/ck/ - Food & Cooking

My parents both worked in hospital and weird hours when I was growing up. This led to bizarre stretches of time where my brother and I would be left home alone from the afternoon until around midnight often, and also long stretches where my mother was never home for dinner so my dad had to "cook" for us before he left to work graveyard shift.

This experience absolutely ruined certain foods for me forever. One of them is ground beef. He would make what he called "French goulash" which was just ground beef browned in a skillet, no other ingredients and no seasoning of any kind. He would just spoon it onto a plate and give us a bottle of ketchup. This went on for fucking years to the point of absolute contempt and it makes me sick to remember it decades later. After some years it switched to hamburger patties cooked on the charcoal hibachi outside, rain shine summer or winter. In the dead cold with snow on the ground he would do this. Burned, absolutely no seasoning, served on a plate with ketchup. We never had buns or cheese or anything, these weren't hamburgers these were blacked bland meat patties on a plate. I got yelled at once when I suggested cheese. Makes. Me. Fucking. Sick. Still.

Anyway, after some years again he switched to cans of Dinty Moore beef stew which I never liked all that much, but every single fucking day for like 2 years and it became traumatizing. In college some friends and I joined a stupid drinking contest which involved 4 of us finishing a keg in one weekend and we were only allowed to eat - you got it - Dinty -FUCKING- Moore.

FUCK, FUCK. FUCK.

>>20061826
you shouldn't be cooking your ground meat in temperatures beyond the range of non stick anon. you have to take your time cooking it anyway because otherwise you end up with all kind of oddly sized big chunks of meat. Keep the temp to medium or medium-low heat and take your time to break it up to a nice texture.

my dad is pickerel

>>19342096
that looks very nice anon, can you post your recipe?

also I get super sad any time I hear that word because of pickerel, OC