For a significant portion of my childhood, any and all food my mom made was made in a slow cooker. There are many great meals you can make in a slow cooker, but there are also many things that should never be slow cooked. Just because you get results if you Google “crock pot pasta” does not mean you should ever get pasta anywhere near a crock pot.
Re: green bean casserole, that’s sounds similar to the logic around the “egg in the cake mix” thing. Basically, the minimum effort to make something “homemade”.
I have the same reaction when I see people doing instant pot pasta now. It isn’t any faster than boiling it on the stove and almost certainly will overcook.
I’ve never seen someone do pasta in an instant pot, but yeah, sounds horrible. Pasta on the stove might take 10 minutes, while an instant pot would take a few to get up to pressure, a few to cook, and a few to cool down. Best case scenario, you save yourself a minute, while completely throwing away your ability to control doneness.
There was this recipe my mom got from a magazine like Country Living or Women’s Day or something called “Garden Skillet”. It was shell noodles with sautéed onions, zucchini, stewed tomatoes, and Campbell’s cheese soup. I hated it. I’d try to scrape the cheese stuff off the zucchini and eat that and as few noodles as possible. I have never tried to recreate it. 🤢
I’m lazy and use the paprika app. It’s imperfect but does have a grocery list, downloads recipes and automatically removes the fluff and allows adding tags (so I have tags like slow cooker, vegetarian, chicken thighs etc.)
Haggis is delicious, and when I first had it, I assumed I wouldn’t like it, but had to try, only to really love it.
A lot of stinky cheeses taste really good, but if you’ve never given then a chance, it’s hard to make yourself eat. Humboldt Fog is a favorite of mine, but basically none of my peers will try it.
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It’s hard to beat a simple pasta fagioli. Just cannellini beans, ditalini pasta, and a good stock. The trick is to take about a quarter of the beans and mash or puree them into the stock so it gets a creamy texture. Some people add tomato sauce but I prefer it without.
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My grandpa would make it often when I was a kid, and would usually add a bit of Portuguese linguiça. I like to add a splash of red wine vinegar just before eating.
Potato Leek is an outstanding soup. I often start it off with chopped bacon, reserve that for garnish, but leave the fond, deglazing it with the steam of the leeks as they hit the hot bacon fat.
I’ve never heard of this either, I had to check Wikipedia. Apparently it’s caused by two chemicals from boar balls, one is “sweaty” tasting and one is “fecal”.
It’s like old piss. When I did the first cook in the air fryer was the worst experience cooking I’ve ever had. It started out great and then the fat started to render releasing the hormones and punted that out the vent with malicious intent… I’m convinced boar taint is why pork is considered unclean in many cultures and religions around the world, because it’s, uh, pretty damn bad.
Also, boar is just male big that made it to puberty/adulthood before the butcher.
I haven’t tried the lime brine yet as I’m still recovering mentally, but hoping once I’m out of Thanksgiving leftovers I’ll be ready.
Giallo Zafferano lists it by weight, and it’s generally a reputable site. I’ll scale it up to 1kg of basil for you, provided that this weight is leaves only (no stems):
1kg basil
1L olive oil
715g Parmesan
430g pinoli
430g Sardinian pecorino
30 cloves = ~2.5 heads of garlic
43g salt
Sub the pinoli with walnuts or cooked pinhão/piñón depending on availability and prices. Pecorino can be subbed with a bit more Parm if you want. The garlic should be ideally from a milder variety.
Note: this is a fuckload of pesto. I don’t recommend doing so much; instead you might be better off freezing the basil instead, and making it as you need.
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