A Cooking Thread

[Bunny007]

Our cooking thread is dying! What should our theme be this time around? I do most of my cooking on the weekend because a) I only like to do it at leisure, and b) it keeps me sane when SO watches football for 48 hours a day. I was thinking of making chili. I know, crazy huh. But the weather's perfect for it.

How would everyone feel about a chili/stew/chowder/soup type theme? Or anything else really, I just enjoy this thread and don't want it to disappear

Side note: Is anyone else confused by some of these emoties? When is a twirly face ever appropriate? Or the little pervy looking "uber nerd." Haha or Green Man (anybody else watch It's Always Sunny?). These crack me up. I'm pretty positive I'm abusing all of them except only the very basic sad face and smiley face. Oh well

 

[somethingshiny]

I just made a huge pot of chili over the weekend. It is SO good after so long without it. We could incorporate the pepper recipes above, and chili with peppers and call it the "peppers week"!

nicole~ I'd go for a salsa if the peppers are really fresh. I have no recipes for salsa, I just make it up as I go along with whatever I have.

 

[dragonfly411]

Ooooo I'll play peppers week! I LOVE peppers. ::Runs off to hunt recipes::

 

[Ninna]

I would like to find a good chili recipe, DH is not fun of it
It has been raning non-stop for almost two days now.. today's lunch:

 

[AGBF]

Okay, dragonfly. Rice it is! Should we start a new thread though? Are PSers who don't want lasagna just not bothering with this thread now??

I usually really like recipe and cooking threads if I can possibly make time to participate in them. I need them to be very specific, however. I like a a slow cooker/crockpot thread where I can go to look for and post my favorite recipes for slow cookers, another thread for Christmas cookie recipes, etcetera. A thread on cooking in general is too broad for me and I know that I will never be able to find anything in it. I like to focus on posting about one topic at a time, too. I mean, sometimes once I get started on a topic (for example, apples in baking) I remember all kinds of recipes and find myself on a real roll!!!

I realize that I don't speak for anyone but myself, but I thought it was time that I mentioned how I have been feeling.

Deb/AGBF

 

[Haven]

Ninna wrote: Ha, ha! My sinful lunch was french toast made with Jewish Bread, filled with apples, it had to be round [not braided] for the challenge over the BBanter's...mine came quite rustic

This bread looks delicious, but I'm wondering--what is Jewish bread? Do you mean challah?
(Sorry, I couldn't get it to properly quote your post.)

 

[Ninna]

This bread looks delicious, but I'm wondering--what is Jewish bread? Do you mean challah?

Yes, that was my entry for a challange last month: 'Apple or Raisin Challah [Spiral] dairy free'

 

[dragonfly411]

Okay, dragonfly. Rice it is! Should we start a new thread though? Are PSers who don't want lasagna just not bothering with this thread now??

I usually really like recipe and cooking threads if I can possibly make time to participate in them. I need them to be very specific, however. I like a a slow cooker/crockpot thread where I can go to look for and post my favorite recipes for slow cookers, another thread for Christmas cookie recipes, etcetera. A thread on cooking in general is too broad for me and I know that I will never be able to find anything in it. I like to focus on posting about one topic at a time, too. I mean, sometimes once I get started on a topic (for example, apples in baking) I remember all kinds of recipes and find myself on a real roll!!!

I realize that I don't speak for anyone but myself, but I thought it was time that I mentioned how I have been feeling.

Deb/AGBF

It would be nice if we had an area just for cooking, the way we do healthy living, but unfortunately I don't think it'd be popular enough just yet. Although if the mods want to make it I'd be a pretty happy camper

I am going to plan to make bowtie pasta with sausage crumbles, peppers, onion and feta on Sunday. Any more takers on the peppers??

Remind me too and I'll post my recipe for pumpkin bread tomorrow!

 

[AGBF]

It would be nice if we had an area just for cooking, the way we do healthy living, but unfortunately I don't think it'd be popular enough just yet. Although if the mods want to make it I'd be a pretty happy camper

Agreed. We can, however, continue to post threads on topics that are less broad than, "cooking" when the urge strikes one of us. If, for example, someone feels inspired by a topic she sees in the cooking thread (e.g. challah or rice pudding) and wants to start a separate thread on it, she can always do that! We're getting close to the holidays, now, and sometimes someone starts a thread on recipes for Thanksgiving. Then, sometimes, someone starts one for Christmas cookies. It depends on the year.

Deb/AGBF

 

[dragonfly411]

AGBF - I'd like to see more of that really. I'd love to have an area dedicated just to curries, and one just to pumpkin recipes. Forgive me but I'm on a pumpkin craze. I've recently fallen very in love with curry too.

 

[AGBF]

AGBF - I'd like to see more of that really. I'd love to have an area dedicated just to curries, and one just to pumpkin recipes. Forgive me but I'm on a pumpkin craze. I've recently fallen very in love with curry too.

Mmmm...I love pumpkin, too! Pumpkin bread was a revelation to me the first time I tasted it. I really do not know if it existed when I was growing up. If it did, it was certainly not popular as it it is today! I remember first tasting it when one of my students gave me a mini-loaf of it as a holiday gift when I was a history teacher at a girl's preparatory school! That was in the 1970's!!! Surely people must always have baked pumpkin and cranberry breads in New England. Where was I? Does anyone want to research old recipes?

Deb/AGBF

 

[Bunny007]

This isn't super pepper-ey but it has a lot of jalapenos, so I'll shoot.

It's of course, another smittenkitchen recipe (swoon) I love her. This is one of my stand bys and I'm making it tomorrow (I still haven't worked up the enthusiasm for chili)

Shakshuka [Eggs Poached in Spicy Tomato Sauce]
Adapted from Saveur

Serves 4 to 6

1/4 cup olive oil
5 Anaheim chiles or 3 jalapeños, stemmed, seeded, and finely chopped (I was nervous and only used 2 Anaheims; I would go for 3 or 4 next time for a more moderate but still gentle kick)
1 small yellow onion, chopped
5 cloves garlic, crushed then sliced
1 teaspoon ground cumin
1 tablespoon paprika
1 28-ounce can whole peeled tomatoes, undrained
Kosher salt, to taste
6 eggs
1/2 cup feta cheese, crumbled
1 tablespoon chopped flat-leaf parsley
Warm pitas, for serving

Heat oil in a 12-inch skillet over medium-high heat. Add chiles and onions and cook, stirring occasionally, until soft and golden brown, about 6 minutes. Add garlic, cumin, and paprika, and cook, stirring frequently, until garlic is soft, about 2 more minutes.

Put tomatoes and their liquid into a medium bowl and crush with your hands. Add crushed tomatoes and their liquid to skillet along with 1/2 cup water, reduce heat to medium, and simmer, stirring occasionally, until thickened slightly, about 15 minutes. Season sauce with salt.

Crack eggs over sauce so that eggs are evenly distributed across sauce’s surface. Cover skillet and cook until yolks are just set, about 5 minutes. Using a spoon, baste the whites of the eggs with tomato mixture, being careful not to disturb the yolk. Sprinkle shakshuka with feta and parsley and serve with pitas, for dipping.

This is the smitten kitchen recipe (so the notes are hers, not mine), I actually use two onions, about 4-5 jalapenos and 7(ish) garlic cloves. I like my food spicier. It's possible I already posted this recipe in another thread (or hell, even earlier in this thread) but it's so good, I don't care People deserve to know!!!

 

[Ninna]

AGBF - I'd like to see more of that really. I'd love to have an area dedicated just to curries, and one just to pumpkin recipes. Forgive me but I'm on a pumpkin craze. I've recently fallen very in love with curry too.

Mmmm...I love pumpkin, too! Pumpkin bread was a revelation to me the first time I tasted it. I really do not know if it existed when I was growing up. If it did, it was certainly not popular as it it is today! I remember first tasting it when one of my students gave me a mini-loaf of it as a holiday gift when I was a history teacher at a girl's preparatory school! That was in the 1970's!!! Surely people must always have baked pumpkin and cranberry breads in New England. Where was I? Does anyone want to research old recipes?

Deb/AGBF

Another pumpkin lover An old family friend [RIP] used to bake pumpkin bread in coffee cans, I believe she gave them as present for 30 years or so? I miss her as much as her round loaves

 

[Ninna]

This isn't super pepper-ey but it has a lot of jalapenos, so I'll shoot.

It's of course, another smittenkitchen recipe (swoon) I love her. This is one of my stand bys and I'm making it tomorrow (I still haven't worked up the enthusiasm for chili)

Shakshuka [Eggs Poached in Spicy Tomato Sauce]
Adapted from Saveur

That sounds very good Bunny007
Got large amounts of mushrooms, garlic, 4 pumpkins and a few poblanos from the farmer's market yesterday. Not sure what I'm making for lunch yet