Cooks come in!

Re: Cooks come in!

• festivegal2008 member

  

  March 2011

  Good call.  We dont' go as often as we used to either.  I very rarely cook on Saturdays but if we didn't go out we'd go over my parents' and eat with them.  I'm sure my mom won't mind cooking for us more often on Saturdays now that she's by herself for dinner.

  Here's a super easy one I like doing.  I put a couple of chicken breasts in the crock pot all day (on low for 7-8 hours) then shred it when it's done.  I'll mix in some peanut oil and soy sauce to give it an Asian flavor then chop up a few scallions and mix them in with it.  Serve it over rice.  I actually got this recipe off someone's BU on the cooking board and make it regularly.

  Good schitt. 

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• RachieK10

  March 2011

  Ooooh pick me!! DH and I do Friday night dinner in every week if we can. We get a bottle of wine and make a 3 or 4 course meal and it's so much fun.

  Tonight we are making Flank Steak w/ Chimichurri and baked potatoes. Flank steak isn't too expensive but skirt steak is even cheaper and has a similar texture. We use bobby flay's mint chimichurri recipe and it's sooo good:

  1 cup cilantro leaves 1 cup flat-leaf parsley leaves 1/2 cup mint leaves 4 cloves garlic, roughly chopped 3/4 to 1 cup olive oil 1/4 to 1/3 cup red wine vinegar Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper

  Mix all that up in a food processor or blender and serve on top of the steak. Easy, inexpensive and tastes like it's from a restaurant!

   Another thing we made once was steak (we used filet, but you don't have to) with roasted tomatoes, olives, capers and artichokes. Roast plum tomatoes in the oven for a couple of hours and top a steak (grilled w/ salt & peppers) with the tomatoes and the rest of the ingredients. I recommend canned artichokes because I find you have to be very talented to cook a fresh artichoke right (which we cannot!).

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• Laurms15

  March 2011

  http://laurieskitchen.wordpress.com/

  I have a bunch of stuff on my blog. By no means is it everything I cook but I'm slowly putting things up there as I go. There are quite a few desserts though!
  

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• rands09

  March 2011

  This sounds like planning for baby is really getting serious :-)) I'm happy for you!

  Here is a quick recipe that I use often when I just want to do a quick bbq and salad or fries dinner...it's a slow cooker recipe, which are my absolute favorite kind!

  (I got it from a "Taste of Home" magazine- which, by the way, is an awesome tool for "real" and simple to make recipes!)

  Slow cooker pulled Beef BBQ (or pork/chicken):

  • 2-3 lb Beef roast (cut of your choice, but I usually use bottom round)
  • 2 cups of Ketchup (may need a little more depending on the size of your cut of beef)
  • 1/4 cup of white vinegar
  • 1/4 cup of packed light brown sugar (more or less, to taste)
  • 1 Tablespoon of Worcestershire
  • 2 Teaspoons of Liquid Smoke
  • 1 Teaspoon of garlic powder
  • 1 Teaspoon of minced onion
  • 1/2 Teaspoon of pepper (black or white)
  • 1/2 Teaspoon of salt

  Optional:

  • 1/2 to 1 Tablespoon of honey
  • 1 Tablespoon of dijon mustard (or you can a teaspoon of mustard powder)

   

  Directions: Mix ingrediants together. Place beef into slowcooker and cover with sauce. Cover and cook on low for 6-8 hours. Once done, stir and pull apart with fork. Serve over buns of your choice. Voila!

  Note: I tend to like my sauce a little tangy/sweet, so I do use both the mustard and the honey, although you certainly could omit those for a more traditonal bbq flavor. The real secret to this recipe is the liquid smoke, however!

   

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• waltzingmatilda13 member

  

  March 2011

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  This is the easiest, tastiest recipe that I make:

  Parmesan Chicken with tomato relish

  Chicken:

  1 lb chicken cutlets (or breasts cut very thin)

  1 cup grated armesan cheese

  1 cup Italian style Panko breading

  1 cup flour

  2 eggs

  Extra virgin olive oil

   

  Tomato relish:

  1 pint cherry tomatoes

  2 tbsp fresh basil

  3 cloves garlic

  Extra virgin olive oil

  Salt & pepper

   

  For tomato relish:

  Cut tomatoes into quarters and put in small bowl. Finely chop basil and garlic cloves, add tomatoes. Add a couple of splashes of EVOO and salt and pepper to taste, set aside.

   

  Rinse and pat chicken cutlets dry. In one dish (I use my 8x8 pans) put flour. In second dish lightly beat eggs. In third dish mix Panko breading and parmesan cheese. Lightly flour chicken, then dredge in egg then coat with breading mixture. In tablespoons of EVOO set on medium heat, gently cook cooked chicken until no longer pink.

   

  We serve the chicken with the tomato relish right on top. It is really much better if you get everything in the same bite.

  Sorry I don't have any dessert recipes, we usually just eat ice cream or cookies. 
  

  
  

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• waltzingmatilda13 member

  

  March 2011

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• Lisa6255

  March 2011

  I posted a link to a delicious and easy pork recipe on my FB wall you should check out.

  
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• allioops414

  March 2011

  Lindsay -  I LOVE lurking on the What's cooking board...many of the posters there have great blogs, and I've gotten many ideas from them.  Here are a few blogs I like:

  http://iwasborntocook.blogspot.com/2011/03/my-long-lost-friend.html

  http://www.skinnytaste.com/

  http://stephaniecooks.blogspot.com/

  http://topwithcherries.blogspot.com/

   

   

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