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How to make cereal...


Grab a bowl, milk and cereal of your choice. Pour the cereal in the bowl. then pour the milk. If you want you may add strawberries, bananas, or rasins. Eat with spoon....


sweatdrop in other words.... i fail Home ec...

You guys know about/how to make Missouri Cookies? Old family favourite of mine.

this thread is making me hungry gonk

I had this really good Thai curry from a local resturaunt and decided to look up the recipe.

NOTE: This was on the menu as mild, and it was still pretty damned hot. So it goes in Thailand.

Gaeng Masaman Gai

Ingredients

about 1 pound chicken (you can also use pork or beef), cut into the usual "bite sized pieces"
3 cups of coconut milk.
2 tablespoons roasted peanuts (unsalted)
5 peeled, but whole, small onions.
5 small potatoes, peeled and partly boiled.
3 bay leaves,
5 cardamom seeds
a small piece of roasted cinnamon stick
2 tablespoons palm sugar
1 tablespoon tamarind concentrate mixed with 2.5 tablespoons water
3 tablespoon lime juice
2-3 tablespoons Masaman curry paste.
about 1-3 teaspoons crushed garlic. (optional)

Method

Peel potatoes, boil them partly in a cooking pot for 10-15 minutes, and cut in 1 to 2-inch pieces.

Allow the coconut milk to separate and you will have about two cups of thick "cream" and one cup of
thin "milk". In a small saucepan bring the milk to a simmer and add the chicken or pork. If you are
using beef you will need another two cups of milk. Simmer the meat until it begins to become tender
(beef takes longer, hence the additional milk).

Put the coconut cream in a wok and bring to a boil, add the massaman paste and "stir fry" until the
flavor is brought out and maximized. Add the remaining cream and curry paste to the meat.

Add the peanuts. Taste and adjust the flavor until it is (just) sweet (by adding sugar), sour and salty
(by adding tamarind juice, lime juice and fish sauce).

Add the remaining ingredients and cook until cooked.

Note : the potatoes used in Thailand for this dish are a yellow fleshed sweet potato of the type sometimes
called a yam in the US. Western style potatoes can be used, but absorb less of the sauce and flavor.
The potatoes act as a "moderator" to reduce the heat of the curry, and should not be left out.

You can either serve it on a bed of Thai jasmine rice, or double the amount of potato and serve it alone.

Accompany it with a dressed green salad and a bowl of "ajad" (pickled cucumbers--see recipe below). The
traditional Thai table also offers chilis in fish sauce (Phrik nam pla--see below) chilis in vinegar (prik dong,
see below), and ground chilli (not to be confused with the powedered chilli mix sold as chilli powder in the US),
sugar, and often MSG. You can if you wish add about a teaspoon of MSG to the above recipe to bring out the
flavors, but we don't think it is necesary.

Ajad

4 tablespoons white rice vinegar
1 teaspoon sugar
2-3 tablespoons cucumber, very coarsely chopped, or sliced
2 shallots (purple onions) chopped
3-4 Thai chile peppers, thinly sliced

Combine the ingredients, and leave to stand overnight.

Nam pla prik

Put two thirds of a cup of Thai chile peppers or jalapeno peppers in a 1 pint jar, and fill with fish sauce.
Seal and keep for a week before using.

Prik dong

Put two thirds of a cup of sliced Thai chile peppers in a 1 pint jar, and fill with white rice vinegar.
We also offer a ready-made prik dong.

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now you all know my resent recipies are weird and sometimes even dangerus.. so you know if i ever post in here you in for a big surprise! so.. here is another shocking recipie...

SQUIRREL STEW!!!!!

Prep Time:
1 hour 45 minutes
Darth's warning of DOOM!: um.. ya.. make shure these are squirrels found in the bush.. not in the city or close to a consintrated area with people in it.. try the forest when hunting for your "choice cuts"becuse sity squirrels just arnt healthey to eat...

Ingredients Utensils
2 squirrels cleaned and cut into pieces Dutch oven
1/4 cup flour
1 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon pepper
2 tablespoons olive oil
3 cloves garlic, minced
2 large onions, chopped
4 cups water
4 beef bouillon cubes
1 large potato cubed
2 large carrots, diced
2 ribs celery, diced
2 cups frozen lima beans
2 14 1/2 ounce cans diced tomatoes
2 cups frozen corn kernels
1 teaspoon Worcestershire sauce
1 1/2 teaspoons sugar
3 tablespoons flour

Directions
Dredge squirrel in flour, salt and pepper
Heat olive oil and garlic in large Dutch oven and brown squirrel
Add onions and cook until soft
Add water, bouillon cubes, potato, carrots and celery
Cover and simmer for 1 hour
Add lima beans, tomatoes, corn, Worcestershire and sugar
Cover and simmer for 30 minutes
Mix 3 tablespoons flour with 1/2 cup cold water, stirring until smooth
Add to stew and simmer until slightly thickened
Season to taste with salt and pepper

Greek Feta Muffins

My own recipie: sounds yummy and so it it

Easy to make! You need:

2 Eggs
1 pk Feta
1 pk puff paste

Backing-tin vor Muffins

Yeah!

Mix up the eggs with the shreddered feta.
Take lil sqares out of the rolled duff and put it in the baking-tin.
Egg-feta-mixture above and close it with another duff square.
(hard to discribe in english- phew)

Now pre-heat you oven!
And bake it about 10 - 15 minutes at 170°C

They're best to eat when they are hot but they can least up to 2 weeks!!

Guten Appetit!

Ramenicious...

sounds great.
yummy surprised