The cookery thread - Your recipes & home-cooking

[jimbob23]

Pesto:

- Extra olive oil infused with basil
- Handful of fresh basil leaves
- Clove of garlic (I used 2, cos I love it)
- pinch of salt
- pinch of chilli pepper
- tomato
- pasta

Grind or blend the basil, garlic, salt and chilli pepper, adding some oil to make a paste. If it's too thick, add some more oil.

While you're doing this, cook yo' pasta.

When the pasta's cooked, drain it, return to the hot pan and stir in yo' pesto.

Serve ASAP, topping with thin slices of tomato and fresh basil leaves.

If you also decide to roast some sliced courgette, quartered onion and chunks of pepper with garlic, parsley and oregano, which you then put into individual portion-sized bowls, top with cheese and melt under the grill, so be it.

 

[BBC]

MMMMMNNNN tasty. You know what Jimbob i may well actually give this a go , in the kitchen obviously. I'll let you know how it goes.

 

[jimbob23]

You do that.

 

[BBC]

I will.

 

[BBC]

Maybe tonight!

 

[BBC]

7000 posts baby! That was me!

 

[BBC]

Pesto:

I tried you pesto Jimbo, fair enough I didn't make my own (one step at a time) instead i went to sizainsbury's and bought some fancy eyetalien shiz. I also substituted the roasted veg for marinated salmon fillets. It tasted pukka though

I'm not quite masterchef yet but hey it's a start

 

[MISS T]

How to make Love:

Ingredients:
4 Laughing eyes
4 Well-shaped legs
4 Loving arms
2 Firm milk containers
2 Nuts
1 Fur-lined mixing bowl
1 Firm banana

Directions:

1. Look into laughing eyes.
2. Spread well-shaped legs with loving arms.
3. Squeeze and massage milk containers very gently.
4. Gently add firm banana to mixing bowl, working in and out
until well creamed. For best results. Continue to knead milk
containers.
5. As heat rises, plunge banana deep into mixing bowl and cover
with nuts, leave to soak (preferably NOT overnight).
6. The cake is done when banana is soft. If banana does not
soften, repeat steps 3-5 or change mixing bowls.

Notes:

1. If you are in an unfamiliar kitchen, wash utensils carefully
before and after use.
2. Do not lick mixing bowl after use.
3. If cake rises, leave town.

 

[db]

1 Fur-lined mixing bowl

fix up! non-stick utensils are the only ones i keep in the kitchen..


edit: just as i posted this, the r. kelly lyric "hot and fresh out the kitchen" popped into my head.. i suddenly feel unclean lol..

 

[db]

staffordian dave "internet geek" gorman on saturday kitchen this morn

 

[MISS T]

How to make the best Bacon Buttie. http://news.sky.com/skynews/article/0,,30000-1259767,00.html

I want this job.

 

[victoriab]

Good to hear that the University of Leeds is spending its money well!

 

[MISS T]

Got any tried and tested Tapas recipe dishes?

 

[jimbob23]

Got any tried and tested Tapas recipe dishes?

Try this bad boy:

Slice up some chorizo into meaty chunks. Fry it off with some garlic. Add some red wine and reduce right down. Add the juice from a tin of tomatoes and cook for a couple of minutes.

Made it up myself, and it rocks.

You could also try this one what I invented, which I do if I'm doing tapas-y stuff, but which isn't particulalry Spanish:

In a saucepan, fry some sliced chicken which has been marinated in a bit of olive oil with loads of black pepper and parika, and add some sliced onions and sweat them off. Add some white wine and, again, reduce this. Then add some double cream and heat through, stirring. Dish it up!

And, of course, prawns fried in garlic butter.

 

[Andreas Rex]

All the talk about Indian food in the 'Out and About' thread got me pining for a good curry, and I remembered my mum has a recipe which is super-easy and mega-tasty. I cooked it last night and it received glowing praise, so I think it's time to spread the love.....

Andreas Rex's Mum's Sweet & Sour Balti Chicken

Ingredients:

3tbsp tomato purée
2tbsp greek yogurt
1.5tsp garam masala
1tsp chilli powder
1tsp garlic pulp
2tbsp mango chutney
1tsp salt
½tsp sugar
4tbsp corn oil (I used sunflower oil)
675g/1.5lb chicken, skinned and boned (I used 1 breast portion per person and cut it into thin strips)
150ml water
2 fresh green chillies, finely chopped
2tbsp fresh coriander, chopped
2tbsp single cream

Method:

1) Blend tomato purée, yogurt, garam masala, chilli powder, garlic, mango chutney, salt & sugar in a mixing bowl.

2) Heat the oil and pour in the spice mixture. Bring to the boil and cook for 2 mins.

3) Add chicken pieces and stir until well coated.

4) Add water to thin sauce. Cook for 5-7 mins or until chicken is tender.

5) Add fresh chillies, coriander and cream and cook for a further 2 mins until chicken is cooked through.



Make sure you don't use tablespoons of things instead of teaspoons, and vice versa. You really wouldn't want to add 1tbsp of chilli powder instead of 1tsp....

 

[tek-monkey]

Sounds good, only let down being I never have things like cream, greek yoghurt, fresh corriander lying about. I try not to buy food that goes off, as I never know when I'll eat next.

Make sure you don't use tablespoons of things instead of teaspoons, and vice versa. You really wouldn't want to add 1tbsp of chilli powder instead of 1tsp....

I would!

 

[Andreas Rex]

Sounds good, only let down being I never have things like cream, greek yoghurt, fresh corriander lying about. I try not to buy food that goes off, as I never know when I'll eat next.

If you buy small pots of cream and yogurt you can easily use the lot if you cook for 5/6 people, and you can freeze the coriander for future use.

Make sure you don't use tablespoons of things instead of teaspoons, and vice versa. You really wouldn't want to add 1tbsp of chilli powder instead of 1tsp....

I would!

When I first cooked this I made it for 9 people, and somehow my multiplication was way out that day....I think there were only 2 or 3 of us who managed to eat it cos it was so darn hot! Adding the green chilli towards the end means that you can taste it first to judge the required amount, and you can also serve those who don't like it too hot, then add more for yourself. Honestly, this is one tasty momma!

 

[tek-monkey]

How much does the above recipe feed? And what does this line mean?

3) Add chicken pieces and still until well coated.

Sounds good though

 

[Andreas Rex]

How much does the above recipe feed?

I cooked for 3 of us, but the sauce could have accommodated another portion of chicken

And what does this line mean?
3) Add chicken pieces and still until well coated.

Errr...stir the chicken til it's well coated in the sauce....typo amended

 

[tek-monkey]

lol, thought it was but had to check! May try this soon, I like mine hot though so may add the chillis while cooking the chicken Certainly seems quick to make anyway.