#I love to eat caramelized onions but I hate to make them >:/

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He's not very good at teaching anyone how to cook

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you could. probably think if some characters are texture eaters and if so which textures they would prefer or what reactions they'd have over disliked textures

@kimdokjafan replied

I would love to hear what you have to say about the party's food preferences! Things like favorite food, things they dislike/won't eat

i started answering this anon and then got this reply, so i'll combine them. got really long lol, food is such a complex topic!

bonnie enjoys the multi-textured fish head, so they're probably big on texture! i think they're starting to have enough cooking experience to get put off when a texture isn't correct. like the problem isn't the texture itself but rather that rice should not be like that, they overcooked it, yuck, ugh! they would probably make a new batch if possible. however, they're also used to eating what you have because it's all you have — sometimes the nice neighbor drops off her shitty mac n cheese and it's better than nothing, or you mix up salt and sugar for today's bread but you're almost out of flour — so they'll try to come up with a new use for the fucked-up batch where the weird texture works better, or just eat it themself. unpleasant, but better than serving it to someone else or wasting it! as for what they enjoy the most: lots of different textures mixed together, like a salad or deluxe burrito. and chewy things!

we know bonnie's favorite foods are pineapple, rice, and samosas. i'd say they love sweet things as most kids do, but they're really starting to prefer a little more complexity to their sweet treats, like the tart acidity of pineapple. rice is a great favorite bc it's a comforting plain staple, but it can also be used in such a variety of dishes, as the entire base or to add texture! bonnie likes spicy, sour, etc... bring on the flavor! honestly i don't think there's many ingredients they don't like, it's more often a case of that flavor doesn't go there, why would you do that??? maybe they haven't grown into bitter vegetables yet.

siffrin also likes the fish head, so they really enjoy a fun texture, and they like trying new foods as they travel — but when they don't like something they hate it. but they also hate to raise a fuss! so if they're eating with other people, they'll try to just eat around the offending element without making it too obvious that's what they're doing, and then claim they're just not that hungry. if they're by themself, they'll spit it out and rinse out their mouth and eat something crunchy. they don't like tomatoes, which is convenient bc they also don't like when sandwich bread gets soggy at all. they don't like mushrooms or caramalized onion. they enjoy super crunchy things and a nice thick soup!

we know malanga fritters are presumably his favorite. i think he likes mashed potatoes too. fish, of course, and hearty stews. he loves clam chowder! he used to be a big sweet pastries fan, but post-canon he pivots to fruity sweetness bc he can't stand caramel-marshmallow-candy sweetness anymore, and even fruit's on thin ice. most of his disliked foods are about the texture, not the taste. but he's also really sensitive to associations - if he coincidentally gets sick after eating something, eats something badly seasoned, etc, it'll put him off of that taste for a while even if he doesn't remember why.

iirc isabeau wasn't into the fish head. he likes simpler and more predictable foods! he gets yucked out by overripe fruits, but luckily it's usually pretty easy to tell if a fruit will be good. if he does accidentally bite into a bad one, he makes a face and swallows it as quickly as possible, and asks if anyone else wants the rest before he donates it to the local wildlife. he likes fluffy breads and nuts! he's the kind of guy to pack a stack of pb&js and an apple for lunch every day, just buying a different flavor of jam each time he runs out. he doesn't like anything too spicy or bitter! probably a cheese fiend too.

mirabelle isn't super particular about textures, but she is pickier about tastes; she doesn't like a couple common vegetables, like green beans and cooked carrots, and a couple common sauces, like mustard and marinara. she doesn't like nuts, but sometimes eats them anyway because they're so popular in dormont's house for some reason and she gets tired of refusing to eat them, and now she sorta hates them even more but also will absentmindedly stand there munching on them? in general if she doesn't like a food she's served she'll still try to eat enough to be polite, but sometimes can't manage it. some foods she loves are honey, olives, and apple pie. she does love plums too, but it's less that they're objectively her favorite taste and more that they're her thing. it's fun having a thing!

odile likes delicate textures like flaky pastries and watermelon, and doesn't like purely glop-based foods like oatmeal, though it's tolerable with a crunchy topping. she really enjoys a good meat, like a nice herby steak or buttery pork belly. she doesn't dislike sweets, but she doesn't indulge in them in often; when she does, she prefers lemony desserts or bitter chocolate. she finds most foods tolerable at least, and especially likes sharp flavors, like vinegar and vodka!

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Cooking staples I like to have in my kitchen

Hello internet, my name is Shroomi and I like to cook!

I've created this blog to share recipes and tips as well as learn some tricks from the cooking community here in tumblr 👩🏻‍🍳✧˖°🫧🥙˙ᵕ˙₊⊹

On this first post, I'd like to share some cooking staples I like to have in my kitchen. Please note that I don't always use all of them for a dish, instead choosing to combine them to get unique and wonderful flavours whenever I cook something ‧₊˚ ⋅ 𓐐𓎩 ‧₊˚ ⋅

Salt: I find it crucial to season lightly my ingredients as to enhance their natural flavour.

Herbs: They always add a nice touch of freshnesss to my dishes and they can give an extra touch to a dish. Plus, if you can't use salt in your dishes due to health issues, using some fresh or dried herbs will help make the food less bland.

Soy sauce: Same as the salt. I love little touch it adds to my food. Plus, combined with some sugar, it can make a very nice glaze, and diluted, it can be used to marinate meats or eggs.

Vinegar: I like to use if when making salad dressings along with salt, oil and soy sauce or herbs. I love its acidity, which is why i use it to marinate or pickle vegetables and fish.

Sugar: I use it for desserts, obviously, and for caramelizing onions or chicken. I may replace it with honey sometimes, but only when I know its flavour won't overpower the rest of the ingredients

Garlic: I live off this stuff. Making a stir-fry? Put some garlic in there. Breakfast toast? Rub some of that good stuff on the bread. Making soup? Throw some garlic cloves in there. Need a sauce? Just mash them with olive oil for an allioli or add some parsley in there as well. Garlic is just so versatile oh my god. And, as with the herbs, you can add it to your food to give it a bit of an extra kick if you can't use salt.

Spicy sauce: I love me some spicy sauce to add to my stir fries, my noodles or my fried eggs... The one I use now was gifted by a family friend from Mexico, and we've been using it for a while.

I would add smoked mild paprika and cinnamon to the list because I do use them sometimes, but I don't use them that much, so I wouldn't call them staples. And no, I did not put pepper on the list. I don't like black pepper. I know 99% of the world's population likes to season steaks and vegetables and well, anything really, with both salt and black pepper but I just hate it. Hate eating a steak and biting into a piece of pepper, can't really see what's so great about it... Eh.

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I had a friend over tonight for dinner. We've been planning this for about a month I think. We decided that we would have to get together and make pelmeni, because she is Russian and craves pelmeni. We, of course, decided to bring along the boyfriends. Because why not? Worst that can happen is we need to make them sit on special chairs at the end of the kitchen so that they don't get underfoot. My kitchen is so narrow it is functionally a hallway, and 2 people is pushing the capacity quite a lot.

So my friend arrives. I am, of course, very excited to see her. And we start making things. We start making the filling first. 30 cracks of black pepper and some salt to the meat (half pork, half beef, idk, a poundish each?). I add some allspice for fun. I think my allspice is too old to actually taste like anything. We only stop to think after mixing the meat and seasonings that we need to add the onion.

So I just assign onion-chopping and cooking to the Boyfriend, who is excellent at chopping onions and carefully browning them because he hates big chucks of onion, especially if it's raw. I ask my friend what her mom's recipe for the filling is, and she says "that's it, it's basically just meat and onion." We aren't sure about cooking the onion, we do it anyways. I let her boyfriend inspect my kimchi while Onion Caramelization takes place.

I ask my friend what her mom's dough recipe is. My friend is not going anywhere near making the dough tonight, since she doesn't want to mess it up. No matter, I'm the dough grand master. I am given "my mom says 1 egg and ice water. Oh, and put salt in the water." So I just make dough until I think I have enough. I do not, but we do not know this at the time. The dough is kneaded, we let it rest, and onward to rolling and filling.

We bought a plastic tablecloth to go over the dining room table, and now it's show time! Filling the pelmeni! I, of course, am not too bad at this. Yes, I have only done this once before in my life, but I am the dough master. Russian friend's boyfriend is surprisingly good at the dumpling filling part. This makes sense, he makes dumplings with his Korean grandmother occasionally. We ran out of dough, so I put him to work making new dough. And I get him to knead it for me, mwahahaha!

Sometime before we decide that we need a second batch of dough, we eat the pelmeni. A quick flurry of activity to clean and clear my coffee table into a dining table cause the real table has pelmeni bits on it. I steal the couch cushions and put them on the floor. Bam. Comfy seating. We get to eating. The pelmeni are delicious, especially with the small bit of butter each plate was topped with. There is a variety of seasonings and a simple soy sauce-vinegar dipping sauce. There is sour cream and dried dill. The pelmeni are delicious of course, no raw onion to be found.

I remembered the kimchi, and I get some out for my friend's boyfriend. It's amazing with the pelmeni, although my poor Russian friend has no spice tolerance and almost dies. My Boyfriend dislikes the smell and finds it very unpleasant. That doesn't matter, we're adding it to the next batch of dumplings anyways. I can't wait to try them. Oh and we made jam and fruit dumplings, that was nice.

We had a nice silver needle afterwards (lovely thick mouthfeel and violet candy notes) and plotted tea shop raids and Russian Friend's abduction after a ballroom dance competition.

[thedisneychef]

Taste the Flavorful Orange Beef at Polynesian Resort

My obsession with all things Polynesian rolls on…  Since the Kona Cafe Sweet Bread was such a huge hit in my house, I decided to kind of build an entire dinner around the how badly I wish I was at the Poly right now. Whenever it comes to making dinner that everybody is going to eat, it’s always a trick. Everybody has their own likes and dislikes, and of course, the only overlap I can bet on is that somebody’s like somebody else’s dislike. I love onions, my other half, he hates them. More Delicious Recipes You Will Love: - Ohana Bread Pudding with Banana-Caramel Sauce - Oreo Milkshake – Sci-fi Dine-in Theater - Passion Fruit Cheesecake – Ohana The adults like pork and steak, the kids like chicken. One loves corn, the other hates corn. But I have to say, this recipe made me really, really excited because it seemed to be on everybody’s “Ok, I’ll try it” list. Or at least the “you have no reason to not try this” list. One of the fun things about this recipe is that it has a history.  It started out as a signature dish at the Papeete Bay Verandah, a restaurant at the Polynesian that opened with the resort (and the park) in 1971 and closed in 1994 to make way for what is now known as ‘Ohana. After Papeete Bay Verandah closed, this dish (along with much of the old menu) did return for a period of time, only to be officially retired a couple years later. While a version of this does wander on and off the Kona menu from time to time (that version is a more updated dish, using mandarin oranges), this is a classic dish that’s largely been retired. Now, maybe I’m weird, but I’ve never, ever prepared beef like this before… In fact, I’ve never prepared meat like this before. This recipe calls for you to dredge the meat in a flour/cornstarch mix and then the egg, then fry it.  I’ve always, and I mean always, put meat in the egg and then the flour mix… And I was convinced I’d somehow gotten the order of things wrong. That first batch, I was so sure it wouldn’t come out and I’d have to switch to doing it the way I was used to. When it came out perfect… Well… Let’s just say it was another reminder of why the folks at Disney get paid the big bucks and I don’t. While there are a lot of steps, this was pretty easy to make and not really all that time consuming, and the resulting dish was amazingly delicious. I served mine over rice (spoiler alert: that rice recipe is the next recipe I’ll be blogging about) and while it was sublime using the beef, using chicken would work just as well and would be a healthier (and cheaper) option. I did leave out the red peppers, though. Because I still don’t like peppers. I also added just a splash of cornstarch because I wanted the sauce a little thicker. The results of this dish? Let’s just say there were no leftovers… And I’m so ready to be at the Poly. ~~~~  °o°  ~~~~ Conclusion In conclusion, Orange Beef at Polynesian Resort is a must-try dish for anyone visiting the resort or looking for a flavorful and unique beef recipe. This dish is known for its tender beef strips, slightly sweet and zesty orange sauce, and savory accompaniments that make it a crowd favorite. Whether you're a fan of Asian-inspired cuisine or simply looking to try something new, Orange Beef at Polynesian Resort is sure to satisfy your taste buds and leave you wanting more. In addition to the delicious food and recipes, Disney World is also known for its unique dining experiences, such as character dining and themed restaurants. Whether you want to have breakfast with Mickey Mouse, dine in a replica of a sci-fi drive-in theater at Hollywood Studios, or enjoy a meal with an ocean view at the Coral Reef Restaurant in Epcot, there's something for everyone. And with the help of Recipes Today and the How to Make category, you can even recreate some of these magical dining experiences in your own home. So why not start planning your next Disney-inspired meal or dining experience today? Read the full article

[thedisneychef]

Taste the Flavorful Orange Beef at Polynesian Resort

My obsession with all things Polynesian rolls on…  Since the Kona Cafe Sweet Bread was such a huge hit in my house, I decided to kind of build an entire dinner around the how badly I wish I was at the Poly right now. Whenever it comes to making dinner that everybody is going to eat, it’s always a trick. Everybody has their own likes and dislikes, and of course, the only overlap I can bet on is that somebody’s like somebody else’s dislike. I love onions, my other half, he hates them. More Delicious Recipes You Will Love: - Ohana Bread Pudding with Banana-Caramel Sauce - Oreo Milkshake – Sci-fi Dine-in Theater - Passion Fruit Cheesecake – Ohana The adults like pork and steak, the kids like chicken. One loves corn, the other hates corn. But I have to say, this recipe made me really, really excited because it seemed to be on everybody’s “Ok, I’ll try it” list. Or at least the “you have no reason to not try this” list. One of the fun things about this recipe is that it has a history.  It started out as a signature dish at the Papeete Bay Verandah, a restaurant at the Polynesian that opened with the resort (and the park) in 1971 and closed in 1994 to make way for what is now known as ‘Ohana. After Papeete Bay Verandah closed, this dish (along with much of the old menu) did return for a period of time, only to be officially retired a couple years later. While a version of this does wander on and off the Kona menu from time to time (that version is a more updated dish, using mandarin oranges), this is a classic dish that’s largely been retired. Now, maybe I’m weird, but I’ve never, ever prepared beef like this before… In fact, I’ve never prepared meat like this before. This recipe calls for you to dredge the meat in a flour/cornstarch mix and then the egg, then fry it.  I’ve always, and I mean always, put meat in the egg and then the flour mix… And I was convinced I’d somehow gotten the order of things wrong. That first batch, I was so sure it wouldn’t come out and I’d have to switch to doing it the way I was used to. When it came out perfect… Well… Let’s just say it was another reminder of why the folks at Disney get paid the big bucks and I don’t. While there are a lot of steps, this was pretty easy to make and not really all that time consuming, and the resulting dish was amazingly delicious. I served mine over rice (spoiler alert: that rice recipe is the next recipe I’ll be blogging about) and while it was sublime using the beef, using chicken would work just as well and would be a healthier (and cheaper) option. I did leave out the red peppers, though. Because I still don’t like peppers. I also added just a splash of cornstarch because I wanted the sauce a little thicker. The results of this dish? Let’s just say there were no leftovers… And I’m so ready to be at the Poly. ~~~~  °o°  ~~~~ Conclusion In conclusion, Orange Beef at Polynesian Resort is a must-try dish for anyone visiting the resort or looking for a flavorful and unique beef recipe. This dish is known for its tender beef strips, slightly sweet and zesty orange sauce, and savory accompaniments that make it a crowd favorite. Whether you're a fan of Asian-inspired cuisine or simply looking to try something new, Orange Beef at Polynesian Resort is sure to satisfy your taste buds and leave you wanting more. In addition to the delicious food and recipes, Disney World is also known for its unique dining experiences, such as character dining and themed restaurants. Whether you want to have breakfast with Mickey Mouse, dine in a replica of a sci-fi drive-in theater at Hollywood Studios, or enjoy a meal with an ocean view at the Coral Reef Restaurant in Epcot, there's something for everyone. And with the help of Recipes Today and the How to Make category, you can even recreate some of these magical dining experiences in your own home. So why not start planning your next Disney-inspired meal or dining experience today? Read the full article