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[Sherry]

Post your favorite recipes! Don't keep them a secret!


Cupboard Magic Hmongbalaya
Often I have a lot of junk to use up, and sometimes it leads to magic. Our six year old loves this stuff!
2x diced Hmong Sausage
1x diced chicken breast
3 cups cooked brown rice
Salt and pepper to taste
Chili Pepper, I think I put a good 3-5 Tbsp in there
Dash of cumin, 1tsp most
Dash of cayenne pepper
1/2 bag of Roundy's frozen pepper and onion mix
2-4 diced tomatoes
You should really taste and smell the chili pepper to get the flavor.

[1911fan]

a not so hot dish that can be made way hotter, but i love it in colder weather....

curried cream sauce and rice.

2 tbs butter, 2 tbs olive oil, melted, one apple diced small, one onion diced small, cooked till the onions are clear in the oil and butter,
add curry to taste, I use generic costco curry powder, its tasty, not hot, add salt and pepper and flour to make a roux with the butter and oil.

add some heavy cream and milk, or just use half and half, until the mixture boils slow and then thickens to gravy consistency.

add cut up chicken or pork.

ladle healthy portions over rice. eat, enjoy.

[Sherry]

Sounds so good. I like to do something similar too.

Chicken, diced and cooked in oil, add curry powder (not hot stuff) to taste, salt, bit of mustard, onion, mushrooms, and some cream cheese. I use the cream cheese or a small splash of milk because I don't want too much sauce, and I don't like to wait for the milk to cook down and thicken.

IDK what a roux is though.

[stesch_s10]

1 lb of Bacon.

Cook it and eat it.

[grousemaster]

1 lb of Bacon.

Cook it and eat it.

[Sherry]

Good one, but let's not turn this into another bacon thread. Serious **** here in the powder room.

[stesch_s10]

ok ok.

4-6 Jalapenos
1 Package of cream cheese (room temp/slightly chilled)
Season Salt or your favorite seasoning.
4-6 pcs of Bacon
Shredded Cheese of your choice

Toothpicks
Cookie Sheet
Tin Foil

Preheat Oven to 350 degrees.

Cut jalapenos in half leaving stem on top of both halves. Wash out seeds.
In a bowl mix together cream cheese and your favorite seasoning. (You can try 3-4 different types of cream cheese and seasoning mixtures)
Using a spoon, put the cream cheese mix into the split jalapenos.
Cut the pieces of bacon in half and take each half piece and wrap around each jalapeno.
Take a tooth pic and stab the food to make the bacon stay wrapped.
Line the cookie sheet with tin foil.
Put the jalapenos on the sheet evenly spaced.
Place into the oven for 10-15 minutes
Take out of the oven and sprinkle shredded cheese on top of jalapenos.
Return to oven until cheese is melted.

Serve and enjoy.

[1911fan]

IDK what a roux is though.

its the base of flour cooked in grease, when its diluted, it will not clump up and make lumpy sauce. It can be darn near any grease, and I use regular bread flour, but corn starch will work if you looking to avoid glutens. WHen the flour cooks a little bit in the grease, it becomes ready and willingto absorb water without sticking together and makes a very nice smooth sauce.

[meddin]

IDK what a roux is though.

its the base of flour cooked in grease, when its diluted, it will not clump up and make lumpy sauce. It can be darn near any grease, and I use regular bread flour, but corn starch will work if you looking to avoid glutens. WHen the flour cooks a little bit in the grease, it becomes ready and willingto absorb water without sticking together and makes a very nice smooth sauce.

And the longer you cook it, the darker and more intense the flavor of the roux gets. That will vary on what type of recipe you use it for. Yummy stuff.

[Sherry]

Haven't been cooking as much as I'd like to lately, but I just started a fresh batch of pho...

12 c h2o
4 T Lee brand beef paste
1 pack beef neck meat
1 pack Hmong meat ball (aka hairy meatball)
To taste (1-5 T): kachai powder, Ginger powder, galangal powder, salt, chili salt, crushed red pepper, black pepper, garlic powder, and lemon grass powder
1/4-1 cup (taste) hosin sauce

Rice noodle (dip in boiling water 10 seconds, then rinse or they don't store well)

Lime slices, basil leaves, cilantro, chopped green onion, and bean sprouts to garnish

There you have it, one of my most coveted secrets. I put a lot more meat in my pho than normal because the neck cooks well and has a good flavor if I cook it in the broth. It really is a meal in and of itself.

[Sherry]

Ps, you have to have a taste for pho to really be able to know how much of what to add. Start with plain beef broth and work up more complex flavors from there.

I will also be making another coveted food this weekend, stuffed chicken wings...

Debone 12-15 wings (without splitting the skin)...
After a good 3-4 hours of careful deboning work.......

Soak bean thread noodles in water for 15-20 minutes, drain and chop up into about 1" lengths. Chop up green onion. Add some oil to the pan and fry some ground pork, after it is browner, add the noodle and onion and cook until it is tender. While cooking, season with salt and fish sauce (to taste). Let cool in a separate bowl.

The fun part, stuff the mix in the chicken wing. Use tooth picks to close up the top hole (and another ones you made while deboning). Deep fry them on high temp for about 25 minutes depending on how meaty your wings are.

I enjoy mine with sweet and sour (pantang sweet chili sauce), others like them plain. So time consuming but so delicious!

[jdege]

I've been working on bread, lately.

Flour, water, yeast, and salt.

[Sherry]

I did the last batch of zucchini bread a couple days ago. Damn fertize zucchini growing garden. Next year, I plan better.

[jdege]

I did the last batch of zucchini bread a couple days ago. Damn fertize zucchini growing garden. Next year, I plan better.

Doesn't matter what you do, you'll always have too much zucchini.

[Holland&Holland]

Is there anything worse than Zuccini? Oh yeah, asperigus, I forgot...