Food Thread - Those that eat

[ShadySands]

On 3/30/2025 at 3:51 PM, PK htiw klaw eriF said:

I made Carbonara with pancetta. Internet Italians may try to blow up my house, but it tasted very good.

I pretty much always have guanciale on hand these days but sometimes I prefer pancetta to mix it up. I don't care about authenticity for anything anymore, just taste.

[ShadySands]

I also made salmon that I soaked in sake and miso for a couple of days.

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

2 hours ago, ShadySands said:

I pretty much always have guanciale on hand these days but sometimes I prefer pancetta to mix it up. I don't care about authenticity for anything anymore, just taste.

Where do you get it? Ordering is my only option and it seems to be too expensive for my budget.

And while I don't care about authenticity either, it is funny to me that the first written recipe for carbonara is from Chicago and uses pancetta and parm. The current iteration seems to be maybe a decade old and you had Italian chefs using cream in the dish during the 80s.

[ShadySands]

32 minutes ago, PK htiw klaw eriF said:

Where do you get it? Ordering is my only option and it seems to be too expensive for my budget.

And while I don't care about authenticity either, it is funny to me that the first written recipe for carbonara is from Chicago and uses pancetta and parm. The current iteration seems to be maybe a decade old and you had Italian chefs using cream in the dish during the 80s.

I'm lucky that I have a few local spots that stock it, a Polish grocery store/butcher shop and a little Italian shop down the road always have it. My local Sprouts sometimes has it too.

Before that I would order it for special occasions but I'd recommend trying local meat spots first.

E: I put a random Houston address into Instacart and searched for it and Central Market has it listed but out of stock

Edited April 1 by ShadySands

[Hurlshort]

My mom always made carbonara with pancetta for my birthdays, so that is my favorite way to do it. I love it, but I can also feel my arteries clogging when I eat it at this stage in my life. It's a pretty rich dish.

[ShadySands]

Sardines and anchovies

Who wants to make out?

[majestic]

Speaking of healthy food:

 

Was pretty good.  

[ShadySands]

Roasted some chicken drumsticks and served that with a whatever we have Mexican rice and miso honey butter carrot chips.

The Sonathan liked the chicken and the carrots and the Dottiri loved the rice. Wife and I thought it was all really okay. High praise!

Edited April 11 by ShadySands

[Pidesco]

Despite a long and storied history of eyeballing everything, today I weighed the gnocchi before cooking.

[Gromnir]

evidence old dogs may learn new tricks.

am having spent many cumulative hours cleaning steel baking sheets after cooking. chicken fat is mild annoying, but sugars is especial tough to remove and am having used bar keeper's friend enough to eliminate our fingerprints when am too lazy to wear gloves in an effort to get rid o' carbon scoring. maintained as shiny as lancelot's armour from excalibur. 

we do have a few o' grandma's baking sheets, which look like cast iron pans with all the built up residue on 'em, but we rare used 'em 'cause they are complete flat and have no rims... save two smallish round sheets which were almost non functional for everyday uses.

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'bout a year ago we tested grandma's compared to our shiny sheets.

grandma wins for all but cookies or similar. the cast-iron black pans work far better for roasting protein and vegetables and they is virtual non-stick... almost, but not quite. roasted veggies come out particular fantastic on the blackened pans.

have spent the past year effective seasoning most o' our baking sheets and metal cooking pans. 

HA! Good Fun!

 

[ShadySands]

Grilled pork chops and served it with some mac and cheese and honey miso butter carrots.  The texture was good and I could even taste it a bit.

[Gromnir]

am having mentioned previous how am shamefaced by the recognition that if we want legit nba arena or mlb park nachos, then queso sans american cheese or velveeta just don't match our expectations. 

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am almost never bothering to click on youtube suggested links, but it has happened. 

had literal never watched the guy previous, but we saw the video thumbnail and for some reason we were simultaneous reminiscing 'bout campbell's condensed bean with bacon soup. we make a bean and ham/bacon soup that utilizes mayocoba beans, a soup which for us is a winter month staple and am recognizing our version has a similar flavor profile to the campbell's condensed version, so for funsies we clicked on the link to see where bean and bacon ranked. am so complete derisive o' internet ranking videos or lists, so is double strange we bothered to watch. triple strange is we watched even when we noticed bean and bacon were not one o' the soups he rated.

*shrug*

after seeing babish comments on the spicy nacho cheese soup, we bought a couple cans and experimented. first effort we tried straight. not great, but we understood babish observations. second effort had us add evaporated milk, a bit o' jalapeno brine and some corona beer. better. eventual tried five or six different varieties, but arguable the best result were when we shredded a few ounces o' decent sharp cheddar cheese and added it to the soup-- that's it, just the can o' soup warmed up and shredded sharp cheddar stirred into the molten mixture. diabolical simple and pretty much exact what we were hoping to achieve.

online we has seen the campbell's soup priced as low as $.85 but typical ~$1.72. 

is not as if am regular making nachos or anything which would require a nacho cheese sauce, but given how shelf stable and cheap is the soup, am expecting am gonna always have a couple cans in the pantry henceforth.

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so weird.

HA! Good Fun!

[Malcador]

Lamb for Easter.  

[rjshae]

Consuming more potassium helps keep blood pressure down, so I've been focusing on foods high in K. Like bananas, dried apricots, beans, unsalted potatoes, and various fruit juices. Apparently it causes more sodium to empty out through your urine.

[PK htiw klaw eriF]

Mac and cheese, ham, chicken, and other Easter stuff I ate at a family gathering.

First time I did a "southern style" msc using eggs and honestly it works well for substantially less effort than making a cheese sauce like I'd typically do for a baked mac and cheese. Everyone said it was very good, but I think I should use sharp cheddar next time instead of medium because the flavor could get dialed that way a bit more. Overall this is probably going to be my go to baked mac, and I'll save the more intensive method for fancy takes.

[Hurlshort]

My wife and I were on a bike ride and decided to swing into the store for a bag of potatoes. But then we noticed the hams were super cheap, so we got an 8-pound ham for about $5. It was good, but balancing the ham while cycling home was a bit tricky.