Cooking (not just dinner)

It depends on how you define things :wink:

If I can believe my parents, I’ve been playing with dough and berries and other things I could find from a very young age. (scary I was allowed to… ) But if you count from ā€˜eatable’ or ā€˜bearable’… Mwah 90? Isch… Isch… Up and downs… Still :wink:

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No, no corn meal or corn starch or thickener, its pretty runny, if its not runny we think there’s something wrong with it. But I think thats regional too…


Ok, seriously, this is hilarious… 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 Munton’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, you’re dead. The dead don’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 don’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 it’s had time to fully thaw. Now that I’m (technically) an adult I don’t really have to do that anymore, but it’s still my favorite way to eat butter tarts

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You’re in TDot aren’t you? I think you are…

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 don’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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That’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 I’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 don’t need my help finding delicious baked goods on MTL!! LOL
You need to share what you find!

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

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not really. a bit, but it’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 don’t knowā€ or ā€œask your momā€

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