Gravy's Cooking Thread

Erronius

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001001102_sl said:
To be fair, 1-2 days is probably all the contamination these pussy kids' immune systems could take any more, bro.
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And pepperoni rolls, I can't believe those bakeries get away without having to abide by stringent meat-packing standards. Kids today couldn't stomach a good ol' fashioned pepperoni roll, without falling over dead because their weak immune system couldn't handle it.
 
chaos

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I have never had a pepperoni roll but I've heard of them, they sound fucking obnoxiously good.

For Thanksgiving I think I may forgo the typical pumpkin pie and make a pumpkin cheesecake instead. I already have to make 2 pies and I LOVE cheesecake so I think that is a good bet. The wife likes apple pie so I may go with a kind of rustic apple tart thing for the second one.

Those twice baked potatoes are very tempting. But I will probably go with something simpler, like a stuffing and some corn or salad or some kind of slaw.
 
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It's a "gnocchi board". Used along with that wooden dowel to slide the gnocchi down the board and create the ridges on the gnocchi. Completely unnecessary, but my girlfriend has always REALLY WANTED to use one to make gnocchi for some reason.

Those gnocchi were very large. Much larger than what you'd probably normally expect, but they were so friggin' good fresh out of the pot. I'd recommend trying to make them, it really was simple:

* Boil or bake potatoes until they are soft
* Mash potatoes up really well and let cool
* Add flour and roll into gnocchi sized logs (they say to use just a little bit less flour than you have mashed potatoes. Just keep adding flour until you have a dough you can work with)
* Cut into bit sized gnocchi pieces
* Boil until the gnocchi starts to float. When 5 or so pieces start to float, take them all out.
* Add sauce and enjoy!
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Just to be clear: no butter or milk in the gnocchi? Just flour and mashed potatoes?
 
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I present to you the Trollwich.

2 slices rye bread
2 slices roast beef
1 thingy Laughing Cow cheese
BBQ sauce
Butter

Cheese goes on bread. Beef goes on cheese. BBQ sauce goes on beef. Butter goes on bread. Sandwich goes on griddle. Sandwich goes in mouth. Mouth goes to orgasm.

Yes I'm drunk fuck you.
 
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Erronius_sl said:
And pepperoni rolls, I can't believe those bakeries get away without having to abide by stringent meat-packing standards. Kids today couldn't stomach a good ol' fashioned pepperoni roll, without falling over dead because their weak immune system couldn't handle it.
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Had to wiki it - what makes them any different than a pepperoni stromboli?
 
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A couple of things:
I have a friend with a pumpkin cheesecake recipe that will make you have mouthgasms. I'm getting it and will post here later.

Butter on pasta before sauce would, I think, have a similar effect as rinsing your cooked pasta. It would negate the benefits of the starch on the pasta to hold sauce. Do an experiment. Cook a box of pasta in three separate pots. The first, cook, drain, mix with sauce. The second, cook, drain, rinse, mix with sauce. The third, cook, drain, butter, then mix with sauce. You'll be amazed at how different the three appear/taste when you have them side by side.

Pepperoni rolls look delicious. I'm going to try make those, maybe tonight. My kids will love that stuff - they think pepperoni is a food group.
 
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Everyone knows the butter goes in the sauce. Also, with thinner sauces, use a different pasta. Penne, Rotini, and Farfalle all hold sauces very well. For meaty sauces like a bolegnese, big ol' Rigatoni does great.

Perciatelli and Bucatini are long "spaghetti" type pasta, but are hollow in the center, kind of like a straw. These also work real well with thinner sauces. I've replaced fettucine with these types when making a con Vongole sauce as it gets the clam sauce in there real well.
 
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chaos_sl said:
I have never had a pepperoni roll but I've heard of them, they sound fucking obnoxiously good.

For Thanksgiving I think I may forgo the typical pumpkin pie and make a pumpkin cheesecake instead. I already have to make 2 pies and I LOVE cheesecake so I think that is a good bet. The wife likes apple pie so I may go with a kind of rustic apple tart thing for the second one.

Those twice baked potatoes are very tempting. But I will probably go with something simpler, like a stuffing and some corn or salad or some kind of slaw.
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I say for Thanksgiving go traditional, especially if you have kids. It's not like everyone is sick of pumpkin pie because you have it every two weeks. Most people eat pumpkin pie, turkey, stuffing, mashed potatoes, sweet potatoes, and green bean casserole exactly one time a year and it's the only holiday where the meal *is* the holiday. You're never going to go wrong by doing the standards and making them awesome. You have the whole rest of the year to be creative.

Also, nothing has ever been made worse by putting butter on it.
 
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As far as keeping butter out, I buy it in boxes which have four sticks inside. We keep one stick in the cabinet in a butter dish, and with seven people in the house eating toast for breakfast and sandwiches for lunch, we go through the stick in a couple to three days. The rest we keep refrigerated until we need it. No worries about the butter in the cabinet here. Done the same thing always, any my parents did the same, too.
 
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lurkingdirk_sl said:
As far as keeping butter out, I buy it in boxes which have four sticks inside. We keep one stick in the cabinet in a butter dish, and with seven people in the house eating toast for breakfast and sandwiches for lunch, we go through the stick in a couple to three days. The rest we keep refrigerated until we need it. No worries about the butter in the cabinet here. Done the same thing always, any my parents did the same, too.
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sandwiches for lunch include butter?

The fuck?
 
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I very briefly scrolled down this page and I thought Sir Funk's gnocci were actually homemade pizza rolls. I am disappoint.

Anyway, I don't usually read this thread cause there ain't nothing worth cooking that tastes as good as store bought junk food, but I was intrigued by whispers of something called a "pepperoni roll" in the rickshaw and I came to investigate.

I'm going to join the chorus in saying that I've never had one but they look fucking amazing and I shall try making a couple for dinner.
 
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