Anyone ever experiments in cooking?

[AdminAssistant]

CC, you could also try a quick saute to get a bit of caramelization (sp?) going on the veggies before putting them on the pizza.

[AccountingDrone]

CC, you could also try a quick saute to get a bit of caramelization (sp?) going on the veggies before putting them on the pizza.

This might be a better idea than adding salt to aid draining ... there can be a lot of salt in cheese.

Get a clean linen tea towel, and line it with unbleached paper towels, lay the chopped veggies on it, roll it up like a tootsie roll and twist to squeeze out excess water then the quick saute - cabbage is a real beast for exuding water when heated!

Add me to the list of people who like to play with food =) You can find amazing new foods by experimentation, and some nights the dog gets lucky =)

[tollbaby]

Nearly all my cooking is experimentation. I've never followed a recipe to the letter, and I love modifying things with new ideas.

(For instance, I once accidentally made this awesome pasta sauce with tomatoes, eggplant and onions, and it was delicious. Next time I made it, I threw in some cream cheese... and it was delicious! The third time I made it, my boyfriend balked at the eggplant so I used zucchini -- which he also doesn't like -- and it was delicious. The fourth time I made it, I used sour cream instead of cream cheese, and threw in a pound of shrimp - and it was delicious.... Now he's forbidden me to experiment further with the recipe, because it is, in his opinion, perfect LOL)

[r2cagle]

I experiment a lot too. And I scour recipes that have new foods, follow the recipe to the letter the first two times, and then I experiment and change things up.

However, I've got a 'meat and potatoes' man so most of the experimenting is limited to different ways to cook meat, vegetables and a starch. Since hubby is not a big fan of soups or casseroles it's been a challenge to try new things AND make them wheat-free for my son.

However, I did discover that cooking venison or beef in a sarsparilla soda marinade makes it delicious. And that the Peanut Butter Factory makes a chocolate peanut butter that makes fabulous peanut butter cookies, so sometimes just watching for new things in the grocery store pays off big time. I can get great results with fewer ingredients.