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Those of you who've used both, what do I need to know about the difference?

I read that garlic pressed hard by the back of a knife releases oils, but then some recipes just say to chop. Are there any preferred ways or does it depend on the dish being cooked?

Still calibrating the Lynx
Dinner was carrot mint salad, shoshito peppers, and #kenjilopezalt BBQ chicken. Note to self - turn the heat down on the gas grill...
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I had a really good rigatoni putanesca today. I don't often make pasta at home for some reason and I'd like to change that.

What are your favorite pasta sauces? Ones that fly under the radar, ones that are quick any easy when you don't really feel like cooking, ones that you make to impress a date... let's hear em all!

Just wanted some recommendations for salty snack foods for a grab and go drawer for my partner. My partner has trouble going up and down stairs often and needs a lot of salt in her diet so I was thinking some homemade beef jerky and trail mix with salted nuts. Surely there's a ton of great options out there!

TL;DR

Please share your go to homemade salty snack so I can stock a snack drawer for my partner :)

I've been wanting to try this for a while now, and me thinks this is the last time I try it, heh. That was a heck of a lot more work than I thought it was going to be (Tried to use a mixer to help out my broken joints...Nope, that don't work too well, 🤣 ).

Anyway, I was just too sore to think about how I was going to cook all this up, so kind of out of order, missing a few things I wanted to add, and a little overdone in places...Meh! Still tasty.

Things I added to it...

Gnocchi ( Mastering GNOCCHI | How to Make Perfect Potato Gnocchi Pasta, what I used to make the gnocchi).

Zucchini sliced in quarters, and chopped up to about 1/4th inch thick. Onion, garlic, salt, pepper, fresh basil, parsley Rhubarb in place of the lemon, white wine, butter, and grated romano cheese.

My next task will be making an aloo paratha with the left over potatoes made as my herbed potatoes, but that'll have to wait. Pain no likey cleaning right away. So have to wait til the pain subsides. Can't wait, 😆

Someone recently donated 5 twenty pound turkeys to us. It took a few days for the first one to thaw. I broke it down and got 8 pounds of meat for canning and made a three day stock out of the rest, which just came out of the canner. Four more turkeys to go.

Also grilled some napa cabbage and made a salad with that.

One of my favorite breads.

These cookies were a happy surprise. The plum butter complements the butter beautifully. My recipe for the plum butter cookies

Followed this open-source recipe! Super easy and better than anything from the store.

What pasta machine would you recommend? I'm looking for something very durable.

As the title says. I have an older black and decker rice cooker. It's been working ok but it always burns the bottom. Does anybody here have a brand they recommend?

I love lamb, but I don’t think I do it justice. Typically, I just sear it in a pan like you would with a steak. Are there any good recipes or go-to tricks for cooking lamb shoulder chops? Please let me know.

If the sole purpose of the mangoes is to make a smoothie, should I freeze skinned and cubed up, or blend it then freeze?

I usually start with Food Wishes, Serious Eats, or the New York Times. Julia Child for French food, Just One Cookbook for Japanese food. Budget Bytes when the bank account is looking a little thin. Dessert Person when I have a lot of time and want to knock the socks off my friends.

seasoning: garlic, madras curry powder, cumin, smoked paprika, salt, pepper, oregano (and other mixed herbs)

cross-posted from: https://yiffit.net/post/280723

Not sure if I need to elaborate. I'm sick of having to scroll through an entire fucking novella just to find the recipe when I do a search for something.

Finding a good recipe isn’t as simple as it should be. Photos can’t always be trusted and estimated cooking times can be a bit too optimistic for the everyda...

Just bought way too many green onions so I can make ramen. What are some other good uses?

Saw my old foodnetwork hero AB disgrace himself on a commercial for snake oil brain sharpening pills. Such a pity to see someone that has a keen scientific mind turn his back on sound scientific logic for a quick buck. He knows this is garbage and it preys on his own fan base and the elderly. Suck on a cheesecloth sack of uncooked Rocky mountain oysters Alton.