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[–] ocean@lemmy.selfhostcat.com 4 points 5 days ago (1 children)

Mianjin (seitan) or vegan ramen. Both super time consuming and hard but awesome!

[–] Emerald@lemmy.world 2 points 4 days ago (1 children)

I too am afraid to attempt seitan. I got all the ingredients and now they sit doing nothing.

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[–] dpflug@kbin.earth 4 points 5 days ago (2 children)

https://www.kitchentreaty.com/40-cloves-of-garlic-soup/

I made it once for Thanksgiving years ago. Everyone loved it. It was a pain. Especially since I didn't have an immersion blender.

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[–] Mac@mander.xyz 3 points 5 days ago

The only reason i do any cooking at all is because it's too expensive to buy food.
I hate cooking. It takes so much effort.

[–] shinigamiookamiryuu@lemm.ee 3 points 4 days ago (1 children)

Pavlova.

Working in the kitchen requires good coordination and an intuition I will never have in my current setting because it's not the form of intuition I was raised on. The ability to cook to precision without everything spelled out comes off to me as almost psychic, and I don't have that. So I will never be making myself my favorite dish.

[–] TheBananaKing@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Pavlova is almost boringly simple, though.

Beat eggwhites and sugar for ages with a little vinegar along the way, dump onto a parchment lined baking sheet, bake - then turn off the oven, leave the door open a crack and leave a few hours to slowly cool.

Instead of making a big intricate arrangement with the fruit, go rustic with it - bowl of sugared berries, bowl of whipped cream, dollop of each on each slice.

[–] MintyFresh@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago

Spring rolls. They are so much work. If you wanna do them right you have to start the night before. So many ingredients, the sauce. But they're soooo good.

[–] Majorllama@lemmy.world 3 points 4 days ago (8 children)

My mom makes these cottege cheese and bread crumbs dumplings that she boils until they float and then you cut them in half and drizzle melted butter and brown sugar on them.

I could never pronounce or spell the name of the dish but she claims it's a traditional German dessert.

I tried explain it to chat gpt and it had no clue what the hell I was talking about. It kept telling me about Turkish dishes that have the right ingredients but look nothing like the baseball sized dumplings she would make.

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[–] NeedyPlatter@lemmy.ca 2 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Soup dumplings. The broth for the soup has to be make in a specific way to solidify and I think there's also a complex method of incorporating the soup into the meat and veggies in the dumplings. It's just a very time consuming process all around. It's sucks tho because I love soup dumplings and being able to make a huge portion of them would be amazing.

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[–] Adderbox76@lemmy.ca 2 points 4 days ago (5 children)

I live in a different city and often find myself wishing for my mother's Portuguese Salted Cod Casserole. It was out typical sunday family dinner when I still lived in the same city as them. Not a cultural tradition, just because it was my favourite dish.

But the nature of it ensures that I'll never ever ever have the patience to do it myself, considering that step one is soaking the dried salted cod in cold water that you repeatedly replace for up to 48 hours in order to get the salt out.

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[–] RampantParanoia2365@lemmy.world 2 points 3 days ago (3 children)
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[–] scottmeme@sh.itjust.works 2 points 4 days ago

Ramen, but it takes so God damn long to make.

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