Posted on 09/20/2008 6:16:23 PM PDT by TheMom
I have grown tired of cooking (and eating) the same meals over & over again. Mostly we eat steak, beef ribs, fried chicken, fried pork chops, tacos, and enchiladas. With the occasional corned beef, spaghetti and (packaged) Chinese food thrown in.
I have several cookbooks upstairs that I was considering perusing, then I thought about the fine folks on FR.
Please add your favorite recipe(s) to this thread so I can start experimenting. The only thing that I will not cook is liver & onions (YUK). I would love to have a tried & true recipe of pot roast and (not-packaged) Chinese food ~ these two things, along with homemade biscuits, have forever rejected me.
I don’t have an aversion to baked stuff ~ it just has not been in my repertoire.
Also keep in mind, we do not have immediate access to fresh seafood.
Honey, you’re a big boy.... you can have whatever you like!
:) L0L
I’ll try it. Not like anything I’ve ever made before. I love to experiment with cooking. A new concept for me with the biscuits. The cabbage mix looks interesting, too.
No problem! I will be cooking all kinds of different stuff for a while.
I like it. It keeps well and and a serving reheats easily in the microwave. Just watch out for overdone crust while reheating.
Deirde's 7 Thing Chicken
1/2 cup Soy Sauce
2 Tbs Chopped Fresh Ginger or a TBS of Dried Ginger
2 or 3 Cloves chopped Garlic
1/4 Cup Sliced Scallions
1 Tsp Chili Oil
Minced Jalapenos to taste - I use a couple
2 TBS Sesame Oil
Mix all of the ingredients and add to a couple of pounds of chicken pieces. Cover and marinate in the fridge for at least a day - better two. Give to Eaker and ask him to grill them. Its also great in a stir fry with a bunch of veggies over rice. You can boil the marinade to use as a sauce if you care to.
If you can't get sesame oil, heck, put a couple of tablespoons of peanut butter in there, no worries. Add or subtract amounts to your taste. Good and mildly spicy eats.
When you make pot roast, use beef stock and add a cup of fresh coffee, it’s the way my mom always did it and serve with german style fried noodles. Mmmmmmmmmm.
This sounds good. Thanks!
I’ll give that a try (along with all the other pot roast recipes). My husband uses coffee in his marinate mix ~ gives it a great flavor.
Coffee?!
Eaker is a smart guy. Some use Coke a Cola but the sugar burns
Hope we get to “test” some of these new ones at the next Memorial Shoot!
BTW...does anyone know when or where this is going to be held yet?
Great thread. I read some of it earlier today but couldn’t post. I’ll send some of my recipes (in appreciation for that great dress ;) ). I have some I’m sure you and Eaker will love (and some don’t include alcohol). And I promise they’re not all Italian recipes handed down from my mom. BTW, ick on anything Italian that uses a jar or canned red gravy. Real Italians don’t use jar or canned red gravy ;). It’s too easy to make the real stuff from scratch. And tastes much better.
I’m always looking for new ideas, get tired of cooking the same damn thing and saw some recipes posted that I’ll be trying soon, too. I suck at pot roast. Saw a recipe here I’ll try. Relearning the Crock Pot. Used it all the time when the kids were little but not a whole lot in years.
I’d much rather try recipes from people I know than use a cookbook (esp since I don’t follow recipes to the “T”, a pinch here, something a bit more there, to taste, etc.).
Great thread. Thanks.
I think it’s more about just being contrary.
Seriously. WTH is there to argue about on a recipe thread? Other than red gravy, of course ;)
Anyone who cooks, and I do for home daily for as long as I can recall, and for income part time, always looks for more recipes and new ideas. We all get tired of eating the same thing even the foods we love.
stuart is just contrary ;)
Sure you do. You’re just being contrary.
A post was made asking for Freepers/posters ideas for recipes. You came on the thread not offering ideas for recipes, cooking, etc. but to stir things up.
Just in case you really don’t get the difference between a cookbook recipe and one handed down through generations or what works, now you know the difference. I have tweaked cookbook recipes, as I’m sure many here have done, to make it just right so to speak. Most of the time, cookbook recipes are just a simple guide.
And for those of us who do this for a living or part of a living or just everyday cooking for our families, it makes a huge difference.
But you already knew that and just posted, again and again, on a thread you really had no interest in, just to be an ass.
Come on, a recipe thread? Even I’m internet smart enough to see your posts on this thread for what they are. If you couldn’t fool me, you ain’t foolin’ anyone.
Thank you so much. She lived a wonderful 93 years, but had a tough couple of last weeks. She is at peace now.
OK, thanks for the response.
Is that really the same as doing something you’ve done all your life, like eating and cooking?
All the time.
True dat...some people are way too serious sometimes.
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