The Recipe Thread - share your kitchen wonders!

coralinecastell · November 24, 2019, 1:25pm

Continuing the discussion from It's Still 2019 - Time to Hype New Releases or something:

Your wish is my command. Here be Flours.

Summoning the one and only @delenn13 to enlighten us!

Disclaimer

Please consider using the follow tags when linking recipes, for ease of use & health concerns:

// :fish: = contains fish
// :fried_shrim: = contains sea-food (crustaceans and molluscs)*
// :pig: = contains pig
// :cow: = contains beef
// :peanut: = contains nuts
// :leaves: = vegetarian
// :four_leaf_clover: = vegan

Suggestions for better or additional tags are welcome!

How and why to tag my recipes?*

How?
Just add the tags by the recipe names, or above any linked recipes! It’s important to tag them so people who are allergic to some ingredients or have different diets know which recipes they cannot cook for themselves. I’ve added tags I thought were relevant above!

What’s sea-food?*
Crustaceans and molluscs! Examples: shrimp, octopus and crab. To avoid confusions with fish, see the following examples:

European lobster, Homarus gammarus, is in the Animalia kingdom, Arthropoda phylum and the Crustacea subphylum!
A puffer fish, like the Guineafowl puffer, is in the Animalia kingdom, the Chordata phylum and the Actinopterygii class.

Fish are Chordata! Crustaceans and Molluscs are not Chordata, because they don’t have " a notochord, a dorsal nerve cord, pharyngeal slits, an endostyle, and a post-anal tail." Cool stuff!

Why subcategories for seafood and peanuts?
Loads of people are allergic to those! And fun fact:

Those with asthma or an allergy to peanuts, tree nuts, or seafood are at greater risk for anaphylaxis.

Welp!

Pão de Queijo – “cheese bread”

A Brazilian delicacy that has a history of more than 200 years. A good pão de queijo is hard to make, but we can try! You can use page translators to translate the entire recipe.

delenn13 · November 24, 2019, 1:43pm

I got church today…so here’s a filler until I get back…

Vindace · November 24, 2019, 1:51pm

Ooh thanks Coraline!

Here’s a nice chicken recipe to start. I’ve got church too but I have a list for afterwards I can post.

coralinecastell · November 24, 2019, 3:43pm

Funnily enough I too went to church today as well. 1-year passing of one of my close friends. Fuck cancer.

Here are some other Brazilian dishes you guys can cook outside of Brazil (aka ingredients are easy to get):

Main courses:

Moqueca

Acarajé
(the whole website is super informative! many recipes for sweets as well.)
http://theamazingflavoursofbrazil.com/black-eyed-pea-fritters-acaraje/

Feijão Tropeiro

Desserts

Beijinho
http://theamazingflavoursofbrazil.com/beijinho-coconut-little-kisses/

Quindim

Please consider using something like this when linking recipes, for ease of use:

= contains fish
= contains pig
= contains beef
= vegetarian
= vegan

Added complete list to OP above. Suggestions welcome!

Enki · November 24, 2019, 11:03pm

Good luck trying to convince me to share “my version” of pão de queijo.

delenn13 · November 24, 2019, 11:16pm

Mr. Delenn gets really tired of me experimenting on him but I get so tired of the same old same old. So I “try” things i find on the internet or in books…mags whatever. This experiment he loves and begs for…

I found “Georgia Pork” in a pamphlet/booklet that I got in snail mail and it had all the Best Recipes from the 50 State Fairs.Very simple to make. I have changed it a lot. Added can or fresh peaches if in season. Changed the preserves to orange marmalade and made "Florida/California Pork. Added pineapple pieces and called it Hawaiian Pork. I try to find a chunky salsa. I upped the ante and got the HOT taco seasonings and salsas. Plus I have made it with beef, ham and chicken too. Oh and I use Brown rice…Healthier

coralinecastell · November 25, 2019, 12:30am

gets fold-out knife
straps it securely to inside pocket of her leather jacket
hops onto bike
drives to the quebrada
gets 50 bucks out of her other pocket – the one with the emergency paçoca
whistles

“Who wants to help me make a dude talk?”

makes dramatic gesture of slicing someone’s throat with her knife
laughs heartily in Brazil

YOU BETTER HAND OVER YOUR PÃES DE QUEIJO, IRMÃO.

Delenn I love and appreciate you and think your changes greatly improve on the lovely recipe you sent us but you reminded me of this joke post, which I hope will cheer up your night:

All The Comments on Every Recipe Blog
“I followed this to the letter, except I substituted walnuts and tofu for the skirt steak, ditched the cheese entirely, and replaced the starch with a turnip salad. Turned out great. My seven-year-old boys have never seen a dessert and I’ve convinced them that walnut-and-turnip salad is “cake.” Thanks for the recipe!”

“I don’t have any of these ingredients at home. Could you rewrite this based on the food I do have in my house? I’m not going to tell you what food I have. You have to guess.”

(…)

Vandem · November 25, 2019, 12:46am

I highly appreciate this thread as I’m constantly looking for new recipes/ideas to cook. Definitely gonna try some of your suggestions. Will be posting results if I didn’t botch it completely.

Also @Enki… your memes and posts are part of the reason I’m coming back to this forum but for the sake of uncovering the secret sloth version of pão de queijo…

… I’ll even side with my archenemy for once. I hope you are prepared.

coralinecastell · November 25, 2019, 12:59am

Here some recipes for my favorite ~~and absolutely temporarily don’t get comfortable~~ archenemy supporter

Roast turkey for Thanksgiving!

If you’re like me and always get left out at Thanksgiving… haha… no I’m not bitter… ):

Negroni

Sweet potato!

Fraggles · November 25, 2019, 2:20am

Let me share one of my favourite soups with you and maybe the sloth will relent.

Ingredients.
1 yellow onion, a vegetable which comes in a huge variety of sizes so good luck!
2 cloves of garlic, I know you probably want to be all “Hah I always double ANY garlic instructions!” because that’s cool. Thing is though it’s not meant to taste of garlic, it’s meant to blend into the background and be part of the flavour profile. Just treat them well and 2 cloves will be plenty, more on that later.
4 Potatoes, another greatly variable sized vegetable.
1 red pepper
400g ground beef. Preferably the 12% leaner stuff, but the 20% is often much cheaper.
Oil or butter for browning and sauteing.
500g diced/crushed tomatoes
6dl water

Seasonings:
Salt and pepper, to taste.
1.5 tsp cinnamon, ground
1.5 tsp cardamom, kernels whole. Or if you get whole pods then be fancy and do that.
1 beef bullion cube or about 5dl of stock, in which case cut out the water.
parsley if you want it

Served with thick “greek/turkish style” yoghurt.

Lets start off with the garlic because the pungent flavour of garlic comes from a chemical reaction happening when it’s cell structure gets damaged. This reaction however stops in acidic environments, so if you just press garlic into food straight away not much is going to be happening. This is probably why you want to put a full head of garlic into things.

So lets mince that garlic, nice and fine, with a knife. Look up some instructions if you need to. Pile that up on a corner of your cutting board and let the garlic hang out and marinate itself while you chop up the onion and dice the pepper.

Brown the beef in a pot while you crush the cardamom in a mortar with a pestle. Now if you are after all using the cheaper 20% fat ground beef you might want to drain some of that out here. Once the beef is browned add the crushed cardamom, cinnamon, salt, black pepper, onions and garlic saute that for another 2-3 minutes and add the bullion cube.

Add water, crushed tomatoes and bring to a boil, stir occasionally while you peel and dice up the potatoes. Add the potatoes and pepper then let it simmer on low heat under a lid for about 20 minutes or the potatoes are done, taste and add more salt and pepper and parsley if desired.

Serve with a dollop of yoghurt and some thick crusty bread.

coralinecastell · November 25, 2019, 2:35am

I substituted the beef with tofu, added paprika instead of cardamom, used sweet potatoes instead of regular ones and served it raw to my uninvited guests that showed up at lunch time when I was trying to work in peace. They all threw up and the toiled now smells of onions and undigested garlic. Regular recipe. 3/5

actually thanks for sharing @Fraggles even though I don’t eat beef and know you’re gonna be all like “the recipe is meant to be with ground beef you silly Brazilian twat, you cannot substitute it with other substances! No! Not even human meat. I’ve said my word! No, none of that nasty fish either. I said ground beef, so it’s ground beef!” and then you’re gonna read this, have a hearty chuckle, quote me on your reply and go “but really, ground beef.”

Fraggles · November 25, 2019, 2:43am

The cardamom substitution would be the primary deal breaker. That’s one of the big stars of this show without which it simply wouldn’t be the same thing.

I don’t really know how tofu performs when boiled, it might potentially work with the firm stuff. You could possibly switch the beef for chicken mince if you want to, Quorn mince would work, black beans might be entirely possible substitution too.

Not sure about making it entirely vegetarian however as the broth is quite important, veggie broth would change the profile a lot. Maybe it could be pulled off if you compliment it with a few drops of dark soy sauce. Maybe adding a piece of star anise to help offset the loss of umami flavours the beef brings, but not so much that you get the licorice flavour coming through.

Edit: I almost forgot to add, if it’s available on your market make sure you get Brazilian beef. Preferably from a cow who has personally burnt down rain forest. The more ecological disaster wrought the tastier the meat!

Vindace · November 25, 2019, 4:37am

Loving the variety of responses so far.

@coralinecastell,
A. You are always welcome with my family for thanksgiving, I’ve got a gluten allergy on my side and my wife’s side has lots of different allergies, so there’s always a good variety of food you could eat .
B. Got any more cocktail recipes? I’m a big fan of mixed drinks.

Here’s my favorite Meatloaf recipe, and the only one my wife likes. There are three things I change to this recipe.

I add less thyme sometimes, my wife is not a big fan of the flavour but I like having a hint of it in there.
I don’t use “fried onion pieces”. I slice my own onion (one onion is enough) into thin circles, and then drop It into some hot oil and make my own.
I leave the onion out of the inside of my meatloaf. I just leave it, it’s not my favorite texture in there.

I have pleased germans, Koreans, Australians, and Americans with this recipe (and my alterations), so I think it’s pretty good.

Enki · November 25, 2019, 5:06pm

That’s really nice to hear, thank you!

I’ll consider your ~~threats~~ polite requests.

Danacscott · November 25, 2019, 5:18pm

@Fraggles p33rs Another beef eater, sigh. First my bestie, then @Pylinaer, now you. What is my life?

I haven’t done anything more creative than Google how to make cheese paste this morning - not for a long time. (Onion is what I had forgotten). I hates cooking. kicks stove top

I love baking. hugs oven Have a mind to try mein own macaroni pie for me and my feisty bunny bestie, not this week though.

coralinecastell · November 25, 2019, 10:25pm

Loads. No internet ATM please remind me tomrorow

Vindace · November 25, 2019, 11:32pm

Will do.

Also, made this for dinner tonight if anyone wants to try:

Was quite delicious although the sauce was a bit… much (if that makes sense). I’ll for sure be making it again, but I might play around with adding a little vinegar to tone down the sweetness of the sauce. Easy to make and overall delicious.

Shalandir · November 26, 2019, 6:00pm

Chocolate Truffles (I’ll come up with a better name someday…)

1 bag of Birthday Cake Oreos (~36)
8oz Neufchâtel cheese (or cream cheese)
11oz baker’s chocolate (chocolate chunks, semi-sweet morsels, white, dark, your choice)
1oz vanilla extract
1 tsp cinnamon
1 tsp nutmeg
18 mini muffin paper cups

Toss 2.5 of the 3 sleeves of oreos (~30) into a blender or Ninja, something to shred them instantly. Put into mixing bowl.
Blend Neufchâtel cheese, spices with crumbled oreos until smooth(ish). Small chunks allowed, big chunks not.
In a separate small mixing bowl, blend/shred remaining 0.5 sleeves of Oreos (~6). Set aside. Can be combined with step 1 if you’re a genius and know ratios really well.
Roll Oreo/Neufchâtel into bite size balls, setting on cookie sheet or aluminum foil. Put in fridge/freezer to set while…
Toss 11oz chocolate into microwave safe bowl, nuke on high for 20 sec periods, stirring, until melted. Can also use stovetop double layer technique, (pan/water/bowl/chocolate). Add vanilla to both keep smooth.
A. Pull truffles from fridge/freezer, dip into melted chocolate coating completely. Caution: Chocolate will be hot, but can use whatever instrument you prefer: fingers, toothpicks, chopsticks, deep fry dunker, etc.
B. Roll coated truffles in the 6 spare Oreos you crumbled in step 3. Place back on cookie sheet/foil and freeze 1 hour+.
(Optional) Decorate with fancy chocolate stripes, zigzags, whatever patterns you want before freezing. Also, can buy 1 can of Maraschino cherries and roll 1 into each truffle’s center during step 4.
When ready for display, remove from freezer, place in mini muffin cups, fill old cookie tins, etc. Keep refrigerated until eaten.

These are the best party desserts in existence, so easy even a bachelor can make them.
I have spoken.

coralinecastell · November 26, 2019, 11:29pm

Hey @Vindace, I promise I’ll increment this post with links for the book etc when I’m not on the bus late at night. For now, didn’t wanna keep you waiting.

Took some shots of my favorite cocktail book. Im a big fan of doing new cocktails and stuff as well as making the old classics (from the Manhattan to the Cuba Libre, my favorite).

So here js a few drinks you might not have tried. If you want more I can PM you as I don’t wanna send more than a few shots of the book because

wanna incentive people to buy it if they can
don’t wanna copyright infringe it lol

Here ya go

Singapore Sling - Gin

La Paloma - Tequila

Mai Tai - Rum

Chart

The Book

Vindace · November 27, 2019, 1:20am

@coralinecastell Thank you! I think I’ve actually seen that book, It’s certainly one I’ll put on my list.

Absolutely feel free to PM me some of your favorites! There’s admittedly not many I’ve tried, but I’ve found my tastes are pretty varied.