mmmm do love me some greens.Quote:
Originally Posted by rebel
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mmmm do love me some greens.Quote:
Originally Posted by rebel
Potluck today at work, so I made a cake.
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With mesquite flour and chocolate chips.
Recipe
I subbed mesquite flour in for 1/4 of the AP flour. I also stuffed the raspberries with chocolate chips, and then sprinkled some more throughout.
OK, I didn't sprinkle anything. I carefully distributed the berries and the chips in an even, OCD manner.
As you can see, I managed to break it a couple of times, in the process of putting it on the rack, and then off again, and then on again. The mesquite flour does make it a bit fragile. Plus, I'm a klutz.
It's actually more of a tea cake. I had a piece for breakfast. But I probably would have done that anyway, regardless of the type of cake.
A trip down memory lane. Smoked chicken, beans, cole slaw, potato salad and bread.
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We have to skin and gut a Portobello. Spoon out the gill, carve out the stem.
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Next, add the super secret crab concoction.
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Capers for effect.
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Parmesan
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A topping of Mozzarella
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Let's give it a few
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Anticipation
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The vino and square plates are optional.
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Jeeeez. I'll bet you hold your pinky out when you drink from a canteen cup don't you? Go on. Admit it.
As minister of science I will need to test a sample to ensure it doesn't contain .... uh .... crab thingies. That would be bad. So send some samples to me.
Depends on what is in the cup.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rick
Sorry, I don't figure it will travel well. And more importantly, I can't trust that you will not reverse engineer the super secret crab concoction. Now that would be bad.Quote:
Originally Posted by Rick
Well then I guess you'll have to come to next year's Jamboree and do the cooking.
Reverse engineer the super secret crab concoction?! How dare you?! I am a man of the highest honor. It's about this high. See? I can't hardly reach the top. If I were wearing gloves there would be a challenge laid down! How fortunate for you I'm not wearing them at the moment.
I best level with ya. Even I do not know the ingredients in the SSCC, my wife makes it. I do have security clearance for the original recipe. Realize that if I was caught disseminating such top secret family info, it would be a felony charge. Hanging the only sentence. Scares me just to think about it.
Decided to have the holidays meal.
Smoked a turkey and beef brisket. Whipped up some corn bread dressing, gravy, real mashed taters, beans, butternut squash, cranberry sauce and a diet coke so I don't get fat.
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We are so going to your house.
Soaked some dry split peas, then put them in a crock pot with a ham bone and a bunch of cube pieces of ham, a big onion chopped up and a bunch of baby carrots cooked at high for about 10 hours. Served with biscuits at a neighborhood get together today. Sorry no pics, went too fast and I was struggling to get any for myself.
mmm split peas and ham! One of my favorites.
We didn't have Thanksgiving at our house. Thus, no turkey leftovers, which means no turkey tetrazzini.
But I did scoop up a half turkey breast, when they were deeply discounted, after the holidays.
To get it to that leftover state, I simmered it in the crock pot, with water, bay leaves, garlic, onions, celery, and salt.
I used this recipe, with some alterations (as always!)
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I used ziti instead of fettuccine.
I added a clove of minced garlic to the leeks.
I used the juice from the crock as my stock.
Instead of 2 cups stock + 1/2 c milk, I used 1.25 c stock, and 1 cup buttermilk -- BEST substitution ever.
I subbed peas for mushrooms. Added them after the the gravy thickened.
All out of bread crumbs, I used crumbled Ritz crackers as my topping.
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I agree with Andy Griffith , "everything is better on a Ritz".
The parade of comfort food continues. Meatloaf (beef, pork, and veal), sweet taters, and corn.
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I got a pot of red beans and rice on the stove.....cannot wait until they are done!
Can't go wrong with that. Hope you have some corn bread to go along with it.Quote:
Originally Posted by Willie
Ham and beans on the stove. Cornbread later today. MMMmmmmm.
Creamy chicken soup with barley, orzo, corn, carrots, taters,...............
Good for those cold winter days like we're having today.
I was using square plates long before the foodies decided they were cool. The ones that I use come on rolls. I like Bounty, but any will do in a pinch. LOL:blush:Quote:
Originally Posted by intothenew