Recipe Thread

[shais_mom]

Wow - I definitely have been missing out! Of course, I am allergic to the beans, so could not indulge anyway, but still, a fun concept!

actually the ones I have had don't use chili - they just make taco meat - which i prefer b/c I'm not a big bean fan

[Karen]

actually the ones I have had don't use chili - they just make taco meat - which i prefer b/c I'm not a big bean fan

Maybe next time I'm in Ohio, we'll have to have some together, then!

[cassiesmom]

PT foodies, what are capers? I know they are a plant, specifically a bud from the plant. I had chicken piccata over the weekend and, of course, there they were. What's the flavor of capers, anyway? What else can you do with them beside chicken piccata? My mom has a jar of capers in the refrigerator, but it seems as though she uses only a very few at a time. (she mostly makes half of a given recipe nowadays since it's just her and my dad, so that may be part of it- if you use a small amount in a recipe to begin with, and she is using even less)


Thanks,
Elyse

[Karen]

They are nasturtium buds, pickled basically.

[Randi]

Elyse, I use them when I make Wiener Schnitzel... put a little of the juice in the sauce and some capers on top of the meat, after it's done, along with horseradish. So yummy!

You can also put a few in a tuna salad and you can also sprinkle them on a pizza. The first pizza I ever had was in Switzerland and it had capers on.

Can't think of any more recipes right now - just had breakfast.

Here's one recipe (quite a large portion, but you can make half). There are countless other recipes for it:

* 280 grams of tuna (2 cans)
* 200 grams of shunning, 0.2%
* 120 grams of pickled gherkins (4 pieces)
* 60 grams of onion (small)
* 2 tablespoons capers
* 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
* 1 tablespoon tabasco
* 1 lemon
* Salt and pepper

[kittycats_delight]

capers are used in a lot of italian dishes. They are not always 'pickled' they are often salted. Capers are quite strong in flavor. They are often called caper berries. Wiki explain them quite well. capers

[Barbara]

Another recipe containing capers:
Prepare a garlic butter with lots of basil in it (mixing the soft butter with finely diced garlic and the basil cut into fine stripes (what you call a chiffonnade )). (about 1 stick for 4 persons)
Grease an oven-proof dish with normal butter.
Take some fish fillet, salt it and pepper it and put it in the dish. Put flakes of the garlic basil butter all over it. Sprinkle with capers, olives and lemon juice and cook it in the pre-heated oven (350 F) until it is done (which depends on the thickness of the fish, for most 10-15 minutes will do). It is a nice mediterranean recipe that does not need a precise amount of ingredients and which is not much work but lots of aaws and oohs.

@Randi: what is "shunning"?