Weekly Cooking Thread - January 28, 2017

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[Yaelle]

This sounds really, really good. I would love this. Onions are so healthy and my body - probably my gut bugs - calls out for them. I will sub coconut oil for the butter so I can eat it with meat as well. Thanks.

[MomwithHope]

Actually I just use olive oil and no butter at all. I just thought I would give you the original ingredient list. I think when I made it last year I multiplied the recipe times 4 or 5, I had bought a big bag of vidalias on sale. When it starts getting thick you really have to watch it so it doesn’t start to burn. I like onions as well, nothing better than a few seasoned and roasted ones with a pot roast or lamb shank. I used to put onions through the champion juicer and bottle the juice in the fridge. It is great in marinades and sauces and I would used the pulp too in either hash browns or potato pancakes.

[Yaelle]

Smiling.

I don’t like raw onion much, but when I roast a chicken, about once a week, YOU CANNOT PUT TOO MANY chunks of onion under the chicken to eat with it later. That caramelized onion is better than chocolate cake.

[V K Lee]

Searching for review on the newest helper: Instant Pot What do you think of it? Is it used often? Reliable? Moderate cost? Brand? Would you recommend? TIA

[KC Burke]

I think it is a little late to introduce my latest culinary item to this discussion but we might add it to the next thread.

Over the holidays, I went to visit an old buddy. He put on a huge 23 person Christmas dinner and one of the items were Sous-Vide cooked steaks.

Sous-Vide is that art of cooking something in a precise temperature water bath, sealed in plastic. What proper poaching does for good fish, this can do for everything from shrimp to steak. It is very interesting.

[Yaelle]

I won’t cook food in plastic. Both my parents had/have Alzheimer’s. I know about the wonderful temperature control but I definitely have plastic as one of the suspects in environmental Alzheimer’s, as they were the first plastic generation. Among other suspects like pesticides and toxic laundry products etc.

I would LOVE a sous vide technique that didn’t use plastic though.

[Liz]

Thanks for posting the Saveur link.

I’ll treasure their recipe for Candied Lemon Cookies /w/ Lemon Glaze.

[KC Burke]

The essence of poaching is the answer then. For those unfamiliar, Sous-vide is a constant temperature water bath method of cooking.

Where fish can be cooked minimally to done by poaching, we can’t do that with beef and the meats requiring higher temperature and the longer time for penetration. The cultures with higher beef costs decided if the interior is done to a certain degree of internal temperature, why cook the outer third on each side well past that? By sealing the meat with marinade in a vacuum bag and then only searing the exterior just prior to serving, you get a steak that is medium rare all the way through without being bloody in the middle.

[V K Lee]

:-)

Lemon sweets rate almost as high as chocolate:
Lemon pound cake
Lemon bars
Lemon meringue pie
Lemon sugar cookies

And though I don’t remember having eaten Lemon Chicken, I’d probably like that as well.

[V K Lee]

A new fad of emagazines is now appearing on the net.

The publications here are free and many different categories are offered. Food and Drink being just one.

You might enjoy the views

https://issuu.com/categories/home-and-garden
https://issuu.com/categories/food-and-drink
https://issuu.com/explore?utm_source=anon-feature-cta#

[Liz]

Don't have to choose between lemon or chocolate.

This cookie combines them both........deliciously.

[V K Lee]

Super Bowl this weekend. Big feast?

These recipes would be loved by all males - boys to men, alike.

A few links to inspire:

EPIC MEAL TIME - NOW A CHANNEL ON ROKU
http://www.epicmealtime.com/

EPIC MEAL TIME - DEEP FRIED BAKED POTATO
http://www.epicmealtime.com/videos/handle-it-deep-fried-baked-potato/

50 POUND FRIED CHICKEN SANDWICH
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HjQZMS9yyB0

HANDLE IT VIDEOS
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL-ksnN_1BPZs1KVooCxa-ApEyC6ObAB5I

May the best team win.

[V K Lee]

I’ve yet to see these locally. Will search, the next store visit. Do like PF cookies and their goldfish!
Thanks for the thumbs up.

[Yaelle]

Definitely repost this on the brand new thread! Great links.

[V K Lee]

More emagazines

Food and Wine
http://www.foodandwine.com/

Foodie Crush
http://www.foodiecrush.com/online-magazine/

And for those who like Decor magazines, try this link to find sites for those interests
http://firstcomeflowers.typepad.com/blog/2012/03/online-magazines-you-dont-want-to-miss.html