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Calling All Cooks!
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Zanjana
Washed Up Punter
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Mar-12-2007 00:11
So, if I have to eat one more grilled chicken breast, one more bowl of spaghetti with jarred marinara sauce, one more taco with the crispy shell-that-came-out-of-a-box, I'm going to impale myself on a spork.
So here's my idea: everyone has to eat, right? And I'll bet almost everyone out there in Sleuthville has a favorite. A sure-fire, go-to, I-have-the-ingredients-in-my-house-at-all-times winner of a meal. I say, let's share. Cuz I think my family will kill me if I serve them chili again, uh, ever.
Simple, complex, fancy, casual - bring it on.
I'll start...
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lilangel
Sleuth About Town
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Mar-12-2007 03:12
lol more like crunchy is a hungry crunch...
unfortunately i don't have ingredients in my house all the time, not enough cupboard/refrigerator/freezer space here... someday i'll be able to share something.
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AraLives
Battered Shoe
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Mar-12-2007 06:04
oooh, sounds yummy! Needs cheese though. Everything needs cheese. I might just make this one of these days except: What is hominy, and where do I find it? Is that like grits? Almost impossible to get grits in Canada. Cornmeal an acceptable substitute? Or am I just an idiot and there's a huge hominy aisle at the supermarket I just keep missing....
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AraLives
Battered Shoe
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Mar-12-2007 06:05
Oh and for dinner tonight we're having Hungarian Goulash. I'll post that recipe up on the other recipes thread.....
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sunny
Lady of Shadows
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Mar-12-2007 10:41
Ara, hominy is dried corn kernels. You can buy them dried and rehydrate them yourself or you can buy them canned in a liquid. You can find ground hominy that would be similar to grits or cornmeal, but I think this recipe needs the whole variety. You might find it in the canned vegetable aisle.
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AraLives
Battered Shoe
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Mar-12-2007 11:29
Hm, interesting. Thanks Sunny! I've never come across it, but will have to keep an eye out next time I go grocery shopping.
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Zanjana
Washed Up Punter
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Mar-12-2007 12:50
Yes, it's in the canned vegetable aisle, on the bottom shelf with things no one buys. If you can't find it (though it's really yummy), you can substitute corn kernels.
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crunchpatty
Old Shoe
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Mar-12-2007 15:58
Somewhere down the road, someone's gonna see "dried corn kernels" and try just throwing a fistful of unpopped Orville Redenbacher into their soup :P
You might need to go off the beaten supermarket path for that one...try like Latin American markets, that kinda thing. Start here:
http://www.elchasquilatino.com/servicios/MercadosLatinos.htm
It might be labelled 'posole' or 'nixtamal', too.
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John Morse
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Mar-14-2007 00:02
Chicken Tortilla Soup??? Argh!!!
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crunchpatty
Old Shoe
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Mar-14-2007 00:18
Bad memories or bad chicken? If it's the latter, I'd advise sitting down, like hasty-hasty. That's what you get for buying chicken from a scalper standing over a warm air vent :P
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balash 3
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Mar-14-2007 02:51
hominy is in mundo
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