Dinner tonight... Post some good ones (along with recipe) if ya would!

[Dichotomy]

We have the same up here, available at Sams Club.  Yum.



Oh, when you get a chance ROX, can you resend the cookbook, I wiped my hard hard when installing 7 and forgot to save it.


Thanks

SACRILEGE!!!!  How DARE YOU!!!!!

Penance is required

[MrBill]

Drop dead heart attack chicken fried bacon

6 servings
30 min prep

Fried Bacon
1 lb thick sliced bacon, cut in half
1 egg
1/2 cup milk (or cream or half & half)
1/2 cup flour
3 tbls SACO Buttermilk Blend 
spices (optional)
oil (for frying)

Cream Gravy
3 tablespoons drippings or butter
3 tablespoons flour
2 cups milk
2 tablespoons heavy cream (whipping)
salt and pepper, heavy on the pepper

Heat oil in a frying pan over med-high heat.
Whisk egg and milk together in a bowl.
Place flour in another bowl - season it if you’d like (garlic, pepper, salt, lemon, cajun, etc.).
Double dip - first in the egg mixture, then into the flour and repeat.
Fry in oil until golden brown.
Serve with cream gravy for dipping; also good served with steak.

To make cream gravy:.
Put drippings in a sauce pan over med-high heat. Whisk in the flour until well blended; cook over medium heat for 2 to 3 minutes, until bubbly. Remove from heat and gradually add milk whisking constantly; return to heat & whisk until the gravy thickens; Whisk in the cream, salt & pepper.

[AAJagerX]

MrBill, you've probably just signed my death warrant. 

Chicken....Fried....Bacon....   

[Tac]

Tuna Eggplant Parmesagna.

Very simple to do and very tasty.

2 eggplants
Fresh Tuna steaks (not CANNED tuna!). Buy them as big as you can. Of you can get Tuna fillets its better.
Parmesan cheese
Grated Swiss Cheese (or mozarella if you prefer it)
Minced Shallots
Minced Garlic
Olive Oil
Sesame Oil
Chopped fresh Cilantro
Tomatoes
Salt
Pepper
White Vinegar

Three stages to cook it.

Stage 1: Eggplant

-First you need to cut the eggplant into long slices. That is, dont cut it into circular portions but rather cut them into long fillets.
-Cut the tomatoes into slices.

-Put the egpplant fillets inside one of those disposable aluminum foil oven trays. You need TWO trays for this.

-Pour olive oil on top of the eggplant. Eggplant absorbs oil like a sponge and needs to get a lot of it.
-Sprinkle chopped garlic on top of eggplant.
-Put tomato slices on top of the eggplant slices.
-Sprinkle the tomato with pepper.
-Put a thin layer of swiss or mozarella cheese on top of the tomatoes.

Put it to bake 350F for about 20 minutes. Halfway through take it out and pour olive oil on it. The eggplant should come out soft and nicely cooked and the tomatoes on top of it should be nicely stewed.

Stage 2: Tuna

While the eggplant is in the oven you do this part.

- I don't know the exact words for this so I'll just illustrate it. Put the tuna steak on the cutting board, put your palm on top of the tuna and press down softly. Now take a sharp long knife and cut the tuna steak in half..the blade going horizontally under your palm. What you want is to end up with 4 to 8 'thin' tuna steaks rather than just a couple of thick ones.

- splash the thin tuna steaks with a spoonful of vinegar on each side.

- Rub salt and pepper into the tuna.
- Leave tuna to 'marinate' in its salt and pepper and vinegar rub for as long as the eggplant is being cooked.

Stage 3: Final product

Take a large oven tray..the same type you'd make a lasagna with. This last part you do literally almost like a lasagna:

- grease the bottom of the tray with sesame oil and some of the chopped scallions.

From bottom to top, there should be six layers:

Bottom layer (layer 1):half of the Tuna steaks (raw)
Layer 2: On top of the layer 1 tuna steaks put a thin layer of parmesan cheese scallions.
Layer 3: Eggplant with the tomatoes on top
Layer 4: Fresh cilantro and garlic layer
Layer 5: The rest of the tuna steaks (raw)...and pour a bit of sesame oil on top of it.
Layer 6 (Top layer): Eggplant with the tomato on top ...and put a good amount of parmesan cheese over it so it makes a nice crunchy crust when it bakes. If you like pepper you can add some pepper on top among the cheese.

Put this in the oven again 350F for 20 to 30 minutes.


It goes very well with red wine. 

[Reschke]

NICE TAC!!!

Here is one of my favorites from the old cooking recipes from down here in Alabama.....don't believe anyone that says this will serve 24 people....

It comes from a restaurant here in Birmingham called Zoe's Kitchen and its AMAZING Mediterranean based menu with southern additions. They have been serving people in the Birmingham, AL for longer than I have been here and that has been 20 years this year. http://www.zoeskitchen.com/

The Best Chocolate Sheet Cake. Ever.

Prep Time: 20 Minutes  |  Cook Time: 20 Minutes  |  Difficulty: Easy  |  Servings: 24

Ingredients

    FOR THE CAKE:
    2 cups Flour
    2 cups Sugar
    ¼ teaspoons Salt
    4 Tablespoons (heaping) Cocoa
    2 sticks Butter
    1 cup Boiling Water
    ½ cups Buttermilk
    2 whole Beaten Eggs
    1 teaspoon Baking Soda
    1 teaspoon Vanilla
    _____
    FOR FROSTING:
    ½ cups Finely Chopped Pecans
    1-¾ stick Butter
    4 Tablespoons (heaping) Cocoa
    6 Tablespoons Milk
    1 teaspoon Vanilla
    1 pound (minus 1/2 Cup) Powdered Sugar

Preparation Instructions

In a mixing bowl, combine flour, sugar, and salt.

In a saucepan, melt butter. Add cocoa. Stir together.
Add boiling water, allow mixture to boil for 30 seconds, then turn off heat. Pour over flour mixture, and stir lightly to cool.

In a measuring cup, pour the buttermilk and add beaten eggs, baking soda, and vanilla. Stir buttermilk mixture into butter/chocolate mixture. Pour into sheet cake pan and bake at 350-degrees for 20 minutes.

While cake is baking, make the icing. Chop pecans finely. Melt butter in a saucepan. Add cocoa, stir to combine, then turn off heat. Add the milk, vanilla, and powdered sugar. Stir together. Add the pecans, stir together, and pour over warm cake.

Cut into squares, eat, and totally wig out over the fact that you’ve just made the best chocolate sheet cake. Ever.

[Nwbie]

Bill's Dip - named for neighbor who made this

2 philly cream cheese packages - 16 oz? rectangular  - softened
1 16 oz sour cream
1 large onion finely chopped / minced
2 tablespoons Worcester ( I usually add more to taste - 1 or 2 splashes mixed in next day after refrigerated)
mix all together with hand mixer - or get a good workout for your forearms with a fork -
refrigerate overnight in an airtight container - stir with fork to loosen up

bag of your favorite dipping potato chips - I'm a fan of Lays wavy chips
sixpack of your favorite beverage
1 lazyboy
1 larger screen tv
sit back and enjoy


NwBie

[druski85]

Recipes, eh?  As a broke lad in his mid 20s, I shop each week according to what items are on sale or well priced and I know I will/can use.  Then I get home and mix some stuff up, based on what ingredient and flavor combos I know or suspect would work.  Every once in a while I launch into some weird combos just to try them out, such as the Dijon/pomegranate sauce I concocted a couple weeks back.  It only becomes tough when people ask at work "ooo what is in that?"   I simply can't afford to shop to recipes, to be quite frank.  On top of that, it's not nearly as fun.