Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

Skip to comments.

FReeper Weekly Recipe Thread (April 28, 2012)
FreeRepublic Cooks | April 28, 2012 | libertarian27

Posted on 04/28/2012 8:39:04 AM PDT by libertarian27

Welcome to the 21st installment of the FReeper Weekly Recipe Thread for 2012.

Looking for something new to make or made something new that came out great? Please share a 'tried-and-true' recipe or two- for fellow FReepers to add to their 'go-to' Recipe Stack of Family Favorites!

Here's the place to share and explore your latest and greatest favorite recipe.

(The 2011 FReeper Recipe Cookbook is on my profile page as an Online Cookbook Thread Link)


TOPICS: Chit/Chat; Food; Hobbies; Reference
KEYWORDS: cooking; food; recipes; weeklyrecipethread
Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-30 next last
Upcoming Food Holidays:

National Blueberry Pie Day April 28

National Shrimp Scampi Day April 29

National Raisin Day April 30

National Chocolate Parfait Day May 1

National Truffles Day May 2

National Raspberry Tart Day May 3

National Homebrew Day - National Orange Juice Day - National Candied Orange Peel Day May 4

May Food Celebration Weeks:

National Raisin Week- First Week * National Hamburger Week- Second Week * International Pickles Week- Third Week * National Frozen Yogurt Week- Fourth Week * American Beer Week- Fourth Week

May Food Celebrations Month:

National Asparagus Month * National Barbeque Month * National Chocolate Custard Month National Egg Month * National Gazpacho Aficionado Month * National Hamburger Month * National Salad Month * National Salsa Month * National Strawberry Month

1 posted on 04/28/2012 8:39:05 AM PDT by libertarian27
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: libertarian27; NoCmpromiz; FrdmLvr; TN4Liberty; Daisyjane69; HungarianGypsy; SouthDixie; illiac; ...

FReeper Weekly Recipe Thread Ping List
(to be added or deleted - please contact me)

Last week’s recipes (April 21)

Cakes _ Post#` 14 _ Rum Cake
Cakes _ Post#` 27 _ Pineapple Upside Down Cupcakes
Cakes _ Post#` 29 _ Pink Lemonade Cupcakes

Meat _ Post#` 15 _ Leg of Lamb

Pickles _ Post#` 10 _ Cowboy Candy jalapenos

Pork _ Post#` 11 _ Pork and Asparagus Stir-Fry

Sauces _ Post#` 4 _ Orange and Jalapeno Preserves

Seasoning _ Post#` 20 _ Tex-Mex Tequila Jalapeno Wet Rub

Soup _ Post#` 16 _ Roasted Pumpkin Soup

Vegetables _ Post#` 23 _ Roasted Cauliflower and Tomatoes

Link
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2875174/posts?page=30#30


2 posted on 04/28/2012 8:42:00 AM PDT by libertarian27 (Check my profile page for the FReeper Online Cookbook 2011)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: libertarian27
Any good ideas for an appetizer and main course tonight? I've got dessert covered. Or give me 4 mystery ingredients for each, a-la "Chopped" and I'll run with them! No Yak spleen or anything like that. Has to be available at a suburban/rural supermarket.
3 posted on 04/28/2012 9:16:27 AM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obama now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ThunderSleeps

bbl


4 posted on 04/28/2012 9:20:35 AM PDT by varina davis (A real American patriot -- Gov. Rick Perry)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: libertarian27

Happy Saturday!!!!!


5 posted on 04/28/2012 9:31:33 AM PDT by Gabz (Democrats for Voldemort.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: libertarian27

Heading out to the Asian market to buy a beltfish. Will”twice fry” this evening. Yummm.


6 posted on 04/28/2012 9:32:37 AM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: ThunderSleeps

Who’s your audience - what’s the weather like - and what’s for dessert?

More importantly - anything good on sale at the market this week? That’s how I gauge what to eat nowadays:)


7 posted on 04/28/2012 9:35:26 AM PDT by libertarian27 (Check my profile page for the FReeper Online Cookbook 2011)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: Gabz

Happy Saturday to You!

I’ve got a bunch of leftover Lobster - thinking of just the straight NE Lobster roll - Grilled NE Hotdog rolls with Lobster in melted butter - I’d love to make some Lobster Mac n’Cheese but that pure sandwich beckons me....


8 posted on 04/28/2012 10:00:08 AM PDT by libertarian27 (Check my profile page for the FReeper Online Cookbook 2011)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 5 | View Replies]

To: libertarian27

Either one sounds delish! We had fresh rockfish last night. I handed the piece of fish to my 13 yo and said this is how you tell how fresh it is - she looked at me and said, it has no smell. EXACTLY!!!!

It came out of the water Thursday night and was fileted Friday morning. I so love living on the coast!


9 posted on 04/28/2012 10:30:57 AM PDT by Gabz (Democrats for Voldemort.)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 8 | View Replies]

Click the link. The Republic you save may be your own.

10 posted on 04/28/2012 11:15:11 AM PDT by RedMDer (https://support.woundedwarriorproject.org/default.aspx?tsid=93)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | View Replies]

To: ThunderSleeps

What do you have on hand?

In honor of Shrimp Scampi Day, if you have some shrimp in the freezer then scampi takes all of 5 minutes to throw together. Boil up some pasta to serve the scampi on. A nice salad and you’re set.


11 posted on 04/28/2012 12:00:37 PM PDT by bgill
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 3 | View Replies]

To: libertarian27; All

I have embarked on a ‘recipe adventure’. I am trying to document and then share recipes from my folks’ childhood. Also, I have a couple of nieces who have just started entertaining & one is now cooking for her new hubby. I have a couple of aunts who are constantly sending me this or that recipe. So .... instead of doing the e-mail thing or sending hard copies (which is what the aunts tend to do, even though they have computers), I have started a recipe blog for my family & friends where the recipes (& the stories that go along with them) are available all the time for perusing. I have 6 recipes up so far - all but one I’ve posted before on this thread. I must say, it has been a bit of an experience trying to figure it all out .... but it’s pretty thrilling when you see the recipes published!

The one recipe on the blog I have not posted on this thread is for “Escalloped Salsify” so here it is (source: Vaughan’s Vegetable Cook Book - 1919):

Instructions

“Cook salsify in salted water until tender, alternate it in a baking dish with bread crumbs seasoned with pepper and salt, and dot with butter. Moisten it with cream or milk and a little melted butter, cover the top with bread crumbs dotted with butter, and bake a light brown.”

If you’re wondering what is ‘salsify’, I put a post about salsify on the garden thread (including the recipe) so here’s the link if you are interested.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/chat/2877166/posts?page=74#74


12 posted on 04/28/2012 12:27:47 PM PDT by MissMagnolia (Being powerful is like being a lady. If you have to tell people you are, you aren't. (M.Thatcher))
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: libertarian27

Wife and teenage kids. Cool and a little breezy. Dessert was going to be roasting marshmellows around the fire pit. But if the wind doesn’t die down some...


13 posted on 04/28/2012 1:34:38 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obama now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 7 | View Replies]

To: libertarian27

We all should know how butter is made...by churning milk or cream. Now what would you get if you used chocolate milk?

Chocolate Butter! And it also looks alot like Foie gras when it’s rolled and cooled.

Use 8 ounces of heavy cream and 3 ounces of chocolate syrup and put it in a food processor. Run that thing for a while, until it looks like grey whipped cream.

That stuff is delicious right there, but you want to push past that until it breaks. It will separate into a choco colored liquid, and a lighter colored solid.

Line a bowl with quite a few layers of cheese cloth and pour that whole messy looking thing into the bowl.

Wrap the cheese cloth around the solids and squeeze out the liquid. And now you have “Chocolate Butter”!

Surely someone has done this before but I find no mention of this in my internet searches, all I seem to find is “chocolate butter cream”.


14 posted on 04/28/2012 3:14:07 PM PDT by perfect stranger (Nobama)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 1 | View Replies]

To: perfect stranger

Neat idea!

You can market it and be sued by that wacko that sued Nutella because she thought it was healthy...guess she wasn’t that much of a ditz - the suit won 3Million.

A very cool idea indeed!
I made butter once in girl scouts - pretty good, but chocolate butter would be even better!


15 posted on 04/28/2012 3:50:43 PM PDT by libertarian27 (Check my profile page for the FReeper Online Cookbook 2011)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 14 | View Replies]

To: ThunderSleeps

What did you come up with?


16 posted on 04/28/2012 3:51:57 PM PDT by libertarian27 (Check my profile page for the FReeper Online Cookbook 2011)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 13 | View Replies]

To: libertarian27; Dr. Bogus Pachysandra

Thanks for the Ping.

That Pork and Asparagus Stir-Fry from last week sounds delicious. Using a bit of soy bean (miso) paste and some grated ginger instead of the black bean and garlic sauce is also good, and is often used here in Japan for stir-frying pork and vegetables.


17 posted on 04/28/2012 7:11:24 PM PDT by Flotsam_Jetsome (If not you, who? If not now, when?)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]

To: Flotsam_Jetsome

“Using a bit of soy bean (miso) paste and some grated ginger instead of the black bean and garlic sauce is also good,”

Yeah. I was just really lazy. I usually make my black bean garlic sauce from scratch. Much better when it’s fresh. Went to Cam’s today and bought a belt fish. Twice fried some of it for dinner this evening. Thing is,,,, there’s only me to feed,, and the darn thing is almost 3 feet long!


18 posted on 04/28/2012 7:17:27 PM PDT by Dr. Bogus Pachysandra ( Ya can't pick up a turd by the clean end!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 17 | View Replies]

To: libertarian27
Spinach salad with mandarin oranges, cranberries, blackberries, walnuts and vinaigrette dressing. Then breaded chicken with fresh squeezed lime juice and a little red wine vinegar, with couscous and Parmesan on the side. Finished up with smores around the fire pit.
19 posted on 04/28/2012 9:26:18 PM PDT by ThunderSleeps (Stop obama now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 16 | View Replies]

To: libertarian27

Comfort food at our house this weekend. Meat loaf, Alabama candied tomatoes, mashed potatoes and green beans last night. Whole wheat penne with tomato sauce and meatballs tonight.


20 posted on 04/28/2012 9:44:53 PM PDT by kalee (The offenses we give, we write in the dust; Those we take, we engrave in marble. J Huett 1658)
[ Post Reply | Private Reply | To 2 | View Replies]


Navigation: use the links below to view more comments.
first 1-2021-30 next last

Disclaimer: Opinions posted on Free Republic are those of the individual posters and do not necessarily represent the opinion of Free Republic or its management. All materials posted herein are protected by copyright law and the exemption for fair use of copyrighted works.

Free Republic
Browse · Search
General/Chat
Topics · Post Article

FreeRepublic, LLC, PO BOX 9771, FRESNO, CA 93794
FreeRepublic.com is powered by software copyright 2000-2008 John Robinson