anybody here cook for a hobby?

faster100
faster100 Posts: 6,124
edited March 2024 in Clubhouse Archives
me and my wife love to cook, she does the gourmet meals and i do the baking.. works out great!

Last few days i have been making breads for dinners, my specialty is bread.. every holiday the family is like, what bread ya making cliff?

thought id snap a few before and after pics yesterday for the fun of it...

well this is the finished product anyways
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  • BlueMDPicker
    BlueMDPicker Posts: 7,569
    edited January 2005
    Looks absolutely delicious!

    I like to cook - as long as it's outdoors. I especially like to smoker cook beef brisket, turkey, and fish (grouper is a favorite.)

    Mike
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  • faster100
    faster100 Posts: 6,124
    edited January 2005
    Oh when it comes to meat, I smoke all the time.. my choice is st.louis ribs, beef brisket... I just started trying smoking with cedar, Hurricane knocked down a huge cedar tree down the street.. wala a stack of cedar logs...
    MY HT RIG:
    Sherwood p-965
    Sherwood sd871 dvd
    Rotel 1075 amp x5
    LSI15 mains
    LsiC center
    LSIfx surround backs
    Lsi7 side surrounds
    SVS pb12/plus2

    2 Channel Rig:

    nad 1020 Pre-amp
    Rotel 1080 stereo amp
    Polk sda 2B
    kenwood grunt Tuner
    realistic lab 450 TT
    Signal cable IC
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  • bobman1235
    bobman1235 Posts: 10,822
    edited January 2005
    My mouth is watering over that bread....
    If you will it, dude, it is no dream.
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  • Willow
    Willow Posts: 11,056
    edited January 2005
    I took a baking class in college........now my wife and I really enjoy cooking.....we have to....my step-mother is an amazing cook my step father owns a catering company and a good friend is a chef in Toronto......so when we have peeps over it has to look and taste great...nice loafs
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  • jdhdiggs
    jdhdiggs Posts: 4,305
    edited January 2005
    Originally posted by bobman1235
    My mouth is watering over that bread....

    Funny since my first glance on the screen and I was like "WTF did he do to that Turkey?" I need more sleep.... :mad:
    There is no genuine justice in any scheme of feeding and coddling the loafer whose only ponderable energies are devoted wholly to reproduction. Nine-tenths of the rights he bellows for are really privileges and he does nothing to deserve them. We not only acquired a vast population of morons, we have inculcated all morons, old or young, with the doctrine that the decent and industrious people of the country are bound to support them for all time.-Menkin
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  • faster100
    faster100 Posts: 6,124
    edited January 2005
    People always comment, oh cool do you have one of those bread macines.. LOL

    here it is, its home made... :D
    MY HT RIG:
    Sherwood p-965
    Sherwood sd871 dvd
    Rotel 1075 amp x5
    LSI15 mains
    LsiC center
    LSIfx surround backs
    Lsi7 side surrounds
    SVS pb12/plus2

    2 Channel Rig:

    nad 1020 Pre-amp
    Rotel 1080 stereo amp
    Polk sda 2B
    kenwood grunt Tuner
    realistic lab 450 TT
    Signal cable IC
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  • faster100
    faster100 Posts: 6,124
    edited January 2005
    and riseing
    MY HT RIG:
    Sherwood p-965
    Sherwood sd871 dvd
    Rotel 1075 amp x5
    LSI15 mains
    LsiC center
    LSIfx surround backs
    Lsi7 side surrounds
    SVS pb12/plus2

    2 Channel Rig:

    nad 1020 Pre-amp
    Rotel 1080 stereo amp
    Polk sda 2B
    kenwood grunt Tuner
    realistic lab 450 TT
    Signal cable IC
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  • Airplay355
    Airplay355 Posts: 4,298
    edited January 2005
    i love cookin, never cooked bread though. usually i just flip through the cookbook and find something that looks good. always fun to try new things :)
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  • Demiurge
    Demiurge Posts: 10,874
    edited January 2005
    The one on the right most represents mine. :p;)
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  • Polkapops
    Polkapops Posts: 267
    edited January 2005
    I love to cook as well! As a matter of fact, I enrolled in our community college's course last year. I'm 41 years old and was thinking of a career change as a chef. Originally started out going for the degree but soon decided just to zero in on the 'hands-on' lab classes. The bake shop classes were so cool and the cooking classes were a blast to boot. After talking at length with some of the seasoned chef/instructors (ok, bad pun!) they enlightened me to the fact that the industry is really geared toward a younger workforce. Read: Constantly bustin' yer ****!! So I think I'll wait another 9 yrs after I'm eligible to 'retire' from my current employer (30 yrs) and take the remainder of the classes (they are in the evening and I work 2nd shift by choice) and do something I enjoy part time for a living......
    One of my favorite breads we learned was an herb & oil loaf with seeds on top, and you brush it b/4 and after the bake with an herbed garlic oil, which makes the bread very soft and chewy. Goes great with homemade pesto! If there's ever a 'gathering' of Polkies up in my neck of the woods, I'd be happy to make some and bring it along......absolutely awesome!:p
    I'm a little behind the times and I don't have a computer at home or a digital camera, or I'd post some pics as well - but maybe someday - Hell, we just upgraded to our H/T & stereo after 20+ yrs of a faithful old Onkyo & a 25" Zenith. Still running an antenna on the roof - No cable or dish, pretty much just watch DVD's. But I kinda equate that with the 'down home' lifestyle. Which is why I love to cook and bake hearth breads by hand. Another little trick I learned is that if you go down to your local brick store and purchase some fireplace bricks (need to measure your stove's interior) and place them on an inverted jelly-roll pan on your stove's floor, it replicates a brick oven - Makes the BEST pizza! Crank up the oven to 550 or hotter and let those bricks pre-heat -Man, you get signature 'oven spring' pizza crust just like at the pizzeria - Works great for hearth breads as well.......Just place the dough directly on the bricks - make sure you dust the peel with cornmeal first, otherwise it'll stick.....Okay, I think I've rambled long enough - don't want to bore all of you! :p
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  • disneyjoe7
    disneyjoe7 Posts: 11,435
    edited January 2005
    If I put a picture of myself using my BBQ for cooking Steaks, all you are in your kitchen I'm on my porch 70f right now 8:35pm 1/6/05 will you hate me?

    :D

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  • faster100
    faster100 Posts: 6,124
    edited January 2005
    i hear ya, I'm in florida too.... was cleaning my attic tonight and sweating...
    MY HT RIG:
    Sherwood p-965
    Sherwood sd871 dvd
    Rotel 1075 amp x5
    LSI15 mains
    LsiC center
    LSIfx surround backs
    Lsi7 side surrounds
    SVS pb12/plus2

    2 Channel Rig:

    nad 1020 Pre-amp
    Rotel 1080 stereo amp
    Polk sda 2B
    kenwood grunt Tuner
    realistic lab 450 TT
    Signal cable IC
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  • gregit
    gregit Posts: 284
    edited January 2005
    Originally posted by jdhdiggs
    Funny since my first glance on the screen and I was like "WTF did he do to that Turkey?" I need more sleep.... :mad:

    LOL...same here!!
    Greg

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  • faster100
    faster100 Posts: 6,124
    edited January 2005
    My daughter came home from school and seen the picture on my screen and said, is that a turkey? oh wait thats your bread.. she's 6, I said someone online thought the same thing :D
    MY HT RIG:
    Sherwood p-965
    Sherwood sd871 dvd
    Rotel 1075 amp x5
    LSI15 mains
    LsiC center
    LSIfx surround backs
    Lsi7 side surrounds
    SVS pb12/plus2

    2 Channel Rig:

    nad 1020 Pre-amp
    Rotel 1080 stereo amp
    Polk sda 2B
    kenwood grunt Tuner
    realistic lab 450 TT
    Signal cable IC
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  • Polkapops
    Polkapops Posts: 267
    edited January 2005
    Wow - WAY cool table & chairs! Looks like that tufted 50's look - They original?
    HT & Music System:
    Receiver - Denon AVR-3805
    DVD/SACD Player - Denon DVD-2900
    Outlaw 770 amp
    Polk LSi 15's up front
    Polk LSiC center
    Polk LSi F/X surrounds
    SVS 16-46 PC+ Subwoofer
    Sony Wega KDF-50WE655
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  • Shizelbs
    Shizelbs Posts: 7,433
    edited January 2005
    I am starting to like cooking more and more. I have found good food takes only a tad bit longer to make than crappy food, but it tastes much better, and you eat less of it. So, its fun and rewarding to learn.
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  • faster100
    faster100 Posts: 6,124
    edited January 2005
    The chairs are remakes, But authentic 50's lucy chairs reproductions, the take is original 50's.. the cabinet in the background is a vintage hoosier from around 1910 - 1920, i restored it myself.. we have a 50's kicthen with mostly real stuff..

    Not records nailed to the wall and checked tile like some people call a 50's kicthen, :D its our hobby
    MY HT RIG:
    Sherwood p-965
    Sherwood sd871 dvd
    Rotel 1075 amp x5
    LSI15 mains
    LsiC center
    LSIfx surround backs
    Lsi7 side surrounds
    SVS pb12/plus2

    2 Channel Rig:

    nad 1020 Pre-amp
    Rotel 1080 stereo amp
    Polk sda 2B
    kenwood grunt Tuner
    realistic lab 450 TT
    Signal cable IC
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  • Frank Z
    Frank Z Posts: 5,860
    edited January 2005
    Originally posted by Demiurge
    The one on the right most represents mine. :p;)
    Are you serious! You actually "pinch a loaf" that big!?!
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  • Demiurge
    Demiurge Posts: 10,874
    edited January 2005
    Only in the football pool. :D:p:D
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  • sowen010599
    sowen010599 Posts: 343
    edited January 2005
    I cook, I am a cooking machine. I make lots of breads, smoked meats, full meals, gourmet, whatever. My favorite cookbook tho is a book that was my grandmothers. She was from Britain, so is the book. Lots of very interesting things in there. BAMMMM!
    Go BIG or go home!
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  • Pauly
    Pauly Posts: 4,519
    edited January 2005
    Must have missed his thread till i started drinking the homebrew..I'll attest his bread is pretty damn tasty. Think i had the remake of Mac Grill Rosemary bread....Tasty. I am a sucker for bread. I live 1 mile from the bakery that supplies 90% of tampa with cuban bread...Fresh outta the oven with some butter after a few beers..DINNER!!!!

    Pauly
    Life without music would♭
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