Teach me the way of the culinary arts...pwwweeease?

[Imposter]

Alright TFF'ers, this is it. Finally a recipe thread so you can all put your words where your mouth is....or my mouth where your words are....or our words on mouths? Anyways drop some recipes for us to try out. That is key..take these recipes and let us know if you botched them, you liked them, you thought hot dogs were better.

Oh YEAH! If you decide to change something 'bout the recipe post that too, together we shall make the ultimate foods!!

So I'm going to say drop one recipe per post and give time for people to try it before posting another. I imagine that you all, like me aren't financially sound so it might take awhile to get the necessary ingredients. (I only grocery shop once a month, but maybe I'll make an exception for you guys/girls/people.

Alright first recipe:

*ahem*

Turkey Meatball Soup

Ingredients:
Soup:
3 cups of chicken broth(yeah even though it is turkey meatball!)
2 small onions....sliced(small is totally relative to how much onion you want in your soup)
1 carrot and 1 celery stalk....sliced
Quarter tsp(teaspoon, I never thought whether it was a universal ingredient measuring device) pepper and thyme
1 sweet red pepper....chopped
1 cup vermicelli egg noodles
half cup frozen peas....thawed

Meatballs:
1 egg
Quarter cup grated onion
Quarter cup Parmesan cheese
2 tbsp(table spoons) parsley
Quarter tsp(Teaspoon) salt and pepper (so really two quarters of a tsp one for each)
1 lb of ground turkey

Oh ssshhh...um I just realized that because we all live in different areas we will have different measuring systems. Ah whatevs you are all smart enough to use the interwebz to find the conversions

How to make it EDIBLE:
The balls of meat - Take a bowl(one big enough to hold in the Meatball ingredients) combine the egg, onion(grated), Parmesan, parsley, salt and pepper, then mix in the turkey. Use a tbsp(Table spoon) to shape your balls so they aren't too big or too small.

Grease a baking sheet and bake the balls at 400F, if you have a digital thermometer you want your balls center to be at 165F. If you don't have one you are aiming for about 15 minutes of baking time depending on your oven and such.

Now while that is going on grab a sauce pan, bring your chicken broth and 3 cups of water to a boil. Add your onions, carrot, pepper and thyme, celery. Once they are added reduce the heat and let it simmer for 10 minutes.

After that, add your red pepper, egg noodles, and the meatballs. Simmer with the cover on until your noodles are al dente* (ballpark about five minutes) after add your peas until they have heated through and you are good to serve...

..Well it might be hot, but maybe you like your soup hot. Anyways enjoy amigos.

*Now if you are like me when my sister taught me this you might be thinking 'what the hell does al dente mean' Well use this wiki article to answer your question or if not you are looking for firm but not hard noodles, got it?

PS...I really wanted to put Bitch in the title instead of pwwweeease but realized that might come off as sexist. So I didn't...

[Rhaps]

This is one recipe I'd probably die without. I hate making an entire pan of brownies when I know I'll be the only one eating them, and the extras go stale after a few days.

[Rowan]

I was wondering if you could help me imposter, everything I try just doesnt seem to work. I had a camera take photos of my last attempt at cooking, please tell me where I went wrong.

[Melsaphim]

Hey guys, Here is one recipe i found out and have tried many times. Not too hard to make. I'm not very good in the kitchen and i haven't seemed to have ruined this one yet so it's either really easy or im just flukey every time.

Cashew &Ginger Chicken

Ingredients:
Half a Teaspoon Salt
1 Tablespoon Rice Wine Vinegar
2 Teaspoon Crushed Ginger/Ginger Juice
2 cubed chicken breasts
2-3 Garlic Cloves
Cashew nuts
your choice of stir-fry vegtables
1 Jar of Hoisin Sauce
2 Tablespoons Water
2 Tablespoons of Dark Soi Sauce
Chopped Scallions

Marinade;
Half a Teaspoon Salt
1 Tablespoon Rice Wine Vinegar
2 Teaspoon Crushed Ginger/Ginger Juice

Step 1 - Mix ingredients together in a bowl and add 2 cubed chicken breasts, allow to marinade in bowl for 20 minutes.

Step 2 - Finely chop 2-3 Garlic Cloves and fry in Wok with 2 Tablepsoons of Oil until golden brown and arromatic.

Step 3 - Roast a handful of chopped/halved Cashew nuts in a skillet until brown (do not use oil with these)

Step 4 - Once Garlic is browned add the marinated chicken cubes and cook until cooked throughout.

Step 5 - Remove the chicken from the Wok and place onto a plate, Add 2 Tablespoons of oil to the Wok and stir-fry your choice of vegtables (I use a stir-fry packet from my local supermarket)

Sauce;
1 Jar of Hoisin Sauce
2 Tablespoons Water
2 Tablespoons of Dark Soy Sauce

Step 6 - Mix ingerdients for Sauce together and add into the Stir fried vegtables. Add the cooked chicken and cook for a futher 2-3 mins until all food is hot and ready to serve.

Step 7 - Serve with Special Fried Rice, browned Cahsew Nuts and Chopped Scallions.



I also got the recipe for Special Fried Rice to go with the chicken so here goes;

Special Fried Rice

Ingredients:
1 and Half Cups of Rice
2 Eggs
Oil
Cocktail Prawns
Mushrooms
Peas
Soy Cauce
Seasame Oil

Step 1 - Cook the rice and rinse with boiling water once cooked, leave in pan to one side.

Step 2 - Mix eggs lightly together in a cup or bowl.

Step 3 - Add 2 Tablespoons Oil to Wok and add eggs, lightly whisking until theyre cooked (kinda looks like scrambled eggs in the Wok).

Step 4 - Place Peas in a microwavable container and cook on full for 1 minute.

Step 5 - Add Rice, Prawns, Mushrooms and Peas to the egg in the Wok and mix Together.

Step 6 - Add 2 Tablespoon of Soy sauce and 1 Tablespoon of Seasame Oil into the mix and stir in.

Step 7 - Serve.

Hope these recipes aid you all in your cullinary endeavours as i said before i find these two recipes to be easy and quick to do but the flavours are there wonderfully.

[Sasquatch]

I don't really have recipes of my own, I just improve on other, easier recipes. For instance, I'll make simple spaghetti, but I'll saute' onions and mushrooms and mix them in with the sauce, then maybe add a can of diced tomatoes. Or I'll make a burger, but I'll mix onions, peppers, mushrooms, bits of cheese, whatever into the meat before I grill it. Since I just (two days ago, I think) made Fruity Pebbles Treats and "Nutterscotch Treats", I'll just talk about them -- they're very easy and cheap, like me.

Prepare Rice Crispy Treats ingredients.

Before adding Rice Crispies to melted butter/marshmallows, add ... well, just add random crap.

One of my personal favorites is most of a bag of butterscotch chips and most of a jar of dry-roasted (with salt) peanuts.

Also, try chocolate chips and caramels. If you can find baking caramels, use those -- they're little caramel balls (about pea-size) that melt easier. Otherwise, get the individually wrapped caramels and cut those up into 1/4" cubes. This works especially well with chocolate rice crispies (Cocoa Crispies), too.

Or add dried fruit. Strawberries or apples work nicely -- banana chips are usually a little too hard and don't blend texture well with the rest of the treat. If you want to add dried apricots, cut them into smaller pieces first. Adding cinnamon to the melted marshmallow (make sure to blend it well so you don't get lumps of cinnamon), then adding raisins and dried apples to the rice crispies before mixing it all together makes a delicious morning treat.

Or, instead of rice crispies, try Fruity Pebbles. Or slightly crushed Cinnamon Toast Crunch. Or Trix. Or Reese's Peanut Butter Puffs. (I haven't tried making Rice Crispy Treats with Rice Krispies Treats cereal, but I'd imagine that it would be awesome.

[Imposter]

Well obviously I haven't been trying these recipes because I'm poor as shit. But they are on the to do list.

Also Rowan, I don't see a problem. I thought that was the way everyone started fires.....

[Catalana]

Ingredients

1 recipe pastry for a 9 inch single crust pie
12 slices bacon
1 cup shredded Swiss cheese
1/3 cup minced onion
4 eggs, beaten
2 cups light cream
3/4 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon white sugar
1/8 teaspoon cayenne pepper
Directions

Preheat oven to 425 degrees F (220 degrees C).
Place bacon in a large skillet, and fry over medium-high heat until crisp. Drain on paper towels, then chop coarsely. Sprinkle bacon, cheese and onion into pastry shell.
In a medium bowl, whisk together eggs, cream, salt, sugar and cayenne pepper. Pour mixture into pastry shell.
Bake 15 minutes in the preheated oven. Reduce heat to 300 degrees F (150 degrees C), and bake an additional 30 minutes, or until a knife inserted 1 inch from edge comes out clean. Allow quiche to sit 10 minutes before cutting into wedges.

The quiche lorraine Delicious and easy to make ^^