Posted on 10/29/2011 9:09:50 AM PDT by libertarian27
Welcome to the 46th installment of the FR Weekly Cooking (Recipes) Thread.
Looking for something new to make or made something new that came out great? Please share a 'tried-and-true' recipe or nine- for fellow FReepers to add to their 'go-to' Recipe Stack of Family Favorites!
Here's the place to share and explore your latest and greatest favorite recipe.
What kind of macaroni and cheese do you like (Creamy cheese sauce type or the gloppy kind with chunks of melted cheese)? Do you like yours with other ingredients added in or just plain? What kind of cheese to you like in your macaroni & cheese? Baked or straight from the pot? We have had lots of recipes for macaroni and cheese on past threads and I have a slew of recipes for all different kinds of macaroni & cheese.
Here’s a few Mac&Cheese from past threads:
12/12/10 __ Post # 18 __ HomeStyle Macaroni & Cheese
09/24/11 __ Post # 28 __ Baked Macaroni & Cheese
04/23/11 __ Post # 21 __ Caroline’s Macaroni & Cheese
05/28/11 __ Post # 68 __ Gloppy Mac and Cheese
05/28/11 __ Post # 115 __ Macaroni & Cheese
05/28/11 __ Post # 115 __ Macaroni & Cheese
08/27/11 __ Post # 38 __ Tomato Macaroni & Cheese
(week links on my profile page)
But, of course, we need more Mac&Cheese recipes!
I want to try one with Lobster, guess it’s all the restaurant-rage right now.
Perfect place to share my upcoming tailgate menu and get some cheers or jeers...
I’m flying from FL to PA for the Penn State/Nebraska game (looks like it could be Joe’s last home game).
Thanks to Southwest Airlines and their free 80 lbs. of checked baggage, I can prepare a lot of food beforehand by freezing and vacuum sealing. Not the gravy though! That will be made on site.
We’ll serve about 50
8 lbs. Ribeye Philly Cheese Steaks with Amoroso Rolls
5 lbs. Chicken & Gravy on biscuits
9 lb. Spiral sliced Country Ham w/ biscuits or rolls
100 wings w/ sauce
Burgers
Cold Cuts/Cheeses
12 cases of beer
Full bar
We’ll be in the overnight RV lot - come find us!!
I did a quick search for lobster mac & cheese and saw ths one with 5 stars and lots of good comments about the recipe:
http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/neelys/lobster-macaroni-and-cheese-recipe/index.html
I didn’t know there were soooooo many. Wow! I gotta try all of them!
CREAMY CARROT SOUP
3/8 cup onion (chopped)
1 1/2 Tbls Butter (or EVOO)
1 1/2 cups carrots (chopped)
1 1/2 cups chicken broth
1 Tbls long grain rice(uncooked)
1/4 cup whipping cream
1 Tbls tomato paste
1/4 tsp salt
1/8 tsp pepper
Saute onion in butter, add carrots, broth, and rice.
Cover and simmer 25 minutes (till carrots are tender).
Cool a little.
Process in blender till smooth.
Add rest of ingredients and 1 pat of butter(or butter buds). Add optional seasonings noted below.
Optional garnish: Put some sour cream in a plastic bag, nip the corner and garnish with outline of Halloween figure such as a pumpkin, or spider web etc. for each bowl.
When I make this recipe, I like to add Curry Powder, Ginger, Applesauce, and Sage. I use about a 1/2 cup of applesauce, and several shakes of each spice.
Yum! Wish I lived close enough to join you!
Glad you are willing to try it - I think it makes the house smell like Thanksgiving!
When's National MAPLE SYRUP Day, so I can celebrate pancakes on that day, too?
October 30 - National Candy Corn Day
Ok... candy corn is fine.. gor any recipes to use Candy corn in??
October 31 - National Caramel Apple Day
I got to mke some!!!
November 1 - National French Fried Clam Day
Viva La France for this day!!
November 2 - National Deviled Egg Day
The Devil(ed Eggs) made me do it...(making deviled Eggs)
November 3 - Sandwich Day
On this day thank the EARL of Sandwich
November 4 - National Candy Day
Not Halloween??
Here are a couple of other fun ideas for Halloween.
Stuff a pimento stuffed olive into your favorite meatball recipe before cooking to make eyeball meatballs. My children loved spaghetti with eyeball meatballs for Halloween dinner.
Make a snake shaped sandwich roll by using puff pastry, a package of crescent rolls rolled out into one sheet, or your own favorite dough rolled into an oblong shape. Top it with your favorite deli sliced meat and cheese and roll up into a log, pinching the ends closed. Place on an ungreased cookie sheet lined with parchment paper or a silicone mat. At one end poke a small hole for the snakes forked tongue (I use a piece of a red pepper to make the forked tongue) and push the tongue into place. Use two whole cloves pushed into the roll for the eyes. To give your snake stripes. Beat up an egg or two and divide into small cups or dishes. Put a few drops of food color into each one and beat together. Paint the log with the egg washesin stripes (Children love to do the painting on this one!) Bake in the oven until lightly browned and serve!
For a quick decorated chocolate cake cake or brownies, make a thick glaze using confectioner’s sugar and a drop of water or fruit juice. Fill a zip lock bag or icing bag with the thick glaze. Snip the tip of the ziplock or use a small rount tip with your icing bag so you can pipe three or four circles on top of your cake or brownies. Using a toothpick draw lines from the outside ring to the inside center of all the rings to make a spiderweb shape on top. Use a large black gum drop and black licorice to make a spider to sit on top of the spiderweb.
This is my favorite muffin recipe. It makes about 24 cupcake sized muffins. It’s also good with strawberries. The nexttime I make it i’m going to try it with peaches and then pears. They freeze well after you bake them too!
Blueberry Cream Muffins
4 eggs
1 1/4 cups sugar
1 1/4 cups dark brown sugar
1 cup corn oil
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
4 cups unbleached flour
1 teaspoon salt
1 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
1/4 teaspoon nutmeg
2 cups sour cream
2 cups blueberries
Preheat oven to 400 degrees.
Line muffin pan with muffin liners.
Beat eggs and sugar. Slowly pour in oil and vanilla.
In separate bowl, stir the flour, salt, baking soda, cinnamon and nutmeg.
Stir dry ingredients into egg mixture.
Add sour cream.
Fold in blueberries.
Scoop batter into prepared muffin cups.
Bake for 20 minutes. Bake times may vary.
Actually, I do have a recipe or at least a cute method of decorating that uses candy corn.
Make your favorite cut out cookies in the shape of turkeys. When the cookies are fully baked, dip one side of a piece of candy corn into a chocolate ganache or chocolate frosting and use the chocolate to adhere several pieces of candy corn to the cookie as turkey feathers! I also use the same method to attach a piece I have cut out of an orange gum drop for the turkey’s beak and two mini chocolate chips for the eyes. Small children love to decorate these too!
Oh I just remembered another thing I did with candy corn one year! For a fun grown up candy corn treat make chocolate, almond, or white chocolate bark and stir in or sprinkle on the top of the bark chopped up bits of candy corn. Crushed up butterscotch candies work well for this too. (With the chocolate flavor bark I think it is prettier to sprinkle them on top so the colors of the candy corn are shown off a little better.) It makes a festive bark to serve for Halloween or Thanksgiving gatherings!
Here’s a big list of them:
http://www.ultimatepheasanthunting.com/recipes/
Those sound delicious. I have been making lots of different kinds of muffins with fruit in them to have on hand for quick breakfasts on the go as many in my family would otherwise skip breakfast completely in the morning. I think I will make your muffins soon!
This morning my daughters made some muffins using a golden butter cake mix and raspberries. They are delicious too!
Scrap the aluminum and go with cast iron
Those meatballs sound fun!
I saw one yesterday for baked rat shaped meatballs. They had little bits of black olives for the eyes and a strip of ham for the tail. I think I might try simmering them in sauce and using a half piece of spaghetti instead of a ham tail since it will absorb the sauce while cooking.
Don’t worry. I’ll just post the link to the recipe.
http://articles.latimes.com/2010/oct/07/food/la-fo-sos-macncheese-20101007
Will this recipe make my butt look fat? LOL!
Love your weekly cooking threads. Could you please add me to your list. ty
Everyday is Mac n Cheese Day
If my heart could take it, I would have it everyday. Oven baked of course, although “instant” will do in a pinch.
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