/ck/ - Food & Cooking

[Anonymous No.11141422]

does /ck/ have any advice for a neet who wants to start making his own dishes, or is it just shitposting here

[Anonymous No.11141440]

Please use the catalogue

[Anonymous No.11141444]

>>11141422
Nope, this thread is about as bad as the shitposting gets around these parts.

[Anonymous No.11141451]

>>11141422
Basipally you're a meme.

[Anonymous No.11141454]

Realise that you can make a good meal out of almost anything that's a protein, a carb and a vegetable. Oil and salt makes even shitty and lame looking stuff delicious and won't make you fat because even if you use a lot it's probably sitll lower in calories than fast food. Just fry a protein source in a lot of oil, some salt and other seasoning dpeending on what you have, take it out, add a vegetable to the same pan, cook it til tender and then add the protein again with some more seasoning. Taste it to see if it tastes good. If not add more salt and other seasoning. When you're finished serve it with any carb, like boiled/fried/roasted potatoes, boiled rice, noodles or pasta; bread, whatever you have will almost definitely work if you're hungry and you cooked the protein and vegetable with enough oil and seasoning. You can eat nice, quick, cheap and healthy meals this way.

[Anonymous No.11141457]

>>11141454
t. Soyboy cuck

[Anonymous No.11141461]

>>11141454
This uggo definitely eats pineapples on his pizza.

[Anonymous No.11141466]

biggest obstacle to me is maximizing the worth of bought ingredients

seems like there's always a handful of shit that only goes toward one dish

[Anonymous No.11141468]

>>11141454
this, ingredients i like to use for this method are american cheese for the protein and iceberg lettuce for the vegetable

[Anonymous No.11141479]

>>11141466
That will come with experience. There are countless methods to use up surplus ingredients.

[Anonymous No.11141515]

Look online for any recipe that you want to try. Start simple. Then read the fucking recipe. Not just the ingredients but what to do, step by step. Then try it.
Look up "perfect X" videos where X is something you like. Scrambled eggs, toast, whatever. Try that too.
The secret to getting good? Practice, practice, and more practice.

[Anonymous No.11141536]

Rice, dry bean, onions, garlic and meat of choice is all you need to start learning the basics.

[Anonymous No.11141546]

>>11141536
More specifically, only cook blood sausage with onions, garlic and rice. Mush up your blood sausage really good too, maillard reaction is toootally overrated.

[Anonymous No.11141687]

Get yourself a really great wooden cutting board and a $30 knife. Invite friends over and explain to them that you are learning to cook. Start them off with chartechurie.

I will buy four sausage types (brats, italian sweet/spicy, etc). Easy to cook and cut. Then I will buy a loaf of really great bread and slice it. Make an herb butter. Easy to let butter soften then just mix in some sage, thyme, rosemary, etc. You can use mild spices as well.

After this lay out some fruit, perhaps some cured meats (nicer lunch meat aisle), and definitely some cheese with crackers.

Then move on to your main course.

[Anonymous No.11141704]

pastas are pretty easy to get into.

cook 1 lb of pasta al dente (that means still a little firm)
1/2 cup of olive oil
7-10 cloves (pieces) of garlic sliced
red pepper flake
simmer for 2-3 minutes (until the garlic is golden, don't burn it)
strain the pasta but leave it a little wet (the water is starchy which helps the sauce)
finish the pasta in the oil (pour it into the sauce pan and stir it up, let it sit for 5 mins)
add a mountain of fresh parm
chop up some parsley and throw it in

so cook garlic in oil, put pasta in it, add parm and parsley. salt the hell out of this dish it's delicious.

[Anonymous No.11141709]

another simple thing you can do is soups. Even just buying a bisque or a tomato soup from the store then making a grilled cheese sandwich is an upgrade from microwave burritos.

Sourdough bread, cheddar cheese, a fuckton of butter. Griddle it in the butter for a few mins on each side and serve with tomato soup. Done. From there skillup by making your own soups.

[Anonymous No.11141719]

You should cook a medditeranean themed octopus dish.

[Anonymous No.11141730]

roasted veg is easy too

Cover a bunch of veg in oil, rosemary, thyme, and salt. Potatoes, onions, whole garlic (the whole damn thing cut open instead of peeled, add it separate so no oil), carrots. Want to get fancy, get different kinds with pretty colors.

350 degrees at 30-40 minutes or so. Poke them.

[Anonymous No.11141736]

>>11141730
Ok, we get it gramps.

[Anonymous No.11141740]

>>11141736
I like what he is posting.

[Anonymous No.11141741]

>>11141466
There are also tons of recipes that serve to use up anything in the fridge or pantry. My gf tries the Keto meme, so I learned to blanch cauliflower, mix it with a block of cream cheese or sour cream, and throw anything we needed to use up into that, and then cover it with cheese. Cook it in the oven till your satisfied, and it's impossible to really go wrong, unless your stuff spoiled. Best one I ever did was with some teriyaki flank steak thrown in.

Macaroni and cheese serves the same purpose, and you can charm the pants off any girl if you can make a heavy mac and cheese.

[Anonymous No.11141742]

>>11141422
Read the sticky.

[Anonymous No.11141746]

>>11141740

[Anonymous No.11141748]

>>11141736

gb2/b/ tastelet fuck

[Anonymous No.11141750]

>>11141740
I understand, sorry to interrupt the circle jerk.

[Anonymous No.11141757]

Toast a bagel, add mayo/deli mustard
fry up some bacon
fry up some egg
put a slice of cheddar on top of that egg
put it all together into a sandwich that costs 5-12 bucks if you buy it at a restaurant or bagel shop

[Anonymous No.11141762]

>>11141748
Ah there he goes. Listen you faggot, you posted pasta with no sauce, burnt veggies, and grilled cheese. I know you save a lot of money drinking soylent most of the time, but you don't need to brag about it here. We have professionally trained chefs here that can give advice, we don't need trustfund babies shitting up the place.

[Anonymous No.11141775]

>>11141762

fuckoff shitposting faggot

[Anonymous No.11141783]

>>11141775
Try this mediterranean grilled octupus, then come call me a shitposter. Better than anything gramps posted.

[Anonymous No.11141797]

>>11141783

> a neet who wants to start making his own dishes
>octopus recipes require the best ingredients
>calls e olio sauceless
>still a giant faggot who needs to gb2/b/ where she belongs

[Anonymous No.11141811]

OP since you have attracted a faggot I'll 1up you just a little bit. Another place to start is with what's called the "mother sauces" (google that sometime).

Sauce Toma for that e olio:

Same recipe, 1 can of stewed tomatoes added after the 2-3 min simmer. continue to simmer for 20 mins. Add 1 tbsp basil, oregano, 1 tsp marjoram. Make sure to add some of that pasta water to starch up the sauce. Let this finish for 10 mins.

Done. It's that fucking easy. After that you can fly to Italy to procure seeds source originally from America anyways, grow and blanch peel cut stew your own tomatoes like that faggot would obviously suggest.

For now, just buy a can of stewed tomatoes for 1 dollar.

[Anonymous No.11141816]

>>11141797
Based & redpilled

[Anonymous No.11141821]

>>11141797
I'm just glad you take pride in your Internet warrior skills.

[Anonymous No.11141845]

Any recommended books? and please, something I can download, I'm not spending $30 on cooking books

[Anonymous No.11141850]

>>11141704
>1/2 cup of olive oil
Holy shit.

[Anonymous No.11141862]

>>11141850
The olive oil is the sauce so to speak. A tablespoon ain't gonna work.

[Anonymous No.11141864]

>>11141862

it's not even that much especially on a pound of cooked pasta

[Anonymous No.11141866]

>>11141422
buy spices as recipes call for them and shortly your cupboard will fill up. have more than one type of oil on hand. cook bone-in meat. grow a garden. make your own bread, it's the easiest thing to bake so it's a good start. start canning. avoid canned sauces. make your own ideally but start with jarred if not. if you're making food you don't want greasy or soggy fry the meat/vegetable a bit before you add it. canned mushrooms are the worst offender but honestly you shouldn't have those around to begin with

[Anonymous No.11141871]

>>11141845
For noobs? Jamie's Food Revoloution by Jamie Oliver. God tier noob cookbook.

Sorry, I don't know of any links but I'm sure a resourceful person such as yourself can find it.

[Anonymous No.11141874]

>>11141845
Food Lab

[Anonymous No.11141880]

>>11141422

cook something

when I first got married I made chicken cacciatore
I made rice instead of pasta

get a cook book
cook something

[Anonymous No.11141883]

Also don't be scared to use real butter or high fat cream just don't eat a ton of it. Blue cheese and aged cheddar are convenient to find and both rich flavours, cheese purists know what they want but I've never bothered. Find a butcher

[Anonymous No.11142057]

>>11141422
Google is your friend. Ask it anything, it will answer.
Youtube has tons of stuff for beginners. Spend some time there instead of this Mongolian Goat Fucking Forum.
Start with simple things. Cook eggs. Roast a chicken. Make pasta dishes. Try comfort foods, they're usually easy to make.

[Anonymous No.11142071]

picked out a couple of chicken breast recipes i liked and the ingredients came out to $100+

sheeeiiitt

[Anonymous No.11142078]

>>11141422
its lower than you think

[Anonymous No.11142189]

OP get a small box of krusteaz pancake mix (just add water). Use this to learn how to griddle then learn how to make your own batter mixes to your taste. You want to flip them just after most of the bubbles pop. Also keep Grade B maple syrup in the house. Butter the fuck out of everything.

From here, work on compotes and simple syrups.

2 cups fruit
1 cup sugar
1 cup water
simmer 20 minutes

Can add a splash of lemon/lime sometimes. More or less water. Etc.

for compote leave whole, for syrup strain

Use as a topping or as a base for home made soda. Can do this with ginger to make fresh ginger ale to take to your friends to mix drinks with. Or just have ginger ale.

I'm making a carmel syrup next for coffee. It's so fucking easy I can't believe I haven't done it yet.

[Anonymous No.11142226]

>>11141422
Please read the sticky

[Anonymous No.11142231]

Check your local grocers sales every week for specials on beef. Look up a simple recipe for what's on sale.

[Anonymous No.11142831]

>>11141466
this
my dream is finding a weekly healthy menu that maximizes the use of everything in the shop list

[Anonymous No.11143098]

>>11141871
Quite obviously I'm a retard but I'll keep it in mind, thanks anyway

>>11141874
This one was much easier, thank you.

[Anonymous No.11143353]

>>11142831

Well a lot of things will keep like dried goods or canned goods. So baking and canning are good practices. Dried herbs, spices, beans, rice, grains/cereals, fruits, and so on. Batch cooking can be saved for leftovers or frozen. Fresh cooking should be planned right after shopping days. Then batch cooking immediately after with food that will keep in the fridge.

[Anonymous No.11143966]

>>11141468
>this

>>11141457
you might be onto something

[Anonymous No.11143992]

>>11142831
Planning well is a poor substitute for being able to improvise

[Anonymous No.11144492]

>>11143992
The most braindead thing i've ever read

[Anonymous No.11145556]

>>11141457
>>11141461
>>11141468
Brainlets

[Anonymous No.11145558]

>>11144492
before or after reading your own diary

[Anonymous No.11145593]

>>11145558
I don't have a diary though, when will you retards learn that grasping at straws never work?

[Anonymous No.11146718]

>>11141845
Its bretty good. Has all the basics for cooking, baking, shit ton of recipes, and other useful info. Food lab is pretty good too.

[Anonymous No.11147516]

>>11141454
Do you run your boiled rice through a colander like pasta? I just tried your method but the colander holes were too big and most of my rice went down the sink. I managed to scrape some of it up from the base of the sink after it drained, but it tastes funny

[Anonymous No.11147718]

>>11141422
Try out a few simple recipes and keep practicing on it. Nobody gets it right the first time.

[Anonymous No.11147769]

>>11141422
yeah I have some advice
get a fucking job

[Anonymous No.11147793]

>>11147516
You need a sieve like this, rice is too small for a colander

[Anonymous No.11147805]

>>11147516
Holy shit you are dumb as hell

[Anonymous No.11147829]

>>11147516
This isn't even cooking. This is Kindergarten "does this shape fit in this hole" stuff.