What's your favorite recipe?

Question

I don't know why, but I was just wondering what your favorite recipe or food is, I'm really interested in recipes and making food!

Answer 1

Lately I've been into mixing coconut milk, Thai curry paste, and peanut butter into quick 'Thai' curry sauce,. which I server over rice, meat, or vegetables.  

Answer 2

Aloe Jam

Cut the older leaves from the stem where the leaves are thickest

Place upright with cut end to the bottom so that as much sap can drain as is possible. Stand for a day or so...

Trim point edges and tips so that the portions that are left would all be about 10 mm thick, otherwise the pieces are too thin tomake jam from...

Cut the white or transparent pieces in to about 30 mm squares and peel each one from top to bottom

Soak in clean water for a few hours, and rinse under running water when done. There must be no yellowy bits left afer rinsing.

Prick each portion well with a fork

Lie overnight in lime rich water by adding 2 table spoons of lime powder to the water that covers the aloe. Lime is generally available from pharmacies.

Idealy you would dissolve lime in warm water before adding to aloe portions.

Next day, rinse aloe portions again in running water

Weigh out the following;

For every 2,7 KG aloe, you would use 3.2 KG sugar

About 4 table spoons of lemon juice is handy because it would preven jam turning in to sand sugar.

Boil aloe for about 30 minutes in clean water and drain.

In the mean while, do the syrup...

Add the portions of aloe one by one so that the sypur does not stop boiling

Allow to simmer for about 1 ½ hours until aloe portions become transperant and the syrup thickens.

Stand the aloe portion in the syrup over night so that the aloe can absorb the syrup.

Next day, remove the aloe while heating the syrup again. Replace the aloe portions back in to syrup once it is heated.

Bring to the boil.

Place the aloe portions in to hot, sterilized bottles and cover with syrup before sealing.

Answer 3

Sesame Chicken. Yum!  

Answer 4

Banana Split Dessert

Answer 5

I love making prime rib!

Season a ribeye roast with ribs attached with worcestershire sauce, garlic, salt, and pepper. Roast in a 425 degree oven until the internal temperature registers 130 degrees on a meat thermometer.

I serve this with Jack Tar Potatoes which are made by baking potatoes until done, then removing the inside of thepotato leaving the outer skin intact. Add butter, cheese, salt, pepper, bacon, sour cream, and chives and mix well. Then add this mixture back to the potato skins, top with extra cheese, and bake until cheese is melted.

Also serve with Romaine Salad with Mandarine Orange Segments, Almonds, and  Oil & Vinegar.

And after I slice the roast, I retain the ribs and bake them again or grill them with bbq sauce for yummy bbq ribs.

Answer 6

chicken spaghetti

for recipe

go to: www.cooks.com

type in: April's Louisiana

it will come up with 3 of my recipes, one being the chicken spaghetti

Answer 7

LARRY’S CHILI

2 cans Hunts Special Sauce, or two cans diced tomatoes  (I haven’t been      able to find Hunts Special for a long time)

1 can tomato paste

2 Lb. Ground beef, not lean, grease is needed for cooking but will be drained off.

1 Tablespoon olive oil

1 can Kidney beans

1 can Black beans

2 medium onions, chopped coarse,  I like to use one red onion & 1 bunch green onions.

1 cup Heinz Ketchup

1 Tablespoon  Hershey powdered cocoa.   Yes, you read that correctly!!

2 Tablespoon Chili Powder.  I use pure chili powder, does not have cumin in it. (Don’t go cheap here, buy the best you can find,  makes a huge difference in the taste)

1 clove Garlic chopped fine

2 Jalapeno or Serrano peppers, remove seeds & chop fine

6-8 drops Tapatio Sauce. (this is a hot pepper sauce WITHOUT vinegar) available in the Mexican department at the grocery.

This ingredient is the place to “tune” the heat in the chili.  Use more or less Tapatio, NOT more or less chili powder.

In heavy pot, brown meat with onions & peppers.  Drain well, now is the time to get rid of all the grease you can!!

Add all other ingredients, be sure you use the juice from the beans & tomatoes.  This is the salt component of the dish.  Add V8 juice to achieve the consistency desired.   Simmer for about 40 minutes.  

Answer 8

Veggie Lasagne

Very yummy but takes about half an hour to prepare and another half hour to cook.

Ingredients

2 tbsp light olive oil

1 medium onion

4 cloves

1 red pepper

1 green pepper

2 zucchini

8 oz mushrooms

3-4 cans chopped tomatoes in tomato juice

fresh basil

2 oz flour

2 oz butter

1 pint milk

3 oz mozzarella

2 oz cheddar

sheets of lasagne (NOT pre-cook lasagne!)

Heat the oven to whatever temperature is recommended on the lasagne box.

Heat the olive oil in a big pot

chop onion and add to pot

chop garlic and add to pot

chop other vegetables fairly small (½ inch pieces) and add to pot

keep stirring to keep from sticking!

add cans of chopped tomatoes

add fresh basil - don’t skimp.  The more, the better.

bring to boil and keep at a high temperature to allow tomato sauce to reduce.

Grate the cheeses.  You need about two cups of grated cheese.

Heat the butter in a pot.

Add the flour and stir until the mixture makes a dryish ball on the bottom of the pot.

Add the milk, just a little at a time, and blend into the ball of flour with a metal whisk.  Make sure the milk is evenly absorbed before adding more.

Once all the milk is in the pot, bring to the boil while whisking madly!  Failure to whisk madly will result in a lumpy sauce.

When the sauce boils it will get thicker.  This is good.

Add most of the grated cheese (but keep half a cup aside) and keep the temperature up until all the cheese has melted.  By now the sauce should be the consistency of heavy cream.  If it’s too runny, add more cheese.  If it’s very thick and not runny enough, add a tiny bit more milk.

By the time the cheese sauce is ready the tomato and veg sauce should have reduced so that there is no liquid left and the sauce is quite thick.

Turn off the heat under the sauces.

Using a ladle, pour some of the cheese mixture into a lasagne dish.  

Add sheets of lasagne along the bottom of the dish.

Add a layer of tomato and veg sauce.

The another layer of lasagne.

Then another layer of cheese sauce.

Add a second layer of tomato and veg sauce

and another layer of lasagne

and finally a layer of cheese sauce.

Sprinkle the remaining half cup of grated cheese over the top.

Put in oven and cook for the time recommended on the lasagne box.