Things you wish you could say

[casportpony]

Your passive aggressive behavior is annoying.

 

[Bonkerelli]

Oh yeah, but you're definitely not the first or only thread hijacker around here. Some of our fellow BYC flock mates are masters.

Haha.. nay.. my style really. Here for fun a learning.

 

[BigBlueHen53]

That sounds amazing!! I’m usually too nervous to modify recipes

We need like a cooking class thread or something

Go to "Any Home Bakers Here?" thread.

 

[azurbanclucker]

Go to "Any Home Bakers Here?" thread.

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/any-home-bakers-here.921333/

I believe?

 

[Bonkerelli]

That is correct...

https://www.backyardchickens.com/threads/any-home-bakers-here.921333/

I believe?

 

[ShrekDawg]

The first time you make something, follow the recipe. Once you know how it's supposed to taste, then you can start messing with the recipe. After a decade or so of experience, then you can look at a recipe an know where you want to tweak it and where you can substitute other ingredients.

Yeah that makes sense! I don’t really use recipes most of the time so usually my experiments are just trying different things and seeing what tastes good or whatever rather than tweaking one. Although I do want to start using recipes so I can get some more ideas.

It's often best to make it according to the recipe more than once, until you are comfortable with the normal way, and then start modifying.

It's also good if your first experiments are on small batches, so don't quadruple the recipe the first time you try a given change!

(And you might already be modifying recipes without quite realizing you do, because some "modifications" are really simple and obvious.)

Examples of modifications that usually work fine:

Scrambled eggs can have bits of stuff added (chopped vegetables, bits of cooked meat, etc.)

Any recipe with chopped bits of meat or vegetables will usually work with a different meat (chicken, beef, pork, even shrimp). Vegetables can often be swapped too, although some take more or less time to cook (carrots vs. mushrooms) or have very different amounts of liquid (tomatoes vs. broccoli). If you're making a soup and it will simmer for hours, neither point matters, but if you're making a stir-fry or a pizza you might have to consider those points.

Any recipe with spices has the potential to be good with other spices-- whether that is adding cloves to a Molasses Cookie recipe (it already had cinnamon and ginger), or swapping curry powder for chili powder, or just adding a little bit more garlic to something. Sometimes I open spice jars and sniff until I find one that seems appetizing at the time, especially if I have meat and vegetables in a pan and I know it needs "something" else.

Any baked recipe that has chunks of nuts will probably be fine with a different kind of nut. It might be fine with no nuts, or with dried fruit, or with chocolate chips, or with small candies.

A recipe with one kind of gooey sauce (gravy, chinese sauce, curry sauce, etc) will often taste very different but still good with a different kind of sauce.

Any recipe that is served on a starch (rice, noodles, potatoes, bread) may be good with a different starch.

Any hot cereal recipe can be good with sweet things or chunky things stirred in (like oatmeal with nuts and honey, or with brown sugar and apple and cinnamon).

This is all so helpful!! Thank you!! Also OMG pretty sure @Overo Mare does the sniffing thing too! I thought it was so odd yet fascinating!

Go to "Any Home Bakers Here?" thread.

Thanks!! I’ll have to check it out!

 

[Painted Calls]

This is all so helpful!! Thank you!! Also OMG pretty sure @Overo Mare does the sniffing thing too! I thought it was so odd yet fascinating!

I season everything by smell. If I ever lose my sense of smell, I won't be able to cook anymore.

 

[electrycmonk]

Fluff!?

/cue “buzzer sound effect”

(X)


Nope. Try again.

 

[ShrekDawg]

I season everything by smell. If I ever lose my sense of smell, I won't be able to cook anymore.

Do you sniff the spice jars to find “the one”?

 

[ShrekDawg]

/cue “buzzer sound effect”

(X)


Nope. Try again.

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