Favourite dish, something original

[Fenix 0]

Inspired by the thread 'spam to get benefits' and bored by the things that I eat on a cycle every five days I decided to start this one. The thread 'what are you having' does not help me much, because a one line answer just doesn't.

 

So I want to ask you what are your favourite dishes to make and to eat and if not really complicated how do you make them? (even if it is and you do not mind sparing the time) I am on the search for something tasty and/or new. It might be just a 'better way' to do something really conventional - do share it.

 

Also we have to take into account the geographical differences. I mean, if someone proposes 'Mahicato' which is made of '350 g. contesel' and 200 g. of 'musocata', then...

 

and yes I am male and I love to cook!

[Marie 73]

Um...I like enchiladas. I'm afraid I don't have the recipe on me right now, but I should this weekend!

 

There is also yams, candid yams (sweet potatoes). Those are made the Southern way so there aren't really any measurements. lol I am not much help!

 

Hmmm, I also like BBQ chicken wraps. First, you'll need cooked, sliced chicken marinated in BBQ sauce (you only need a handful of chicken slices). Put it somewhere where it'll stay warm. Take your tortilla and get it lukewarm (I do this by putting it on a griddle for a number of seconds). With the tortilla warm, put it on a flat surface (obviously ) and put about a handful of lettuce on it, followed by a pinch of cheddar cheese, a few tomato slices, and few red onion slices. Then you'll put on the chicken and wrap it all up!

[Kaitlin 22]

I am a vegetarian, and so I'm not sure if my recipes would be very helpful, but I'll include one!

 

Penne and Veggies - This recipe serves four but I usually just halve it because I don't like leftover pasta

 

8oz/225g penne

extra virgin olive oil

2tbsp butter (I always leave this out, but it's in the original recipe)

2 cloves garlic, crushed (more or less)

1 green bell pepper, thinly sliced

1 yellow bell pepper, thinly sliced

16 cherry tomatoes, halved (I quarter them but it's because I'm a nutter )

1 tbsp chopped fresh oregano

1/2 cup dry white wine (don't have a favorite kind for this)

2 tbsp pitted black olives, chopped

2 3/4oz/75g arugula

salt and pepper to taste

sprigs of fresh oregano

 

Cook the pasta in salted water with touch of olive oil until al dente.

 

Heat extra virgin olive oil in a pan over lowish medium heat. Saute your garlic for about half a minute.. don't want to get brown or crisp looking. Add bell peppers and cook for about 3 minutes, moving them around a bit so as not to burn.

 

Add in cherry tomatoes, oregano, and olives and stir around for about 30 seconds. Pour in your wine and stir everything around just a bit. Let sit for 3 or 4 minutes. Season with salt and pepper if you wish. Stir in the arugula until it's just about wilted.

 

Stir in penne and mix thoroughly. Transfer to bowl and serve with oregano sprig. Eat with munchy rolls. There's a lot of garlic in the pasta, so I wouldn't suggest garlic on the rolls.

[Ekho 52]

My favouriute meal has to be pasta with a bolognese sauce...its my mum who generally cooks it for me so I'm not 100% sure of how to make it myself, but I think its pretty easy

[jan 14]

Well, I've just got my own cooking gas connection and stove set up and all excited about cooking, but have relatively little in the fridge right now! Usually, I make short-cut fried rice - cook the rice beforehand; fry any veggies I can lay my hands on; include chicken if I have any; add the rice and the most important thing: EAT!

 

As for favourite dish... ah, that's a hard question! Generally, I like what is known as "continental food"! I don't particularly like Indian.

[Tosh 8]

Well I've always had a soft spot for japanese food.

[Fenix 0]

Cool!

 

buuut... does anyone eat pork?

Well, I am tired of it anyways. This is pretty much everything that I eat (as I am living alone as a foreign student) so I can share quite a few recepies about it. What I have found out is that the secure path to a really nice meat meal is in the preparation. This is where the secret is!

 

 

If someone likes to try:

Giuvetche with pork meat... (do not try to pronounce the first word...)

 

Anyway. Most important - you need a clay pot. This is really important (this is what the first word is, I think it's turkish, yet I am not sure). Still the things you need are universal so...

for one portion (respectively double it for two) you need:

200g clean pork meat (no bones and stuff, no fat as well, at least I hate it)

2 onions

4 to 8 spoons of mustard

spices!

a flat piece of chese (optional)

an egg (optional)

some butter (let's eat healthy)

 

So, you take the onions and cut them on relatively small pieces. Then you cut the meat into cubes. On cubes smaller than a 'standard' (whatever that means) ice cube. You put it in a pot or whatever, put the onions and the mustard. Then you put lots of spices and put it in the fridge for (optional) 4 hours, the more the better! Then you take it out, put butter into the clay pot (which should be of a small size, for one portion), around 125 grams (sorry for the european measures) and you put it in the oven until it is ready! (I love that cooking 'term'). When it is (it takes between an hour and an hour and a half, you put the piece of cheese on top and egg and then once more in the oven until the egg is ready. Then - enjoy!!!

 

It is really good.... for all you omnivoires out there!

[Cerendrallion 32]

God, I love pork, actually

[Tosh 8]

My favouriute meal has to be pasta with a bolognese sauce...its my mum who generally cooks it for me so I'm not 100% sure of how to make it myself, but I think its pretty easy

It is really easy. Just get a pot/fryingpan thing(don't know a word for it in english but a frying pan with high edges so you can make sauce etc.)

and then you just throw in some milk, tomato sauce, salt and pepper and ofcourse the meat (I think the english word for the meat you use is cornbeef).

I don't know if people usually use this but I also use soy sauce to get a nice color to it and a special mustard which name I can't spell.

Then you pretty much just let it cook, stir around in it from time to time.

Well this isn't a complete recipe, I also use onions and probably some other stuff I don't remember right now.

But I think I have proven it is pretty easy to make.