What are your favorite recipes?

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vtoodler

Discussion Starter · Feb 5, 2009

This summer, I started cooking recipes. And I have come across some really fantastic recipes that I am dying to share with someone. I will post some of them below. What are your favorite recipes? What do you like to eat for family dinners?

A Study in Mushrooms and Cream - Burghilicious

Ceejamon's Andouille Pasta-Bake - General [M]ayhem

Giant Pasta Shells Stuffed with Spinach and Ricotta Recipe

Google Image Result for http://i246.photobucket.com/albums/gg85/elizabethsays/cheesycasserole.png

Recipe Details - Nestl New Zealand

Sausage Alfredo Lasagna Recipe

Something So Clever: Lasagna and Herb Bread Goodness.

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dragonlilly

· #21 · Feb 7, 2009

Mari said:
Once upon a time I was a great cook -- no kidding -- this lasted for several years -- then I realized what was the point-- I'd be so tired from cooking all day I wouldn't enjoy the meal myself.

My favourite recipes are French although I love Italian too.

I used recipes from Julia Child or Dionne Lucas --

My specialty was
Filet de Boeuf Braise Prince Albert

others
Roulades de Boeuf
Bouillabaisse de Poulet
Coulibiac
Supremes de Volaille Archiduc

As a first course, my favourite was a consomme served with home made mini bouches. I would tell my guests the proper way to eat this dish was to put a mini bouche on the soup spoon pour sherry on top and then a tablespoon of consomme. They believed me. By the time that course was over they never remembered the rest.

Some of my diasters -- making a salmon souffle (just before the crowd was arriving) opening up my cupboard to get some spices and knocking a spice jar into the mixing bowl. The ******* was covered with salmon guck and glass.

Another (I think funny incident) was when I made cherries jubilee and brought the flaming dish into the dining room -- one of the guest didn t know the dish was to be served en flambe, rushed over, grabbed my masterpiece and dumped it into the sink.

Now, can you see why I prefer a big Mac.

Mari - you definitely still have it in you (if you ever want it back)

you just needed a break, girl! Like you said, you just burned yourself out! Infact, I get burned out just thinking of cooking - it's not that i can't - it's just so much work - why do you think i've been eating PB and J for the past two weeks while I'm on my saving spree????!!!!!!

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Mari

· #22 · Feb 7, 2009

dragonlilly said:
Mari - you definitely still have it in you (if you ever want it back)

you just needed a break, girl! Like you said, you just burned yourself out! Infact, I get burned out just thinking of cooking - it's not that i can't - it's just so much work - why do you think i've been eating PB and J for the past two weeks while I'm on my saving spree????!!!!!!

Thank you. Burned myself out -- hee hee -- I didn't mention that after the cherries jubiliee were tossed in the ******* sink by the over-zealous guest .... the ******* curtains caught fire ....

(real women were present and no real damage happened)

Saving -- good idea!

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mireckca

· #23 · Feb 7, 2009

vtoodler said:
What i want to try is Paula Deen's Minted Lamb.

I also want to try her red, velvet cake.

Yes! I am a "yankee" but I loooove Paula Deen. If I ever get down South I want to get to her restaurant. Anyone ever been there?

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vtoodler

Discussion Starter · #24 · Feb 8, 2009

Yes, she is a very fine cook. I would like to purchase her recipe book.

Her, Giada de Laurentiis, and the Neelys are my absolute favorite cooks.

Btw, how is French food? It seems like some people here have had French food. Tell me more about it.

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Mari

· #25 · Feb 8, 2009

vtoodler said:
Yes, she is a very fine cook. I would like to purchase her recipe book.

Her, Giada de Laurentiis, and the Neelys are my absolute favorite cooks.

Btw, how is French food? It seems like some people here have had French food. Tell me more about it.

French food -- well it's the way it's cooked. The French love good food, conversation and wine. French cooking -- it's a mingling of ingredients, spices, wine and maybe cream. You've probably have eaten French cooking without knowing it -- puffed pastry, cream puffs, French bread. very thin pancakes are called crepes -- but the French prepare them saute in butter and orange sauce, or filled with strawberries and cream. Omelletes have a French background.

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vtoodler

Discussion Starter · #26 · Feb 9, 2009

Here are a few more of my favorites:

Swiss Chard and Sweet Pea Manicotti (Winter) Recipe : Giada De Laurentiis : Food Network

Butternut Squash Lasagna Recipe : Giada De Laurentiis : Food Network

Bechamel Chicken Pasta - Allrecipes

Pesto Lasagna Recipe : Aida Mollenkamp : Food Network

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SkinCareDiva

· #27 · Feb 26, 2009

Alton Brown's Mac and Cheese with panko breadcrumbs. Unbelievable- so much cheese you wouldnt believe. Also Paula Deen's version of spinach & Articholke dip. You can find them on the food network site. Another easy fave is to take a head of steamed broccoli and cauliflower till its fork tender. Mash it with a handful of shredded cheese(any kind) and a handful of parm, s/p, a big blob of sour cream, blob of mayo, mix and put in casserole dish. Top with breadcrumbs and bake 30-40 min until top is crisp and cheese is bubbly. You can't make this wrong. Eyeball everything. Ive tried it with spinach, some shredded carrots, tossed in some leftover chopped grilled chicken too. LOVE IT. You will not be able to stop once you start eating it. Ok, its high fat and ooey gooey but what the hell. once in a while. Great for low carb diet people.

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vtoodler

Discussion Starter · #28 · Mar 1, 2009

Here's another one:

Google Image Result for http://farm1.static.flickr.com/156/375002214_cbcfe7fc5e_o.jpg

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pumi

· #29 · Mar 4, 2009

Hmmm.. nice thread. One of my favourite recipe is potato and peas curry:

Ingredients:
5tsp oil
1 medium size onion chopped
2tsp garlic paste
1 tsp garam masala powder
2 cloves
1 cinnamon stick
1tsp chilli powder (optional)
1/2 tsp turmeric powder
2 tomatoes, chopped
2 medium size potatoes cubed
1 cup green peas
coriander leaves chopped
1 cup water
salt to taste

Directions:
Heat oil and saute onion and garlic paste over medium heat until golden.
Add cloves and cinnamon and fry for 2mins. Then add chilli powder, garam masala, half of the chopped coriander leaves, turmeric, salt and tomatoes. Mix well.
Add cubed potatoes and peas.
Pour in the water and bring to boil. Cover pan and cook over low heat until potatoes are done.
Garnish with coriander leaves and serve hot.

Bon appetit!!

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Mushi

· #30 · Mar 4, 2009

Nice recipes!! I am hungry now! Hehehe.

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vtoodler

Discussion Starter · #31 · Mar 11, 2009

I just discovered that allrecipes.com is the best recipe site on the web.

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fawnie

· #32 · Jun 27, 2009

I like simple but good recipes that let me enjoy the meal as well as preparing it. I used to be all about the fancy convoluted recipes, but they just made me so exhausted by the time I served them that I never wanted to cook again!

A simple stir-fry, a crock pot roast, a steak or salmon on the grill, a baked chicken. All these things are always appreciated with the right spices and a salad (DH makes those) and a steamed veggie dish. I use virgin organic raw coconut oil instead of butter or oil for health reasons.

Now when DH or I want fancy food we just make reservations! This doesn't happen often enough any more with the economy!

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fawnie

· #33 · Dec 3, 2009

This is a colorful and healthy party food!

GREEK PIZZA

Make the crust:
In a large bowl place 7/8 C warm water (1 C minus 2 Tbsp) , and 1 tsp sugar or honey.
Sprinkle 2 tsp active dry yeast and let sit in a warm place.
When the liquid foams add 1 1/2 tsp olive oil and 1/2 tsp salt

Stir in 2 1/4 C unbleached all-purpose flour (I use King Arthur). You may need to knead in the last bit of flour if it gets too stiff to stir.

In the bowl knead the dough until smooth and elastic, about 5 minutes.

Oil the top and the bottom of the dough and cover and let sit in a warm place for an hour. (On a heat pad set on low, or a microwaveable heat pad for the back works well.) Dough should rise until double in bulk.

Punch down and let sit for 5 minutes in bowl.

Stretch dough out on an oiled baking sheet or pizza pan and pat into shape desired with olive oil on hands.

Toppings:
Cover bottom of crust with olive oil to taste and then spread with:
2 C sliced cherry tomatoes, drained
1 C quartered black olives
1 C pickled banana pepper slices cut into pieces and/or chopped cooked artichoke hearts
1 C chopped red onion
2 C feta cheese crumbled
Oregano and salt to taste, depending on how salty your feta is.

Bake at 475F for 13-18 minutes until crust is golden brown. Nomnomnom.

Adapted from Passionate Vegetarian by Crescent Dragonwagon, Workman Publishing, 2002.

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Angel Hair

· #34 · Dec 3, 2009

*starts to gnaw at own knuckle

those are some great recipes!!

am cooking sunday dinner for friends this weekend and im sure ill be sniffing the chicken as it cooks yum. and ill make toad in the hole to go with it , yum delish.

any suggestions for pudding?

i was thinking a low fat bread and butter pudding or a caramelised apple rice brulee

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fawnie

· #35 · Dec 3, 2009

Seal knuckles any good, AH??LOL

OK, "Toad in the Hole" sounds reallllly nasty, but probably isn't...WTF?

Pudding? Well, my faves are:
Mississippi Mud (a wet chocolate baked pudding) or Vanilla Bread Pudding with Whisky Sauce

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