I like cooking and have had a bunch of theme nights with my wife since March but I'm feeling uninspired currently and it feels like we're just back to doing tacos/ stirfry/ soup every week. I want to be motivated to make some new shit.
we've done gringo versions of Jamaican, Indian, Polish, and Thai food the most so I'd be interested to hear what dishes people have been working on.
I learned to appreciate soups, and got really good at caramelizing onions. I put them in everything for a few weeks!
Chana Masala is really easy and healthy, and can be done using only canned foods.
got pretty good with a meatless version of this fried rice recipe. no pork, just extra finely chopped onions and i add a bit more seseme oil and use red wine in the sauce) making some white rice first with less water and letting it get kind of old really makes fried rice fry right. i will make some kind of random stir fry to go with it and i'm impressed with my white ass self that it all tastes as good as take out (and our local take out is the shit). meals have otherwise been quick and boring because i've been working nonstop ('essential grocery worker fuuuuck').
I have been really enjoying this turkish food channel: https://youtu.be/MFCpNlNsFh4. I have only made two of her recipes so far but both were fantastic
Any carbs plus any flavouring I can find in my house. I had noodles with soy sauce, bbq sauce, peanut butter, marmite, peppercorns, salt, paprika, random unnamed herbs - it was edible.
Vanilla cake mixed with pistachio pudding mix and chocolate icing for pistachio chocolate cake (I'm gonna do orange cake next).
Farmers breakfast, very filling easily lasts 2 meals if you're not exerting yourself. Fry diced potatos and Polish sausage, onion and garlic, scramble in eggs.
Thanksgiving stew, put whatever Turkey you didn't finish into a pot with all the other fixings like bread dressing, mashed potatoes, carrots, green beans, gravy, you could throw in celery if you want or some pepper flakes to spice it up. Add a little water and simmer, it's so good.
My partner and I get into phases. There was a big curry/stir fry phase, but now its more mushroom based stuff since its that season. I literally just finished making a bolete julienne.
A good creative on to make thats a ton of fun is a Turkish pide. I made it once pre-covid but ive been thinking about it ever since. Theres so many different variations, so you can experiment to your hearts content
spaghetti carbonara. never had it before covid, now it's one of my favorite foods. there's a lot of ways to make it but making it correctly makes a huge damn difference. just seeing the word carbonara makes my mouth water now, someone help me.
oh and garlic lemon potatoes cut in wedges, roasted in the oven. cocaine in food form.
