Cooking Item This is the cooking item, a noncontentious place to discuss food and drink. Gourmands are welcome. As Julia Childs would say, "Bon Apetit!".24 responses total.
I finally perfected the recipe for Gjetost fondue. Note, if you are on a
cholesterol or fat reduction diet, move right along.
100 g heavy cream
70 g dark rum
20 g sodium citrate
50 g light brown sugar
240 g Gjetst
15 g butter, salted
Nutmeg
Heat 100 g of heavy cream and 70 g of dark rum
Whisk in 20 g of Sodium Citrate and 50 g of light brown sugar
Slowly whisk in 240 g of Gjetst, roughly a fifth at a time, blending after
each addition until fully dissoved
Add 15 g of salted butter, and whisk to blend
Grate 1/4 of a nut of nutmeg and whisk to blend thoroughly, optionally a bit
of cinamon
Serve with tart apples, pears, crusty bread
Note that there is a cooking conference, as well, for those interested (j cooking). We can link this item there at some point, if that is okay.
I just had (2) soy dogs for lunch with fake American cheese, chopped green onions and some delicious Clausen's relish. The toaster oven was used for extra crispiness.
Resp:2 Yes, there is. However it is essentially abandon, and there are only about a dozen of active participants in Agora. Why thin the already dwindling paticipation by sending the discussion elsewhere, where it will rapidly die of loneliness, rocking in the corner, mumbling to itself? Except (perhaps) Coop, the other conferences are probably verging on irrelevant. Many have not had more than one post per year since the start of this decade.
I can link this item as well as the one from the past quarter [as a fw], if you're interested, dtk. That way, we will always have them where we can access them in the future if/when we want to expand on something that was already posted.
Resp:5 That makes sense. Please do so.
If you like cooking and go to the cooking conference, you might find more discussions of interest and maybe even feel like reviving some discussions. Or, maybe we should just throw in the towel because agora is almost dead, too?
Resp:7 I am not suggesting killing the BBS or the Agora; rather, by centralizing activity, we can help build upon a strong core. I would like to see discussion continue on a lot of topics that have waned (there used to be interesting discussions in Jellyware and Cooking). I like the idea of linking to those non-seasonal conferences, because they provide continuity, while keeping the visibility in the place where people spend most of their time. By analogy, you may have your factory and your repair shop and your big store in the suburbs, but please keep a storefront in hte CBD, to remind people your company is still relevant. Agora is the CBD, the other conferences are suburbs and ghost towns.
Okay, lets's centralize all activity on agora. That's not working currently, so I'm sure it work well going forward. We've always entered items in agora that get linked to speciality conferences. So entering more such items in agora isn't doing anything new.
There is a limited amount of interest. For the time being, that interest is mostly centralized on the Agora. It is dwindling. Linking the items to other conferences would probably be a net neutral on fostering interaction. Moving discussion to other conferences would not only dilute the interaction, but probably reduce opportunities for interaction, since people will participate in hte interaction where they are, but will probably not go out of their way to find other places, without significant driver to those other places, and probably reducing their interaction in the original place by a comparable amount. Instead of one active place, you'll have a dozen nearly-dead places. This is probably moot, though, since it is about the distribution of interactions between the people already here, without a plan for how to bring in new participants beyond the dozen or so regulars. I hope the new board will show the creativity and decisiveness to address this. I hope the BBS does not become obsolete, but I am not holding my breath.
Fair watcher and moderator, please link this item to coop, since it now discusses the ongoing vitality of hte BBS, its structure and its leadership.
IMO what is preventing momentum in areas outside of Agora: Many of the items outside Agora have last post dates from almost 20 years ago. Also a lack of interested users. People have moved on to Facebook and Twitter unfortunaly. There are interesting aspects to this system. I just don't see anyone reaching out to obtain and engage new users.
A cooking item does not belong in the coop cf.
[This is now item #281 in the cooking conference. We can get back to discussing issues relating to food and cooking. :-) ]
Are we "allowed" to discuss cooking here without fear of nastiness? If so, I'd like to say that I tried this recipe and was very pleased: Winter Vegetable Medley with Paella-Style Orzo http://www.vegetariantimes.com/recipe/winter-vegetable-medley-with-paella - style-orzo/
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Boiled turnip is nice.
For 3 years straight my work lunch consisted of pickled turnips, pickles (cucumber), homemade Baba Ganoush, some cheese and pita. I wish my wife would make some Baba Ganoush but she might be permanently sick of making it for me.
Sounds wonderful. I'm sure it tastes wonderful, too. Right now eating a smaller variant of -- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tabriz_k%C3%B6fte with flatbread and a side of diced cucumbers and tomatoes in balsamic vinegar and olive oil. Quite a few cooking traditions mixed in one meal.
#19 Can that be with a meat substitute like falafel or breadcrumbs?
Re #20:
Falafel is a recipe of its own. I do think you can just omit any kind of meat
from any koofteh and increase the rice and chickpeas instead. Or make smaller
ones. Mixing in an egg, if that's allowed in your diet, will help the material
stick together nicely without meat.
Or you can be surer that the paste is balanced in stickiness with this recipe
-- http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/veggiescotcheggs_89967
which is free of eggs in the paste, if you don't want eggs at all. Then inside
each, instead of the boiled egg, wrap a soft date ('rotab')
-- http://www.moshkandate.com/images/date3.jpg
and a dried prune
-- http://atc-center.com/image/cache/data/martimages/b26-500x500.jpg
The richest kind of koofteh has all of these inside
-- http://is.gd/V1bBXy
-- (from http://is.gd/PZqn3W)
You can pick and choose for your diet. The only requirement is for the balls
to not come apart when being cooked in broth. (If they do you'll get a watery
kind of porridge, I guess :-P)
Thanks!
re #21 You can pick and choose for your diet. The only requirement is for the balls I've just about enough, sir
There's a joke about a local fox who was seen running through the village one day. "Why are you running, Mr. Fox," the villagers asked. "There're hunters out there looking for foxes with three balls," said the panting fox. "But do you have three balls?" "Nope." "What do you have to fear then?" "They shoot first, count after."
You have several choices: