Freeper Canteen ~Cooking Contest Come give us your favorites~Feb 16.2006

[MS.BEHAVIN]

 

Welcome To the Canteen Cook-Off

Shake Rattle and Roll

Jerry Lee Lewis

Chubby Checker

Bill Haley

Come on, Mojo! Quit slacking and participate, will ya? (Talk about a slacker!) Ahem! Now where were we? Oh Yeah!

This is a fun, friendly cooking contest open to anyone who would like to participate! There will be prizes! Imagine dat! First, second and third prizes, and honorable mention!

The prizes are cookbooks from Ms. B's extensive collection!

First prize: Patti Labelle's Lite Cuisine

Second prize: Greatest ever Thai Recipes

Third Prize: An appetite for Passion

Honorable mention: Pizza by James McNair

**  Winners will be announced two weeks from tonight! **  Entries can be main course, desserts, or side dishes! **  Please post your entries to this thread by midnight,        EST on Feb. 17, 2006. **  Make sure Ms.Behavin is in the "To" line of your post      to be considered for a prize!

Woo-hoo!

Our panel of impartial (?) judges will have the final say!

I love cooking with wine! Sometimes I even put it in the food!

Have fun!!!

We will never forget who we owe our Freedom to! We are here first and foremost for the Troops! Please, no politics in The Canteen! We want the Troops to be able to relax, relate and rest! A gentle reminder from Ms.B

Disclaimer: Any kitchen disasters are the sole responsibility of recipe posters and participants! Keep a fire extinguisher handy! If you have dogs, you can get rid of disasters before your spouse gets home.. If the dog won't eat it, resort to shovels! Have fun!

[StarCMC]

LOL --It will -- need more caffein!!

[luvie]

Oh! I am so sorry about your arm getting injured in your fall. I had no idea.

My hubby is looking in a Navy Cook book from 1944 to see if he can find that recipe you're looking for. You MIGHT have to adjust the servings, though!

Well, he just found it...and it used dried sliced beef, but he said just substitute hamburger. That's what he does. I don't eat the stuff. *shudder*

[CMS]

feeding us ok. but i did get some mild food poisoning the other day.

[luvie]

Oh, my goodness...are you all right now? When we pray for you to stay safe we don't think about you getting poisoned by your chefs! Did anyone else get it? Did they figure out what caused it?

[HiJinx]

I missed the eggnog story.

Nana read the 'or' as 'and' and made one very potent eggnog one year in Berlin.

The soldiers we had over for the New Year's Party were very happy young men by the end of the evening!

[CMS]

weather is cool and wet.

[beachn4fun]

(waving)

Hiya Unc

[luvie]

How 'bout some chocolate...the best of both worlds....if you can keep Mojo away from it! LOL!

[beachn4fun]

(waving)

Hiya Unc

[Sensei Ern]

OK, I will do my best to tell how to make my "Make a hound dog hug a polecat Stew":

Need:
Slow Cooker
Frying Pan
Cutting Board
Thin-bladed Cleaver (I use only this blade for almost everything...paring, cleaving(duh), spatula, pan scraper)
Soup Ladel

Ingredients:
1 lb Rib Eye Steak
1 lb bag of small carrots
1 lb (about 4) Russet Potatoes
Salt
1/4 lb (Stick) of butter
1 cp flour
1 cp water
Worchestershire sauce

Do:
1. Cut the steak into one square inch chunks
2. Place steak chunks into fry pan and splash Worchetershire sauce over meat
3. Flash fry meat by using the high setting on the fire, and stir the meat with the cleaver to get all sides of meat brown
4. Turn off fire under fry pan
5. Use cleaver to lift meat out of fry pan and put into slow cooker
6. Add cup of water to the fan pan sauce
7. Although the Worchestershire sauce has plenty of salt, I always add more to the pan (I sprinkle it until I am happy with the saltiness)
8. Add a little of the flour to the fry pan sauce and use the cleaver to stir it
8a. Continue to add flour until the sauce looks like a very runny gravy (it thickens once it is added in to the slow cooker)
8b. Put lowest setting fire under fry pan and let it simmer while doing the next steps
9. Add carrots to the slow cooker (Note: it does not matter whether peeled or no, I prefer non-peeled as there is more nutrition in them)
10. On cutting board, cut potatoes in half, then cut each half in half, and finally each new half in half again (leaving skins on)
11. Turn off fry pan fire and add gravy to the slow cooker
12. Set slow cooker to its high setting (I am talking about the electric cooker, you will need to guess if you are using a stew pot)
13. Stir all ingredients, of course using the cleaver
14. Cover
15. Go play America's Army on your PC for the next three hours
16. At least once an hour, go check on the pot to make sure you aren't burning the house down and that the dogs aren't trying to get to it, and to stir the ingredients
17. After three hours, open a coke and grab a bowl, I use a ladel to get the stew as the cleaver doesn't work well for that
18. After enjoying your first bowl, go back for another bowl

[tomkow6]

That's exactly what we did in the Navy. I HAD a full set of Navy/Marine/Sub Service recipe cards, but I think my ex took them....at least I was never able to find them..

[tomkow6]

MAN! It's pouring like crazy out side! AND there's thunder & lightning!

[stand watie]

"*shudder*"======>i think you HAVE to be a former GI "of a certain age" to be ADDICTED to SOS! (the younger GIs, like under 40YO, don't even know what it is! the few that DO, aren't "impressed". fwiw, i learned that, when i was "called back" for Desert Shield.)

rotflmRao.

free dixie,sw

[CMS]

im all ok it was over in a few hours. 5 or 6 others were slightly sick. yes the culprit was sweedish meatballs

[tomkow6]

MY recipe for SOS is NOT THE WAY WE MADE IT IN THE NAVY!

Mine's been "altered"!

[stand watie]

btw, speaking of army recipes, i have the OLD "yeast-raised dinner roll" recipe from WW1 (1911 cookbook).

it starts, "to a 100 pound sack of flour,well-sifted, ADD--------"

thought you might get a chuckle out of that.

free dixie,sw

[SevenofNine]

HA HA there is report off AP wire reporting that CNN Throw a diva fit why you ask because FOX news score inteiew with Dick Cheney report OLE DICK didnt' want go softball interviwer like Larry KING LOL!

Also heyyyy TOMKOW there another report off Ap wire that Chicago don't want be 2008 Republican convention why I want see Chicago cops go 1968 over Demonstraters that going show at GOP Convention OH PLEASEE

Don't be p***y Chicago

[luvie]

This is the 1944 Navy Recipe for SOS: (serves 100)

Ingredients...............Weights..............Amounts

beef, dried sliced.........7lbs..............1 3/4 gallons
milk, liquid........................................5 gallons
fat, melted...............2lbs.....................1 quart
flour.....................2lbs....................2 1/2 quarts
pepper....................1/2 oz...................1 3/4 tbsp
bread, toasted......................................100 slices

Cut beef into small pieces. Heat milk to boiling. Blend together fat and flour to a smooth paste. Stir into milk. Cook, stirring constantly, untill thickened. Add pepper. Stir in beef. Let simmer for 10 minutes. Serve over toast.

[luvie]

Swedish meatballs, huh? Gotta be careful of those Swedes! Are they a secret weapon of the enemy?

[luvie]

LOL! Can you imagine sifting a 100 pound sack of flour? The mind boggles!