#food experiments

[toyastales]

Salted caramel chocolate mousse cup

[bjurnberg]

I like to take cookies to work, especially when I’m experimenting with new flavors (last week was strawberry rose cookies).

When one of my coworkers has a birthday I ask if they have a request.

This one kid has the strangest flavor ideas because he has no understanding of baking, just things he likes. I love that his requests make me have to sit down and think how would I do that?

This year’s birthday request is:

Root Beer Cookies

So I’m making a molasses cookie base and put root beer flavored drink mix powder in with the flour. I’m also crushing up root beer barrel hard candies to see if they melt and re-harden like toffee (the hard Werthers are great for this) or maybe I can roll the cookie in the hard candy powder after I crunch them up - like a sugar coating.

So far the dough tastes… good? Unexpectedly good. I legit did not expect it to taste so much like root beer. My tongue is confused because this root beer is solid not liquid.

Will report back once they bake.

[karizard-ao3]

My quest to make orange creamsicle flavored yogurt continues. I think I might be on the right track, but I added too much orange drink powder (I did half of a Sunkist water flavor packet this time). I'll still eat it, but the taste is a little too powerful

[stardust-lightning]

Friday the 13th unfortunately got my ass this time so tonight was extra indulgent with carbs and Italian seasoning galore

I've made mac and cheese pizza before but not garlic bread, and it actually came out really well! I also wanted to make a heart-shaped pizza with today being Valentine's Day ❤️

[greenboi1]

I want to tell someone about the wild melt I made. (this post is encouraging you to try it yourself)

Everyone time I've made this everyone nearby started dunking on me with how unappetizing it looked and the weird combo, but they never actually tried it so they didn't understand the depth of my genius by creating this combo

This is a slice of bread topped with jalapeño cream cheese, ham, salt, pepper, paprika and msg, tabasco, sweet/honey mustard and cheese, then microwaved for 90 seconds.

The most important step to this combo and the thing most people thought was weird was the tabasco and honey mustard combo. By having a lot of tabasco and a reasonable amount of mustard they balanced each other out, by contrasting the sweet mustard with the spicy and vinegary tabasco.

This combo sprung forth from the combo of tabasco and honey on a melt, but without the spices. I made that but thought it lacked spices, but with pure honey it was too much on the sweet side to add spices, so it tasted pretty weird. So I came up with the idea of adding honey mustard to keep the dish in the savory category, but with a savoury type of sweetness from the mustard. This combo then enabled me to add more spices to make it taste better.

The taste of this dish is pretty interesting with the different ingredients, but the basic melt ingredients of cream cheese, ham and cheese create a normal, but tasty combo, especially with a little jalapeño. By then adding spices it, of course, spices it up by tasting both better and more, and by adding tabasco on top of that the vinegary and hotness increases the enjoyment of this combo even more. By so adding a type of sweet mustard on top of that you contrast the spicieness of vinegary taste from the tabasco, but at the same time you add a mustard flavor which combines with everything else to elevate this melt to another level. And, of course, it's important to heat it up to get the maximum enjoyment out of it with streachy and melty cheese and the general enjoyment of a hot meal.

So, my conclusion is that I think people should try it before they start dunking on it, just because it seems weird.

I also want to encourage other people to try different, weird and new combos without caring about what other people think of your food, you may create a new and delicious combo noone else has though of before. So make sure to be creative with your food, as it would be a sad life if other people dictated what you should eat.

[rainyfestivalsweets]

4/10/24

Read the first chapter of the book for my new class. Holy shit. Very heavy. Neuroscience n shit.

Food today:

I feel good about these choices- cucumber, eggs, buffalo ranch salad, shrimp alfredo, turkey sausage, strawberries n yogurt.

Worked about 10 hours. Read that chapter. I am toast.

[carolinetehcool]

i 'm currently making a baterry acid spaghetti inspired meal. i am dipping sour worms in orange juice. i call it "energetic hyper dip"