Post the last thing you cooked

[Pube Truth]

You are quite welcome.

[FAGGOT WATCHIN TRON]

While Mary's suggestion may be a good one, she is incorrect in that it is the only cook book you will ever need. The kitchen Bible is as follows:

The Joy of Cooking

I recommend the older version, not the 75th Anniversary, although either is excellent really. Seriously, it's everything from every type of cuisine to varying degree of difficulty and technique you need to know. And not just cooking, but baking, too. Literally EVERYTHING. Also it has the best index ever.

[Pube Truth]

Carly and I just had a little AIM fight about this. Fannie Farmer's still the way to go (if you were only to buy one) in my opinion, but with these two cookbooks combined you will be unstoppable in the kitchen.

[oatmeal fetish....]

I am always looking to be unstoppable 

[FAGGOT WATCHIN TRON]

To be fair we disagree on the issue without ever having experienced the other's suggestion. (But Joy of Cooking is totally better)

[Pube Truth]

Fannie Farmer's been around for 100 years. Longevity, baby. But seriously, I've never used JoC. Carly you suck.

[Violent Unrest in Allentown]

Joy of Cooking represent.

Also:

Pork chops, french cut style green beans (yuck!), and jasmine rice. Drinking a nice Sam Adams Summer ale along side.

[TheOfficer]

I am also a Joy of Cooking girl. I have my mom's super 60s edition that she got when she was a teen. Its pretty sweet. 

I just wanted to say something about kitchen appliances really quickly. I recently picked up an Aroma 8-Cup rice cooker from target, and it is my favorite appliance I have ever owned. This thing is amazing. It cooks the best rice I have ever had, and it steams vegetables and meat AT THE SAME FUCKING TIME. Everything I've cooked in it has been god damn delicious, and since I bought it 3 weeks ago I've probably come close to using it every day. It cooks jasmine and stick short grain rice perfectly, will keep rice warm for hours, and has a timer built in so you can set it to have the rice done at 7 a.m. even if you put it in the cooker the night before. Damn amazing, and it was only 30 dollars.
I've never been perfectly happy with the rice I've cooked, its always inevitably burnt onto the pan and been too soggy or dry. This shit is perfect. It rivals the sticky rice I get in real japanese restaurants (especially if you add some sesame oil before steaming!). So, thats my plug. Go to target and buy this if you eat a good amount of rice, or even like steaming your food.

http://www.target.com/Aroma-8-Cup-Cool-Touch-Rice-Cooker/dp/B000HKFE8G/sr=1-8/qid=1219626311/ref=sr_1_8/602-3962339-6518227?ie=UTF8&index=target&rh=k%3Aaroma&page=1

[Violent Unrest in Allentown]

I always hate my rice too. Maybe I will invest in this.

[WWW.SETH.COM]

The last few time I have eaten rice I have added loads of spices to change things up a little and been pretty happy with the flavorful results. Does anyone else do anything similar?

[Larry Flyntz]

I use broth instead of water when I make rice, but the flavor addition is subtle.  What sort of spices do you use?  I need to expand my rice repertoire.

[WWW.SETH.COM]

I tend to used mixed quantities of the following in my rice:

garlic powder
onion powder
ginger
cayenne pepper
salt
pepper
paprika

[Shire Le Buff]

A rice cooker is a great investment.

I like to make some brown rice, then put it in a bowl, crack and egg into it, put it in the microwave, then when the egg is cooked, mixed it up with some black beans and cheese.

It's delicious.

Also Flyntz, that sounds a lot like rizotto, have you ever tried making some? It's time consuming but great comfort food.

[Coney_Island_n*gga1983]

i have a joy of cooking and love it, but lately i've been using this more:

http://www.amazon.com/How-Cook-Everything-Simple-Recipes/dp/0471789186/ref=pd_bbs_sr_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1219632953&sr=1-1

wonderful. some of the recipes are stupidly simple, but it gets the job done. taught me how to cook eggs better, etc.

[oatmeal fetish....]

I almost bought that one too Ginger. I'll see how the one that I got looks, try out some stuff, then take a gander at this one in a bookstore.

[Infinite Jerkgrinders]

Also Jasmine rice is the vietnamese whore of the rice world. Want good rice? use Basmati, Texmati, or Nishiki rice.

STAYING ON TOPIC:
the last thing I made was Teryaki Chicken Fried Rice. Simple, yet awesome, particularly because I made enough for dinner the next day (it keeps well) For extra flavor use sesame oil.

Next I'm thinking island jerk chicken kabobs or something similar. Gotta load up on random spices for that though.

[oatmeal fetish....]

RECIPE!

[Larry Flyntz]

Also Flyntz, that sounds a lot like rizotto, have you ever tried making some? It's time consuming but great comfort food.

Well, it isn't risotto unless you go through the ridiculously long and slow process.  Just dumping in broth instead of water makes flavorful rice, not quite the same.  Anyway, I have made risotto, and it wasn't anywhere near worth the effort.  Regular ol' rice is fine by me.

[Infinite Jerkgrinders]

RECIPE!

Don't really have a nailed-down recipe, I just follow a set o' guidelines and add stuff according to what I feel like at the time 'o cooking

[Pube Truth]

pan-fried steak rubbed with salt and pepper, and a simple salad of mixed spring greens and corn cut fresh from the cob.