Good Food

[Sierra]

I eat almost everything, I enjoy it pretty much too :p
Somehow, I get no belly so far which is awesome, cause I swallow a lot and still keep my line in shape :D

I would like you guys to post here some of your recipes, or other food experiments. Also, what food do you prefer, what do you mix and so on. It can be everything related to food ofcourse, dinners, desserts, snacks, what do you drink to your meal etc.
You can also post kitchen - failures, like if you ever thought to make something good but it ended as total crap hehe.

Let me start out with something known and simple. Which is scrambled eggs. Some people eat it as it is - just eggs, I find no fun in that though.

Usually, I slice onion and sausage, and put them on pan with a bit of butter. As it gets a little brownie, I take care of eggs. I put them into a jug and mix together with salt and pepper. Sometimes I add paprika powder. At this point, I pour mixed eggs onto the pan, and stir.
Crunchy bread roll with butter (butter FTW!), is the finest partner for this one :) And hot chocolate to drink. Mmmmm


We all have to eat, we all have our favourites, so why not to share it?
I'm sure I will find out something interesting here, that I will give a try.

[DTKreten]

Hey Sierra, since you started with eggs...give this a try:

Slice some older bread on thin slices and put it into toaster. Once its done, cut them into small pieces. After that, take any type of medium hard cheese (Gouda) and grater it into small slices. Next, put some butter on the pan, followed by some onion rings. Put the eggs inside, immediately followed by toasted bread and cheese. Voila!, you got yourself a delicious meal :)

Butter here is not really needed as you can put onion rings together with eggs, but its really tastier with butter :)

[Neutralized]

I'm not master of cooking, ok I'm a walking fail, all i can make is sandwich, sometimes I succesfully boil some eggs, why sometimes? Becouse once i tried to do that without water :P

But let's back to sandwiches, yes that's what i can make :)
So: Take bread cut it in chunk, butter it, put some cheese and honey... yes honey the same what Winnie the Pooh got in his larder.

Bon Appétit

[DejvidOff]

Somethink from Slovak kitchen!!Typical slovak food is "halušky" i posted recipe :) delicious :)
in general flour is mixed with water and egg to form a batter. Potatoes are finely grated and mixed in the batter. Potatoes may be left out altogether. Traditionally, no special instrument was used to form halušky. Instead, dough was spread in a thin layer on a wooden cutting board and scraped off in even pieces (using a knife) and cast directly into boiling water. At last you take them out from water and you can mixed it with cheese or "brynzda"

You should try it :P

[Matt]

My favourite food is A full English Breakfast.

2 rashes of bacon, 2 fried eggs, handful of button mushrooms fried in butter (with salt & pepper), Half a beef steak tomato fried in butter, two pork sausages, spoonful of Heinz baked beans & one hash brown or fried slice of bread.


Yummy & the perfect meal for anytime of the day :)

[blockade]

one of my favorite protein's but i had to go online to find it as i know how to cook it but i dont know how to explain it lol.. im a big fan of chef gordon ramsey and he has instilled a passion in me and now i see myself doing stupid things to common dishes but im starting to get really good and im also starting to cook more complicated things then i can spell lol.. i also find myself salivating over my own food now yum yum.. i think the dishes i like most and types of food i enjoy the most really boils down to simple chemistry after all thats what it is but i really enjoy down to earth proteins cooked medium rare with an array of vegetation and suitable starches that will complement ether your palate or dish after all its not what you eat its how its prepared........ enjoy the recipe if you try it plz let me know how it turned out and if you like the protein i have selected for the dish :) i also added my very fav desert at the bottom and with you adding the vegetation and starch of your choice you have a brilliant colorful tasty compilation of tastes to compos your guest or better yet plural of guests with ...

Gordon Ramsay’s Herb Crusted Rack of Lamb from The F Word – Series 1

2 large racks of Lamb cut in half with 3 bones per serving
Salt
Pepper
Olive Oil

4 slices of stale bread made into crumbs.
7 Tbs. grated parmesan (roughly 1/2 a cup)
Sprig parsley
Sprig thyme
Sprig coriander
Sprig rosemary
2 tablespoons English mustard (dijon)
splash of olive oil


Preparing the Lamb:

Pre-heat the oven to 400 degrees Fahrenheit. It should actually be 392 degrees, but don’t worry about getting that technical unless you have a digital oven.

Place lamb on cutting board fat side up. Lightly score the fat layer with a sharp knife. Next, generously sprinkle the lamb with salt and pepper. Mop up the excess seasoning with the rack of lamb, ensuring it’s thoroughly coated.

Heat some olive oil in an oven safe pan. Seal the lamb by holding each side in the oil long enough to develop color (careful not to burn your hands). Gordon Ramsay says, “it’s simple mathematics, no color, equals no taste”. Quite simple indeed! Make sure you brown that lamb.

Transfer the pan with the lamb into the oven and bake for 7-8 minutes. Prepare the crust while the lamb is cooking.
Preparing the Crust:

Place all of the ingredients for the crust except the mustard into a blender and pulse several times until it looks nice and green. Make sure you don’t over do it with the olive oil, just a splash.

Pour the mixture into a deep dish (bowl or plate) and set aside.


Putting it All Together:

Remove the lamb from the oven and brush generously with mustard. Dip the lamb into the crust mixture coating it completely. Dip several times to ensure an even coating. Allow meat to rest for a bit.

Place it back into the oven for 3-4 minutes when you’re ready to serve.

serve the lamb with potatoes boulangère and courgettes provençal, but you can serve with anything you find fitting.


Easy Kahlua Tiramisu Recipe:

* 1 pound cream cheese, softened (2 ~ 8 ounce packages)
* 2 cups sugar
* 1/4 cup milk
* 1 Tbsp vanilla
* 1/4 cup brandy
* 2 Tbsp instant coffee
* 1/2 cup room temperature water
* 1 1/2 cups Kahlua
* 1 quart heavy whipping cream (4 cups)
* 14 ounce package of ladyfingers, bakery fresh or store-bought
* 1/2 cup cocoa powder

Directions: How to Make Easy Tiramisu

1. Lightly spray 10 X 15 inch glass Pyrex baking dish with vegetable spray.
2. Count the ladyfingers and divide in half.
3. Spoon cocoa powder into a sugar shaker, or when ready, use a small strainer or sieve.
4. Using beater attachment of a high-speed mixer, beat softened cream cheese and sugar on medium to high speed until smooth and creamy. Add milk, vanilla and brandy. Beat again until fluffy. Transfer to large mixing bowl and set aside.
5. In a small bowl, dissolve instant coffee in room temperature water. Add Kahlua, stir and set aside.
6. Whip heavy whipping cream on high speed until stiff. Fold whipped cream into cream cheese mixture with spatula and blend well.
7. Set up your workspace like an assembly line. Ladyfingers, Kahlua & coffee, 10 X 15 inch pan, cream cheese mixture and cocoa.
8. One at a time, quickly dip only the bottoms of the ladyfingers into Kahlua. Place the soaked side down and line the entire bottom of the pan with ladyfingers. The ladyfingers soak up the Kahlua very quickly, so be careful not to dip them too long. Just the bottom half should be dipped in Kahlua.
9. Spread half the cream cheese over the ladyfingers using an off-set spatula or plastic spatula.
10. Sprinkle or dust with 1/4 cup cocoa.
11. Repeat with the rest of the ladyfingers in Kahlua and place on top of the cream.
12. Spread the remaining cream cheese mix evenly on top.
13. Sprinkle remaining cocoa over the tiramisu.
14. Cover loosely with plastic wrap and chill for 6 hours or overnight. You may need to use a few toothpicks to keep the plastic from sticking to the tiramisu.
15. Use a sharp, thin knife to cut into pieces.
16. Refrigerate any leftovers.
17. Serves 15.

[norbert79]

Behalf of request of DemonSpeed and Agnes from yesterdays game, here comes my cusine. ;)

What's Cookin' Doc? - Liptauer, also known as "Kőrözött"

As Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liptauer) describes it:
"Liptauer is a spicy cheese spread made with sheep milk cheese, goat's milk cheese, quark cheese or cottage cheese. It is a part of Slovak cuisine (Slovak "Šmirkás" - a garbled form of the German Schmierkäse), Hungarian cuisine (Hungarian "Liptói Túró" or "Körözött"), Austrian cuisine and Italian cuisine. The name "Liptauer" is derived from the German word for the region of Liptov in Northern Slovakia (Liptau in German, Liptó in Hungarian, a county (Liptó county), before 1918, part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire."

As I describe it:
A cuisine, which I have eaten often as child, and still enjoy making it. Something simple, yet delicious. There are tons of variations of it, but here I would like to share you mine.

There are five ingredients necessary:

¤ 2x250g Cottage Cheese
¤ 150g-200g of "Smetana", also known as 'Sour Creme', hungarian "Tejföl". Pick one with 20% of fat.
Since many of you might not be able to gather Smetana in many western countries, you can still imitate it by using western sour cream mixed with heavy whipping cream (38–40% milkfat)
¤ ~200g "Piros Arany (http://www.ungarntipps.de/images-ungarische-spezialitaeten-dudek-peter/piros-arany-rotes-gold-wuerze.jpg)" a.k.a "Red Gold" or known as concentrated paprika-cream. Made using cayenne pepper, also known as dried paprika in powder form. Since this is also something hard to get outside of Hungary, try get something similar in your surrounding, but make sure that the concentrated paprika isn't sweet, otherwise it might spoil the taste.
You can also use plain cayenne pepper, but then you have to add salt to the mixture as well, since "Piros Arany" has salt included.
¤ Onions. Size: diameter around 8-10 cm, take 1,5 of it.
¤ 1-1/2 of a teaspoon caraway seeds

The preperation is quite easy:

Take a bigger bowl, take the cottage cheese, and whirl it using either a fork or a beater. Then add the sour-cream, and whirl it till it gets mixed well. The mixture consistency should be rather stiff, than a creamy one, since you still have to add the concentrated paprika and the onions as well.
After adding the concentrated paprika to it, whirl it again till it gathers a yellowish-orange kinda colour. Take the onions, mince them, the smaller the better, add it to the mix, whirl it again.
Now, add the caraway seeds, but if you got hungry during the preparation, take only 1 teaspoon of caraway seeds and add 1/2 teaspoon caraway seed-powder to it.
Leave it for 1/2-1 hour in the fridge.

You are done! (http://www.derchef.hu/wp-content/uploads/2009/09/MG_6961_derchef.jpg) (mine looks better ;)) I normally use white-bread, but any type of bread/crescent roll/bread rolls/buns fit.

[DemonSpeed]

Haha, thanks mate, i will try to do it xD

[norbert79]

You're welcome :) Good luck, and upload some pictures of the end-product, I am quite curious how you managed making it :)

[Orion]

Im eating everithing but not all the time
For me food is food nothing special hehe
but nice recipes here i need to make some to try out :D

[DemonSpeed]

I made it Norbi, that Kőrözött its tasty :p I don't made pic but looks same as your pic well xD

[norbert79]

Orion: Yeah, you really should! :)

DemonSpeed: I am glad you tried it! :D Happy to see, that you enjoy it too!
The image I have included wasn't really my own picture of the Liptauer, but I have tried to find the one which looked closest to mine. :)