Recipe Thread

[carole]

Your are very welcome, now let's put the challenge out there for my American friend's to give the recipe a try, and see if they like it.

[Miss Meow]

Tomkatzid, here's a sticky date pudding recipe I found. I have a couple of Jill Dupleix cookbooks and everything has worked out well, so I hope this does too!
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Sticky Date Pudding

The Jill Dupleix Recipe of the week July 11 1995 at 5.40pm on the Doug Aiton Program

The famous, the one and only, the incredible sticky toffee pudding is a rich moist cake studded with sticky dates served hot in a glorious butterscotch sauce.



Ingredients

1 cup of dates (180g) pitted and chopped.

1 teaspoon bicarbonate of soda.

1 cup boiling water.

2 tablespoons butter.

1 cup (150g) soft brown sugar.

2 eggs.

1 1/2 cups (180g) self-raising flour, sifted.



Toffee Sauce

1 cup (150g) soft brown sugar.

3/4 cup light whipping cream.

1/2 teaspoon vanilla essence.

2 tablespoons butter.



Method

Mix dates and bicarbonate of soda in a heat-proof bowl. Pour boiling water on top and leave to stand. Cream butter and sugar until pale, then add eggs one ata time, heating well after each addition.

Gently fold in sifted flour, stir in the date mixture, and pour into a lightly buttered 18cm or 7" square or round cake tin. Bake in a preheated oven (180 C)for 30-40 minutes, until an inserted skewer comes clean.

Combine sugar, cream, vanilla essence and butter in a saucepan, bring to the boil, stirring, and simmer for five minutes. Set aside until ready to serve, then quickly reheat when needed.

Cut pudding into squares and place each square in the centre of a warm dinner plate. Pour hot toffee sauce over each square and serve with fresh cream.

Serves Six.

Note: Traditionally, the sauce was poured over the cake and returned to the oven for the last five minutes of baking to get really sticky. I prefer this method, where sticky sauce meets steamy pudding on the plate.

[Randi]

Here's a recipe of my favourite spanish cookies. Yummy!

Panellets de Pinyones

Ingredients:

2 1/4 pounds of raw almonds ( 1 Kg )
2 1/4 pounds of sugar
1 box of instant mashed potatoes (dry)
1 egg
pine nuts

Mash the almonds. Put in a big bowl the mashed almonds, make a hole in the center and add the sugar to the hole. Prepare the mashed potatoes with 2 glasses of almost boiling water and the contents of the box. Pour it (very hot to mix easily ) on top of the sugar and mix everything together until you get a compact paste. Let it rest until the paste is cold. Form the paste into little balls (about 1 inch diameter), soak them with beaten egg, roll them in the pine nuts until covered. Bake at 375 F, 8-10 minutes. You can change the flavors, adding to the paste shredded coconut, instant coffee, cocoa...

The picture didn't work, but you can see a picture here: http://www.pasioncondal.com/recipes/panellets.htm

[trayi52]

Oh, thank god! I was sitting here at the computer last night thinking about how good it would be to start a recipe thread. I love collecting recipes, I go to the food channel website and look for recipes and copy and paste and keep them in a folder, I got the one that Emeril had where he went to a school, and cooked the " kicked up mac and cheese" and I made it, and I love it, it was so good. Anyway I love this thread almost as much I love the animal threads, and I really love this thread, lets don't let it die, I would post the one I was talking about, but do you think I would get in trouble for it?
To have this, since i was thinking about this last night, is my dream come true.

[trayi52]

Be very quite Richard! I love this site.

[trayi52]

Hi, Just thought you would think this is funny, me the dummy thought this was a real recipe. I don't think it is, so don't try this at home or for that matter anywhere. . But anyway a friend of mine, who is always on the serious side when it comes to recipes sent me this, and I am thinking, great, the popcorn sounds like a great idea. I hope you don't mind if I post this here, I really do have some real recipes that I want to post when I get them in order. I hope this gives you as much of a laugh as it did me. Please laugh!! This is what she sent me, the real arthur is I have not idea.

When I found this recipe, I thought it was perfect for people, like me, who just are not sure how to tell when poultry is thoroughly cooked, but not dried out. Give this a try.
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> BAKED STUFFED CHICKEN
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> 6-7 lb. chicken
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> 1 cup melted butter
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> 1 cup stuffing (Pepperidge Farm is good.)
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> 1 cup uncooked popcorn (ORVILLE REDENBACHER'S LOW FAT)
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> salt/pepper to taste
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> Preheat oven to 350 degrees.
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> Brush chicken well with melted butter, salt, and pepper.
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> Fill cavity with stuffing and popcorn. Place in baking pan with the neck end toward the back of the oven. Listen for the popping sounds. When the chicken blows the oven door open and the chicken flies across the room, it is done.
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> And, you thought I couldn't cook .........
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[RICHARD]

guess who's not getting invited to dinner......




me!!!



LOL, When I go clock shopping I'm gonna look for that blue pyrex set that I was lusting after....

[Kiia]

Ok now I'm hoooked , let's keep this on the first page. hehe

[AmberLee]

Hi. This is the recipe for the Broccoli Salad I brought to the potluck at WolfLady and Mr. WolfLady's home today (15 Feb 2004).

Today's version:

2 - 3 heads of Broccoli, raw, clipped into small flowerlets
1/2 c. sunflower seeds
3/4 c. raisins (I only had 1/2 c. of golden raisins, so added 1/4 c. of cranberry raisins -- added color and flavor)
1 c. shredded cheese (I used lowfat Monterey Jack, use your favorite flavor)
1 small red onion, chopped small

{I added ~ 1/4 c. of pine nuts to add protein and flavor.}

Salad dressing:
~ 1 c. lowfat Ranch dressing
~ 1/4 rice vinegar

Mix well, chill overnight before serving.

[AmberLee]

Original recipe version:

2 - 3 heads of Broccoli, raw, clipped into small flowerlets
1/2 c. sunflower seeds
3/4 c. raisins (golden or regular per your preference)
1 c. shredded cheese (use your favorite flavor)
1 small red onion, chopped small
1 pound bacon, cut in ~ 1 inch strips and fried crisp, let cool


Salad dressing:
2 c. mayonnaise
1/2 c. sugar
6 teaspoons of red wine vinegar

Mix ingredients well, top with dressing, chill at least 2 hours before serving.

[AmberLee]

As promised, here is the recipe for the Fruit Salad I brought to both potlucks. Sorry I forgot to post it earlier. It's tricky though, because you just add whatever fruits that appeal to you from the produce section when you are making it, really...

Note: wash all fruit, pit all seeded fruit, peel apples and kiwi ...
Cut all fruit into bite size pieces

Salad:

Fresh fruits -- add to taste and per seasonal availability
. apples at least 2
. banana at least 1
. orange
. seedless grapes, green or flame or both
. plums
. pears
. nectarines
. kiwi (Chinese Gooseberries)
. berries: strawberries, raspberries, blueberries, blackberries

Canned fruits -- add as available to augment fresh fruit supply
. marachino cherries, halved, at least 8
. peaches
. fruit cocktail
. mandarin orange slices


Salad Dressing:
. 8 ounces whipped topping (Cool Whip or generic)
. 4 ounces cream cheese
. juice from Marachino cherries
. juice from canned fruit, if needed, to whip dressing smooth


Salad Topping:
Chopped nuts, to taste -- pecans, toasted almonds, or walnuts per your preference

Mix bite size fruit pieces together (fresh and canned). Blend salad dressing together until smooth. Note: cream cheese may require mixing in blender or chopped into small piece prior to mixing into whipped topping. Cover fruit pieces thoroughly with dressing. Chill at least two hours. Top with chopped nuts, if desired, prior to serving.

[trayi52]

AmberLee, keep posting those salad recipes. I love salads and they sound really good!

Willie

[AmberLee]

Lately I've been collecting low cal crock pot recipes like crazy. Any interest in my posting any of them, too?

KAK made a Fruit Pizza dessert today that was out of this world. I'm eagerly awaiting THAT recipe!

[popcornbird]

That fruit salad sounds so good its making my mouth water!!! I'll need to try that out!!

[trayi52]

Yes by all means post them! I have already copied the salad recipes. So start posting, I own a crockpot and I need to put it to good use.

Willie