Recent cooking!
Mar. 13th, 2025 10:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
luzula- I made palak paneer, with homemade paneer. Which was quite simple to make, and turned out well! I used yoghurt as the curdling agent. I also made chutney a while ago from the apples before they ran out, which went well with the meal.
- I bought an ice-cream machine and made gelato. I had not realized before that gelato is basically frozen custard? Like, you make it the same way you make custard sauce, heating up milk and cream with egg yolks until it grows thick. My first try was to flavor it with red currants, but they're quite tart, and I think I used too much berries. Next try will be something chocolatey.
- My kimchi experiment turned out all right, or at least the fermentation bacteria did their thing and I liked the taste. I am somewhat hampered by one of my housemates being allergic to red chile fruits (and indeed raw tomatoes, strawberries, etc, so I guess it's some coloring molecule?), but she can eat yellow and green chile, so we manage.
- I tried putting some licorice powder into my homemade ginger beer, which was interesting, and I think I'll do it again. But not all the time.
- I saved some acorns this fall, and ground them up and soaked out the tannins, but have not yet made something from them. It is not my impression that they have much of a taste of their own once the tannins are gone, but maybe they're a good base for other flavors?
- I made sticky toffee pudding, which I have been low-key wanting to do since having it in Britain. It turned out well, but as the name implies, it's a rich indulgence and not something to make often!
- A while ago I made a post asking for recipes trying to replicate something I had at a Chinese restaurant. I don't know that I exactly managed that, but I went to an East Asian food store and bought the numerous ingredients from this recipe that I didn't have at home, and tried it. Delicious! And it felt like a whole palate of tastes that I have not tried cooking with before.
Yep, I suppose cooking is sort of a new fandom for me! : D
- I bought an ice-cream machine and made gelato. I had not realized before that gelato is basically frozen custard? Like, you make it the same way you make custard sauce, heating up milk and cream with egg yolks until it grows thick. My first try was to flavor it with red currants, but they're quite tart, and I think I used too much berries. Next try will be something chocolatey.
- My kimchi experiment turned out all right, or at least the fermentation bacteria did their thing and I liked the taste. I am somewhat hampered by one of my housemates being allergic to red chile fruits (and indeed raw tomatoes, strawberries, etc, so I guess it's some coloring molecule?), but she can eat yellow and green chile, so we manage.
- I tried putting some licorice powder into my homemade ginger beer, which was interesting, and I think I'll do it again. But not all the time.
- I saved some acorns this fall, and ground them up and soaked out the tannins, but have not yet made something from them. It is not my impression that they have much of a taste of their own once the tannins are gone, but maybe they're a good base for other flavors?
- I made sticky toffee pudding, which I have been low-key wanting to do since having it in Britain. It turned out well, but as the name implies, it's a rich indulgence and not something to make often!
- A while ago I made a post asking for recipes trying to replicate something I had at a Chinese restaurant. I don't know that I exactly managed that, but I went to an East Asian food store and bought the numerous ingredients from this recipe that I didn't have at home, and tried it. Delicious! And it felt like a whole palate of tastes that I have not tried cooking with before.
Yep, I suppose cooking is sort of a new fandom for me! : D
