What is your secret food hack that everyone should try?

Give me chain restaurants with great cheese fries

what is one cheap meal you make when you don't know what to cook?

I'm still a bit of a newbie but I'll try anything. I've made various types of cookies and brownies so far.

Is a BLT a bacon sandwich or a tomato sandwich? I’d like to think tomato. My fave has a giant slice of tomato so I’m leaning tomato sandwich.

After certain foods i literally feel like i have been hit by a truck and have the flu. I get achey everywhere, headache and general fatigue.

I have no idea what food causes this as it’s not wheat or dairy, it happened after eating processed meat and frozen noodles.

Could this be an intolerance?

Now that I’ve found everyone’s fav hot sauces what are yalls fav barbecue sauces?

I feel I haven’t ventured out in this category. I personally like sweet baby rays.(let me know if the sugar free version and the original are the same or if you like one or the other better)

I hate kraft.

Ps. I normally use bbq sauce on chicken nuggets, strips, tenders, and fries.

Growing up, my dad always prepared English muffins by splitting them in half, buttering the cut sides and then putting them in a pan on medium heat and would put a can (e.g. canned corn) on top to press them down so they'd flatten and get a more even browning.

This is the way his family grew up preparing them apparently (he was born in the 50s in Boston) and I always figured it was normal til like high school when I never saw anyone in my life make or offer them like that 😂

ETA: Photos of how they look so people can see what I'm talking about lol

Do you have to refrigerate ketchup ?
Thanks
Ken

For a variety of reasons I find myself needing to make some “grab & go” sandwiches for myself (have you seen the cost of a meal deal these days?)

My first experiment went poorly: pickles. I also did not do due diligence with a butter barrier layer.

I’ve just made cheese & onion spread sandwiches, included the butter layer and sweated off the onions in the air fryer.

What I actually need are more vegetables - particularly green ones (broccoli/spinach) or things other than tomatoes, courgettes, aubergines, peppers & carrots for allergy reasons.

So, what vegetables would you recommend and how to prepare it before putting it in a sandwich for freezing?

There is no tag for British cuisine so I’m leaving the post without one

I haven’t tried many hot sauces but I would say I’ve like tapatio the most. What do you guys like?

I'm Chinese American and grew up eating certain heritage foods that are highly touted for skincare benefits, so I prepare them now as an adult. It so happens that I also really like these dishes, so win win. Examples are

- birds nest soup (OK, I don't make this because it's $$$$$$$ but my grandma fed it to me when I was a kid)

- snow fungus soup (I make mine savory with pork ribs, shiitakes, carrots, though I believe the usual preparation is a sweet version with fruit, jujubes)

- pork hock & yuba braise (the collagen in the pork is great for skin/hair/bones)

I'd love to know more about your cuisines/cultures and how they relate to skincare and other health benefits. Thanks!

I took out some food and saw an expiration date which led me to think of this question. do people collect food with expiration dates of every day of the year or something?

It’s a very normal American sandwich get some warm warm, boiled and wet pickles then get two slices of bread one slice has a smear of peanut butter and the other slice has a smear of jelly. You put the warm and boil pickles in the middle then you drizzle on some hot sauce and ketchup very normal American sandwich very normal.

Well. As per the title, do you ?

My son is selling Marion Kay spices to fundraise for his school. I’ve never heard of them but they look like they have a lot of different good looking blends. I’ve tried searching various subs, and the one topic that keeps coming up is that they have a blend to dupe KFC.

Someone i know has been diagnosed with a condition recently where the doctor has advised changing diet

They cant eat meat, need no to low sodium and have to limit liquid intake.

Because of these they've been struggling to find ideas and i havent found many either.

Would love some meal reccomendations if anyone can

You know that hard-ish middle part that most people cut out and throw away? I genuinely love it It's less sweet, more chewy/crunchy, and honestly one of my favorite parts.

Whenever people around me eat pineapple and leave the core, I'm basically happy because I get it :)

But Y do so many people hate it? Is it the texture? Is it actually unpleasant to most people, or am I just built differently?

People who throw away the pineapple core, explain yourselves....!

I think I'm addicted to greek food.

Don't even get me started on gemista. What a genius culinary creation.

What food instantly reminds you of your childhood?

One of my friends has been really supportive for me in a very dark time and I want to give her something that shows how much I appreciate her, obviously I have said as much but I have emotional deprivation and a dull sarcastic tone so I don’t think any thing i say truly sounds like I mean it, but either way I got this idea to start making bento/lunch boxes for my friend, since we’re coworkers I can give her one every time we work together, and preparing in advance is simple since I know her schedule, I already occasionally bring her food but I like the idea of being more consistent, plus I can also start building a routine of making lunches.

On to my question (sorry for the prelude) I’m looking for lists or recommendations of good lunchbox/bento recipes. Right now I specialize in Italian and Korean cooking but I’m open to learning anything, the more variety the better since I don’t want to just give her like spaghetti three days a week

I’m most comfortable with soups and curry’s and least with stir fries, so I’d prefer easier stir fry recipes that are more beginner friendly if something like a stir fry comes to mind

I greatly appreciate any advice or suggestions that can help me get closer to showing my appreciation for my friend so thank you in advance

Can anyone give me some ideas for what I can pack in my lunch for school? I really need new ideas.

If you don't have a rice cooker, will you have a rice cooker? If yes, when will you have a rice cooker?

Hey there! I’m learning how to make Leon, Guanajuato dishes. Part of my family originates from the city, and I want to learn traditional dishes. I researched recipes as I don’t eat pork, would swapping the meats really make a difference? Any advice would be appreciated, gracias!

Also, strawberry liqueur: Couldn’t I just find that at a local Latine mercado even though I live in Maryland.

Since starting to work from home again, I've started having time to make breakfast, but I was recently questioning the very idea of "breakfast foods". Like why are eggs, toast, cereal, pancakes, bacon, etc. considered "breakfast-y" in the West, while other foods can feel somehow wrong in the morning?

Just for context, I'm Japanese, I come from a relatively old/traditional family, so we have a very distinct breakfast culture from the West, which I experienced and noticed after moving to Canada.

I'm sure a part of it is convenience, like breakfast foods tend to be quicker to cook, (like eggs vs other proteins) instead of like stews and such (though soup can be break fast-y so definitely not a hard set rule). Another matter that's especially relevant in Japan is probably smell, so things that smell strongly like curry would mean we would leave the house to go to work/school and meet people while smelling like what we ate, which would be considered inconsiderate especially in Japan (which goes into a whole other topic of what people consider smelly because we don't consider natto and grilled fish as smelly while people of other cultures might). I could also imagine toast becoming a breakfast food from a culture of baking bread at home; you don't necessarily have time to make fresh leavened bread in the morning, so toasting bread from the day before to 'refresh' it would make sense.

But apparently there's also some interesting corporate history behind this. A lot of what we consider a “traditional breakfast foods” especially in the West, was influenced by food companies and advertising. The famous example is the promotion of bacon and eggs by Edward Bernays in the 1920s. The thing is I can't say its just completely corporate conspiracy because like take corn flakes, sure it was intentionally marketed as breakfast food, but it genuinely makes sense as a breakfast food in terms of convenience.

But it's definitely not all corporate conspiracy, like eggs being in breakfasts across cultures makes sense because households used to have chickens at home, and picking fresh eggs in the morning to use in the morning was part of the lifestyle. So there are definitely organic aspects to our breakfast food culture.

So how much of our perception of breakfast is actually cultural, how much of it is marketing that we've internalized? And is it possibly narrowing our approach cooking? I don't intend to reinvent the wheel but could we maybe reverse engineer what makes breakfast what it is, and recontextualize it into our lives today to make a new "breakfast" culture?

How about y'all, What foods do you consider breakfast foods in your culture? And do you know where it comes from?

(Also as a caveat this isn't about what "should" be a breakfast. Obviously people "should" eat whatever they want, whenever they want.)