Food
Food
- Do you enjoy watching cooking competitions? The Final Table is the best one I have seen by a long shot. Ignore the host, who is trying his best, but not quite hitting the mark. But the chefs and the meals they create are fantastic to watch.
- The Youtube channel “Eater” also has a series called Mise en place that is really enjoyable.
Cooking simply to survive is often monotonous, but taking the time to make a nice meal is fun. I’ve been exploring making some food and drinks that I like and have documented some in blog posts below.
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Cooking on a snowy day
We were planning to have some friends over for dinner, but we ended up getting a fair bit of snow that day, so they asked to push dinner to the following week. So instead of having them over, we decided to make a video of us cooking the meal we would have ate, so we…
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Spring Rolls
My wife and I worked on some homemade spring rolls to ring in the new year. It’s a bit of a process to make and in my excitement/ravenous hunger, I ate them all before remembering to take a picture of the finished product! So enjoy a stock photo of the finished product to help you…
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Cranberry Roasted Chicken
Every now and then I like to film myself while making dinner. Basically I set my phone down in different places while I chop veggies or season meat and sometimes hold the camera in one hand while I stir or put food in the oven (shaky cam is a credited film technique ok). The thing…
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French Bread
It’s amazing that you can put some flour, salt, water, and yeast in a bowl and then throw it an a hot square, and a little bit later it comes out as warm delicious bread. I made my first attempt at bread a couple weeks ago. I used this recipe. We don’t have a stand…
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Ginger Beer
This is a fun and easy drink to make. It can be alcoholic or not, so it’s great drink for anybody. I found a simple recipe online and then started tweaking it to suit my taste. By my fourth attempt, I feel like I have a recipe that I really enjoy and would repeat. That…