Cooking (not just dinner)

It depends on how you define things :wink:

If I can believe my parents, Iā€™ve been playing with dough and berries and other things I could find from a very young age. (scary I was allowed toā€¦ ) But if you count from ā€˜eatableā€™ or ā€˜bearableā€™ā€¦ Mwah 90? Ischā€¦ Ischā€¦ Up and downsā€¦ Still :wink:

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No, no corn meal or corn starch or thickener, its pretty runny, if its not runny we think thereā€™s something wrong with it. But I think thats regional tooā€¦


Ok, seriously, this is hilariousā€¦ we are fucking SERIOUS about our motherflipping butter tarts!!

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I can still remember the taste of my first brew. It was a Muntonā€™s Amber Ale from a can, with an extra ounce of Willamette hop pellets in the boil. YUM!

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FEED THE DEAD GUY

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About another experiment:
I found these a short while away at a local shop https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bergamot_orange

The peels with some alcohol and sugar in a thigh container. (weck pot). Tonight I opened it to take a smell, whoa. Maybe this is something to share. :wink:

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No, youā€™re dead. The dead donā€™t eat. You probably like raisins in them even! hmph!

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You are the number one grudge holder aintcha? You gotta eat your way past this, dear!!!

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Actually I forgot that you were dead until you mentioned it, so really, this is all your own fault!

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#notalldeadguys

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I have not, but i will be soon now. i must try this, it looks fabulous!

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I agree, on the list. At, the list.

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God I love butter tarts. I donā€™t make them nearly as often as I used to (the debate over using lard became something of a sore spot in our kitchen)

The best butter tart, IMO, is the one surreptitiously mooched out of the freezer and consumed before itā€™s had time to fully thaw. Now that Iā€™m (technically) an adult I donā€™t really have to do that anymore, but itā€™s still my favorite way to eat butter tarts

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Youā€™re in TDot arenā€™t you? I think you areā€¦

If you are, you NEED to try one of these butter tarts.

http://andreasbakery635.com/

Seriously the platonic ideal of what a butter tart should be. I died and went to butter tart heaven.

some day when i settle down and become a grownup, i want to start a bakery with almost a verbatim copy of this.

http://andreasbakery635.com/?page_id=162

i donā€™t know how well you could sell meat pies in a lot of the states, but they are so damned delicious.

I want to do bread, all kinds of it. Maybe we should pair, when we ever grow up. It would be a great bakery and shop.

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Thatā€™s almost the opposite of my dream, which is to live near a bakery like this and buy their stuff frequently.

My experience so far suggests that if I were cooking professionally, I would almost certainly learn to hate it. Cooking for 5 people, sporadically, is right at the upper bound of how much I want to deal with.

@Missy_Pants Iā€™m in Montreal now. I did live in Toronto for a few years, but it was more than a decade ago.

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Oh QC, you donā€™t need my help finding delicious baked goods on MTL!! LOL
You need to share what you find!

@japhroaig - do yā€™all not have a meat pie tradition? We have Quebec tourtiere and OMG so good!

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not really. a bit, but itā€™s easier to find an empanada or samosa than say a cornish pasty or real meat pie. which is a shame cause it is such an obvious fit. there is a small producer of pies called Cousin Jacks i think, which are very tasty, but are expensive (since they are hand made) and small (since they are hand made).

yep. yep yep yep. i like to think i could do it, but 20 burgers a day or a few dozen loaves, or like two cakes per day would likely kill me.

i can do 15 people at one time by myself (heh) but that is like once a year, and i need a few days off afterwards.

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Yeah. I did a double batch of potato rolls yesterday, and the amchoor potatoes from upthread (tastes like samosas, super good). By the time I was trying to help my kids do a batch of brownies, I was so burned out I was answering two out of three questions with some variation on ā€œI donā€™t knowā€ or ā€œask your momā€

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