Gametavern cooking thread!

[KillerGremlin]

As a college kid I mostly stick to Ramen and Subway, but since I have a kitchen in my apartment I occasionally cook. I thought it would be a nifty idea to swap recipes, talk about what we like to cook, or give cooking advice.

My only suggestion is post ingredients and instructions! I would love to follow some fellow users cooking instructions. (in fact Prof S had some crazy ass viking drink I still want to make someday...good stuff).

Anyway, I did a superbowl potluck thing and I made a simple desert.
You need:
1 lg. pkg. butterscotch chips
1 lg. pkg. milk chocolate chips
1/4 c. butter
1 (5 oz.) can chow mein noodles
1 to 2 tbsp. water

Basically melt butterscotch, chocolate chips and butter (i suggest a pan, but microwave works). make sure not to burn chocolate, so make sure to stir. then, add the water to add moisture back to the chocolate while stirring in noodles. then scoop out little balls on wax paper, let cool, fridge overnight, and taste great in morning. It is simple, doesn't require baking, and is delicious.

i cook a lot of breakfast stuff....lots of pasta......lots of stuff with beef. and i do bake; banana bread and stuff like that.

[BreakABone]

I don't really have recipes, but I did like cooking when had a kitchen at school as well.

Now just don't have the time for it, I mean guess could cook before work, but then would need to be heated up hours later.

[Professor S]

Thanksgiving Meatloaf

2.5 lbs ground Turkey
2 Eggs
I can corn (drained)
2 carrots (small dice)
2 celery sticks (small dice)
2 onions (small dice)
1 package dry Stovetop Stuffing (Sage)
1 tbsp dijon mustard (makes everything better)
1 tsp season salt (optional, depends on how salty you like it)
1 tsp fresh ground pepper

Combine ingredients and bake at 375 for about 45 minutes or until your themometer hits "poultry". Let it sit for 15 minutes and serve with cranberry sauce. Makes great sandwiches.

[The Germanator]

I'd like to learn to be a very good cook, but I really haven't given it any effort. I love food related reality shows and the Food Network because I love food, but I can't really cook much myself. I made some good egg nog this year though, and plan on making some aged egg nog for next year.

[ZebraRampage]

I make stuff all the time, but I never have recipes for them..I just throw things together. I'll have to learn some new recipes this summer.

[BlueFire]

I like making chicken dishes--

Grilled Lemon-Garlic Chicken
+
Cajun Chicken Pasta

two of my favorites to make. Relatively easy to cook, too.

[Angrist]

I cook all the time. But when I cook just for myself, I just stick to something relatively simple (but tasty). When I get guests, I often try something more complicated. I should train that more.

[Szymon]

I don't have a good eye for cooking stuff so when I make new stuff it's really scary so I never make new stuff.

[Acebot44]

For the first few weeks of last summer, I made a deal with my parents that I would help them cook ever meal for dinner. It worked really well and I learned how to make quite a few dishes (I can make a mean Salmon, mashed taters, and spinach sauce meal), but then ended up getting too busy to keep the trend up. Forgot it all :-(

and now I'm too busy to eat sometimes, let alone cook, so mac n cheese + tuna is the extent to my experimentation these days.

[KillerGremlin]

Mac and cheese rocks. I also enjoy mac and cheese and hotdogs. Not to turn this into an alcohol thread (we already had one of those) but did any of you guys see the skittles vodka thing on did? Looked pretty trippy.

[BreakABone]

I figured I would bump this.

Myself and two former roommates from college, are attempting to learn to cook together so gonna try a recipe a week.

This week I attempted sesame chicken. Which came out okay, but it was too much ginger so had a zing to it. Next time though.

[The Germanator]

I've started cooking more now that I'm out of my parents house. I haven't really tackled anything too crazy yet. I mainly make eggs, pasta, soup, and veggie burgers which doesn't take a whole lot of skill. It's kind of hard making and buying food to serve just one person. Stuff goes bad before I can finish it.

[Angrist]

Why veggie burgers?

In the Netherlands it's getting more popular to cut back on meat and use alternatives. Same over there?

A week ago I invited 2 friends and made falafel. It was delicious (on pita bread, with tomato/paprika/lettuce and sauces).

[Teuthida]

Yeah they have meat substitutes for almost everything: veggie burgers, veggie chicken burgers, veggie chicken nuggets, veggie bacon, veggie duck, veggie hotdogs, veggie ribs, veggie whatever. Most taste pretty good. The hotdog and bacon products are questionable.


I've been making all my own food for a number of years now. Only thing I actually use the stove for these days is omlettes and veggies. The rest is assorted canned fish with salad....um, peanut butter sandwiches...errrr umm...almonds....I don't eat much apparently.

Used to bake a lot. More often than not I'd be missing an ingredient and try to substitute something else. Ended up with wads of warm sugary crap.

[Professor S]

I've started cooking more now that I'm out of my parents house. I haven't really tackled anything too crazy yet. I mainly make eggs, pasta, soup, and veggie burgers which doesn't take a whole lot of skill. It's kind of hard making and buying food to serve just one person. Stuff goes bad before I can finish it.

Freeze it. Whenever I make chili I make a HUGE batch, and I always end up freezing about half of it if not more in smaller containers. That was a few months later when I have a hankering for chili, I just thaw out a container, enjoy and repeat!

[The Germanator]

Yeah they have meat substitutes for almost everything: veggie burgers, veggie chicken burgers, veggie chicken nuggets, veggie bacon, veggie duck, veggie hotdogs, veggie ribs, veggie whatever. Most taste pretty good. The hotdog and bacon products are questionable.




I'll agree with veggie bacon. I feel like that's something with a consistency and taste that is almost impossible to replicate. For that reason I will still eat bacon every once in a while. Veggie sausage can be really good, and I actually don't mind veggie hotdogs. If you get enough mustard on it, it pretty much tastes the same. I'm really eager to track down this veggie scrapple I've heard about...(for those unfamiliar with scrapple, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrapple) I feel like it couldn't be replicated, but if you get the spices right it could be good.

And Professor, yeah, I should just freeze more stuff. The only problem is I have two roommates now and the freezer starts to get filled up quickly. Plus I need some more tupperware.

[DarkMaster]

A chicken/wild mushroom risotto.

Arborio rice
Chicken stock
The mushroom(s) of your choosing
Yellow onion
Garlic
Parmesan cheese

with all these things in your possession, perform the following:

Very finely dice mushrooms, onion, garlic. Olive oil in a hot pan, brown the veggies. Medium-low heat, add arborio rice with 1/2 cup warm chicken stock. Constantly stir, continually adding another 1/2 cup warm stock as the rice absorbs it.

When the rice is cooked but not too cooked (el dente), add parmesan cheese, a few more stirs in the pan. Done.

You will not be disappointed.