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My husband, who cooks and is into weight-training, was on a body building forum and he saw that some people in California, which is on the west coast of the US (We live in the midwest US) has never heard of eating biscuits and gravy. He was wondering if anyone outside of the has heard of this. This is a standard breakfast here in the midwest US.
anyone else have any recipes that they want to share?
Biscuits and gravy? This is considered a meal? A breakfast? What kind of biscuit, what flavour of gravy? Sounds like it might be kind of tough on the old arteries.........
biscuit (like bread) like a biscuit from mcdonald's and white gravy with sausage in it or plain. and yes i would say that it is hard on the arteries too
I have been wondering about this as well since I read about it in Grapes of Wrath. It seems like part of their daily diet biscuits and gravy for breakfast in the book.Quote:
Originally Posted by shortysweetp
Allll Riiiightt!! I'm glad to see this thread back, I'm finally back into cooking again. Last night I made Gazpacho, but I used a different recipe which was ok, because I couldn't find my original, which was very good. Does anybody have any good gazpacho recipes?
i know i've written about C&Z a lot (my favorite food blog, chocolateandzucchini.com), but am super excited and keep meaning to post: clotilde quit her day job and gets to put out a book so that we can have treats on our coffee table as well as our computer, how cool is that?! if you haven't checked out her site, you are missing some of the best travels and virtual food around.:nod:
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Originally Posted by amuse
Wow!! Sounds interesting, I'll have to check it out.
Bump......
Anyone have any lovley but very cheap to make recpies??
pancakes with chocolate sauce...yumm...my mum's making them...*mouth-watering*...anyone want some?
Err me!... wait no diet :(
"half and half" rice.
You stir fry some (handfull or half a cup) of rice in a pan with oil until its brownny yellow (not too much or it tastes burnt) then you add as much water/stock as you need to boil whatever type of rice it is you are using. Bring it to a boil add the rest of the rice you want to cook stir turn the heat down and leave it till all the water has dissapeared and the rice is cooked.
:D
EDIT: Thought Id get it written up nicer so here is a direct quote from my mum. serves 6
I would add though first sign rice is frying is that it goes white really wite like popcorn color and smells abit like that.Quote:
INGREDIENTS:
• 3 cups of long grained rice (basmati or similar)
• 1/4 cup of vegetable oil
• 4 cups of water
• salt
PREPARATION:
Heat the oil in a heavy bottomed pan. Place just under 1/2 the rice in the oil and stir. Keep stirring until all of the rice has changed colour. Most will be dark brown, but some will be just yellow.
Add the water and the rest of the rice. Season with salt. Bring back to the boil, then lower the heat and cover.
Cook for a further 20 minutes.
This is a good rice dish to serve when the main meal is slightly dry or does not have a lot of colour.
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me me me me ..... pancakes OMG love em... oh come on night forget about diet... at least I did. heheheh
Hey I only have less than 3 weeks left and I sort of forgot about it last week and the Tuesday and yesterday Im just back on track today!!
:D
yes that's the way we do it night... but we also do it the way I told you with the baking pan... we put a small cp of rice for each person... we frie it with oil and salt, and then after it's a little yellow and hard we add the water where the meat was boiled and put it in the oven untill it's cooked.... but before it is completely cooked when the water starts to vanish we add the meat that has been boiled to be cooked along with the rice... it's delicious... :D
that's how I always keep diets, in fact my diet always starts from tomorrow... :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Night
HUmm theres lso rice with milk in the oven (not sweet though) somtimes has meat withit but I dont exactly rember how yu make it. I think iits
Melt a table sppoon of gee or butter in the pan in the oven add rice add milk (or mix of milk and water) until its about an inch above the llevel of the rice put in oven and then you get lovley soft rice with a crispy layer on the top.
Im making my self hungry just thinking about it :D
I need a new chicken recipe. I'm bored with the same old grilled chicken.
Hey Papayahed we sometimes prepare the chicken like this... in a plate we put oil, salt, pepper... then we take parts of the chicken and roll them in this so called sauce and then we bake them of course you can also put some butter in the pan... they are delicious like that... :D
Have you tried Hot-Pot?Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
where you boil the chicken and then debone it, you use the broth as a base and in a largish pot place it on a hot plate in the middle of the table (where you will be eating) now the people who are eating this usually use bowls...but not for the soup.
You take some of your favourite vegitables, or tofu, shrimp, lobster...whatever food you like, and boil it in the pot at a low boil, and people remove what item they want to eat and eat it, and add more vegitables or other food to the pot to maintain a continuos chain of food...it is kind of like super finger foods! the next day you can use the soup base for superb chicken soup. (you also put the boiled chicken meat in the pot for the first evening aswell)
List of best ingrediants:
- needle mushrooms
- chicken
- mushrooms
- Tofu
- Bokchoy
- spinach
- pork
- shrimp
- Polak
- duck feet
- cow or goat stomache
- eal
Trust me, it is the bomb! :nod:
hmm... that sounds really good, but I was looking for something that doesn't require a group.
Does anyone here like the Russian salad? I just love it.... I'm thinking of it right now and I want to eat some so much... :D
What's a russian salad?Quote:
Originally Posted by Kaltrina
Russian salad...the yummiest picture i found on google...I've never tasted it...
http://www.maxjc.com/pfrh/vinegret.jpg
no this is the one I am talking about....
http://www.kenar.bg/NR/rdonlyres/AA8...0/A104_big.jpg
it's ingredients are: some boiled vegetables which are potatoes, carrots, (carrots and potatoes are cut in small squares), green beans, then you boil the white chicken meat but you can also add grey or black (however you call it) chicken meat, then add some boiled eggs and pickled cucumbers which are also cut in small squares, ... after you've boiled and cut them you put them in a big bowl and mix them all and at the end you add mayonnaise.... it is delicious... but if you want I can ask my mom for precise directions how to make it and how much of the ingredients to put and I can write to you... ;)
yummm... that does look delicious..
i feel like having everything with rich chocolate in it now....
Both pictures actually look good.
Know what would taste good right now? A bacon, egg, and cheese sandwich....
I know that one too (we put garden peas instead of green beans though). I wonder if that is a Mediterranean/Middle East thing because my friends from Iran, Afghanistan, Iraq and Greece know it as Russian salad as well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kaltrina
Some people replace the chicken breast with salami pieces and call it Italian salad.
We are having rice noodles with beef and vegetable stir fry for dinner!
i cant remember what chicken recipes that i included what for those that are new i added my family cookbook on here.
Ok, I am getting fed up coming back of a night from work and nuking something in the microwave. However, my cooking skills leave much to be desired. Does anyone have any quick/simple recipes that I would be capable of making?
Here too that is called Russian salad but in most places it's called French salad. And in Russia it's called salad Olivier or something like that cos it was brought there by a French cook.Quote:
Originally Posted by Kaltrina
we have a lovley recipie for chicken emily but I need to look it up.
Kilted how about macroni cheese (and adaptable to coliflower cheese)easy peeaasy.
potato salad quick and easy.
Shepards pie is pretty easy and quick too.
--Thinking of non family recipies is harder than I thought.--
Oh liver is easy too.
Chili concarn supposed to be easy but must say Ive never tried it (dont like minced meat)
Kilted if your intrested in any of those Ill put them up.
Actually I dont see why people have problems with proper roasts (well unless like I do occasionnaly you forget to add the extra time and miss calculate) but they take hurs and hours.
I had broth and dumplings today but thats really a family recipie (pretty impossible to make for one, but it was out of this world).
Night, it is only myself living here so things like roasts and pots of chilli etc would end up getting thrown out before they are finished. Also I don't really have an oven (the place was unfirnished when I moved in) I have a dual hot plate; a microwave and a toaster oven (really small).
I am capable of using a frying pan, and I can just about make scrambled eggs but thats as far as it goes. I attempted to make an omlette once but the flipping of it didnt exactly go as planned (more omlette on floor/counter than in pan ;) )
Hey chili can be made for 1 you know :D
Is a hot plate like a stove? I think the only thing on that list that needs the oven is the sheperds pie. And I think only really to brown it Its is after all basically mashed potato with a layer of meat underneath.
Flipping?? Err right I like scarmble eggs less messy. You can get omlett pans though you know
http://www.abestkitchen.com/store/me...elette-pan.jpg
They are reversable so you close it and simply turn it over.
You can m,ake jacket potatos in a microwave. Actually I have a couple of great microwave cook books somwhere, but at the mommen I can only get my hands on low fat and middle eastern cookery books as my sister has gone to bed and that book shelf is in her room.
You cvan make a stir fry. :D
Never made it but I have eaten it made by the lady who gave me the recipie.
2oz of butter
1 teaspoon of mixed herbs
1clove of crushed garlc
salt and pepper
Basically mix the lot coat chicken and grill slowly meadium heat, and bobs your uncle its done.
Not sure how much his makes I might acttually have to pop nto the school I mean I was going to use this guide while Im at uni and it doesnt tell me who much it makes *sigh*
EDIT: Marinated chicken:
3 table spoons of honey
3 tablespoons of soy sauce
mix together .
Put the chicken in a dish poour mixture over. Leave to stand in fridge for at least 1 hour (but longer the beter)--maybe throw it all together before you go to work in the morning or night before if you have time--
Grill or BBQ medium heat untill cooked throough.
NB Both these recipies are chicken thighs or legs. can see why it cant be breasts too though.
Need
Diced chicken or chicken breasts which you cut up whichever
dried origano, or if you preffer thyme
stock cube
olive oil (or normal oil but olive s better)
Tomoto puree
Water
And onion (I always forget the onion!)
salt pepper
heat oil in pan then seal chicken (stir it around till its white on the outside instead of pink and bloody) and onions and origano (until al the chicken have atleast some origano on it but stir to cover) and salt stir around some more when you lik the look of the onions add a couple of tablespoons of tomato paste (puree) and water so its a sauce add more origano bring to boil then cover lower heat and simmer for about 20 minutes or however long t is your supposed to cook chicken for I ususally give it 20 minutes.
When I make it for 6 people I use about 4 tablespoons of origano somtimes more. When you add water just add as to how runny or thick you like your sauce.
We eat it with rice but I suppose really you could intheory eat it with pasta or potatoes too.
:D
~Mack & Yack~
Mac and Cheese (from a box)
Corned beef (from a can)
Make the Mac. (in a pan)
Fry the Beef (in a skillet)
Mix with fork
Or a spork
For Best Results
-- Eat with Mork.
I am sure you can put something into an oven bag? Put chicken breasts, a few baby potatoes, mushrooms (if you like them), cherry tomatoes, peppers (any other vegetable you like), all washed and raw into an oven bag. Add some Cajun or BBQ spice mixes (generously), which you can find in any supermarket easily.Quote:
Originally Posted by kilted exile
Puncture the bag (generously as well) and in 50 mins you have a healthy and delicious roast meal! :)
PS: I usually prepare everything the night before and leave it in the fridge till the cooking time so they sort of marinade and taste even better.
i just bought my hubby a book called "Will Cook for Sex" by Rocky Fino and it includes some really easy recipes that takes a relatively low amount of time. Also I would look at www.kraftfoods.com i found lots of quick recipes there. in my cookbook that i included there is a recipe for red beans and rice that is delicious its under velveeta red beans and rice i just leave out the velveeta.
Night, do you have an idea of what kind of herbs she used?Quote:
Originally Posted by Nightshade