Author Topic: What's for dinner, DL? (Read 47219 times)

superaielman · « **Reply #125 on:** December 11, 2009, 11:11:39 AM »

That cake recipe ended up pretty well, I have to say!

My own version of chicken soup:

Two-four pounds chicken breast
One pound sausage
Two green peppers
Two onions
One red pepper
One bag frozen corn
One cup water
One can chicken broth
Three drops texas pete hot sauce
Spices: Salt, pepper, thyme, basil, cumin, brown sugar, one pack taco seasoning

Pound out the sausage into one large patty, cook on stovetop until cooked through. Leave the grease in the pan; split the chicken breasts and fry them in the sausage grease. Drain both meats and cut the sausage into quarter sized pieces and the chicken into strips. Dump everything but the water and hot sauce into the crock pot, stir. Cook until water is needed, add water. More than one cup may be needed. Cook for five-eight hours. Add the hot sauce one-two hours before serving.

Next time I try this I want to add shrimp and perhaps mushrooms.

I served this with texas toast and it went wonderfully. Sam Adams also went well with this, but Sam Adams goes well with most anything.

Cotigo · « **Reply #126 on:** December 11, 2009, 06:17:40 PM »

Ugh. 4 Chan ruined me just with the sheer force of its memetics. All I could think about was Super dressed up as a little girl with pink hair singing while she bakes a cake, just because of the first line of his post.

Ugh.

EDIT: Also, your soup needs 100% more chopped carrots and chopped celery. Especially the celery, since if you put it in early enough it absorbs almost all the flavor of the broth and becomes awesome.

Ultradude · « **Reply #127 on:** December 11, 2009, 06:25:28 PM »

Thaaaaaanks now the song's stuck in my head.

Lady Door · « **Reply #128 on:** January 24, 2010, 03:44:29 AM »

Made Moroccan-spice butternut squash and garlic Parmesan chicken for dinner. It was remarkably tasty. I was a little weirded out at first by the Moroccan spices -- the fact that I could basically use "Pumpkin Pie spice" with cayenne pepper struck me as odd -- but oh man was it worth the experiment.

Also, I wish butternut squash wasn't such a bitch to prepare because goddamn is it good -and- good for you.

Anthony Edward Stark · « **Reply #129 on:** January 24, 2010, 04:28:52 AM »

I decided tonight would be Curry Night. Delicious and hot as fuck, just my style. I make it from the ground up. The secret is to add jalapeno to the curry sauce when you're blending the base.

Scar · « **Reply #130 on:** January 24, 2010, 07:17:41 PM »

I just ate a pretty uncooked Burger. Now my stomach is all mad at me, but I'm not sure if it's the burger or the insane amounts of booze I pumped into my system last night that is the cause.

Cotigo · « **Reply #131 on:** January 24, 2010, 07:57:58 PM »

Chances are, it is both.

You know what's a stupid idea? Getting really drunk then deciding to cook some old spicy sausage and mix it in with a bunch of eggs. Ughh.

ThePiggyman · « **Reply #132 on:** January 25, 2010, 12:25:00 AM »

I went out for dinner tonight, at a restaurant called Le Vieux Duluth.
Ohhhhh my goooood, that shit was delish.

I had friend calamari with lemon, gratin garlic shrimp with Monterey Jack cheese, perfectly cooked oregano chicken, and finished it off with some baklava.

^^

Sir Donald 3.2 · « **Reply #133 on:** January 25, 2010, 04:08:57 AM »

Just to say, I've just had a root canal and will need to have another one on the same tooth in 12 days.

It's on the Lower Right 2nd Molar, so I'm limited in my chewing.

Fortunately, I've sliced up a regular pizza into 16 slices and it held up. Reducing the temperature 50 degrees and cooking for 5 more minutes probably helped. Hot Dogs (without bread) tomorrow.

VySaika · « **Reply #134 on:** February 18, 2010, 02:40:11 AM »

Rueben Mac & Cheese for dinner tonight. I don't like most mac&cheeses I've tried, but this is fantastic.

Here's a link to the recipie if anyone wants to give it a try: http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/rachael-ray/reuben-mac-n-cheese-recipe2/index.html

Lady Door · « **Reply #135 on:** March 08, 2010, 04:59:58 AM »

This week's experiment: how far can a single roast chicken go?

Tonight I made a lemon and salt + pepper roast chicken, purchased at 6.36 pounds. Tossing some carrots and potatoes to the base and eating the legs provided Andrew and I dinner for the evening. There's a decent amount of chicken leftover, too, and I have at least three recipes I'm going to try to use it with.

1. White bean chicken chili
2. Chicken curry in a hurry
3. Sesame noodles with chicken

Maybe some more, too. We'll see!

NotMiki · « **Reply #136 on:** March 08, 2010, 02:23:19 PM »

Made me some chicken mushroom onion soup and oatmeal bread. This is an early excursion into making soup from scratch, and it came out fairly well. For the bread I used a different brand of yeast from the one I normally do. Word to the wise: pass on Red Star.

Idun · « **Reply #137 on:** March 13, 2010, 07:25:19 PM »

How about what's for breakfast/lunch? I made turkey biscuits and they were mm mm good.

Idun · « **Reply #138 on:** April 24, 2010, 02:14:48 AM »

My turkey meatballs were individual gods melting in my mouth.

*looks up at other post* Huh, turkey again.

Luther Lansfeld · « **Reply #139 on:** April 26, 2010, 01:54:07 AM »

Today is a fairly typical meal -- beef, broccoli, and green beans with a lot of black bean sauce and garlic over it and cooked over a wok.

NotMiki · « **Reply #140 on:** April 26, 2010, 02:47:34 AM »

Made apple bread. Good, but it coulda been better. Too fluffy, not dark enough. Next time, I'll take out an egg, add some molasses, and throw in a little wheat germ and whole wheat flour for good measure.

Idun · « **Reply #141 on:** June 11, 2010, 08:06:50 PM »

Quick cupcakes I made for Charles's birthday today. Never used icing tips. I am officially addicted!!! I WANT TO DECORATE MOAR, USE MOAR, HAVE MOAR SHAPES YAARGH

Idun · « **Reply #142 on:** June 11, 2010, 08:07:05 PM »

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Shale · « **Reply #143 on:** June 11, 2010, 08:15:20 PM »

That's pretty awesome.

Tonight: Tomatoes, onions, peppers and carrots, roasted with garlic, ground pepper and paprika and tossed with pasta and lots of olive oil.

Dunefar · « **Reply #144 on:** June 11, 2010, 08:33:12 PM »

Garlic's been really bothering my stomach lately for whatever reason, and I'm making Italian tonight. Is there anything that can compensate for light/no garlic at all?

Idun · « **Reply #145 on:** June 11, 2010, 09:39:33 PM »

If you normally use garlic salt, then garlic powder.

But if you normally use fresh garlic, celery salt is good. Though I say take the garlic and a tums!

Pool trip cancelled to pouring rain. ):

Luther Lansfeld · « **Reply #146 on:** June 13, 2010, 04:44:20 AM »

Today I made stew with meat, potatoes, green beans, corn, onions, carrots, and celery and then made snickerdoodle cookies for dessert. =)

NotMiki · « **Reply #147 on:** June 14, 2010, 02:22:55 AM »

That's so badass. I've been meaning to branch out now that I have time, but not sure what to make exactly. I'm good when it comes to cold-weather appropriate stuff, but it's too hot and humid to enjoy my regular repertoire. Wish more people were around so I had an excuse to make more banana bread. I really wanna see if I can replicate my success in that department.

Lady Door · « **Reply #148 on:** June 21, 2010, 02:20:00 AM »

So in honor of my father, for Father's Day, I decided to try my hand at cast iron pan-frying a steak.

Step 1: Heat oven, with cast iron skillet inside, to 500F.
Step 2: Season room temperature meat with salt, pepper, cayenne pepper, etc. Lay it on thick!
Step 3: Take skillet out of oven and place on hot stove element, to heat further.
Step 4: Rub a little oil on one side of the steak, then place this oil-side down on the skillet.
Step 5: Flail around the kitchen and shoo your helpers to cover up the smoke alarms. Check and see if you didn't accidentally set your pot holder on fire instead of the meat.
Step 6: Pour a little oil on the side of the steak that's up and then, after 2 minutes, flip. Cheer at the beautiful crust you've made! Return to flailing and start fanning the plumes of smoke toward the door and window.
Step 7: Put the steak in the oven for 5-10 minutes before going to the door to assure the nice fireman and all the people in your building who evacuated when the very loud alarm started going off that everything's just fine!
Step 8: Pull the steak out of the oven, muttering that this had better be the best goddamn steak in the history of mankind.
Step 9: Sit down and enjoy, trying to ignore the horrible, horrible burning in your nose from the flash-cooked pepper.

Hooray! Success. I would rate it a very good steak, but I don't think it was good enough to rate going through THAT debacle again. Still, my dad will be proud.

Yoshiken · « **Reply #149 on:** July 17, 2010, 11:22:58 PM »

Finally! For the longest time, I've wanted to try improving my cooking skills (by which I mean I've wanted to try my hand at mixing together random crap and seeing what works) but the oven in this house was awful. Now my dad has got a new oven, so I can try cooking!
...Except the grill doesn't work. Oh well, who needs a grill?

After yesterday's entry back into the world of cooking - spaghetti bolognaise, since it's what I make best - I tried to make a BBQ Chicken thing today, with some tortelloni alongside it. It... turned out pretty damn amazingly, but that's what happens when you use Reggae Reggae BBQ Sauce with ANYTHING. The only problem was that I used some spices alongside that that meant it melted my mouth into pieces, but hey, something to keep in mind for next time I try it~

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