Post: Cooking thread + Useful Recipes!
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04-03-2011, 10:10 PM
#1
Goleggett
Splicer
Cooking Thread
This thread will give you ideas on what you could try for dinner or dessert. In most cases you could have Pizza one night and Chicken and Chips the next, which in my eyes, ain't the way forward in life.
So, this thread will give some tasty Starters, Main Meals, Desserts and snacks for you to try! And they won't even be complex!
This will be split up into 3 sections; Starters, Main Meals, Desserts
Also, feel free to recommend any recipes to add to my thread, it will help both me and the community out.
You may be asking a question; Why is he making a thread about cooking? Well, there isn't much useful information or decent discussions in 'General Discussion', so i will compile a thread that has all types of meals for all types of people!
Hope you enjoy!
EDIT: Will be adding more tommorrow!
Added Dorset Apple Cake on Desserts!
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Starters
Garlic Bread
This is a quick and easy dish that can be whipped up in 10-20 minutes.
Ingredients:
3-4 garlic cloves, crushed
4-5 slices of Tiger/Bloomer bread
75g soft butter
Steps:
1) Mix the crushed garlic and butter together to create the 'Garlic paste'
2) Spread this paste generously over the selected bread
3) Toast the bread under a grill until golden brown
TIP: If you want, you can add grated cheese to your Bread to get more flavour and better taste. Also, add some seasoning to it (like parsley, paprika etc.)
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This is a quick and easy dish that can be whipped up in 10-20 minutes.
Ingredients:
3-4 garlic cloves, crushed
4-5 slices of Tiger/Bloomer bread
75g soft butter
Steps:
1) Mix the crushed garlic and butter together to create the 'Garlic paste'
2) Spread this paste generously over the selected bread
3) Toast the bread under a grill until golden brown
TIP: If you want, you can add grated cheese to your Bread to get more flavour and better taste. Also, add some seasoning to it (like parsley, paprika etc.)
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Spaghetti Carbonara
This dish will be ready and served within 10-15 minutes, it also tastes 'exotic'.
Ingredients:
Spaghetti
Double Cream
2 Eggs
Chopped Bacon
Parmesan cheese
Salt and Pepper
Steps:
1) Fill up a pan with hot water, place this on a hob. Once boiling, add the spaghetti and a pinch of salt to stop it sticking to the sides.
2) Heat some oil in a pan then tip your chopped bacon into the pan (make sure the pan is on medium heat on the hob!)
3) Separate the Egg Yolk from the egg white (the slimly substance that surrounds the yolk and goes white when cooked) To do this, crack the egg open and poor the yolk into your hand whilst letting the white drip through your fingers. (Note: this can be tricky and you may have to restart if your Yolk 'breaks'
4) Put the Egg yolks into a bowl, add the Double cream and mix it (not whisk!, mix it until it is the consistency of a sauce, not whipped cream!)
5) Add some pepper to your sauce
6) Leave you pasta and bacon to cook, this will take 5-10 minutes for the pasta and 5 minutes for the bacon
7) Drain off your pasta, do NOT cool it down with water. Add your spaghetti to your sauce. The reason why you must not cool it down is so the spaghetti can cook the yolks with it's boiling temperature.
8 ) Mix up the sauce and Spaghetti for about 1 minute, then add the bacon.
9) Serve it and enjoy!
Ingredients:
Spaghetti
Double Cream
2 Eggs
Chopped Bacon
Parmesan cheese
Salt and Pepper
Steps:
1) Fill up a pan with hot water, place this on a hob. Once boiling, add the spaghetti and a pinch of salt to stop it sticking to the sides.
2) Heat some oil in a pan then tip your chopped bacon into the pan (make sure the pan is on medium heat on the hob!)
3) Separate the Egg Yolk from the egg white (the slimly substance that surrounds the yolk and goes white when cooked) To do this, crack the egg open and poor the yolk into your hand whilst letting the white drip through your fingers. (Note: this can be tricky and you may have to restart if your Yolk 'breaks'
4) Put the Egg yolks into a bowl, add the Double cream and mix it (not whisk!, mix it until it is the consistency of a sauce, not whipped cream!)
5) Add some pepper to your sauce
6) Leave you pasta and bacon to cook, this will take 5-10 minutes for the pasta and 5 minutes for the bacon
7) Drain off your pasta, do NOT cool it down with water. Add your spaghetti to your sauce. The reason why you must not cool it down is so the spaghetti can cook the yolks with it's boiling temperature.
8 ) Mix up the sauce and Spaghetti for about 1 minute, then add the bacon.
9) Serve it and enjoy!
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Desserts
Chocolate Fridge Cake
Ingredients:
250g Digestive Biscuits
150g Milk Chocolate
150g Dark Chocolate
100g unsalted Butter
150g Golden Syrup
150g peanuts (optional)
Steps:
1) Use cling film to line a 20cm (8in) shallow, square-shaped tin. Leave extra cling film hanging over the sides.
2) Bash the biscuits into pieces using a rolling pin. (Put them in a plastic bag first so they don't go everywhere!)
3) Melt chocolate, butter and golden syrup in a heatproof bowl set over a pan of simmering water. Stir occasionally.
4) Remove the bowl from the heat and stir in the broken biscuits and the peanuts.
5) Spoon the mixture into the tin. Level the surface by pressing it down with a spatula.
6) Leave to cool, then put the chocolate mixture in the fridge for 1-2 hours to set.
7) Turn out the cake and peel off the cling film. Cut the cake into 12 squares and enjoy
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Dorset Apple Cake
The Dorset apple cake is precisley what it's name implies. It is an 'apple cake' haha :L With the fluffiness of the cake and the sweetness of the apple your tastebuds will be asking for more.
Ingredients:
450g Cooking Apples
225g Butter, Softened (room temp. for 5 minutes)
280g Golden caster sugar
4 eggs
2 teaspoon vanilla extract
350g Self Raising flour
2 Teaspoons of Baking powder
Brown/Demera sugar to sprinkle
Steps:
1) Preheat the oven to 180C or gas mark 4
2) Grease an line a baking tray with parchment paper or tin foil. Once done, peel and core the apples. Then slice the apples into the desired chunk size.
3) Place all the 'cake-mixture' ingredients into a mixing bowl apart from the apples (so everything apart from the apples and demera sugar)
4) Mix until smooth. Spread HALF the mixture into the tin. Once done, use a spatula to flatten it. Now add the apples. Once done, spread the remaining mixture over the apples and press down with a spatula.
5) Sprinkle with the sugar. Now bake it for 45-50 minutes and enjoy!
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04-03-2011, 11:00 PM
#11
Goleggett
Splicer
Originally posted by helpmeoprah
This one is a family recipe from my dad, sorta secret but i'm down to share with ya'll! If your to young to correctly produce this then i'm sorry. Drinking age is required or have someone that can buy it for you, i'm sure your dad will be down to check this out!
This was mainly made to marinade london broil, but it's hard to get so I use it to marinade my New York strip steaks, I haven't really tried it on anything else.
I did just have this for dinner tonight on the grill!!
Recipe:
Bottle of jose cuervo tequila
bottle of soy sauce
jar of honey
any steak seasoning pepper
put steaks in a ziplock bag, per each half pound of meat there is you want to put one shot of tequila(2 oz.s) and one shot of soy sauce(2 oz.s).i.e. you have 1 pound of steak= add 2 shots tequila and 2 shots soy sauce.
spoon a nice glob of honey on to the top steak, then sprinkle as much of the seasoning(or pepper) on to your honey piles(i like to make mine turn the honey sorta black/brownish) then flip the steak over so that the honey makes both steaks stick together. squeeze all the air out of the bag and let sit over night(24 hours), flip steaks every six hours.
Myself, Lady and the little dude have been enjoying this at least once a week for over 3 years now. I hope you guys give it a shot.
btw if you didn't know when cooking the steak the alcohol content will cook off and there is no way possible to get drunk off this meal. If of age, enjoy with a glass of red wine =D
Sounds quite nice, would you mind if i put into the Main Meals page? (i will make sure your name is on their, of course
)
04-03-2011, 11:13 PM
#13
Omniplasma
Rookie
Originally posted by helpmeoprah
This one is a family recipe from my dad, sorta secret but i'm down to share with ya'll! If your to young to correctly produce this then i'm sorry. Drinking age is required or have someone that can buy it for you, i'm sure your dad will be down to check this out!
This was mainly made to marinade london broil, but it's hard to get so I use it to marinade my New York strip steaks, I haven't really tried it on anything else.
I did just have this for dinner tonight on the grill!!
Recipe:
Bottle of jose cuervo tequila
bottle of soy sauce
jar of honey
any steak seasoning pepper
put steaks in a ziplock bag, per each half pound of meat there is you want to put one shot of tequila(2 oz.s) and one shot of soy sauce(2 oz.s).i.e. you have 1 pound of steak= add 2 shots tequila and 2 shots soy sauce.
spoon a nice glob of honey on to the top steak, then sprinkle as much of the seasoning(or pepper) on to your honey piles(i like to make mine turn the honey sorta black/brownish) then flip the steak over so that the honey makes both steaks stick together. squeeze all the air out of the bag and let sit over night(24 hours), flip steaks every six hours.
Myself, Lady and the little dude have been enjoying this at least once a week for over 3 years now. I hope you guys give it a shot.
btw if you didn't know when cooking the steak the alcohol content will cook off and there is no way possible to get drunk off this meal. If of age, enjoy with a glass of red wine =D
I'm coming over for dinner.
04-03-2011, 11:20 PM
#14
helpmeoprah
FormerStaff HATED ON
Originally posted by Goleggett
Sounds quite nice, would you mind if i put into the Main Meals page? (i will make sure your name is on their, of course )
)
Not at all. :hitman:
---------- Post added at 05:20 PM ---------- Previous post was at 05:20 PM ----------
Originally posted by skitterz
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Lmfao, "Myself, Lady and the little dude." He likes Tequila?
Lmfao, "Myself, Lady and the little dude." He likes Tequila?
Only us real men :hitman:
04-03-2011, 11:30 PM
#15
I-MilkShake-I
Gym leader
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