How do you cook it?

[Sebastian]

BF got me a Sous Vide for Prime Day.

We'll see how it goes. I see it as a good alternative to a grill (searing), of which we can't have in our new place. Could be of use to you too, @The Oi.

 

[Sebastian]

Came out well:

Nice medium-rare throughout. Only took an hour to cook. Seared for a minute on each side.

Super easy. Just used a ziplock bag. I would recommend it, @The Oi. No foil and no lateral cuts! Your in-laws would be vanquished!

 

[Randolphkeys]

Enjoyed a great family reunion picnic... but there were five versions of grilled corn sides. Whats the best corn side you had this summer?

 

[natedagg]

Came out well:

Nice medium-rare throughout. Only took an hour to cook. Seared for a minute on each side.

Super easy. Just used a ziplock bag. I would recommend it, @The Oi. No foil and no lateral cuts! Your in-laws would be vanquished!

Although I am too simple to have one myself, an acquaintance of mine was talking about an added bonus: timing.

Say people come over and you have a couple of cocktails and some appetizers and you are grilling. Well once the meat is on the grill, you are eating in 20 mins - 10 to cook, 10 to let it rest. Whereas w your new sous vide, if the conversation is lively, there’s no grill to patrol and no timing to worry about - once it’s time to eat, you are 2 mins away from plating the food.

 

[natedagg]

Enjoyed a great family reunion picnic... but there were five versions of grilled corn sides. Whats the best corn side you had this summer?

Not the most creative way, but my favorite is to melt kerrygold butter and brush the corn, put it on the top rack while my grill is heating up, then obviously rotate it and cook it up there but finish it with parmasean instead of salt.

For those who have time and a good sweet corn source, a cornbread with fresh kernels in there always goes over well.

 

[The Oi]

Came out well:

Nice medium-rare throughout. Only took an hour to cook. Seared for a minute on each side.

Super easy. Just used a ziplock bag. I would recommend it, @The Oi. No foil and no lateral cuts! Your in-laws would be vanquished!

That looks tremendous.

I can’t recall if I mentioned this on the board or not...but I shamed the men off of using the foil, intimidated the women off of commenting on it and have all of the men down to med and med-rare from the original med-well. The women are still on med-well but when I sneak med onto the plate for the group nobody bitches and everyone eats.

My three year old is a fucking man more importantly and nobody is giving me shit about anything he does. Possibly tied to the grill foiling no longer burning their brains.

Bye for now.

 

[Sebastian]

Made veal marengo again.

Came out better than ever.

Vive L'Empereur! @jking948

 

[Randolphkeys]

My previous favorite summer corn recipe was super easy and delicious: you need tin foil, shucked corn, mayo, lemon thyme, and salt. You take enough tin foil to wrap the entire ear of corn and smear Mayo on one side, then sprinkle salt and a pinch of lemon thyme on the mayo. Then wrap up the corn, mayo side touching the corn obviously, and grill for about six minutes per side.

Then my sister showed up to a family get together with this stuff:

https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/grilled-corn-salad-with-hot-honey-lime-dressing

It's addictive.

 

[Kouki]

That looks friggin delicious, I'll have to make that soon. Though it looks like the corn could use some more charring.

My mom made a corn salad for 4th of July cookout that was pretty good but just a bit off. It used cilantro, lime, grilled corn...then mayo and feta. It was really close to being delicious but it was also close to being kinda gross. Needed less mayo (or no mayo) and queso fresco instead of feta.

 

[DJTJ]

Does anyone have an easy good recipes for crock pot meals that don’t have corn, rice, or beans? Struggling. Sick of pot roast.

 

[Sebastian]

Made French Onion Soup from scratch for the first time. Came out very well, though I forgot about the broiling of the cheese prior to serving. I need new bowls for that.

 

[BMAN]

So how does one learn how to cook and shit? Look up recipes and everything on google? Cooking classes? What?

@King Stannis @gourimoko @Randolphkeys

 

[Sebastian]

So how does one learn how to cook and shit? Look up recipes and everything on google? Cooking classes? What?

@King Stannis @gourimoko @Randolphkeys

One can look at recipes on YouTube or get a few cook books. Classes are probably a bit more work than you need.

If you would like, we could have a little cooking class each week, where I and others can assign a dish of the week with detailed recipes and instructions and we all post pictures of how it came out.

@Randolphkeys, @gourimoko, @Nicky

 

[Randolphkeys]

Thanks to a crazy schedule picking my boys up from school after work, I really only cook something of note twice or so a week. The rest of the time I take shortcuts like ordering something or picking something out of the frozen food section. Prepared bagged salad is a miracle worker for somebody who wants a real meal but don't have time.

What kind of meals are you looking to create here?

 

[FiveThous]

So how does one learn how to cook and shit? Look up recipes and everything on google? Cooking classes? What?

@King Stannis @gourimoko @Randolphkeys

Not sure where you're at as far as cooking skills go, but one thing that helped jump my skills up quickly were meal prep services like Hello Fresh or Blue Apron.