Archive for the tag 'cooking'

Dec 03 2007

The Urban Peasant Died

Published by Phillip under food & drink, phillip's room

I just read that James Barber died. He was the host of a cooking show called The Urban Peasant. I learned to cook by watching his show. It’s one of the few good things I ever got from watching TV.
I watched more than a few episodes where he was in the middle of making something, [...]

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Oct 31 2007

How To Turn Cheap, Tough Steak Into Expansive, Tender Steak

Published by Jody under food & drink

I have no idea what a “Gucci” is, but the technique described in How to Turn Cheap “Choice” Steaks into Gucci “Prime” Steaks works on the cheap steaks I’ve tried it with.
Massively salt your steaks 15 min - 1 hour before grilling.
That’s it. It should look like this (image from that website):

Don’t use table [...]

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Jan 18 2006

Cauliflower Popcorn Video

Jody and Caitlyn decided to make cauliflower popcorn (6mins, 9mb) by roughly following this recipe. The result in the best episode of Sunday Morning Scoff ever.
Jody had this to say about it: “It was a fun experiment. We’ll make another video someday, although I don’t know of what.” (Music by Greg Brown.)
Update: I’ve been J-Walked [...]

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Dec 26 2005

How to Cook Spaghetti Squash

I’ve never been a fan of squash, but this stuff is fantastic. I love it. Can’t get your kids to eat their veggies? Serve them up some spaghetti squash, don’t tell them it’s not spaghetti, and then watch them eat it up. All you do is cut the spaghetti squash in half (which is the [...]

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Nov 06 2005

How Not to Make Fish Cakes

In this, the second episode of Sunday Morning Scoff (2.5mb, 3.5mins), we take our hand at making another popular Newfoundland breakfast item: fish cakes. Unlike the first episode where all we did was cook some toutons (then eat them), in this episode we actually make the fish cakes. Unfortunately, they don’t turn out too good [...]

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Oct 23 2005

How to Cook Toutons

This is the first cooking video posted to Steel White Table. It’s called Toutons: The Steak of Breads (Google Video), or This Ain’t No Martha Stewart Touton. It was recorded this morning with my friend, Mike. Jenny was behind the camera. It’s the first in a series of cooking videos called Sunday Morning Scoff with [...]

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Aug 08 2004

What To Cook

Published by Jody under food & drink

Cooking By Numbers…
are you ready to cook?…..Get clicking on what you’ve got and we’ll show you what you can cook…..Don’t worry, Skills By Numbers will make you look great in the kitchen….. Can’t make up your mind about what to cook? Click I feel lucky as well.
It gives you recipes based on 50 food [...]

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