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Geek Food: A Cookbook for the Technologically Inclined
thaen writes: "Might want to check out the latest offering from arstechnica.com. Somebody has compiled a 51-page book of recipes written by geeks, for geeks, and originally posted in the arstechnica 'Lounge' forum. Mmmm...the omelette..." I seriously hope that the macaroni and cheese recipe really needs "tabasco sauce", rather than "tobacco sauce", because I can't even imagine... no. Not going to think about it.
who needs 51 pages to call up pizza hut?
Easy
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Oregon
This assumes, of course, that geeks are willing to brave anything even resembling a kitchen. Most people I know of the technical inclination much prefer something that either a) comes in a bag or b) gets delivered to your table. After all, geeks have far more important things to use their brain power on, such as....er....um....yeah.
--My purpose set, my will defined. Caress the air, embrace the skies.
it's 42 or 64 pages long!
Have you seen these recipes? Good grief, they look bad.
Wow. A book on how to cook 51 different types of HotPockets.
"One man's meat is another man's poison."
--Bugs Bunny
I will master the art of cooking using this book and challenge Iron Chef Morimoto!
I'm trying to teach myself to set people on fire with my mind... Is it hot in here?
I seriously hope that the macaroni and cheese recipe really needs "tabasco sauce", rather than "tobacco sauce", because I can't even imagine... no. Not going to think about it.
Dear Lord. A Slashdot editor griping about Spelling.
Did I get off on the wrong planet?
-- Give him Head? Be a Beacon? :P)
(If you can't figure out how to E-Mail me, Don't.
Disclaimer: I did not read the whole thing.
;-)
It looks like a buch of (often redundant) recipies for average food items. So if a geek eats food that is normal, and the old maxim "you are what you eat" is true, then geeks are normal
Blast, I always wanted to be abnormal
-- The morphemes of your disquisition are ascertainable, but they have eschewed an ambit of transpicuous exposition.
I'm not implying anything but I've found that bachelors' cookbooks are great sources for easy to make food for geeks. Also, the recipes are great for college people who live in their own apartments and have a kitchen!
Check out ISBNs: 0919845622 and 0962845302
me
Rangers Lead the Way!
Yeah, thanks for putting standard text into a 500k pdf. Seriously.
Anything that puts the words "cookbook", "omlette" and "flyingmember" together in the same sentence is...un-appetising, at best.
Soko
"Depression is merely anger without enthusiasm." - Anonymous
I make a kick-ass shake when I have 5 minutes before leaving for work:
Small handful of icecubes in blender. Add heaping tablespoon of frozen concentrated o.j., about a half cup of plain nonfat yogurt, a banana, and any fruit you like. It works great with strawberries, blueberries, raspberries, peaches, plums, and even pear if you don't mind a somewhat grainy consistency.
REALLY tasty and lots of fiber to boot.
Free (as in Happy hour) hot dogs
- 200 cheap wieners
- 200 cheap buns
- 2 gallons hot water
- 1 bottle ketchup
- 1 bottle mustard
Place hot water in a large tub, add wieners. Arrange all items on a folding table. Garnish with stale keg beer. Serve.And I haven't gotten past breakfast yet. Now excuse me while I fix up a Bloody Mary with lots of vodka and more than a few shakes of the tabasco bottle over it.
I don't want knowledge. I want certainty. - Law, David Bowie
Alchohol, tobaco, white flour, sugar, salt. HMMM looks like I missed a few, ground beef and cheese seem quite popular. Looks like I'm guilty of quite a few of the sins listed in this book.
...on an overclocked processor anyone?
-CPM
Isn't that when theres chicken nuggets the size of popcorn(as in the recent kfc commercials)? According to the cookbook, it involves stuffing a chicken with popcorn...
Fill the cavity with stuffing and popcorn.
Place in baking pan in oven.
Listen for popping sounds; when the chicken's ass blows out the oven door and across the room, the chicken is done.
Taken from page 5 of the cookbook(left column of the page).
I actually like to cook, and I'm pretty good at it. Typically I'll make some sort of Thai or Indian curry, because I'm into hot food like that.
That said, I often get better results on curries when I outsource the development to professionals. With food prices the way they are here in Los Angeles, it ends up costing about the same anyway, plus I get the added bonus of not actually having to do anything other than enjoy the food.
I guess the other thing is that cleaning up afterwards is so incredibly not fun that I'll generally avoid cooking just to avoid having to clean up after cooking.
NO TOUCH MONKEY!
At first I thought it said Greek food. Time to up the glasses prescription... Too much staring at the CRT....
~Mike
A big enough hammer fixes *anything*
Do NOT microwave an egg in its shell and expect to eat it! Kinda neat to watch though :)
:) (especially for an overlockin' geek!)
Actually, don't microwave a scambled egg outside of its shell and eat it. NASTY! That, and its REALLy not that hard to fry something
The best Web site on the net is just such a cookbook, and it can be found here.
STOP . AMERICA . NOW
Truth is contagious; Infect-truth.
DISCLAIMER:This parody is in no way associated with Infect-truth or truth.com. Had this been a really infect-truth commercial, it would have been much less logical.
... and English illiterate.
They could at least pass it through a spell checker, or something, first. I'd be ashamed to have my name in that cookbook.
Would you shut up already?
Use the spatula, Luke
There is a ticker on the site that is currently showing just a hair over 10,000 visits. Now we can watch the /. effect in real time.
By the way I have been looking for a geek style cookbook for a while.
Any one know of a cook book that specializes in recipes that can be cooked up a week in advance and in bulk that will not loose their flavor or require more than 30 ingredients?
I have visited numerous bookstores in the last month and have as of yet to find such a book.
Ascii artist &
hehe. all this talk about food and planets reminded me of a story about this chick i know.
back in my high school days when half my friends worked at McD's, a friend of mine's sister was being teased because she was (still is) an airhead. upon being asked what planet she was from, she angrily replied "America".
anyways, i thought it would be good for a chuckle.
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The recipies seem a bit uneven in difficulty level, ranging from "Go to a restaurant" to complex instructions for Pad Thai. Also, the spelling level of the authors seems to be below par for Slashdot.
Inventing new recipies can be a very geeky thing to do, especially if you apply a bit of physics.
The most egregious omission in the collection is Grits & Spam.
Revenge is a dish best served cold -- grits should be served hot!
can be found at AllRecipes.com. Search for the 4-star or 5-star recipes to find the best stuff. There are several great ones that work well for one person, including the tuna burgers one (yum!) and Chex Mix (your friends at work will love you when you bring a huge bag of it in.)
;)
My personal favorite 10-minute recipe requires a steamer:
Easy Ballpark Hot Dogs
-- Buy some good plump hot dogs and cheap hot dog buns at the store. Grab some shredded cheddar cheese and any other garnishes (onions, ketchup) while you're there.
-- Turn on steamer. Put in hot dog. Set timer for 10 minutes.
-- At 7 minutes, put hot dog bun in steamer (off to the side so it doesn't get soggy). Place cheese and other garnishes on bun before sticking it in the steamer.
3 minutes later, pull both out and eat. Voila! Real ballpark-style hot dogs in 10 minutes. Oh-so-good, and easy to make. It just goes to show that even total geeky klutzes like us can make great food!
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... or is this not a bloody PDF file?
PostScript document text conforming at level 3.0
Hmm, ok. I've tried every PS/PDF document viewer under the sun on this thing and it's not made much sense to them either. Even the online PDF viewer at Adobe's site couldn't make heads nor tails of it.
Anyone else having similar problems?
Perhaps he meant Tomacco Sauce. Mmmmm, tomacco.
-Steve
Bam!
Somewhere along the line food got bastardized.. People accept prepackaged, canned, frozen, freeze dried, shrink wrapped whozits whatsits and god knows what else as "food"
Even the recipes in this book, although geared towards geeks or bachelors, falls prey to the same problem..
People have become convinced that prepackaged food is quicker, and better than actually COOKING something..
I'd urge anyone who likes to eat.. (you don't have to like to cook.. I don't like cooking, but i like to eat, so its an ends to mean)
Next time you go shopping.. Skip the boxed meals.. Skip the frozen meals.. (You can buy frozen vegetables if you don't want to store produce)
Pick up steaks, burgers, fish, shrimp, ANYTHING other than boxed macaroni and cheeze..
Buy real butter.. not margarine, not ICBINB..
Spring for some olive oil (do some reading on the grades, or buy some of each)
Take it all home, and cook some real food..
You won't be sorry..
And to facilitate this new eating experience.. Here's a quick steak recipe (thanks to alton brown)
Take 1 steak. (I like ny strips, but i think ribeyes work a bit better)
Take a cast iron, or solid metal pan
Put pan in 500 degree oven for 10 minutes
Cover steak in seasoning (Salt and pepper work nicely)
Coat steak lightly in oil
REmove pan, put on highest temperature stovetop burner
Turn on vent fan or unplug smoke detectors (IMPORTANT.. THIS MAKES A LOT OF SMOKE.)
Sear steak for 30-45 seconds each side (just let it sit)
Put entire pan into oven for 2 minutes
Flip steak, cook for 1.5-2 more minutes (depending on doneness)
Remove steak from oven
Let sit for 3 minutes (otherwise the juices will leak out)
Eat with gusto.
Life is short.. eat well..
Ultimately he got an industrial-strength utility light (the kind with a grating over the bulb) from the garage. He flipped it over, turned it on and left the meat on the grating for 20 minutes.
void * dinner;
... directions that are nerdish ..
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.. i'm not _THAT_ much of a dork...
...
:- food(Food), in_fridge(Food), cooked(Food).
dinner = (chicken *)(malloc(sizeof(chicken)));
cook(&dinner);
eat(&dinner);
sleep(60);
OR
imperative algorithms for cooking
DO
OPEN SOUP
ADD SOUP TO POT
START BURNER
PUT POT ONTO BURNER
STIR SOUP
IF (SOUP.TEMP == DONE)
{ REMOVE SOUP FROM BURNER
SERVE
EXIT
}
ELSE
GOTO STIR:
END
recursive algorithms for cooking
(define chicken_soup
(lambda (chicken)
(
...
yea
logic based algorithms
dinner
Yes.
:-)
midget...
Come on! This story's been up almost an hour and nary a Hot Grits joke in sight!
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Bleah! Heh heh heh... BLEAH BLEAH!!! Ha ha ha ha...
I am always wary of cookbooks, even if it says "for geeks." In fact, it scared me even more. Besides, who needs a book to read the back of frozen food products? I think I trust the advertiser's remarks "just like homemade" over "tobacco sauce.
Alt.gourmand was archived, and various bits of unix software (deceptively close to the man page system) could be used to not only format the cookbook, but also to glom it together, build a permuted index, and drop the lot to your printer.
I have a lovely spiral bound edition from around 1986... Does anyone know where to get these collections anymore?
I have to say that, at best, the majority of these recipes are unappetizing -- at worst, they're incredibly foul looking.
I can understand the need to cook stuff in a hurry on occasion, but -- really, guys?
Not to sound like Yoda or anything, but having even halfway decent cooking skills increases the likelyhood of keeping members of the opposite sex around, or scoring in the first place.
Learn how to make 3 dishes marginally well, and mix 'em up... ie 1 (vaguely) southwestern, 1 (vaguely) italian and 1 (vaguely) asian, or whatever your tastes may be.
Then, if you're in a rut... just pop over to Epicurious and look for variations on the stuff you already mostly know how to do.
For me, putzing around in the kitchen allows me to achieve a Zen-like state of decompression after staring at code for hours and hours on end. YMMV, of course -- but don't knock it until you've tried it.
Dig men who can cook, chicks do!
--dr00gy1.0 initial release version. black and white. low distribution And if that weren't enough, it's mirrored...on two continents. Now that's geeky
and I love it! I LOVE IT!
>I don't know if that will really work but try it.
Nope, there's still underrated and overrated missing.
All I can say is... "ewwwww".
Check out the "Breakfast Sandwich" on page 2. It involves frying a bagel and eggs in bacon grease! This gives you: greasy bagel/cheese/eggs/cheese/bacon/greasy bagel. A noxious concoction which would probably not only turn any surrounding napkins translucent with lipids, but maybe even the table itself. You may as well lick a Lard Pop (tm) every morning while drinking your coffee mixed with olive oil and Crisco.
This sort of stuff makes me proud to be a vegatarian.
--
#nohup cat
- Chicken livers (raw, Mmm... =)
- chicken leg/thigh (raw)
- pecans (raw, in shell)
- pine nuts ("raw", but lightly oxygen roasted)
- walnuts (not really raw, but non-cooked)
- almonds (raw)
followed with: (all raw)- spinach
- Mustard greens
- purple kale
- celery
- some other bitter (yum =) purple-white vegetable (radicco?)
- broccoli
The human body really adheres well to the GIGO principle: Garbage In = Garbarge Out. It's been my experience that how well I feel is a function of my food inputs - ie, when I eat (*gasp*) cooked meat or processed foods, I feel noticeably less well. Some of these recipes don't sound too horribly bad from a puritanical standpoint, but "frito pie"? No thanks. But anything's better than Taco Bell every night I suppose...Check out the Superhealth report, it's what got me started...
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
www.teslabox.com
Don't eat Greyfox's food! I'm tellin' ya, it's toxic!-- famous last words of Ranma Saotome
BTW, the magazines are much better than the books that they also publish... The books mostly contain only the final recipe, not the experimental log book that led to it.
The best "general" cookbook I've found is How to Cook Everything by Mark Bittman. Each chapter starts up with several pages of "how to" and "How to do this right" information (such as how to dice tomatoes without making a mushy mess,) then follows up with tons of recipes.
No pictures but lots of drawings of techniques such as which part of the cow that steak came from... (IIRC, there's also some info on butchering that steak yourself.)
Almost all geek food can be prepared in the microwave.
However, it helps to know the following:
- Aluminum foil does not work well if you try to microwave it.
- Take the ramen noodles out of the package before microwaving them.
- Don't microwave your fail-burned CD-R's. Sure, they make cool sparks and look real neat after they come out (assuming you don't nuke it for more than 3 seconds), but do you really want to be eating molten plastic when you throw the leftover pizza in the same microwave ten minutes later?
"tabasco sauce" Imagine a beowulf cluster of those! --joshua
Why is he geeky? He doesn't do like, say, Emeril (cook something we mortals can't, shout "Bam" a lot), but teaches you how to cook. What are the properties of this ingredient? What equipment do I need? Why do we put buttermilk and baking soda together?
(Answer to the last one: carbon dioxide creates a degree of rising)
Shit, forgot to mention you can't give a bonus or deduction to underrated and overrated posts.
get the food
cook/bake/prepare/grill it
eat it
Why does it seem that there is some code/script on each slashdot article???
1 tequila 2 tequila 3 tequila floor
MREs! That's Meal, Ready to Eat. It's easier than Ramen noodles and each pack comes with an explosi... I mean chemical heater!
But when I'm kernel hacking, it doesn't make the cut.
No, kernel hacking requires lobster, damnit!
As illustrated by legendary PhD student Mike Slackenerny , a balanced diet consists of four main food groups (anyway, where is my beer???):
Sugar food
Caffeinated food
Fat food
Free food!!! ;-) Who need fruit, vegetable or milk?
The slashdotted recipe seems to have too much junk. I think most of us can survive on Coke/coffee, taco/potato chips and instant noodle
(Well, straightly speaking, these are refering to postgrad students. But, I think the scope can be extended a bit.)
Heh. I knew a chick in high school that thought Lake Erie was the Atlantic Ocean.
- Dan I.
Cool, I might start to cook now
Don't most slashdot readers just eat whatever mom puts on the table?
- Large Oven
- $50 Million
Directionsthe lazy man's salad
those salad in a bag things
by Reid
Reid, whoever you are (don't read much Ars), you are a geek's geek. With the exception that you eat salad, instead of Doritos you picked up off the floor.
< tofuhead >
It is still the dark of night.
Most of them seem to be average dishes, with a ton of salsa and tobasco/tobacco sauce added. I was half-expecting to see a recipe for salsa soup (Add hot or medium salsa to bowl and enjoy) in there.
I dont know if anyone's mentioned it...but there's a good
geekish cooking show on TVFN (Food Network) called Good Eats hosted by Alton Brown.
It's one part Julia Child, one part Bill Nye - not only does he show you how to cook dishes, he tells you why things are prepared the way they are.
Good Eats is by far my favorite show on Food Network - I find it much more interesting and entertaining than Iron Chef or BamBam.
My God!! It's a COOKBOOK!!
It's a COOKBOOK!!
(c'mon, you know someone had to go there)
Praise the Force Field! Praise the Laser Project! Slackware Loon #19830573
I downloaded the cookbook, saw the first recipe, and thought: "That sounds pretty good."
:)
So I went to the kitchen and made myself iSpy's "Good French Toast for one geek." And I must say it was "Good" it was it was "French Toast" and it fed "one geek!" Just as promised.
Can't wait to try some more.
Bill
Afterwards find some books out of this selection
An Education is the Font of All Liberty
You need:
Peanut butter(any works, grunchy is interesting)
two slices bread
Syrup
Marshmallow cream(opt).
Toast two slices bread. Immediatly spread PB on bread so it 'melts'. Toss on large plate with puddle of syrup and jug of milk! Marh.Cream is a tasty treat!
-Jamie
*-PGP Please!-*
Now I actually have some recipies to swap over all those peer-2-peer networks like Kazaa, Direct Connect, eDonkey, etc!
I mean, that's what those networks are all for, right? Right?
- JoeShmoe
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-- I wonder which will go down in history as the bigger failure: the War on Drugs or the War on Filesharing
Sushi = Good/Healthy
Raw chicken = projectile vomitting
Wow, what a worthwhile response. I hope for your sake you're not like that in real life. This world could really use less arrogant jackasses.
Kentucky Bourbon Deviled Crab
Bacon-Burger-Fried Okra
Potato Candy
Turmeric Potatoes
Hot Sweet Pickled Durian
Chocolate Steak
Sausage and Muenster Couscous
Chicken-Bacon-Banana Kebobs with Garlic Rice
Survival Biscuit Casserole
Rockcastle County Vampire Tonic
Bubblegum Sauce
Baked Calpis Soda Ham
Marzipan Milkshake
Appalachian Voodoo Beer Cheese
Sweet Potatoes Baked in Hazelnut Oil
Pocky-Paraffin Edible Architecture
Squambo
Something to terrify just about anyone. Some how I think some of these are weird enough to be japanese or geek recipes (thinking of the japanese mint beer)
"It is a greater offense to steal men's labor, than their clothes"
... the Snoot.org infinite cookbook?
Just to whet your collective appetites:
"Lard Meatloaf
(serves 11)
1. 3/4 cup lard
2. 1 gallon cabbage
3. 2 tsp. ketchup
4. 9 tbsp. garlic
5. 3 pinches celery
Lard meatloaf is sure to please the toughest customer with its wonderful aroma and super-duper looks. Working with ketchup is fun and easy. The Vietnamese usually eat this dish with their hands.
First, preheat the oven to 100 and grease a 8x21" casserole dish.
Start by laying the lard in the casserole dish like you're on a cooking show.
Next, mix in cabbage quickly with your hands. (careful, it is a tasty treat!)
Then, mix in ketchup gently with a large spoon.
Spread the garlic.
Mix in celery quickly.
Cook 30 minutes or until dark brown.
While you're waiting, did you know that lard is made of pure yum?
This dish is best served warm."
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... It's called WHY NO ONE EATS AT MY HOUSE.
t m :)
Sample bits on http://home.earthlink.net/~rividh/asylum/random.h
~REZ~ #43301. Who'd fake being me anyway?
Gee, not sure where you've lived, but there are all kinds of dishes out here with some bourbon, tequila, whiskey, beer or liqueurs in them here on the West Coast.
It's not just wine.
They call that shit kim chi (not sure of the spelling) in Korea and believe me it is SHIT. The smell alone can kill.
Quite possibly the best thing I ever got for my kitchen. Hotdogs, humburgers, vegetables, if you can grill it, you can stick it on there.
;-)
Even works with hot pockets, and alot of other frozen foods that are usually just cooked in the microwave.
Oohhh, yeah, and when you see the fat dripping off, you know you're eating healty
The world could really use more asphyxiant diopsies.
Dude, these recipes are completely random... take, for instance:
"Mercury-Olestra Pancakes
1. 2 tbsp. mercury
2. 4 tsp. olestra
3. 7 tbsp. cabbage
4. 9 cups celery
You should get olestra in bulk to save time. Typically made with sea salt, this dish gets new life when made with the awesome power of mercury and olestra. Working with cabbage is fun and easy. You may want to make a triple serving size!
First, set the burner to medium heat.
Bring the mercury to a sizzle like there's no tomorrow.
Drain the pan and then mix in olestra.
Quickly, drain the pan and then mix in cabbage with your hands.
Drain the pan and then mix in celery like you're on a cooking show.
Roast the curry.
Sautee on medium heat until brown.
While you're waiting, it's worth pointing out that olestra does not cause diarrhea (you get that because you are a sinner!).
Mercury-olestra pancakes is best served cold. It's getting hot in here!"
(posted anonymously to avoid karma whoring)
The cookbook forgets to mention you better have an industrial strength toilet and roommates with no sense of smell before trying some of these recipes.
Be sure to buy an extra roll of TP too.
MeepMeep
I thought it said GREEK cookbook. I was like, wtf is that doing on slashdot.. Crazy CMDR TACO!
Even better, myself and a couple of friends in HS convinced a friend of ours that the earth was being flattened out like a pancake due to "some unknown gravitational force". It did take us a few days of reinforcing the idea with her before she really seemed to believe it, but afterwards she ran around school for a week trying to convince everyone else she knew that the earth was flattening out.
Perl - $Just @when->$you ${thought} s/yn/tax/ &couldn\'t %get $worse;
... either Captain Obvious or Doesn't-Get-It-Man.
How to cook geeks.
How to cook for geeks.
How to cook forty geeks.
How to cook for forty geeks.
You know, as funny as it sounds this is an incredibly great idea. Think about it, how many guys really know how to cook? How many guys are bachelors (esp the ./ crowd :)? I could see them gathering up a load of simple recipies and who knows...maybe publish a book under an open license? How cool would that be.
;)
I think I'll put my killer recipe in for boiling water
gee. this seems rather simple: do an Ask Slashdot on the subject and put top submissions into a Slashdot cookbook of our own, much like an interview.
Use my userscript to add story images to Slashdot. There's no going back.
Here...go nuts:
Ramen Recipe Database
Alright...there was at least ONE ramen recipe in there...but that guy has two hundred and five! If only ramen noodles weren't so scarce and expensive. Wait...nevermind. Notably absent now that I'm checking is "Prison Ramen", which IIRC was cooked in a bag of Cheet-O's for lack of an actual pot. In fact, I seem to remember there being more than 205 recipes last I was there (maybe got rid of more or less duplicate recipes), but that should hold you for awhile.
"These people look deep within my soul and assign me a number based on the order in which I joined" --Homer re:
I'd hate to be at the top of that elevator if the cable breaks...
Computer Science is no more about computers than astronomy is about telescopes. --E. W. Dijkstra
its long because its better than pizzahut
The money won't burn until 451'F. You should know that. The people in the book "Fahrenheit 451" had the right idea - burn the paper items which make people unhappy. They just got the wrong paper items.
Freedom: "I won't!"
This came from a friend's mother. It's *very* simple, and goes good with meatloaf:
1 C white rice, long grain (*not* instant)
1 can Campbel's Beef Consumme
1 can Campbel's French Onion Soup
3/4 stick butter/margarine (6 TBSP)
Place all ingredients into 1 qt casserole. Toss lightly (just enough to wet rice a bit). Bake UNCOVERED at 350 for 1 hour.
Trust me, you can feed this to your parents or your company potluck. Other brands of soups might work, but they've got to be the regular size soup cans. Resist the temptation to muck with it while it's cooking. It only looks right when it's done, when all the onions have automagically come to the top.
God I love that, and the recipe is almost the same as what I use, which I stole from Margaret Fulton. That's a really good cookbook (Margaret Fulton's How To Cook), even though it's 20-25 years old. Mmm.... Chili Con Carne that's been sitting in the fridge for a day (slowly reheated in the oven of course!), with fresh oven baked corn bread and a glass of icy cold Pale Ale!
Damn, I'm drooling just thinking about it, even though I had it last night!
Seriously though - most of the recipes in that book are disgusting. Would someone care to explain to me what a skillet is? Is it what you yanks call a frying pan?
Everyone should cook for themselves, processed food looks like shit, and it tastes like shit.
Do yourself a favour and do a lamb roast - make sure to rub the rosemary into it, and try to use lamb that's been fed on saltbush! Even better, do a turkey in the Webber - and place a small bit of hickory or other nice tasting wood in with it (make sure you've soaked it in water for a couple of days though!).
If you want to have real satisfaction, make yourself a spaghetti bol from scratch! Make the pasta (I recommend you buy one of those pasta cutter things), and make the sauce - but remember a real bolognase sauce should simmer in a frying pan for a couple of hours.
I love watching The Naked Chef, he's always making great things. He's much better than Delia - I keep imagining her as a dominatrix.
Of course I always have my guilty pleasure of eating chicken potato chips dipped in chocolate icing!
...are The New James Beard Cookbook (and Beard on Bread) and Numerical Recipes in C.
I think most of the recipes in Bachelor Chow can be improved with a liberal application of Pepto-Bismol or Tums. Mmmm, Tums.
Give them an inch and they'll take a foot. Much more than that, you won't have a leg to stand on.
Input: Flour, water, sugar
Hardware: Toaster oven, spatula
Algorithm:
1) Mix up some flour and water. The ideal ratio is somewhere between watery and cementy.
2) Spoon the mixture onto the flat metal option and put in toaster oven. A light coat of anything oily is helpful.
3) Set the temperature somewhere in the 100-400 degree range.
4) They are done when they start to look sort of dry but before they brown too much. Set your timer to 5 minutes so you don't forget about them and burn your place down.
5) Stack them on a plate, dumping sugar on each one. You can use the sticky surface exposed when you bite into them to blot up more sugar from the plate.
I find that most things worth snacking on can be reduced to one or two ingredients (e.g. sweet potatoes, smoked turkey, cold apples, popcorn). This also makes it easier to count calories and to buy things in single-serving quantities.
Would that be something like emptying a spitoon into bottles?
I think those of us who were around in the BBS days know all about the real cookbook for geeks...
This tagline is umop apisdn.
And to the guy who down below who says potatoes are toxic when uncooked, please, get your facts straight, as well. Potatoes are NOT hazardous when uncooked, no more than fresh corn or green beans. Take it from someone who loves a good red potato raw. The last person I heard who still believed spuds were poisonous was my great grandmother, and she no longer bought into that crap, either.
sheesh, some people's facts....
"See, we plan ahead! That way, we never have to do anything now."
Where are these women that you speek of?
I would say that the saddest Geek meal I'd ever heard of was when a Math PhD (who lived in a trailer, btw) was describing this "casserole":
1. Take some canned peas. Drain.
2. Take some canned corn. Drain.
3. Take some canned tuna. Drain.
4. Add peas to bottom of microwave-safe container, preferably tupperware.
5. Layer corn on top.
6. Layer tuna on top.
7. Repeat steps 4-6 until desired height is reached.
8. Microwave. Serves one.
At that moment I wished harder than I ever had in my life that I was a dumb jock living in a frat house.
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If you want easier Pad Thai, try the "Fake and Easy Pad Thai" recipe.
I think it tases better, too.
I'm not just saying that because that's my recipe.;)
But Shampoo makes some nice dishes
Jeez, you young wipper snappers. Simpsons ripped that off from the Twilight Zone. Just like they do a lot of halloween episodes. I think that the episode was called "To Serve Man".
Ingredients:
Buns (I prefer pre-split)
Dogs (quality can vary greatly - experiment here)
Greated cheese
Chopped onion
Tomato sauce (quality can vary greatly - experiment here)
Mustard (Colemans Hot English - accept no substitute)
Garlic butter or magarine.
Method:
Place dogs in pot of nearly boiling salted water for ~10min - important not to let the water boil or dogs will split.
While waiting for dogs, apply garlic butter to inside of split buns, chop onion, grate cheese, invert bottle of tomato sauce so it's easy to pour when ready.
Remove hot dogs from water & place in buns - pause momentarily with dog over pot, to allow excess water to run off.
Apply mustard to dog, followed by onion, then ketchup, then cheese.
Place dogs under hot grill ~1min till cheese is melted & bun slightly toasted - important to watch this part of the process carefully - very easy to burn dogs.
Eat with beer (quality can vary greatly - experiment here)
N.B. it's wise to have an antacid remedy on hand - could save a lot of discomfort.
Full plate and packing steel! -Minsc
Try here. It's isbn #0312243189.
See: The Swedish Chef
Full plate and packing steel! -Minsc
http://www.rawpaleodiet.org/ - Raw Paleo Diet Web Sitel
http://www.beyondveg.com, specifically http://www.beyondveg.com/cat/paleodiet/index.shtm
The second site is the "anti propoganda" - because I'm reasonable. A buddhist principle to keep in mind as you look through it (specifically in regard to raw animal foods) is to "rely on the teaching and not the person". (The author of _Instinictive Eating_ wasn't much of an instinctive eater, smoked, and died a couple of years ago of cancer - the author of some of the beyondveg pages seems to hold this against the diet).
Learn the rules so you know how to break them properly.
www.teslabox.com
I once knew a girl who said she was a homo erectus.
Snoot's got an infinite supply of randomly-generated recipes:
http://snoot.org/factory/recipe/
I wonder why the abobe post has not been modded up yet!
Please do!!!
Andrea
The author spends a lot of time explaining exactly what happens to food as you change the pH, explains what happens on the cellular level when you cook at different heats and for different times, basically reads like a chemistry text at times, all while giving some GREAT recipes.
I first heard the author on NPR a few years ago, and was very impressed. She would be talking your traditional cook-show talk, then suddently dive into these marvelously technical chemistry explanations that would just make Julia Childs fall over, foaming at the mouth.
I overclocked my microwave and now I am transported back in time whenever I make instant coffee.
Need to get back to the year 31337.
Eve Fairbanks says I drive a hybrid!LOL
Boil hot dogs in the microwave. You just need a glass of water.
A friend of mine dropped by while I was having lunch. He grabbed the water glass in which I'd boiled my hotdog off of the table & saying "Damn I'm thirsty!" drank it down. "What the HELL was that?" I had to admit it wasn't my urine sample eventually, to keep him from hosing down my kitchen with vomit.
Assembly is the reverse of disassembly.
Crush noodles before opening packet (unless you like them dripping all over your close/keyboard)
Fill bowl, dish or whatever works in microwave with warm water
Add spice packet and nuke water a minute or so on high
(add frozen vegetables and maybe a crushed hot pepper if you're a gourmand)
Add noodles
Nuke until just boiling
For those who can't take MSG (gives me splitting headaches, shouldn't this stuff be printed with a Surgeon General type warning?), Taste of Thai (Thai kitchen has some cool little packets of rice noodles in various flavors with no MSG)
Other than that, sugar and caffeine make the world go 'round.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
Why geek food is he way it is? It's not just fast, it's FAST and SIMPLE, because time spent fiddling around with it is time away from the project/keyboard/mouse/monitor/online/pr0n/slashdo t, whatever.
A feeling of having made the same mistake before: Deja Foobar
When you cook with alcoholic drinks, the alcohol evaporates (alcohol has a low boiling point), leaving just the flavor. When you cook with tobacco, does the nicotine evaporate? No.
bp
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*perk* Merfle?
(I know it's off topic, moderate if necessary)
I sing the doggie electric!
Step 1: Cut up apples.
Step 2: Make crust.
Step 3: Shit! There's no step 3! Where the hell is Step 3?!
There is a thin line between genius and insanity. I have erased that line. -- Oscar Levant
... if you want optimal performance out of your minds and bodies. Since humans didn't have fire until 40-100k years ago, it makes sense that we evolved to eat raw food. Cooking denatures proteins, creates free radicals, and a host of toxins. You know why people are aren't suing pesticide makers for causing cancer from residues in foods? It is because cooking makes food more toxic than most pesticide residue (see the work of Bruce Ames and his Ames test for proof). Futhermore, given the poor quality of animal husbandry in this day and age of factory farms and mad cow disease, it makes sense to go vegetarian. Guess who else was vegetarian- Socrates, Plato, Isaac Newton, Da Vinci, Einstein etc. So do you want to be a flash-in-the-pan geek who falls apart after age 30 due to lack of exercise and a shitty diet, or do you want to work toward the greek ideal of sound mind and sound body, like the raw vegan Pythagoras, and leave a lasting legacy? Learn how to sprout, it is cheap, easy, and eating them will make you feel pretty amazing->www.rawfood.com
A yogurt shake + wheat germ & bran flakes, wash it down with 1 large cup of hot black coffee. We used to call this combo The Pile-Driver . Try it, you'll find out why!
Well, for the ppl who want to show off their culinary skills, try this relatively easy bruschetta recipe:
;o)
-4 tomatoes
-2 garlic cloves
-1 tsps of pesto (or dried basil and oregano)
-1/2 tsp olive oil
-1 small onion
-1 baguette (or whatever white bread you can muster)
Chop and mix ingredients. Cover bread with parmesan, cook at 350 for 6 minutes and grill for 1 min.
It's yummy.
But that would be very mundane, and an awfully small meal to boot.