Cooking Challenge 2.0: Sept's Voting and Nov's Challenge Up

[T-Bone]

Chili is out? Psh, that sounds like a challenge.

[zoraster]

i don't understand why chili is out. There's no reason you can't brown meat in the same pot as you do the chili. that's usually what i do anyway?

[singersigner]

I assume it's in if you don't use a crock pot to make chili, which is common. I see no reason why it would be ineligible if your way of cooking it is on a stove top.

[beastcharizard]

This looks like fun.

I think I can join so I should ask some question.

The only rule is I can just use one pot or pan? Like I can do whatever I want with said pot or pan?

[Nexus]

I made chilli in a slow cooker this week without browning the mince? It was fine.

[shaft.ed]

i don't understand why chili is out. There's no reason you can't brown meat in the same pot as you do the chili. that's usually what i do anyway?

actually this is a better method because brown is tasty

[zoraster]

don't get me wrong: chili isn't that great for the competition because it doesn't photograph particularly well, but it seems like it should be allowed.

[quadz08]

it is allowed, he was specifically saying chili

in a crockpot

isn't allowed because you'd brown the beef elsewhere

[Grimmjow]

What quadz said

[xRECKONERx]

i don't understand why chili is out. There's no reason you can't brown meat in the same pot as you do the chili. that's usually what i do anyway?

es, a slow cooker does count. But things like chili are out, because

you can't brown the ground beef in

another

pot/pan

.

This looks like fun.

I think I can join so I should ask some question.

The only rule is I can just use one pot or pan? Like I can do whatever I want with said pot or pan?

Yep, everything has to be made in the same pot/pan. Technically, I guess you could cook something in a pot, then empty it out and plate it, then cook something else in the pot, then plate it, then... etc. but that seems way too hard.

I made chilli in a slow cooker this week without browning the mince? It was fine.

[zoraster]

what? no. I'm saying you brown the meat and keep it in there and finish cooking the chili that way. there's no need to take the meat out.

[mykonian]

hmm, hard challenge.

[Fenchurch]

Can you have accompaniments that aren't cooked in the same pot? Like, if you did chilli, are you just meant to serve it as it is with no rice/tortillas/tacos, or would those be allowed?

[Sudo_Nym]

And am I allowed to use bowls and stuff during the cooking process, or just the one pan?

[xRECKONERx]

I asked the same question and he said you could use bowls and plates and stuff to put stuff but you can only cook it in the one pan/pot/whatever.

The idea of the challenge is to COOK everything in the same pot. If you were going to do taco meat then have lettuce/tomatoes/etc cut on the side that's fine because it's not cooking it.

[shaft.ed]

soooo

basically i can cook whatever i want i just have to do it in serial instead of parallel?

[Grimmjow]

That's not exactly the idea of the challenge, but I think it'd be interesting to see if you could pull if off, so that's cool. My concern with doing it that way would be to see if all of the components would come out hot of if everything would come out a different temperature.

[Juls]

Chicken Thighs with Cannellini Beans and Spinach

by Juls

So I am not even going to pretend this recipe is my own. While I was on maternity leave last year I was watching The Chew and I saw this made. It looked fantastic so I made it. I have made it probably ten times since. Here is the recipe. It is my favorite one-pot dish. The whole family loves it and my daughter thinks I am cooking "fancy" when I serve it.

Spoiler: Ingredients

Spoiler: The Pot in Various Stages

[Grimmjow]

That looks amazing! Will attempt later <3

[shaft.ed]

scrummy

[xRECKONERx]

god that looks good

[mykonian]

wow Juls, that looks really nice!

I didn't have any inspiration, but I've currently set in my dinner for tomorrow (and it looks like it'll be my dinner for the rest of the week as well). You'll see about it tomorrow!

[quadz08]

We've actually done something quite similar to that in the past; we really like it, and it turns out really good!

[mykonian]

Because I had no inspiration, what you are getting from me is as close as you are going to get to a typical Dutch dish. Which means it's not really intended to be shown, but to be eaten. Perfect for this challenge then

Snert

Spoiler: Ingredients

500g split peas
Selery (both the bit underground and a bunch of the leaves)
Carrots (I got two small ones)
A leek (because it was huge, 500g. Otherwise you might go for 2)
200g of bacon, I got it in pieces
I don't know what the meat is called, it's from the leg of a pig, has quite a bit of fat in it and takes a long time to cook properly. It was roughly 300g. Ideal for this soup. But any tough cut with bone is probably going to work.
250g smoked sausage (not on the picture because I got it the second day).

The recipe I looked up called for potatoes to fill it even more, but I didn't want that.

The recipe further is easy. Brought two liters of water to a boil, added meat (apart from the smoked sausage), rinsed the split peas, added them, cleaned and cut the vegetables apart from the celery leaves, added those.

Spoiler: Oh god this pan is looking full, I need friends

Boiled that softly for about 3 hours, basically boiling everything in it to pieces. Let it cool down and then let it sit overnight. Next day, reheated it. Apparently this helps the flavour/texture. I'll believe that.

Put in pieces of smoked sausage and the celery leaves, reheated the soup. Added a lot of salt since it was rather sweet, it was maybe a tad light on the meat, tad heavy on the carrots. Probably a couple of spoonfull till it became something I liked. My dad says that in a good snert, you could stick in your spoon and it would stay upright.

Spoiler:

Success!

After that, most of that I've put in the freezer, a little more in the fridge, and the bottom bit (which was already a lot) I've just served myself together with rye bread and sweet cured bacon (which is a bit decadent). It didn't taste as bad as I remembered it.

[T-Bone]

0/10 don't know how to cook in metrics...