What's new
By:
USCHO Fan Forum

This is a sample guest message. Register a free account today to become a member! Once signed in, you'll be able to participate on this site by adding your own topics and posts, as well as connect with other members through your own private inbox!

  • The USCHO Fan Forum has migrated to a new plaform, xenForo. Most of the function of the forum should work in familiar ways. Please note that you can switch between light and dark modes by clicking on the gear icon in the upper right of the main menu bar. We are hoping that this new platform will prove to be faster and more reliable. Please feel free to explore its features.

USCHO Cooks: Open Your Mystery Basket.

Status
Not open for further replies.
Re: USCHO Cooks: Open Your Mystery Basket.

If donuts aren't deep-fried, they're just round little cakes. Enough with the "baked donuts". That's CAKE. In a different shape. There. I said it.
 
Re: USCHO Cooks: Open Your Mystery Basket.

When do I have to refrigerate baked goods that contain cream cheese? I see stuff that has cream cheese in it out in room temp all the time, but it seems to me it should be chilled.
 
Re: USCHO Cooks: Open Your Mystery Basket.

I swore I wasn't going to freeze apples this year, but.... my mom mentioned maybe an apple tart or two might be nice for Thanksgiving. And since there's good apples available right now (at least 4 orchards at the market) and there won't be at Thanksgiving, really, I had no choice, right? At least I didn't buy a bushel. There are so many kinds to choose from. I got Cortland and Secor (??? not Secord :) had never heard of them before, but they're apparently tart). What do people put in their pies, etc? I don't like baked apples, so I have no idea what people prefer, but it seems a mix of sweet and tart would be ideal to cover the bases.

and I made <a href="http://www.tartineandapronstrings.com/2012/08/02/fudge-brownies/">these brownies</a> yesterday. Very good, but not sure if they're better than <a href="http://www.kingarthurflour.com/recipes/brownies-tannenbaum-recipe">these</a>, which are my go-to for plain brownies.

btw, am I the only one that hates Honeycrisp? People get so effing excited about those and I think they're disgusting.
 
Last edited:
Re: USCHO Cooks: Open Your Mystery Basket.

Granny smith is OK for pie but my all time favorite in pie is Macoun. YUM!! I can't eat apples raw- allergy- but love them cooked.
 
Re: USCHO Cooks: Open Your Mystery Basket.

jen said:
btw, am I the only one that hates Honeycrisp? People get so effing excited about those and I think they're disgusting.
Click to expand...

I like them well enough, but prefer some other apples. As for the new hybrids that have been put out there, like Honeycrisp, I prefer the SweeTango.
 
Re: USCHO Cooks: Open Your Mystery Basket.

http://foodspin.deadspin.com/what-i...en-paranoia-america-1651306716/+AlbertBurneko

Love it. Especially this passage:
Cutting back on refined carbohydrates, booze, and calories is smart; subsequently attributing your improved health to the elimination of wheat gluten from your diet is dumb. If adopting a no-throwing-yourself-off-of-tall-precipices lifestyle improves your health, it's because colliding with the earth at a high velocity is bad for you—not because you have a congenital sensitivity to wind.
Click to expand...
 
Re: USCHO Cooks: Open Your Mystery Basket.

dxmnkd316 said:
http://foodspin.deadspin.com/what-i...en-paranoia-america-1651306716/+AlbertBurneko

Love it. Especially this passage:
Click to expand...
I know a couple people who have actual gluten allergies. If they eat wheat, they all have different reactions, but they're all pretty severe. The one woman gets nauseous, my hockey buddy looks like he's on the verge of going paraphylactic (sp?) shock, and my s-i-l gets pretty ill but I don't know if she's going full reversal or not.

While I've not gone gluten free, I have seriously reduced all of my refined sugars intake, reducing the amount of wheat, standard sugar, and HFCS. The result? I've dropped a ton of weight, but it's becuase those things happen to be present in high calorie foods, not the absence of gluten itself.
 
Re: USCHO Cooks: Open Your Mystery Basket.

A lengthy reflection about our relationship with food and cooking and what it tells us about ourselves, in this week's New Yorker.

Most of the energy that we put into our thinking about food, I realized, isn’t about food; it’s about anxiety. Food makes us anxious. The infinite range of choices and possible self-expressions means that there are so many ways to go wrong. You can make people ill, and you can make yourself look absurd. People feel judged by their food choices, and they are right to feel that, because they are.
Click to expand...
 
Re: USCHO Cooks: Open Your Mystery Basket.

<a href="http://www.thekitchn.com/christina-tosis-162171#recipe">Corn cookies</a> from the Goddess of All that is Good, Christina Tosi. Easy to make. I really like the texture of these, a little chewy, but still crunchy, and a little salty, but sweet. Not overwhelmingly corn-y. The process is a lot like her Blueberry and Cream cookies (with the long creaming time), which are also excellent.
 
Re: USCHO Cooks: Open Your Mystery Basket.

A story about the last ten years' of research about food and health: it turns out that fat intake isn't really so bad for you after all.

The most hopeful path lies in a different direction: An enormous trove of research over the past decade has shown that a low-carbohydrate regime consistently outperforms any other diet in improving health. Diabetics, for instance, can most effectively stabilize their blood glucose on a low-carb diet; heart-disease victims are able to raise their “good” HDL cholesterol while lowering their triglycerides. And at least two-dozen well-controlled diet trials, involving thousands of subjects, have shown that limiting carbohydrates leads to greater weight loss than does cutting fat.
Click to expand...

That story in turn links to a story in The New England Journal of Medicine that provides further details.
 
Re: USCHO Cooks: Open Your Mystery Basket.

FreshFish said:
A story about the last ten years' of research about food and health: it turns out that fat intake isn't really so bad for you after all.



That story in turn links to a story in The New England Journal of Medicine that provides further details.
Click to expand...
That's what I've been doing since February this year, in addition to exercise and keeping my calories in check; I'm down 110lbs.
 
Re: USCHO Cooks: Open Your Mystery Basket.

More deliciousness from Baked in Brooklyn: <a href=" http://www.seriouseats.com/recipes/2012/10/pumpkin-cheesecake-bars-recipe.html">Pumpkin Cheesecake Bars</a>. Made these for a work event.

Eveyrthing I've made from them is delicious. Not quite Tosi level, but close (although their recipes are generally less involved than hers).
 
Re: USCHO Cooks: Open Your Mystery Basket.

For Thanksgiving, instead of the traditional meal, I'm thinking spaghetti with meatballs in a homemade marinara. Just because I haven't had spaghetti in a long, long time.
 
Re: USCHO Cooks: Open Your Mystery Basket.

Mom has promised to do Cornish game hens in lieu of turkey this year, since I will be the only person joining my parents for the holiday. It will be nice not to have to go through the two-day rigmarole of prepping/brining/roasting the bird.
 
We have 18 coming for thanksgiving, our house is small, it doesn't have room for 18.not sure how big a turkey but...
 
Status
Not open for further replies.
Back
Top