The Recipe Thread
Posted on: July 23, 2008 - 7:53am
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The Recipe Thread
Fellow food snobs! Rejoice, for there is now a recipe thread! Let's see how much deliciousness the online atheist community is capable of.
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Chocolate Cookie Crust 3 Tbsp Butter, unsalted 10 Deep Dark Choclate Fudge cookiesWhite Chocolate Cheesecake 18 oz White chocolate, broken into ½ ounce pieces ½ cup Heavy cream 1¾ lbs Cream cheese, softened 1 cup Granulated sugar 1 tsp Salt 6 Eggs 1 tsp Vanilla extract
Chocolate Ganache 1/3 cup Heavy cream 1 Tbsp Butter, unsalted 1 Tbsp Granulated sugar 3 oz Semi-sweet chocolate, broken into ½ ounce pieces
Preheat oven to 325° Fahrenheit. Place a pan filled with 4 cups water on the bottom rack.
Make the crust in the canonical cheesecake fashion: 1 tbsp butter smeared in a springform pan, melt the rest of the butter and add to the crumbs, press the crumbs into the springform pan. (Or you can do what I do: smear the butter around the pan, drop in the crumbs, and shake the crumbs around until it's coated the pan.)
In a mixing bowl, mix the cream cheese, sugar, and salt. Add the eggs, two at a time, mixing between additions. Set aside for a moment. Melt the white chocolate with the cream in a double boiler. Add to the cream cheese mixture along with the vanilla. Mix well.
Follow this baking schedule:
15 minutes at 325
15 minutes at 250
15 minutes at 225
2 hours 45 minutes at 200
[edit] Yikes! I forgot this part: turn off the oven, but leave the cheesecake in it for another 2 hours.
Take the cheesecake out and cool at room temperature for an hour.
For the ganache, heat to boiling the cream, butter, and sugar in a saucepan. Break the chocolate into small pieces in a metal bowl. Pour the hot cream mixture over the chocolate, and cover with plastic film for about 12 minutes. Uncover, and stir until smooth. Spread over the cooled cheesecake, and chill for a few hours.
This is my secret recipe (which I got from "Death By Chocolate" ), so don't tell anyone!
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nigel takes first blood! That looks ridiculously delicious. I know ento wanted to put up her apple crisp recipe. I'll have mine up for crespelle soon.
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Peel and chop the appropriate vegetables then boil the vegetables in water with a little salt and turmeric added until cooked. Fry the finely chopped onion until translucent in veg oil. Add the curry powder and cumin powder and sliced garlic and grated ginger and strir fry for 2 minutes. Add the pepper,tomato, tomato puree, curry massalla gravy, chunks of onion and worcester sauce and stir fry for 2 minutes. Add the vegetables, mix in with the sauce and serve immediately topped with the coriander.
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apply heat to both sides.
MMmmMMmm..
Not exactly Cordon Bleu, but it's food......
Family Chili recipe.... Ssssshhhhh don't tell my dad.
3 pounds ground chuck (the greasier the better)
2 small cans mushrooms
one small onion (diced or cut in large pieces)
1 can 'hot' chili beans
2 cans chili style stewed tomatoes
1 small jar roasted red peppers in oil (drain)
14 ounces 'hot and spicy' V-8 juice
3 packets medium to hot chili seasoning
Brown ground beef with onion. Drain and add to crock pot. Add all ingredients and stir. Cook on low for 8 hours or high for 4-5 hours. This is a THICK and hearty chili...eats like a meal
Serve with freshly grated pepper jack cheese and sour cream...oh my gawd, I am now hungry!
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Matt's seafood marinade:
1/2 C good soy sauce (if hydrolyzed soy protein is ANYWHERE in the ingredients, it is NOT good soy sauce!)
1/4 C Sake (Dry Sherry is an acceptable substitute)
3 Tbsp Sesame oil (the toasted asian kind, not the clear stuff from health food stores)
Dipping sauce:
1 tsp wasabi powder - add enough water ( 1 - 2 tsp) and blend
let sit 5 minutes
add 1 pinch ginger and enough soy sauce (use good soy sauce! Nothing with hydrolyzed soy protein!)
blend
And my red hot rub for grilling:
This is a dry rub for BBQ. Can be halved,doubled, whatever
1 C cane sugar
1/4 C Salt (Sea salt with the same grain size as table salt is best)
1/4 C celery salt
1/4 C Seasoned Salt (any commercially available, like Season All)
1/4 C garlic salt
1/2 C paprika (try to get the hot Hungarian kind)
2 Tbsp Hot Chili Powder
4 tsp Black pepper (Good kind - like Tellicherry. Not the pre ground dust from the supermarket)
2 tsp lemon pepper
1 tsp cayenne
1/2 tsp onion powder
1 tsp thyme
1 tsp "I am on Fire, Ready to Die" (This is a particular brand. You can use any Very hot powdered heat - ground habanero would work fine)
Mix well and use on any grilled or Barbecued meat.
VERY hot!
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Although I am a foodie, my favorite dessert is plain old apple crisp. This recipe is from the Joy of Cooking, but I have doubled the topping. I know it by heart!
4 cups tart apples
2 T fresh lemon juice
Peel, core and slice (thin) the apples. Place in oven dish and sprinkle with lemon juice
TOPPING:
1 cup flour
1 cup brown sugar
1/2 cup unsalted butter (room temperature)
1 teaspoon salt
2 teaspoon cinnamon
Combine the topping ingredients in a bowl and sprinkle over apples. Cook about 1/2 hr @ 375 degrees until topping is brown. Best if served with hand-cranked vanilla ice cream!
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Just a quick one, then:
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Ento, since you have the book already, try the cheddar-crust apple pie recipe. Hands-down my favourite pie.
Top crust only with sharp cheddar in it, rum-soaked raisins, tart apples sauteed in butter...what's not to like?
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real wasabi powder, right? I can't stand it when food manufacturers label stuff with horseradish and green food coloring in it as wasabi
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Kay's double dipped chicken fried steak
1 package either tenderized or untenderized round steak
dry mix:
1 1/4 cups flour
a pinch each of cayenne, habanero and black pepper or to taste ( I'm a pepper fanatic, so my taste is rather strong. You can skip the habanero)
salt or salt substitute as needed
wash
2 eggs
2 cups buttermilk or sweet milk
Oil for frying
Instructions:
take your round steaks and cut them to individual size pieces; I cut two pieces per steak. Heat oil to 350F or thereabouts while cutting up steak; make sure it's hot enough to bubble around spent match upon insertion. dip serving size pieces first in the egg wash and then in the dry mix, and then back in the egg wash. immerse the battered steaks in the heated oil and cook to desired doneness; I like mine when the steak has some pink left and the batter is crispy. take steaks out of oil and drain oil back into skillet or deep fryer.
mmm... meaty artery clogging deliciousness; make sure you don't cook this often.
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Yeah, the real thing - though no wasabi powder is pure wasabi root - you can buy that but it isn't very good. The real stuff is a blend of wasabi powder, mustard powder and other stuff. I get it (along with many of my spices) from Penzeys.
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