Looks like I'm gonna be making some good progress on how to cook things that are actually good and not some kind of monstrosity of bizarre combinations. Was talking with my mom about that and I think we're going to start with dough (in general, because there's so many things I could do with it and it's relatively simple) and after that will probably be something along the lines of burger meat once we get a pack of some of those clear plastic gloves people use cause there's all sorts of things I can do with that too.
Also did make some minor cooking progress not too long ago, finally learned how to cook bacon in a pan properly! That day I was doing a sort of homemade roast beef and cheese sandwich (similar to what you can get at Arby's) and I wanted to throw some bacon on there. Made another roast beef and cheese sandwich today too, this time without bacon but I was using up the rest of the roast beef so it was more like the double beef and cheese sandwich I'd get there. Main difference between this and the Arby's sandwich is that I had to use Tostito's Queso sauce because we didn't have a normal cheese sauce (it still works great) and instead of whatever special sauce that they use I used a horseradish sauce. I wish I had some kind of equivalent to the "Arby's Sauce" that they use.
When I learn how to do burgers I'm going to try something interesting with it. You know those Taco Bell Quesaritos? I'm going to do something like that but with burger meat. Basically what I'll do is I'll cook the burger as normal, then chop it up into really small pieces or something similar to ground taco beef but this is going to be after cooking it, to have the meat itself as close to a burger as possible if that makes sense. Then I'm gonna take the cheese I normally have on homemade burgers (when we manage to get it anyways, it's this really good "buffalo wing cheddar"), melt that shit and pour it in to use it as a cheese sauce. Only thing I'm not sure of is if it'll mesh well with the sour cream and rice which also go in there, but honestly it's the same concept as when you order the shredded beef quesarito but just a bit different so I think it'll work. If Taco Bell won't sell quesaritos I'll make my own!
This was going to go in WMMD but after this turned into a lengthy ramble I decided it'd fit better here instead.
sounds good and pretty impressive.
tho i was kinda appalled that you had to learn how to cook bacon!!! but then i noticed the word "properly" and i was ahhh ok!
its true many people don't cook bacon properly. i myself still struggle to get it crispy without it being hard.
i visited America a few years back and i was quite surprised to find out that American bacon and English bacon are 2 very different things!
i really like American style bacon but sadly its impossible to get here in Lincolnshire.
i got my butcher to replicate the cut and i tried to cook it and tho it came out ok it just wasn't the same!
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been making myself chicken wraps lately
i get a pre cooked spit roast chicken from Morrisons (one of the extra tasty ones), hack off one side of the breast and slice it length ways!
i then take a supermarket mini onion bargie and slice it lengthways into 3 or 4 bits and a tomato sliced the same.
warm up the frying pan to a medium heat (4 out of 6 on my cooker settings) then add a skinny table spoon of oil (olive)
put in the chicken, onion bargie and tomato, then add lots of soy sauce and fry till the soy sauce goes sticky/gooey.
then empty the pan on to a wrap bread!
add sauce to taste, roll it up, cut into bite sized sections and enjoy!
i have no idea how healthy or unhealthy this is but it tastes great and is easy to eat while watching tv.
