help me cook (beginner cooking thread)

[sys]

yeah, it's a cooking thread, we were all wrong.

[CNS]

ok.

new topic.

I want to make some home made soups.  I have a recipe for a tomato basil and I have a potato soup recipe down, but I am looking for a big hearty veggie soup that I could try.  What are the secrets to a great soup stock?  What do I need to know?  Bones?  What?

Bones and veg broiled in oven for a little while, at min, then make a stock with that.  Some stocks want you to bake that stuff for a long while, then toss in water and cook down/reduce for a long time.  Strain out solids and start soup from there.  Maybe bake a chicken for sat night, then save the carcass and use it for stock sunday.

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[CNS]

A lot of ppls soups, especially veg, always taste watery.  A good stock should help round out flavor so that you don't get that watery impression.

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[CNS]

I would recommend carrot. Bay leaf, and onion in with the carcass, and add cellery to in when reducing on stove top.


This is a good start as a blank basic canvass.  Add whatevs additional flavor you wish from there.


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[pissclams]

I mean, thyme, hello?

I'm a big soup guy, big time on the soups

[Tobias]

bones and sodium

[yoga-like_abana]

I use to enjoy cooking but now I just like grilling.. It's like baking but for men!

[HerrSonntag]

Pro-tip for stock/broths: chicken wings

Chicken wings are like nothing but connective tissue, lbs for lbs they make the best stock.

[_33]

Pro-Tip for stocks/broths:  they taste like watery garbage no matter what you do until you dump a butt load of salt in it and then it tastes super good.

[sys]

it's crazy that the mods still refuse to recognize that this is a cooking thread.

[Kat Kid]

ok, one thing that I tried recently is grilling veggies.  pretty wild, but I have tried it a few times and it isn't bad.

The squash, zucchini, peppers are easy.  GOT IT DOWN!

but what is some good advice for grilling up some Brussel sprouts?

[ChiComCat]

ok, one thing that I tried recently is grilling veggies.  pretty wild, but I have tried it a few times and it isn't bad.

The squash, zucchini, peppers are easy.  GOT IT DOWN!

but what is some good advice for grilling up some Brussel sprouts?

Bacon/butter

[CNS]

Brussel sprouts
Ham or bacon diced
Dried cherries
Fennel bulb

Little bit of olive oil and sea salt.  Cook until the sprouts get pretty well done.

If you want to get super crazy, take a little red wine, reduce it in a pan until it coats a spoon and drizzle over the top. 

Also, a little MSG is super good on it too.

[catastrophe]

Brussels sprouts are better roasted than anything IMO.

[CNS]

Yeah, the need more time to break down, imo.

[Tobias]

yeah roast them until they're little tiny meteorites and they're tasty

[Cire]

Just don't over cook, they get bitter


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[Cire]

Goat vegetable beef soup

GROUND hamburger
Frozen green beans,
Frozen peas
Canned corn
Yellow onion
Garlic
Shredded cabbage
Mushrooms
Carrots
Celery
WHOLE PEELED TOMATOES that you break up with your hands
Russet potatoes
Bay leaf
Stock/bouillon whatever
Cook slow for a long time


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[Cire]

Tonight braised short ribs with carrots, celery onion and garlic with red wine for about 4 hours

The broth it produced was crazy


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