/lit/ - Literature

>>14006761
Start easy... all egg food.... boil eggs for salad.... omelette... etc

milk

>>14006761
>>>/ck/

>is cooking equipment expensive
the most expensive thing is the kitchen itself
if you don't have an oven you're gonna be very limited
otherwise, not really
you dont need $200 pots/pans, that shit's for bored wives

>>14006802
look at this pleb and his kitchen

>>14006785
/lit/ is the only board i give a fuck about. to bring it to literature, I will pose the question...

>wtf did he eat
>pic

>>14006761
its expensive but cooking for urself is easy as 123

>rice
>fresh vegetables
>frozen meat
i literally cant think of anything else, i could survive 50 years in those alone. preparing them is where you get all the fun parts

spicing the veggies? steaming them? raw? salt? tomato sauce rice? brown rice? seasoned meat? poached meat (redpilled), bbq?

>>14006813
Santa ate the cookies and milk I left out for him.

>>14006761
La Cucina is probably my favorite cookbook, it is traditional Italian food and for many of the recipes you get versions from different regions so you can compare and see what really makes the dish what it is and what things you can play with, as well as some idea of what sort of things work.

>>14006813
casja and tsjornie hleb.

>>14006761
Pic related. Bouquet de France: An Epicurean Tour of the French Provinces. A complete tour of all provinces of post-war France and record of local recipes from inns and restaurants and cafes along the way. Lots of neat photos too and the prose is maximum comfy.

Also:
McGee On Food and Cooking
Katz The Art of Fermentation
The Escoffier Cookbook (literally teaches you assuming you know nothing)
Pure Beef by Lynne Curry (everything you need to know about beef)
Paul Bocuse's French Cooking
Mallman Seven Fires (food porn but still interesting)
The Larousse Treasury of Country Cooking ($3 used, some good recipes all hearty and simple)

Used cookbooks are cheap af. Cooking equipment is affordable or expensive as you want. It doesn't have to be Le Creuset, but I would recommend an enameled cast iron pot of ~3.5 quart to start, and a wooden kitchen spoon for stirring rice or whatever. And a cast iron skillet or steel (Matfer Bourgeat) frying pan and tongs for searing steaks properly. The stock pot can roast chuck or chicken, or make rice and peas, or chili, or cook a sauce or bake bread or make a chicken soup etc etc. The pan is for everything else. You will find it useful if the lid can fit both, for reflecting heat back into the pan. And finally a simple stainless pot with lid for cooking pasta or whatever while preparing a sauce in your heavier pot. Other than that a mesh strainer for washing rice or unfreezing shrimp and a wire dipper (like for Chinese food) for picking out noodles or otherwise combining ingredients from one pot to another when cooking is done.

Favorite food is probably my rice with shredded chicken and peas, ras el hanout and parmesan, or taco filling (rice, refried beans from a can, diced chicken well-seared, cheese) or spaghetti with home made sauce.

Good luck anon.

>>14006824
thanks!


How do i read and cook? im not an audiobook fag

>>14006824
>its expensive but cooking for urself is easy as 123
It is cheaper than eating out.

>tfw no qt /lit/bf to cook for

>>14006829
this nigga cuts his food with his teeth lmao

Ooh and best breakfast takes like five minutes.

I forgot to mention if you don't have a comal get one. It's just a flat circle of iron, no rising walls like a pan. Used for toasting tortillas. You can toast them all at once on the stove, put them in a fridge separated by wax paper if you want to make it easy to unstick them, then microwave them for 5-10 seconds when you need them. Or you could rewarm them on top of a toaster if you're careful about not burning them. But they do need to be cooked and beaten of air bubbles on a hot bare skillet. Then just do your hot dogs or sausage or whatever and eggs. Takes less than ten minutes and will hold you until dinner.

>>14006829
<3
thanks anon. That is a perfect cookbook; The prose is what i was looking for. Ill try to make your recipe one day.

Thanks for the advice and shopping list.

in debted,
anon

>>14006840
anon, I don't know how to tell you

everyone cuts their food with their teeth

>>14006813
tolstoy was vegan

>>14006852
how about this?

>>14006861
never read it. wanted to, because Hannibal Lecter had a copy in his study in Baltimore. but yeah never read it. Escoffier is very close, content-wise, I've heard.

>>14006865
I didn't know that, spooky.

>>14006847
you're welcome anon.

secret spaghetti sauce recipe! one pound of ground beef, cooked in your heavy enameled cast iron pot. leave the fat in. then add: one can of Hunts tomato sauce (~750ml or thereabouts? costs 88 cents), a few cloves of crushed and chopped garlic, a bay leaf or two, salt and black pepper to taste, cumin, oregano, tarragon, one jalapeno sliced into rounds or several dabs of El Yucateco green habanero sauce, and some torn fresh basil. Add a couple ounces of olive oil (a shot glass or two) to give it a rich feel. You can add diced onions if you like, at the start of the process when cooking the meat. It's the mooootherfucking best. Take this and be careful with it.

>>14006761
i should be attracted to her since she is objectively beautiful. but she is so beautiful that i find her repulsive somehow. i wouldnt want to talk to her even for a minute, im just uninterested, almost disgusted even.

What did I mean by this?

>>14006902
>meat in before the garlic and onion

>>14006918
that's how you do it pleb

>>14006922
not in my damn house we don't.

>>14006918
stay mad.

>>14006929
i'm always mad

Are there any cookbooks that start with easier recipes then introduce progressively more complex ones?

>>14006828
you mean кaшa и чepный хлeб?

>>14006912
you need to leave the house. converse with people via actual speech, not typing.

>tehee i made dis
>now give me attention

>>14006829
>you give a french traditional cookbook to an anglo and his favorite is parmesan chicken and spaghetti
>guy in the book goes to Cheverny and what he vividly remembers is an omelette
I don't even know what to say.

>>14006973
/tv/ had a thread yesterday where Anon reached bump limit by spamming anti-woman images. You aren't the same guy, are you

>>14007117
>/tv/

>>14006973
it's pretty good