August
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Link grab bag for July 2007

Posted In: Development, Java, Links, food by Chris Lamothe
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March
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Batch Cooking

Posted In: Thoughts, food by Chris Lamothe

While walking to the market today my friend Cyril proposed we take turns cooking food in large batches. It would only take a few like minded people for us to benefit from cooking on a large scale, making meals that most bachelors and couples would find too large or expensive to prepare, such as lasagna or chili.

We quickly came up with a list of batch cooking recipe candidates:

  • Chili
  • Bread
  • Pate
  • Picklings
  • Jams
  • Pies
  • Cookie doughs
  • Duck (If you want to make confit you’ll need at least 3 ducks)
  • Lasagna
  • Pierogies
  • Pate Chinois
  • Soups

With luck, we’ll get a few more people together (4 to 6 people, 8 tops).

I hope to avoid the “too many cooks” issue by delegating a meal to each household and having the household coordinate the shopping and preparation, while splitting the grocery bill between each participant. Once a month should be a good starting pace, and if it picks up we could add homework assignments such as cookie dough exchanges.

I think there is a lot of potential here, and with the practice there are a few recipes that I would like to use as Christmas gifts (the pate, picklings, jams and cookie dough all come to mind).

The next step will be to find a few more people to join us, and find out who’s cooking first.

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