Our baking group focuses on baked goods and we meet once a month. We pick something most of us have never made and then we all make it and bring some of what we made to the next meeting. It isn’t a whole meal. In the past months we have made ciabata bread, angel food cake, croissants (lots of work), Danish pastries, bagels, big pretzels, scones, pate a choux, and apple turnovers.
The fun is in the eating and talking. I have learned so much. We often all use the same recipe, but it never turns out the same. This leads to lots of discussion about what kind of ingredients and techniques were used. I always thought I was a pretty good cook, but I now realize how much more there is to learn.
I think it would be fun to have a FR thread for cooking and learning. The discussion would be interesting and there are so many things I have never cooked. It wouldn’t have to be limited to baked goods.
What do you think?
I think a theme cooking/baking GROUP thread could be neat!
Or maybe just continue off of each of these thread weeks - by mid-week these threads are mostly inactive except for people chiming in on if they tried a new recipe they found here or the like.
Hmmm, maybe something like pulling off a theme from the weeks previous thread (or even out of the blue - or a national holiday dish)- like last week there were definitely two distinct threads running through it - machine breads and beans. Maybe grab one of those - ie beans - I’ve got every threads recipe title on an excel sheet and I can post the listing of FReeper recipes for that particular ‘theme of the week’ from all the past weeks (as long as my old computer is still putting along I’ll always have that list to grab easily:)
Maybe something to do on a Tuesday or Wednesday - a re-ping to the week’s thread? (although people might get upset at a re-ping)
I don’t think having a theme every week when this thread starts would be good - it would strangle the wide variety of favorite recipes everyone is posting now.
But a Group Theme FReep-Chat back and forth on same-type recipes could be really neat.
(Thinking out loud and typing here....)