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The Recipe Thread! Part II: Electric Mixaroo

I like meat, potatoes and veggies cooked in a pressure cooker.

Short ribs of beef, potatoes, turnips, onions
Quartered chicken, potatoes, carrots, onions
Corned beef, potatoes, cabbage
Ham, potatoes, string beans
 
If I wanna be lazy, BAKED PASTA!!!

Simply take a casserole dish and dump your uncooked pasta and your sauce in there, mix it up, and stick it in the oven for 25 minutes on 375. Take it out, add copious amounts of shredded mozzarella and provolone cheeses, and garlic powder and crushed black pepper. Stick it back in until the cheese is melted and has a golden color.

Also ribeyes marinated in a mixture of pureed onion, liquid smoke and white wine, then a spicy rub just before they go on the CHARCOAL grill. Cooked rare. Top with grilled mushrooms, onions and peppers and teriyaki sesame steak sauce. Grilled garlic bread and a Sam Adams cherry wheat. ChemicalSmile will back me up on this lol.

But the best home cooking evar is an eastern NC pig pickin'. Slow roast a whole hog, vinegar based spicy sauce on right before you eat it. Tomato sauce + pork = FAIL. Also prep a bunch of potato salad (be sure to add plenty of onion and mustard) hush puppies, macaroni salad, baked beans, buttered grilled corn on the cob, and a keg on ice.
 
at the moment: panang curry. easy, fast (if you buy pre made curry paste) and tastes wonderful. just like in thailand. don't forget to add fish sauce and peanuts (missing in the instructions at the recipe i posted) and add extra chilis if you really really like it hot (like me :) ).
 
All my meals are home cooked now. I never eat out anymore, literally, never. I prefer this lifestyle much. :)

Tonight I made something good. It was a stir fry with a spicy asparagus sauce. Broccoli, bamboo shoots, zuchinni, baby corn, and tons of spinach. With brown rice. So good. I really like anything with asparagus, I'm obsessed with it for some reason.
 
I am so lucky to have a partner who is becoming more and more fanatical about home-cooking. He makes the most amazing bolognese sauces *droooool* and he's exploring the world of casseroles and stews. Just in time for winter <3
He makes this wicked one with slow-cooked lamb shanks, parsely, feta cheese, currants and other yummy morsels. And my favourite one is another lamb shanks casserole with spring onions and red wine *droooool*!! It is amazing!
 
I absolutely adore home-made greek dishes. I find that a lot of restaurants just can't make them right.

My favourite to make is Moussaka. LOVE it. And also my baba's (grandmother) pumpkin or feta Zelnik & stuffed peppers.
 
Amazon Bee said:
i make biscuits n gravy often for brekkie, one of my favorites.
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As an Aussie, I've always wondered what these 'biscuit' things were.. well I just looked them up so anyone who's in the same boat as me can read on and be enlightened.

American biscuits are small breads made with baking powder or baking soda as a leavening agent rather than yeast.
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White gravy is essentially a Béchamel sauce, with the roux being made of meat drippings and flour. Milk or cream is added and thickened by the roux; once prepared, black pepper and bits of mild sausage or chicken liver are normally added.
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You literally learn something every day! :D
 
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Don't they look so yummy!? :)
 
See my contributions to the recipe thread. ;)

My favorite homemade food at the present time is, bar none, mashed potatoes and gravy. Biscuits can make me too sick and too full, but mashed Yukon Golds or russets with the skins left on, with just enough half and half and real butter, salt and pepper, a little paprika for style...

NOM NOM NOM.

Serve with anything on the BBQ, any roast (vegetarian or otherwise - you know what to do if you are vegan), and most importantly with a smile. :)
 
Black said:
at the moment: panang curry. easy, fast (if you buy pre made curry paste) and tastes wonderful. just like in thailand. don't forget to add fish sauce and peanuts (missing in the instructions at the recipe i posted) and add extra chilis if you really really like it hot (like me :) ).
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You can substitute Worcestershire sauce for fish sauce. The smell of fish sauce is somehow nastier than the same thing soaked in soy sauce and salt (the other components of Worcestershire sauce). It comes off as rancid and improperly preserved; I can never make anything in fish sauce that I could possibly choke down my throat. I ask for my food without fish sauce at restaurants that serve curries.
 
This thread has just made me wanting to amble into the kitchen for a midnight snack...or rather 2:00 A.M. one.

I wish I was experienced enough in the field of cooking to pull of such fantastic sounding meals...and even the simpler sounding ones. :D
 
bacon wrapped sea scallops. steamed clams. jerk chicken, hotter the better, w/ rice, green peas, and icy beer. nice rare roast beef sandwich w/ onions and horseradish. almost every veggie, some with vinegar and salt but nothing cooked mushy. (too many ppl in the south cook veggies to nasty mush) my cole slaw and potato salad. lots of sweetwater coffee...
ok, now i'm hungry so i'm done.
 
izzy66 said:
bacon wrapped sea scallops
ok, now i'm hungry so i'm done.
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This is awesome- I stuff the scallops with gorgonzola cheese and figs- yummy. Then serve it with a raspberry sauce.:)

My favorite home cooked meals-
-My rouladen
-My husbands Spicy seafood (salmon or tillapia or other fish:)) with his wild rice black bean creole yumminess
-My husbands dijon and capers rainbow trout
-My Jager Schnitzel
-Our spaghetti and meatballs
-My Guiness Stew
-My grandma's ziti
 
Fish N' Chips with a hint a salsa. It initiates the pallette with spice amidst it's inability to cool it's self after. A glass of warm milk usually puts the finish to the start. Making for an ironically indelectible meal.
Sometimes though, any food just lying in weight on the counter grabs my appetite first, allotting for my rotating weight problem.
 
DG said:
that sounds like pot roast...which i know how to make. I wanna make a rib roast so to speak, which i wouldnt want in a crock pot. my mom makes a wonderful one but its very spicey and my bf cant handle any spice :|
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i've been doing rib roasts in a rotisserie for a couple years and they come out yummy and tender. rub in some white pepper and kosher salt, sear both sides in rotisserie and it'll be excellent in an hour or so depending on size and desired doneness.
good luck!
 
I love my moms Hainanese chicken with grated ginger, scallions, soy sauce, plum sauce and broth. It's the perfect meal. I also love callos ala madrilena...tripe, pork, olives, pimiento, garbanzos, onions, tomatoes and chorizo in rich, thick super tasty sauce. Tastes even better the day after.
 
n3ophy7e said:
I am so lucky to have a partner who is becoming more and more fanatical about home-cooking. He makes the most amazing bolognese sauces *droooool* and he's exploring the world of casseroles and stews. Just in time for winter <3
He makes this wicked one with slow-cooked lamb shanks, parsely, feta cheese, currants and other yummy morsels. And my favourite one is another lamb shanks casserole with spring onions and red wine *droooool*!! It is amazing!
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I love love love casseroles and stews. So hearty and comforting, and they always taste even BETTER days after.
 
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