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My Birthday!
16 years ago
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Goin' out for the weekend, but just wanted to let y'all know that my bday is this friday August 7th! Huzzah!
I'm 22!
And if you can spare the time, leave a comment with your favorite recipe! I love hearing everyone's culinary loves!
I'm 22!
And if you can spare the time, leave a comment with your favorite recipe! I love hearing everyone's culinary loves!
I'm no good with recipes though.
I can make my mom's goulash!
feeds 4-6
Ingredients:
large bottle of spicy v8 juice (a second one may be necessary if the first isn't quite enough)
chili powder
pepper
1 Ib. ground beef.
some macaroni (medium sized box)
onions
one clove of garlic
potatoes if you'd like (you must chop them small)
cook the meat in a pan (with minced garlic), and then the macaroni. Put both (after draining) into your big pot along with the v8 juice, onions, and potatoes. Add lots of pepper and chili powder (it's hard to go overboard) let cook until potatoes are done, stirring occasionally.
Personally, I like it without the potatoes, but it's good every so often.
the whole thing shouldn't run you any more than $15, and you get to feed a group of friends!
Frozen Grasshopper
3/4 oz green creme de menthe
3/4 oz white creme de cacao
2 cups vanilla ice cream
Mix all three ingredients together in a blender and blend until drink has the consistency of a good milk shake. Serve with a spoon and straw.
It will look line green, but it is so made of happy. hehe
I would share a recipe but alas... I am not great at cooking. Though I LOVE watching people cook and watching cooking shows.
I wish I knew how to cook. I love food. D:
Several pounds of either yukon gold or red potatoes. A mix works too.
1 head of garlic
1 Sweet onion
Mushrooms
Carrots
Olive Oil
Balsamic Vinegar
Rosemary
Salt
Pepper
Heat oven to 400*. Slice potatoes into wedges of roughly the same size and place in a mixing bowl with a cover. Slice mushrooms into large chunks, onion into bits, and carrot into bite-sized slices and mix. Remove most of the large pieces of garlic from the head and husk. Chop large pieces in half, and toss in with everything else. Drizzle olive oil until enough is in the bowl to lightly coat the entire mixture, then toss to coat. Add rosemary, salt, and pepper to taste. Finally, drizzle a little balsamic vinegar over the mixture and toss again Empty the mixing bowl into an oven-safe ceramic or pyrex container. Ceramic or pyrex works best, try to avoid aluminum or steel (which conduct heat too quickly and will burn the bottom of the dish).
Cover in tin foil and cook for roughly and hour to an hour and a half depending on how thick the wedges you made were. Poke the wedges with a fork to test for doneness, the fork should go in easily when they're ready. Remove the foil for the last 30 minutes of baking to give the wedges a nice brown color.
Raw Tuna Steak or steaks of reasonable quality
Mango Chutney
Apricot preserve
Lemon Pepper
Liquid ginger
Kosher Salt
Lemon juice
Mix ~2 tbs apricot preserve, 2 tbs mango chutney, 1 tsp liquid ginger, and 1 tsp lemon juice. Add enough lemon pepper to give it some extra snap, whatever works to your taste. I like the contrast of the spicy against the sweet, so I add enough to give the glaze some character.
Dry your tuna steaks and lightly oil a baking dish with sesame oil if you have it, ceramic or pyrex. Lightly salt the outside of your fish with some kosher flakes. Flakes are good for this because they're larger and stick to the meat fairly well. Pour a little of your glaze into your dish, enough to give the bottom of the fish something to rest on. Place the fish down, then pour the rest of the glaze over the top. Bake at 350* until the fish is done, time will vary depending on the thickness of your steak. I like mine to be just a little pink in the middle when I pull it out, leaving the juices to finish the cooking process when you give it a chance to rest.
This glaze also works well for chicken.
Home-made or store bought focaccia bread. Panini bread works pretty well for this too. Ideally you want a bread that is thick enough to slice, but thin enough to make a greedy sandwich with. Home made stuff is pretty easy to make, and it impresses people fairly easily. This recipe works pretty well (you can skip the wild toppings... really, the olive oil and salt are the important parts): http://www.foodnetwork.com/recipes/.....ipe/index.html
Spread: Home made pesto if you can swing it, a decent snappy store-bough brand if you can't. Home-made pesto is farily easy, requiring only *fresh* basil, olive oil, lemon juice, parmesan cheese (even the powdered stuff works ok), and garlic. I'll lightly roast a head of garlic (sliced so all of the cloves are open on the bottom) in the oven at 400* for a half an hour or so by wrapping it in tin foil with a little olive oil. Once it's ready you can just squeeze on the tin foil and the cloves will come squirting out like cartoon bananas. Empty the whole head into a food processor, add basil, a spritz of lemon juice, a roughly equal amount of parmesan, and some olive oil. Blend, adding olive oil until you get a nice pesto-like consistency.
Filling: You can go wild here if you like. I've always been partial to a mix of sliced mushrooms, onions, and red bell peppers. I'll cook the onions to get a little carmelization, then toss on the mushrooms and peppers and cook them until soft. Spice a little to taste, then melt some decent swiss cheese over the whole assemblage until it becomes a nighmarish gooey mess. If you have any other leftover cheese (provolone, gouda) this is a good recipe to use them up in.
The Sandwich: Slice your focaccia, spread pesto on both sides, and then put your filling in-between your slices. This is not a recipe to make when you're watching your weight, but it's damned tasty for entertaining company.
And I don't know if you're a drinker, or not, but the rum can be removed completely. It doesn't really need rum, I just add that to make it alcoholic.
Sour Daiquiri
1 oz Sweet 'N Sour mixer
1 oz Strawberry Daiquiri mixer
1 Tsp sweetened lime juice
2 oz Rum
2 Marachino Cherries
Sierra Mist (or 7-Up)
Pour the mixers, juice and rum into a 20 oz glass, slice the cherries in half (so they'll flavor the drink) and put them into the glass, then fill with Sierra Mist. Add ice if you wish, and enjoy!
Chili Veggies
1 Potato (Idaho brown is good, but you can also use Russet Golds)
1 ear of corn
a small handful of green beans
four door-knob mushrooms (That's the round ones that look like a door knob, I forgot the real name for 'em) or two Shiitake Mushrooms
red chili powder
Butter
Slice the potato and mushrooms, then butter a frying pan (I usually use a couple of teaspoons) and toss them in with the corn that you had taken off the cob and the green beans that you had cut earlier. Let them simmer for a couple of minutes, then add chili powder to taste. Cook to desired consistency (some people like softer potatoes than others) and serve.
And birthday kisses, well they come later! My boyfriends coming to visit me on Wednesday after being away all summer, so they will be belated but much needed! And he had his birthday in the summer when he was away so it will be birthday kisses for the both of us!
D'awwww! Well, I hope he had a Happy Birthday also, and you two have a blast Wednesday. That's an order! ;3