Ditched all non-stick and have exclusively stainless steel cookware now. Interested in carbon steel. Are premium brands worth it or is it all the same? Any brand recs?

So, I am a university student living in Canada and I just would like to earn some money. I have tried to look for a job, but haven't been able to find one after searching for like 8 months (it's really hard to find even an entry-level job here in Canada thanks to the government - some people I know have been looking for like 2 years now!). However, I was essentially forced to stop looking due to circumstances (I'd say mostly caused by parents forcing me to focus more on university and that I just couldn't do both university and have a job and not fail my courses), so getting a job now really isn't an option for me.

I was thinking of starting to bake and sell cookies during reading week and winter/summer breaks, either door-to-door or on sites like Facebook marketplace, but my parents have said that it was a bad idea, because it's something that only kids do (which I don't think is true today), and that I would need to be really good at baking in order to get sales (which they say I'm not but I don't really think I'm really terrible at cooking and I think I've found an easy recipe online which I totally could do).

I'm not really expecting to earn as much as I would get working at a job, unless I manage to do really well, but I would really like to earn some money (and have some actual "work experience" to put on a resume).

I also live near Toronto, Ontario, Canada, and I'm pretty sure that in Ontario you don't need to have a license to sell most low-risk items such as most cookies, muffins, and brownies (with some exceptions though), unless I am wrong though.

Does anybody here have any actual experience doing this? Would this be a good idea?

Super easy, I was out of flour and craving pancakes for breakfast. I soaked a small coffee cup of quinoa over night in water, strained it in the morning, added a cup of fresh water and blended everything.

The pancakes taste slightly different than flour based ones, I prefer them in combination with savory toppings.

I'm super excited and have to tell someone. At about 1030pm last night, I pulled two salmon fillets out of my Pit Boss vertical pellet smoker. They came out perfect. I glazed them with 1 part got honey, 1 part ginger honey, and about 3 tbsp of minced garlic.

But this isn't just about salmon. I've wanted to smoke meat since I first had smoked salmon when I was a kid. As time went on, I never found an opportunity, whether because of money, where I was living, or who I was living with.

I just turned 30 this year. In the last two months, I married the love of my life and bought a house, and my wife surprised me with a smoker. This fish isn't just fucking delicious, it's the culmination of years of hard work, and good luck. It's a small, savory reward for making it through the bad days, and making the most of the good ones. It's my silly little way of telling myself I've finally made it.

The recipe I used can be found here.

I made a honey cake called Medovik today!

I used this recipe exactly except I probably added a bit more honey by accident.

Cake is 7 inches. I used a pot lid to cut it. I'll post more photos in the comments.

Scrambled eggs with giardiniera, potato wedges with Greek seasoning and smoked cheddar cheese.

Cost per person $1.48 because eggs are free from the back yard.

Maybe obvious but I just thought to myself "I make this meal all the time and every time I mix together the required amount of spices. Why don't I just make a shit load and then use as much as I need each time?"

Gonna do this from now on its actually gonna save me so much psychic damage from fucking around with powder.

Greek chicken salad with fresh baked cheesey bread. Cheddar and smoked fontina. In the background is some 2009 plum wine I made. About 14% ABV.

I've got a lot of smoked cheese I made last year that I haven't used yet and I need to make way for when temps drop into the 50s and can make more.

Not sure how to price this. I don't remember the price of plums in 2009. But not including the wind maybe $2.75 per person.

a really delicious and healthy vegan snack. these have a nice amount of fiber and some protein even if you only eat a quarter of them. goes great straight or on salads or in soups. Good in vegan chicken salad too.

drain a can of chick peas, add a teaspoon of garlic olive oil, a few tablespoons of spice and stir well. air fry 12 minutes at 400°f/200°c stirring twice. top with fresh herbs and serve hot!

These are seasoned with onion powder, garlic salt and cumin and topped with parsley.

I love these tea biscuits!

Calories are approximate.

1 egg (78-90 calories)

3/4 cup milk (112 calories)

1/2 cup butter (814 calories)

1 tsp salt

2 tsp baking powder

2.5 cups flour (1137 calories)

1/2 cup sugar (387 calories)

1/2 cup sweet chocolate chips (640 calories)

Bake at 350 degrees for 15-17 minutes.

Total calories = 3180

Makes 36 tea biscuits, 88 calories each.

[insert apple pie recipe]

You have Greek chicken breast. You have a garden full of green tomatoes and basil. You have corn tortillas that need eating.

What's for dinner? Tacos.

Green tomato can be a substitute for tomatillos. Basil can be a substitute for cilantro. Just straight up Greek and Italian ingredients with a Mexican preparation. A little aged queso fresco cheese on top works pretty good as a feta substitute.

Cost per person: 1.50 Can you order this anywhere? There has to be a taco stand run by a Greek immigrant in Mexico City.

I'm saving the breasts for a different meal.

Chicken was on sale for $1.59 a pound and I got my Cambridge Analytics Facebook class action lawsuit and decided to spend some of my $37 on grilling some chicken

Cost per person including charcoal: $5.

...Other than salt and pepper

For me it's cumin. It's one of the few spices I buy in bulk and actually use up my supply.

In the winter it may lean towards cardamom thanks to copious amounts of chia.

Probably $2 per person.

Fresh baked bread, goat cheese, pesto, smoked fontinella. 18 year old barley wine that sucked when it came out but is awesome right now.

Cost per person: like I know. This is just for me. It rotates my emergency goat cheese, I smoked the cheese myself, I baked the bread, how do you price a bottle of beer you bought so long ago it can drive?

Can you order this anywhere? Probably. There is some place that offers something this simple and prepped for $45. They probably even have bruschetta. Which I thought about making but decided against. They definitely have avocado toast.

Been trying out a mold for the bagels to make shaping and dipping them in the malt bath faster and easier. It's definitely easier and the holes make putting spreads on the bagel easier (mostly), but the uniformity of the holes makes em look weird and they seem to bake up rather than a more oval shape. I'm gonna play with it some more to see if I can get a more uniform shape.

The vulture in the top right corner of the picture didn't mind at all.

During the previous round of shirkflation I warned people about knowing what year a recipe was from because "a can" means something different in 2004 than in 2010. And now it means something different again in 2025.

Now boxes are getting the shrink treatment too.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.bestiver.se/post/618032

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Pan de Cristal from King Arthur Baking

I didn't divide the dough this time, as the recipe calls, because I always deflate it too much so this time I tried just cooking it whole.

Baked in my ten inch cast iron with a half sheet pan under it. Splashed with steam every ten minutes for close to an hour.

This bread is god tier and (edit, once learned) is so easy.

I accidentally left the bread dough out proofing all night. So I just poured it into a parchment paper lined pot and baked it. It's spongy. It's tasty. It was not a failure. It's dinner. Just bread and butter.

Cost per person, 77¢.

I have a list of improvements to make to the recipe but it worked well enough for a starter recipe. Served with some curried cauliflower and rice.

First time at a hot pot restaurant. The one here finally opened after delays we thought doomed it. No photos of the pot, because once it arrived we started eating! Some photos of some of the plates though!