Favorite things to cook/bake: Pad Thai, even if I don't make it anywhere close to authentic. I'm in love with making salsa. Bread and wontons are great those days I need a long project or to knead the hell out of something. I make a lot of pasta dishes and stir fry. Love backing anything that doesn't take shortening--I've been looking for a really good lemon cookie recipe without much luck. Favorite regional dishes: Cheese curds, walleye cakes, Sweet Martha's cookies (om nom nom nom) Special diet recipe favorites (ie vegetarian, vegan, gluten free, low fat): Most of what I make winds up being vegetarian just because touching raw meat really grosses me out. The videos about salmonella in Health class were a little too effective. Probably salsa. I'll add this to almost any dish: Salt and cilantro. I have a possibly inappropriate love of cilantro. Beginner, advanced, or somewhere in between: Probably intermediate? If I can find a video explaining how to do something on YouTube I can do it, but my knife skills are (dangerously) awful and I don't really try to cook new things that much since it's just me eating it. Something I learned the hard way: Don't put something on the stove and then go on the computer. Also, things in the oven or on the stove are hot, yet I seem to learn this again every few months. Greatest cooking/baking triumph: I made a roux and there were no tears! Also, my first loaf of bread was also the most delicious, satisfying thing I have ever eaten in my life. Something I haven't done yet but I'd like to try: Homemade mac and cheese Other things I'd like to share: I'm really into fandom (bandom, currently) and that's mostly what my journal is for. I get a lot of my recipes from Budget Bytes and don't really talk about cooking much on my journal, but I would love to talk cooking and motivating myself to step away from the TV dinner section! :)
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Date: 2010-04-26 04:16 pm (UTC)Favorite regional dishes: Cheese curds, walleye cakes, Sweet Martha's cookies (om nom nom nom)
Special diet recipe favorites (ie vegetarian, vegan, gluten free, low fat): Most of what I make winds up being vegetarian just because touching raw meat really grosses me out. The videos about salmonella in Health class were a little too effective. Probably salsa.
I'll add this to almost any dish: Salt and cilantro. I have a possibly inappropriate love of cilantro.
Beginner, advanced, or somewhere in between: Probably intermediate? If I can find a video explaining how to do something on YouTube I can do it, but my knife skills are (dangerously) awful and I don't really try to cook new things that much since it's just me eating it.
Something I learned the hard way: Don't put something on the stove and then go on the computer. Also, things in the oven or on the stove are hot, yet I seem to learn this again every few months.
Greatest cooking/baking triumph: I made a roux and there were no tears! Also, my first loaf of bread was also the most delicious, satisfying thing I have ever eaten in my life.
Something I haven't done yet but I'd like to try: Homemade mac and cheese
Other things I'd like to share: I'm really into fandom (bandom, currently) and that's mostly what my journal is for. I get a lot of my recipes from Budget Bytes and don't really talk about cooking much on my journal, but I would love to talk cooking and motivating myself to step away from the TV dinner section! :)