Favorite Recipes

[Ali01]

Okay so we've been trying to eat in more and we bought a recipe book. However, we're running out of yummy recipes...so i thought "hey you guys eat right?" Well....WHAT DO YOU EAT?

or in happier, more grown up terms....

what are your favorite recipes and please pretty please with lots of cherries...or whatever else you like on top, post them for me

[doglike]

Recipes for disaster are also fun, but I digress (saltwater popsicles).

[joanne/shads]

Grilled pork chops/steaks topped with apple sauce and a slice of cheddar cheese melted under the grill with new potatoes, fresh veg

[joanne/shads]

Chicken rice
cook rice with chicken stock cube.
stir fry onion, carrots, green beans and sweet corn
add pieces of ready cooked chicken
soy sauce, lemon juice, salt, pepper, ginger. to taste.
add all together
add tin of crushed pineapple and juice
to keep warm cover and place in warm oven till ready to serve
just as nice hot or cold.

[Iona123]

King prawn or chicken stir fry

Cook chicken or prawns in wok with very little oil, add various veg (bean sprouts, water chesnuts, sweetcorn, peppers, onion, maybe a little cabbage) til soft, boil noodles in water then once soft add to wok.
I usually add a ready made stir fry sauce, but they're well easy to make too. Et voila, super healthy dinner in under 10 mins cooking time!

[GreensMom]

This is a GREAT idea! Maybe I can find some new things to make.
These are some of our family favorites (extended family included).

Baked Potato Soup
4 large potatoes
2/3 cup butter
2/3 flour
1 1/2qt milk (6 cups)
1 cup sour cream
2 cups crisp cooked bacon, crumbled
5 ounces cheddar cheese, grated
Heat oven to 350 degrees F and bake the potatoes until fork tender. Melt butter in a medium saucepan. Slowly blend in flour with a wire wisk until thoroughly blended. Gradually add milk to the butter - flour mixture, whisking constantly. Whisk in salt and pepper and simmer over low heat, stirring constantly.
Cut potatoes in half, scoop out the meat and set aside. Chop half the potato peels and discard the remainder. When milk mixture is very hot, whisk in potato. Add potato peels. Whisk well, add sour cream and crumbled bacon. Heat thoroughly. Add cheese a little at a time until all in melted in.

Potatos Anna (good to make in quantity for a party or covered dish)
6 cups instant potato flakes
3 1/2 cups water
2 sticks margarine
5 cups milk
2 - 8oz cream cheese (softened)
Bring water, milk and 1 stick of butter to a boil (or almost). Add the flakes and mix through, then add the cream cheese and mix through.
Put into baking pan (coated with non stick spay) put pads of butter (1 stick) on top.
Bake at 350 degrees for 1 hour .

Porcupine Meatballs (good to make in quantity for a party or covered dish)
Sometimes I make these in advance and reheat in the crock pot on low. I add a package of Lipton beefy onion soup mixed with 1 - 1 1/2 cups of water to keep them moist.
1 1/2 lb. ground beef
1 package beef rice a roni
2 eggs
In a large bowl mix the beef, eggs, and the rice (not the flavor packet). Roll into meatballs and place in a baking pan (that has a lid). Bake UNCOVERED at 350 for 20-30 minutes. Until browned.
Remove from oven. Mix flavor packet with 1 1/2 cups of water and pour over meatballs. Cover and simmer on stove for 30 minutes.
They are better if you let them sit for a while after you finish simmering them, as they absorb the liquid in the pan.
These go really well with potatoes Anna.

[trickytrip]

Soup Over Noodles (easy, quick and warm)

1 beef soup bone
1 big can of V-8
fresh carrots chuncked
" celery "
1 lg onion
about 5-6 fresh potatoes peeled and chunked
1/2 of V-8 can water
simmer all ingredient in soup pot or crock pot, until carrots are tender

cook a bag of noodles, rinse and drain. Put noodles in bowl and ladle soup over noodles. Yummy

[GreensMom]

Rayeann I thought I was going to see a comment from you like WHAT? Kelly you can cook?!?

[trickytrip]

(09-12-2010 01:53 PM)GreensMom Wrote:  Rayeann I thought I was going to see a comment from you like WHAT? Kelly you can cook?!?

You told me you can cook, maybe next month I will find out. Def. want that Mexican place again though.

[GreensMom]

Yes I was actually thinking about what I can make in advance so I don't have to spend all my time in the kitchen. Maybe the meatballs and potatoes mentioned above? I will have to think about it.
Of course, knowing me I will be running like a chicken as usual and have nothing ready. Mexican one night for sure. You can't beat that place. We will take Lauren so we can drink margaritas and she can drive us home.

[Iona123]

Yuuuuum... baked potato soup sounds like just what I need on a miserable rainy day like this!!

[GreensMom]

I don't make it often because I'm sure it's 1,000,000 calories a bowl! It is so thick and creamy it is delicious. That's always my thing to bring to family dinners.

[jocap]

I'd be lost without my slow cooker....I'm a chuck it in and it'll all melt together cook. Right now there's a curry in there, and I'll cook some rice later.
Thursday is fresh fish day, and I always get plenty of fish bits, make a parsley sauce, mix it with the gently cooked fish, put mashed potato on, then cheese topping, and under the grill. Served with whatever veg is seasonal.
If we've had a big roast, I use the remains to make a stew, then make one vast Yorkshire pudding....being a Yorkie, I don't eat the pudding with stew, only with gravy and brown sauce...OH, being a southener, eats his altogether....with potatoes.
Fresh blackberries everywhere, so it's fruit salads and (diabetic) ice cream right now!
Jo.

[Iona123]

just like cullen skink then :-) that's another favourite of mine but also something that contains about 5 zillion calories! Hmm.... I'm hungry now!

[JJAK]

Chicken wrapped in parma ham filled with cheese
With new potatoes, roasted vine tomatoes and a melted cheese sauce...im addicted!!
Also cant beat a good pineapple upside down cake...brings back my childhood!