Bingowings meant to say:

I ingested several small leafy vegetables, green, slightly bitter but savory, with a permeating earthy flavor of such supernal quality as to endow the senses with an overwhelming aura of subliminity, reminiscent of the days in Belgium's grandest metropolis after which these sprouts were named.  And I melted some butter on them.  Yum.

I could have gone into more detail, like the fact that they were baked in olive oil and butter with garlic, tossed in warm seasoned lemon juice and covered in toasted almonds but that wouldn't mask the resulting flatulence.

... Tomorrow I'll try this:

humble pie

Does anyone else here enjoy deep-fried pizza? I love making those, especially with a fairly generous amount of pesto spooned onto the cheese. They're delicious.

I tried it once but it didn't agree with me.

One deep fried product I can't seem to get locally but enjoy when I visit my mother down south is a pea fritter.

Basically a ball of mushy processed marrowfat peas in beer batter, deep fried.

You'd think in the land of the deep fried Mars bar, the deep fried Creme Egg etc, etc I would be able to obtain this Chip Shop delicacy sadly this is not the case and I don't like deep fat frying in the house which is probably the saviour of my waistline.

Seriously:

Falafels and Tabouli (both recipes from liban, and the most common oriental one), not forgetting the tahini (cream of sezame seeds).

All homemade (the wife only watches).

For the falafels I now use to replace the chickpeas with green split peas + split brown beans to have them lighter, and include violet carots that make them a bit more juicy as sweet. I fry my falafels in olive oil.

Conveniently, peas and wheat together totally make a complete meal and compensate meat (I almost became vegetarian involontarily so to say).

We certainly have for 4 or 5 days to empty the whole dish now.

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Was a time when I thought I would make a "what have you been cooking?" thread, or a "How many times did you messed up your cook while lurking at OT.com ?".... (it happened to me once in the past).

How many of you use to cook ?

The chap at the corner shop is fascinated that I actually cook meals (rather than just eat out of tin or packet I guess).

It amazed and saddened me that a girl at the supermarket had no idea what fennel was.

As a single dad with 50/50 custody, I cook all the time. In fact when my last girlfriend lived with us for 2 years, I still cooked 99% of the time. I enjoy it.

Yesterday I made a turkey sandwich with thick 12 grain bread, tomatoes, mushrooms (sliced thinly but piled up high), lettuce, white onions, a little bit of mayo, and this great shaved turkey that the nearest deli sells. I literally had to smash it down to get it in my mouth. (i realize it isn't cooking just 20 minutes of cutting up fixings but it is what I ate recently

I put raw white onion on everything. I love them and I have this bad habit of eating most of the onion while I'm cutting it up. And I don't do it normally, but I'm known to eat an entire white onion like an apple when my love for them is brought into question. I cry the entire time, but it's happy tears.

I'm saddened too by the blind mass-consuming. So many complain, fairly enough, of how expensive can be food nowadays but when I look what they fill their caddies with (not mentionning their children) it really makes me furious...!

Ok it demands a bit time to cook something, but so few actually, and your health, your mind and your wallet feel so much better. And in the end even your time is better used that way (I'm not losing it when I cook, that I'm sure).

Our society has turned a virtual comfort into real slavery... And we're not finished with this yet.

My last falafel dish must weight almost 1 Kilo and it didn't cost much than 2 Euros and 1 hour to be made... You've got what to do for almost a week with that.

walkingdork said:

... And I don't do it normally, but I'm known to eat an entire white onion like an apple when my love for them is brought into question. I cry the entire time, but it's happy tears.

 You really must have the vertical force with you then. Very good for health, and very good for blood !

XyZ said:

walkingdork said:

... And I don't do it normally, but I'm known to eat an entire white onion like an apple when my love for them is brought into question. I cry the entire time, but it's happy tears.

 You really must have the vertical force with you then. Very good for health, and very good for blood !

good for the blood you say? I know it's healthy, but if I'm honest if it was made of nothing but sugar it would still be impossible to give it up.

I hear what you are saying about people complaining about food prices and then eating garbage, but they do have a bit of a point. Box food is so much cheaper than buying fresh vegetables.

Can of tuna and a box of Tuna Helper = $3.00

box cake or brownies = $1.50 (or less!)

That's why I am in support of food stamps but I think only healthy food should be allowed. You wanna buy cake, it's on your own dime.

I see... your comparisons work here.

What I was refering too were those mothers who buy sodas and sweets for their children + industrial all-prepared meal and so on... children need a new education nowadays, what means parents need a new one too. ;)

Avoiding the biggest supermarkets often leads to better products, and even cheaper. The margins of prices of these "leaders" are too big now.

... Cake or brownies ? Must be more than 15 years I haven't bought anything like this !

But that's a long discussion, and I know how long it can be to change our habits, mostly regarding food.

PS: if you want to know all the virtues of onions, check the web ! It has too much for I report. ;)

edit: http://www.vegetarian-nutrition.info/updates/onions.php

PPS: "check the web" < hey! sounds like an oriental dish.

Bingowings said:

It amazed and saddened me that a girl at the supermarket had no idea what fennel was.

What!?

I think it's odd that I seem to be the only student at my uni that actually cooks proper meals. It works out a lot cheaper in the long run than just buying packaged food, plus it tastes nicer.

greenpenguino said:

I think it's odd that I seem to be the only student at my uni that actually cooks proper meals. It works out a lot cheaper in the long run than just buying packaged food, plus it tastes nicer.

 Was almost invisible under your big gif. And you said it !

XyZ said:

I see... your comparisons work here.

What I was refering too were those mother who buy sodas and sweets for their children + industrial all-prepared meal and so on... children need a new education nowadays, what means parents need a new one too. ;)

... Cake or brownies ? Must be more than 15 years I haven't bought anything like this !

Yeah, I never buy it. I rarely buy my girls (3 and 5) sweets at all. Of course that doesn't mean they aren't eating that crap in preschool, or at Grandma's house, or even at their mother's house.

PS: if you want to know all the virtues of onions, check the web ! It has too much for I report. ;)

Will do, thanks.

PPS: "check the web" < hey! sounds like an oriental dish.

Maybe? But probably not, right?

walkingdork said:

Maybe? But probably not, right?

 ... Not yet.

^ Hooo-Hooo !!! :D

TheBoost said:

Bingowings said:

It amazed and saddened me that a girl at the supermarket had no idea what fennel was.

How does she put oil in her car, or refill the salt shaker??

Maybe she just uses a piece of paper rolled into a cone with a opening at one end,

a faux fennel?

Brussel Sprouts... I had two packets and it was a case of cook them or bin them and I hate wasting food.

I shall be unpopular this weekend.

I Bubble And Squeaked the Friday stir-fry.