The Cooking Thread

[Julie]

I'm looking for inspiration for my cooking. Lately I seem to be making and rotating the same dozen or so dishes and the obligatory meat and veg or meat and salad. Feel like something different, I want to add some new flavour to our family menu. I could look at recipe books but realistically most of them don't have recipes that you would make regularly for the family.

So please share some yummy recipes or even let us know what you are having for dinner- homecooked only not interested in fast food crap

Feel free to post any cooking related stuff in here too

[TVR-190]

im a great chef

i cook a mean salad

[minux]

Doing a pork loin(roasted) with seared potatoes in an apricot sauce. Wanted a gooseberry sauce but I cant buy them anywhere

Will give you some of my recipes later jules as most of the ones I do are probably a bit much with children lol.

[Tom_1569]

Creamy Bacon Tortalini..... So simple, so quick, and so delicious.
Chicks love it, cause they think you have gone to heaps of effort for this romantic dinner lol.
Ill post up the recipe later, but its pretty much, a packet of veil tortalini, Campbells chicken and corn soup, some bacon pieces, cream and some chives.

[hsvpunk]

Tuna pasta bake for me.

[AirStrike]

Lasagne and salad tonight. Tomorrow it's sliced eggplant with a spicy mince on top, salad and rice (at the mother in laws).

[cxcxcxvcvcvc]

Tacho,s are a quick easy meal and different
And dont know what we will be eating for dinner tonight, will be going over to the inlaws

[Emackulation]

I cook a mean omelette.

[Cobez]

Burritos, fajitas, nacho's, taco's, enchiladas.

Mexican is FTW!! Best, foreign, food, EVER!!

[CSP]

Whatever you do... If you ever find yourself in the middle of cooking up a storm and need some white wine for your white wine sauce, dont forget to take off your apron before you head to the local bottlo!

Can be embarassing :

[minux]

Whatever you do... If you ever find yourself in the middle of cooking up a storm and need some white wine for your white wine sauce, dont forget to take off your apron before you head to the local bottlo!

Can be embarassing :

LMFAO, shuddup smartarse

[nicko]

buy some good chicken breast cover then im your normal pizza toppings and bake in the oven. Farking amazing and the kids love em to.

strips of beef, every veggy u can find in yor fridge some oyster sauce, garlic and 2 minute noodles/rice goes great. Tastes different everytime because you just use random stuff from your fridge

[Pub247]

i do all the cooking at home mainly specialise in asain style food but have some all round skills. I have a really good peanut satay recipe. Costs a fair bit to make but ****s all over anything you can buy

[AirStrike]

Girlfriend is a Turk, so can't go past her mums cooking.

[MasterOfReality]

My mum is Italian, so i picked up a fair bit from her. She is from the north of Italy so the food is like a mix of Italian/Yugoslav/Austrian.

Its all cooked on the same basic principal - simmering and reducing until you end up with a nice sauce.

My favourite at the moment is chicken wings cooked this way. Also works for lamb.

1. 1kg of chicken wings, cleaned, excess fat trimmed off.
2. Cut each wing into 3 pieces at the knuckes, discarding the end part, or tip of the wing.
3. Dice 2 small to medium onions.
4. Pot or pan needs to be big enough to lay the chicken pieces out in one layer.
5. Add olive oil to pan, just enough to cover base.
6. Add chicken and onions to pan, generous sprinkle with salt and brown gently.
7. When its browned properly, the chicken should be a nice tan colour and the onions will be getting caramelised.
8. When browned, take off heat. At this stage you can add around 4 cloves of finely chopped garlic if you want.
9. Add chopped herbs eg oregano, parsley etc etc. If you want to be lazy, just get the Masterfoods Italian herbs. Put plenty on.
10. Now cover the chicken with water until it is just covered. Use a wooden spoon to scrape up all the browned onions at the bottom of the pan.
11. Return to high heat and when its boiling, reduce to low heat.
12. Let simmer until the sauce reduces.
13. Add flour to thicken if you want.
14. Serve with rice or pasta.

It takes about 2 hours all up, there is no such thing as good fast cooking in my family hehe.

You really have to keep an eye on it, stirring it every 30 minutes or so, and to watch that you dont reduce the sauce to nothing.

The results are well worth it though.

My girlfriend is from a malaysian background, and her mum is an awesome cook, which thankfully my girlfriend has inherited those skills, although she likes my food more than her mums

[XeKToReX]

My favorites when the old girl ain't cookin are:

-beef/chicken(it works) with black bean sauce
-home recipe bolognese
-butter chicken
-random veg/tomato pasta
-big bbq!

[Julie]

Tacho,s are a quick easy meal and different

lol @ tachos.. u mean tacos but it is a car forum afterall so can't blame u

Burritos, fajitas, nacho's, taco's, enchiladas.

Mexican is FTW!! Best, foreign, food, EVER!!

They are regulars at our house actually we are having a bit of a variation to that with baked potato plus all the mexican trimmings. Would love to find a nacho hat like on the simpsons lol

Whatever you do... If you ever find yourself in the middle of cooking up a storm and need some white wine for your white wine sauce, dont forget to take off your apron before you head to the local bottlo!

Can be embarassing :

rofl thats a classic. Not a chance of that happening to me, I don't bother with aprons. I'm an artist, painting every day so I only wear daggy paint stained clothes around the house

buy some good chicken breast cover then im your normal pizza toppings and bake in the oven. Farking amazing and the kids love em to.

strips of beef, every veggy u can find in yor fridge some oyster sauce, garlic and 2 minute noodles/rice goes great. Tastes different everytime because you just use random stuff from your fridge

Definately trying the chicken breast pizza this week! Sounds like something the kids and hubby would love because I can give them all different toppings to suit their tastes. As for the stir fry done that before many times, can't do oyster sauce because I am allergic to shellfish but have used honey, soy garlic etc instead.

My mum is Italian, so i picked up a fair bit from her. She is from the north of Italy so the food is like a mix of Italian/Yugoslav/Austrian.

Its all cooked on the same basic principal - simmering and reducing until you end up with a nice sauce.

My favourite at the moment is chicken wings cooked this way. Also works for lamb.

1. 1kg of chicken wings, cleaned, excess fat trimmed off.
2. Cut each wing into 3 pieces at the knuckes, discarding the end part, or tip of the wing.
3. Dice 2 small to medium onions.
4. Pot or pan needs to be big enough to lay the chicken pieces out in one layer.
5. Add olive oil to pan, just enough to cover base.
6. Add chicken and onions to pan, generous sprinkle with salt and brown gently.
7. When its browned properly, the chicken should be a nice tan colour and the onions will be getting caramelised.
8. When browned, take off heat. At this stage you can add around 4 cloves of finely chopped garlic if you want.
9. Add chopped herbs eg oregano, parsley etc etc. If you want to be lazy, just get the Masterfoods Italian herbs. Put plenty on.
10. Now cover the chicken with water until it is just covered. Use a wooden spoon to scrape up all the browned onions at the bottom of the pan.
11. Return to high heat and when its boiling, reduce to low heat.
12. Let simmer until the sauce reduces.
13. Add flour to thicken if you want.
14. Serve with rice or pasta.

It takes about 2 hours all up, there is no such thing as good fast cooking in my family hehe.

You really have to keep an eye on it, stirring it every 30 minutes or so, and to watch that you dont reduce the sauce to nothing.

The results are well worth it though.

My girlfriend is from a malaysian background, and her mum is an awesome cook, which thankfully my girlfriend has inherited those skills, although she likes my food more than her mums

Sounds yummy, will have to try this one too. Only thing is its a pain in the butt having a daughter that hates any form of onion and will just about throw up if eating it

[Cody]

Can't go past shepherds pie, so quick and easy and always tastes good, so many variations to it aswell, put aside some of the cooked onion and put it in the mash, cover top with cheese and breadcrumbs, put a little red wine in the mince mix, magic!

[Cobez]

they are regulars at our house actually we are having a bit of a variation to that with baked potato plus all the mexican trimmings. Would love to find a nacho hat like on the simpsons lol

Nacho nacho man, i want to be, a nacho maaaan!!!

[TVR-190]

mmmmm tacho's

[andyman]

i specialize in rissoles and rock cakes

[andyman]

mmmmm tacho's

my taco flavoured kisssses....taco taco,






you south park people will get it

[Cobez]

Another thing we make sometimes (alot of people do) is homemade pizza using pita bread for bases, low salt pizza sauce, low fat cheese, a little salami, some capsicum, some olives, maybe even some fetta, low fat shredded ham, pineapple in the sugar free juice (canned stuff) and whatever else you like.

Variations you can do would be using english muffins for pizza bases to make mini pizzas.

Anything stir fried is good. Especially on rice. Although i do realise it's harder to get kids to eat that kind of stuff. Chicken parmas are another favourite. We buy skinless breat fillets from the butcher, crumb them, fry them up in low fat canola spray in a pan, add some of the low salt pizza sauce or even salsa, low fat ham, even pineapple and some low fat cheese.

Most of the cheese you buy now that's low fat, still tastes really good.

I'll think of some more stuff when i can.

[bezz]

I do an alright chicken vindaloo... takes ages to prepare tho! Going to a curry cooking course later this month, can't wait!

[sircruisealotVS]

one of my favourites which i learnt to cook from my mum is a chicken and broccoli lasagna (dont worry the broccoli isnt noticable in the taste..). everything is basically done like a normal lasagna but instead of mince beef, just use roughly chopped chicken breast and small pieces of broccoli. it rocks.
my "specialty" is my massaman beef curry, takes a while to cook, but most of it is just simmering time - once its all together you can sit back and let it cook. im not putting my recipe up because its a secret, lol, but there's plenty of recipes around (the net) if you wanted to give it a stab.
jerk chicken is another awesome dish to try which is a bit different, once again - fair bit of prep. but the taste is worth it....you never look at chicken the same again. its basically a marinated/spiced chicken breast(consisting mainly of - habonero/chilli, nutmeg, cinnamon, sage, garlic, all spice, thyme, ceyenne pepper, black pepper, soy sauce/salt, lemon and lime, and almost pulp form onion and capcicum) which tastes best cooked over an open flame wood fire or bbq.
its always easy to get bored of the usual "anglo" cuisine...thats when i start looking abroad to other countries with completely different cooking fundamentals in food staples.