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Genuinely, I don’t know how else to get the word out, but I feel like if your home-cooked dinners don’t taste right, you're missing either paprika, sugar, butter, or chicken bouillon.

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saw this on a post about breakfast and it sounds like a real good time. totes gonna have to try it, thanks tumblr user @sprig-of-rosemary!

#recipe #recipes #sweet potato #breakfast

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#these look like an exceptionally good time #raspberry lemon bars #recipe

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Here’s an enlarged response to the “Reblog if you know how to cook, even if it’s just ramen” post…

Yup, I can cook. Pretty well, too, though Food Network has nothing to fear. My preference is for one-pot stuff like stews, daubes, eintopfs, tajines, chilis, goulashes, curries - oh, and sauces for pasta (there’s a really simple one below.)

That way all the peeling, chopping and stirring is done before the lid goes on and the stove is turned RIGHT DOWN. Now wash up. Leaving a clean kitchen will make you just as popular as being the one who did the cooking. Possibly more so. Then go do something else for a couple of hours - TV, gaming, Tumblr -  until it’s time for dinner. Check once in a while (set a timer if you have to) to make sure things haven’t gone dry*, give it a stir to make sure things haven’t stuck to the bottom.

*We have a Doufeu (from French doux “soft/gentle” feu “fire/heat”)…

…which is a casserole with a recess in the lid that holds water. The difference in temperature makes the steam inside re-condense and drip back down to baste the food. It will take hours and hours to boil dry, because of physics - which means we can go out for a walk, and if that November walk involves a local pub that’s just had a nice new wood-burning stove installed in the corner, well… :-)

New Le Creusets like the one above are hideously expensive, but older Le Cousances like this one pop up at garage sales and are well worth finding.

We have this design, in orange enamel, which @dduane found on eBay. Everyone goes on about putting ice in the lid recess, but since it becomes water in no time I think the ice-cubes are used just to show better in photos.

Forget about the whizzkids on Food Network. Ultra-Simple Cooking 101 is not rocket science. Boil water in a pot, put chopped meat and/or veggies into the pot**, add a bit of salt and pepper, put the lid on, turn the heat down and check once in a while until the things in the pot are soft enough to eat.

**Lightly frying things like meat and onions before they go into the boiling water makes them even nicer, but that’s Ultra-Simple Cooking 102. Traditional Irish stew (depending on whose granny you ask) doesn’t even bother.

They will have mingled their flavours together. They will smell nice. They will taste nice. If there’s a lot of liquid, you have soup. (Throw rice or small pasta like orzo into it for 10 mins.) If there’s less liquid, you have stew (buy some crusty bread for gravy-dunking and plate-wiping.)

Either way, you have cooked a thing all by yourself. You know what’s in it. There are no dodgy additives or stretchers that belong in a chemistry set. Eat it and feel mentally and physically satisfied! Then freeze the leftovers (if there are any. I sometimes have to cook extra so there will be.)

Here’s that really, really simple pasta sauce:

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#recipes #pasta #stew

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Homemade 5 Ingredient Sour Fruit Gummies

#recipes #gummies #candy

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#lamb stew #recipes #yuuuuum

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my greatest idea ever :creamed spinach shin ramyun

#recipes #noodles #cream cheese

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#holy shit #gonna have to find a replacement for the creamer but #👀 #looks great! #recipes #coffee #coffee loaf #cake!

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#apple cake #invisible apple cake #cake!

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caption: “The Golden Sandwich, made 95% out of aid package contents, 5% with love and resilience 🍉🚨”

the link from the bio ⬅️⤴️

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Best Easy Homemade French Toast

#recipe #french toast

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hey. dont be sad. combine gochujang + soy sauce + sesame oil + toasted sesame seeds and mix with cooked rice. add a fried egg on top and serve with nori. ok?

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WAIT I SAW YOUR TAGS- There's a cooking website that has instructions for everything????

I know right???

Honestly I haven't explored EVERYTHING in the site, but they do link a lot of interesting information in the recipes that pleases my anxiety riddled brain

I found them with this Miso Ramen recipe

and when I went down to "how to soft boiled eggs" i cried because I always fuck that up

and then the vegetable prep has links on how to cut them!!!

I tried the recipe btw and it was delicious ✌😎✨

#ramen #recipes

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at first glance it looked like he had a trans flag pin on so i decided to make this silly little image

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Fortified by the powers of Alchemy, I have transformed

Ingredients™ into Soup™

Now my Cozy™ Meter is reaching God Levels

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#you’re so right #soft boiled eggs