Cooking!

[JodyAnthony]

Cooking is awesome, one of my favorite things to do. So yeah, share some of your favorite recipes. I'll start



Some Type of Lasagna Thing™

Ingredients
1 onion, chopped fine
3 cloves garlic, crushed
some vegetable oil
1 1/2 cups cottage cheese
4 ounces cream cheese, softened
Some shredded mozzarella cheese
black pepper
1 pack (10oz) frozen chopped spinach, thawed and squeezed dry
lasagna noodles, if pre-cook, cooked. I use the no-cook kind
Like 1/2 to 3/4 lb breakfast sausage. Sounds weird, but trust me. (Don't use maple or anything! sage, or regular) (Can leave out if you wanna do the vegeterian thang)
1 jar spaghetti sauce (tomato basil, or mushroom. yum!)

Procedure
Cook and crumble breakfast sausage, set aside. Saute onion and garlic in oil for about 3 minutes, also set aside. (You can saute the onion and garlic in the sausage oil grease thing, if you want.)
In a largeish bowl, combine the cottage cheese, a handfull of mozzarella, cream cheese, and a few grinds of black pepper. Mix it all together. Stir in the onion mixture, cooked sausage, and spinach. Pour the jar of sauce in a pot, heating slowly. Now what I usually do is mix the cheese/etc mixture and sauce together, it makes it easier to put the lasagna together.

Spoon some of the crazy sauce mix in the bottom of a greased 13" x 9" baking dish. Lay lasagna noodles on the sauce, spoon some of the cheese/sauce mixture over the noodles and repeat the layers until you run out of noodles. On the top layer of noodles spread more of the sauce, and cover with aluminum foil or a lid or whatever. Bake at around 350 degrees for 25 minutes or so, uncover, and cover the top with mozzerella cheese. Bake like 10 more minutes or so, until the cheese is all melty, and if you're using the no-cook noodles, make sure they are tender. When it's done, let set about 10 minutes before cutting into and enjoying. Serve with your favorite garlic bread. Awesome.

Edited in some formatting


Last edited by JodyAnthony on Wed Jul 05, 2006 1:40 pm; edited 3 times in total

[CoffeeMan]

oh sweet a cooking thread!!

Pancakes

Serving: 15 pancakes


2 2/3 cup Flour

4 tbsp Sugar

1 1/2 tsp Salt

6 tbsp Oil

4 tsp Baking Powder

2 Egg

2 1/2 cup Milk

Cook at medium heat turn around when little bubbles start to come up. Wait another 3 minutes until removing them.

More recipes here

[Greg4cr]

That sounds like an awesome lasagna. I'll have to try it. I love cooking.

Here's a quick and easy one I made recently (and it was kinda made on the fly, so I've not ironed out exact amounts yet):

Chicken Garlic Alfredo:

1/3rd package speghetti
1/3rd jar alfredo sauce (your choice - I prefer Prego Garlic Parmessan Alfredo)
3 cloves garlic, chopped
1/4th red onion (simmer it first), chopped
1/4th red pepper, chopped
red pepper (powdered)
garlic powder
grilled chicken (really, it's up to you, but I thought it tasted really good with some grilled or pan-seared chicken)

Simmer the red onion first. Add in the red pepper, garlic, and chicken and cook it a bit (about 5 minutes worked). Add the sauce and powders and let it cook a bit more.

Now take your crazy mix and add it to the speghetti noodles. Enjoy!

This serves two or three pretty easily.

[phoenixsflame]

My famous Chicken Cheesy Rice :

Three to Four breasts of chicken (1 1/2 pounds to 2 pounds generally. Sometimes more, sometimes less.)
White Rice (3 Cups.)
Chicken Fajita Seasoning 1 Package.
(I won't go into the seasoning I use, because it's a mix I change on the fly. Better to go with what makes a good mix everytime.)
2 Tomato's.
1 Bell Pepper, (Red or Green to taste.)
Optional Salsa.
Optional Cilantro.
2 Limes.
Half Pound of Colby Jack Cheese/Mexican Mix, or Cheese of preference. (I put a lot of cheese in, because I have a family of Cheese freaks.)

Tenderize Chicken, Cut into 1 1/2 inch slices. Do the same with the Bell Pepper, after preparing it. Fry them together with one quarter the package of Chicken Fajita seasoning. Fry completely, the material you use for the frying is very important. For a soft, fall apart chicken use Olive Oil. For a more crispy chicken, use Veggie oil.

Prepare Rice normally, as per container instructions. Put half the package of Fajita Seasoning in at the beginning. Mix thoroughly and then prepare rice.

Drain half of the oil, and chicken out of frying pan and put it into a container. Put Chicken back on heat, and place half of the rice into the pan with the chicken.

Fry rice until satisfied. Repeat with other half of chicken and rice. Put into large container.

Dice and add tomatoes, and all other optional yumminess (Salsa included).
Add cheese, and stir until cheese is fully melted.

Eat copious amounts of deliciousness. Additional goodness would be to fry up some Tortilla's to put it on, Corn preferably.

[JodyAnthony]

Cherry Pie

Crust/Shell/Thing:
2 cups all purpose flour
1 cup shortening
1/2 cup VERY cold water
salt

Filling:
2 cups pitted sweet cherries
3/4 cup sugar
8 teaspoons cornstarch
1 tbsp butter
1/4 tsp almond extract

Procedure:
Put flour in a bowl, put a pinch of salt in with the flour. Drop in the shorening. cut it together with a spatula, keep going for a few minutes until the shornening is pretty broken up. Can probably do this in a stand mixer, but I am too poor to afford one, so I dunno. It seems like it won't come together at first, but just keep working on it. When the shortening is all broken up and mixed in (like, pieces shouldn't be more than like 1/8 to 1/4 inch) add the cold water (make it as cold as possible) and mix flour and water together into a dough. form into a ball and wrap tightly in plastic wrap (at least 2 layers.) Refridgerate for at least an hour. Work on pitting the cherries while you wait for it to chill.

Put the cherries in a bowl with the sugar and cornstarch, mix together and let sit for 5 minutes or so, so the sugar can pull a bit of the juice out of the cherries. Put in a small saucepan and heat over low heat until the sugar is all disolved. Bring to a boil. Once it starts boiling, take it off the heat and let it sit for a few minutes.

While that's resting, roll out 1/2 of your dough and line a 9" pie pan with it, trimming off any excess. Roll out the other half. Now, you can either make a solid top crust, or cut the leftover dough into strips with a pizza cutter and do a latticework thing.

Pour the filling into the pie shell, and top with the remaining dough. If doing a lattice top, just weave the strips together. If doing a solid top, crimp the edges together, and make sure to cut slits in the top for steam to escape! Very important. (if doing the weaved thing, obviously you don't need to do this.)

If you want (I usually do) beat one egg with like 1/2 teaspoon of water or something (just a bit of water) and brush all across the top in a very thin coat (eggwash, makes the pie all shiny)

Bake in a 375 degree farenheit (like 190 c) oven for about 50 minutes, checking on it around 45 minutes. You want the top to be golden brown and delicious (as Alton Brown would say)

Let it cool on your stove/countertop/windowsill for at least half an hour before eating. Serve with homemade vanilla icecream.

VARIATIONS:
If you don't want to make the shell yourself, buy one of those pre-made frozen ones, and just make the filling. If you don't want to make the filling, make the dough and buy like a can of cherry pie filling. If you don't want to make either, buy them both. You still get the enjoyment of baking.

Woo! Baking!

Also: If you use sour cherries, increase sugar to 1 cup.

[Greg4cr]

[SirKent]

Chicken + BBQ Sauce = Taste Sensations

[CoffeeMan]

Yogurt and Jello Pie

Ingredients
1 pack of Jello (flavor of your choice)
1 cup of yogurt (flavor of your choice)
1 cup of Boiling Water
1 graham cookie crust

Procedure
Empty the pack of Jello in a mixing bowl
Add boiling water,
Mix until there's no more Jello powder
Add Yogurt
Mix until there's not more yogurt chunk floating. (now this mix will turn out different color depending on your jello and yogurt flavor)
Empty your mix in the pie crust.

Leave in the fridge for 3-4 hours.

Enjoy!

Edit: I did one tonight
here's a pic



Last edited by CoffeeMan on Wed Jul 05, 2006 7:36 pm; edited 2 times in total

[NEEKS]

A tasty Sandwich

2 slices of bread (white or whole wheat)
2 slices of Ham (preferably black forest)
lettuce
Black Pepper
Mustard
Mayonaisse

optional
Cheddar cheese
Ceasar dressing sauce (if you can't find Mayonaisse)
sleeping pills (for those energetic annoying guests that i had last week and wouldn't leave me alone.....er, I mean...Just in case)

[Fireblend]

You're all so lucky, knowing how to cook I can't get past making a tuna sandwich with tuna and err.. bread.

[LSK]

CLARIFICATION: I am not a professional. I am afraid of fire. These recepies are possibly dangerous. Or not.

SPICY TOFU
Recipe made with help from my mom. I mostly removed the cashews from her recipe, and added more tofu to compensate. I've only made 'my' recipe once in my life, so the recipe is not exactly exact.

2 reasonably large containers of tofu (you probably want ~80 g total)
A 9 fl. oz container of Hoison sauce (not to be confused with poison)
3 tablespoons of a fairly spicy sauce (I used Sambal Oelek, but I figure you guys don't have any sitting around or any Indian stores nearby)
Canola oil (I _think_ that this is what I used...)

Take the containers of tofu, open them, and cut the tofu into a lot of small chunks, around 2 cm in any given dimension. Place into a pan. Pour a minute amount of oil over the tofu, to keep it from sticking/clumping. Pour the Hoison sauce over, and the spicy sauce, too, and mix.

Cook until ready. I suppose 5 minutes works, although it may vary.

Serves 4, or 1 person(me) 4 times.

RICE
Any amount of rice.

Heat water. Put rice in water. Stir. Wait.

Not my recipe.

[Dark Mithan]

Some really good chocolate chip cookies:

(Note: This Recipe is done in a Kitchen-Aid mixer......If Your mixer(Or you ) can't handle this recipe I would Recommened that you Half The recipe(It will work because the recipe below is a double batch))
Ingredients
4 1/2 cups of Flour
1 Cup Butter
1 Cup Crisco shortening
1 Cup Sugar
1 1/2 Cup Golden brown sugar
1/2 Cup really really dark brown sugar
1 Tsp of Salt
2 Tsp of Baking soda
1/4 Cup of Buttermilk
4 Tsp of Vanila
3 Eggs (Medium,Large, or Extra Large are good)
1 bag of Reese peanut-butter chips()
2 cups Chocolate chips


Procedure
Let the butter soften first......is it soft? good:
#1:Mix together the Crisco and Butter in a large Bowl.
#2:In two other seperate bowls, mix together the dry ingredients,(Salt,Baking soda, and Flour) and the sugars.
#3:Mix About 1/4(1/8 cup if you halfed the recipe) cup of The Flour mixture into the Butter mixture.
#4:Add the sugar(All of it) and mix that in really well
#5:Then add the Buttermilk,Vanila,And Eggs and Mix that In.
#6:add the rest of the flour mixture. (Not all at once mind you...add it gradualy, while mixing)
#7:Then, once that's added add the chips.

Baking
Depending on your Oven and many other things baking time and tempature for you could vary quite a bit.

What I do however is:
Bake them at 325-350 Degrees for about 12-15 minutes on a baking sheet turned 90 degrees and covered with parchment paper.

Original recipe's ingredients(The above version is tweaked a bit):
-----------------------------------
4 1/2 cups of Flour
1 Cup Butter
1 Cup Crisco Shortening
1/2 Cup Sugar
2 1/2 Cup Golden Brown Sugar
1 Tsp of Salt
2 Tsp of Baking soda
1/4 Cup of Milk
4 Tsp of Vanila
3 Eggs (Medium,Large, or Extra Large are good)
4 cups Chocolate Chips
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If they Turn out Like they're Supposed to Then They Will Be really really good.
If they don't then try the original ingredients or messing around with the baking tempature and the baking time.

Phew, Lol This is the only thing I know how to make ATM.......I have to learn more.


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[NekoTsukimi]

Yummy Chili Pie!

1lb ground beef (or turkey, it's really good with turkey)
1 packet chili seasoning mix
1 can diced tomatoes
1 tbs spicy chili powder stuff that's kinda salty
No more than 1 tbs sugar
lots of cheesy cheesy cheese
Corn chips (not tortilla chips)

Brown meat in skillet and drain and remove from heat. Add tomatoes, spicy chili powder stuff that's kinda salty, and the chili seasoning mix. Add enough water to make sure everything gets coated plus a little more just for burn insurance. Turn up the heat until the mixture starts bubbling. After a minute of stirring, reduce heat to allow to simmer and the sauce to reduce. Stir every now and then to make sure the sauce coats everything and add a little bit of sugar every now and then to get the taste right. Keep simmering until most of the water goes bye-bye. Turn off the heat and stir the meat one last time to ensure a good coating.

Put a bunch of corn chips in the bottom of a bowl or a plate and then heap as much of the meat mixture as you desire. For easier eating, mix up the chips and the meat at this point. Then top with as much cheese as you can stand. Then, you sit back at eat. Oh! Before you eat, make sure that you refrigerate whatever of the meat mixture you don't eat. It'll keep for about a week if you for some reason find you can't eat it all. Depending on how spicy this stuff ends up, you could end up with some problems in the bathroom so be careful!

[Caphall]

Simple bread recipe with additions.

Normal Bread

2 packages of yeast
1/4 cup of warm water (make sure not hot! this is for dissolving)
2 and 3/4 cups of warm water (for mixing flour)
1/4 cup of sugar
1 tbsp of salt
3 tbsp of shortening (crisco works really well)
9 to 10 cups of flour
Some soft butter or olive oil

Basically you dissolve the yeast in the 1/4 cup of water until it becomes one with the liquid. Then add rest of water, sugar, salt, shortening and 5 of the cups of flour.

Once the dough becomes kneadable you can start using your hands and add more flour as you go. Knead for about 10 minutes or until the dough becomes elastic make sure it's not falling apart.

Grease a cooking bowl up with the butter or oil and then place dough in bowl and roll it around till it's lightly covered. Finally place a towel over your dough and let it rise for about an hour.

Take towel off and shoryuken the bread (one punch only in the center of the dough) and divide in half. Roll them into two seperate rolls and place them in a greased (butter/oil) bread dish, or on a greased pan and lightly oil/butter them again. Let rise for another hour.

Finally heat your over to 425 and place loaves in center of ther oven and do not let them touch, or they will mold together and make a weird half baked bread. Leave in for 30 to 35 minutes or until your satified with the golden hue of the bread. Pull out and tap on the top, if they sound hollow, they are ready.

Leave out to cool down a bit then consume awsome plain bread with favorite addition.

Additions

Garlic butter

Take a whole clove of garlic and peel until the cloves are naked as a jaybird. Smash them with the flat of your knife and throw them in a lightly heated pan. (I suggest 2 or 3 on my stove...) sear them lightly then add butter and a few sprinkles of basil. Add more garlic for more garlic taste.

Will edit later with more additions

[Captain_404]

Spicy/Sweet Mango Salsa:

mangos
jabeÑeros
garlic
cilantro

figure it out.

...

DISCLAIMER: I may have the proportions here completely wrong. Oh, and don't eat the mango peel, only the flesh.

2 mangos
1 jabeÑero
1 garlic thing-that-breaks-off-of-the-clove-banana-shaped-thing
some cilantro (don't ask me how much, I don't know, less than there is jabeÑero)

of course, peel the garlic and prepare stuff how it needs to be prepared.

cut up the mango by dividing it in two around the core thingy and then dicing the two halves into cubes without cutting the skin any and then cut the cubes away from the skin. Cut up about a fourth of the jabeÑero REAL good, same with all the garlic and cilantro. Mix, let sit for a while, and enjoys w/ corn chips.



EDIT: the key to make anything spicy = JABEÑEROS