Food and drink

[Okeefenokee]

And pesto butter is butter infused with pesto.

You can make that yourself by melting down butter, mixing pesto into it, and re-chilling the butter

Just picked up a new stand-mixer for a mother's day gift. I had one years ago, but you know, divorce. All you need is heavy cream to make your own butter, and you can throw in any herbs and spices you want. Melting butter to season it is barbaric. I'm pretty sure the Mongols did that under their saddles.

Shit yeah man. We made a few batches last year, using the bread maker. It's not cheap, but the flavor is incredible.

No, the mixer isn't cheap. But the cream is cheap. I haven't done any math on it, but it's no more than a buck or two on a batch.

What I've found over the years is that these sort of decisions, making your own butter, or not using the microwave, have very small costs after the initial investment, but it's really just the decision to put your money in one place rather than another. We spend loads of money in places we don't need to spend it, and if you can get a handle on that, you can do the things you want to do.

[Fife]

[Speaker to Animals]

Sara is not from around here.

[Ex-California]

I love that ^^^

I got rid of my stand mixer when we moved. My wife doesn't like to have it out, prefers to use a hand mixer or do it manually, and I didn't like to dig through cabinets to get it out for when I needed it twice a month. I sold it on Nextdoor for $120, and it went that day. If you look on CL you can get one for like $150. Still not cheap, but better than $300 new

The butter mixing seems legit though, but if something is good enough for Genghis Kahn, its good enough for me

[Okeefenokee]

I love that ^^^

I got rid of my stand mixer when we moved. My wife doesn't like to have it out, prefers to use a hand mixer or do it manually, and I didn't like to dig through cabinets to get it out for when I needed it twice a month. I sold it on Nextdoor for $120, and it went that day. If you look on CL you can get one for like $150. Still not cheap, but better than $300 new

The butter mixing seems legit though, but if something is good enough for Genghis Kahn, its good enough for me

The food companies have gotten pretty close on the diet cokes, and light beers, but they still have a long way to go to get that authentic saddle sweat taste for half the carbs.

[C-Mag]

Bump the Food, Cooking and Drinking Thread

[C-Mag]

Steel Frying Pans that the Pioneers used.
http://www.jimforeman.com/Stories/fryingpan.htm

Forget titanium, fie on aluminum, toss the stainless steel, dump the camp stoves and opt for the most practical way of cooking around, the ubiquitous stamped steel frying pan. They were the item of choice when pioneers headed west, they swung on the sides of the Mormon's Handcarts and nestled in the bedrolls of cowboys. In addition to cooking anything from rabbit to breakfast, they could be used to heat a can of beans or pan for gold.

I have a 1908 Sear Roebuck catalog which lists various sizes of them ranging from 19 cents for a 4" version up to 60 cents for one two feet across but the most popular size has always been the No. 8 which is 8" across the flat bottom.

[Okeefenokee]

The wife bought a case of ramen for the kids, and didn't notice it was soy flavor.

I was gonna throw it out, but she had a solution.

The beef and chicken buillon she cooks with is the same stuff they put in those little packets.

Avoided wasting three dollars.

[TheReal_ND]

Don't feed them ramen anyway but soy? For real? I had no idea that was even a flavor. Wow. Fuck this gay earth and fuck soy

[Hastur]

The wife bought a case of ramen for the kids, and didn't notice it was soy flavor.

I was gonna throw it out, but she had a solution.

The beef and chicken buillon she cooks with is the same stuff they put in those little packets.

Avoided wasting three dollars.

Fermented soy is OK. It contains a lot of good stuff as well so you should make sure to eat some pretty regularly. It's the unfermented products you should avoid. If the noodles were soy flavoured I assume the taste is from soy sauce. That stuff is made from fermented soy so it's healthy.

http://probiotics.mercola.com/fermented ... d-soy.html