muvolution
Bluelight Crew
For a pie, try this:
Make a standard pie crust or a graham-cracker crust, either is delicious.
Make a compote out of berries.. either blackberries or raspberries are the best, add sugar and boil until thick. Mix in 1 packet of Knox cooking gelatin, then stir in 1 Pint of premium vanilla Ice cream to the hot mixture, pour into pie crust, refrigerate until cool. This is delicious and easy, and its always really popular when I make it, very rich.
Try cooking quail, duck, some of the darker/ fattier fowl.
I never follow exact recipes, but one of the best i picked up was quail stuffed with boudain (a mixture of rice and sausage will work) wrapped in bacon and braised. I wouldn't follow an exact recipe, just put tasty things in that will go well with braised fowl, some sweet flavors to offset the saltiness of the bacon and boudain. I've done it a few times with an apricot glaze and that shit is bomb.
Overall, if you can start with a good cut of meet or a nice bird or fish and just add something like rice or pasta that will compliment it nicely, figure in flavors for vegetables and how you will cook it, things tend to come together really nicely.
I cook for my girlfriend most nights, and I almost never spend more than $15 on dinner. Tonight we had:
Poached trout with a basil cream sauce,
squash, garlic, onions, and carrots over wild rice.
Since I caught the fish yesterday, the whole meal was like $10, maybe. You would probably pay like $22-$27 in most restaurants for that meal.
Just have to be inventive, and once you get a knack for pairing flavors, things are pretty easy. Let good ingredients stand alone or be prominently featured.
Make a standard pie crust or a graham-cracker crust, either is delicious.
Make a compote out of berries.. either blackberries or raspberries are the best, add sugar and boil until thick. Mix in 1 packet of Knox cooking gelatin, then stir in 1 Pint of premium vanilla Ice cream to the hot mixture, pour into pie crust, refrigerate until cool. This is delicious and easy, and its always really popular when I make it, very rich.
Try cooking quail, duck, some of the darker/ fattier fowl.
I never follow exact recipes, but one of the best i picked up was quail stuffed with boudain (a mixture of rice and sausage will work) wrapped in bacon and braised. I wouldn't follow an exact recipe, just put tasty things in that will go well with braised fowl, some sweet flavors to offset the saltiness of the bacon and boudain. I've done it a few times with an apricot glaze and that shit is bomb.
Overall, if you can start with a good cut of meet or a nice bird or fish and just add something like rice or pasta that will compliment it nicely, figure in flavors for vegetables and how you will cook it, things tend to come together really nicely.
I cook for my girlfriend most nights, and I almost never spend more than $15 on dinner. Tonight we had:
Poached trout with a basil cream sauce,
squash, garlic, onions, and carrots over wild rice.
Since I caught the fish yesterday, the whole meal was like $10, maybe. You would probably pay like $22-$27 in most restaurants for that meal.
Just have to be inventive, and once you get a knack for pairing flavors, things are pretty easy. Let good ingredients stand alone or be prominently featured.
haha