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Mike Drone

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Cooking/Baking/Food has the power to bring people together. This a relaxed fun thread about food and drinks. Snack food is also included. What are you eating and drinking throughout the day? My main passion is photography but I also like to bake cakes, pies, cookies, etc. One day I will put them together... no i am not baking my camera. To start I made an 18" Reeses's peanut butter cup.
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I cook and quite alot, normally from scratch. Today was takeaway Thursday, but I do quite a few pasta dishes. I'm quite pleased with my almost traditional carbonara (no cream, no mushroom). I do a pretty good Amitriciana. Sometimes I even make my own pasta.

Yesteday it was scallops in a garlic butter sauce with a hint of chilli, I've made them before with black pudding and pea pureé. I made Doro Wat recently too which is a delicious Ethiopian spiced chicked curry using Berbere. Thai coconut curry, spicy chicken wraps with blackened sweetcorn also recent dishes that turned out pretty good. I do my own chicken tikka korma, cullen skink (a scottish creamy soup made with smoked fish, kinda like a chowder), chicken and chorizo wraps, salt and pepper ribs, katsu curry. Last time I BBQed I made a killer pork loin satay. My new oven has a rotisserie function so I've been making rotisserie chicken too!

Here's some pics:

Scallops, black pudding and pea pureé with chili prawns


Caprese salad


Duck with home made 5 spice, giant rosemary and garlic cornbread crutons, green beans in tomato sauce


Gin marinated strawberry and blueberry cheesecake with white chocolate and a rasberry gel


Lingune carbonara
 
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Everyone's food looks really good.
Cinnamon buns
I also bake most of our bread but lately it has been too hot to do so.

Coincidence I made (quickly, not trying to win awards rolls) homemade cinnamon rolls earlier today also to go with the coffee. I do make homemade bread quite often, they eat it so fast. I like to wait for the bread to cool while the family likes the bread hot out of the oven.
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Hot bread is the bomb. Especially with a crusty crust.
 
These aren't recent pictures, but I make a mean pumpkin pie.

Roasting the squash (I don't use sugar pumpkins anymore, but a combo of acorn and kabocha)

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Pureed

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Homemade crust

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Random picture of the girls

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Main pie and auxiliary pies

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Mmmm, pie

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These aren't recent pictures, but I make a mean pumpkin pie.

Roasting the squash (I don't use sugar pumpkins anymore, but a combo of acorn and kabocha)

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Pureed

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Homemade crust

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Random picture of the girls

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Main pie and auxiliary pies

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Mmmm, pie

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I envy you. On the rare occasion that I make pumpkin pie it comes from a can and I always forget to by condensed milk. I make it as little as possible because it taste to much like industrial store bought pumpkin pie, or like a can. The only thing going for it is my homemade pie crust. Your pumpkin pie looks really good.
 
I could eat a steak. Or three crabs. Or a short stack of pancakes. Or a dozen biscuits.
 
These aren't recent pictures, but I make a mean pumpkin pie.

Roasting the squash (I don't use sugar pumpkins anymore, but a combo of acorn and kabocha)

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Pureed

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Homemade crust

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Random picture of the girls

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Main pie and auxiliary pies

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Mmmm, pie

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Looks good.

I leave pastry to my wife who makes incredibly light flaky pastry. I usually make the fillings for pot pies which we freeze for quick meals when - - -
 
I don't have many pics of my food, though I do enjoy cooking. Usually just ready to eat it. :lol:

I made an Irish stew last year. This is a pre-baking shot:

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This spring, I tried an egg custard and wish I hadn't. I'm addicted now. Sad. This picture just shows the custard after I dusted it with nutmeg. I have now advanced to making a light fruit glaze, tossing blueberries, strawberries, etc., in and piling it on top. I'll have to get a shot of that, it's amazing.

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This has nothing to do with cooking, other than this is what usually accompanies my robo-meal efforts, in some form or fashion. :biggrinangelA:


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This morning I made a bundt cake and then I had to go to my office at school for a couple hours. This is what I found when I got home.

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