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I figure cheebs will be all over this one ;)


I make biscuits from scratch more often than is healthy (yet i have lost 4 lbs in 2 weeks, go figure), and i figured i would share this recipe since it come sout AWESOME.

2 cups flour
2 1/2 teaspoons baking powder ( iuse half baking soda, half cream of tartar, since that is basically what baking powder is)
6 tablespoons cold butter (cut into small pieces)
1/2 teaspoon salt (kosher is best)

3/4 cup half and half

mix all of the dry ingredients in a bowl, then add the butter pieces and shake to cover the butter in flour. use a pastry cutter, or if you dont have one (and you are brave), chop the shit out of it with a couple of butter knives. you want the butter covered in flour and cut into mostly pieces the size of peas.

pour in the half and half, and gently mix it in with a spatula until it is thoroughly mixed in. the dough should be a little dry with some of it not really holding together. toss a little more flour in if you need to.

spread a thin layer of flour on a dry flat surface, and put the dough on it. coat your hands in flour (helps if you have latex gloves and cover them with flour), knead a few times, 10 or so (not too much).

punch flat, or use a rolling pin, and use a round cutter to make the biscuits.

Bake in an oven preheated to 425 farenheit for 10 minutes.


Most recipes will tell you to let them cool, but i say screw that. eat them hot with butter. Smile as your arteries clog.

This one is always a hit at parties.


CHILI DIP

1 (8 oz.) tub soft cream cheese
1 sm. can Hormel chili (no beans)
1 pkg. Monterey Jack cheese (sliced or shredded if you can find it)
1 lg. bag nacho chips

In a flat bottom casserole dish layer in order: cream cheese, chili, Monterey Jack cheese.

Cover and heat until the cheese looks melted. You can microwave it about 5 minutes (but watch it) or in a regular oven about 15 minutes. Serve with nacho chips.

That one is perfection in simplicity. I love hormel chili....

so this thing doesnt die after 2 recipes....

Spicy oven "fried" chicken.

makes 2 thighs, adjust up for more

1/2 cup flour
2 chicken thighs, bone in with skin
1/4 hot sauce (frank's red hot is my personal favorite. use your's)
2 splashes worcestershire sauce (lea & perrin's, again, personal choice)
onion powder
garlic salt
pepper (fresh ground is best)
dried basil
paprika

2 1 gallon ziploc bags


put the hot sauce and worcestershire sauce in on of the bags, add the thighs, move them around until coated with the sauce mixture, squeeze out the air and seal (if you have time, let it marinate for hours, but it works fine if you just coat them while you get the rest of the stuff together)

preheat the oven to 375 f

mix the flour and spices in the other bag

put a wire cooling rack on a cookie sheet, line the sheet with foil to save on cleanup. Make sure the cookie sheet is the kind with sides, this is to cathc grease that drips off the chicken.


take the chicken from the sauce mix and drop it into the bag with the flour. shake it up until all of the chicken is coated in flour mix, then let it set for a few minutes (the flour sticks better this way)

take the chicken out of the bag and shake off any excess flour. any extra will end up on a hot cookie sheet and it will smoke. bad.

put the chicken on the cooling rack and place in the oven for 20 minutes on the top rack. turn it over at least twice.

As the chicken cooks, the fat melts and essentially fries the breading. i usually finish off with a couple of minutes on each side under the broiler. this makes the breading and sking roughly the same texture as KFC skin. only really spicy :)


the sauce/bread combo works well in deep frying too, if you want to go that route. you may wany to mix some egg in with the sauce to help it adhere.

to go with Vod's chicken



TWICE BAKED POTATOES

baking potatoes
milk (either whole or evaporated)
butter
salt and pepper
cheddar cheese (shredded)

Bake potatoes until done (either at 400 deg. in oven for 45 minutes or in microwave). Cut open lengthwise and scoop out insides.

Put insides in a bowl and mix with milk, butter, salt and pepper until creamy consistency. Scoop back into potato hulls, top with shredded cheddar cheese and bake until cheese melts.

and for a veggie


[nobody's on a diet...right ]


BROCCOLI & CHEESE CASSEROLE

2 lbs. frozen broccoli, thawed
1 10 3/4 oz. can Cream of Mushroom Soup
1 medium onion, diced
1 lb. med. sharp Cheddar cheese, grated
2 eggs
salt and pepper, to taste
1 pkg. Ritz crackers crushed

Combine all ingredients except Ritz crackers in a large bowl. Mix well. Spoon into 13x9 inch pan. Cover with foil and bake at 350°F for 50 minutes.

Remove foil and sprinkle crushed Ritz crackers on top of casserole.

Bake, uncovered, for an additional 10 minutes or until crackers are golden brown. Let sit for 10 minutes before serving.

AND.......for dessert


8-Minute Cheesecake

1 (8-ounce) package cream cheese, softened
1/3 cup granulated sugar
1 (8-ounce) container sour cream
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 cup non-dairy whipped topping
1 (9-inch) graham cracker pie crust
1/2 pint strawberries, hulled and sliced

1. In a large mixing bowl beat cream cheese until softened; gradually add sugar. Blend in sour cream and vanilla until well mixed. Gently fold in non-dairy whipped topping, blending well.
2. Spoon into prepared graham cracker crust and chill. Garnish with sliced strawberries.

Makes 8 servings.


I'm trying Vod........I'm trying

Grandma Barlow's Sweet Potato Casserole
 

3c Sweet Potato Mashed (best is to slice and microwave covered 3-5 min.)
2 Eggs Beaten
1/2c Canned Evaporated Milk (2% is best)
1/2c Sugar
1 Stick of Butter (room temp is best)
1 ½tsp Vanilla Extract (would advise against using “Imitation Vanilla Extract” here)
1/2tsp Cinnamon

Combine ingredients and put in a greased (I used Pam Spray) 13 X 9 Baking Dish.


Topping:
1/3c Butter Melted
1c Brown Sugar
1/2c Flour
1c Pecans Chopped (easiest is to buy pre-chopped)

Combine ingredients and sprinkle on top.


Bake at 350 degrees for 30 min.

(It's kind of a fall/thanksgiving dish, but the only recipe on my computer right now :) )

your efforts have not gone unnoticed. Thank you :)


We do seem to be missing a certain australian chef\video game enthusiast....

i think he's a fan of "the pot"...

if i can find it when i'm home - i'll post this recipie for a honey mustard chicken curry thats really easy, fast and tasty (mild enough for people who dont normally like curry - but tasty enough for people that do..)

not really a recipe, but i discovered today that if you roast bell peppers (green and red), red onion, and whole garlic cloves on a grill with hickory chips and bay leaves on the coals, it tastes and smells incredible.

Puree them and add them to homemade bbq sauce (had that for dinner tonight :D)

OK here is a quick and easy pepper steak

Ingredients:

Steaks (I prefer sirloin about 1" thick or rib eye)
Cracked black pepper
1 small can of green peppercorns
butter
salt
white wine
brandy
cream
Veal stock


Season the steaks with cracked black pepper and salt. Heat some butter in a very hot pan, and cook the steaks in the butter to your liking.

Once the steaks are cooked, remove them from the pan and keep them warm.

Pour some white wine into the pan to deglaze. Add some brandy. Add some veal stock (about 3 tablespoons), and reduce. Add the green peppercorns.

Add some butter and continue to reduce until it starts to thicken.

Finally, add some cream and cook over a low heat until it is warm and thick enough.

Pour the sauce over the still-warm steaks.


This goes well with french fries:

About 500grams of potatoes

Peel the potatoes, cut them into french fries.

Then rinse thoroughly in cold water.

Deep fry at 190 degrees Celcius for 6 minutes, then lift them out of the oil. Wait for the oil to reach full heat again (ie 190 degrees) and then put the fries back in for another 2 minutes.

Pull them out after 2 minutes, and salt to your liking.

Vegetarian Shepard's Pie


2 cans of brown lentils (or 400grms of dried brown lentils soaked)
Massal beef stock (it's vegetarian, you'll find it in coles)
Worcestershire sauce
Gravox powder
5 large potatoes
1 large Onion
3 garlic cloves
Parmesan cheese
tablespoon of olive oil
Water (1 - 3 cups.)

Chop the potatoes in to 6ths and set to boil.

Dice the onion and garlic then add to the oil which you have heated in a pan, stir and brown. add 1 cup of water and the lentils, stir.

Add Worcestershire sauce ( two splashes from the bottle), let simmer.

Mix the stock cube in a cup of boiling water, then add to the mixture and stir.

Let it simmer for about 5 mins, then add a teaspoon of Graveox, just sprinkle it on and mix it through as you add it so it doesn't go lumpy.
add up to 3 teaspoons or untill you are happy with the texture of the sauce, it should not be to thick and should drip of the spoon.

you can always even it out with more water or gravox, (I don't write my recipes down, so this is all from memory)

Let it simmer for a few minutes more while you drain the potatoes. the potatoes should be soft and a knife should go straight through them.

Mash the hell out of them with a quater cup of milk and 1 egg.

Put the oven on to pre heat at 200 dc

turn of the sauce and poor in to a lasagna style baking dish, spread the mash over the top evenly, pushing it down so it doesn't not sit over the edges.

Then grate some parma over the top and put it in the oven, should be ready in 40 minutes, but check it at about 30...

My fave food!I never made it this way until a lil while ago.Its great!

When I get back to my office, I'll post a recipe that my boss' wife gave me.

Chicken Supreme

4 Whole Chicken Breasts
3 Cans Cream of Mushroom Soup
3 8oz Sour Cream
2 6oz Stove Top Stuffing

Boil Chicken Breasts till done

Mix the soup and sour cream together. Cut up the chick and mix with the
soup and sour cream. Put the mixture in a baking dish and put the stuffing
on top. Put it in the oven at 350 for 3/4 of an hour.

now i see what you meant by comfort food in your foodament post... that has "warm and filling" all over it.

Oh yeah, it's definitely that! My boss and his wife make this when they go tailgating at Eagles games.

if they like spicy, have them try the oven fried chicken. i havent tested it yet, but i am willing to bet it can be done on a grill (i may just try that today...)

Thanks, Vod - I'll let them know.

A question for all you cooks out there
 

Does anyone have a good recipe for pineapple stuffing?

I've never even heard of pineapple stuffing:o

Have you tried http://allrecipes.com/ ?



I've been looking for a GOOD sweet and sour sauce for quite a while...I've tried almost all of the ones I've found on the 'net, but they really aren't any good...I've bought the La Choy from the store, too...Also, no good

I've mixed and matched parts to make my own, but I'm not really satisfied with it...I want it to be the way they make it at the good restaurants...If I could get the recipe from Memories of China (Seri's favorite Chinese restaurant) it would really help...

I've never heard of Pineapple stuffing. Is it suppose to be like regular stuffing, but just with the addition of pineapple or a "stuffing" made entirely of pineapple and other fruit or something? like a compote?

I would look online at Barnes and Nobles or Amazon and look for a Chinese cookbook. Most of the online recipes are crap. Crate and Barrel also has an excellent selection and we've never gone wrong with any of theirs.

Cookbooks are also one of those things that you get what you pay for, the cheaper cookbooks tend to be blander in flavor. We've had the best luck with books in the $35 range with good photos. If a book doesn't have any photos, the recipes are usually crap.

I did look online, but thought I would ask if anyone had a "tried and true" recipe for it.

Noir - It's kind of like stuffing with pineapple, but you add in eggs and sugar. It goes really great with ham.

Thanks, Noir...I'll start looking through some cookbooks when I'm out...I think people just get used to using the internet for all information sources (I know I do)...Kinda makes you forget about the original solutions...I hate to admit this, but I actually HAVE a Chinese Cookbook...I haven't looked at it in at least 10 years...In fact, I had forgotten about it until just now...Terrible:o

*Gets up to search kitchen for Chinese cookbook*

I'm the same, Rayne. We must have around 50 cookbooks at home. Maybe I should start looking there? :p

haha! That's hilarious! Cookbooks are your friends, they will not bite you and throw you in the basement! :p

I strongly suggest this course of action...Considering...I just found TWO Chinese cookbooks in my armoire drawer :D

i tried to find a picture of a guy having sex with a pineapple - but i failed.

perhaps newb will have better luck :)

When my ex and I were together, my aunt would come and spend a weekend with me when he was out of town. We'd go through cookbooks and make something we'd never made before. Dinner and dessert.......the last one we did still sticks out in my mind - tilapia with asparagus and cashews, and tiramisu for dessert. Yum!

You're so bad! :p

That sounds awesome! My husband and I cook almost everynight from cookbooks. We love making things from scratch as they taste so much better and you actually know what's in them.

It was a very time consuming recipe, therefore had to be done on a weekend. All fresh ingredients. I had never worked with fresh ginger before, so it was a learning experience.

http://icanhascheezburger.files.word...-pineapple.jpg

Holler if you can see it.

ROFL!! That's funny!

Putting together a Cook book..
 

I love cooking - well veggie cooking anyway since i have no idea how to cook meat (longpig or otherwise).

So I started to keep recipes I liked or liked the look of with the intent of putting together a scrap book type Cookbook of my (stolen) Recipes. So I started keeping print outs and photocopies etc. Then it came to me I'd photoshop them a bit and make each page a big more personal....

I just started today and I'm still working on the 'look' of it:

Heres some Dips I wanna try:

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...Cookbook-2.jpg

Also a recipe for the famous Elvis PB sambo:

http://i15.photobucket.com/albums/a3...Cookbook-1.jpg

I hope to keep this up and eventually get it bound :-)

Name it , "To Serve Man".

Any recipes I may know have meat.......I'm very carnivorous.

I'm sure Cheebs can help you out a great deal.

I have a good recipe for Masoor Dahl

1 cup of red lentils
1/2 brown onion
1/2 tsp cumin
1/2 tsp dried corriander
1/2 tsp tumeric
1/2 tsp chili powder
4 cups of water

combine the above, bring to the boil and then simmer for 30 mins covered

Then add :

cook in a frying pan some fresh chili, garlic, and ginger in ghee for 2 mins then add to the above mixture

1 tin of chopped tomatoes
1 tsp salt
olive oil

cook the above covered for 30 mins

I do pretty much the same dish but fresh tomatoes and no ginger (i must try that) - and onions are fried with the second part. I just use olive oil - i must try Ghee but its hard for an irish person to buy :-)