't let that meat go to waste since it just ended up overcooked. I had planned to make a chicken stock with the chicken, my first ever, and that's what I decided to do.
Surprise! I just heated up a mug of my stock to ease the cold day, and wow! It was fantastic and deep and I don't even have words to describe how unlike any chicken broth/stock/soup I've ever tried this is. I'm almost tempted to try to roll out a batch of pasta by hand to put in this.
What have been some of your greatest cooking joys, surprises, and accomplishments?
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7 Comments:
The greatest cooking surprises I've had is when I cringe and stifle my input and walk OUT of the kitchen and let my bf do whatever he is trying to do. He insisted on doing hobo-dinner style food at our house once (where you put meat, potatoes, onion, etc in a foil pouch and toss it on the coals - always a decent meal but it's never that good) ... and he did it in an uncovered cast iron pan with a little wine in the bottom ... it emerged with a fantastic browning on the chicken (which never happens in those coal roasted foil pouches) and a delicious, just thick enough to be awesome pan glaze/sauce that just kind of happened while it all baked.
joyyy at 12:45PM on 12/05/08
The first time I tried saimin soup in Hawaii, I was in love. And it was exciting. I eat ramen almost every day for breakfast now, and add all sorts of odds and ends. I tried to make the dashi at home, but it wasn't quite right. My mix and match version makes me very happy, though!
@joyy, I've also had great luck with the hands-off approach. I'd never use some of the ingredients BF uses (we have different theories about tomato-based sauces). But the result is almost always fantastic. Except for that time he put raw sugar in my cheese quesadilla.
Kerosena at 1:34PM on 12/05/08
Well, first of all congratulations! You pulled off a real foodie feat...You took something that you thought was sub-standard and made it shine. Kudos!! (I LOVE when that happens.)
BF decided one Sunday that he wanted to do the cooking for our weekly Football Sunday gathering. He pretty much had the whole thing handled, until I asked, "What are you feeding them for dessert?" He got a panicked expression on his face and I told him I'd take care of it.
I had most of a leftover cheesecake in the fridge. I hunked it up, stuck plastic spoons into the pieces, dunked them in chocolate and voila! Cheesecake Pops.
therealchiffonade at 8:13PM on 12/05/08
@towl ~ I just want to say Woo Hoo! You go girl! I will await your report on your pasta! Great job!
izatryt at 8:17PM on 12/05/08
Great post and congrats on the fabulous stock!
My latest, greatest kitchen moments have been mastering risotto and homemade ravioli. Also a nice, slow-cooked red meat sauce from scratch. Hosting dinner tomorrow evening for DH's big Italian family--keep your fingers crossed that my test runs weren't just flukes!
thehostess at 1:48PM on 12/06/08
Good luck w/the in laws, fingers crossed. Mine too was a turkey soup I made a few years back for the BF that took me 3 days to complete (out laziness of me) once done he still claims it to be the best turkey soup he ever ate.
pjracz10 at 3:21PM on 12/06/08
After 3 tries getting it so that yeast dough to rise.
pjracz10 at 3:56PM on 12/08/08