I like your cream sauce...

pendulumchanges @ 10:53pm: it's jambalaya-esque
I made this for the second time tonight. It's soooooooooooooo yummy and I make it in a huge batch so I have tons of leftovers. And it's just as good the second day ;)

( Spicy Chicken and Rice )

ahaw9913 @ 10:20pm: Easy Lemon Cookie Recipe
I am probably the last person in the western hemisphere to learn that you can make cookies from cake mixes. But, these are the best lemon cookies I have ever had, and so, so easy!

Since one cannot live by Deb's lemon bars alone, I figured I would share this recipe with you all.


Lemon Cookies

1 Lemon Cake Mix
1 Egg
4 oz. Cool Whip (I used Cool Whip Free)
Powdered Sugar

Combine all ingredients except powdered sugar. Roll into balls, roll in powdered sugar and place on ungreased cookie sheet. Bake at 350 degrees for 10 to 12 minutes. Cool slightly before removing from sheet.

If anyone has any other cake mix recipes, Please share! I would love more!

pendulumchanges @ 10:02am: White Chocolate Covered Oreo Cream Cheese Cookie Balls
Delicious balls anyone would want to put in their mouth. Best served in pairs ;)

( Balls )

plasticine_star @ 9:48pm: Enlightened Starbucks Coffee Cake
Ok, so I love the coffeecake at Starbucks but each little square has a billion calories. I've found a couple of "clone" recipes that call for a box of yellow cake mix and like a cup of butter. O.o

A couple of weeks ago I stumbled on a light version of this cake. I made it for movie night with the girls and everyone loved it so I thought I'd share.

(  Enlightened Starbucks Coffee cake )

Note: The recipe comes from Camilla Saulsbury's blog. She does a lot of Food Network competitions and has written a bunch of cook books.

http://enlightenedcooking.blogspot.com

noteverything @ 10:59pm: *macaroni and cheese*
My darling daughter Clover has been really sick for most of the week with the flu. Missing school for her is a major crisis, one that involves much angst and knashing of teeth and worry, worry, worry about a GPA that might drop a couple hundreths of a point. And I'm NOT exaggerating.

So, BK had a board meeting today and then had to go out to eat with a new BOD member, so he was in town for the evening. I wanted to do something to comfort Clover and get her to relax for a bit before she tackled the books tonight, so I made her mac and cheese. She *LOVES* it and this recipe is SO EASY to make and it makes me happy to make it for her.

( macaroni and cheese, easy style )

xie_xie_xie @ 8:43pm: Chicken/Sausage/Mushroom Casserole
A cold weather favorite, and it's always better the second day.

noteverything @ 1:03pm: *tortilla soup*
I can't just type up a recipe, I have to tell you a story with it. So bear with me. At school, we always have Secret Pals. If you want to participate, you draw a name and give gifts to someone once a week and someone else gives you gifts...standard fare in a lot of workplaces. We do it twice a year, usually for 6 weeks at a time. I *love* to do it...so I always participate. Some years, I get all kinds of wonderful goodies and some years I get chocolate every week, even though I always put "NO CHOCOLATE please!" on my info sheet.

( the rest of the story *AND* the recipe )

besamislabios @ 1:38pm: Super easy to do dessert.
Lemon Mousse

Ingredients:

1 tin of evaporated milk
1 tin of condensed milk
1/2 cup of fresh lemon juice
1 teaspoon of lemon zest

Preparation:

Mix with a mixer the evaporated milk until it has tripled its volume.

Add the lemon juice, then the condensed milk and finally the lemon zest.

Pour in small dessert glasses and put them in the fridge. Voilà!


Many thanks to 4cupcakes and outlander for helping with the translation. :D

xie_xie_xie @ 1:53pm: Heroin chicken wings
So-called because they're addictive. Don't say I didn't warn you.

4 lbs of wings, disjointed, throw away the tips
1/2 cup of melted butter
1 cup of dry parmessan cheese, grated
oregano, basil and parsley to taste
salt and pepper

Mix the wings with the butter, and stir until all the meat is covered.

Mix the cheese and herbs.

Dip each piece of chicken in the dry mix.

Place in foil covered baking sheet with sides.

Bake at 350 degrees for an hour or until golden brown.

noteverything @ 8:35am: There was a discussion yesterday on plasticine_star's journal that started out being about baby spinach and a recipe she could take to a party. It ended with me thinking about spinach and how much I love it and things I cook with spinach. So here are a couple of recipes. WARNING: These are NOT low fat, low calorie recipes. They're delicious, but I'd save them for special occasions!

( Chicken Florentine and Chicken Breasts with Spinach and Pine Nuts in Lemon Butter Sauce )

dirtylttlescret @ 5:52pm: Can you stomach that?
So I was looking for a recipe to roast chicken halves today and stumbled across this recipe in the The Good Housekeeping Cookbook:

Roast Chicken with Forty Cloves of Garlic
Slow roasting mellows garlic to a sweet nuttiness. Serve with lots of crusty bread for spreading the extra garlic.

Hehehe :D

dirtylttlescret @ 12:36pm: Originally posted at qaf_drabbles

Title: Cookbook
Author: dirtylttlescret

Recipe for rimming:

1 streetlamp
1 track of techno music
1 hot young twink (preferably in high school as they’re more tender and less gristly, but any twink you have on hand will do)
1 highly unfashionable flannel shirt and trainers

Add:

1 Jeep with griping best friend
1 really hot fitted black t-shirt
1 horny sex god (preferably an ad exec with regressed emotional issues, but any sex god will do)

Pour into enormous retrofitted loft with imported Italian fixtures. Mix liberally with nudity and cheesy lines. Spread butt cheeks and apply tongue liberally. Repeat as needed until comes.

noteverything @ 11:21pm: If you decide to post an entry here and I'd really LOVE for you to, please use one of the following tags (or more than one if appropriate).

Please?

Debbie Would Approve: Italian
A Different Kind of Protein: Meats
Honeycutt's Catering: Appetizers
Vic's Venue: Pastries/Desserts
Justin's Cookies: Cookies :-P
Zen Ben: Vegetarian
Not After 7 p.m.: High in Carbs
Poultry, NOT Chicken!: Poultry
Twinkies: Snacks/Temptations

sidhe @ 6:06pm: I hope Debbie would approve. :)

While shopping at Fresh Market, I stumbled upon Macaroni Grill Restaurant Favorites meal kits. The kits come with everything you need except the meat (the ones I've bought have all been for chicken). They taste great and take around 20 minutes to cook from start to finish.

The website can be found here.

Sadly, I don't have an appropriate icon for this kind of thing. *iz sad*

xie_xie_xie @ 8:32am: A PSA from Xie
I thought I should mention that when one has decided one is consuming too much caffeine, and one thus tries to make a smaller morning pot of coffee than usual, and one inadvertently makes the coffee too weak, and one is thus seriously under-caffeinated, that one should probably avoid trying to make scrambled eggs lest one crack the eggs into the compost bucket and put the shells in the bowl.

Three eggs. In a row.

That is all.

sidhe @ 9:47pm: I have a burning question
tweedygal told me to x-post this here she's a mom and can make me do things by using The Voice.

This is the original post and this goes to the suggestions on cooking:

Probably a stupid question, but how the hell do you cook artichokes? I like to eat them, but I've never actually cooked them before. I generally eat them at a restaurant.

Any suggestions?

I don't have a food-appropriate icon. I suppose this one will just have to do. *grins*

We need a Food-911 - srsly. :D

I still don't have a food icon. I suck!

xie_xie_xie @ 7:53pm: Another PSA from Xie
I feel it only right to share this information with the fandom.

When making coffee, if one omits the step where you add the grounds to the filter basket, one is no longer making coffee.

One is making hot water.

That is all.

besamislabios @ 11:37am: Help!
I've a recipe and I need some measurements conversion. I looked at the one on the user info page but I didn't find what I was looking for.

I need these in grams:

1 1/2 cups of flour, 1 cup of sugar and 8 tablespoons of butter.

Thank you.

notreallyme10 @ 6:25pm: Deviled eggs
I'm in a weird mood... I'm craving deviled eggs. Anybody have a good simple recipe for me?

xie_xie_xie @ 2:51pm: A Public Service Announcement
Dear friends,

I felt I should share with you the results of an inadvertent culinary discovery I made while preparing my lunch today.

It appears that cinnamon and chili powder are not interchangeable in recipes. You might want to make a note of that.

Xie

noteverything @ 4:33pm: Vic's Venue: Desserts
I can't remember who asked for my recipe for Key Lime Pie, but I'm finally getting around to it. If you've made Key Lime Pie before you might recognize the recipe, I got it from the Eagle Brand sweetened condensed milk can years ago.

( Key Lime Pie )

xie_xie_xie @ 4:37pm: Artichoke question
I don't normally cook with my microwave. In fact, I think this the first time I ever have.

I use it mostly to heat up the little thing full of beans or beads or whatever that you put on a sore neck, and sometimes to melt butter, and now and then to heat something up. That's it. I rarely use it at all.

BUT... I burned my steamer last night and it was still soaking this afternoon when I wanted an artichoke with my lunch. So I thought, well, I could microwave this... and I googled it and got directions telling me to do it for 4 minutes on high, covered in a little water.

It wasn't quite done so I let it have two more minutes, and then it was done but OMG it was so bitter!

I've never had a bitter artichoke before, and I eat them constantly. I've boiled them and steamed them and baked them and grilled them, and this was a first.

Is this a microwave thing?

jule1122 @ 4:53pm: Capellini Frittata
I am making one of my favorite quick dinners tonight so I thought I'd share.

( Capellini Frittata )

jule1122 @ 9:51am: Italian Soups
I make a lot of soup partly because my sons will eat just about anything if it is in soup. Both these recipes have baby spinach and this is how I like to cut it. I make stacks of spinach leaves and roll them up long-wise then slice to make thin ribbons. There is a fancy French name for this, but I can't remember it. It sounds like a lot of work, but for me it's just as quick as tearing it.

This is probably my favorite soup, and one of the few Rachel Ray recipes I can actually make in 30 minutes.
( Potato, Spinach, and Tomato Soup )

This next soup is one I made up from combining a few recipes. You can adjust it to more like a stew by using less broth and water. Everyone in my family loves this soup including my sons.
( Italian Vegetable Soup )

jule1122 @ 1:12pm: Baked Dishes
I make a lot Italian food so I am going to try for a few themed entries. Many of these are recipes I've changed a bit from cookbooks. Generally I use more cheese than most recipes call for and when using a jar spaghetti sauce I use one that is smooth and slightly sweet. Also I am a vegetarian so no meat here!

My version of Lesbian Lasagne. There is one unusual ingredient here, but give it a chance

( Lasagne )

I rarely like Eggplant Parmesan in restaurants. It's either too bitter or bland. The low fat way of cooking the eggplant came from Vegetarian Time and I solved the boring problem by using smoked mozzarella cheese. It makes a huge difference.
( Eggplant Parmesan )

This next recipe comes from Rachel Ray so it can be done in 30 minutes. I'm a slow cook so most of her recipes take me about 45 minutes. I put my changes to ingredients in parenthesis.
( Fast Fake-Baked Ziti )