I was prepping some veggies for a thing I was making to take to a family dinner tomorrow and putting them into a colander to rinse all at once with pre-boiled water (stupid boil water advisory has been on for two solid weeks now, blah) when I looked over and saw ( this. )

( How to thaw a turkey on the internet. )

Okay. So, this wasn't even any kind of challenging cooking task, or an experiment, or anything involving fire at all and it still went foom ( Read more... )

I have a load of spices that I frequently use, but they're all in bulk bags and ziplock bags, so I decided to get some jars to put the spices in like I was an adult that actually had a clue what I was doing. However ( Read more... )

Note to self. When cooking bratwurst, remember to poke holes in them with a fork before they've been in boiling water for fifteen-twenty-forty-dunno minutes. The resulting jets of hot grease shooting out everywhere are 1) alarming, 2) bewilderingly long-ranged, and 3) tend to burst into flames when they hit hot stove elements ( Read more... )

Title: The Element of Surprise
Fandom: Cabin Pressure (Radio Plays)
Rating/Warnings: Gen, PG13 but contains one R-rated word right at the start, per the prompt. Radio Play script format (sort of). Formatting may go wonky in some layouts.
Word Count: 600-ish
Disclaimer: I do not own the characters or the world of Cabin Pressure.
A/N: Starting point ( Read more... )

Do not attempt to deep fry chicken and potatoes in a shallow open dish in an oven ( Read more... )

This soup fixes everything. I might have posted a recipe for this before, but even if I have it bears repeating.

( Potato Bacon Soup )

( My 'Treats' cupboard has spontaneously developed into Crossover fanfic. )

I have this uncanny ability to include explosions in any cooking-related activity. Today, corn-on-the-cob. While it was rawSee, I peeled the damn things, remembering afterward why it was always only ever done outside when I was growing up; bits of husk and silk everywhere. Then I tried fitting a cob in the pot, and it was too big. "No problem," I ( Read more... )