I tried. It works well as a substitute for Tia Maria or Kahlua. In truffles or in their runny formulation - icing/dipping chocolate sauce.

Sometimes it is imperative that you unambiguously specify stuff. Quoth Jacob [of Bible fame]: I will serve seven years for Rachel your younger daughter. 

Thanks!

I’m much aware of the open possibilities, but don’t care to invest the time

It’s tough; I would suggest you approach this as a creative/artistic endeavor. An escape from timeline dictatorship into the freedom of decompression. Like a painting workshop. In that one you’d be a beginner too, but that’s expected. So’s with cooking.

this thing with onions and (later) garlic going in first is still true, but applies to stuff that will be ‘wet’ in the end, i.e. something in sauce, or a soup; when the onions are translucent and the garlic isn’t yet burned, one adds some ‘wet’ stuff, and proceeds from there

Hmm. If my PC didn’t freeze, I never found another reason to turn it off. Boot sequence is a pain, ‘cause I’ve already arrived, parked my behind, and now I’m useless for minutes. I’d rather waste the hundred watts or so and have my computer always ready.

Thanks!

Duh!

Free advice 1: after washing and peeling, and washing again, as long as celery root is not immersed in the cream, let it have a sheen of lemon juice, to prevent oxidation.

Delightful read, this. Thx.

I was let off after 19 years with one hi-tech outfit. I was tactically surprised, but not strategically (in the sense that I knew it would eventually happen). I thought I took in in my stride, and convinced myself that all was fair and square. However, some 6-7 years after the event, I found out I was deeply offended…

you may perhaps want to corner the rights to “Pluripes, The Human Centipede”

Looked it up (Nigella Lawson recipe). I like spicy, but the quantities she has in her recipe scare me. Still, it must work, even if I’d add some chopped parsley 30 seconds before all’s done.

Since it’s about cooking, rather than merely frying, I’ll stake a claim for https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakshouka.

Re: you’ll be surprised at how much salt this dish can soak up, here’s a tip - every other time you make this, ‘fix’ the dish, while oven hot, with soy sauce. It’s a tasty alternate that works!

Meh. With a capital M.

you are, of course, wrong - but the mummy simile is great!

there is much truth in your comment; it gets to be an absolute truth if the brie is cold

well nigh required!