The very special Porteus forum cooking and baking thread
Posted: 10 Jan 2021, 21:59
We all know Porteus being a very special OS - easily tweaked into ones very special needs or preferences.
Since today a similar cooking situation occurred than did some weeks ago - both on a Sunday - I want to share them here.
The purpose of this thread shall be about specific reasons why you had to spontaneously improvise cooking and / or baking wise, and share the impromptu success.
Hopefully the two examples are clear enough so that you get what I mean.
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I had fresh pasta (to be kept cooled) and fresh white button mushrooms (German: Champignons) set aside for today's Sunday's dinner.
Now since I planned for that dinner till yesterday I would have had the chance to think of the desired sauce, but Alas! Silly me did not. Since I happen to live in beautiful but notorious conservative Bavaria, no shops open in my small town and any around it in a 25 km radius. Only when getting the pasta and mushrooms out of the cold, I realized a single cream and pepper sauce is what I desired for the dish - only to have no single cream (German: Sahne)
What to do? I looked through my cooler and found curd cheese and cottage cheese - and choose to use half of both as impromptu single cream replacement.
Fried the mushrooms, added pepper, salt and finally the curd cheese and cottage cheese, heated it up gently and after checking the taste added the hot boiled pasta.
To my delight curd cheese and cottage cheese together with good amount of pepper and a bit of salt make for a very good single cream replacement.
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The other need for culinary impromptu was also on a Sunday and because of closed shops. (See a pattern?)
Since I happen to have two times only used a small part of fresh yeast - and after some too many weeks in the cooler the larger rest of the fresh yeast went bad, and all that in times of 2020 when yeast - fresh or dried - was very hard to come by due to Covid19 panic buying.
So spontaneously on a late December Sunday I decided to make a classic Italian style vegetable pizza to put the 2nd half of the fresh yeast to good use.
Made the pizza dough, choose the vegetables, heated the oven, spread the pizza dough on the baking tray… only then I realized in my spontaneous decision to make pizza - I had no pizza cheese, only aged and too-good-for-pizza alpine cheese / cave ripened cheese.
What to use instead? I also had no instant mashed potatoes which can be used as cheese substitute for au gratin…
So I looked what else I had available that could be used as impromptu au gratin, and found several very ripe bananas.
Ravas thought pattern was like " very ripe bananas … sure are similar when heated to melted cheese or mashed potatoes… and when choosing only vegetables that would not clash with bananas, my first impromptu attempt at a vegan pizza might even be a success. "
And so I choose mainly orange and red sweet pepper, but also cauliflower, and spread the ripe bananas over everything, adding good amount of chilli and a bit pepper, while the base was classic tomato sauce.
And what can I say: the impromptu vegan pizza was yum yum! / yummie.
Since today a similar cooking situation occurred than did some weeks ago - both on a Sunday - I want to share them here.
The purpose of this thread shall be about specific reasons why you had to spontaneously improvise cooking and / or baking wise, and share the impromptu success.
Hopefully the two examples are clear enough so that you get what I mean.
_____________________
I had fresh pasta (to be kept cooled) and fresh white button mushrooms (German: Champignons) set aside for today's Sunday's dinner.
Now since I planned for that dinner till yesterday I would have had the chance to think of the desired sauce, but Alas! Silly me did not. Since I happen to live in beautiful but notorious conservative Bavaria, no shops open in my small town and any around it in a 25 km radius. Only when getting the pasta and mushrooms out of the cold, I realized a single cream and pepper sauce is what I desired for the dish - only to have no single cream (German: Sahne)
What to do? I looked through my cooler and found curd cheese and cottage cheese - and choose to use half of both as impromptu single cream replacement.
Fried the mushrooms, added pepper, salt and finally the curd cheese and cottage cheese, heated it up gently and after checking the taste added the hot boiled pasta.
To my delight curd cheese and cottage cheese together with good amount of pepper and a bit of salt make for a very good single cream replacement.
_____________________
The other need for culinary impromptu was also on a Sunday and because of closed shops. (See a pattern?)
Since I happen to have two times only used a small part of fresh yeast - and after some too many weeks in the cooler the larger rest of the fresh yeast went bad, and all that in times of 2020 when yeast - fresh or dried - was very hard to come by due to Covid19 panic buying.
So spontaneously on a late December Sunday I decided to make a classic Italian style vegetable pizza to put the 2nd half of the fresh yeast to good use.
Made the pizza dough, choose the vegetables, heated the oven, spread the pizza dough on the baking tray… only then I realized in my spontaneous decision to make pizza - I had no pizza cheese, only aged and too-good-for-pizza alpine cheese / cave ripened cheese.
What to use instead? I also had no instant mashed potatoes which can be used as cheese substitute for au gratin…
So I looked what else I had available that could be used as impromptu au gratin, and found several very ripe bananas.
Ravas thought pattern was like " very ripe bananas … sure are similar when heated to melted cheese or mashed potatoes… and when choosing only vegetables that would not clash with bananas, my first impromptu attempt at a vegan pizza might even be a success. "
And so I choose mainly orange and red sweet pepper, but also cauliflower, and spread the ripe bananas over everything, adding good amount of chilli and a bit pepper, while the base was classic tomato sauce.
And what can I say: the impromptu vegan pizza was yum yum! / yummie.