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shannonbanshee
shannonbanshee
Well-Connected

Oct-1-2006 18:58

Hi Everyone,
I have been thinking about this for awhile and would like your input.How about a sleuth cookbook?We submit our favorite recipes and somehow compile them in a cookbook.Maybe in ebook format.Any thoughts?


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sunny
sunny
Lady of Shadows

Oct-5-2006 20:46

Shannonbanshee, my family has a tatertot casserole recipe too! It's a little different from yours, but the same idea.

Ravenclaw515
Ravenclaw515

Oct-6-2006 17:46

I love this idea! I'm an (aspiring) chef, so this is right up my alley. I thought I'd post something I cook at home. rather than restaurant food. Marinara sauce is something simple that people often mess up by settling for bottled or canned sauce. My recipe is as follows:

Finely chop 1/2 of a white onion, a few cloves of garlic and a shallot or two. Coat the bottom of a large sauce pot with some extra virgin olive oil and cook the above over med heat until translucent. If you're using ground beef or sausage, now is the time to add it. I prefer spicy Italian sausage. Roughly chop 3-5 tomatoes (depending on size, I prefer 5 Romas) and add to pot. Add on small can of tomatoe paste and one large can of crushed tomatoes. Pour in 1 cup red wine and 2 cups broth (any kind will do - beef, chicken or veg). Add dried oregano and thyme, a few tablespoons each.
Now, the super chef secret to good marinara: blasamic vinegar and sugar. First, salt the sauce to taste. Now stir in some balsamic until you can just taste it clearly in the sauce, about 3 oz. Now, add sugar until the balsamic taste starts to go away, about 2 oz. This gives the sauce complexity and balance. Let simmer for another 20 minutes. If you like a spicy sauce, add some crushed red pepper -- now it's called Arrabiatta Sauce!

I like to eat it over al dente pasta with fresh basil, grated parmesan and crusty bread. F'in delicious.

shannonbanshee
shannonbanshee
Well-Connected

Oct-14-2006 22:04

O.k I thought I would bump this up to see if we can get some more recipes.I have some more I will write out and put on here.I know there are people from all over here and we should get some good recipes.I am always looking to find some new recipes to make.Thanks everyone.

crunchpatty
crunchpatty
Old Shoe

Oct-20-2006 01:09

BUMP!

I loved this thread when it was conceived, and feel like a tube for not posting on it earlier. Oh, and I made Sunny’s soup (yay sharing!) and it was *does that irritating cliché-chef-kissing-his-fingers thing* delicioso!

This is a recipe for a rustic French vegetable soup, ‘Soupe au Pistou’. Pistou is sort of a French version of pesto – but without nuts. What’s *really* cool about this is it’s nearly impossible to screw it up. I’m terrible at following recipes, and doubt I’ve made this precisely the same way twice…amounts are pretty much approximate. It really doesn’t matter. What you’re shooting for at the end is a fairly plain tomato/vegetable soup that just gets really frickin’ tasty with the addition of a spoonful or so of the pistou, which is prepared separately.

For the soup:

2Tbsp each Olive oil and butter
Bunch of leeks, rinsed (them gets dirty, y’know), the white bit sliced into semi-circles
1 large onion, sliced
2 cloves of garlic, minced
2 celery stalks, chopped
2 carrots, chopped
1 medium zucchini, quartered in its length and chopped
2-3 potatoes, about ¾ inch dice
1 ½ cups green beans cut into 1 inch lengths
1 can each of white and red kidney beans, drained and rinsed
2 bay leaves
water
large can (about a pint and a half/ 800 mL) ground tomatoes
sprig of fresh thyme
salt and freshly ground pepper

For the pistou:

3 cups fresh basil leaves
3-6 cloves of garlic (I probably use more)
½ lb. Shredded swiss gruyere cheese (you could probably swap in asiago here – key thing is to make sure you DON’T use the smoked gruyere)
Tbsp freshly ground pepper
Pinch of salt
¼ - ½ cup of olive oil

Optional:

Separately cooked macaroni, tubetti, orzo or another itty bitty pasta, added to individual bowls when you serve
Make the soup:

Heat olive oil and butter together over medium-low heat. When the butter has melted, throw in leeks, onion, garlic, carrots and celery and cook, stirring occasionally until the onions and leeks have softened and are translucent

crunchpatty
crunchpatty
Old Shoe

Oct-20-2006 01:10

Add your potatoes and bay leaves, cover the whole thing with cold water, raise the heat to high, cover and bring to a boil. Reduce heat to simmer immediately and add crushed tomatoes, thyme and all your beans. Cook for five minutes more, throw in the zucchini and let the whole thing cook very gently for 15 minutes or so…whatever…until everything’s tender.

Season with salt and pepper, but do so remembering that you want it bland-ish at this point. Also, if you feel like you want it more/less tomato-y add tomato paste or water, accordingly.

Make the pistou:

Pulse everything but the oil together in a food processor to chop. Drizzle oil in with the machine running. It’s sort of an ‘eyeball’ thing, so you might need a bit more or less oil. You want to end up with a brilliant green paste with a texture pretty close to that of regular pesto. You can do this by hand as well…just chop everything finely then mash the crap out of it in a bowl with a fork.

To serve put ½ cup of cooked pasta in each bowl, ladle in hot soup, add a spoonful or two of pistou to the top of each bowl and eat it with a few slices of baguette.

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To make it into a full meal, add grilled sliced sausage, or poach shrimp or a bit of firm, white fleshed fish in some of the soup and add it to the bowl as well.

The soup does NOT freeze very well – potatoes and carrots get really mealy, zucchini falls apart. Bad scene, dude. The pistou freezes nicely though.

Later that night…sneak into the kitchen and eat the pistou by itself off your greedy little knuckles. Be like me.

In lieu of knuckles, it’s also great on crostini or on bread run briefly under the broiler J


crunchpatty
crunchpatty
Old Shoe

Oct-20-2006 01:12

I have no idea why the letter 'J' was the last thing there. Totally not how I copy and pasted it.


som tam
som tam
Well-Connected

Oct-20-2006 09:53

Bok Lahong (Cambodian version of Som Tam – Green Papaya Salad)

½ to 1 red chili (adjust to taste)
½ tsp sugar
½ tsp shrimp paste
1 or 2 cloves of garlic
Pound the above ingredients with a wooden mortar and pestle until well blended.

Add:
1 tsp dried shrimp
1 shallot (small red onion)
2 tbsp chopped peanuts

Pound again until mixed. Peanuts should be in small pieces, but not ground to a paste.

Add:
2 yard-long beans, cut into pieces
about 1/3 of a tomato, cut into thin wedges
lemon juice to taste (about 1 or 2 tsp)

Pound again a little, mixing with the other ingredients. Beans should be kind of bruised, but not flattened.

Add:
A pinch of salt
A handful of shredded green papaya

Pound and mix ingredients until well blended. Scoop into a small bowl and top with fresh basil.
Makes 1 serving. Serve immediately.
I like to have this with barbequed chicken skewers and sticky rice


sunny
sunny
Lady of Shadows

Oct-20-2006 11:02

papaya salad is one of my favorite dishes, thanks som tam! And Crunch, I will try that soup next week.

Cynderbear
Cynderbear

Oct-20-2006 22:37

Okay, here's mine. This goes to any party and is an instant hit, but make extra, especially if you have anything male around the house. They go fast and are an EASY dinner with tomato soup or a salad. Great for "brown bag" lunches as well.

CHILE CHEESE SQUARES

Prep time: 5-10 min.

Bake time: 35-40 minutes at 350

Ingredients:

2 one-pound packages of grated cheese. Choose any two of your faves. I've used everything from sharp cheddar to pepper jack. You can experiment with all kinds until you find what you like best. (Yes, non-fat or lowfat works just fine, too.)

1 6 oz. can of whole green chiles. I use Ortega fire-roasted, but any work.

10 large (or 12 medium) eggs.

Large Dash of Spike. (You can use salt & pepper if you can't locate Spike, but it's worth the effort to get a bottle for all your recipes. Try your Health Food store if your grocery doesn't have it.)

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Spread one package of the cheese in a rectangular or square glass or ceramic dish lightly sprayed with olive oil (or even PAM).

Pull the chiles apart into halves and spread out over the cheese.

Beat the eggs until frothy, but don't whip too hard, and add the Spike or seasonings. Pour mixture evenly over the cheese and chiles.

Cover these layers with the other pack of cheese.

That's it. Bake and enjoy!







Lady Ruby Caplan
Lady Ruby Caplan
Well-Connected

Oct-31-2006 03:55


AGHAN BISCUITS

200 g butter
1/2 cup sugar
1 1/2 cups plain flour
2 tablespoons cocoa powder
1 cup corn flakes, slightly crushed
1/2 cup desiccated coconut

Cream butter and sugar until light and fluffy, sift together flour and cocoa and mix into butter mix, then fold in cornflakes and coconut.
Put teaspoonful balls onto lightly greased or baking paper covered trays.
Bakes at 180 degrees celcius for 15-20 minutes.
Makes about 30 biscuits.

These are supposed to be covered in choclate icing with a walnut place on top or spinkled with coconut. The thicker the icing,the better.

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