Simple stuff that tastes better than you thought it could:
Posted by: Isaac
- pancakes;
follow the recipe on the box, but with these changes
old recipe:
- xcups of milk
new recipe:
- x*.5 cups of milk
- x*.25 cups of whipping cream (the stuff you add sugar too and use an egg beater to turn into whipped cream)
- diced fruit (I prefer strawberries or blueberries, but it's your choice.... kiwi's might be nice)
- a little bit of brown sugar and cinnamon
add the milk and whipping cream when you would otherwise just add the milk; add the brown sugar and cinnamon with the flour and add the fruit after mixing batter to proper consistence then mix a little bit more
- Salads;
- Do not slice or dice vegetables to anything resembling a uniform size or shape; if using cherry tomato's, or other bite size elements, throw in a few whole
- Add shredded cheese, if you have a grate with multiple faces, use all of them (unless they produce very very large chunks. Though, there is no such thing as "too small"
- use multiple dressings, mix oil based dressings with vinegar based dressings
- use fruit juices, olive oil, vinegars and wine as dressings, though very sparingly
- croutons; crush up to varying degrees, there is no such thing as too small, and throw some in whole
- toss the salad after adding everything to it, that includes cheese, dressings and croutons
note: alcohol in wine does not cook off, but should only be used in a very small quantity
- Southwest Breakfast (I'm told that's what it's called, I call it "a bunch of stuff thrown on a skillet);
- ingredients
- Base:
- 2 oz Olive Oil
- 2 oz Cooking Wine
- 2 oz Soy Sauce
- 2 oz butter
- 1 oz vinegar
- 1 potato
- 3 slices of ham
- meet dressing:
- A1
- 1/2 tomato
- fruit dressing:
- 2-4 oz's Dole juice (if you use other stuff, multiply the inverse proportional of there % juice by "2-4 oz's"; so if it's 20% juice, use 10-20 oz's)
- 1-2 oz' vinegar based salad dressing
- 1-4 oz's Monster Energy Drink (use other stuff, but it's less active ingredient/oz and less active ingredient/$)
- 3 slices of cheese singles
- 2 eggs
- some strawberries
- Base:
- directions
- add the base ingredients to the skillet over low heat, then immediately proceed to skinning the potato
- with potato skinned, grate directly into skillet until you have a little chunk barely big enough to hold onto, turn up heat to medium and mix with spatula
- dice ham, one slice at a time. Cause this is actually a timing mechanism, don't stack all the ham and dice it at the same time!
- add diced ham to skillet, turn heat to high, mix with spatula
- add "meat dressing", continue mixing with spatula
- dice tomato, this is once again a timing mechanism, so take your time and mix the skillet alittle with the spatula inbetween cuts
- add diced tomato to skillet, turn heat to medium, add "fruit dressing", mix with spatula
- tear two chese singles up, add to skillet, mix with spatula untill somewhat uniform
- break eggs, turn to high heat, mix with spatual for a few moments
- add remaining cheese, mix, lower heat to medium
- dice strawberrys, add to skillet and lower heat to off, mix
- serves about 2 starving people
There is plenty of room to adjust this meal, I've used every kind of mammal you can imagine and have used rice instead of potato's. I seperated "base", "meat dressing" and "fruit dressing" from the main of ingredent list as these are easy places to experiment.
- ingredients
- knock out (tastes really good, and if you go to bed immediately after you will fall asleep. Though you will wake up feeling awful :) );
- ingredients
- milk
- sugar
- 2 strawberrys
- directions
- dice strawberry's.
- microwave 8 oz's of milk for about 20-30 seconds
- add diced strawberry's
- add sugar until it won't disolve anymore
- stir
- drink
- ingredients
Note; I don't pay alot of attention to the clock or measuring cup's or actual tempture of stove when I'm cooking... I just kinda, do it all based on smell and appearence. So, it might be good for someone who does to rewrite some of these. Particularly the "Southwest Breakfast"... and I won't say it's nessicarly cheap, but it's extreamly filling nutritious, alot of bang for the buck...
Comments
sesa00
Thu, 04/19/2007 - 1:50pm
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Re: Simple stuff that tastes better than you thought it could:
"They say 'Silence is Golden', I say 'Well, duct tape is silver...'"
jjbova
Thu, 04/19/2007 - 1:55pm
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Re: Simple stuff that tastes better than you thought it could:
You know what is great, mixing in a little salsa and cooked hamburger meat to some Velveta Mac and Cheese. It's all to taste, I have no measurements (sorry), but I won't eat mac and cheese without that kick from the salsa.
sesa00
Fri, 04/20/2007 - 3:52pm
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Re: Simple stuff that tastes better than you thought it could:
thanks! I'm going to try the grilled PB&J. My girls LOVE PB&J with thin slices of bananas-ooohhh-I'm going to add the bananas to grilled version.....
"They say 'Silence is Golden', I say 'Well, duct tape is silver...'"
jjbova
Tue, 04/24/2007 - 8:57am
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Re: Simple stuff that tastes better than you thought it could:
Another thing my Wife always makes that is SOOOO easy but good....
Hamburger meat and cream of mushroom soup. She says it's sloppy joes, but I knwo the truth. Either way it is really good, throw it on a toasted bun and enjoy. Simple, easy, cheap, good.... the story of my life.