Poets' Favorite Recipes

[foehn]

Aren't many poets great cooks, too? Let's have some recipes!

Here's one of mine:

Sausage-Cheese Stuffed Jalapeños

Ingredients:

20 fat, green fresh jalapeño peppers
3/4 pound grated colby or mild cheddar cheese
3/4 pound to 1 pound mild pork sausage
(optional) package of thin-sliced bacon

Wash and slice jalapeños in half lengthwise, without removing stems. Stems which remain will make nice little handles.

Use a thin teaspoon to remove the pith and seeds from the peppers.

Wash and remove clinging seeds. This is important; the seeds are very hot and it's vital to remove them.

Mix the grated cheese and pork sausage by kneading. Mixture should be about 1/2 cheese and 1/2 sausage, but can vary, depending on taste and how many peppers need to be filled.

Fill the empty pepper halves with the cheese/sausage mixture, leaving the filling slightly rounded above the sides of the pepper halves.

Optional: (and some love this Wrap each stuffed pepper with a slice of bacon.

Bake on cookie sheet or shallow pan in 350 degree oven for 55 - 65 minutes. Loosen the hors d'ouvre before they cool, if necessary.

(Now, try to stop eating them)



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Ok, more recipes, people?

 

[foehn]

hey: i know you're out there, & i want new recipes!

And just so you weren't wasting you're time, try:

Put a slab (8 oz.) of cream cheese in a shallow bowl. Pour salsa (picante sauce) over it. Serve it with unflavored tortilla chips.

More food ideas? Yes?

 

[The_Fool]

This is more for summer weather....

Get cheap bulk porkchops (chicken can be substituted). Put in gallon sized ziplock back. Pour in cheap (or expensive) Italian salad dressing in your favorite flavor. Let sit in refrigerator for a couple of days, turning twice daily to ensure meat is coated. Grill.

 

[annaswirls]

okay this is going to sound gross but it really is tasty and people will think you cooked


1 jar of grape jelly
1 jar chilli sauce
1 pack of frozen meatballs

put them in a crock pot. The longer the better.

yes
lazy

 

[flyguy69]

okay this is going to sound gross but it really is tasty and people will think you cooked


1 jar of grape jelly
1 jar chilli sauce
1 back of frozen meatballs

put them in a crock pot. The longer the better.

yes
lazy

Did you submit this under "erotic" or "non-erotic"?

 

[annaswirls]

I am not sure where you got the impression poets are good cooks.

I do not have time to cook. I write poetry whenever the kids are in a safe location. Okay, I play with them all the time too....


here is a yummy yummy salad


spring mix
mixed with other lettuce, maybe romaine?

mandarin oranges
walnuts (I have had this with sugared sliced almonds too)
gorgonzola cheese, crumbled
raspberry vinagrette

 

[annaswirls]

Did you submit this under "erotic" or "non-erotic"?

I guess I should have clarified how the meatballs were to be cooked

 

[annaswirls]

Did you submit this under "erotic" or "non-erotic"?

oh did you mean "the longer the better" part?

see I am such a perv it flies by without my noticing, it just comes out unintentionally, I had 10 different ideas of where you were coming from...

 

[flyguy69]

... I had 10 different ideas of where you were coming from...

Just stop it!

 

[Reltne]

261 recipes for anchovies!

If you want recipes, then here is a site that will keep you busy for awhile!



How to Cook Almost Anything!!

 

[WickedEve]

I like stuff frozen in a box with a bold "MICROWAVABLE" label on it.

I was at that "here's where you get food" place, last week. There was a cowboy there. Well, a guy in a black cowboy hat.
I thought, "Hey, what a cute hat."
So, I slowed down the grocery cart to check him out and he handed me a magazine.
"I'm handing out cooking magazines. All sorts of recipes in it."
I took the magazine gingerly from his cowboy hands.
"Any recipes for the microwave?"
*giggle and head tilt*
"I can't cook a thing, but I'll look through it and try one. My kids just hate my cooking."
*giggle and walk away*

I just told cowboy guy that I can't cook and I have kids.
*giggle and self ass kicking*

 

[annaswirls]

I like stuff frozen in a box with a bold "MICROWAVABLE" label on it.

I was at that "here's where you get food" place, last week. There was a cowboy there. Well, a guy in a black cowboy hat.
I thought, "Hey, what a cute hat."
So, I slowed down the grocery cart to check him out and he handed me a magazine.
"I'm handing out cooking magazines. All sorts of recipes in it."
I took the magazine gingerly from his cowboy hands.
"Any recipes for the microwave?"
*giggle and head tilt*
"I can't cook a thing, but I'll look through it and try one. My kids just hate my cooking."
*giggle and walk away*

I just told cowboy guy that I can't cook and I have kids.
*giggle and self ass kicking*

oh Eve!

Maybe he has a short memory and you can go back and invite him over to give you some hands on instruction.

I think that the "Eve of the week" thread next week should be an advice column Help Eve Pick up a Cowboy....

hmm that could be a video game, I see possibilities

 

[Liar]

Re: 261 recipes for anchovies!

If you want recipes, then here is a site that will keep you busy for awhile!



How to Cook Almost Anything!!

Impressive. They had the recipe to my favourite dish.

This is modified, and better.

Grilled Mackerel with Mint and Parsley

small mackerels
lemon
fresh mint
fresh parsley
black pepper
seasalt
...tin foil and a grill

-Empty and rinse the fish leave head and skin
-Sprinkle a little lemon, olive oil, pepper and salt inside fish
-Stuff it with 2/3 chopped mint and 1/3 parsley
-Wrap in tin foil
-Grill just right
-Open, remove stuffing (can be blended with yohurt and made into a tasty dip for the complementary fries.)
-Eat
-Pass out from culinary pleasure


http://fooddownunder.com/cgi-bin/recipe.cgi?r=121633

That site's bookmarked now.

#L

 

[annaswirls]

for more ideas!

From an old thread


One Handed Autumn Snacks

One Handed Autumn Snacks
Snacks you can eat while typing, autumn style:



1 water cracker
1 thin slice of smoked gouda
1 thin slice of Fiji apple


multiply by however hungry you are.


so delicious I had to share.

 

[annaswirls]

I just realized there are maybe 4 recipes in there and the rest is what we do best around these here threads...

 

[WickedEve]

Uh, thanks anna. lol

Okay, here's what I eat for breakfast and you may want to try it to:

Sugar free, fat free, low carb yogurt (any flavor)
Tofu
Oats

Dump it all in a bowl and stir it up. Hey, it's good for you and you'll get use to the taste.

 

[Angeline]

I made a grilled cheese sandwich for dinner.

I feel so substandard.

 

[WickedEve]

I made a grilled cheese sandwich for dinner.

I feel so substandard.

Jeez, you are. I put more effort into my tofu-oat crap than you put into that cheese abomination.

 

[DeepAsleep]

Bacheloroni & Cheese

One box Kraft Macaroni & Cheese
1/8 cup milk
1/8 cup Mayo
1/4 cup butter
garlic powder (or real garlic, your choice)
onion powder
{Salt & Veg oil (NOT OLIVE - changes flavor too drastically) for noodlewater, to your own preference}

Boil your noodles to taste - some like firmer, some softer - and set them aside to drain.

Add your butter to the now empty pot first, otherwise you scald the milk and it spoils the taste. After the butter's melted, add mayo & milk and then the cheese packet. Only a little cheese at a time, or it'll clump and you'll have to stir it forever. The mayo will... eh, for lack of a better term, 'clot' without the noodles, but that's ok, because you want them to drain plenty. If too much water stays in the noodles, it'll run out into the cheese sauce and make it runny. Season to taste, most box mac & cheese is pretty salty, and salting the noodlewater can add to that, so if you want to add a HINT (just a niblet, mind) of sugar, it's ok, but don't go overboard. After cheese sauce is ready, add noodles, stir and enjoy.

Heh.

~D.A.

 

[foehn]

Grilled-Cheese Thanks

Thanks everyone! I thought this thread would die.

Grilled-cheese sandwiches can be exquisite, but directions are needed! lol --

The tofu-combination breakfast sounds good, and the others too! Can we keep going? (Insanely, I envision a Literotica Poets' Cookbook)

Oh, and microwave stuff counts, too. What works? What turns into too much of a hassle when you're raising kids and pulling weeds out of the garden?

*smile*

 

[Liar]

Weirdest thing ever, but it's good. it absolutely kicks ass when you have a cold.

1 Tom Kha soup base
1 peppermint rock
water

heat cup of water in microwave, or any other device of your choice
mix soup
dissolve candy in soup
breathe in the funes until has cooled off enough to drink
drink

 

[Guest]

I made a grilled cheese sandwich for dinner.

I feel so substandard.

There is an art to a good grilled cheese sandwich and it's 2 slices of american cheese between Texas Toast (grilled in a cast iron pan with butter is best.)

 

[Angeline]

Jeez, you are. I put more effort into my tofu-oat crap than you put into that cheese abomination.

Hey I'm a good cook! I made chicken paprikash a few weeks ago that was pretty damn good. And I can make soup and all kinds of stuff. I know what capers are and pine nuts. I made oatmeal cookies with cinnamon and dried blueberries on a whim the other night.

But the grilled cheese sandwich was just cheddar cheese on an English muffin. Broiled. That's it.

And I don't use recipes--I sorta read a few and figure out what I want to do.

Here's the chicken.

2 or 3 pounds of chicken, cut up
a few onions, sliced
a few cloves of garlic, slivered
a few tablespoons of olive oil
a few teaspoons of hungarian paprika
2 tomatoes, chopped up
1/2 cup chicken broth
about a third cup of sour cream or plain yogurt
2-3 tablespoons flour


saute the onion and garlic in olive oil slowly till the onions are golden

add the paprika. oh and some salt and pepper to taste.

put the onions and garlic aside

rinse and pat dry the chicken, salt and pepper it, and brown it in the skillet you cooked the onions and garlic in--you might need to add more olive oil, just a little

sprinkle the chicken with the flour and add the tomatos (plum is good) and broth and onion/garlic stuff. Simmer for about 30-40 minutes. Simmer, not boil! Check it and stir occasionally.

take some of the sauce from the pan, like 1/4 cup and mix with the sour cream or yogurt and pour that into the pan to make the gravy.

Serve over egg noodles and with a salad. Great rib-stickin cold night dinner.

Ok? Is that better?

Oh sometimes I put mushrooms in, too.

 

[Angeline]

There is an art to a good grilled cheese sandwich and it's 2 slices of american cheese between Texas Toast (grilled in a cast iron pan with butter is best.)

Thank you Neo.

We were um out of Texas Toast, lol. We had English muffins.

 

[champagne1982]

beef dish (from an albertan)

beef
carrots
celery
onion
garlic
oxo or some other beef stock base 6 ozs or so when prepared
tomato paste
fresh or frozen peas
mushrooms (preferrably fresh)

plug in the slow cooker and set it on high -- or use a thick heavy-lidded casserole in the oven set at around 300 fahrenheit

chop 2 carrots, 2 sticks of celery, 1 medium onion and 2 cloves of garlic.

put a big, thick bottomed skillet on a burner set at medium high heat

add about 1 pound of washed, dried and cut up beef (1" cubes or so) to a plastic bag with 3 tablespoons of flour and 2 teaspoons of dry mustard, seasoned to taste with pepper, and whatever herbs you have in that messy spice drawer (I usually slap in about a teaspoon of crumbled Italian seasoning) and then shake the crap outta it to coat the meat.

place about a tablespoon of whatever oil you cook in and (if you care less for calories and animal fat) add a pat of butter to the oil and then the veggies, stirring them around for 30 seconds between adds: first the carrots, followed by celery, then onions and garlic and last the mushrooms and peas.

don't cook the veggies to mush! put them in the slow cooker or the casserole.

add a bit more oil and fat to the skillet and make certain the pan is still fairly hot. Sear the beef until the sides are golden brown and then add it to the veggies.

deglaze the pan with the beef stock and then add the tomato paste (you can also splash in a bit of whatever wine or beer you're drinking) stir until you have a watery sauce and add it to the pot.

add enough boiling water to cover the contents of the dish, stir and cover. In the slow cooker you can leave it all day on low setting and in the oven slow braise it for 2 or 3 hours adding liquid as needed to stop it from becoming a stew cake.

serve with mashed taters or broad egg noodles.