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The Recipe Thread! Part II: Electric Mixaroo

Mariposa said:
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.
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fish sauce alone i'd never put into my mouth, but in meals i love it. i've found that proper heating (letting it cook for a while for curries or stir frying) gets rid of the 'fishy' taste. ime thai food doesn't taste just right if i omit the fish sauce. but everyone's tastes are different.
 
mariacallas said:
I love love love casseroles and stews. So hearty and comforting, and they always taste even BETTER days after.
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my friend and i were joking that we need to open a restaurant that serves soups, casseroles, spaghetti, pizza and such a day or two after cooking cause it tastes so much better.

my favorite home cooked meals are mostly hungarian dishes such as goulash and chicken paprikash. and i love a good meatloaf with roast potatoes.
 
This thread is making me hungry :D

Most of my all-time favourite home cooked meals were meaty but I'm vegetarian now. I'll have to have a think and come back to this thread with some more details/recipes! MY folks are great cooks (even though they won't touch anything too spicy, wimps)!
 
Its kind of like a sherpherd pie.

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Beef Mince
Potatoes
Sweet Potatoes
A Carrot
An Onion
Grated Cheese
Sunflower Seeds
Broccolini

And a seasoning sauce i cant quite remember the name of just now

Anyway

Boil water and cooke skinned potato & sweet potato

Cook the mince in the frypan

Slice the carrot and the onion, toss into frypan with mince

Broccolini in the steamer

Once the potatoes are soft enough, drain water and butter and mash


Take a glass oven bake dish and oil it up, half fill it with all the mince mixed with carrot & onion

On top evenly spread the mash potato

Cover the top with grated cheese and sprinkle the top with sunflower seeds

Place in pre heated oven until cheese & top is golden brown

Serve with steamed broccolini

Always been a favourite dish of mine
 
ANYTHING my husband makes! He basically cooks everything from scratch, and with the freshest produce usually straight from the garden.
 
LoveAlways said:
ANYTHING my husband makes! He basically cooks everything from scratch, and with the freshest produce usually straight from the garden.
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Ooh everything tastes better when it's straight from the garden. :)

I often miss my Mum's cooking. I was bought up vegetarian, as she had been for many, many years before I was born and while I love discovering a whole world of meat thanks to Busty, I miss her amazing potato curries, fantastic zucchini fritters and amazingly good eggplant pasta sauces.

She just has the cooking knack. I hope I've picked up some of her genius over the years. :)
 
Blondie said:
+ grilled cheese w/ truffle oil
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no! it's even better with coriander leaves and a bit hot like you get at indian restaurants. (wouldn't turn down a tomato soup with grilled cheese though. tomato soup is always nice :D)
 
CHiLD-0F-THE-BEAT said:
Ooh everything tastes better when it's straight from the garden. :)

I often miss my Mum's cooking. I was bought up vegetarian, as she had been for many, many years before I was born and while I love discovering a whole world of meat thanks to Busty, I miss her amazing potato curries, fantastic zucchini fritters and amazingly good eggplant pasta sauces.

She just has the cooking knack. I hope I've picked up some of her genius over the years. :)
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I was brought up vegetarian also, except the only my mom knew how to cook was mac n cheese from a box... :\
 
My mom makes the best pancakes ever (I usually hate pancakes but I can eat a TON of hers). Her hashbrowns are awesome too. Basically anything my mommy cooks makes me happy. :)

I should really get some of her recipes, but I just know it wouldn't be the same.
 
the majority of my grandma's cooking (she usually makes things from scratch), especially her chicken n dumplings, lasagna, country fried pork chops and her homemade corn bread *drooool*

my ex-BF's parents always cooked homemade pho and it was the best i've ever had. maybe it also had to do with appreciation for all the time and effort put into making the broth. i remember waking up in the morning and smelling the onions and beef bones simmering in the pot. delicious.

i can make an excellent mexican dinner (enchiladas, spanish rice, tacos, fajitas) and really good herb potatoes (rosemary, thyme, basil, olive oil, baked not fried) but that's the extent of my cooking skills :\
 
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