yum yum the food thread

viva · 14-09-11 04:12:40

Okay, some of us are really into food and cooking, and everyone knows that since you can cook your way right into your crushes' pants, I figured this is as good a place as any to share our sexiest recipes... which to someone nearly obsessive about food (me) is all of them. I want to hear Blissed' new fish revelation, I want to compare notes with Jane about Caramel Chocolate Cheesecake (caramel, surprisingly easy! making crumb crust when your food processor's dead, not so much!) and hear your stories about love and food, food and food, and cooking naked.

Lately I have been obsessed with every possible iteration of wholewheat tortillas, sour cream, eggs, tomatoes, beans and guacamole. How did eggs get so good?

Also a special shout out to our gorgeous epicurean Shanna, who's got me looking at my kitchen - oh that powerful immersion blender... - with a whole new glint in my eye.

blissed · 14-09-11 10:33:11

When I release the fish revelation, if it goes viral, it's gonna be big and change the face of traveling snacks forever.

.

blissed · 14-09-11 10:34:24

I love Smitten kitchen by the way. The name, the way it looks, the way the food looks. http://smittenkitchen.com/ You can go there and appreciate how much the visual side of food efects the taste. I found if you eat one food and close your eyes you can imagine eating another and it will produce a brain reaction as if you were eating the imaginary food. If I put a spoon scoop of Papaya in my mouth, close my eyes and think of caremel pudding I get a caramel pudding brain experience, a kind of taste inhancement . Bit like if I imagine being touched sexualy I get a being touched sexually brain reaction.

I think the caremel pudding brain experience is a great name for a band BTW

.

Dannei · 14-09-11 23:05:25

I have a friend who bakes the most delicious "everything" - she's made everything from cupcakes to muffins to cakes, and I've always loved them (the favourite would have to be the blueberry cheesecake cupcakes - little mouthfuls of pure joy). I figure that the day I learn to bake like that, I'll never have troubles with my love life again!

I was once with a girl who got the idea of a fruit salad in bed into her head. Turns out that slices of fruit are a fun way to play - plus you get food at the same time. What's not to love?

I'm hungry now, dammit...

viva · 15-09-11 01:31:00

Woah, decontructed fruit salad in bed - that brings me back! It's funny how sometimes our most incredibly sexual experiences are with people we're not attracted to physically or emotionally or intellectually - there's this Other way, this pure sexuality which refuses to be resisted and somehow eclipses all of those other aspects so that in that naked hot wet bed of squish and laughter, this person is the one - even though you'd be a fool to try to build a life together.

For me this funny thing is one of the reasons I am so lucky to live in a culture - possibly just the wonderful micro-societies I've built around myself - which encourages sex and acceptance and exploration before (and sometimes after) meeting The One. Sure, maybe there is a Partner for me - but I have this wonderful experiential memory bank full of being naked and covered with rasperries, bouncing on a dumb blond fireman in a hammock, losing my virginity to a rock star, etc - all unique and valuable, and all which expand the eventual personality which I may then offer to my partner. Yay!

The taste-test thing is definitely a fun game. I saw some contestants doing it on Top Chef and me and my aunt wanted to try, so I closed my eyes and opened my mouth and then ate something small and crunchy and not overly pleasant but not really unpleasant... I couldn't put my finger on it, so I opened my eyes and my people were hysterical laughing. Then I noticed the cat food bowl sitting on the counter -.-

Can I just give it up for this salad: tomatoes, basil, salt lemon olive oil and a touch of cream. That's it. I could eat it every day for the rest of my life.

Last edited by viva (15-09-11 01:54:34)

jane_e · 15-09-11 03:08:34

I hate to admit this - especially here -- but I am a bit (read: a lot) A-Type and can't stand the thought of food in bed. It totally grosses me out. I think that once, and only once, my old boyfriend convinced me to bring cheesecake into bed. How can you say no to cheesecake? You can't. It may, may have involved proper plates and forks. Judging at this point is more or less permissible. I know that I have a problem.

That being said I love making things from scratch. Particularly things which involve (a) in season vegetables (b) the use of my immersion blender and (c) the ability to put things into jars to freeze for later. It is harvest soup season in Canada right now. I'm a bit excited. Not cum in the kitchen excited, but excited none the less.

If you also like impressing people with recipes you find on the internet check out:

Lentil and Ginger Soup: This is a great recipe, that I think was sent to me by a boy that claimed to love lentils. I mocked, but it's damn good. All I do differently is omit the chili flakes (only because I never have them) and use like 2-3 tablespoons of fresh ginger as opposed to one measly teaspoon. I feel like I also add a bit of nutmeg with the cinnamon. At the end I think I sub the whipping cream for coconut milk. You could probably use low fat rice milk or something if you were feeling really virtuous.

Baked Spinach: Probably the least sexy sounding dish on the face of the planet, but it is so good. It's a very cozy side dish. It is also incredibly labour intensive (think taking the stems out of roughly 10 bags of spinach), so therefore filled with love. You can taste the love. Word of warning: de-stem the night before -- preferably with late night radio on and a glass of red wine.

Orange Cranberry Muffins: These are so unique and so delicious that your friends will wonder if you are in fact magic. I was weird-ed out by the prospect of orange chunks in my muffins. How wrongly worried I was. These are a delight. If I was going to describe a muffin as orgasmic -- this would be the one.

Viva, excellent thread. So excited to see what other people have in their food of love and lust / love of food repertoires.

Last edited by jane_e (15-09-11 03:11:19)

aven frey · 15-09-11 06:49:23

nope Jane, you don't have a problem, THEY have the problem. Crumbs in bed is totally unacceptable. In a hammock I suppose it's not so bad.
That recipe for lentil and ginger soup looks amazing. I'm going to leave out the onion because that be the devils vegetable but I think I'll make that for dinner tomorrow.
The lovely Cate put me onto smitten kitchen and I just love it. I only wish she had some recipes with salmon. That's totally a cry for help, if anyone has any good recipes for salmon....

blissed · 15-09-11 11:44:24

Oooh you might be interested in the fish revelation. It's not a lame joke BTW it's something I discovered and it involves Salmon but it works with Trout too. I've told a few people about this and they don't believe me, so over the next week I'm going to see if I can make a short video to demonstrate it and put it up on the tubes.

I love the sharing of ideas in this thread. I cook only a few types of dishes and I'm getting a bit bored with them. Jane I love the idea of lentils and ginger I think I'll try adding ginger to the lentils and rice thing I do and then make the soup. I like the look of the spinach thing too. Compared to the volume you start out with Spinnach almost disapears when you cook it Looks really nice though!

I'm with everyone else in the crumbs debate. It's not like you can just get the hoover out, you have to take the sheets off and shake them out to get back to nice place you started.

.

viva · 16-09-11 01:28:05

Man I'll do putting rasperries in my bellybutton in (someone else's) bed any day, and breakfast in bed is fantastic given a proper folding tray, but yeah food sex is not really my thing either. Chocolate, whipped cream, bananas, edible panties etc - keep it in the soda shop.

Omg Bobby salmon is the easiest yummiest fish. I am super bad at cooking fish but I do this easy thing with salmon that makes me happy :

cut some into big squares, like double bite size. heat up what looks like too much (unsalted) butter, until it's really hot but not brown. cook the salmon and let it get crispy on at least 2 sides, preferably 4 sides, per piece depending on your devotion to perfection. after not too long, say 4 mins, pull em out and put on paper towel. Then deglaze the pan with white wine (Riesling is best) + liquid cream, add a squeeze of lemon, and here's the key : a handful of taragon in the sauce = yumyumyumyumyum. Season with salt and pepper, cook long enough for the cream to reduce a bit and the wine to burn off, add your salmon and cook til your perfect salmon cookedness happens, and give it to yourself as a welcome home present.

Also if that's too crazy, wrap salmon in tinfoil with some herbies and some olive oil and throw it in a preheated (toaster or normal) oven - around 175c - for like 15 mins depending on the size of the piece, it's trial and error - but eventually you will be cooking your perfect salmon.

Last edited by viva (16-09-11 01:38:01)

viva · 16-09-11 01:30:33

Also I have a secret, fresh is better I promise I know I know, but spinach is one of those (very rare) things that frozen just tastes fine and is about 100 million times less work... ok foodie gods kill me now. Then, get some frozen spinach cubes and cook them down in a little lemon and butter and add your feta or your cream or nothing at all and enjoy your delicious 10min spinach adventure.

Dannei · 16-09-11 03:50:45

blissed wrote:

I'm with everyone else in the crumbs debate. It's not like you can just get the hoover out, you have to take the sheets off and shake them out to get back to nice place you started.

You've put me in such a state of crumb-paranoia that I'm going to have to inspect my sheets before bed tonight, even though I so very rarely eat in bed.

It's funny how sometimes our most incredibly sexual experiences are with people we're not attracted to physically or emotionally or intellectually - there's this Other way, this pure sexuality

That's almost worth starting another thread for!

I'm one of these people who just doesn't understand the concept of following recipe. My idea of cooking is something along the lines of finding some mince in the freezer, selecting a pile of vegetables lying around the kitchen, adding spices "until it's right", and then having no luck trying to explain what it is if someone asks.

As for actual food ideas? I love chucking in a tin of chickpeas with bolognese sauce - makes it different, but yet it works.

moldenke · 16-09-11 03:56:03

I love cooking, and have done a lot of great things with food, but at the moment I can only remember one good piece of cooking advice:

When making oatmeal, don't forget cloves.

Yes, that's all I have for now. Most of my cooking is just throwing stuff together and hoping for the best--which means that I don't end up learning anything tangible but it's instead all in my cooking-muscle-memory.

And Viva: thank you for the frozen spinach recommendation...I think you're right about fresh being not worth the hassle. I can't remember for sure, but I think that you are right...and I will give it a try.

blissed · 16-09-11 12:53:27

Another food blog I like is simply breakfast. If you click on comments below each pic, the 1st comment will tell you what the dish is.

http://simplybreakfast.blogspot.com/

Love the angry cakes I found in Jessies tumblr http://hifructose.com/the-blog/1770-new … -hove.html

.

Last edited by blissed (16-09-11 13:20:17)

blissed · 18-09-11 00:28:35

So I've just made the short video about something I discovered about fish. You can cook it in 15 secs, preserving all the goodness. This is my fish revelation

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o4HqO-9m … ideo_title

.

moldenke · 18-09-11 02:32:42

Ha! Finally--the suspense was killing me. Looks tasty!

blissed · 19-09-11 12:06:34

I'm surprised more people aren't interested after the big build up Just lately I'm also into fresh raw finely grated ginger. You add that to pretty much any meal just before serving and it's gorgeous.

.

jane_e · 19-09-11 12:58:36

moldenke wrote:

And Viva: thank you for the frozen spinach recommendation...I think you're right about fresh being not worth the hassle. I can't remember for sure, but I think that you are right...and I will give it a try.

Ditto. I think this might be the only forum about "sex...and other stuff" where the other stuff is the relative merits of frozen and fresh spinach.

Blissed wrote:

Another food blog I like is simply breakfast. If you click on comments below each pic, the 1st comment will tell you what the dish is.
http://simplybreakfast.blogspot.com/

This, unlike 15 sec (technically 16 sec) fish cooking, made my day. I love breakfast. Especially simple and beautiful breakfast. Makes me wish I could take better pictures so I could show you all the muesli, milk and a peach I had this morning.

Blissed, you by the way, have lovely hands and your voice reminds me of that guy from Art Attack. The whole time I secretly kept hoping the next step would involve PVA glue and water.

blissed · 19-09-11 14:27:43

Thanks Jane Had a look at art attack and the guy in the video I saw sounds a bit Bill Gates whacky, so might have to do someting about that get some voice couching Edit : Actually I see what you mean a bit now I've seen another vid of him before he got too hey kids whacky http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQeFzP1HMSU

And you've given me an idea. Flour and water makes really good glue. How about using it to make impossibly high towers on a plate out of dry or salty snacks like twiglets. Bit like this but twice as high http://i284.photobucket.com/albums/ll9/ … /jenga.jpg

and then decorate with all kinds of other snacks and chocolates, perhaps having little branches coming off hung with all kinds of orderves and decorate it everywhere with LED throwies http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m6kJsdkZEIQ

That's not a bad make project and I don't think I've got too carried away either

.

Last edited by blissed (19-09-11 23:24:14)

viva · 20-09-11 02:02:50

Hehehhe Blissed why would you cook yummy already-smoked salmon! is that an English thing? Cute video though, I should make one for my frozen spinach claims.

And thank you for reminding me about simply breakfast. I for one do not like eating breakfast but I have decided I must learn because its so good for me and it makes me feel strong. Today I had toast with lemon, a little cream cheese, a handfull of basil and an egg. Slowly but surely...

blissed · 20-09-11 03:16:12

Smoked Salmon is raw and tastes disgusting I like looking at simply breakfast and seeing what I could be eating if I could be bothered to make it (While I'm eating my muesli Which just involves 2 lots of pouring and then eating. Which is all I can cope with at 11 in the morning (It's 3.10 am now

Simply breakfast ideas do end up in the shopping list though and make it to the table, but later, like one in the morning

.

blissed · 27-09-11 14:39:21

Cod & noodles

Fresh cod
Noodles
Chopped mushrooms
Extra virgin Olive oil
Soy sauce

Prep time 10 mins
Cooking time 5 min ish

Bought some fresh cod yesterday and scraped the meat off the skin (that skin is like steal!!) So put all the fleshy bits in a pan of water, added some noodles and chopped mushrooms. I heated til boiling and then simmered total time aboput 5 mins and then served and drizzled with extra virgin olive oil and a spattering of soy sauce.

That was lovely!!

viva wrote:

Today I had toast with lemon, a little cream cheese, a handfull of basil and an egg. Slowly but surely...

Actually that sounds really nice I'm gonna try that.

.

Last edited by blissed (27-09-11 14:45:52)

domC · 28-09-11 00:14:24

Blissed - I would normally be dubious about the idea of putting smoked salmon into hot water, but the way you say "gorgeous" manages to quell all of my anxieties.

viva · 28-09-11 01:22:49

I am failing breakfast I have gone from that nice experience with the basil and the lemon, to simply cream cheese on toast, to toast, to a slice of cheese, and today I had a triangle of watermelon which is the equivalent of a teaspoon of sugar and a good schwill of water. Why is this so difficult!?

In other food news, I and a few of my feck cronies will be undergoing the 30 day vegan challenge, starting in November. check it out at veganeasy.org. I'm already a fish-eating vego so it's not a huge leap for me, but I feel that 30 days without eggs (probably) wont kill me and since I nightly try to kill my friends and lover with massive amounts of cream and butter, a little bit of lightness in the ol' diet could be super beneficial. for us all.

Anyone else interested? We can post pictures of our delicious experiments.

jane_e · 28-09-11 02:04:09

viva wrote:

Anyone else interested? We can post pictures of our delicious experiments.

As soon as I finish this most amazing 10 day old goat's milk cheese I bought at the market last week I am so in. I have signed up and everything. I'm pretty confident that I will win the $200 in vegan prizes. I not really one for taking pictures, but I take food presentation pretty seriously, so I may get a few up here.

The last time I tired to go without milk and eggs I lasted approximately 6 days, but I was living in the red meat capitol of Canada at the time. Even in summer all the fruit in the store was flown (shipped?!) in from New Zealand. New Zealand!!

Viva, your first attempt at breakfast sounded awesome. I almost never deviate from muesli, yogurt, and some form of fruit. Pears are in season right now. I have sooo many crunchy pears to eat.

blissed · 28-09-11 22:40:02

domC wrote:

Blissed - I would normally be dubious about the idea of putting smoked salmon into hot water, but the way you say "gorgeous" manages to quell all of my anxieties.

It's from the heart you see it really is nice!

Viva breakfast has the time factor going against it. Weekend breakfasts should be immune though. I always have an apple and crunchy muesli.

Jane I tried vegan but things got a little blocked up so I had to switch from soy milk back to skimmed milk. Seeing pics of some good vegan recipes I could try as well would be nice.

Be nice if we could produce and eat animal protein from single cell life with no brain and no feelings of fear or pain. Then we'd get vitamin B12 and all the good fatty acids in the kindest possible way. Snails don't have a brain at all but have ganglia (groupings of neurons) that distribute the control of the organism to different areas. So I think I'd eat a snail with a clear conscience My original motivation for being vegy is that if I wouldn't eat a dog or cat then I shouldn't eat any other animal that's capable of the same feelings. Eating fish is a kind of compromise really and they seem very minimally emotional. Nemo is definitely unrepresentative of your average fish I think

.

#1 14-09-11 04:12:40

yum yum the food thread

#2 14-09-11 10:33:11

Re: yum yum the food thread

#3 14-09-11 10:34:24

Re: yum yum the food thread

#4 14-09-11 23:05:25

Re: yum yum the food thread

#5 15-09-11 01:31:00

Re: yum yum the food thread

#6 15-09-11 03:08:34

Re: yum yum the food thread

#7 15-09-11 06:49:23

Re: yum yum the food thread

#8 15-09-11 11:44:24

Re: yum yum the food thread

#9 16-09-11 01:28:05

Re: yum yum the food thread

#10 16-09-11 01:30:33

Re: yum yum the food thread

#11 16-09-11 03:50:45

Re: yum yum the food thread

#12 16-09-11 03:56:03

Re: yum yum the food thread

#13 16-09-11 12:53:27

Re: yum yum the food thread

#14 18-09-11 00:28:35

Re: yum yum the food thread

#15 18-09-11 02:32:42

Re: yum yum the food thread

#16 19-09-11 12:06:34

Re: yum yum the food thread

#17 19-09-11 12:58:36

Re: yum yum the food thread

#18 19-09-11 14:27:43

Re: yum yum the food thread

#19 20-09-11 02:02:50

Re: yum yum the food thread

#20 20-09-11 03:16:12

Re: yum yum the food thread

#21 27-09-11 14:39:21

Re: yum yum the food thread

#22 28-09-11 00:14:24

Re: yum yum the food thread

#23 28-09-11 01:22:49

Re: yum yum the food thread

#24 28-09-11 02:04:09

Re: yum yum the food thread

#25 28-09-11 22:40:02

Re: yum yum the food thread

Board footer