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[Friday]

Mac’n’Beef

(Kissing cousin to Chili Mac, American Goulash, American Chop Suey, & Macaroni Bolognese)

If you live in the States, you’ve had this. Although by what name (and whether or not Green Peppers, Paprika, Mushrooms, or Cheese are involved) is super regional. There are 12,000 recipes for this thing, and they’re all correct. Here are both of mine.

One
Olive Oil
Green Peppers - chopped
White Onions - chopped
Garlic - minced or smashed
Salt & white pepper
Ground Beef
Tomato Paste
Box of strained tomatoes
Can of Stewed Tomatoes or Fire Roasted Tomatoes (optional)
Water
Elbow Macaroni

Ring a big sauté pan or wok with olive oil & sauté the green peppers, onions, & garlic until softened on high heat. Add ground beef, salt, and stir until browned. Add tomato paste & tomatoes, noodles, and water to cover. Give it a stir, and simmer until noodles are fully cooked & water all gone / thick sauce remains. Add more water as needed if the noodles aren’t fully cooked. Voila. Done.

Two
Ground Beef
Salt
Manwich Brand Sloppy Joe can o’sauce
Elbow Macaroni
Water

Brown beef in sauté pan, sauce pan, or wok. Add sloppy joe sauce, noodles, & water. Simmer until noodles are done & water is cooked off. Voila. Done.

 

[TTC18]

Thanksgiving rehearsal dinner
Roast turkey basted with butter and sage
sweet corn & butter
Stuffing (celery, onion, garlic and sage sauteed in butter)
Cranberry sauce (cook fresh cranberries in water on low heat with sugar and orange zest until it turns into sauce)
Steamed artichokes and... you guessed it... butter.

 

[blackemerald1]

Home made pasties.

In a food processor chop finely:

Onion,
3 -4 carrots
3 potatos
1 red chilli pepper

Open lid and add:

250 gms mince lamb or beef

Mix through dried chilli flakes,
Salt & pepper
cup of chopped parsley
2 slices of bread sliced into small cubes
2 eggs
2 tablespoons of tomato paste

Mix till well combined.

Lay four squares of puff pastry on bench,
Divide mix into four even piles onto each pasty

Brush edges of pastry with milk

Fold into a triangle & seal edges with prongs of a fork & stab with a fork (to let steam out)

Put into a large baking dish in over at 180 C for about an hour or until golden.

** You can add other veg's to this... peas etc., just remember you have to be able to fold the pastry over. :)

 

[blackemerald1]

Oh I made these for a snack:-

Chocolate, Current & Yogurt Muffins.. (An experiment on another recipe that worked) :)

**These are all METRIC measurements so please convert to Imperial to be accurate for your region.

Preheat Oven to 180 C

Grease a 12 serve muffin tin or use muffin cups

1 1/2 cups Plain flour
1/2 scant cup of Sugar
1 1/2 teaspoon Baking Powder
1/2 teaspoon Salt
1/4 cup Milk
3/4 generous cup of Greek Yogurt
1/4 cup veg oil (I used coconut but any will do)
2 Eggs (large ones)
1 tsp Vanilla extract or paste
1 generous cup Chocolate chips or crushed up cooking chocolate - dark or milk - whichever you prefer
1 generous cup of washed Currents

Stir together in a medium bowl:
Flour, sugar baking powder and salt - till mixed up

In another bowl stir together:
Milk, yogurt, Veg oil, eggs and Vanilla - till roughly combined

Gently pour the wet ingredients into the dry ingredients and combine roughly (**Lumps are fine!)

Add Chocolate chips and Currents and swirl through with a wooden spoon till evenly distributed but don't over stir!

Spoon into muffin tray or cups.

Bake till golden brown for about 18 - 20 mins but keep your eye on them.

**The purpose of not stirring too much is to not activate the Gluten in the flour or your muffins will be very rubbery or hard. :(

Notes:-
They are not super sweet.
I think you could adapt this recipe to blueberries etc., just omit the chocolate and or currents or add them in too lol !

You could put icing on them but really they don't need it!

Will store in freezer for about 3 months - if they last that long

 

[Friday]

Hot & Sour Soup

- Ring around the pan of veggie oil
- Couple inches of grated ginger
- Smashed garlic clove
- Squirt of Sriacha to taste (I accidentally made it eyeball sweating tonight. Whoops)... or your fav Asian chili paste.
- half a cup of vinegar
- half a cup of soy sauce
- handful of chopped black Chinese fungus. (Woodear is my go to)
- half a box of tofu chopped
- Quart or so of chicken stock or veggie stock
- Few tablespoons of corn starch mixed with water into a slurry
- green onions / cilantro / sprouts / any other garnish

- (optional) 1 or 2 eggs cracked into cornstarch slurry bowl, scrambled, and drizzled in at very end.

Heat up the oil & sauté the ginger, garlic, fungus, tofu, & sriacha until fragrant (maybe a minute). Add vinegar & soy sauce. Add soup stock. Add slurry. Simmer until thickened. Voila. Garnish & serve.

Optional ... spin the soup & crack an egg in for a bit of egg drop action.

 

[blackemerald1]

Chicken Tikka Masala and plain rice

500 gms chicken thighs
Ready made Tikka Masala spice (or make your own)
1 Onion - sliced
100 gms plain Yogurt
1 red Capsicum - sliced
2 cloves of crushed Garlic (or more to taste)
1 can diced Tomato's
2 tablespoons Tomato paste
2 tablespoons of Olive oil or veg oil

In a bowl put chicken, yogurt and 1 tablespoon of spice. Mix, cover and refrigerate for 30 mins or longer.

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Heat olive oil in fry pan and tip chicken into it,
Cook till charred
Remove from fry pan and set aside for a few mins.

In the same fry pan...
Fry onion, capsicum, garlic till onion is soft.
Add 2 tablespoons of Tikka Masala spice and fry off

Add chicken back to onion etc.,
Add tomato paste mixed in a splash of water and the can of diced Tomato

Cook until well done.

Cook rice as normal

Serve up. :)

 

[Friday]

Oven Roasted ‘BBQ’ Turkey Legs


Turkey Legs
Smoked Salt
Pepper
Tinfoil
Baking tray

Glaze <<< most important part
3/4 cup of your favorite BBQ sauce
2 TB brown sugar
1 TB apple cider vinegar <<< most important part of the most important part ...don’t skip it... makes magic happen, because instead of saucy legs you get wowza legs (that you can then add sauce to after, if you want saucy wowza legs)

- Generously salt (and rub it in) & lightly pepper turkey legs
- Wrap each in tinfoil & set on tray
- Bake at 350F / 175C for 1-2 hours (yeah, well, turkey legs come in a huge range of sizes :p) until meat thermometer reads near 180F / 80C
- Unwrap the hideous pale gross looking suckers from the tinfoil ... slather in glaze (do not rewrap! Cook uncovered on the tray) & return to oven for 20-30 minutes, turning once if desired.
- Pull out gorgeous shiny deeply mahogany magazine cover delicious looking legs
- Wrap the part you want to hold onto with tinfoil
- (add more sauce if you like, I don’t)

Chow down

 

[blackemerald1]

hideous pale gross looking suckers from the tinfoil

saucy wowza leg

^^I love the visualisation going on here. ;) :hilarious:

 

[Friday]

LMFAO... :roflmao: Half steamed poultry (from being wrapped in the tinfoil) really is gross looking! Add in the smears of grey-brown-black from the smoked salt? :sick:

But it gets soooooo pretty just a few minutes later.

 

[LuckiLee]

@Friday, that's how I cook my baby backs except at a lower temperature. I sprinkle brown sugar and thinly sliced jalapeno on them and it just melts into the meat. So freakin awesome. Gonna try your legs soon. ;)

 

[frogthroat]

White people tacos -.ground beef with taco mix jalapenos, tomatos, onion, sour cream, and shredded cheddar cheese. I put them in burrito wraps because I don't like hard shell tacos.

 

[VioletButterfly]

@RuffledFeathers - Seems like we're on the same page. I put together some salsa (heavy on the cilantro!!), opened the flour tortillas, pulled chips from the pantry, sliced avocados, and took out sour cream and Colby Jack cheese out of the fridge! Yummo. Haven't tucked in yet as it's kind of late, but maybe a chip or two. :)