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Topic: The recipe thread (serious attempt)
Posted By: Cywr
Subject: The recipe thread (serious attempt)
Date Posted: 30-Jan-2006 at 19:15
Nasi Goreng, Cywr style (Serves 1-2)

Pre-cooked rice (preferably left in the fridge over night)
1 chicken breast
2 frankfurters
1 egg
1/2 tablespoon of light soy sauce
1 tablespoon of tomato ketchup
Some chinese cooking wine
some sesame oil
1 teaspoon of corn starch
additional oil for cooking
For the paste:
1/2 teaspoon of garlic paste
1/2 teaspoon of ginger paste
1/2 teaspoon of galanga paste
1/2 teaspoon of sambal ulek
1/2 teaspoon of shrimp paste
1/2 teaspoon of ground corriander
1/2 teaspoon of ground cumin
A pinch of tumeric


Slice chicken into thin strips, and mix in a bowl with the chinese cooking wine (about 2-3 teaspoons should do the trick) and a dash of sesame oil and the corn starch. Set aside to marinade for a while.

Put  the egg in a seperate bowl, add a dash of sesame oil and salt and pepper to taste, then beat the crap out of it. Fry as an omlete, then set aside to cool, and slice into thin strips.

Chop up frankfurters.

Combine paste ingredients and mix into a paste, if it looks too thick and doesn't mix that well, add a drizzle of oil.

Heat oil in a wok, and add paste, cook untill fragrent, then add the chicken, stiring for about a minute untill its sealed, then add the choped frankfurters and stir fry for 3 mins. Then add the rice followed by the soy sauce and stir fry for another 3 mins. Turn off the heat and add the choped up omlette and ketchup.
Serve with a drizzle of ketjap manis on top, and a side helping of kru poek (real Indonesian prawn crackers, acept no alternative).

Eating it now, yummy.
Now your turn.



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Posted By: eaglecap
Date Posted: 30-Jan-2006 at 21:50
Hmmm
three Eggs over easy
fried in butter and olive oil
Do not over cook the yoke!

put in bowl and add:
olive oil - Greek lol!!
lemon pepper
sea salt
feta cheese broken up
yummmmmm

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Posted By: Jhangora
Date Posted: 31-Jan-2006 at 05:58
                                       JHANGORA KI KHEER

Jhangora Ki Kheer


Ingredients :
Jhangor ( 500Gms), Sugar ( 200 Gms.), Milk ( 2Lts.) Cashewnuts ( 50Gms), Raisins ( 50Gms.), Chironji ( 100Gms.), Kewara essence (As required).


Method: 

  1. Boil Milk in a thick bottomed pan. 

  2. Add Jhangor and cook. Stir to avoid sticking.

  3. Add Sugar and cook for some time. 

  4. Add Kewara essence and mix well. 

  5. Garnish with chopped Dry Fruits.

http://www.uttranchalpradesh.com/special/food/jhangora.htm - http://www.uttranchalpradesh.com/special/food/jhangora.htm

Have posted this recipe once before on AE.



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Posted By: morticia
Date Posted: 31-Jan-2006 at 16:41
Arroz con Pollo(a la chorrera)(Serves 6)
Chicken & Rice (a la wet style)

Ingredients:
1 chicken (3 lbs.)
2/3 cups olive oil
1/2 onions
1 sprig parsley
1 green pepper
2 cloves garlic
12 small tomatoes
4 cups chicken broth
1 cup dry wine
2 tbs. salt (approx.)
1/2 tsp. saffron
1/2 tsp. cumin
1/4 tsp. pepper
1 lb. rice
1 can red peppers
1 small petit pois
1 small can asparagus

Preparation:

Cut chicken into eight pieces and brown in hot oil. Remove chicken and saute the onion, parsley, garlic, green pepper in the same oil. Return the chicken to a pan adding the broth, and boil until chicken begins to soften. Add the wine, salt, saffron, cumin, half the red peppers, the water from the red peppers and the petit pois.   Bring to a boil and add the rice. Cook over low heat or in a 400F oven for 30 minutes. While cooking, add small portions of water, as needed, so that the rice does not dry up. When done, place on serving dish and garnish with asparagus and red pepper strips.

I sometimes substitute the "1 cup of wine" for "1 can of beer" for better taste and texture. Yummy, yummy!!!!



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Trust in God: She will provide." -- Emmeline Pankhurst


Posted By: Zagros
Date Posted: 01-Feb-2006 at 05:27

Tuna Salad a la Zagros

dice half an onion and put into a salad bowl.

open a tin of tuna and throw it on top, break it down to the desired level (I usually like mind in tiny chunks), and mix with onion.

Chop a tomato, throw that on top

Chop some cucumber, throw that on top - mix

The open up a tin of sweetcorn and  a tin of beans (kidney or otehr types)

and mix together, and u have a nice healthy light meal.



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Posted By: Guten Tag
Date Posted: 04-Feb-2006 at 16:46

Butter Chicken

Ingredients

Chicken - 300 grams, cleaned and cut into small pieces
Cinnamon- 2" pcs
Salt - to taste
Cashew & almond paste - a handful ground smoothly
ginger & garlic paste - 2 tspns
onion - one chopped
turmeric powder- 1/4 tsp
chilly powder - 2 tsp
coriander powder- 1 tspn
orange colour - 1 1/2 tsp
butter - 3 tspn
oil - 2 tspn
tomato puree - 2 tomatoes blended smoothly

Method:

  1. Fry onions in oil till transparent.
  2. Add cinnamon and let it fry.
  3. Then add ginger & garlic paste along with a little water.
  4. Stir continuously.
  5. Add turmeric, chilly, coriander powder with salt and mix well.
  6. Pour in tomato puree, cashew & almond paste - mix well with water.
  7. When it starts to boil add the chicken which should be mixed with a little colour.
  8. Then add sufficient water for the chicken to boil.
  9. The gravy should get thick or according to your requirement. Before switching off add butter and serve hot with parathas.

http://www.bawarchi.com/contribution/contrib128.html - http://www.bawarchi.com/contribution/contrib128.html



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Posted By: morticia
Date Posted: 06-Feb-2006 at 13:41
I made this recipe for a super bowl party I attended this past weekend and it was a hit! For spicier taste, add more chilli powder!

HOMEMADE CHILLI -

Ingredients 1lb (440g) minced beef
1 large onion, diced
6 cloves of garlic, finely chopped
1 x 170g tin of tomato puree
1 x 14oz (400g) tin chopped tomatoes
1 x 14oz (400g) tin red kidney beans,drained and washed
1 heaped tablespoon of flour
1/4 pint beef stock
1 large sweet pepper, deseeded and chopped
1 heaped teaspoon of CHILLI POWDER
Salt and Pepper to season
1 teaspoon dried Mixed Herbs
A little oil or beef dripping (enough to cover the bottom of the casserole)

Use a flameproof casserole

Method:
1. Place the oil or beef dripping into the casserole and heat it gently on the hob. Switch on oven and set to 150C.
2. Add the onion and garlic, and cook until starting to brown.
3. Turn the heat up and add the meat, brown it well, stirring constantly to avoid it sticking to the bottom of the casserole.
4. Sprinkle in the flour, mixed herbs, salt and pepper and chilli powder. Stir Well.
5. Add the tomato puree, stock, tin of tomatoes, kidney beans and chopped pepper. Stir Well.
6. Put the lid on the casserole, and transfer to the oven. Cook for 2 hours at 150C.

Traditionally served with rice, but we like it with pasta! Bon appetit!

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Trust in God: She will provide." -- Emmeline Pankhurst


Posted By: Jay.
Date Posted: 08-Feb-2006 at 16:17
Originally posted by Zagros

Tuna Salad a la Zagros

dice half an onion and put into a salad bowl.

open a tin of tuna and throw it on top, break it down to the desired level (I usually like mind in tiny chunks), and mix with onion.

Chop a tomato, throw that on top

Chop some cucumber, throw that on top - mix

The open up a tin of sweetcorn and  a tin of beans (kidney or otehr types)

and mix together, and u have a nice healthy light meal.



=O, Zagros = amazing cook .

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Only Unity Can Save the Serb


Posted By: DukeC
Date Posted: 08-Feb-2006 at 19:16

 

    Thai Chicken Noddle Soup

   vegetable oil- 1 tsp

   minced garlic- 2 cloves

   ground cumin- 1 tbsp

   turmeric- 1/2 tsp

   boneless skinless chicken breasts, thinly sliced- 250g(8 oz.)

   chicken stock- 5 cups

   minced gingerroot- 2 tsp

   granulated sugar- 2 tsp

   hot chili paste- 1 tsp

   grated lime rind- 1/2 tsp

   lime juice- 2 tbsp

   broken rice stick vermicelli(or other thin noddles)- 2 cups

   bean sprouts- 1 cup

   leaf lettuce- 1 cup

 

1. In saucepan, heat oil over medium heat; cook garlic, cumin and turmeric, stirring constantly, for 1 minute.

2. Add chicken, chicken stock, ginger, sugar, chili paste, lime rind, lime juice; bring to boil. Reduce heat and simmer for 5 minutes.

3. Add rice stick vermicelli; simmer for 3 minutes. Add bean sprouts and lettuce; cook for 1 minute. Serve.  

 

 



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Posted By: eaglecap
Date Posted: 09-Feb-2006 at 20:56
Chicken lemon soup-
chicken chopped up - I don't measure
onions chopped (half )
garlic powder (just make a good guess)
Sea salt
Lemon pepper
boil for a few minutes in beer - micro brew Moose Drool brand
add minute rice (guess)
cook a minute then bring down to simmer.
then add two eggs stirred briskly with lemon juice and let it simmer for about 10 minutos
add Greek extra virgin olive oil
add to soup bowl- open a moose drool and partake!!!
I thought about adding Feta cheese to see what it is like!!






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Posted By: Guests
Date Posted: 11-Feb-2006 at 23:45
Moscow Ponchiki
Source: Olga, RussianFoods.com Editor   Mail To cuisine@russianfoods.com
 Description
Moscow Ponchiki is a delicious thing. Just baked, tender, fluffy doughnuts will disappear from the dish on your eyes.
 Method
Add cinnamon and baking powder to flour. Sift it into a bowl. Beat up eggs with sugar, add soft butter and mix in milk. While stirring, add flour gradually. Knead stiff dough. Roll out dough 1/5 inch thick. Make rounds with a cup, then make rounds on the rounds with a smaller diameter. Ponchiki must have a form of rings. Warm oil in the pan. Put 2-3 rings at a time in hot oil, fry until light golden. Sprinkle baked cookies with powdered sugar.
http://www.russianfoods.com/recipes/item00097/default.asp - http://www.russianfoods.com/recipes/item00097/default.asp

Moscow Ponchiki

 Ingredients
  • 1 1/2 c flour.
  • 2 tb sugar.
  • 1 tb butter.
  • 1 ea egg.
  • 1/2 c milk.
  • 1/2 ts baking powder.
  • 100 g oil to fry.
  • powdered cinnamon.
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    Posted By: DayI
    Date Posted: 12-Feb-2006 at 17:46
    http://www.turkishcookbook.com/ - http://www.turkishcookbook.com/

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    Posted By: Cywr
    Date Posted: 13-Feb-2006 at 01:33
    Bah!

    Uitsmijter (Dutch style fried egg on bread/toast)

    Toast a slice of bread, and let it cool, then butter it with butter, then spread a layer of mustard on top. Then put a slice of cooked ham*1 on top of that.
    Fry the egg in a little butter and as the white starts to solidify, grind some pepper on top. Towards the end (cook the egg as much as is your preference) put some sliced or grated cheese*2 on top and let it melt, then put on top of your bread-ham thingy and eat away.

    You could add soem sliced tomatoes in there for a healthier option.

    *1 Bacon works as well, either of the two as the cheese-ham/bacon combo works so well.
    For some people ham is highly undesirable, so i'd suggest trying slived beef. Chicken really is too tasteless for a cheese/egg affair, though i guess a well seasoned roast chicken could work.
    Alternativly there is 'Turkeyham' (fake ham made from turkey), but me, i don't trust that benard Mathews guy.

    *2 Oude gouda is the ultimate, and a spiced varient if you can get it, but any cheese good for melting works.


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    Posted By: Cywr
    Date Posted: 18-Feb-2006 at 06:37
    Generic Shoarma Mix:

    1 tablespoon of ground cumin
    1 tablespoon of ground corriander
    1 tablespoon of garlic powder
    1/2 tablespoon of paprika
    1 teaspoon of ground tumeric
    1 teaspoon of ground ginger
    1 teaspoon of round black pepper
    1/2 teaspoon of ground cloves
    1/2 teaspoon of cayenne pepper
    1/2 teaspoon of grounf cinnamon

    This makes enough to fill up your typical supermarket sized spice jar, so so its something you can make and have ready. Idealy use whole cumin and corriander seeds, and black pepper, dry fry them in a pan for 5 minutes, and then ground them, better flavour.
    Everything else should just be preground stuff for the right balence of flavour.

    Alternative, Indian style, enough for half a kilo of meat:

    1 teaspoon of freshly ground cumin
    1/2 teaspoon of freshly crushed black pepper
    1/2 teaspoon of tumeric powder
    1/2 teaspoon of garam masala
    4 cloves of crushed garlic
    2 teaspoons of freshly grated ginger
    a few chillies (how much depends on how much you like the heat), or some sambal ulek or any other decent chili paste
    1 tablespoon of vegetable oil

    Mix those ingredients together to form a paste. That simple. You can keep it in the fridge for upto a week, so you prepare the paste and marinade the meat in advance for extra yummness.

    In both cases, lamb is ideal but chicken or pork works too.
    Mince or meat cut into thin strips, and fried in a non-stick pan to reduce the need to add oil (lamb is naturaly quite fatty, so you might want to drain a bit as you go along). Mince could also be made into patties or even shaped arounda skewer and grilled (which would virtualy be the real thing).
    Oh yes, and before you add the seasoning to the meat, squeeze the juice of half a lemon on it and leave it for a while, you could add the juice of the other half towards the end of the cooking for extra zest.
    Serve with some bread, pocket pittas, fajitas, parathas, or flat Greek bread if you can get it, and some sauce.
    If making patties or shaped mince on a skewer, you could add some freshly shoped corriander to the meat mix.

    This is really easy to make, so don't be put off by the seemingly long list of ingredients, and it the sort of thing you could prapare in stages, with a day inbetween, for the extremely lazy

    For pasties, use mince cooked in a pan, and wrap in pastry (shortcrust is my preference, but any will do), and bake in the oven. If you used Chinese wonton (sp?) pastry, you could make shoarma spring rolls and deep fry them for 2-3 minutes.
    You could also add extra bits of cooked vegetable, boiled potato, freshly choped corriander etc.
    Piss easy.


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    Posted By: Guests
    Date Posted: 19-Feb-2006 at 11:29

    cywr had posted a recipe on nasi goreng.. well I am sharing with u guys.. this recipe:

    MEE GORENG

    500 g fresh hokkein noodles
    50 ml oil
    100 g deep fried tofu
    1 teaspoon http://www.recipezaar.com/library/getentry.zsp?id=487 - curry powder
    1 medium http://www.recipezaar.com/library/getentry.zsp?id=148 - onion , choppede
    1 ripe http://www.recipezaar.com/library/getentry.zsp?id=151 - tomato , diced
    1 tablespoon http://www.recipezaar.com/library/getentry.zsp?id=15 - hot chili sauce
    4 tablespoons http://www.recipezaar.com/library/getentry.zsp?id=156 - ketchup
    1 1/2 tablespoons http://www.recipezaar.com/library/getentry.zsp?id=473 - light soy sauce
    2 http://www.recipezaar.com/library/getentry.zsp?id=142 - eggs , lightly beaten
    1 stalk http://www.recipezaar.com/library/getentry.zsp?id=363 - spring onions , sliced
    1 large http://www.recipezaar.com/library/getentry.zsp?id=323 - green chilies , deseeded and sliced
    2

    http://www.recipezaar.com/library/getentry.zsp?id=235 - cucumbers , chopped

    4-6 servings

    27 minutes 12 mins prep

    Method:-

    1. Put the noodles into a colander and rinse under warm running water, or separate according to instructions. Drain and set aside.
    2. Heat the oil in a wok. Add curry powder and onion and stir-fry over medium heat until soft, about 4 minute.
    3. Add the noodles, tomato, chilli sauce, tomato sauce and soy sauce and stir-fry over medium heat for 3 min, mixing well.
    4. Pour over the beaten egg and leave to set for a min or so, then mix in with the noodles.
    5. Add the tofu.
    6. Add the spring onions, cucumber and chilli.
    7. Serve with additional tomato and chilli sauce, and cucumber slices on the side, if desired.



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    Posted By: Guests
    Date Posted: 19-Feb-2006 at 11:50

    picture of Nasi Goreng... by cywr,

    but he used chicken instead.. so actually it's up to u guys how u wanna make it...



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    Posted By: Zagros
    Date Posted: 19-Feb-2006 at 12:40
    I want to know how to cook a swede.... anyone have any ideas? I am just boiling them right now and mixing them in with other vegetables and spanish sausages in a nice stew.

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    Posted By: Cywr
    Date Posted: 19-Feb-2006 at 13:48
    picture of Nasi Goreng... by cywr,

    but he used chicken instead.. so actually it's up to u guys how u wanna make it...


    Yeah, specifics can vary, chicken and prawn is the standard in Indonesian resturants in the Netherlands, and then there is Balinese style which uses pork, and then some seafood styles (i've seen it done with mussels), and obviously you add vegetables, which i tend to leave out, i could post more variations if anyone is intrested, though i'd imagine cahaya is the real expert.


    As for swedes, the only way i'll touch the buggers is if they are mashed together with potatoes



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    Posted By: Quetzalcoatl
    Date Posted: 19-Feb-2006 at 23:11
    Originally posted by cahaya

    cywr had posted a recipe on nasi goreng.. well I am sharing with u guys.. this recipe:

    MEE GORENG

    500 g fresh hokkein noodles
    50 ml oil
    100 g deep fried tofu
    1 teaspoon http://www.recipezaar.com/library/getentry.zsp?id=487 - curry powder
    1 medium http://www.recipezaar.com/library/getentry.zsp?id=148 - onion , choppede
    1 ripe http://www.recipezaar.com/library/getentry.zsp?id=151 - tomato , diced
    1 tablespoon http://www.recipezaar.com/library/getentry.zsp?id=15 - hot chili sauce
    4 tablespoons http://www.recipezaar.com/library/getentry.zsp?id=156 - ketchup
    1 1/2 tablespoons http://www.recipezaar.com/library/getentry.zsp?id=473 - light soy sauce
    2 http://www.recipezaar.com/library/getentry.zsp?id=142 - eggs , lightly beaten
    1 stalk http://www.recipezaar.com/library/getentry.zsp?id=363 - spring onions , sliced
    1 large http://www.recipezaar.com/library/getentry.zsp?id=323 - green chilies , deseeded and sliced
    2

    http://www.recipezaar.com/library/getentry.zsp?id=235 - cucumbers , chopped

    4-6 servings

    27 minutes 12 mins prep

    Method:-

    1. Put the noodles into a colander and rinse under warm running water, or separate according to instructions. Drain and set aside.
    2. Heat the oil in a wok. Add curry powder and onion and stir-fry over medium heat until soft, about 4 minute.
    3. Add the noodles, tomato, chilli sauce, tomato sauce and soy sauce and stir-fry over medium heat for 3 min, mixing well.
    4. Pour over the beaten egg and leave to set for a min or so, then mix in with the noodles.
    5. Add the tofu.
    6. Add the spring onions, cucumber and chilli.
    7. Serve with additional tomato and chilli sauce, and cucumber slices on the side, if desired.

    Definitely gonna try this recipe one of these days, look delicious.



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    Posted By: Guests
    Date Posted: 20-Feb-2006 at 14:10
    Originally posted by Quetzalcoatl

    Definitely gonna try this recipe one of these days, look delicious.

    Good luck... if it is hard for u to find hokkien noodle.. u may swicth it to macaroni... but use meat better...i wont suggest spagheti coz... it just not suit this style of cooking... it just dry out...



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    Posted By: Guests
    Date Posted: 01-Mar-2006 at 12:33

    Originally posted by Zagros

    I want to know how to cook a swede.... anyone have any ideas? I am just boiling them right now and mixing them in with other vegetables and spanish sausages in a nice stew.

    Haggis Burger with Swede and Potato Chips

    This may not be a traditional recipe but its an excellent way to enjoy haggis in warmer weather. This recipe is just one of the many ways a good haggis can be enjoyed. For those of you who are vegetarians this recipe can also be used with the vegetarian variety of haggis now available.

    6 Portions

    Preparation Time: 10 minutes
    Cooking Time: 20 minutes

     

    Haggis:

    • 1x500-700g haggis
    • 50g plain flour

    Burger:

    • 12 slices of buttered bread or bun
    • 6 large flat mushrooms
    • 180g good cheddar, sliced
    • 2 large tomatoes, sliced

    To Serve:

    • 60g rocket or watercress leaves
    • 1 tbsp extra virgin olive oil
    • 6 tablespoons of crowdie (Scottish curd cheese), creme fraiche or sour cream
    • 6 small glasses of single malt whisky e.g. Oban (optional)

    Chips:

    • 500g potatoes, peeled and cut into wedges around 1 cm thick and 3cm long, place them in a bowl of water
    • 500g swede, peeled trimmed and cut into wedges around 1cm thick and 3 cm long, place them in a bowl of water
    • maldon salt and freshly ground pepper

    Method:

    1. Haggis: Remove the skin from the haggis and slice the haggis into 6 slices. Place the flour on a plate and season it with a little salt and pepper. Dust the haggis in the flour and set aside until ready to cook.
    2. Burger: Place the mushrooms on a grill pan and cover them with slices of Cheddar. Set aside until ready to cook.
    3. Chips: Heat oil in a deep fryer, saucepan or wok to 160C. Dry the potato and swede wedges thoroughly and fry them in batches in the hot oil for 3 minutes so that they float to the top and are tender but not crisp. Now heat the oil to 190C and fry the potato and swede wedges in it for 3 minutes, so that they are crisp and golden. Drain them on kitchen paper, season them with a little salt and keep them warm until ready to serve.
    4. Heat a little oil in a large frying pan over a moderate to high heat. When the oil is hot add the haggis slices to it and fry them for around 3 minutes on each side so that they are hot and cooked through. Remove them from the pan and keep them warm until ready to serve.
    5. While you are cooking the haggis. Preheat a grill to medium-high and place the mushrooms under it. Cook them for around 5 minutes until they are soft and the cheese has melted.
    6. To Serve: Place a slice of bread each plate, you may wish to put a little chutney on the bread. Place a mushroom on each slice followed by the haggis, tomato and a tablespoon each of crowdie, creme fraich or sour cream. Place a second slice of bread on each burger and place handfuls of the rocket leaves on each plate drizzled with a little olive oil. Distribute the chips among the servings and place a small glass of whisky on each plate (optional). Serve.

    http://www.foodiesite.com/recipes/2000-05/haggisburger.jsp - http://www.foodiesite.com/recipes/2000-05/haggisburger.jsp



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    Posted By: Guests
    Date Posted: 01-Mar-2006 at 12:41
    what is haggis???

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    Posted By: morticia
    Date Posted: 01-Mar-2006 at 14:23
    Originally posted by cahaya

    what is haggis???


    Hi Cahaya! "Haggis" is the national dish of Scotland. It consists of animal "inner organs", including lung! Here's a site with all the info, including recipe. I'm grossed out already!

    http://www.gumbopages.com/food/scottish/haggis.html


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    Trust in God: She will provide." -- Emmeline Pankhurst


    Posted By: Guests
    Date Posted: 01-Mar-2006 at 15:13

    which animal u are referring too?????

    can this thing being replaced with other part of animal which is halal???

    maybe would like to try them...



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    Posted By: morticia
    Date Posted: 01-Mar-2006 at 19:00
    Originally posted by cahaya

    which animal u are referring too?????


    can this thing being replaced with other part of animal which is halal???


    maybe would like to try them...



    Now I am confused! One of the above recipes says to, "Remove the skin from the haggis and slice the haggis into 6 slices". Is it a sheep, perhaps? I'm not sure. We need a haggis expert to respond here.

    What is a "haggis"?


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    Trust in God: She will provide." -- Emmeline Pankhurst


    Posted By: Zagros
    Date Posted: 01-Mar-2006 at 19:12

    haggggggis

    I hate the stuff, it tastes foul and is made from foul things.



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    Posted By: morticia
    Date Posted: 01-Mar-2006 at 19:45
    Originally posted by Zagros

    haggggggis


    I hate the stuff, it tastes foul and is made from foul things.



    Okayyyy, but what is it? Animal, vegetable or mineral?

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    Trust in God: She will provide." -- Emmeline Pankhurst


    Posted By: Cywr
    Date Posted: 02-Mar-2006 at 19:14
    Its made from Sheep heart, liver and lungs, but goat was supposidly sometimes traditionaly used too. Mixed with onion, outmeal, beef or mutton fat and spices, then boiled inside the stomach, you don't eat the stomach though, unless your a macho freak or something.
    Supposidly it originated as a quick and easy hunter snack, made from the cuts that would spoil quickly so as to preserve the better cuts that could be kept longer and/or treated for when the hunters got home. How it became a delicacy is one of those bizare modern twists.

    Remarkably, there are also vegetarian haggis meals, though to me that sounds like haggis without the haggis.
    Still, i shall be avoiding both.


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    Posted By: Guests
    Date Posted: 03-Mar-2006 at 09:52
    oh.. freaky and funny stuff... well... anyone dare to eat it???

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    Posted By: morticia
    Date Posted: 03-Mar-2006 at 16:13
    Originally posted by cahaya

    oh.. freaky and funny stuff... well... anyone dare to eat it???


    Not me! Interestingly, I found an article that states: "Note: The U.S. government has declared that sheep lungs are dangerous for human consumption, so tradtional haggis is illegal in the U.S. In addition, many state and local laws ban the sale or consumption of sheep stomachs and/or brains."

    http://www.sunwayco.com/haggis.html

    So, here's the "Americanized Haggis" version:
    Americanized Haggis (from Country Living, March 1991)
            1 lb boneless lamb shoulder or breast, cut into pieces (or ground lamb)
            1/2 lb lamb liver, cut into pieces
            1/2 c water
            1 small onion, coarsely chopped
            1 large egg
            3/4 ts salt
            3/4 ts pepper, black
            1/2 ts sugar
            1/4 ts ginger, ground
            1/8 ts cloves, ground
            1/8 ts nutmeg, ground
            1 c oats, rolled, old fashioned
    Heat oven to 350-F. Grease an 8 1/2 by 4 1/2 inch loaf pan.

    In food processor with chopping blade, process together half of the lamb, the liver, water, onion, egg, salt, pepper, sugar, ginger, cloves, and nutmeg until well combined. Add the remaining half of the lamb and the oats; process until well combined.

    Spoon lamb mixture into the greased pan; pat surface to level. Bake 45 to 55 minutes or until center feels firm when gently pressed. Cool 5 minutes in pan; unmold onto platter; slice and serve.

    Notes: This skinless haggis is planned for American tastes, yet contains many of the ingredients found in the real thing. You can unmold the loaf and serve it in place of the purchased haggis recipes




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    Posted By: Cywr
    Date Posted: 03-Mar-2006 at 17:52
    No stomach, and baked? Bah! Wimps 

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    Posted By: Guests
    Date Posted: 05-Mar-2006 at 15:19

    mailto:lol@cywr - lol@cywr ... i think.. Morty method is more acceptable in making hinggis...

     



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    Posted By: Goban
    Date Posted: 14-Mar-2006 at 23:11

    Yes, usually when people categorize a food as a delicacy it is because that is the only excuse to still eat it.

     

    I remember the first time I tried to eat American chitlins. It was an interesting experience. I didnt particularly like them, but some people love it!

     

    Ingredients:

     

    2 pounds hog maws (pig stomach)

     

    2 pounds chitterlings (pig intestines)

     

    3 quarts water

     

    1 teaspoon salt

     

    1/2 teaspoon red pepper (flakes)

     

    1 medium peeled onion (white or yellow)

     

    The recipe calls for a 1 hour boil of the stomach, then to add the chitterlings for an additional 30 mins. Be sure to clean them thoroughly before you begin!

     

    Myself, Id rather prefer chicken lips.

     

    But chickens dont have lips.

     

    Precisely



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    Posted By: dirtnap
    Date Posted: 23-Mar-2006 at 00:10
    If you are all chefs, just ignore this post but if you are slightly retarded it might make some sense.

    Here is what I made tonight and it was very tasty. I call it, Why won't she return my calls?

    1 sweet onion (it was purple)
    1 bell pepper green
    10 or 20 cherry tomatos
    very tiny bit of S n P
    Saute and set aside.

    2 filets of pink Salmon and grill them to a tender and juicy perfection. Just a tiny pinch of salt.

    I love natural flavors but a pinch of salt goes a long way.

    Butter pasta with asperagus tips.

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    Posted By: Paul
    Date Posted: 23-Mar-2006 at 01:21

    I just invented a recipe, ate it today.

     

    Celeraic Paul

     

    1 Celeriac

    Bacon (vege)

    English Apples (as opposed to supermarket French... EG strong and bitter, not sweet and light)

    Brown Sugar.

     

    1) Take 2/3rds of the apples, mix with suger  and water, blend into apple sauce.

    2) Dice other 1/3 of apples.

    3) Peel and hollow out celeriac.

    4) Stuff celeriac with half the aplle sauce, the diced apple and the bacon.

    5) Baked the stuffed celeriac till cooked through. Times will vary depending upon size of celeriac.

    6) Slice and serve with remaining 1/3 of apple sauce as side dish.

     

       



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    Posted By: Gyadu
    Date Posted: 23-Mar-2006 at 15:04
    Saucy Tomato Sabzi

    By http://food.sify.com/contrib_recipes.php?ctid=76&cid=13293078&id=Saroj Kering - Saroj Kering

     

    Ethnicity
    Indian

    Type of Meal
    Party, Lunch, Dinner

    Type of Dish
    Side Dishes, Gravies

    Main Ingredients

    Tomatoes, Green Chillies, Curry Leaves

     Ingredients   Method
    3 med. ripe tomatoes
    2 green chillies slit
    1 stalk curryleaves
    1/2 tbsp. coriander chopped fine
    1/2 tsp. sugar
    1/2 tsp. red chilli powder
    1/8 tsp. turmeric powder
    1/8 tsp garam masala
    1/4 tsp cummin seeds powder
    1/4 tsp. dhania powder
    3-4 pinches asafoetidaa
    salt to taste
    1/4 tsp. each cumin & mustard seeds
    1 tbsp. oil


    http://www.pichirichi.com/images/Funny-Food/015_tomato.jpg - http://www.pichirichi.com/images/Funny-Food/015_tomato.jpg

    1. Chop tomatoes into eight pieces each.
    2. Destalk curry leaves. Heat oil in a pan.
    3. Add seeds, allow to splutter.
    4. Add asafoetida, curry leaves, chillies.
    5. Stir and add tomatoes.
    6. Add all dry masalas and salt over them.
    7. Stir gently, cover and cook for 3-4 minutes.
    8. Sprinkle sugar, stir and simmer 2 minutes.
    9. Garnish with coriander before serving.
    10. Serve hot with phulkas or rotis.

    Making Time : 15 minutes
    Makes : 3 servings
    Shelf Life : Best fresh
    http://food.sify.com/recipe.php?id=13614458&ctid=76&cid=13293078 - http://food.sify.com/recipe.php?id=13614458&ctid=76& cid=13293078

     

     



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    Posted By: Gyadu
    Date Posted: 26-Mar-2006 at 22:24

    Shakshuka

    A recipe for one of the most popular egg dishes in Israel

    By Joan Nathan

    Reprinted with permission from http://www.myjewishlearning.com/redirect/redir.php?U=http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0679451072/jewishfamilycom/ - The Foods of Israel Today (Knopf).

     

    In 1930, Simon Agranat, the chief justice of the Israeli Supreme Court, wrote to his aunt and uncle in Chicago: "I had my eighth successive egg meal during my three-day jour­ney through the Emek (the valley)." Eggs have always been a main protein for people in Israel. When I lived in Jerusalem, I would make for my breakfast--or even for dinner--scrambled eggs with sauteed spring onions, fresh herbs, and dollops of cream cheese melted into the eggs as they were cooking.

    Probably the most popular egg dish in Israel is shakshuka, one of those ono­matopoeic Hebrew and North African words, meaning "all mixed up." The most famous rendition of this tomato dish, which is sometimes mixed with meat but more often made in Israel with scrambled or poached eggs, is served at the Tripolitana Doktor Shakshuka Restaurant in old Jaffa.

     

    Doktor Shakshuka, owned by a large Libyan family, is located near the antique market in an old stone-arched building with colorful Arab-tiled floors. "When I was a young girl at the age of 10 I liked to cook," said Sarah Gambsor, the main cook of the restaurant and wife of one of the owners. "My mother told me that I should marry someone who has a restaurant." And she did just that.

     

    Mrs. Gambsor, a large woman who clearly enjoys eating what she cooks, demonstrated that the dish starts with a heavy frying pan and tomato sauce. Then eggs are carefully broken in and left to set or, if the diner prefers, scrambled in as they cook. The shakshuka isthen served in the frying pan at the table.

    The Shakshuka Recipe

    Yield: six servings

     

    2 pounds fresh tomatoes, unpeeled and cut in quarters, or one 28-ounce can tomatoes

    6 cloves garlic, roughly diced

    2 teaspoons salt, or to taste

    1 teaspoon sweet paprika

    2 teaspoons tomato paste

    1/4 cup vegetable oil

    6 large eggs

     

    1. Place the tomatoes, garlic, salt, paprika, tomato paste, and vegetable oil in a small saucepan. Bring to a simmer and cook, uncovered, over low heat until thick, for about 30 minutes, stirring occasionally.

     

    2. Ladle the tomato sauce into a greased 12-inch frying pan. Bring to a sim­mer and break the eggs over the tomatoes. Gently break the yolks with a fork. Cover and continue to cook for about 3 to 4 minutes, until the eggs are set. Bring the frying pan directly to the table. Set it on a trivet and spoon out the shakshuka.

     

    NOTE: Alternatively, you can make individual portions, as they do at Doktor Shakshuka, by ladling some of the sauce into a very small pan and poaching one egg in it.

     

    Joan Nathan lived in Israel for three yeas where she worked for former Mayor Teddy Kollek of Jerusalem. She is the author of several cookbooks, contributes articles on international ethnic food and special holiday features to The New York Times, Food Arts, Gormet, and the B'nai B'rith International Jewish Monthly. This article is reprinted with permission from The Foods of Israel Today published by Knopf. Copyright Joan Nathan 2001.

    http://www.myjewishlearning.com/culture/food/IsraeliFood/NewState/Shakshuka.htm - http://www.myjewishlearning.com/culture/food/IsraeliFood/New State/Shakshuka.htm

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    Posted By: Halevi
    Date Posted: 26-Mar-2006 at 23:47
    Originally posted by Gyadu

    Shakshuka

    A recipe for one of the most popular egg dishes in Israel

    By Joan Nathan

    ...




    Joan Nathan's recipe isnt great... but shakshuka is awsome. I especially like it spiced up with paprika, and maybe a little cayenne...

    I think it's Libyan-Jewish, originally...



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    Posted By: Styrbiorn
    Date Posted: 28-Mar-2006 at 06:52

    Originally posted by Cywr

    Its made from Sheep heart, liver and lungs, but goat was supposidly sometimes traditionaly used too. Mixed with onion, outmeal, beef or mutton fat and spices, then boiled inside the stomach, you don't eat the stomach though, unless your a macho freak or something.
    Supposidly it originated as a quick and easy hunter snack, made from the cuts that would spoil quickly so as to preserve the better cuts that could be kept longer and/or treated for when the hunters got home. How it became a delicacy is one of those bizare modern twists.

    Remarkably, there are also vegetarian haggis meals, though to me that sounds like haggis without the haggis.
    Still, i shall be avoiding both.

    Sounds like plsa, an old Swedish dish made from sheep's lung, liver, spleen, feet and heart (pick and choose what you want), cooked with barley grain - traditionally in a sheep's stomach, together with the head to spice it up a bit. And yeah, we eat it, at least in the north.

    edit: whoa, can you scale the pic somehow?

     



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    Posted By: Halevi
    Date Posted: 28-Mar-2006 at 06:55
    Anyone have any good stuffed vegetable recipes?

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    Posted By: Dawn
    Date Posted: 28-Mar-2006 at 10:34

    Not to incourage the Tomato talk  but heres my favorite

    Spinach stuffed Tomatoes

    6 ripe tomaotes - Roma taste best but any type will do  - tops cut off and hollowed out. fine dice insides and set aside

    2 bunches spinich cleaned and stems removed

    butter

    salt and pepper,nutmeg

    1 onion fine diced

    parmesean and ementhal cheese

     

    saute onion in butter until soft but not colored, add spinich and seasonings ( a little white wine is nice here too) cover and steam untill spinich wilts. 

    add tomato insides and stir in cheeses. How much cheese you add depends on how much you like cheese 

    stuff mixture into tomato shells and to with some more ementhal . bake in 400 degree oven untill tomato is just soft and cheese is melted ( if the tomato is cooked but the cheese is not melted put under broiler for few moments to finish.

    at times I have also added to this some cooked wild rice or very small pasta and cooked bacon making it more of a main course lunch dish than a side dish. 



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    Posted By: Gyadu
    Date Posted: 28-Mar-2006 at 21:18

    Karele aur Baingan ki Sabzi

    250 gm opInfo(26)">bitter gourd
    250 gm brinjals
    1/2 cup oil
    1/2 tsp
    opInfo(183)">mustard seeds
    1/2 tsp
    opInfo(104)">fenugreek seeds
    1/2 tsp
    opInfo(29)">cumin seeds
    2 tsp
    opInfo(238)">salt
    1/2 tsp
    opInfo(320)">turmeric powder
    1/2 tsp
    opInfo(63)">chilli powder
    1 tsp amchoor

    METHOD

    Scrape the rough skin of the bitter gourd and slice them thick. Mix 1 tsp salt into it and keep it for at least 15 minutes. Squeeze out the liquid thus formed.

    Dice the brinjals into about 1 1/2 cm cubes.

    Heat oil in a heavy-based pan, fry the bitter gourd over high flame, to a light brown.

    Remove with a slotted spoon and fry the brinjals in the same oil, also over very high flame till it is tender but retains its shape.

    Remove the brinjals and in the same oil add mustard seeds, fenugreek seeds and cumin. When they splutter, add the bitter gourd and brinjals along with salt, turmeric, coriander, chilli powder and amchoor and mix well.

    Saute over low flame for about 5 minutes and serve hot.
     
    Users Comments
  • useless receip and method too.
    - premchand (rotaline@mtnl.com)

  • rare combination
  • Deadly combination!!!
  • who does nt like the taste of bitterness can taste this one
    - mano

  • this reciepie is really good for health and the diabetic patients can have this ofently
    - manu (manokuty@yahoo.com)

  • The combination of bitter gourd and bringal doesnt work at all.
    - Shama Chhatre

  • Yummyyy---TOo good a combination
    - Maithili ( mailto:maithili12hy@rediffmail.com - maithili12hy@rediffmail.com )
  • http://www.ndtvcooks.com/recipes/nongrecipe.asp?id=40 - http://www.ndtvcooks.com/recipes/nongrecipe.asp?id=40

     
     
     


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    Posted By: Guests
    Date Posted: 29-Mar-2006 at 11:41

    Rendang



    Ingredients:
    
    1 tsp shrimp paste
    1 kg rump steak  ( beef/chicken/mutton )
    1 stalk lemon grass
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    1 tsp salt
    1 tbsp sugar
    1 tbsp soya sauce
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    3 stalk lemon grass - sliced thinly
    120gms grated coconut - fried and pounded
    
    4 slices galangal
    5 candlenuts           }   Ground
    
    2 tbsp curry power - blended with 2 tbsps
    water
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    30 dried chillies
    120 gms shallots
    4 red chillies
    1 clove garlic
    2 cm piece ginger
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    1/2  cup thick coconut milk  - extracted from 1/2 grated coconut
    8 tbsps oil
    
    
    


    Method:

  • Heat oil and fry ground ingredients and curry powder until fragrant
  • Add in half of the coconut milk and fry until the oil separates
  • Add in the soya sauce mixture and steak.
  • Add in also the fried grated coconut and lemon grass. Stir fry for 10 minutes.
  • Pour in the rest of the coconut milk and simmer until the meat is tender, for about 1 hour.
  • Increase heat to reduce gravy until it is thick and oilly.

    Picture:

    * u can eat with rice.. ketupat.. lemang...

       Lemang                      Ketupat



    Posted By: morticia
    Date Posted: 29-Mar-2006 at 13:09
    OMG Cahaya....the coconut milk and the curry must give it a great taste! That sounds delicious...yummy!



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    Posted By: Halevi
    Date Posted: 29-Mar-2006 at 13:21
    I loooooooooooooove rendang =)       Thx for the recipe, Cahaya.

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    Posted By: Guests
    Date Posted: 30-Mar-2006 at 11:21

    the trick on Rendang cooking is.... put into an electric blender and blend all the ingredients with the coconut milk.... and then.. heat up the cooking pan or whtever u gonna use for cooking... pour the blended ingredients together with chicken/beef/mutton.... cook it and leave it till u can see the thing started to change the color to brownish and oil come out from the coconut milk... this time u have to stir once in while... and can add some salt.. tht's it...  wait till dry a little... i have done it and it's easy... it taste great!! try for urself... for aditional ingredients.. can put some of chopped tumeric leafs for better smell...

    If it's hard for u to get coconut milk.. then u can replace it with milk... but i prefer coconut milk...

    wanna the easiest way??? come to malaysia i'll cook for u guys...



    Posted By: morticia
    Date Posted: 30-Mar-2006 at 14:51
    Originally posted by cahaya

    wanna the easiest way??? come to malaysia i'll cook for u guys...



    I'll be right over! What time is dinner?

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    Posted By: babyblue
    Date Posted: 31-Mar-2006 at 03:52
    hey i thought rendang's meant to be made with no curry powder at all...?

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    Posted By: Guests
    Date Posted: 31-Mar-2006 at 11:33

    mailto:lol@morty - lol@morty ...

    let me know ur flight time baby... i'll fecth u..

    Well babyblue..for rendang .. Some people use curry powder some people dont... but if u wanna add some extra spicy flavor why not... well like my mommy's way.. we dont use curry powder... different style on different states... so.. i cant determine which is the exact way which is not... and i also dont use shrimp paste... but the taste still superb... but the shrimp will emphasize the flavor more...



    Posted By: Cywr
    Date Posted: 04-Apr-2006 at 04:34
    Personaly i've tended to prefer the coconut milk based curries over the N. Indian varient, mostly because you don't need to use onions to get thickness in the gravy 

    hey i thought rendang's meant to be made with no curry powder at all...?


    It depends, curry powder comes in many varieties, and the Indonesian ones i've seen are quite different from some of the Indian blends people would be most familiar with. Anyways, there are many ways of making Rendang, regional tastes and influences i guess.


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    Posted By: Guests
    Date Posted: 11-Apr-2006 at 14:47

    Pisang Goreng
    (Banana Fritters)

    Yield: 2 servings

    Ingredients

    • 4 Eggs
    • 12 T Flour
    • 4 Ripe bananas
    • Oil for deep frying
    • Cinnamon sugar

    Directions

    Slightly beat eggs and mix with flour and half cup water.

    Mash bananas with fork and mix thoroughly with flour and egg mixture. Deep-fry banana and flour mixture by the tablespoonful in hot oil until golden brown.

    Drain on absorbent paper and dust with cinnamon sugar.



    Posted By: ok ge
    Date Posted: 11-Apr-2006 at 15:06
    Originally posted by cahaya

    Pisang Goreng
    (Banana Fritters)

    Yield: 2 servings

    too bad I'm logging in to AE while starving. I guess I naturally directed myself to this thread..and it looks so damn delicious!!



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    Posted By: Guests
    Date Posted: 11-Apr-2006 at 15:19

     as per my best buddy request... here is recipe of Gado-Gado... which is originally frm Indonesia....

             

     

    Gado-gado

    Cooked mixed vegetables with peanut sauce

    The vegetables:

      112 g / 4 oz / l cup cabbage or spring greens, shredded
      225 g / 8 oz / 2 cups French beans, cut into 1-cm / 1/2-inch lengths
      4 medium carrots, peeled and sliced thinly
      112 g / 4 oz /1 cup cauliflower florets
      112 g / 4 oz / 1 cup beansprouts, washed

    For the garnish:

      Some lettuce leaves and watercress
      2 hard-boiled eggs, quartered
      1 medium-size potato, boiled in its skin,
         then peeled and sliced;
         or 225 g / 8 oz of slices of lontong (optional)
      1/2 cucumber, thinly sliced
      1 tbsp crisp-fried onions
      2 large krupuk, or a handful of fried emping,
         broken up into small pieces (optional)

    Boil the vegetables separately in slightly salted water, for 3-4 minutes, except the beansprouts which only need 2 minutes. Drain each vegetable separately in a colander.

    To serve, arrange the lettuce and watercress around the edge of a serving dish. Then pile the vegetables in the middle of the dish. Arrange the eggs, sliced potatoes or lontong, and sliced cucumber on top.

    Heat the peanut sauce in a small saucepan until hot; add more water if it is too thick. Adjust the seasoning, and pour the sauce over the vegetables. Sprinkle the fried onions on top. Serve warm or cold. If you want to serve hot gado-gado, it can be reheated in a microwave oven. When reheating, however, do not include the lettuce and watercress, cucumber slices, fried onions, krupuk or emping. Add these garnishes immediately before serving.


    Sambal kacang (bumbu sate)
    Peanut sauce

    This is the best-known, most popular sauce for satay. It is also used for gado-gado, and goes well with any grilled meat.

    If you like your satay sauce chilli-hot, there are several quite passable powdered instant sauces on the market. For making it yourself, there are various so-called short cuts, most of them involving crunchy peanut butter. Avoid these; the method described below is as easy, cheaper and much nicer. Makes about 280 ml / 1/2 pint / 1-1/4 cups of sauce

      112 ml / 4 fl oz / 1/2 cup vegetable oil
      225 g / 8 oz / 1-1/3 cups raw peanuts
      2 cloves garlic, chopped
      4 shallots, chopped
      A thin slice of shrimp paste (optional)
      Salt to taste
      1/2 tsp chilli powder
      1/2 tsp brown sugar
      1 tbsp dark soy sauce
      450 ml / 16 fl oz / 2 cups water
      1 tbsp tamarind water or juice of a lemon

    Stir-fry the peanuts for 4 minutes. Remove with a slotted spoon to drain in a colander, and leave to cool. Then pound or grind the nuts into a fine powder, using a blender, coffee grinder, or pestle and mortar. Discard the oil, except for 1 tablespoonful.

    Crush the garlic, shallots and shrimp paste in a mortar with a little salt, and fry in the remaining oil for 1 minute. Add the chilli powder, sugar, soy sauce and water. Bring this to the boil, then add the ground peanuts. Simmer, stirring occasionally, until the sauce becomes thick; this should take about 8-10 minutes. Add the tamarind water or lemon juice and more salt if needed.

    When cool, keep in a jar in the fridge. Reheat as required for use with satay or as a dip for lalab (crudites) or savoury snacks. The sauce will keep in the fridge for up to 1 week.

    source: http://www.globalgourmet.com/destinations/indonesia/gadogado.html - http://www.globalgourmet.com/destinations/indonesia/gadogado .html

    p/s: the peanut sauce can be eaten with bread too...



    Posted By: Apples n Oranges
    Date Posted: 16-Apr-2006 at 13:19
    A TONGUE IN CHEEK HISTORY OF COOKING

    BY BUZZ BAXTER 2000
    HOW IT ALL BEGAN
    Cooking seems like such a simple art.  It seems to me that if you cook,  you must need fire.  Fire
    was discovered by man probably millions of years ago by our archaeological ancestors.  Of course
    they did not cook with it,  but probably worshipped it,  felt it's warmth,  it's pain,  and gazed in
    wonder as it lit up the darkness of night.  What an awesome discovery by the first man who
    probably saw a tree burning after a lightning strike.  How brave he must have been to get closer
    and investigate this strange phenomenon.  The Gods surely must have played a part in this power.
    Many years of respect for that fire and sitting around it for warmth in the winter cold had passed
    before some clumsy cave man dropped his raw piece of meat into that fire.  Before he could get it
    out of the fire and let it cool a bit to gnaw on again it was cooked.  What did that taste like?  Like
    most foods,  it could have been better tasting after falling in the fire,  or his palate found the taste
    repulsive after being used to the taste of raw meat.  If he found the taste to his liking,  he probably
    told his friends about it,  and they tried it.  Being hunters and gatherers in those days and not
    concerned with business as today,  he did not secretly hide the fact that he had discovered
    cooking, and open a business called "burnt_meat.com". Instead he shared his discovery with
    others by painting of his exploits on his living room wall.  His attractors saw his paintings,  and
    over eons of time,  perfected his discovery.
      
    
    http://www.thegutsygourmet.net/cook-hist.html - http://www.thegutsygourmet.net/cook-hist.html


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    Posted By: morticia
    Date Posted: 20-Apr-2006 at 15:43
    OMG Cahaya, that Gado-Gado looks goody-goody! Looks easy to make and so quick - in less than 1/2 hour.

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    Posted By: Maziar
    Date Posted: 20-Apr-2006 at 16:49

    Recipe: Kubideh Kabab - Ground Meat Kababs

    2 pounds lamb with a little fat, ground or processed until very smooth
    2 medium onions, grated
    2 eggs, beaten
    1 tablespoon lemon juice
    1 teaspoon salt
    1/2 teaspoon pepper
    1/2 teaspoon turmeric
    1/2 teaspoon cumin
    1/2 teaspoon cinnamon
    1/2 teaspoon thyme
    butter

    Combine all ingredients, except butter, mixing well until sticky. Divide into about 20 balls, then with hands, place each ball around a skewer and mold to about 1 1/2 inch thickness in the shape of a large cigar. Grill for a few minutes on each size, brushing occasionally with butter, until done.

    Should be served as above with grilled tomatoes, atop a platter of rice.



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    Posted By: Behi
    Date Posted: 23-Apr-2006 at 08:28

    Khoresht Ghormeh Sabzii (Herbs Stew - Herbs & Vegetable Stew)



    (Serves 4)

    Ingredients:
    • Fresh spinach (esfenAg) 1 bunch or 1 medium size package.
    • Fresh dill (sheveed) 1/2 bunch.
    • Fresh parsely (ja`faree) 1 bunch.
    • Fresh cilantro or 1 bunch.
    • coriantro (geshneez)
    • Fresh Leak (tareh farangee) 1 bunch (use only the green stems).
    • Fresh chives (tareh) 1 bunch, or substitute stems of one
    • bunch of scallions (piAzcheh).
    • Fresh fenugreek
    • (shanbelileh) 1 bunch, or substitute 1 table spoon
    • of dried shanbelileh.
    • 1 pound stew meat (beef, lamb, veal, etc.), cubed.
    • 4 dried lemons (limoo amAnee) or,
    • 1 table spoon dried lemon powder (gard-e leemo amAnee).
    • 1 medium onion, finely diced.
    • 1/2 teaspoon turmeric (zard choobeh).
    • 3 tablespoons cooking oil.
    • 1 tablespoon lemon juice (optional).
    • 1 cup of pre-soaked dried beans, or substitute 1 can.
    • A touch each of salt, pepper and crushed red peppers (if you like it spicy).

    Directions:

      Wash the meat and let it drain.

      Cut off the heads of the leaks and scallions and put the stems along with the rest of vegetables in a kitchen stringer, thoroughly wash and drain them.

      Using a cutting board, while repeatedly bunching up all vegetables together, finely chop the vegetables. The smaller the pieces the better. If you have a food processor, you could use it in place of the manual labor :-)

      Place the chopped vegetables in a pot, with heat setting on high and frequently stir the vegetables until all their excess water has evaporated.

      Add two table spoons of cooking oil and continually stir fry the vegetables until they turn a browinsh color. This process should take about 15 minutes. Take the pot off and put it aside. During the stir fry process, you may add a bit more oil if needed. When finished, the vegetables resemble dried ones with no water remaining in the pot.

      In another pot, add about one table spoon of cooking oil and the chopped onions and stir fry until they turn a golden brown color. Add the meat, stir fry for a few minutes, add salt, pepper and turmeric and let the meat fry with the onions for a few minutes. If you are using dried beans, at this point drain them and add them to the mixture. Turn the heat setting to medium.

      Next poke a hole in each of the dried lemons and add them to the mixture (or add the powdered kind). Add about two cups (16 oz) of water, place the lid on the pot and let it boil for another 15 minutes.

      Add the fried vegetables into the mixture, turn the heat setting to medium-low and let it cook. The cooking time required from this point on is about an hour. Half way through this period, if you are using canned beans, add them into the mixture. Once the meat is separated when poked by a fork, the stew is ready. This stew is served over white rice.

      If you like the sour taste, you may add a table spoon of lemon juice towards the end of cooking.

    Hints:

    • When stir frying, its imperative to constantly stir the vegetables. Otherwise, they quickly form a crust and burn. You can easily undercook the vegetables but you can hardly ever over cook them. If they look watery stir fry them a bit longer.
    • Almost all of the vegetables listed above are easily found at produce section of grocery stores. The only exception to this is shanbelileh (fenugreek). You can purchase dried ones from middle eastern stores.
    • Tareh (called chives and sometimes garlic chives) is somewhat hard to find. In place of chives, use the stems of scallions (also called green onions).
    • There are two kinds of parsely in the market. One is labeled as parsely and the other is called Italian parsely which has larger size leaves. You may use either one.
    • This stew can be made with two kinds of dried/canned beans. Either use kidney beans (loobiA ghermez) or black-eyed beans (loobiA cheshm bolboli). The canned beans soften quickly, so add them almost at the end and do not use the liquid inside the can.
    • If your stew ends up having a bitter taste, you more than likely burned the vegetables. If it smells like hannA (henna), you added too much spinach. You can't recover from these two mishaps. If the vegetables swim to one side and the meat goes the opposite way, you've undercooked it. Put in back on medium heat and let some of the excess water evaporate.

    Courtesy of: Soheila Amiri

    http://www.farsieats.com/recipes/ - http://www.farsieats.com/recipes/



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    Posted By: Guests
    Date Posted: 23-Apr-2006 at 14:53

    Originally posted by Aryan

  • Fresh cilantro or 1 bunch.
  • coriantro (geshneez)
  • Fresh Leak (tareh farangee) 1 bunch (use only the green stems).
  • Fresh chives (tareh) 1 bunch, or substitute stems of one
  • bunch of scallions (piAzcheh).
  • Fresh fenugreek
  • (shanbelileh) 1 bunch, or substitute 1 table spoon
  • of dried shanbelileh.
  • what are those??



    Posted By: Behi
    Date Posted: 23-Apr-2006 at 16:14
    I just Copy & paste
    well, those are vegetable
     ok I searched google

    Coriandro (in Parsi = Geshniz)


    cilantro (Jafari)
    http://www.gastronomiavasca.net/glosario-file/482/Cilantro___Coriandro-thumbnail.jpg
    Fresh Leek (tareh farangee) [My mother don't use it, in fact it's 1st time that I see it in Ghorme Sabzi)



    Fresh chives (tareh)


    bunch of scallions (piAzcheh) ( SAme for it)


    Fresh fenugreek (shanbelileh)



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    Posted By: Dawn
    Date Posted: 29-Apr-2006 at 11:40

    A little more help:

    Leeks ,Chives, scallions are all members of the onion family, Coriandro or coriander leaves  and cilantro are the same plant. what we call coriander in north america  is the seed of the plant and tastes very differant.

    shanbelileh and  fenugreek are the same thing as far as I can tell. I was unfamiliar with shanbelileh so I looked it up.  Fenugreek has been used for centeries as a medicinal herb and food flavoring.



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    Posted By: Guests
    Date Posted: 30-Apr-2006 at 00:29

    Korean Cabbage Kimchi

    The favorite kimchi vegetable is Chinese (or Napa) cabbage. The Koreans ferment it in enormous quantities. They then pack the kimchi into huge earthenware jars, bury the jars in the ground up to the neck, and cover the lids with straw until the kimchi is needed. Kimchi almost always includes hot pepper, usually dried and either ground or crushed into flakes. Because the ground dried hot pepper sold in Korean markets is generally fairly mild, Koreans can use generous quantities. Some of the Mexican (and New Mexican) ground peppers now sold in supermarkets are comparable. If you can't find ground pepper with a moderate heat level, you might combine sweet paprika and cayenne to suit your taste.

    3 tablespoons plus 1 teaspoon pickling salt 6 cups water
    2 lbs. Chinese (Napa) cabbage, cut into 2-inch squares
    6 scallions, cut into 2-inch lengths, then slivered
    1 1/2 tablespoons minced fresh ginger
    2 tablespoons Korean ground dried hot pepper (or other mildly hot ground red pepper)
    1 teaspoon sugar

    Makes about 1 1/2 Quarts

    1. Dissolve the 3 tablespoons salt in the water. Put the cabbage into a large bowl, a crock, or a nonreactive pot, and pour the brine over it. Weight the cabbage down with a plate. Let the cabbage stand for 12 hours.

    2. Drain the cabbage, reserving the brine. Mix the cabbage with the remaining ingredients, including the 1 teaspoon salt. Pack the mixture into a 2-quart jar. Pour enough of the reserved brine over the cabbage to cover it. Push a freezer bag into the mouth of the jar, and pour the remaining brine into the bag. Seal the bag. Let the kimchi ferment in a cool place, at a temperature no higher than 68 F, for 3 to 6 days,until the kimchi is as sour as you like.

    3. Remove the brine bag, and cap the jar tightly. Store the kimchi in the refrigerator, where it will keep for months.

    http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=recipe+kimchi - http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=recipe+kimchi

    South Korea promotes dog meat

    South Korean defenders of an old culinary tradition, dog meat eating, are launching a new initiative on Monday.

    They are aiming to popularise canine cuisine in the run-up to the World Cup finals, which are being jointly hosted by South Korea and Japan in May and June.

    A group of dog meat restaurant owners are to set up a nationwide federation, while a one day seminar will discuss ways of promoting dog meat.

    The controversy surrounding dog meat eating in South Korea refuses to disappear.

    Now around 100 dog meat restaurant owners are planning to fight back at their critics.

    They are launching a nationwide federation to promote dog meat to foreign visitors in the run up to the World Cup.

    They plan to launch websites in English and Japanese to promote the eating of dog meat and defend it as part of the national culture.

    The sites will publicize restaurants near World Cup stadium and there are plans to hold sampling parties for foreigners.

    http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1758765.stm - http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/asia-pacific/1758765.stm

    http://briansprediction.com/south%20korea%20dog%20cloning%20dog%20meat.jpg - http://briansprediction.com/south%20korea%20dog%20cloning%20 dog%20meat.jpg



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    Posted By: Guests
    Date Posted: 01-May-2006 at 10:18

    Talking about cabbage... it's one of my fav vege... I found a recipe.. which is my fav dish for cabbage.. try for ur self..

    Originally posted by http://www.wokme.com/recipes/malaysian/malaysian_stir_fried_cabbage.html

    Malaysian Stir-Fried Cabbage 

     

    Ingredients

    Pictured above; Cabbages

     

    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0972106901/gizmohighway-20 -
    http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1883319285/gizmohighway-20 -
     
    1 medium sized cabbage
    4 tablespoon of vegetable oil
    2 teaspoons of curry powder or tumeric powder
    250 grams of minced beef
    250 grams of  cooked prawn meat
    1 onion, finely chopped
    1 chilli finely chopped
    1 teaspoon of salt salt
    1 teaspoon of pepper
    Splash of water.
    Coriander to garnish.
     

    Directions

    Shred cabbage into thin strips.

    Heat the oil in a saucepan and stir fry the beef over medium heat until cooked..

    Heat oil in a saucepan, then stir-fry onions and the beef with the curry powder and salt over medium heat, cooking in small batches then returning all to the pan for 2 minutes until mixed and cooked throughout. Remove from pan and set aside.

    Add the chopped prawn meat and chilli to the pan and stir fry, once cooked mix with beef mixture and set aside.

    Heat the wok to high and add a little water and remaining oil, then add the cabbage in batches.

    Once cabbage is nearly cooked, add a cup of cabage, with a cup of the meat mixture and stir fry on high for a few seconds.

    Do not overcook the cabbage, it is best served a little crisp.

    Serve sizzling with some coriander to garnish. serves 6

    eat with rice.... .. i prefer use tumeric powder rather thn curry powder..



    Posted By: Maharbbal
    Date Posted: 13-May-2006 at 15:05
    Guys soon it will be dead hot summer for most of us.

    Here is the only good thing my Greek friends are eating in London,
    perfect for over 30 weathers:

    Ingredients:

    Watermelon
    Feta cheese

    How to do it (for dudes only, chicks know)

    Open the feta pacage
    Cut it into peace
    Open the watermelon (very funny you can through it into the air and use
    your mother's knife as if you were a gazi getting through a templar
    bunch, don't get hurt though).
    Pick up all the watermelon slices you've spread around the kitchen and
    put it into your girlfriend's male best friend's plate. Spit on it (if you get
    caught doing that say whether it is an old voodoo curse to wish him luck
    or you had been tring to catch a mosquito and decided play it chameleon
    style)

    Eat it watch France winning the World Cup.

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    Posted By: morticia
    Date Posted: 25-May-2006 at 13:39
    Originally posted by Maharbbal

    Guys soon it will be dead hot summer for most of us.

    Here is the only good thing my Greek friends are eating in London,
    perfect for over 30 weathers:

    Ingredients:

    Watermelon
    Feta cheese

    How to do it (for dudes only, chicks know)

    Open the feta pacage
    Cut it into peace
    Open the watermelon (very funny you can through it into the air and use
    your mother's knife as if you were a gazi getting through a templar
    bunch, don't get hurt though).
    Pick up all the watermelon slices you've spread around the kitchen and
    put it into your girlfriend's male best friend's plate. Spit on it (if you get
    caught doing that say whether it is an old voodoo curse to wish him luck
    or you had been tring to catch a mosquito and decided play it chameleon
    style)

    Eat it watch France winning the World Cup.



          This is the first time I've seen a recipe for "slicing" fruits and cheeses! ...and the "spitting" must give it extra flavour! ahhhhhh! Where's Cahayaaaaaaaaaaaa!!!!
        

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    Trust in God: She will provide." -- Emmeline Pankhurst


    Posted By: Cywr
    Date Posted: 28-May-2006 at 14:05
    Hmm, i have a recipe for watermelon curry somewhere, its a Rajasthani recipe.

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    Posted By: xi_tujue
    Date Posted: 28-May-2006 at 15:07
    Take a few boiled pataoes(natural) peal them put them in a bowl mash them up ad one glas of milk(water glas 33/cl) mabey 1.5 or 2 hasn't got to thin. Take half an onion chop it in squares(tiny) ad them in the "mix" you also can ad( how do you say this it's salca in turkish) it's tomato(sticky red stufLOL) 1/2 spoon.(this is additional) you can ad some parsely for the flavour. ad any igredient you like not to much thow
    I forgott at an egg or 2(it depends). Stirr the guhy stuff Big smile
     
    Take friyingpan put some oil in it.(I prefere Sunfloweroil or Kornoil(I hope it's called like thisTongue))
     
    You need to take the guhy stuff I remind you it needs to be thick enough to stick like doe. Take it with a spoon and toss it in to the oil let i frie
     
    that stuff is realy jummy don't let the guhyness scare you.
    (it's an old family recepy dating back to last week when i was hungry and in a creative mood).
     
    btw  if you want it with chicken ad curry to the gue(how do you spell gue,guh or ghue???)


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    Posted By: Guests
    Date Posted: 08-Jun-2006 at 09:15
    Yuhuuu!!! Hello everybody... now i am back with a recipe from india originally... it's nice.... normally it is serve during diwali or any normal days and can eat this while watching World Cup.. lol.. for malay we make this during eid too... so... try
     
    Originally posted by http://festivals.iloveindia.com/janmashtmi/murukku.html

    MURUKKU

    Murukku %28Rice Chakli%29


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    Ingredients

    4 cups Raw rice
    Half cup White gram
    25 gms White sesame seeds
    25 gms Cumin seeds
    2 tablespoons Asafetida powder
    100 gms Butter
    Table salt - to taste
    Oil - for frying

    Method
    • Wash and clean the rice well. Let it out to dry and once it has dried completely, powder it nicely.
    • Fry the gram orange and powder it and keep it aside.
    • Mix the powdered rice, powdered gram, white sesame seeds, cumin seeds, asafetida powder, butter and salt together, without adding water. Take a little of this mixture, add water to it to get a dough like consistency. Now take this dough and twist it into circular shapes of the murukku (chakkli).
    • Heat oil in a kadai. Test how hot it is by dropping a pinch of dough into it - if it sinks, the oil hasn't become hot enough. If the dough springs to the top with bubbles all around it, then the oil is just ready.
    • Drop in the murukku gently into the hot oil and fry golden brown. Keep flipping the sides till the murukku is done.
    • Store in an air tight container.

    for rice part... normally there will be rice flour in packet sold in the market so...dont worry about drying the rice and all.
     


    Posted By: Kapikulu
    Date Posted: 10-Jun-2006 at 18:18

    Bread Inside Bread(1 person, ideal for penniless brethrens)

    Cut a slice of bread in form of a sandwich bread...Then take off the inner soft white part of it, and then reverse the rest of the bread so the outer side will come inside and you will be holding the inner white side...Then put the soft white bread you removed inside the sandwich bread you prepared and eat with joy!!
     
    Bon apetit ;)


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    Your hope would be enough;
    we couldn't find neither;
    we made up sorrows for ourselves;
    we couldn't be consoled;

    A Strange Orhan Veli


    Posted By: morticia
    Date Posted: 11-Jun-2006 at 10:21
    Originally posted by Kapikulu

    Bread Inside Bread(1 person, ideal for penniless brethrens)



    Cut a slice of bread in form of a sandwich bread...Then take off the inner soft white part of it, and then reverse the rest of the bread so the outer side will come inside and you will be holding the inner white side...Then put the soft white bread you removed inside the sandwich bread you prepared and eat with joy!!


    Bon apetit ;)


         I'm still HUNGRY! Got anything to spread on that piece of bread?

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    Trust in God: She will provide." -- Emmeline Pankhurst


    Posted By: morticia
    Date Posted: 27-Jul-2006 at 09:35
    I recently went to dinner at a local Mexican restaurant and had the most delicious "quesadillas" ever! Here's the recipe:



    Ingredients:
    Large flour tortillas
    Grated cheese - either mild or sharp cheddar, or Monterey Jack
    Olive oil or grapeseed oil

    Optional:
    Sliced mushrooms
    Green onions
    Black olives, sliced
    Fresh tomatoes, diced
    Chicken pieces
    Avocado

    Lettuce
    Apple cider vinegar
    Salt

    Heat a large cast iron frying pan to medium high heat. Add a small amount of oil, about a teaspoon and spread around the bottom of the pan with a spatula (you could use butter as well). Take one large flour tortilla and place it in the pan. Flip the tortilla over a few times, 10 seconds between flips. When pockets of air begin to form within the tortilla, take a handful of grated cheese, sprinkle over the top of the tortilla, making sure that the cheese does not land on the pan itself. Add whatever additional ingredients you choose - green onion, sliced mushrooms, olives, tomatoes, etc. If you would like your quesadilla to be a chicken quesadilla, add some diced cooked chicken. Take care not to layer on the ingredients to thickly - this is a quesadilla, not a quiche.

    Reduce the heat to low and cover the pan. The cast iron pan should be hot enough by now to have plenty of residual heat to melt the cheese and brown the tortilla. If the quesadilla begins to smoke too much, remove from the heat. After a minute, check to see if the cheese is melted. If not, return the cover and keep checking every minute until the cheese is melted. When the cheese is sufficiently melted, use a spatula to lift up one side of the quesadilla and flip over the other side, as if you were making an omelette. The tortilla should by now be browned slightly. If it is not browned, turn the heat up to high and flip the quesadilla over every 10 seconds or so until it gets browned. Remove from pan and cut into wedges.

    To make the lettuce to accompany the quesadilla, thinly slice some iceberg lettuce. Sprinkle some cider vinegar on it and some salt.




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    Trust in God: She will provide." -- Emmeline Pankhurst


    Posted By: Maziar
    Date Posted: 27-Jul-2006 at 10:47

    It looks very good Morty, but i think i won't cook it pretty nice as in the pic. I think i have to do it multiple times.



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    Posted By: morticia
    Date Posted: 28-Jul-2006 at 16:45
    This past May I attended the New Orleans Heritage Jazzfest and, as usual, all I did was eat! I love creole/cajun food and I loved the crawfish etouffee. Here's the recipe:


    Crawfish Etouffee

    INGREDIENTS:

    4 tablespoons vegetable oil
    1/2 cup butter
    2 bunches green onion, chopped
    1 large onion, diced
    1/4 cup chopped green bell pepper
    2 stalks celery, chopped
    1 pound crawfish, peeled
    1 teaspoon tomato paste
    1 (14.5 ounce) can chicken broth
    2 tablespoons cornstarch
    1 tablespoon water

    DIRECTIONS:
    Heat oil and butter in a large skillet over medium high heat. Stir in onion, green onion, green pepper and celery; cook until transparent. Mix in crawfish and tomato paste; cook for 10 minutes.
    Pour chicken broth into skillet. In a small bowl, dissolve cornstarch in water. Stir dissolved cornstarch into crawfish mixture and cook until thickened, about 35 minutes. Serve over a bed of white rice or even over pasta.

    Goes great with a fine cabernet! Enjoy!

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    Trust in God: She will provide." -- Emmeline Pankhurst


    Posted By: red clay
    Date Posted: 03-Aug-2006 at 19:43
    This season I grew white Eggplant for the first time. Never having had experience with it, are there any recipes specifically for White Eggplant.  Also is there any special way to prepare them, I've picked two of medium size and they seem awfully "seedy"?

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    Posted By: morticia
    Date Posted: 04-Aug-2006 at 15:35
    Originally posted by red clay

    This season I grew white Eggplant for the first time. Never having had experience with it, are there any recipes specifically for White Eggplant. Also is there any special way to prepare them, I've picked two of medium size and they seem awfully "seedy"?


    Red Clay...did you know that white Eggplant is also known as the "Apple of Love"? They are prepared just like a regular Eggplant. Here's a recipe for eggplant parmesan.

    Eggplant Parmesan
    1 lg. eggplant (white or regular)
    1/4 c. grated Parmesan cheese
    1/4 lb. Mozzarella cheese, sliced
    1 egg, lightly beaten
    1/4 c. dry white wine
    1 c. cracker crumbs
    1 clove garlic, minced
    1/4 c. olive oil
    2 c. canned tomato sauce
    2 tbsp. minced parsley
    1/4 tsp. basil
    1/4 tsp. oregano
    1 bay leaf, crumbled
    1 tsp. salt

    Pare eggplant(white or regular) and cut crosswise into 1/4" slices. Beat egg with wine. Dip eggplant slices into egg and wine, then dip them in cracker crumbs. Saute garlic in oil for 5 minutes. Add eggplant and saute for 10 minutes or until golden brown. Remove eggplant and keep hot. Add tomato sauce, parsley, basil, oregano, bay leaf and salt to oil remaining in skillet and simmer for 15 minutes, stirring frequently.
    Arrange alternate slices of eggplant, Parmesan, and Mozzarella cheese and sauce in a casserole. Top with Mozzarella cheese. Bake in a moderate oven for 30 minutes. Serves 6

    Enjoy!
        

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    Trust in God: She will provide." -- Emmeline Pankhurst


    Posted By: Cywr
    Date Posted: 08-Aug-2006 at 11:02
    I rented me a book on East European (includes central Europe and the Balkans), so that should keep me going for a while. SOme of the Bulgarian casseroles look interesting.

    I'm sure Mila will be pleased to know that Bosnia doesn't get mentioned, instead its just general "Eastern Adriatic" LOL



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    Posted By: Guests
    Date Posted: 14-Aug-2006 at 13:00
    I'm back !
    i want to share with u guys my favourite dish...
     
    Garoupa Steamed!!! garoupa is kerapu in malay
     
    Last two weeks i spent 3 days in Island.. so we (me and some frens) went for fishing... we cought 2.. 0.8Kg - 1.0kg Garoupas.. not me.. my fren did..
     
     
     The first garoupa my fren's caught
     
     the second garoupa.. lol
     
     garoupa steamed.. yummy!!!

    STEAMED GAROUPA

    Preparation time: 10 min
    Cooking time: 10 min
    Serves 4-6

    INGREDIENT

    1 Garoupa - 1 lb/750 g
    2 dried Chinese mushrooms (soaked till soft and cut in strips)
    1 tbsp shredded ginger
    1 red chili (cut in strips)
    1 stalk spring onion (cut into 1 in/2.5 cm strips)

    SEASONING INGREDIENTS

    1 tsp salt
    1 tsp light Soya sauce
    1 tsp sesame oil
    1 tsp MSG (optional)
    1 tsp tapioca flour
    Juice of 1 small lime

    COOKING INSTRUCTION

    1. Scale and clean fish.
    2. Rub seasoning ingredients over fish. Let it stand for 30 minutes.
    3. Arrange mushrooms, ginger, chili and spring onions on fish.
    4. Steam for about 10-15 minutes. Serve hot.

     
     
    P/S: other than garoupa u can use seabass or siakap in Malay for steaming style... taste great..
     


    Posted By: morticia
    Date Posted: 15-Aug-2006 at 11:53
    Hi Cahaya! That looks very much like a "grouper" fish in my country, which are very tasty. That's a very nice sized one that your friend caught. Great recipe - I'll try it for sure! I especially like the red chili and ginger included in your recipe. Thanks!     

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    Posted By: Guests
    Date Posted: 15-Aug-2006 at 13:03
    U are most welcome Morty EmbarrassedLOL


    Posted By: Cywr
    Date Posted: 15-Aug-2006 at 16:39

    Do you have and easy recipe for Ayam Betawi?

    It seems to be obscure (but i swear i ate some for lunch), maybe it goes by other names?


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    Posted By: Guests
    Date Posted: 16-Aug-2006 at 11:05
    Ayam Betawi.. is it indonesian food? do u have a pic? coz sometimes in indonesian lang the names differ from us...


    Posted By: Cywr
    Date Posted: 16-Aug-2006 at 16:23
    http://www.lonnys.nl/index.php?id=34&products_id=8 - http://www.lonnys.nl/index.php?id=34&products_id=8
     
    Thats the best i can do as that is literaly (brand and all) what i ate. Its chicken in a sweet kecap based sauce, but there is more to it than that.


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    Posted By: Guests
    Date Posted: 17-Aug-2006 at 07:57
    I chcked on the webpage u stated there... show tht the dish is a combination of sambal and sweet kecap.. and other part i dont understand at all.. ( what lang is that??!!!)
     
    I chck the resipi.mesra.net (recipe in Malay) for Ayam Betawi .. no sweet kecap used... funny.. there's different way of style between malaysian and indonesian.. but it looks simple.. as far as i can see... seems like Ayam Kecap but mixed with sambal.. i will try to ask around from my friends who knw the recipe.. if i can find for u....


    Posted By: Cywr
    Date Posted: 17-Aug-2006 at 14:43
    Yeah its Dutch Tongue
    Just a description, but i had as a ready meal from Lonnys (you just steam it).

    "Pieces of marrinaded cooked chicken in a herby/spicy saus of kecap and palm sugar.

    A suprising chicken recipe from the times when the Indonesian capital Jakarta was still called Betawi. The refined use of sambal with sweet kecap and palm sugar - ingredients the Javanese kitchen (cusine) are not allowed to be without - makes Ayam Betawi one of the best of Lonny's selection."

    Yes, it looks simple and i think its the simplicity plus refinement that made it that it was, somewhat hot and sweet. Good stuff, to bad Brits have underrated Indo/Malay food Cry


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    Posted By: Peter III
    Date Posted: 18-Aug-2006 at 10:58
    Well, here's my recipe
     
    Falafel Pita Sandwiches
     
    -Buy frozen falafels(I'm too lazy to say how to make them)
    -Cook the falafels(read directions on box)
    -Buy pita bread
    -Put falafels in pita bread
    -Put diced tomatoes in pita sandwich
    -Put cucumbers in sandwich
     
    Tahini Sauce(without any tahini)
     
    Mix in a bowl...
    -Plain Yogurt
    -Sesame Seeds
    -Olive oil
    -minced garlic
    -salt
     
     
    Put the tahini sauce in the sandwich.
     


    Posted By: Guests
    Date Posted: 18-Aug-2006 at 12:04
    what is falafel? originally from where?


    Posted By: Peter III
    Date Posted: 18-Aug-2006 at 12:25
    Falafel originally came from the middle east. Here's the wikipedia article.
     
    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falafel - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Falafel


    Posted By: Guests
    Date Posted: 31-Aug-2006 at 21:08
    CYWR.. I cant find the recipe u want.. Seems that noone knw here.. Cry


    Posted By: Cywr
    Date Posted: 03-Sep-2006 at 15:09
    Cry
    Oh well.

    A question, if a recipe calls for x number of dried chillies, with the eventual aim of grinding them to a powder, what amount of preground chilli powder can i take to be an acceptable (albeit lazy) subtitute?


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    Posted By: Guests
    Date Posted: 04-Sep-2006 at 09:41
    it's depend cywr.. cos even dried chilies have diff level of spiciness (is it a correct term? lol) here is a tip.. dried chilies.. it has 2 types.. from my observation..
     
    1. crooked and very very not nice looking.. LOL
    2. look so nice and smooth.. almost like plastic Dead
     
    beware of the no 2. coz it's very spicy..
    and some chilie powder is very spicy some are less... and depend on the amount of ur dish to serve...it's very very subjective.. the easiest way.. taste while u cook.. if it is not spicy enough add some more.. powder chilie.. the taste not so nice.. ahehehehe..
     


    Posted By: gcle2003
    Date Posted: 07-Sep-2006 at 13:47

    I'm in the middle of making 18lbs of pork barbecue (Carolina style) for a picnic organised by the Kaiserslautern chapter of Democrats Abroad on Saturday, so i thought someone might like my sauce recipe.

    So here goes (this is definitely hungry man food, not gourmet: it also has no pretence to be health food):

    1 1/4 cups ketchup
    2/3 cup salad oil
    1 cup vinegar
    5 tablespoons Worcestershire sauce
    1 cup brown sugar
    2 tablespoons dry mustard
    3 teaspoons grated fresh ginger
    1 clove minced garlic
    1 lemon sliced thin*
    3 tablespoons butter
    salt, pepper

    * You may want to leave off the peel. I usually leave it in.

    Mix it all up, bring it to the boil and let it simmer. Chee-yup (shred) your meat, put it in the pan with the sauce and keep on simmering, because barbecue Carolina-style is an minc.

    Serve of course on hamburger buns or just on the plate if you're dieting (!)

     
    Note: a cup is around 250 ml.


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    Posted By: mamikon
    Date Posted: 13-Sep-2006 at 00:33
    is there anything, simple and non-American? Embarrassed (since I know all the American dishes

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    Posted By: Kalevipoeg
    Date Posted: 13-Sep-2006 at 07:29
    I didn't bother to read the previous posts on the 5 pages and see if there were any but can anyone give me some "student recipes" and they must be fried or boiled, i lack other opportunities.

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    Posted By: mamikon
    Date Posted: 13-Sep-2006 at 10:35
    ! same problem as above Tongue

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    Posted By: Kapikulu
    Date Posted: 13-Sep-2006 at 17:33
    Originally posted by Kalevipoeg

    I didn't bother to read the previous posts on the 5 pages and see if there were any but can anyone give me some "student recipes" and they must be fried or boiled, i lack other opportunities.
     
    LOLLOLLOL
     
    Well I have one
     
    Curry-Oregano Chicken..(Total Preparation&Cooking time: 10 minutes---"without going to and coming back from market time")
     
    Buy half kilo chicken breast from the market...Then with a sharp knife, cut it into small pieces and locate it on the plate.Add more-than-enough amount of curry,oregano and salt on it...Then put it into microwave oven and wait for it to be cooked in just 5 minutes,just amazingWink
     
     
    Enjoy!Bon apetit!


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    Your hope would be enough;
    we couldn't find neither;
    we made up sorrows for ourselves;
    we couldn't be consoled;

    A Strange Orhan Veli


    Posted By: Guests
    Date Posted: 16-Sep-2006 at 13:14
    I have one...
     
    Buy a packet of pasta... spagheti or whtever u like...
    by ready made pasta sauce any flavour u like... then.. up to u to put any kind of extra filling... maybe some shrimps... chicken... chop a little bit...
    ..
    Just stir garlic and oil... add the pasta sauce.. then the chicken or shrimps..
    maybe some dried parsely.. any supermarket have this thing ... easy to store.. even without fridge..
     
    make sure the chicken/shrimps well cook... i assume u knw how to prepare the pasta... just read at the back of plastic wrapper... it does tell all u need to knw..
     
    then mix these two things together... make sure it's still hot and then add some mozarella cheese... yummy yummy... ur meal is ready....
     


    Posted By: Cywr
    Date Posted: 16-Sep-2006 at 15:53
    Originally posted by Kalevipoeg

    I didn't bother to read the previous posts on the 5 pages and see if there were any but can anyone give me some "student recipes" and they must be fried or boiled, i lack other opportunities.


    There is no such thing as 'student recipies', only lazy short sighted recipies.
    Frankly as a student it makes sense to cook in bulk, either by several people pooling resources and cooking together (if your fortunate to be sharing accomodation with mature responsible students), or buy making a huge curry, eating a days worth, keeping a days worth in the fridge, and freezing the rest. You save money and time this way in the long run.


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    Posted By: Guests
    Date Posted: 24-Sep-2006 at 15:55

    Due to Ramadhan month.. i want to share some of my fav dishes with u guys...

    Murtabak Recipe
     
     
    450  g all-purpose flour 
    20  g ghee 
    250  ml warm water 
    1  tablespoon warm water, approcimately,extra 
    500  ml vegetable oil 
    50  g ghee, extra 
     
     
    *FILLING*

    30  g ghee 
    1  medium onion, finely chopped 
    3  cloves garlic, crushed 
    1/2  teaspoon sambal oelek 
    1  tablespoon grated fresh ginger 
    1 1/2  tablespoons mild curry powder 
    1  tablespoon garam masala 
    500  g ground lamb 
    2  tablespoons chopped fresh coriander 
    2  tablespoons chopped fresh mint 
    3  eggs, lightly beaten 
     
    How to make it
    1. Sigt flour into bowl, rub in ghee.
    2. Stir in water and enough extra water to form a soft dough.
    3. Turn dough onto a lightly floured surface, knead for about 10 minutes or until very smooth and elastic.
    4. Divide dough into 12 portions, roll each portion into a ball.
    5. Place balls in a bowl and pour oil over balls, cover and stand for 1 hour.
    6. Spread a little of the oil over a smooth surface, press out drained dough ball until a very thin 24cm square.
    7. Place a 1/4 cup (60ml) of the filling in the centre of the square, spread filling to 10cm square.
    8. Fold in sides of dough to form a parcel: trim overlapping edges if too thick.
    9. Repeat with remaining dough balls and filling.
    10. Heat extra ghee in pan and cook parcels until well browned on both sides; drain on absorbent paper.
    11. Serve immediately.
    12. FILLING.
    13. Heat ghee in pan, add onion, garlic, sambal oelek and ginger, cook, stirring, until onion is soft.
    14. Stir in spices, stir until fragrant.
    15. Add mince and cook stirring until well browned, stir in herbs; cool.
    16. Stir in eggs.


    Posted By: Guests
    Date Posted: 24-Sep-2006 at 16:07
    And... for refreshment... the famous cendol...
     

    Cendol (Coconut Cream Dessert)

     
     
    2 cups water
    1/4 cup cooked moong dal
    250 gram tapioca flour
    1/4 teaspoon pandan essence)
    1/4 teaspoon green color
    225 gram palm sugar
    2 cups coconut milk
    1/4 teaspoon salt
    crushed ice -- as required

    Bring the water to a boil. Add green color. Mix the cooked moong dal with tapioca flour and add to the boiling water. Mix well to a smooth dough and add the pandan essence. Knead well, roll out into a sheet and cut into strips. Cook the strips in boiling water and transfer them to cold water. Keep the cendol aside. Dissolve palm sugar in a cup of water and set aside. Mix coconut milk with salt.



    Posted By: Kapikulu
    Date Posted: 24-Sep-2006 at 20:51
    Cahaya, can't you just give us some nice stuff with easy-to-find ingrendients :)
     
    They look delicious,they do, but how on the earth I can find moong dal, pandan essence and tapioca flour here  :D


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    We gave up your happiness
    Your hope would be enough;
    we couldn't find neither;
    we made up sorrows for ourselves;
    we couldn't be consoled;

    A Strange Orhan Veli


    Posted By: Guests
    Date Posted: 25-Sep-2006 at 14:12
    Actually Kapikulu... in here.. u dont have to make cendol on ur own.. the green stuff u can see in the pic... so no need to worry about moong dal or pandan essence.. lol... in Ramadhan Market.. they will sell it in packet.. so u just grab one.. buy some coconut milk.. and coconut sugar.. hmm.. tht's it.. but in second thought.... u still have difficulty in finding these stuffs in ur place..lol
     
     



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