General Chat Thread II

It may be a long shot but I got a recipe here for chunky chocolate chip cookies a while back and for the life of me I can't find it again. It was a very popular post with lots of people making them, does anyone have a clue what one I'm talking about?

Toulouse wrote: »

This one? https://touch.boards.ie/thread/2055337536/1

They’re amazing!

That's the one, my kids and myself thank you. My waistline however.....

I keep getting Facebook ads for some meal prep service. Or kept until I gave the 'never show me this ad again' command.

To start with, I dislike those services for the vast amount of single use plastic waste they generate, let alone whatever food waste is involved in providing Instagram-perfect prepped ingredients. But the ad is based on the "useless husband/boyfriend can start cooking for his missus by using this" trope of advertising, which I especially hate.

And Facebook has the most advanced ad-targetting options possible, so any firm that thinks they're trying to guilt trip guys who don't know how to cook for their girlfriends/wifes by targetting someone that Facebook *knows* is in to cooking and more importantly, doesn't have and never will have a girlfriend or wife, suggests abject laziness. Just when they're trying to target abjectly lazy people! :pac:

Gloomtastic! wrote: »

In my decades-long search for the perfect garlic press, today I bought this.



Basically, you cut the top and tail off a bulb of garlic, pop it into the red silicon tube and roll it a couple of times to peel the skin off. Then you wet the dish and grate the garlic bulb to a pulp, then use the brush to remove the pulp. When you finish you can then stick it in the dishwasher. All for €20.

The silicon tube is worth the money by itself. The hours I’ve spent peeling garlic. All gone in seconds now.

I posted about that in the Kitchen Gadgets/Tools thread last year and find it very good for garlic and ginger.

Recliner wrote: »

The thought of eating cold mashed potato turns my stomach.

If we've had a roast dinner then my lads want mashed potato in their sandwiches in school the next day, even happier if we've gravy to spread on too. All cold. I don't know how they like it, didn't get it from me

for the whole journey from Clare back to cork a week ago I only saw one and that was right by my home house just outside ennis.
Might be a tad early

Faith wrote: »

I shall try and be patient then!

But on the topic of spuds, has anyone else found they're shīte quality at the moment? I sent Mr Faith out to buy a bag on Monday and he didn't look too closely at them. Came home and I looked and half of them very visibly mouldy/blighty. We had to throw them all out, there were inedible. I bought a new bag yesterday - totally different variety and scrutinised the exteriors carefully - and they were all manky inside when I started to cut them up. Ended up throwing them all out too! Is this because we've had such a wet May or am I just unlucky?!

I haven't noticed really.
But it is the end of the season for "old" potatoes. They are as old as they can be as we wait for the new season potatoes.
Same way, from mid summer to autumn, apples tend to be really crappy - just hanging around too long.

My sister has been raving about Hello Fresh for weeks now and sent me a voucher to get a box so I ordered 3 meals off them. They were delivered today and the company are not filling me with confidence. They sent an email to say that they had to change the meals I ordered due to 'delivery issues' but I wasn't ordering caviar, it was beef burgers and pork pasta. To make things worse they didn't give me any recipe cards so I don't actually know what I'm supposed to be making with the new ingredients.

Yeah the customer rep I was speaking to is raising a complaint with them about it but to be honest I'm just gonna complain with my feet (so to speak) and just not order from them again. They gave us a credit for the 2 meals they messed up but if they can't get their first impression right then I won't ever have confidence in them again.
Especially now that we made the first meal last night and it wasn't anything special. Might be useful for people who aren't used to cooking maybe but there was a ton of plastic waste as everything was packaged individually and it wasn't any easier for me than just getting the ingredients in my weekly shop. So there's not really any benefit to me other than trying a different recipe.

Faith wrote: »

New potatoes.

It's my first summer back in Ireland in a long time and I've been dreaming about steaming some gorgeous floury new potatoes - you know, the kind you buy from a mystery van at the side of the road. But I haven't seen them anywhere, and shops don't seem to be stocking them. Am I too early in the year?

I got some leaving Waterford las Sunday around lunchtime, along with some strawberries. Potatoes were nice but waxy rather than flowery. Would prefer flowery too.

igCorcaigh wrote: »

BBQ is a thing these days, so I'm wondering.

I don't have a garden. My oven is banjaxed. My kitchen is tiny.

But, if I could get a small George Foreman type thing... Would it be good for making fast roast/grilled veggies like aubergine or courgette? Would it work for that?

I love roast Mediterranean vegetables, but avoid using the oven. And trying to fry them doesn't work so well. They just stew in the water that comes out and the texture is a bit limp. I'd like chargrilled.

Cooking for one person.

Something like this? Or is it too small for making vegetables?

https://www.harveynorman.ie/small-appliances/small-cooking-appliances/health-grills-en/george-foreman-grills/george-foreman-small-fit-grill--25800--black.html

If money isn't an issue something like this could be got cheaper i'm sure. https://www.amazon.co.uk/Electric-Countertop-Stainless-Nonstick-Commercial/dp/B087X328XR
Also Aldi were supposed to sell a Pizza maker which folds out into a griddle pan and hot plate the other day but it was not in stock so it should go on sale in the next few weeks with a bit of luck. https://www.aldi.co.uk/ambiano-pizza-maker/p/703729393101801