Cooking thread

@SeraphimDawn  
That doesn’t look very appetizing…

@QueenCold  
It’s still food. XD

Vegetarian recipes!
 
And for the meat lovers.

@QueenCold  
No, but this quickly cooked lunch it is.  

 
Before you ask, yes, I have more than just one tablecloth.
 
And yes, I know my pics look blurry, and I know what a macro option is.  
But I’m not getting my camera’s lens near to a constant source of hot steam. :(

@Anonycat  
Understandable. I’m not gonna judge.  
Those potatoes look good!

I bought that camera 3 years ago and I’m still sore over how much I paid for it so I treat it with gloves. :P (It uses genuine Schneider lenses, none of that Samsung lens bull. Takes great photos at night, even without a tripod.)
 

 
And the potatoes also taste heavenly!  
Crunchy texture, still chewy inside and I only cooked them using sunflower oil and unprocessed salt (grinded before using it that’s it.)
 
You can also make potato omelete if you prefer: http://spanishfood.about.com/od/tapas/r/tortilla.htm
 
(Personally, I add shredded spicy sausage to the mix)

@Anonycat  
What are those dishes called?

@SeraphimDawn  
The one in the pic or the one in the link?  
Just hash browned potatoes with garlic steak and (leftover) curry rice from yesterday’s pic. The salad is just one chopped tomato with 1 shredded green onion, sunflower oil and salt.)
 
The one from the link is “Tortilla de papas” (Potato omelette)

@Anonycat  
Ah, thanks.
 
They look appetizing.

Gennaro makes Ricotta Ravioli  
I LOVE RAVIOLI!!!

What do you get when you are hungry at night but only have fridge scraps and it’s too late to go to the store for more ingrediantes?
 

 
You get this yummylicous sandwich. (2 cheese slices, a chopped tomato, oregano and 3 chopped olives, all melted in a small, covered pan and poured into a Marraqueta.)

@Anonycat  
You’re making me hungry…

I’m kinda good at improvising food with whatever I have available.
 
I used to cook ramen using an electric water boiler and a cereal bowl.

Don’t mind me, just having toast…

Ramen cooked in an electric water boiler. :P
 
(Ramen noddles, spinach, carrot, red pepper, cilantro, a bit of garlic and the flavor package (chicken) because why not, plus a cup of green tea to wash it down. You can replace the flavor package with 1/4 of a concentrated broth cube.)  
Boil the water, chop the ingredients, break the noddles and put everything in a cereal bowl (veggies first) then add the flavor package/grinded broth cube, cover everything with boiling water, cover the bowl with a dish to keep the heat inside and let it sit for five~seven minutes.  
 
I wish I also had an egg, but again, it’s late, it’s cold and the neighborhood’s stores are closed. (You boil the egg inside of the electric boiler, then you take it out and immediately use the same water for your ramen. Let the egg cool down while the ramen is cooking itself, then peel it, cut it into slices and use it as toppings for your finished ramen along the remaining herbs.)

I had a hamburger bun with a teriyaki marinated portabella and lettuce. I had a bowl of rice and a banana on the side. Pretty simple.  
I like to slightly toast my hamburger buns.

@Anonycat  
I would probably love that. Noodle dishes are my favourites.
 
Japanese Curry Noodles

@SeraphimDawn  
I’m sticking with Indian curry ;)

@QueenCold  
I have to agree. Once you’ve tasted any Indian curry, you will never go back to that cheap hack known as ‘Japanese curry’. I don’t even think it’s curry, Japanese curry lacks the pungent cumin aroma and taste that many Middle Eastern, Mexican, North African, and Indian dishes are so rich of.
 
My family, particularly my mom, generally don’t like spicy foods :( … wimps….
 
Personal Rambling.  
I dislike how some Chinese people cradle to their cuisine as if it’s the only relevant and best foods in the world, without even bothering to explore other taste buds around the world. Chinese food is good, but not the best. You know why I believe the Chinese immigrants ‘adapted’ their food to Western tastes? One, the availability of certain ingredients. And second, maybe it’s because they realized their food really actually sucked compared to the more tastier western foods they’ve come across, but they didn’t want to admit it? No offense to any Chinese here, as I’m of Chinese heritage myself. I’m getting sick of the same food… well, at least I HAVE FOOD. I shouldn’t complain.

@SeraphimDawn  
I like Indonesian food a lot more. My favorite comfort food is actually Thai. I love Pad Thai!

@QueenCold  
Sadly, the only things I know about Indonesian are Indomie and tamarind.

@SeraphimDawn  
There are many things I used to love and things I still love. I love their sweet soy sauce, keçap manis. I also love tempeh, gado gado, I still love Indomie, I love satay, pisang goreng…  
I used to be a big fan of daging smoor, daging rendang and - though this isn’t truly Indonesian, it’s something that was specifically made up to cater to the Dutch tastes - babi pangang.

@SeraphimDawn  
I hear Chinese food in China is rather bland.
 
Dunno if that is still true as this was before the country really opened up.

@Whatevs  
It depends on personal tastes. Maybe it’s just because I’m getting bored of eating the same food for my entire life.

@SeraphimDawn  
also the different cuisines…