Harleyman! Quick Question; cooking

[Henry]

i love cooking
been doing it for 40 years
i do use basic recipes for starters if i have not made something similar
Mike the half can of beer is one of the things that got me started
most things i cook have wine or beer in them somewhere
and you have to taste it dont you
in my younger days i traveled a lot and tasted many foods from many places
and always tried to find out what i was eating
often i could not speak or understand the language
so i would just point to someone's plate
ill have one of those
i love using herbs spices and precious liquids
i love grocery shopping
i always look for something on sale
could be fish, shrimp,lamb, beef, pork,chicken
or vegies.
i just opened my freezer to see what i have
Hallibut steaks, babyback ribs, frozen squid with other seafood shellfish
etc etc
the thing to stop you putting on weight
i smoke a lot
i have weighed 140lbs for 42 years
LOL
H

 

[cheezyflier]

today i'm making my beef stew in the crockpot. it's a good hot meal on a cold day, and i don't have to pay much attention to it.

 

[Henry]

today i'm making my beef stew in the crockpot. it's a good hot meal on a cold day, and i don't have to pay much attention to it.

i need a crockpot
i cannot find mine i found the plug and cord
just cannot find the rest:isadizzy:
H

 

[Chacha]

If there are any leftovers, lolol, I'll PM you my address!

There are a lot of these at SEASONS 52... A local restaurant in the area.... It's a chain restaurant, I think Georga has one and NJ, IL and PA, and CA....


Healthy food, but no matter how healthy it is, if I attacked it it becomes extra baggages...





Henry,

If you are done cooking, Holler, so we can taste test the food....

I love baby back ribs.... I can eat that and lots of sea food... I am a seafood person! :ernae: I love your recipe with beer or wine on it.... I cook with coke or sprite on some of my food as well...






Mike,

I like the recipe on your Hamburger Helper, I will try that one tonight! Eeeeks! :isadizzy: I said I am not eating that much again!







Cheezy,

I love the beef stew you are making..... Daughter and I always eat hot meal cooked from food... we don't normally eat frozen dinner .... I did try frozen dinner last year, but I rather have real food cooked..... I can eat FD in emergency cases only....

Emergency cases such as I get hungry in the middle of the night and I don't want to cook .... LOL

 

[cheezyflier]

i don't know what happened but at some point i decided that chili powder and cayanne need to be in almost everything i put tomatoes in. the kids don't like it if i make it too hot, so i have to use restraint

 

[Moparmike]

Mike,

I like the recipe on your Hamburger Helper, I will try that one tonight! Eeeeks! :isadizzy: I said I am not eating that much again!

My generic recipe is trimmed down a bit from what Bill had going on in his pot but it's all basically the same thing...something that can be brewed up in only one kettle. You see, I'm allergic to doing dishes...:d
It also gives me some quick, nuke-able leftovers to take to work so I can avoid the dreaded sandwich burnout.

For one package of ground beef, I use one can of Cream of Whatever soup (or the equal amount of a tomato sauce if I'm doing it "red"), and about 3/4 of the water or milk required for whatever carb payload I'm putting in it (rice, noodles, pasta, spuds, etc.).
Season the meat while it's browning (onions and spices). Once it's browned add the soup & water/milk and your pasta/spuds/rice. Bring it to a boil and simmer til the pasta is done.
And if you mess up on the amount of liquid, you can either add a bit more as it's simmering or do the cornstarch/water thing to thicken it up.

And...you can also do the same type of thing with some beef or chicken chunked into about 3/4" cubes or sliced into 3/8" strips instead of the ground beef too.

I can't stand most frozen or pre-prepped food either...not to mention the shock your system goes into when you read the nutrition info on most of that pre-packaged food!

 

[Moparmike]

i don't know what happened but at some point i decided that chili powder and cayanne need to be in almost everything i put tomatoes in. the kids don't like it if i make it too hot, so i have to use restraint

I have to tone things down too if I've got company coming over too.
Try some italian-type seasoning too instead of the chili heat....or a little blend of both (yes, that does work & is actually pretty good...another "mistake" I made that turned out better than expected).

 

[harleyman]

I like food...Period..All Kinds too...


My favorite you ask...

Hmmmm Perhaps Weiner Schtznel with Spatzen (man, its been a long time, not sure if my German spelling is correct anymore)

Thats of coarse with a veal bone reduction brown sauce with plenty of red wine added to glaze it off.....

 

[Moparmike]

Hmmmm Perhaps Weiner Schtznel with Spatzen (man, its been a long time, not sure if my German spelling is correct anymore)

Thats of coarse with a veal bone reduction brown sauce with plenty of red wine added to glaze it off.....

Now you're talking! I grew up on anything & everything German/German-Russian.
Spaetzen or Spaetzle (little spaetzen) or Knoephla is always something to look forward to and easy as all get out to make.
Also, try it with fry sausage ( a good garlic ring sausage) and sauerkraut. Deglaze the pan you fried the sausage in and make a brown sauce with it...gravy!

Okay...I gotta quit watching this thread! I think I've put on about 5lbs just reading the posts!

 

[Chacha]

Now you're talking! I grew up on anything & everything German/German-Russian.
Spaetzen or Spaetzle (little spaetzen) or Knoephla is always something to look forward to and easy as all get out to make.
Also, try it with fry sausage ( a good garlic ring sausage) and sauerkraut. Deglaze the pan you fried the sausage in and make a brown sauce with it...gravy!

Okay...I gotta quit watching this thread! I think I've put on about 5lbs just reading the posts!

I gained 50

 

[harleyman]

Now you're talking! I grew up on anything & everything German/German-Russian.
Spaetzen or Spaetzle (little spaetzen) or Knoephla is always something to look forward to and easy as all get out to make.
Also, try it with fry sausage ( a good garlic ring sausage) and sauerkraut. Deglaze the pan you fried the sausage in and make a brown sauce with it...gravy!

Okay...I gotta quit watching this thread! I think I've put on about 5lbs just reading the posts!

I love spetzel just pan cooked in butter with sausages.....and lots of scallions over the top...Man..Thats eating..

I love Mondel Schnitzel too..With a cherry kirschvauker sauce...Yee hii... ( again the spelling, its been years )

 

[Willy]

My cooking is more along the lines of trying to make a dish that I like to eat. My mom taught us boys the basics of cooking and left us to our own devices beyond that. So most of my cooking isn't real fancy. But I do love tex-mex so I do a lot of chili, enchiladas, chimichangas and tacos. But I've been known to do italian and chinese too.

One of my favorite tricks for batchelor cooking one pot meals is to mix cooked hamburger into rice a roni box dishes. But most of my cooking involves beef or venison in it. I'm not much on chicken or pork.

 

[tigisfat]

I am by no means a trained chef, but I have an alternative way of making mac and cheese.

Start with a simple homemade alfredo sauce, make only a few cups.
Start adding mozzarella out the yin-yang. Parmesan too, if you have it, but in lesser quantities.
Add sauteed minced garlic, and elephant garlic for a sweeter taste.
Add crushed red pepper to taste.
Lastly, add crushed sun-dried tomatoes until the sauce is a light orange. Don't overdo it.
Add more cheese until you think it can't handle more.

Add and stir into one pound of the pasta of your choice.



Thanks for the ideas, guys. I'm going to try a few of them out.