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November 11, 2015 at 11:46 am #87221

Joe
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Hi All

I thought I’d make a positive post – about food! Why? Food is fun to eat and food to prepare, right?

I love cooking – about two years ago when I was going through a really rocky patch, I guess I just started to learn how to cook. When you’re a 20-something art student at university – pizza all the way. If not that, you have the Chinese/Indian/pizza takeaway on speed dial (or just-eat.com). I guess at that time I was really consuming and overindulging in over-processed junkfoods or convenience foods, the kind of stuff which takes little or no time to prepare. Even when my diet consisted of pizza, cakes, cookies, Cadburys chocolate, I admit I still liked to make enchiladas (albeit the easy-make-from-the-package enchilada kits you can buy from the supermarkets). When I started learning how to cook from scratch, I wanted to learn how to make enchiladas from scratch (bearing in mind I’m a vegetarian/now vegan so the chicken was always substituted with Quorn meat substitute, I no longer use the fake meats now). I guess my first attempts were instinctive without really referring to a recipe of sorts but from these experiments spawned an obsession I have about cooking.

I have a lot of fun cooking, so what is your favorite food? Do you love cooking – if so, what do you love to cook? Maybe share a few recipes of what you enjoy cooking? Have you been somewhere nice and tried some of the local delicacies?

November 11, 2015 at 12:40 pm #87223

Matt Micek
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Congraulations, this is a wonderful story! I also love cooking, and haven’t ordered a meal for like half a year now. Simply because I love doing the work myself so much. Recently I got enchanted by Chinese cuisine and am now trying every ingredient I can get my hands on Those recipes are often so fast and so enjoyable to prepare!

November 11, 2015 at 1:37 pm #87226

humour
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I am not great at cooking and not much time on my hands but I do cook at times and would love to explore more because I find it very therapeutic. Great post and a reminder for me to start again.

November 16, 2015 at 6:54 am #87637

Nekoshema
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I like food and I enjoy cooking [went through culinary school so I kind of have to lol] I have a real talent with food, but it’s not really my passion. I am shocked when people say they hate or can’t cook. With the holidays coming up I’ve got to get started on my baking, I ship a tin of homemade truffles and chocolates to my family every year. It’s easy to make, just time consuming.

November 16, 2015 at 9:49 am #87643

Anonymous
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Dear Nekoshema:

I would like to share with you my cocoa recipe. I am referring to Hershey’s dark cocoa, 10 calories per tablespoon:

Add it to anything at all, don’t mix it thoroughly, so you have clumps of the powder enveloped in a wet surface of cocoa and let’s say with yogurt- or a beef stew, anything. Add it, partially mix it and do not inhale it (it is a powder and I have inhaled it, unpleasant!)

This is not a joke. I go through so many containers of cocoa it is amazing. I am coo coo for cocoa.

anita

November 16, 2015 at 1:35 pm #87666

Nekoshema
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Lol I’ve added cocoa powder to stews before, cinnamon and chocolate are amazing together. I know the horrors of breathing in the powder though, I roll my truffles in the stuff. [Its also a huge mess when the powder gets everywhere then the truffles start melting from the heat of my hand.]

November 16, 2015 at 5:59 pm #87694

Anonymous
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Nekoshema, this very afternoon I had cocoa with sardines (to be exact, I dipped zucchini bread with melted chocolate in sardine oil, highly recommended), it was delicious! The key is to be careful with the powdery factor, it will be a mess if not careful. Like you wrote. It is amazing how far cocoa goes in baking, cooking and otherwise for way less calories than chocolate, and so cocoa is a winner!
anita

November 17, 2015 at 1:41 am #87744

Joe
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Oh yes, I love cocoa as well! Especially with cinnamon and coconut milk

November 17, 2015 at 7:09 am #87756

Anonymous
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Dear J:

Happy Birthday again. Of course cinnamon goes with cocoa, so does vanilla, but then everything goes with cocoa as far as I am concerned. I like almond milk the best. Cocoa…. is there a club out there for cocoa fans or do we start one here…

anita

November 17, 2015 at 12:46 pm #87795

Nekoshema
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Speaking of zucchini bread, have you ever had zucchini almond cake? It’s so good! Never had a moister cake. Though some find it a little too sweet but that’s from the glaze, which I’m sure you could omit [But what’s the fun in that? Lol]

November 17, 2015 at 8:16 pm #87822

Anonymous
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Nekoshema, the zucchini bread I have is made with apple sauce (excellent substitute for oil and makes it moist) and walnuts. And very dark chocolate in there. Didn’t have almond zucchini bread. This morning I started my day with a cereal with lots of cocoa mixed in there with yogurt and oatmeal and the last thing I had this evening was almond milk with…. cocoa mixed in (and cinnamon, vanilla and stevia). Cocoa in the morning, cocoa in the evening. That is my… way of cocoa living!
anita
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