Recipes and Cooking

[Queen Victoria]

Here's a simple quicky for the holidays:

Pecan Pie Muffins
1 cup chopped pecans
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup flour
2 eggs
1/2 cup (stick) butter or margarine, melted

Combine first 3 ingredients. In separate bowl beat eggs until foamy and add butter. Pour egg mix into dry ingredients and blend until moistened. Don’t over blend. Pour into muffin tins with papers. Bake at 350° for 20-25 minutes.

[Queen Victoria]

Kick-Ass Soup

Shredded cabbage
Diced:
red onion
yellow squash
turnip
sweet potato
white potato

Creamed corn
cut green beans
parsley
stewed tomatoes
chicken broth

Mexican seasoning

[richard]

hey baby your my mexicain seasoning. where have you been my whole life! 

and what would be a good recipe for taking on a pic-nic to a very nice well built mountian in the wintertime?

[Queen Victoria]

Well, if you have a thermos with a wide mouth, highly seasoned chili. 

Some type of pita bread

An orange that you've wrapped to keep from freezing.

Hot coffee or tea seems to keep hotter in a thermos than hot cocoa/chocolate.

Oh, and don't forget the girl.

[Queen Victoria]

Peruvian Potatoes (from the Telegraph, a London Newspaper)

1 small red onion
4 tbsp lemon juice
2 pinches cayenne pepper
2 fresh green or red chillies
750g (1lb 10oz) small waxy potatoes, such as Charlotte
4 large eggs
2 tbsp extra-virgin olive oil
175g (6oz) cottage cheese
150ml (5fl oz) double cream
1 level tsp turmeric

Peel the onion, slice finely into rings and place in a bowl. Add the lemon juice, cayenne pepper and a little salt. Stir, then cover and put to one side.

Cut open the chillies under running water, discard the seeds and stem, and chop finely. Wash the potatoes, and steam or boil until just cooked. Drain and leave until cool enough to handle.

Boil the eggs for about seven minutes; the yolk should be slightly soft (or you could just fry them). Heat the olive oil in a small pan over a low heat and fry the chopped chillies for two to three minutes.

Put the cottage cheese, cream, turmeric and a little salt into a food processor. Add the chillies along with the oil from the pan and whizz until smooth. Or just leave a little chunky be mixing it with a spoon.

Drain the onion rings. Cut the hot potatoes in half lengthways and arrange in a warmed serving dish. Peel the eggs (wait for a bit before you do this because hot eggs are well, hot), halve lengthways and arrange among the potatoes. Pour on the sauce, arrange the onion rings on top and serve.

[richard]

Peruvian Potatoes

Sold!

[Queen Victoria]

Peruvian Potatoes

Sold!

BTW  if you wanted to use steak fries or a baked potato you should be able to.  I think waxy potatoes are the ones we call new potatoes, the small red ones that are a bit pricy.

[Queen Victoria]

Swiss Turkey Stuffing Pie
3 cups prepared stuffing
2 cups cooked turkey, cubed
1 cup (4 oz.) Swiss cheese, grated
3 eggs
1/2 cup milk

Press stuffing into a greased 9 inch pie plate, coming up the sides, too. Layer with turkey and then cheese. Beat eggs and milk and pour over everything. Bake at 350° for 35-40 minutes or until knife inserted comes out clean. Let stand 5-10 minutes before serving.



Turkey Hodge Podge

1 cup turkey gravy
2 cups turkey, cooked and cubed
2 cups mixed veggies (frozen that have been thawed or leftovers)
2 medium potatoes, cubed and cooked
1 can refrigerator buttermilk biscuits

Mix all but biscuits together and heat through. Pour into an 8 inch square baking dish and top with biscuits. Bake at 400° 12-16 minutes until biscuits are golden and mixture is bubbly.



Candied Carrots

3 cups (about 5 small) carrots, cooked
2 Tbsp. margarine
1/4 cup jellied cranberry sauce
2 Tbsp. brown sugar
1/4 tsp. salt

In sauce pan, melt butter. Add cranberry sauce, sugar and salt. Add carrots and simmer 3-4 minutes. This can easily be doubled or tripled.



Vegetable Vinaigrette

Here's a different way to use the leftovers from the relish dish.

2 tomatoes, sliced (could use cherry tomatoes, too)
1/4 lb. mushrooms, sliced
1 cup broccoli florets (pieces of broccoli)
1 cup cauliflower pieces
1 cup vegetable oil
1/3 cup vinegar
2 tsp. oregano
1 tsp. each sugar, salt and parsley flakes
1/2 tsp. pepper
1/2 tsp dry mustard
1/4 tsp garlic powder or 2 cloves of fresh garlic crushed.

Mix and place all the veggies in a casserole dish. Combine the rest of the ingredients and pour over veggies. Cover and chill for 2-3 hours, stirring occasionally. Garnish with diced green onions.

[Loupgarou]

Ah food!!!!!!

never mind, here is a dish that is a fave of mine. If you are veggie, do not add meat.

Fried Haloumi Salad

Haloumi cheese (sliced and fried with heaps of olive oil. Very salty)
Rocket or baby spinach leaves
Olives/grilled marinated eggplant/marinated mushrooms
Lamb strips (like for stir fry) fried in olive oil, salt and fresh lemon juice
Lemons
Garlic
pepper
balsamic vinegar

Place clean green salad leaves on plate. Then put cooked lamb strips (at room temp. not hot) on top of salad leaves.  Then make dressing with balsamic vinegar, garlic and olive oil and pour that over the lamb strips and salad leaves. Place fried haloumi on top of that, then squeeze fresh lemon juice all over the meal. Add pepper and antipasto to the side of the salad.

Eat it 3 times a day and you will live long and prosper.

Loup

[richard]

i have so much leftovers from my moms thankgiving. YES i do love and apprechiate fine dineing 
and also i'll be pouring hotsauce on everything 

[DukeNukem]

i have so much leftovers from my moms thankgiving. YES i do love and apprechiate fine dineing 
and also i'll be pouring hotsauce on everything 

Why did you even come back, richard?

["couldbecousin"]

i have so much leftovers from my moms thankgiving. YES i do love and apprechiate fine dineing 
and also i'll be pouring hotsauce on everything 

Why did you even come back, richard?

To see all of us!   

[Queen Victoria]

i have so much leftovers from my moms thankgiving. YES i do love and apprechiate fine dineing 
and also i'll be pouring hotsauce on everything 

Why did you even come back, richard?

To see all of us!   

Beware of Weebles giving thumbs up.  They're looking for leftovers.

["couldbecousin"]

i have so much leftovers from my moms thankgiving. YES i do love and apprechiate fine dineing 
and also i'll be pouring hotsauce on everything 

Why did you even come back, richard?

To see all of us!   

Beware of Weebles giving thumbs up.  They're looking for leftovers.

Why, I don't know WHAT you are talking about! 




*peers in kitchen window to see how that scalloped ham is coming along*   

[Eclair]

Fried Haloumi Salad


Loup

They used to make a great salad like that at the Zen Bar....I used to make it all the time at home....it was one of my food phases!