Brain farts

[Chew Toy McCoy]

Couldn't figure out another thread to post this in so I thought I'd start a thread to bag on yourself.

My browser homepage populates with top news stories and my brain conflated 2 headlines into Madonna Threatens to Release New Album.

 

[rdrr]

There are certain words I cannot say without my tongue tripping over itself, like diversification. So I just use my 3rd grader's vocabulary in its place.

 

[fooferdoggie]

That's pretty much the English language for me.

 

[japanime]

Couldn't figure out another thread to post this in so I thought I'd start a thread to bag on yourself.

My browser homepage populates with top news stories and my brain conflated 2 headlines into Madonna Threatens to Release New Album.

The NY Times had a headline a couple of days ago that began "Trump and Meloni Split" and you can probably figure out what I thought I had just read.

 

[fischersd]

There was a post from Obama that started with "Virginia, if you haven’t done it already, make a plan to vote YES on the redistricting referendum. … "
Which I, in my yet-to-be-caffeinated-state had read as "Virgins, if you haven't done it already..."

I didn't think it would be appreciated if I commented "Well, isn't it the definition of a virgin that they haven't done it already?!?!"

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

I was making some homemade taco seasoning and 4X'd the recipe so I could use it over time. I lined up the spices and started pouring into a jar.

4 tablespoons of chilli powder: check
1 teaspoon of garlic powder: check
1 teaspoon of onion powder: check
1 teaspoon of crushed red peppers: check
1 teaspoon of dried oregano: check
2 teaspoons of paprika: check
2 tablespoons of ground cumin.....

....what's that smell? Looked at the bottle. Ground CINNAMON. Fuck! In my rush my eyeballs just read "ground c...." and assumed it was cumin. I probably also thought "ground" was redundant in the cinnamon name and they wouldn't put it. Cinnamon is cinnamon. What's the alternative? Cinnamon leaves? Cinnamon flakes? Cinnamon corns? Maybe. Never heard of a recipe asking for those forms.

 

[cbum]

No worries. Your wife will like it.

 

[fischersd]

I was making some homemade taco seasoning and 4X'd the recipe so I could use it over time. I lined up the spices and started pouring into a jar.

4 tablespoons of chilli powder: check
1 teaspoon of garlic powder: check
1 teaspoon of onion powder: check
1 teaspoon of crushed red peppers: check
1 teaspoon of dried oregano: check
2 teaspoons of paprika: check
2 tablespoons of ground cumin.....

....what's that smell? Looked at the bottle. Ground CINNAMON. Fuck! In my rush my eyeballs just read "ground c...." and assumed it was cumin. I probably also thought "ground" was redundant in the cinnamon name and they wouldn't put it. Cinnamon is cinnamon. What's the alternative? Cinnamon leaves? Cinnamon flakes? Cinnamon corns? Maybe. Never heard of a recipe asking for those forms.

Yep - I always customize recipes in Paprika when I either type them in or (more commonly) download them via its browser function. teaspoons become tsp, cups become C, tablespoons become T and I eliminate unnecessary words and fix the order when I think their grammar is off (you should never have a comma in an ingredient line in a recipe....in my mind) The first time I make it, I weigh everything that makes sense to and change the units to grams (g).

I hope you left the cinnamon in to see how it tasted with everything else. It's actually an ingredient in the craziest of places, with other spices that are more commonly associated with heat.

And, yes, especially with cinnamon, having ground is silly....what...I'm going to measure a teaspoon of bark?!?!

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

Yep - I always customize recipes in Paprika when I either type them in or (more commonly) download them via its browser function. teaspoons become tsp, cups become C, tablespoons become T and I eliminate unnecessary words and fix the order when I think their grammar is off (you should never have a comma in an ingredient line in a recipe....in my mind) The first time I make it, I weigh everything that makes sense to and change the units to grams (g).

I hope you left the cinnamon in to see how it tasted with everything else. It's actually an ingredient in the craziest of places, with other spices that are more commonly associated with heat.

And, yes, especially with cinnamon, having ground is silly....what...I'm going to measure a teaspoon of bark?!?!

I tossed it in frustration. Cinnamon doesn't seem like it would be a pleasant surprise when mixed with beef, or at least not what I was looking forward to. I had to go back to the store to get chilli powder given what I had left and amount needed.

 

[fooferdoggie]

I tossed it in frustration. Cinnamon doesn't seem like it would be a pleasant surprise when mixed with beef, or at least not what I was looking forward to. I had to go back to the store to get chilli powder given what I had left and amount needed.

a little would be fine but not two tablespoons.

 

[Herdfan]

Cinnamon is cinnamon. What's the alternative? Cinnamon leaves? Cinnamon flakes? Cinnamon corns? Maybe. Never heard of a recipe asking for those forms.

Cinnamon Sticks. People put them in hot apple cider.

I will have to try your taco seasoning recipe. Less the cinnamon. LOL.

 

[fischersd]

This is the one I have a big shaker of in the cupboard - use it at times to supplement or replace the store-bought taco seaoning. Funny, thought I had added cayenne to it?!

1 T chilli powder
1 1/2 tsp cumin
1 tsp paprika
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1/2 tsp onion powder
1/2 tsp dried oregano
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp black pepper

Just found my notes from the last time I made it "1T of the Guajillo Chili pepper and about 1/4 tsp of the Chipotle Chili pepper" - that's when I lived in Onterrible - no idea where I could even source those spices in Vancouver. I should do some digging.

 

[fischersd]

Cinnamon Sticks. People put them in hot apple cider.


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I will have to try your taco seasoning recipe. Less the cinnamon. LOL.

Yep....Bark

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

This is the one I have a big shaker of in the cupboard - use it at times to supplement or replace the store-bought taco seaoning. Funny, thought I had added cayenne to it?!

1 T chilli powder
1 1/2 tsp cumin
1 tsp paprika
1/2 tsp garlic powder
1/2 tsp onion powder
1/2 tsp dried oregano
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp black pepper

Just found my notes from the last time I made it "1T of the Guajillo Chili pepper and about 1/4 tsp of the Chipotle Chili pepper" - that's when I lived in Onterrible - no idea where I could even source those spices in Vancouver. I should do some digging.

That's pretty much mine except with red pepper flakes. Just before adding the salt and pepper was when catastrophe stroke which made it even more annoying....happened just before I got to the ingredients I (and most people) have no shortage of. I blasted through the comparative less common.

On a related note, at the age of 50 I learned you can use red pepper flakes on more than just pizza.

Around the same time I realized I didn't have to own a restaurant to put fresh ground pepper on a salad. In my defense I don't think I've ever had a meal at somebody's house where they offered fresh ground pepper for the salad.

 

[fischersd]

That's pretty much mine except with red pepper flakes. Just before adding the salt and pepper was when catastrophe stroke which made it even more annoying....happened just before I got to the ingredients I (and most people) have no shortage of. I blasted through the comparative less common.

On a related note, at the age of 50 I learned you can use red pepper flakes on more than just pizza.

Around the same time I realized I didn't have to own a restaurant to put fresh ground pepper on a salad. In my defense I don't think I've ever had a meal at somebody's house where they offered fresh ground pepper for the salad.

My best friend of now 32 years I credit with enlightening me in a culinary sense (and the city of Toronto - pick any nationality on the planet and go downtown to eat their food!) I was a "meat and taters" guy when I moved to TO in the early 90's. I was very lucky to make many friends that expanded my horizons.

He and his wife are both phenomenal cooks. His wife has a photographic palate - she can take something once, go home - and if she doesn't replicate it the first time she makes it, she will on her second attempt....and THEN she fucks with it and makes it even more amazing. . I hounded her for 20 years to get her to write down her rib recipe.....she finally caved.

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

My best friend of now 32 years I credit with enlightening me in a culinary sense (and the city of Toronto - pick any nationality on the planet and go downtown to eat their food!) I was a "meat and taters" guy when I moved to TO in the early 90's. I was very lucky to make many friends that expanded my horizons.

He and his wife are both phenomenal cooks. His wife has a photographic palate - she can take something once, go home - and if she doesn't replicate it the first time she makes it, she will on her second attempt....and THEN she fucks with it and makes it even more amazing. . I hounded her for 20 years to get her to write down her rib recipe.....she finally caved.

I'm still largely follow the recipe guy but from those I have also branched out into using things in more experimental cooking like from a chicken fried rice recipe I now put sesame seed oil and hoisin sauce in all kinds of things. I also learned from recipes what things I don't are, like ginger. I knew I didn't like that taste but didn't know what it was.

My housemate is kind of a health nut where taste and cooking quality is secondary to nutritional value. He also burns a lot of food because he refuses to use oil of any kind and is always distracted by his phone like a teenager. I also determined health nut eaters are like people who work on their own car. Their car is chronically broken down and he is chronically eating. Why have 2 to 3 solid meals a day when you can have 15 snack times.

 

[Herdfan]

On a related note, at the age of 50 I learned you can use red pepper flakes on more than just pizza.

LOL. I have a red pepper flake grinder. So yeah, I use them on a lot of other stuff.

One year at Thanksgiving my mom mistakenly grabbed that grinder thinking it was pepper and put it in on her turkey. Was getting ready to fix her another plate and looked over a she was eating it anyway. She said it was good.

We make a chicken penne alfredo and they are really good on it.

 

[Chew Toy McCoy]

LOL. I have a red pepper flake grinder. So yeah, I use them on a lot of other stuff.

One year at Thanksgiving my mom mistakenly grabbed that grinder thinking it was pepper and put it in on her turkey. Was getting ready to fix her another plate and looked over a she was eating it anyway. She said it was good.

We make a chicken penne alfredo and they are really good on it.

Looking up pepper flake grinder.....

I'm a big fan of highly specific kitchen gadgets from the primitive centuries old workhorse to the high tech with wifi option. My Apple Watch lets me know when my tea water reached optimum temperature per tea type. I could probably start a museum with my evolution of garlic mincers.