Cookin' With The Canteen Presents: Fresh Recipes Of Spring

Canteen Crew

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

I might have to bookmark this thread so I can copy some of these recipes!

[mylife]

Aight, I gotta hit the rack Ms B.

Great thread tonight. Thanks for sharing!

[PROCON]

Good night, ladies, time to hit the sack!!

[MS.BEHAVIN]

You should!!
I think I might still have the first cookin’ thread I ever did on here.
it was something like 1200 posts!
Lemme see if I can find it..
talk about recipes!
LOL

[Publius]

CAPONATA

2 tomatoes
4 medium-size eggplants
1 stalk celery, chopped
4 bell peppers
4 white onions
1/3 cup vinegar
1 tsp sugar
1 2-oz bottle capers, drained
1 cup pitted green Sicilian olives
2 bay leaves
4 tbsp olive oil
salt
pepper

Simmer the tomatoes in water for 5 minutes, then drain and puree. Cut the eggplant into large chunks, and sprinkle with salt. Leave for 30 minutes, then pat and dry.

Cut the peppers into pieces about 1/2-inch square; chop the onions coarsely. Warm the vinegar, and dissolve the sugar in it. Combine these ingredients, and add all the remaining ingredients. Salt and pepper to taste.

A note from Publius' mom: Oil a roasting pan that is not Teflon-coated because of the vinegar.

Spread the mixture in the pan, and cook for 1-1/2 to 2 hours at 350 degrees, mixing the vegetables every 30 minutes. Serve at room temperature.

[PROCON]

But, need a 50!

[PROCON]

But, need a 50!

[Kathy in Alaska]

Home safe and sound....saw a browsing moose, but it was out in a field. Shorts, bare feet, ice water.

How is your day going? I hope not too frazzled.

[PROCON]

But, need a 50!

[PROCON]

But, need a 50!

[BIGLOOK]

When I was a kid, we had clam bakes in upstate NY every 4th of July. My grandfather and uncles would take the train down to Fulton Street and return with burlap sacks full of clams, oysters, lobsters, crabs and seaweed on the third of July, while we dug out a pit and gathered hardwoods and stones for the pit. (The stones were round granite with no streaks of quartz or any other silicate so they wouldn't explode in the heat....same as in Hawaii but here we have blue rock which is basalt.)

Into the pit went seaweed, chicken and corn from our farms, seaweed again, some of the clams for steamers, more seaweed, then lobsters and crabs. The oysters and the rest of the clams were dished out on the half shell......while waiting out the bake.

And for all that toil digging and firing the pit, I never got a cold beer!

(Well.....actually I did but don't tell anyone....ok?)

[TASMANIANRED]

I think the wind up to the full moon is sometimes worse.

[PROCON]

But, need a 50!

[PROCON]

But, need a 50!

[MS.BEHAVIN]

I love eggplant!
Thanks, Publius!

[oldteen]

Rest well, FRiend. Have a great Thursday!! *hugs*

[PROCON]

But, need a 50!

[TASMANIANRED]

Sounds like an insult worthy of a knuckledusting but I don’t guess gentlemen did that.

[BIGLOOK]

Aloha Lucky!

OK...... we'll see your raise and double it.

[MS.BEHAVIN]

*HUG*
Nitey nite, My!
Glad you enjoyed the thread!