Gravy's Cooking Thread

I've been eating a lot of Quinoa and Lentils (cooked in a rice cooker) lately.

I like lentils, but I have trouble finding that happy medium between hard and mush.

warning on the Quinoa Lentil rice cooker sub-in... The quinoa can come out kind of dry so you need to spruce it up with a fairly well bound pan sauce or something. The lentils come out Al Dente for the most part if cooked like standard rice in combination with the quinoa.

I have a rice cooker straight from japan that plays music when it's done, it's my girlfriends, I find it hilarious but it actually does a great job.

You should try this. No kidding, it's excellent. I think I've posted it here before, but take it again.

Basmati is one of my favorite rices.

I grew up not liking pasta myself, it made me sick to my stomach and got me in trouble a lot for not finishing my plate, my dad still forced me to eat it though.

Now I sub it out for vegetable pasta or Julienned Zucchini

pasta or potatoes > rice for my starch of choice. I'm a European-decended fatty, I like my potatoes and noodles, rice is too annoying to eat. It has it's place occasionally, but I don't eat it often.

I'm a huge fan of julienned zucchini, it's a fairly neutral flavor and goes great with a butter oil sauce and takes literally no time to cook really. A quick sautee is all it takes to soften them up.

I don't use a julienne peeler, just a nice knife. The peeler seems smart though, I'll have to check it out.

Better than the coconut whodunit.

My kids gave me ingredients to make something tonight, so we ended up with shredded potatoes as pancakes with brussel sprouts, onion, and garlic with an egg binder deep fried, and a beef gravy over top with some sprinkled cheese. Roughly poutine. Loving it. Almost ready to eat.

a_skeleton_03_sl said:

My wife once hid zucchini in brownies and frosted them so I couldn't see.....

I now have trust issues.

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Zucchini bread is delicious man, 1,800x better than banana bread.

You shut your whore mouth.

Sorry, I'm not sure where that came from. Zucc bread is pretty bomb, but a good banana bread is amazing. Unless they intentionally fuck it up with nuts, then it is a tossup of nut-fuckery.

I made turkey tetrazzini for the first time tonight, and damned if it didn't come out fantastic.

Recipe, or I will pillage your wife's pantie drawer.