Recipes and Cooking

[Queen Victoria]

For the days after Easter

Egg Salad Sandwich Recipe

Ingredients:

4 hard boiled eggs-peeled, sliced & chopped
1 stalk celery-thinly sliced and chopped
3 green onions-chopped
1/4 cup shredded cheese
1 tbsp. chopped black olive
Bread
Tomato slices
Sprouts

Dressing:

1 tbsp. mayonnaise
1 tsp. mustard
1/4-1/2 tsp. chili paste(hot)
2 pinches paprika
1 pinch parsley
salt & pepper to taste


Mix eggs & vegetables in a small bowl. Adjust ingredient amounts if necessary to make an even mix.

Add dressing ingredients sparingly one at a time and mix. Add salt & pepper if desired to adjust flavour.

Add sliced tomatoes and sprouts to one side of the sandwich. Add egg salad mix and cover with other slice of bread.

Enjoy!

[midlifeaspie]

I'll be eating a lot of those come Monday 

[Queen Victoria]

I'll be eating a lot of those come Monday 

Been there, done that.  Now a simple present suffices.

[Queen Victoria]

Japanese Cucumbers

3 medium, firm cucumbers
1 medium onion
2 ribs celery
1/2 Cup sugar
1/2 Cup Japanese rice vinegar

DIRECTIONS: Slice cucumbers, onion and celery very thin. Soak in salt water for about an hour. Rinse and drain thoroughly. Mix sugar and rice vinegar together until sugar is dissolved. Pour over the cucumbers in a screw- top jar and refrigerate. Will keep for several weeks.

[Callaway]

Dear Hubert, No, I haven't because I don't like peas.  I imagine if given the opportunity to try oppossum I would try it.  After all I enjoy deer sausage, alligator sausage, rabbit, raw oysters, clamari, sushi and tripe.  I would probably draw the line a nutria however.

My mom tried possum before, but she said that she didn't really like it because it was kind of fatty and greasy.  I have never tried it, though.

[Queen Victoria]

Dear Hubert, No, I haven't because I don't like peas.  I imagine if given the opportunity to try oppossum I would try it.  After all I enjoy deer sausage, alligator sausage, rabbit, raw oysters, clamari, sushi and tripe.  I would probably draw the line a nutria however.

My mom tried possum before, but she said that she didn't really like it because it was kind of fatty and greasy.  I have never tried it, though.

My sister caught a 3rd possum in her bedroom (told her she needs to pick up a better grade of guy at the barroom).  It didn't spring the trap and was crawling out, so she caught it by the neck.  Anyway she and I were talking about it tonight and she mentioned that she'd heard they were a fatty animal.

[Queen Victoria]

Here's one you can make the night before and grab as you go out the door in the morning.  I'd probably store them in the refrigerator if you're not going to eat them right away.

Bisquick Breakfast Bites

Ingredients
16 oz cheddar or any kind of cheese
3 cups bisquick
16 oz breakfast sausage (the kind in the roll)
1/3 cup milk

Directions
mix all ingredients together. Add a little more bisquick if too sticky, but it seems to turn out with some stickiness involved. roll into little balls. place on cookie sheet and cook for 13-15 minutes at 375. cool. and enjoy.  If you prefer to make it healthier then use low-fat cheese and pre-cook the sausage, draining off the fat. 

Bisquick is a pre-made biscuit mix sold in the US.  Any biscuit recipe could probably be substituted.

["couldbecousin"]

Here's one you can make the night before and grab as you go out the door in the morning.  I'd probably store them in the refrigerator if you're not going to eat them right away.

Bisquick Breakfast Bites

Ingredients
16 oz cheddar or any kind of cheese
3 cups bisquick
16 oz breakfast sausage (the kind in the roll)
1/3 cup milk

Directions
mix all ingredients together. Add a little more bisquick if too sticky, but it seems to turn out with some stickiness involved. roll into little balls. place on cookie sheet and cook for 13-15 minutes at 375. cool. and enjoy.  If you prefer to make it healthier then use low-fat cheese and pre-cook the sausage, draining off the fat. 

Bisquick is a pre-made biscuit mix sold in the US.  Any biscuit recipe could probably be substituted.

  Bisquick pancakes with Vermont Maid syrup were a big childhood favorite of mine. 

[Queen Victoria]

Here's something slightly tropical for the upcoming summer days.

Pineapple Pico
Makes 2-1/2 cups

This is a sweet-hot variation on classic Pico De Gallo. It's a summery salsa that goes well with grilled pork or shrimp.

1/4 onion diced
1 large tomato seeded and diced
1 cup diced pineapple
1/2 cup chopped fresh cilantro
1 teaspoon minced habanero chile or 1 tablespoon habanero pepper sauce
2 tablespoons fresh lime juice
Salt

Combine all the ingredients in a bowl, including salt to taste. Mix well and refrigerate for 15 minutes to allow the flavors to blend before serving.

[Queen Victoria]

Mini Focaccia

Prep Time: 15 minutes
Cook Time: 13 minutes

Ingredients:
•11 oz. can refrigerated soft breadstick dough
•2 Tbsp. olive oil
•1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
•2 tsp. dried Italian seasoning

Preparation:
Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Lightly grease cookie sheets or line with parchment paper. Remove dough from can and separate into 8 coils, but do not unroll. Place on prepared pans and press each coil of dough into a 5" circle. Drizzle with olive oil. Combine cheese and seasoning and mix well. Sprinkle over each coil. Bake at 375 degrees for 8-14 minutes until golden brown. Remove from cookie sheets immediately. 8 servings

['andersom']

This is sort of a half-assed potatoes au gratin, simpler and faster.  Probably for the winter months.

Cheesy Hashbrowns.

30-oz. pkg. frozen shredded hashbrowns, thawed
2 c. sour cream
2 10-3/4 oz. cans cream of mushroom soup
1 onion, chopped
2 to 3 c. shredded Cheddar cheese, divided
 
Combine hashbrowns, sour cream, soup, onion and 2 cups cheese together; mix well. Spread into a lightly buttered 13"x9" baking pan; sprinkle with remaining cheese. Bake at 350 degrees for one hour. Makes 8 to 10 servings.  I would say you could substitute any cream of soup depending on what you'll serve it with. 
 

Recipes like these keep making me look twice.

Cheesy hashbrowns? "Hash" is Dutch for hashish. And recipes with that would be considered more than cheesy in many countries I guess. 

[TheoK]

Hashish is 

You tulip guys are  for legalizing it.

['andersom']

Hashish is 

You tulip guys are  for legalizing it.

Oh lol, we have really fucked up regulations here. It isn't legal, but tolerated. All kinds of funny things to just keep it working. I wonder if there are more patched up regulations than the ones about cannabis here. A place not far from me is now getting into formal problems, because they wanted to make a prohibition of selling and buying weed illegal in their whole town. They are not allowed to do that. They have to leave the option open that at least at one place in their area selling and buying could be allowed. Doesn't mean that they have to allow it, they just are not allowed to make it impossible beforehand..... Weird regulations everywhere. And it differs from suburb to suburb too in a bigger town.

[TheoK]

But having laws and breaking them is even braver, like the Greeks and guns: the Greeks have a cowardly gun law like most of Europe, but many of them don't give a shit. Crete has 8% of the Greek population and 25% (estimately) of the illegal guns in Greece. Now is that  or what? 

['andersom']

But having laws and breaking them is even braver, like the Greeks and guns: the Greeks have a cowardly gun law like most of Europe, but many of them don't give a shit. Crete has 8% of the Greek population and 25% (estimately) of the illegal guns in Greece. Now is that  or what? 

LOL, that's the weird thing. Every user of Cannabis is breaking the law here, but it is condoned. And we take pride in the condoning. We have legally created a grey area between legal and illegal, and, as long as it works, it is fine. Would be braver if the government had the guts to take it a step further though.