Recipes & Cooking!

Dahly · 09-02-2008 02:37

Ok- my dinner tonight!

Cheese Soup
1 bunch of green onions (or 1.5 small white onions chopped small)
1 stick margarine
1 cup of celery
2 cups chicken broth
1 cup grated carrots
2 cans of cream of potato (substitute whatever cream of's you have. I added one small potato chopped up to sub for the flavor)
Few dashes of Tabasco
Pepper
Parsley
Salt
8 oz grated cheese (something yellow)
8 oz sour cream
1 cup sherry or white cooking wine

Saute onions, celery and margarine. Add chicken broth and carrots (and potatoes- if applicable) . Cook until tender. Add cream of soups. Add spices to taste (I don't add any extra salt and like a lot of tabasco). Add grated cheese- do not let soup boil from this point out. When ready to serve add sour cream and sherry.

Enjoy!

(Obviously, this soup is really easy to substitute with. I rarely have celery or the appropriate cream of soup. And I add potatoes. Just play and enjoy!)

Minibrutus · 09-02-2008 02:58

Yes. Yes yes yes. Food challenges sound so fun!!! I've seen different food bloggers who do that! That sounds awesome. But.... I wish Ada and Layla were still here hmm

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Nemaine · 09-02-2008 03:02

I know right? ;-;

Maybe we need to recruit new glindas.

unless one of you got ada's myspace........

I know layla popped by a few more times... I didn't think she was permanently gone...

;0; WUUUU!!! I MISS THEMS!!! ;__:

Dahly · 09-02-2008 03:14

We do need to recruit some more... and bring Layla and all others back permanently. And naturally Ada. I've been having so many cheese cravings recently! Bring my Ada back!

Nemaine · 09-02-2008 03:30

I wish I had some contact information for these two...........

then again I guess it would look stalkerish if we demanded they return, LOL!!!

;-; such good stories from them both.... ;-;

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Dahly · 09-02-2008 05:48

Haha!

Dear Ada,

Hi, you may remember me as I was in the forum you frequented for playing dress-up with a virtual doll. However, our thread in the forum was mature beyond its years and offered many yummy options for dinner, lunch, breakfast and even for that sweet tooth. We discussed everything from cookbooks to vinegar. It was amazing.

However, recently we have felt your departure- and it stings. While we are sure it's nothing personal, we just miss you. Sometimes Nemaine cries and we have to make her stop. Sometimes I'm craving cheese and just need someone to talk to. And Mini, well, she's just needy and wants you back- plain and simple.

So Ada, we hope that you come back to us. We didn't do anything to you and the doll looks better. Not great, but better. She can eat again, since the collagen injection in her lips has gone down- this aligns with our forces of being amazing in the kitchen. And Layla, well, it's been a couple of pages and like I stated above- we're needy. And I really wish I could be vegan so I love being able to look over your recipes and create my own vegan (or at least vegetarian) meal.

Please come back or we may just threaten to post ONLY cheese-less and meat-filled recipes.

Sincerely,

Dahly, Nemaine, Minibrutus

Minibrutus · 09-02-2008 05:58

Lol! I have both of their myspaces. I will pass this along.

Dahly · 09-02-2008 07:04

Perfect!

Nemaine · 09-02-2008 15:06

LOL I luv u gaiz big_smile

Minibrutus · 09-02-2008 19:30

Got Ada! She said she's not coming back until they offer a more mature face 0_o But she says she misses everyone and her bimbo too. Haven't gotten a response from Layla yet. Nemaine, you can have their contact info if you get on myspace!! Muhahahahaha I know you hate it content4

Dahly · 09-02-2008 21:14

I have a myspace but I rarely ever use it- I'm a facebook kind of gal. It's so much better!

Nemaine · 09-03-2008 17:57

Facebook is totally turning into a blue version of myspace though.

That being said i still enjoy it <_<
>_>
<_<
T_T I'm a hypocrite.

OH OH OH.
I COMPLETELY RUINED SALMON YESTERDAY. I was feeling really ill so my gramma came up to take care of me. What she didn't say was that she was as sick as I was! Since we were both sick but she's also old, I basically got the short straw and went to cook dinner. We had some frozen salmon (I bought it for fud) and some mahi mahi (It sort of rained from the freezer, from back behind all the shelves of my mom's fake chocolatecicles, not-realcookies and liecake). So grandma decided she wanted the mahi and I decided I wanted the salmon.

Slow cooked the salmon but I was addled in the head (thank you medicine), so instead of CHECKING the danged fish after 45 minutes, I decided it "looked" uncooked and kept it in. For another 30. at 200degrees higher than it should be. WORST. FISH. EVER.

my gramma wanted her mahi done quickly so that got its own fancy pan. She told me she wanted it "medium" (I thought that was mostly tuna?) but didn't eat it till it was cooked to well done.

The uh, rice cooker rice was good though T_T

What's been your worst culinary silly-up recently?

Dahly · 09-03-2008 20:48

Let's see- the last time I made cookies it was a bit of a disaster. They were yummy, white chocolate chip and craisins but my oven really tried to screw me over. The edges were burning, the middle was still raw, the ones in the middle of the pan were doing something totally different. THen I went and dropped my best batch on the floor.

I picked them up, dusted them off and kept on going.

Minibrutus · 09-03-2008 21:50

Definitely my ravioli that I tried to make. I think I mentioned this earlier in the thread. But basically I had gotten all excited about making pasta but I didn't have a pasta roller. So I decided to roll it by hand. I made the dough, but it was too sticky to work with and I had to add more flour to be able to roll it out by hand. It got to the consistency of cookie dough rather than nice, wet silky pasta dough, but i rolled it anyway. Then when I went to put the ravioli's together I had waaaay too much filling and the pasta was so thick that they were like big flour balls with a little filling in the center, which leaked out when I cooked them anyway because the dough wasn't sticky enough anymore anyway. I ate them still.... but they sucked. And I had a whole giant mixing bowl of filling left. Luckily it was yummy pumpkin-ricotta-sun dried tomato filling an I froze it all. I've been putting it on pizzas with chevre and pesto about once every two weeks trying to use it up.

Nemaine · 09-03-2008 23:01

LOL those are awesome.

Minty I think i mussed a missed that story the first time--I'm so sorry! XD but I giggled anyway.

I think the worst thing I ever screwed up though was broiled potatoes. We like them a lot so for one meal I decided I'd make them (I was like.... 14? I can't remember).

So I totally didn't realize you have to BOIL the potatoes before you put them in the oven, and I ALSO forgot to liberally oil up the pan. I ended up with hard, white, THINGS.

They were TOTALLY inedible. It was awful!

Another time I had a cookie craving. This was about a month ago; I was moving out of my apartment.

I remembered seeing those 3 ingredient "fire" peanut butter cookies on the net, but I couldn't find the recipe. (does anyone have it?) So instead I mushed up about 3 tbsp of peanut butter, 3 of flour and a handful of sugar, patted it around in a bowl a bit and made about 9 cookie "patties".

...they.... were... awful.

Satisfied my need for food and sugar all in one go, though. big_smile

Nemaine · 09-05-2008 02:26

I are dead. Checked my bimb and think I have a bug so I ended up on forums today anyway.

got a big book on miso today from the lib. approx. 200 recipes. Mini, if you need more ideas, let me know, haha.

ciao.

Dahly · 09-07-2008 07:14

knock knock... anyone home??

Minibrutus · 09-08-2008 16:35

Home, but not cooking. This is how lazy I am. I have some fresh veggies to use up. But I didn't want to make a whole meal.... so I ordered pizza, fried up some chard and told myself I was having a healthy dinner.

Dahly · 09-09-2008 00:14

I bought a think of extra-firm tofu just cause. But now I don't know what to do with it- I've never cooked with it before. Any ideas and/or tips?

Nemaine · 09-09-2008 00:26

minibrutus wrote:
Home, but not cooking. This is how lazy I am. I have some fresh veggies to use up. But I didn't want to make a whole meal.... so I ordered pizza, fried up some chard and told myself I was having a healthy dinner.

Awwwwww.... but don't you know? Pizza is GOOD for you!!! yikes
or so said school wisdom (a class forced upon us middleschoolers, it aimed to get people to be safe if they were latchkey kids and eat breakfast. According to my then-teacher, Pizza is the Ultimate Breakfast Food!!! *&*).

Dahly--I'm sorry I have no idea how to cook tofu!!! sniff if Layla were here I bet she'd have a hundred bajillion recipes for you ;-;

Nemaine · 09-09-2008 00:40

Oh: This is something that has been requested in my family about 10 times in the last three weeks. This does not particularly mean it is fantastic, but more that it is plain enough to go into rotation and it doesn't involve chicken (my fam gets sick of it) or beef (my mother won't eat it, thus why we get sick of chicken. Apparently fish is not an option).

VEGETARIAN SANDWICHES (nom nom nom!)

Ingredients for 4 sandwiches
--1 roasted bell pepper (green, red--it doesn't matter. To easily roast a pepper, rub a little olive oil on it and pop it into a 400 degree oven for about 30 minutes to an hour, depending on how soft you want it).
--1 medium zuchinni (or one half of a large zuchinni)
--1 medium onion
--a handful of white button mushrooms, or a meaty mushroom if you'd prefer
--nice sub rolls
--a creamy, sliced sandwich cheese (Havarti so far is my favorite, but provolone is also good).

STEPS:

--Thinly slice (don't chop or dice!) the onion so that you have full circles, or half circle, strips of onion. Slice up the mushrooms nice and thin. Fry in some olive oil or in some butter mixed with vegetable oil (to prevent burning the butter) until the mixture is browned.

--While the onions are browning, thinly slice your zuc. horizontally (so you get big long strips rather than small round ones). I do this by first cutting the zuc in half horizontally, putting the zuc on its cut end and then slicing through the zuc. longways. Throw away the last horizontal slice (it will just be skin anyway. Skin is great on the sides, but you don't want a piece of just skin).

--After the onions and mushies are brown, set them aside. In the pan, fry your zucs, lightly, on both sides. Basically al lyou are doing is very slightly softening the squash so that it softens the rest of the way in the oven--NOT so that it becomes mealy in the oven!

--Once the zuch is finished, Assemble your sandwiches (on an ungreased cookie sheet)! Put down a zuchinni strip, a strip of pepper, and a few forkfuls of the onion mixture on every sub roll. What you have cooked up should be enough for 3 very very stuffed or 4 very stuffed sub rolls.

--pop cheese on top of all the veggies.

--Stick these sandwiches in a preheated, 400 degree oven. Since all your veggies are cooked through (or mostly cooked through), you just have to wait until the cheese is melted (this is generally perfect for the zuc unless it was a giant zuc!).

--Take out of the oven, squish together if they fell apart in the oven and enjoy!

This recipe is very loosely based on a sandwich my mom used to enjoy getting from "The Italian Oven" restaurant. She often asked for them to put chicken on it--so feel free to add cooked meats or sliced lunchmeats to the sandwiches before popping them in the oven.

big_smile !

Last edited by Nemaine (09-09-2008 00:42)

Nemaine · 09-09-2008 02:04

Oh! mini--miso recipes! Tell me what you like the looks of!

Almond Crisped Rice Treats
Amandine green beans
amazake dressing
apple nut muffins
arame salad
vegetables au gratin
azuki bean soup/bean spread
boston baked beans
barel-corn confetti salad
basil-miso sauce for swordfish
basil mustard dressing (creamy); basil vinagrette
refried beans, bechamel sauce, bourguignon sauce, bourguignon, tempeh, bread salad, broccoli a'lorange broccoli with becan sauce, broiled salmon steaks, brother steve's zesty crimson dressing, brown sauce, caribean fish cowder, carrot & fennel soup with fresh dill
carrot curry soup
carrots and sugar snap peas, gingered
cauliflower with sesame ginger vinaigrette
celery soup
truckstop chili
citrus vinaigrette
chowder (caribbean fish, potato leek)
cool as a cucumber dressing
cream of corn soup, cream of scallion soup, cream of veggie soup w/ roast garlic
creamy dill dip, creamy ginger dressing, creamy herb dressing, creamy parsley sauce, creamy squash soup w/ coconut milk
croustades, croutons, curried zucchini and yellow squash
Daidzein
Dairy-free pesto
Coconut-lime dressing
green empress, hot miso, lemon mint & "miso island" dressings
sesame-tofu dressing
endive hor d'oevres, stuffed
fall miso soup
fat-free shiitake sauce
festive noodle salad
lemon-mustard broiled flounder
french onion soup
fried noodles, japanese style
Genistein
Ginger-miso marinade
Grandma's lentil soup
gravy
green beans in sesame-miso
herbed mushroom gravy
hummus
instant miso soup
instant tofu "cheese"
italian style stuffed shells
kyoto-style miso soup
tofu lasagna
lentil pate
lettuce salad
macaroni & bean salad
universal marinade
majoram-garlic croutons
mediterranean sweet pepper & onion sauce
mello miso dressing
mellow smiso-ginger sauce
miso broth
miso-sunflower spread
mochi soup
muffins, apple nut (*** MISO MUFFINS?)
navy bean soup
noodles w/ pecan sauce
oil & vinegar dressing
orange roughy w/ citrus vinaigrette
Scalloped parsnips
PWild rice/rice pilaf
Pinto bean soup w/spaetzle
rice burgers
tropical miso sauce
savory brown sauce
scrod with leeks and shiitake
szechuan sshrimp
shrimp japonais
somen in miso broth
spring, summer, winter, and ultimate miso soups
basic miso soup
split pea soup
squash soup
summer udon salad
tea sandwiches (ur?)
truckstop chili
veggie barley stew
walnut-miso dip
white miso sesame broth, udon in

I hope I didn't repeat too many...

tell me if you are interested and I will post.

MOST of the book is about the "startling health benefits" of miso, and it has info on how to make miso at home (why would you want to? its fermenting soy product.... I bet it smells bad to make it, lol).

so interesting.

big_smile

Ella-Bella · 09-09-2008 23:02

I had this jamie oliver feed your family for a 5er pasta today. Well I changed it a but as we had no *Corgetts?* so I used mushrooms instead lol

Pale Buttercup · 09-09-2008 23:25

tonight I am making pecan - garlic - parmesian crusted tilapia.
I tried this a a restaurant and it was awesome. Ikinda played around with what ithougt would be in there and have found a great dish.

I will use the foood processer and grind and the garlic, parmesian and the pecans equal pars with a little olive oil thne I put a little fresh lemon on the fish and coat it with the ingrediants and bake at 350 for about 30 minutes.

Easy and yummy Serve thiswith some crusty bread and a salad and you have an easy meal

Minibrutus · 09-10-2008 15:39

Omigosh, Miso mania!!!!! bisou bisou bisou

How about just a few to start. I'm really interested in the sweeter sounding things, like muffins. With miso? How strange!

basil mustard dressing (creamy)
carrot curry soup
miso-sunflower spread
Scalloped parsnips
walnut-miso dip (what is it a dip for?)

Hey, what was this book called again?

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