cooking

Hello everyone, I have recently been experimenting with healthy ingredients in my daily cooking, and one ingredient that caught my attention is psyllium husk. It is well known for its high fibre content and is often used to support digestion and gut health. While researching, I came across...

Do we all have them? My latest. Genoise at altitude! A cake for an occasion. My Genoise sponge cake - three tries so far. Never had issues before but hey. First was my own fault - thought I'd try a swiss meringue tweak. Rubber. Number 2 rose perfectly. Then sank in the middle. . Never had...

I was making stewed prunes earlier today, which always gets a little wedge of lemon tossed in. I grabbed a half-lemon from the fridge, sliced off a hunk, wrapped it back up and put it back in the fridge… …or did I? About 20 minutes later, I was making salad dressing for later, needed a squeeze...

Every time I cook, the first thing I do is make sure the kitchen is clean. If there's dishes in the sink, stuff on the counter, or the stove top is messy, I have to get it all cleaned up before I start cooking. And then while I'm cooking, I'm constantly cleaning as I go and putting things away...

Obviously it may vary according to the day, the meal or how busy you are In my book, cooking includes preperation of ingredients and the cooking when you are in attendance. So if its in the oven for an hour, that hour doesn't count. I'm no longer fit enough for extended cooking sessions. I...

Has anyone done this or does it regularly? What's the method?

Do you have a Christmas present, cooking related wish list? Or maybe you will be giving food related presents to others. Tell us about either! On my wish list are original vintage cookery books, a small pestle and mortar and a pepper mill. Plus any interesting second hand plates, dishes or...

Mod.edit: This post and eight following posts have been moved from 'What did you cook or eat today?' to form an interesting new 'cooking methods' discussion. (MG). Grilled polenta!!! I love polenta.

Sometimes one ingredient shifts your whole kitchen orbit — a new masala blend, a chilli paste you’d never tried, a Middle Eastern spice that suddenly becomes indispensable, or something lurking in the back of a cupboard that you finally opened. What’s the one spice, paste, blend, or seasoning...

My memory was triggered by TastyReuben 's post on memorable meals. My first was when I was only 19 years old. It made me wonder what I used to cook at that age, and during my 20s, and what/how I cook today. I was basically fending for myself from that age (university, own flat, etc) so there was...

How do you feel about eating alone? Do you prefer it to eating with others? Or maybe its simply different and a chance to indulge in foods others don't really like. Do you ever eat alone in a restaurant? I used to do that a lot, when I lived alone in London. I'd take a book with me (it was...

Heres a question... As mentioned a couple of times, I'm in a location that has a noticeable lack of non standard issue ingredients, most noticeably Asian ingredients, but many others, too which I stock up on when travelling and sometimes order online. I also like to DIY. A good cook and...

Increasingly, I find myself creating recipes which are simple and straightforward. I think it began when my health was so bad that I could barely stand long enough to cook anything. Although I'm a bit better now, I still find I'm drawn to cook in that way. There is something satisfying about...

Thanks for alowing me to join: I am a disabled veteran and do all the cooking for me and my wife. I love to try new recipes I also bake.

For help using this technique, links and recipes to things you’ve sous vide’d (yes another made up word 😂) and anything else related to sous vide cooking.

I boiled my wooden spoons – and what emerged from them will haunt me for ever | Adrian Chiles

Reading other posters here and drooling at pics I would love to sit down and have a meal with some of you guys. The time you put in leaves me feeling inadequate. I would love JAS_OH1 to cook me some grits. TastyReuben could cook me anything with cheese. medtran49 could cook me an Italian...

A few months ago, I used to feel totally drained after cooking. It wasn’t the cooking part… it was the everything else — the mess, the pressure to make something good, and the time it took after a long day. Then one small habit changed things for me: I started planning my meals one day before...

Hello everyone, Some truly unique kitchen gadgets have been discovered across cultures, showing how cooking is made easier and more creative by them. Items like bamboo steamers in Asia and stone grinders in India have been used for generations, and their usefulness is still appreciated today...

I've run out of batch/pre-cooked BIR ingredients in my freezer so it was time for me to whip up some more. Since I'm going through the process I thought I'd share it here too. 'BIR' as the title says, is an acronym for British Indian Restaurant. I don't really know that much of the history of...