My kitchen table reading lately has been "Dinner in the Diner: 300 recipes from America's Era of Great Trains" by Will Hollister, 1984.

So this morning I read:

Shrimp Cocktail Sauce
1c mayo
1c chili sauce
4 drops Tabasco sauce...

WHAT: 4 DROPS of Tabasco sauce‽‽‽

Good grief, why bother? 🤨

Here's my collection of Tabasco sauce bottles from the last decade or so. I plan to make a chandelier out of them someday. (Emphasis on "someday.")

#Food #Cooking

My kitchen table reading lately has been "Dinner in the Diner: 300 recipes from America's Era of Great Trains" by Will Hollister, 1984.

So this morning I read:

Shrimp Cocktail Sauce
1c mayo
1c chili sauce
4 drops Tabasco sauce...

WHAT: 4 DROPS of Tabasco sauce‽‽‽

Good grief, why bother? 🤨

Here's my collection of Tabasco sauce bottles from the last decade or so. I plan to make a chandelier out of them someday. (Emphasis on "someday.")

#Food #Cooking

This month's Distributed Proofreaders' (DP) Blog talks about the book "Famous Old Receipts." In this case Receipts means recipes. Read all about this cookbook and see the delicious looking dish our brave blogger tried from it.

https://blog.pgdp.net/2026/02/01/famous-old-receipts/

#dp #dpblog #cooking #food #books

This month's Distributed Proofreaders' (DP) Blog talks about the book "Famous Old Receipts." In this case Receipts means recipes. Read all about this cookbook and see the delicious looking dish our brave blogger tried from it.

https://blog.pgdp.net/2026/02/01/famous-old-receipts/

#dp #dpblog #cooking #food #books

Does anyone have advice on cooking tofu? I'm making a red Thai curry for dinner.

I gave up on tofu in my earlier vegetarian days because I didn't enjoy making it, but I've recently read that almost everything I learned about pressing it and cooking it was 1970s US 'make it like meat' vegetarianism and not really how it's cooked in most Asian cuisines.

Or is that just down to how it's packaged/sold in the US?

#cooking #vegan #vegetarian

Making fridge rescue #soup
That is everything that looked like it would end up in the food bin if I didn't soupify it
Turns out the bags of root veg cubes wife got for burns night (that we didn't use, because the ready mashed in microwave option was faster) is actually broth mix, with packets of barley
Bonus, broth now with extra celery and carrot
"Chuckie in" soup was what it was called where I grew up
Cheap lunch for rest of the week in flask with me. Yaaaasss
#Scotland #cooking #sustainable

Making fridge rescue #soup
That is everything that looked like it would end up in the food bin if I didn't soupify it
Turns out the bags of root veg cubes wife got for burns night (that we didn't use, because the ready mashed in microwave option was faster) is actually broth mix, with packets of barley
Bonus, broth now with extra celery and carrot
"Chuckie in" soup was what it was called where I grew up
Cheap lunch for rest of the week in flask with me. Yaaaasss
#Scotland #cooking #sustainable

Bet you can't guess what's in the pie I made this evening...

#food #baking #cooking

"In the age of endless scrolling, #cooking videos have become a kind of visual comfort #food.

Few people understand this language better than #EitanBernath.

#Bernath has been cooking in public for more than half his life. He does not just #cook to feed people. He cooks to connect with them.

“I grew up in #Teaneck, born and raised in Teaneck, #NewJersey, and went to dual-curriculum #Jewish school my whole life,” he told The AJN over Zoom. “Half the day #Judaicstudies, half the day secular studies. And grew up in a very strong community. Obviously, as a #Jew, food is very central to our life.”

That grounding matters."

https://www.australianjewishnews.com/eitan-bernath-and-the-power-of-food/

Search on YouTube is at its worst right now. You type "how to make apple pie," and the algorithm gives you three ads, a viral cat short, and a "For You" video about gaming.

It is what @pluralistic rightly calls enshittification.

I spent the last month refactoring the core script for search fixer. Big improvements:
> A new settings UI that doesn't look like an airplane cockpit.
> Anti-Shorts Protocol: Revert shorts to the normal player.
> Fixed the filters for those annoying auto-generated "mixes" that clutter the results.

https://phoennix.gitlab.io/youtubesearchfix/update.html

Reclaim your feed and I hope you give it a try✨🙏

#opensource #enshittification #firefox #chrome #mozilla #browser #youtube #distraction #adhd #mentalhealth #cooking #reading #tumblr #art #design #nature

Search on YouTube is at its worst right now. You type "how to make apple pie," and the algorithm gives you three ads, a viral cat short, and a "For You" video about gaming.

It is what @pluralistic rightly calls enshittification.

I spent the last month refactoring the core script for search fixer. Big improvements:
> A new settings UI that doesn't look like an airplane cockpit.
> Anti-Shorts Protocol: Revert shorts to the normal player.
> Fixed the filters for those annoying auto-generated "mixes" that clutter the results.

https://phoennix.gitlab.io/youtubesearchfix/update.html

Reclaim your feed and I hope you give it a try✨🙏

#opensource #enshittification #firefox #chrome #mozilla #browser #youtube #distraction #adhd #mentalhealth #cooking #reading #tumblr #art #design #nature

"In the age of endless scrolling, #cooking videos have become a kind of visual comfort #food.

Few people understand this language better than #EitanBernath.

#Bernath has been cooking in public for more than half his life. He does not just #cook to feed people. He cooks to connect with them.

“I grew up in #Teaneck, born and raised in Teaneck, #NewJersey, and went to dual-curriculum #Jewish school my whole life,” he told The AJN over Zoom. “Half the day #Judaicstudies, half the day secular studies. And grew up in a very strong community. Obviously, as a #Jew, food is very central to our life.”

That grounding matters."

https://www.australianjewishnews.com/eitan-bernath-and-the-power-of-food/

How do people rinse tiny grains like millet and quinoa? I can't seem to find any mesh strainers with fine enough mesh, except for a small one at Briscoes for $50. Half tempted to figure out how to adapt a spatter screen... #nz #cooking

RE: https://mastodon.social/@2dh5/115927810489452852

"Join our cooking club!

(You don't have to be good at cooking) Lunch and dinner will this year be made by our own cooking club. But they could use some extra hands!

We need people to help cook. Not great with cooking? We also need people to help clean!

Join our cooking club and help prepare hundreds of meals for hungry activists during the festival! Sign up by shooting us a PM.

BUILDING the COLLECTIVE(S) TOOLS FOR ANTI-FASCIST FUTURE

2.Dh5"

#Alt4U #D2h5 #activism #Utrecht #vegan #cooking

2.Dh5's cooking club can use some extra hands! Are you good at cooking? PM us and join the club! Not good at cooking but are you good at cleaning? You're very welcome too! #2dh5 #utrecht #bakbasecamp #acu #moira #activism #activisme #cooking

For anyone interested in thai cooking, curries, stir fries, recipes and me wittering on about various chilis 🌶️ soy sauces and authentic thai ingredients like holy basil 🌿 I have added a "Featured Hashtag" of 'Recipes' to my profile ...

It should show all my (mainly Asian) foodie type recipes and posts from newest to oldest.

Happy reading.

#Food #Cooking #Recipes

For anyone interested in thai cooking, curries, stir fries, recipes and me wittering on about various chilis 🌶️ soy sauces and authentic thai ingredients like holy basil 🌿 I have added a "Featured Hashtag" of 'Recipes' to my profile ...

It should show all my (mainly Asian) foodie type recipes and posts from newest to oldest.

Happy reading.

#Food #Cooking #Recipes

This type of eggplant (Solanum melongena) is believed to be the original form that gave the plant its common English name, for obvious reasons.

... No, I haven't tried cooking with it though I use various types of Thai, Chinese and Japanese eggplants in my Asian cooking ...

#Food #Cooking #Eggplants

Potato variety review: Currently eating my way through the 2025 potato harvest. I grew ‘Blackberry’ potatoes for the first time. Great yield of roundish, medium-sized tubers. These are the purplest potatoes I’ve ever used in the kitchen. Loaded with anthocyanins. Only OK roasted, since they are somewhat waxy. Quite nice boiled (tonight I seasoned with a harissa dressing). They have a strong potato flavor, especially when roasted. Recommend! #potatoes #cooking #gardening #PlantVariety