Weird recipe

[TheEarl]

I've just cooked steak with a chocolate sauce. Weird as hell.

Not really sure what my tastebuds make of it actually. I'm not usually a big fan of red wine sauces and I think I made a mistake in using Zinfandel for the sauce (but it was what I wanted to drink and I can't afford two bottles!), but it was distinctly odd.

For those curious, the sauce was made with red onion, butter, garlic, red wine and dark chocolate.

Anyone else tried anything odd (foodwise! Dirty people) recently?

The Earl

 

[BlackShanglan]

Cockles cooked with seaweed and laverbread (evidently made with seaweed, or so I was told). Quite tasty actually.

Shanglan

 

[BBWetKitty]

I tried my mother's cooking. She's not very domestic. That was odd.

 

[TheEarl]

I tried my mother's cooking. She's not very domestic. That was odd.

<laughs>

Anyone know if Charley H around?

The Earl

 

[BBWetKitty]

<laughs>

Anyone know if Charley H around?

The Earl

psst. you've got something on your chest. wet nap?

 

[cantdog]

I know. Where Charley is, I mean.

 

[Liar]

I made me a "what I happen to have at home" wok today for some friends.

Bacon, pickled ginger, peanuts, glass noodles, garlic, basil, apples and tomatos. Seasoned with salt and a glass of white wine of unknown variety (it stood there unattended in the kitchen, so I poured it in.)

Oddly enough, it worked.

 

[entitled]

Do oddball medieval-ish recipes count?

 

[jfinn]

A bottle of chili sauce mixed with a jar of grape jelly makes a great quick barbecue sauce for ribs. I've also tried roasting corn by stripping the silk, but leaving the leaves, smearing peanut butter on the cob then rewrapping and grilling. It was okay, but I didn't love it like I'd been told I would.

Jayne

 

[SlickTony]

One of my coworkers swears by chicken coated with peanut butter, breaded and fried or baked. But I just don't know...if it's good, that's wonderful, but I've got a whole chicken to throw out if it's not.

 

[Hulder]

Well, traditional norwegian food can be rather twisted. I had "lutefisk" for dinner today, which is dried fish watered out and soaked in lye. It's like eating fish jell-o. I guess it's an aquired taste, but i've aquired it. I love the stuff!

 

[SlickTony]

They soak the fish in lye to preserve it, and it has to be soaked and rinsed a bunch of times before it's not actually toxic. I've had it, and it's not that bad, not barfworthy or anything like that; it was creamed with potatoes, and seemed like a hellofa lot of trouble to go to to get creamed fish. This recipe ought to have disappeared into the mists of antiquity as soon as the refrigerator ship and truck were developed.

And I can say that, my forebears were Scandinavian, too.

 

[Hulder]

Lol, it's not likely to disappear anytime soon, we love it! With lots of freshly ground pepper, mustard and fried bacon, mmmm!

 

[TheEarl]

One of my coworkers swears by chicken coated with peanut butter, breaded and fried or baked. But I just don't know...if it's good, that's wonderful, but I've got a whole chicken to throw out if it's not.

I've heard that one. Try doing it on chicken breasts - that way you only have a little bit to chuck out if it's tosh.

The Earl