The "I Didn't Comment in Another Thread" Thread

[payn]

I'll have to settle for being the only guy that didnt like Free Guy.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

You should try making good ramen. Just the broth can take days to prepare.

I have avoided letting my kids know that ramen can be more than instant soup. I don't want to open that door.

If I'm going to put that labor in, it'll be for smoking my own barbecue. (Not possible in my rental, alas.)

 

[trappedslider]

I need a sous chef.

Don't we all?

 

[Ryujin]

Check it out (it's on streaming). Far better than it has any right to be.

Ryan Reynolds being his most upbeat self for two hours. What's not to like?

 

[prabe]

In other news, I made lasagna last night for the first time, using a recipe from the excellent (seriously, you should buy this book ASAP) Food Lab. It was delicious, but now I see why so few people bother making good lasagna. It's a lot of simultaneous work.

I need a sous chef.

I thought part of what Kenji was going for was that the recipes would work in a home kitchen. I guess simultaneous work might not be out of the question--there are a few things we make here where it's ... more practicable to make them, if we have more than one person working in the kitchen.

 

[payn]

I have avoided letting my kids know that ramen can be more than instant soup. I don't want to open that door.

If I'm going to put that labor in, it'll be for smoking my own barbecue. (Not possible in my rental, alas.)

Electric smokers are surprisingly easy to move and use. Im making beef dino ribs for the family on xmas in mine. If temps are too low, ill just bring it in the garage. Worst case it smells like smoked meat for a week.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Ryan Reynolds being his most upbeat self for two hours. What's not to like?

He's got a few clunkers -- they mostly seem to be Netflix exclusives, interestingly -- but yeah, just hanging out with Ryan Reynolds is an almost-guaranteed good time.

 

[overgeeked]

I have avoided letting my kids know that ramen can be more than instant soup. I don't want to open that door.

If I'm going to put that labor in, it'll be for smoking my own barbecue. (Not possible in my rental, alas.)

Dale Talde has a cookbook with a few good recipes, including a one-hour ramen that’s decent and a big step up health-wise from instant noodles.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I thought part of what Kenji was going for was that the recipes would work in a home kitchen. I guess simultaneous work might not be out of the question--there are a few things we make here where it's ... more practicable to make them, if we have more than one person working in the kitchen.

Some of it was my mistake. I didn't have my red sauce prepared ahead of time, which I normally would -- since developing mine, I keep a jar of it in the fridge to use in different recipes, because I'm apparently turning into an Italian grandmother -- but last night, it meant cooking sauce, meat, constantly stirring the bechemel (whatever it's called in Italian, sorry), monitoring the noodles, etc., all at the same time.

If I had the meat and red sauce done beforehand, it would have been much less hectic.

The longer I own the Food Lab, the more I love it, though. During the pandemic, my kids and I developed our own stovetop mac and cheese recipe, because I would be damned if I was going to let them go out in the world thinking Kraft was the height of what mac and cheese it could be. Last night, I discovered a four-page spread of how different cheeses work in mac and cheese, which would have simplified our weeks of experimentation learning the same thing.

And, of course, his viral matrix on how different ingredients and amounts change chocolate chip cookies is going to inform some holiday baking this year, as we use that to create a "family" chocolate chip cookie recipe.

Such a good cookbook.

 

[trappedslider]

speaking of movies 'When Harry Met Sally,' 'Iron Man' added to film registry

EDIT: @Ryujin I think they included a home video of yours "the 1898 “Mardi Gras Carnival,” a silent-era documentary with the earliest known footage of the carnival in New Orleans."