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this thread is mainly for me to ask questions about cooking.

but feel free to talk about any manner of food/dining/cooking too.

You like cooking?

Yeah, dood.

PORK CHOP SANDWICHES!

WHAT THE freak? GET THE freak OUT OF HERE! COME ON!

yeah i can see that.

silver lining, you can merge all the thread-derailing food talk in the resolution thread here.

not much of a cook. made some easy cheap ass stuff tonight.

basically layered some tilapia, tomatos, onions, put some oil, lemon juice, dill, salt, pepper on it. wrap it in foil. put in oven for 20 minutes at 450.

pm me if you want the full details. i'd have to transcribe it from a cookbook.

gonna add this to the rotation. tilapia is $3.99 a pound

basically layered some tilapia, tomatos, onions, put some oil, lemon juice, dill, salt, pepper on it. wrap it in foil. put in oven for 20 minutes at 450.

Basic Boy Scout type recipe - put a bunch of stuff together in foil and cook for a while.

Sounds good.  I'd probably leave out the tomatoes if they were fresh (I hate raw tomatoes but I like canned / cooked tomatoes).

they do get cooked in the foil. or you could prob sub in canned tomatos

I like to BBQ stuff. Meat. Over charcoal. Tastes good, is easy, makes you a hero.

I put random spices on like garlic, cinnamon, and taco seasoning. Whatever I can grab out of the cabinet. Tastes really good.

Otherwise, I'm usually too lazy and I eat a lot of sandwiches.

Also on that note, I love mushrooms.  Nathan : mushrooms :: sf : white rice.

I loved when I was a kid and we would go "hunting" for morel mushrooms.  God those are incredible.  We would take pounds and just coat them in flour and fry in butter.  When I got older I learned that they are apparently highly sought after and are EXPENSIVE as hell to buy. 

My uncle gave us this one mushroom once he called a "milkbrook".  It looked like a toadstool but tasted amazing.  I'd like to know how to find them and tell them apart from toadstools so I don't die

gonna add this to the rotation. tilapia is $3.99 a pound

Tilapia is $5.99 - $6.99 per pound in South Florida, even when buying in bulk from Costco.  Tilapia and other fish will likely go up in price tomorrow.  Today is the last day until May 1 that you are allowed catch grouper down here.  We have a 4-month ban, coinciding with their spawning season, to help correct for the over-fishing.  The ban runs is for Atlantic waters from North Carolina through The Keys, and then on the gulf side of the keys, and will be repeated annually until the population recovers. 

A good thing about the light fish like tilapia is that it works well with about any kind of sauce/seasoning.  A couple months ago we made some coated with fresh coconut, similar to coconut shrimp, that was outstanding.  One mom & pop Jamaican restaurant makes a tilapia sandwich, with a their homemade jerk sauce on the side for dipping (though I usually just pour it over the fish), that is really good, too.

Tilapia is $5.99 - $6.99 per pound in South Florida, even when buying in bulk from Costco.  Tilapia and other fish will likely go up in price tomorrow.  Today is the last day until May 1 that you are allowed catch grouper down here.  We have a 4-month ban, coinciding with their spawning season, to help correct for the over-fishing.  The ban runs is for Atlantic waters from North Carolina through The Keys, and then on the gulf side of the keys, and will be repeated annually until the population recovers.  

doesn't Tilapia come from fish farms in Vietnam and China? You can find it pretty cheap frozen at Trader Joes

Any of you ever read Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain?  I'm about 3/4ths of the way through, it's one of the best books I've ever read.  It's a look into the sub-culture of professional kitchens, some of it is disturbing (don't eat fish on monday, don't order mussels, and don't ask for meat well-done), but mostly it's hysterical.

Yep, pretty revealing and plenty of good advice.  People that order meat well done, obviously have no taste anyway, so give them the crappiest piece of  meat left and they won't be able to tell the difference as long as it's burnt.

Yep, pretty revealing and plenty of good advice.  People that order meat well done, obviously have no taste anyway, so give them the crappiest piece of  meat left and they won't be able to tell the difference as long as it's burnt.

Trouble is, with the e-coli scare, sometimes restaurants refuse to cook it any other way than well done.  Personally I like mine medium rare to medium.  I knew someone once who liked it barely cooked (stick a fork in it and it says "MOO").  I don't like it THAT rare.

Its far far from fine dining, Five Guys over grills its burgers (at least in one of its places here in Manassas).  I just ask for it a little less burnt on the outside.  When its that way, its jucier.

Oh, and I don't like my scrambled Eggs or Omlettes runny.

Like my fried eggs over medium.