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day 8: roasted carrots im so frustrated with roasting vegetables. i can never get them to taste right https://t.co/H2KP7dofH1
everything else i tried i got right on the first day. i just can’t get roasted vegetables to taste how i want them look at these sad carrots https://t.co/kRLIcfThzT
the only other thing ive struggled with so far was also roasting vegetables. the broccoli https://t.co/PdxbUnLjW2
i fucked up. parbroiled broccoli too long. all mushy. breaking apart when i mix with olive oil. keep roasting and roasting and it’s somehow burned to black and still gloopy. oversalted the dip into inedible territory. all fuck up. no one’s mad. life is good https://t.co/l9hCbksGGP
i wonder if this is a feedback loop thing. i can’t see what im cooking. with meatballs and burgers and eggs and stiry-fry, i can smell it and know what’s up https://t.co/3CkhSsASwO
even pasta https://t.co/3CkhSsASwO
it used to feel like nothing could go wrong. now everything goes wrong, and i don’t know how to fix it. https://t.co/VUfWtMFwzW
ok in a fit of frustration i made another batch a/b/c/d/e/f testing a bunch of variables i found one of the six was acceptable it was the carrots par-broiled on a stove for 3 minutes and turned after 12 minutes https://t.co/BfHlv2sFer
fuck. is there something to these recipes? that’s exactly what the best those numbers are exactly what the top recipes say roasting vegetables seems more an example of what @petrichor_lull called “technical cooking”
i tasted these very 5 minutes, and i still can’t make head or tail of the feedback loops dips and spices and stovetop cooking i can adjust within seconds. roasting takes dozens of minutes all i know if i follow what worked again exactly, it might work ugh
i do have some learnings par-broiled longer made the carrots mushy and gross. par-broiling less just makes carrots bitter by the time the texture is any good flipping does… something important, somehow i don’t even feel like eating the rest.
part of the problem is my spices are not here to rescue me https://t.co/uw7mvb5Cfg