C/O alt.cooking-chat in reply to a question I had about a good recipe
Note: don’t drain the rehydrated beans after boiling. You need that broth. Hence, be very precise how you add water.
I am quite partial to Diana Kennedy’s mexican recipes (the following are from, I think, “Recipes from the Regional Cooks of Mexico” [...]
Not my recipe, but I’ve modified it a little bit, particularly in forming the rolls.
Ingredients
2 cups milk
2 packages active dry yeast
1/2 cup warm water (110 to 115 degrees)
1/2 cup sugar
6 tablespoons shortening
2 teaspoons salt
1 cup sifted flour plus 5 to 6 cups of flour
2 eggs, well beaten
Preparation
Scald the milk. Dissolve the yeast in the water [...]
Not my own recipe.
freezes well; based on a recipe from WINNERS - More Recipes From The Best Of Bridge
Ingredients
1½ lbs dried navy beans (yields about 2 litres cooked beans)
1 large onion, sliced
3 tsp cider vinegar
1½ tsp Dijon mustard (recipe for mustard)
1½ Tbsp brown sugar
3 Tbsp molasses
a few squirts worcestershire sauce
¾ c chili sauce (or ketchup [...]
I already got this off rec.foods.cooking. If I want to have fettucini alfredo without killing myself, I’ll make a sauce from a roux. However, nothing beats the fatty stuff:
This looks like a good place to re-post this:
Doris Muscatine, in her book: A Cooks Tour of Rome (Charles Scribner’s Sons; New York, 1964) devotes [...]
Let’s say you’re a moron like me, and try to put in your contact lenses after cutting jalapenos. Afterwards, they burn if you so much as touch the eye with them. Saline doesn’t help. Here’s a solution I trued:
In a small glass, mix a small amount of milk with alcohol. Rubbing [...]
(updated September 8th, 2008)
So there’s two ways to do this: the easy way, and the hard way. The hard way reflects a big leveling up of my cook-fu, and it’s hot as all hell, but it’s damn tasty. It is less precise, and is more of a method for making sauce than a precise recipe.
Easy [...]
“Shahi Rajma, as its name suggests, is a royal delicacy originally enjoyed by the Mughal emperors. A delicious, red kidney bean curry dish stirred over a slow fire, Shahi Rajma is cooked to retain its rich flavour. Serve as a main dish with freshly cooked rice, naan breads or chapattis. Or serve [...]
Ingredients
Sauce
1 1/2c chili sauce
1 c grape jelly
1-3 tsp Dijon mustard
Meatballs
1 lb ground beef
1 egg, lightly beaten
3 tbsp bread crumbs
½ tsp salt
Mix together the sauce ingredients in a pot or slow cooker. Prepare the meatballs as you like – Betty Crocker has some tips on making good meatballs. Cook them before putting them in [...]
The recipe is named “stuffing,” but I don’t put it in the turkey.
Old-Fashioned Bread Stuffing
Ingredients
1/2 cup Butter or margarine
1 1/2 cups chopped celery
1 cup chopped onion
1/2 cup chopped fresh parsley
1 pound dry bread cubes
1 1/2 tsp. salt
1/4 tsp. pepper
1 T. sage
1 cup turkey or chicken broth
Preparation
Melt the butter in a large frying pan. Add the [...]
This is a peculiar recipe. I have some pastry flour around, but not too much. I’m also usually lazy when trying to have pancakes, so everything is assembled in a pyrex measuring cup. Also due to laziness, none of this is properly measured.
Makes about 4 large pancakes, 6 medium.
Ingredients
1c skim milk
1/2c bleached [...]