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Post by nondescript spice on Oct 20, 2013 17:23:36 GMT -5
 aside from our love of mst3k, we all share a deep love for our favorite food. whether it's a pb&j sammich or sauteed duck foie gras, i want to hear about it. i don't know why people take pictures of their food, but if you do that, post them here (i say that, but i just posted a pic of a great latte i got in my blog  ). share recipes, talk about food allergies, the best/worst thing you've either tried or cooked - anything food related. me first. i once knew a woman who tried to make chicken and dumplings that took a wrong turn along the way and ended up with one giant dumpling in the pot. she didn't want her husband to see it when he got home, so she buried it in the backyard. true story. and it wasn't me. since i'm a diabetic, i'm always on the lookout for a diabetic friendly recipe, though i am not much of a cook either. my mom used to say if you can read you can cook, and though i can read, i don't think i have the patience to cook more than the simplest dishes.  |
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Post by crowschmo on Oct 20, 2013 18:29:09 GMT -5
The palm trees are a neat picture. I don't cook a lot so I don't have any awesome recipes to share. I did make peanut butter cookies once when I didn't have vanilla extract, so I used almond extract instead. Mmmm. They came out gooood. My family has a weird thing we make once in a while that started with my grandmother. Brown some chop meat, drain, add chopped onions (a little) and baked beans and some ketchup and cook. It's like chilli without the hot.  Well, WE like it. Another weird thing my sister and I started when we were kids (my cousin actually came up with it). Whenever we have white rice, we can't have it without applesauce. I keep it separate on the plate, but I mix it on the fork. Kind of pie-like. Now I can't have rice by itself. I made something once when I was just throwing things together. I browned steak in a frying pan and I can't remember now what kind of steak I originally used, I've made it a couple of times since and it just wasn't the same, it came out great the first time. Maybe flank steak? I don't know, it was kind of a cheap cut that when you cook for a long time on low heat gets tender. Anyway, after I browned it, I drained the pan, then added potatoes and yellow and orange peppers (sweet peppers) and covered it all in tomato sauce, then covered the pan and cooked it for about an hour, flipping the steak over once and stirring the sauce occasionally. Dee-lish. Good thing I've had in a restaurant: In Vermont, I once had a chocolate maple pecan pie. Pie nirvana. |
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Post by spackle on Oct 21, 2013 8:49:22 GMT -5
Hasn't that dumpling woman ever heard of trash cans? At least the dumpling didn't come to life and emerge from the ground and wreak dumplingy vengeance. Now that I'd like to see!
Love the fruit palm tree pic! I love most kinds of fruit, but not kiwis. I've been to New Zealand and love many things about it, but their one big fruit crop leaves me cold. It's the taste. It just doesn't thrill me. But some other fruits exemplify one thing I like to do with food: combine different tastes and textures to see what creates something new. The fruits in question are avocados and grapefruits. When you put them together with some basic oil and vinegar salad dressing and some black pepper and maybe a bit of parmesan, they're yummy. The avocados are buttery and the grapefruits are sharp.
Speaking of pie nirvana, when I lived in Kentucky someone gave me a recipe for Triple Crown pie, which is basically pecan pie with chocolate chips and bourbon added before you bake it. It's one of the richest things I've ever eaten.
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Post by nondescript spice on Oct 21, 2013 11:16:32 GMT -5
that sounds awesome. as i said, i'm not much of a cook, but i do have a recipe for an award winning peanut butter pie. it's mind blowing. and the award that was won, was a beach towel when i was a sophomore and my home ec class had a pie contest. i won best looking. it should have been best tasting too, but i guess peanut butter isn't everyone's taste and best looking pie isn't the worst thing to put on a resume. it's peanut butter -durhey- milk, confectioner sugar, cool whip put on a graham cracker crust and frozen till firm. you can sprinkle chopped nuts on top. reeeeeally good for breakfast.
when i was in my 20's, a guy i was dating taught me a little bit about cooking. he taught me how to bake a chicken and make potato soup, which got me interested in trying other things. if i'm in the right mood and there's no pressure, i like cooking. sometimes, like crowschmo's steak dish, it's those impromptu things you experiment with that turn out better than a traditional recipe.
my mom was always a great cook, but she died before she could show me how she did it (the peanut butter pie recipe was hers). she turned into a great cook when she became friends with our neighbor, an italian woman. she taught my mom a lot.
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Post by nondescript spice on Oct 21, 2013 12:49:02 GMT -5
one great site for me for endless recipes and cooking tips has been pinterest. i made this fruit cobbler for my coworkers once that was almost too easy, and it tasted amazing. it took less than five minutes to put prepare.  two 12 ounce frozen bags of fruit, like peach or mixed berry (i used peaches) 1 box of white cake mix 1 can of diet 7up or diet sprite put the fruit in a 9x13 baking dish. add dry cake mix over it. slowly pour soda over it, but do not stir. if you stir it, you will get a cake-like topping. when you don't stir, it makes more of a crusty cobbler-like top. bake at 350 for 45-50 minutes. it really tastes like you put more work into it than you did. the other thing i tried was sausage and pancake muffins.  these are easy too. i made them for christmas morning last year and they were a big hit. you can make sausage crumbles the old way, by actually cooking the sausage, but i found a bag of frozen sausage crumbles with the rest of the sausage, bacon, etc. in the grocery store. much easier. you'll need to prepare a pancake mix as per the instructions on a box of bisquick. add as many or as little sausage crumbles to your taste and mix. spray a muffin tin with cooking spray and add pancake mixture about 3/4 full. add a few more crumbles on top. bake at 350 for 13 minutes or until golden brown. serve with syrup and butter. YUM. *instead of sausage, you can put other ingredients in it, like fruit or nuts. |
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Post by spackle on Oct 21, 2013 20:26:04 GMT -5
Fruits and nuts? Hey, what kind of a thread is this? Believe it or not, the town I live in has a Fruit and Nut Society. It sounds crazy, but, boringly, it's for people who like to grow their own. Fruits and nuts, that is.
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Post by nondescript spice on Oct 24, 2013 10:55:45 GMT -5
maybe the people in the fruit & nut society are growing more than their fruit & nuts. i've never been to a halloween party that featured theme snacks other than those dry, tasteless cookies you get from the grocery store deli with orange and black icing on them, or candy corn, which i refuse to eat. some of the pics i found this morning were truly gross looking, but these looked interesting.   i have to admit this cake is pretty impressive - and it doesn't take much to impress me with cake  and the pièce de résistance -  |
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Post by nondescript spice on Oct 27, 2013 18:38:44 GMT -5
i visited my cousin and her husband over the weekend, and took a cheeseball i had made. i haven't made it in a long time - i used to make it for my family every christmas eve. i had forgotten how good it is. and it's totally easy. 2 cups chopped pecans (small pieces - it said it was small pieces on the bag, but i still chopped them up a bit) 2 eight ounce packages of cream cheese, softened 1 eight ounce can of crushed pineapple, drained 1/4 cup finely chopped green pepper 2 tablespoons of chopped onions 1 tablespoon of Lowry seasoning salt reserve one cup of nuts blend all ingredients together form into a ball roll in remaining nuts & chill until firm.  |
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Post by gypsygurl on Nov 24, 2013 14:45:33 GMT -5
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Post by spackle on Nov 24, 2013 20:19:58 GMT -5
I think I'm getting tipsy just reading that. *hic!*
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Post by nondescript spice on Nov 25, 2013 20:33:26 GMT -5
that's my thanksgiving agenda, minus the turkey.
gypsygurl gave me a slice of banana cake she made last week (we live near each other, for those who don't know or give a rat's ass) and it was amazing. i hope she will post her recipe here when she gets a chance.
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Post by nondescript spice on Nov 26, 2013 19:53:07 GMT -5
 damn! someone hand me a tater! |
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Post by Phantom Engineer on Nov 26, 2013 21:50:09 GMT -5
Wow, what a radical recipe! It's almost as if it's , dare I say it, a baked potato!
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Post by afriendlychicken on Nov 26, 2013 22:39:37 GMT -5
Wow, what a radical recipe! It's almost as if it's , dare I say it, a baked potato! Could've fooled me. |
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Post by nondescript spice on Nov 26, 2013 22:41:22 GMT -5
Wow, what a radical recipe! It's almost as if it's , dare I say it, a baked potato! shut up and put on yer apron! |
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). share recipes, talk about food allergies, the best/worst thing you've either tried or cooked - anything food related. 
Well, WE like it.
