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05-29-2013 , 03:09 PM
I had to check the wiki too...haha
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05-30-2013 , 06:56 AM
Hey guys, I'm going to be eating a lot of fish over the next cpl of weeks. Goal is to eat simply and healthy, proteins + veggies

I was looking up some methods for cooking fish and poaching sounds pretty cool. I'm going to use this opportunity to learn how to cook fish well. Do any of you guys have experience with this? It sounds a bit overwhelming.

http://culinaryarts.about.com/od/sto...rtbouillon.htm

http://culinaryarts.about.com/od/fis.../poachfish.htm

these are the two sites I'm gonna be following. Any suggestions would be great

Anyone know what white wine does for the bouillon/fish stock? I'm not going to use it this time around but I am curious.
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05-30-2013 , 10:51 AM
Wine adds acid and lots of flavor.
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05-30-2013 , 11:13 AM
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Make ravioli it's super easy to do. You don't even need to cut the pasta sheets.
ya this is the one thing I've made so far (Christmas time). Turned out ok. Made a butternut squash ravioli, in brown butter and sage. Was deelish but seasonal. I really thought I would take to pasta making and make it all the time but I don't really eat much pasta these days; not training as much as in past - so not requiring the carb loads and have gotten generally lazy.

But I like got challenged, so - it's bugging me now that the time is drawing near. This weekend will make something w/pics. Ravioli I think for sure one of the dishes.
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05-31-2013 , 08:50 PM
My roommate is making like 15-20 lb of german potato salad for a party we're having tomorrow. He asked what it was missing from last year and I told him seasoning, aka salt and pepper, and suggested he salt the onions while sauteing and put a little in the potato water.

Of course he does neither. To his onion/vinegar/bacon fat/mustard mixture he adds a full tablespoon of cayenne pepper. I was like, NOOOOOOOO as everything went in slow motion as he dumped it in.

On a scale of it will be fine to it will be completely ****ed, where is his potato salad? I was like, there's no place for heat in German potato salad but he didn't listen. JFC
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05-31-2013 , 10:02 PM
What kind of party,with two dudes living together needs 20lbs of potato salad? Also just rig it into a mayo based one, imo.
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05-31-2013 , 10:06 PM


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05-31-2013 , 10:10 PM
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What kind of party,with two dudes living together needs 20lbs of potato salad?
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05-31-2013 , 10:22 PM

Last edited by ninetynine99; 05-31-2013 at 10:31 PM. Reason: German potato salad with heat sounds fine. And by "German potato salad with heat", I mean German potato salad with cayenne.
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05-31-2013 , 11:36 PM
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What kind of party,with two dudes living together needs 20lbs of potato salad?
One that's been a tradition for 10 years with 50 expected guests and 20 gallons of home brew on tap.

I guess we'll see what happens, I thought the reactions would be more horrific.
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06-01-2013 , 12:36 AM
Get some sugar in there, it'll be spicy but 20 lbs is two hotel pans full so it shouldn't be unmanageably hot.
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06-01-2013 , 01:59 AM
knives, I think the play was to scoop as much cayenne out that you could after the ****up.
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06-01-2013 , 02:48 AM
Knives: if you said "I put 1/8 tablespoon cayenne in 2 lbs of potato salad" nobody would think anything of it. No big deal at all.

Syous: poaching is soooooo easy. Just get some liquid going, add some flavors you like, and stick the fish in there for a while. Tons of latitude as far as liquid, seasonings, and timing. Very hard to screw up.
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06-01-2013 , 05:12 AM
diablo - cool. Is making a bouillon first necessary or can I Just boil water and throw herbs + seasonings in there

Also ignore the photo posts, wrong thread lol
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06-01-2013 , 05:55 AM
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Wow, flawless reference post! A+
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06-02-2013 , 02:34 PM
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This is a party we throw every year with a German theme. No one showed up in lederhosin this year unfortunately, usually someone does.



The German potato salad turned out awesome. The cayenne dump had no effect, I didn't even notice it. Usually we use only red potatoes but this year we used a combo of red/new potatoes and parboiled them the night before. Then we baked like 3 lbs of bacon until crispy and put it in th

Last edited by knivesout; 06-02-2013 at 02:54 PM.
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06-02-2013 , 02:51 PM
Knives,

Looks awesome.

How do you measure IBUs?
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06-02-2013 , 03:05 PM
My roommate is the master chemist/brewer, so I'm not 100% sure, but I know he uses a program that calculates it based on the amount of hops, time brewed, etc. The IBU was pretty low on these beers. My new favorite is Grand Teton Lost Continent, which I think has an IBU around 80 and is 8%.
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06-04-2013 , 12:03 AM
Can someone point me to a good recipe for baking bone-in chicken thighs?
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06-04-2013 , 12:05 AM
I use this recipe quite a bit.
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06-04-2013 , 05:18 AM
While that recipe looks pretty tasty, it is not baking.
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06-04-2013 , 05:35 AM
I make a recipe similar to this regularly.
Barbecued Oven-Baked Chicken Thighs
I don't like all that liquid so wouldn't use the vinegar personally, just make a kind of BBQ paste using ketchup/b.suger etc and smear it all over the chicken.
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06-04-2013 , 07:28 AM
What I'm really looking for (and I should have been more clear) is a time / temp schedule. Yesterday I did 375 for 35 min, 5 min on broil and ended up with charred outside and bloody raw inside. So there's no way 350 @ 40 is going to be enough. Does this sound crazy to anyone? Is my oven temp off? Do I need to wrap in tinfoil?
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06-04-2013 , 07:39 AM
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What I'm really looking for (and I should have been more clear) is a time / temp schedule. Yesterday I did 375 for 35 min, 5 min on broil and ended up with charred outside and bloody raw inside. So there's no way 350 @ 40 is going to be enough. Does this sound crazy to anyone? Is my oven temp off? Do I need to wrap in tinfoil?
I sear off each side for about 2-3 minutes each, then in a 425 oven for 25-30 minutes, depending on how big they are.
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06-04-2013 , 07:44 AM
I use this recipe a lot. They go 475 for 35-40 mins. I pull mine at 37 mins for my oven. Ive done chicken thighs with a mustard crust without the vegetables and used the same cooking temp and time.

http://www.cookscountry.com/recipes/...etables/32806/
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