GW Recipe Thread/General food stuff thread.

I love these threads... here are some easy recipes that even I can't screw up too badly

Mamamack's Chicken Soup for the GW Soul
6 Cups Chicken Stock (either homemade or store-bought but avoid those stocks that are high in salts)
2LBS (a light 1KG) raw chicken, cubed into bite-sized pieces
2 tablespoons garlic powder
1 bay leaf
2 cups your favourite veggies (I use carrots and corn mostly)
1 cup pellet pasta OR small star pasta (use fortified infant pasta for extra calcium)
1 cup dry potato flakes (AKA instant mashed potatoes, the ones you find in the boxes; use plain ones only)
6-8 collard green leaves, shredded (optional)

Bring the chicken stock to a roaring boil. Add the chicken, garlic powder and the bay leaf and boil for 15-20 minutes. Add veggies and pasta, turn the heat to low and simmer for about an hour stirring occasionally. Turn off all heat and stir in potato flakes (and collard greens, if you're using them). Stir until the potato flakes are completely mixed into the soup and allow it to sit for 10-15 minutes. Stir again and enjoy! Freeze leftovers. For added kick add a dash or two tabasco sauce to the stock or a teaspoon hot paprika or chili flakes when you add the spices.

Scalloped potatoes
10-12 medium sized potatoes, peeled and sliced thinly
1 can Cream of (insert your favourite here) Soup (I use Cheddar Cheese or Broccoli and Cheese)
Milk
Salt and pepper to taste
1 or 2 cups shredded cheese

Line a casserole dish with aluminum foil and grease it well. Layer potatoes evenly in the dish but don't pack them in- you're looking for the dish to be about half-full. Mix together the soup with equal parts milk and pour that onto the potatoes. Cover with foil, pierce the top and bake at 350F for about a hour or until potatoes are tender but not burnt. Remove the dish from the oven, uncover and top with cheese. Recover loosely and allow the dish to sit for 10-15 minutes or until cheese is melted. For variety, try this recipe but replace the potatoes with mixed veggies and toss in tuna for a quick tuna casserole

3 ingredient cookie happy squares
1 can sweetened condensed milk
2 cups crumbs (be them graham cracker crumbs, oreo crumbs, shortcake crumbs, whatever)
1 package (about 250-300g) baker's chips (chocolate chips, butterscotch chips, vanilla chips, toffee chips, peanut butter chips)

Pre-heat the over to 350F. Line a small square baking dish with aluminum foil and grease well. In a bowl combine all ingredients- it's going to be a sticky mess so it's best to use a fork and a plastic spatula. Plop the sticky mess into the baking dish and bake for 35-40 minutes or until the top is crisp. Remove from the oven and allow the cookie brick to cool completely before hacking into squares. My favourite combos are graham crackers/dark chocolate, oreo/white chocolate and crushed pretzel/milk chocolate.

Last Edit: August 09, 2007, 02:12:08 am by Mamamack

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Terin

#27 August 09, 2007, 02:11:47 am

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Quote from: kermit the toad on August 09, 2007, 01:39:35 am

I dunno, they just look really dry to me. Muffins should be moist and fluffy (though, not as moist and fluffy as cupcakes).

doktor,

You could possibly make them more moist/appealing by adding a little bit of veggie. oil (just eyeball it -- a few tablespoons would probably do the job). (Pretty sure that goes with Veganism) Also, the wheat doesn't help much with the dryness. But they're probably a hell of a lot better for you. Surprised they look that firm without egg. Not bad. May definitely try making some -- I have some frozen berries in the freezer and just made Blueberry cookies the other day, haha.

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#28 August 09, 2007, 02:13:45 am

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Quote from: kermit the toad on August 09, 2007, 01:39:35 am

I dunno, they just look really dry to me. Muffins should be moist and fluffy (though, not as moist and fluffy as cupcakes).

They are kinda dry until you hit a blueberry spot. I made two batches. The first batch I put one cup of blueberries (what it called for) and they weren't as good as the second batch where I put more in!

Quote from: Terin on August 09, 2007, 02:11:47 am

doktor,

You could possibly make them more moist/appealing by adding a little bit of veggie. oil (just eyeball it -- a few tablespoons would probably do the job). (Pretty sure that goes with Veganism) Also, the wheat doesn't help much with the dryness. But they're probably a hell of a lot better for you. Surprised they look that firm without egg. Not bad. May definitely try making some -- I have some frozen berries in the freezer and just made Blueberry cookies the other day, haha.

--Terin

Cool, glad you look interested! They definitely are healthier. There really isn't anything in them that is bad for you other than the syrup that I used had Sodium Benzoate in it but oh well that's all I had at the time!

Last Edit: August 09, 2007, 02:16:00 am by Doktormartini

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#29 August 09, 2007, 02:28:42 am

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Flaxseed Tabbouli!

2 cups water
1 cup flaxseed
1 pinch salt
1/4 cup olive oil
1/2 teaspoon sea salt
1/4 cup lemon juice
3 tomatoes, diced
1 cucumber, diced
2 bunches green onions, diced
2 carrots, grated
1 cup fresh parsley, chopped

1. In a saucepan bring water to a boil. Add quinoa and a pinch of salt. Reduce heat to low, cover and simmer for 15 minutes. Allow to cool to room temperature; fluff with a fork.
2. Meanwhile, in a large bowl, combine olive oil, sea salt, lemon juice, tomatoes, cucumber, green onions, carrots and parsley. Stir in cooled quinoa.

You can eat it just like that with a spoon, you can use it as a dip for chips, or you can put in a wrap...so many ways to enjoy it!

This is what it should look like when you are done. It may look gross, but trust me, it's good!
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#30 August 09, 2007, 02:30:12 am

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more sweet stuff -..desserts..-

CHOCOLATE CUPS
(Copas de Chocolate)
Ingredients:
1/2 cup of grated, semi-bitter chocolate
5 eggs
6 galletas marías (teething cookies may be substituted)
2 tablespoons of dry sherry
1 1/2 cups of sugar
Procedure:
Whip the egg yolks with the sugar.

Whip the egg whites until thick. Grind and sift the cookies.

On a plate add the sugared egg yolks to the egg whites and the sifted cookies. Add the grated chocolate and sherry and mix well.

Pour into individual molds and let sit for a few hours without disturbing.

BANANA BREAD
(Pan de Plátano)
Ingredients:
1 cup of ripe banana, mashed up
1/2 stick of margarine
1 1/4 cup of flour
2 eggs
1 1/2 cups of sugar
1 teaspoon of baking soda
4 tablespoons of sour cream
1 teaspoon of vanilla extract
1 teaspoon of baking powder
Procedure:
Whip the margarine and add the sugar, eggs and the cream.

Mix the bananas with the flour the baking soda and the baking powder. Add everything to the above mixture, add the vanilla extract and continue whipping.

Grease and flower a cake pan. Pour the batter into it. Bake on medium heat for approximately an hour, or until you can insert a toothpick and pull it out dry.

PAPAYAS IN SWEET SAUCE
(Papaya en Dulce)
Ingredients:
1 medium papaya, not too ripe
2 cups of sugar
Procedure:
Peel and take out the seeds from the papaya. Cut into small slices.

Boil the sugar with a little water until a light syrup is formed. Add the fruit, taking care not to break them.

Let boil about 30 minutes. Chill and serve.

BAKED APPLES
(Manzanas al Horno)
Ingredients:
6 apples
6 teaspoons of corn syrup
6 sticks of cinnamon
1/3 stick of margarine in 6 slices
whipping cream
Procedure:
Wash the apples and core them without breaking them.

Place them in a casserole dish and put a little honey on top of each one, sprinkle with cinnamon and fill the core with a little slice of margarine.

Bake approximately 20 minutes on low heat and serve with whipped cream as desired.

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#31 August 09, 2007, 02:34:46 am

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CREAM OF WATERCRESS
(Crema de Berros)
Ingredients:
2 handfulls of watercress
2 potatoes
5 cups of beef or chicken broth
1 cup of milk
1 diced scallion (green onion)
1/2 diced onion
salt, pepper and sour cream as desired
Procedure:
Cook and peel potatoes.

Separate a few watercress leaves and boil the rest in a little water.

Liquify the watercress and potatoes in the water the watercress was cooked in.

In a pot, saute the scallions and onion. Add the watercress, potato and broth. Boil a few minutes. Lower the flame, add milk and stir. Add salt and pepper.

Serve with a dollop of sour cream and a few leaves of watercress as garnish.

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#32 August 09, 2007, 02:40:04 am

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finnaly i got this translated this recipie is one of the most espectacular things you ever taste. they sell in almost every corner in mexico and is the real mexican fast food. you can add to this recipe the slasa mexicana, salsa verde and salsa ranchera they all fit here and taste good.

TACOS AL PASTOR ( the original )

Ingredients:
•   10 chiles Pasilla
•   10 chiles Guajillo
•   1/2 garlic bulb
•   1/4 litter White Vinegar
•   1/4 tsp. Cumin
•   5 cloves
•   salt
•   pineapple (fresh or canned)
•   2 lbs thin pork meat
•   1 onion
•   Fresh cilantro (coriander)
•   1 Beer
•   2 Limes
Pre-cooking:
•   Cut the pork meat in thin stakes or slices if necessary. Normally each stake would rest on top of each other while marinating and cooking.
The following is the recipe for the marinade, this is a lot so you won't have to make it very often.

•   Take the seeds out of the chiles, cut them in little pieces and mash them together with the garlic, cloves, and cumin, avoid touching the chiles and vinegar with your bare hands if possible. The vinegar and chiles can "cook" your hands, trust me. A food processor would help here.
•   Boil the ingredients from the above step in the vinegar until it makes some sort of a heavy paste. Making sure that it won't burn, so mix it often.
•   Once fully cooked drink the beer while you let the marinade cool down.

Apply the paste to the meat putting one steak on top of the other. At a real taqueria they would form a top that eventually goes into the rotisserie. Since we do not have the rotisserie you simply pile the meat together and store in the fridge for at least 6 hours or overnight.

Cooking:
•   In a taqueria they would roast the "top" of meat with pineapple on top of it so that the juice gives the meat some of its flavor. The meat would be rotated constantly as the cook cuts very small slices of meat and pineapple to be served in a taco.
•   Chop the cilantro and onion.
•   Without a rotisserie, our only choice is to cut the pork in small bits so that it can be eaten easily in a taco.
•   Use a frying pan and cook the meat with small pieces of pineapple making sure the pork is fully cooked and just about to burn in some cases (well roasted).
•   Cut the limes in quarters.
•   Serve the tacos with chopped cilantro, onion, and the limes.
Tips:
•   Squeeze a lit bit of lime juice in the taco before you eat it and add habanero salsa.
•   For microwave, add 15 seconds per tortilla and heat them between paper napkins.

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#33 August 09, 2007, 03:42:23 am

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Looking over this, I think I may try a variation on Dok's muffins.

Instead of whole wheat pastry flour.. ill use reg pastry flour, Instead of maple syrup ill add honey, and ill add a bit of vegtable oil. im also iffy on the flax seed thing (egg replacement) so dok know of any other egg replacements besides flax+water?

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#34 August 09, 2007, 05:56:07 am

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Quote from: Wyrm on August 09, 2007, 03:42:23 am

Looking over this, I think I may try a variation on Dok's muffins.

Instead of whole wheat pastry flour.. ill use reg pastry flour, Instead of maple syrup ill add honey, and ill add a bit of vegtable oil. im also iffy on the flax seed thing (egg replacement) so dok know of any other egg replacements besides flax+water?

Why are you taking out the healthy things and changing them with a little unhealthier options (minus the syrup that was probably the worst thing in the muffins).

A company called Ener-G makes an egg replacer or you can use:

• 1 egg = 2 Tbsp. potato starch
• 1 egg = 1/4 cup mashed potatoes
• 1 egg = 1/4 cup canned pumpkin or squash
• 1 egg = 1/4 cup puréed prunes
• 1 egg = 2 Tbsp. water + 1 Tbsp. oil + 2 tsp. baking powder
• 1 egg = 1 Tbsp. ground flax seed simmered in 3 Tbsp. water
• 1 egg white = 1 Tbsp. plain agar powder dissolved in 1 Tbsp. water, whipped, chilled, and whipped again

Also applesauce works.

Last Edit: August 09, 2007, 05:58:14 am by Doktormartini

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#35 August 09, 2007, 06:24:32 am

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Basic Pasta Bolognese

Ingredients:
400 grams of Minced Meat (Cow preferably, but mixed will do)
500 grams of Pasta (Any will do)
1 can of Crushed Tomatoes
½ of the can filled with water
1 Onion (Yellow, but Red is fine too)
1/4 Garlic (Optional)

Recommended Spices:
Pepper
Salt
or
Soysauce
Sweet Sour Chilisauce
or Mix all of them

How to Cook
First boil the Pasta and follow the instructions on the packet. (Cooking time and etc.) Meanwhile the Pasta boils so Chop the onion and put the meat into the frying pan. (Make sure the meat is divided evenly in the frying pan, so it is not just one big lump of fried meat.) Let the meat be fried until it is totally coloured and then add the chopped onions. (Around 5-10 minutes of time. Make sure the onions are spread evenly.) After an additional 5 minutes add the whole can of crushed tomatoes with water and then add your desired spices. Let it cook for 10 minutes and serve it together with the Pasta or to get more flavor so cook much longer. (Add additonal water to make the food not get burnt.)
Yummy is it, to make it more win so add some Corn and Mushrooms

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Last Edit: August 10, 2007, 11:56:53 pm by ChJees

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#36 August 09, 2007, 03:20:17 pm

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Deviled Eggs

Hard-boil an egg. Wait for it to cool. Slice it in half, scoop out the yolk into a bowl. Add mayo, paprika, and other ingredients as wanted (mustard, etc.) Spoon it back into the egg and enjoy.

Make a big batch of these for appetizers, they're DELECTABLE.

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#37 August 09, 2007, 06:41:58 pm

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i will be putting 1 egg = 2 Tbsp. water + 1 Tbsp. oil + 2 tsp. baking powder in as my egg substitute.

Well i hate whole wheat stuff. and Honey is healthyer and yummier than syrup so i think it will even out

Homemade Popcorn chicken
(these arnt exactly like popcorn chicken from kfc or popeyes, or even really much like them at all but i know i like them and there pretty healthy(sort of) if done right)

-2 boneless chicken breast
-1tsp of baking powder.
-1/3 tsp of salt. (not entirely sure if you need this)
-1/2 to 1 tsp pf lemon juice (personal prefrence)
-3tbsp of enriched white flour.
-a few shakes of black pepper
-paprika and cayenne pepper for taste.

Chop The Chicken breast in small cubes. Wash them all in Water. In a tupperware container, Add flour, cream of tartar, cayenne, and pepper. Put the cubes in the tupperware, close lid and shake. (the wet chicken cubes will help adhear this "batter" to them better.
Take out and Cook in a deepfryer for 10-13minutes. put them on a cookie sheet. dab off the ecxess grease with a napkin or paper towel. Put on the Lemon juice little drips over them, and then add the few shakes of black pepper. put in the oven on 250*F(120*C) for about 5-10 minutes. These are a quick and tasty lunch and its not very hard to do them.

Pork and Hen ( Omelette with bacon)
-2 eggs
-a few strips of thawed bacon
-condenced milk
-1/2tsp of sea salt
-2tsp of pepper
-3tsp of peprika
-1/2 tsp seasoning salt
-1 tbsp of water
-1/2tsp of oil

In a cup crack both eggs and add in all ingredients but the bacon and milk and oil. Stir until the pepper and peprika are blended in. Add in Condenced milk (can milk) till you get a nice creamier yellow color. pour half of the mix on a Frying pan thats had the oil added to it and preheated. Once you see the first sign of a bubble in the omlette, Add chopped bacon (i guess you can use stripes but i rather little peices). when bacon is added. pour the other half of the mix on top.
Leave be on a low setting for a few minutes then flip it over. let it cook on other side and flip over again. continue flipping every few minutes on low till done. take out and eat. the peprika despite popular belief actually has a flavoring when cooked. If you wish you may add a handfull of your favorite veggies.

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#38 August 09, 2007, 07:51:22 pm

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Quote from: ChJees on August 09, 2007, 06:24:32 am

Basic Pasta Bolognese

½ of the can filled with water

I never add water, I find that the crushed tomatoes are enough as far as sauce goes. Some other things you can try with bolognese:

1. Use 50% minced meat and 50% soy. You won't really notice the difference and it's a lot cheaper!
2. Add shredded carrots. Makes the meal healthier and it's a cheap way to make more at once!
3. You can enhance the taste of tomato by adding a small can of tomato purée, it can really make a difference.

I also have my own seafood bolognese as I like to call it. You basically prepare it the same way, but add tuna, shrimps and some canned clams. Don't use onion but add a lot of garlic. Delicious! :nyd:

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#39 August 09, 2007, 08:35:38 pm

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Sounds like win DarkPriest

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Should try that. (You can use Tuna instead of Meat in bolognese too :P. Is also win.)

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#40 August 10, 2007, 01:28:23 am

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Yeah Wyrm, honey is healthier than syrup but Organic syrup is pretty ace. I don't eat honey though (ethical reasons don't wanna get into it).

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