Cooking thread... (Page 4 of 5)

wife made jello.   try a bowl with milk and bread and butter. a Cape Breton treat.

   Badeye   

I love Blue Cheese dressing <drool>

Cooked for a church group again last night.   Salmon on a cream dill bed, and seared vegitables.  I bought some fresh figs, too, and that's what I'm really here to talk about.

Take the fresh figs, and cut them in half.  They're absolutely beautiful inside.  Take brown sugar, and but a table spoon or so in the center of a hot pan.  Add butter to that, and let it melt, then stir it into a slurry.   Then drop the figs in it, face down.  Let them heat in the brown sugar/butter mix for a minute or two.   Take them out, and shave your favorite hard cheese on top.    Serve with a good cold white wine for a marvelous aperitif. 

Yup.

Blue cheese dressing should have small chunks of Blue cheese in it.  So that looks yummy! :-)

heres a good one, not healthy but tasty

Pot noodle, Boiling water ... .enjoy

Yummy yummy yummy, pot noodle in my tummy

Ken

Omelette de ken

6 eggs
salt, pepper,
Grated cheddar cheese
splash of worstershire sauce
1/2 teaspoon of mixed herbs
half a small onion chopped finely
2 slice of back bacon with fat removed.

take the eggs out of the shells and chuck them into a big bowl.
Whisk them a lot until the egg looks like it is going all frothy.

Add salt and pepper and herbs and worstsershire sauce.

Cook the bacon under the grill but not too much, just enough to cook it but not make it hard.

once cooked get scissors and cut it up into little teeny bits. Chuck it in the eggs and give it a mix.

Now on a high heat strart frying the finely chopped onion in a teeny amount of sunflower or veg oil or any sort of oil. Dont let them cook too long.
Whisk the eggs again then add a little bit of the cheese in the egg.

Still on a high heat chuck the eggs etc into the frying pan, mix it up a bit to help it cook quick. Once it looks like it is settling down, turn the heat down low.

On a high heat the eggs should rise and the omellete should get puffy looking.
From the heat take it off and put under the grill to start coooking the top of the omellete.
Keep taking it from the grill to the hob/ring every few minutes. Once it is set enough you can attempt to flip it. OR get a plate big enough to cover the frying pan and flip it on that then return to the frying pan with thefirst cooked part now facing up.
Add the rest of the cheese. It will melt away itself.
after flipping it over it does not take too long.

You can also cut up half a chili pepper very finely and add to this but if your wife is like mine she will not be happy. This means if you are really hungry, you get to eat all of it.

Ken

In my mind, this is the *only* way to prepare trout.  Most delicious.

Tagliatelle.

I love this dish.  I usually make the sauce in the morning and refigerate it . In the evening the tagliatelle only takes about
6 mins to cook. Strain but dont rince the pasta. As the sauce clings better to the tagliatelle.

Butter in pan and melt. Add red chopped onion, small sweet orange peppers chopped, shitake and ordinary mushrooms.
some finely chopped chicken breast, [ or fresh prawns ] fresh parsley  finely chopped.  seasonings. plus one good dollop of red or green pesto.  Then i add half cream , and half creme fraiche .

Less calories to keep my size 10 figure] :lol:lol:  Sure you'd leave home for this dish.

Heat the sauce while the pasta cooking in the evening, you  will have dinner in no time on the table..

Its only delish.  Garlic crusty bread is also yummy  with this dish.

Old Doll.

Since it's too early in the morning for me to think far enough ahead to actually list a full recipe, I'll give you a quickie.  This works great if you're heating up your homemade goulash or even Chef Boyardee for lunch.  I started making this before I learned how to actually cook, and it's stayed a great lunch add on years later.  Mind you... I usually make "real" garlic bread and such now, but this is still a nice quick easy lunch add on for the days you're not really cooking!

Cheesy Toast

grab yourself some sliced bread...  slather with butter, sprinkle with garlic powder to your liking (I like a LOT - keeps the vampires and lots of annoying people away)... maybe a sprinkle of basil too... then sprinkle parmesan cheese all over the top.  Cover that butter... nothing should be showing but parm.  Now slap that stuff in a toaster oven and turn it on.  You want to cook until the parm cheese is slightly brown.  Don't burn it, but do brown it.  When it comes out it's going to be this crusty tasty little slice of heaven made out of a piece of bread that will go nicely with those leftovers!

I don't actually have a toaster oven anymore, so I don't make this so much... plus we don't end up with many left overs now that there's a teen in the house... but now and then the kids still ask for their "cheesy toast" when I'm warming something up.   Clearly, this can be placed under the broiler if you also do not have a toaster oven (do NOT put it in a regular old toaster boys! LOL)

Don't forget the beanza's  cape breton pizza

  Badeye     

any other ideas??