Recipes we all can make!

[Livingston]

Here are a few for you

http://www.electricscotland.com/food/recipes/

[Meggers]

Here are a few for you

http://www.electricscotland.com/food/recipes/

well well well, look what I found.

http://www.electricscotland.com/food...es/vhaggis.htm

vegetarian haggis!

[Old Hippie]

Meh just something that I could whip up any night for dinner. I'm not a noob so I don't need 101 level but I also dont want it to have a ton of weird exotic ingredience that I cant get at my local grocery store.

Living on an organic farm has its advantages when you need fresh ingredients. Heck with the "Hundred Mile Diet" -- we have the "Hundred Metre Diet."

Having cooked for large groups who expected meals on time, we've got some shortcuts that save a lot of time when it's "half past what do I make and 15 minutes late for dinner."

Buy a dozen nice-sized baking potatoes (or go out to the root cellar and grab them...). Scrub and pierce them, put them in the oven at 400F for an hour. Let them cool and put them in the fridge.

Buy hot peppers in bulk. Roast them with a blowtorch, scrub off the skin, open them and take out the seeds and membrane. Chop and freeze in amounts appropriate to your recipe needs.

Peel and chop several/many onions and roast them in a covered pot at 350F with some oil and vegetable broth. Put the pot in the fridge and you have onions pre-cooked to add to any recipe.

Use your weekend time or evenings to pre-make sauces and other things you want to use during the week. My goal is to get home at 7:30 pm and be done dinner by 8:15 so I can get the chores done in time to get some sleep.

Speedy Potato Salad:

Peel and coarsely chop or very roughly mash two potatoes. Add some chopped hard-boiled egg*, chive or green onion top, diced raw onion, celery, and any other thing you put in potato salad. Stir in a generous amount of mayo and there you go.

* We don't eat eggs, but adding some turmeric to the mayo and using a little "kala namak" or "black salt" will totally fool you. Kala namak is in any Indian grocery and releases some sulfur when wetted. And yes, I get it that you don't want too many exotic ingredients.

Speedy Hash Browns:

Put a bit of oil in your skillet. Add some cooked onion. Peel and coarsely mash two baked potatoes. Add poblano peppers, garlic, salt and pepper.

The hashbrowns are regular in the morning, rotated with various hot cereals, Bubble and Squeak, toast, fruit, and biscuits.

The potato salad is good alongside any entree you wish, or you can add chicken chunks to it (I'm vegetarian so I use sauteed tempeh or seitan).

Having pots of ingredients ready to use, along with frozen/canned/dried food in season, can really speed things up. It allows me to shift the cooking to times when I can spend time, and saves me from Kraft Dinner and frozen pizza during the week when I'm going "lahk a house afaahr."

:ootd:

[Meggers]

^ Dang....can I come live with you? You can be like my mentor

I would LOVE to have land for an organic garden. Thats one of my biggest goals for when I have a place of my own. I used to live on a 1,000 acre ranch in Norther Cali (foothills of the Sierra Nevadas. It was paradise) and had an organic garden + animals (only some for food) but it was the best Ive ever felt. Theres really something to be said for just going out in your yard and picking your dinner.

Kala namak is in any Indian grocery and releases some sulfur when wetted. And yes, I get it that you don't want too many exotic ingredients.

Oh, Indian ingriedients (wow I can never spell that right) are fair game. My sweetheart is Pakistani so I've been practicing my way around a desi kitchen.

just no weird stuff that I can't get at a grocery store. lol. Nothing like birds feet. And no blood pancakes! (sorry Irish ancestors.)

I love potato salad. I will try this for sure Thank you.

[James Hood]

The Irish Eggs look like grande fun. Gotta give them a go. Thank you, Meghan.

[Meggers]

The Irish Eggs look like grande fun. Gotta give them a go. Thank you, Meghan.

anytime! It reminds me of what some people call "grandmas eggs" which are the eggs that have like...bread in it. Does anyone know what I mean? They are so good but Ive never known how to make them. I like eggs with other stuff in them

[cruiser348]

well well well, look what I found.

http://www.electricscotland.com/food...es/vhaggis.htm

vegetarian haggis!

I never thought there was a recipe I would actually prefer to eat the vegetarian version of, but I think you may have just found one.

[Silent Raven]

one of my favorites (breakfast or dinner) Toad in the hole!

Ingredients:
1/2 pound (250g) pork link sausages
3 ounces (90g or 3/4 cup) flour
10 fluid ounces (300ml or One and a quarter cups) milk
Two large eggs
4 ounces (125g or one stick or half cup) grated strong Cheddar cheese
2 tablespoons chopped parsley
Pinch of salt and freshly ground pepper, to taste
Cooking oil

Method:
Preheat oven to 220C (425F or Gas Mark 7).
Using a 9-inch ovenproof skillet (or a deep-dish pie pan), heat the cooking oil. Add the sausages, rolling them in the oil and brown on all sides in oven (for about 20 minutes) or on top of stove, turning every 5 minutes. Sift flour and a pinch of salt into a mixing bowl and stir in the grated cheese. In a smaller bowl, beat milk, eggs, and parsley, and season generously with salt and pepper. Stir a small amount of milk mixture into the flour to make a smooth, very heavy batter and let stand 5 minutes before stirring in remaining milk mixture. There are different ways of arranging the sausages in the deep-dish pie pan. Some people cut up the sausages and arrange them at random. Others arrange the sausages like spokes of a wheel evenly spaced in pan. Whatever method is used, pour the batter over them. Lower oven heat to 200C (400 degrees or Gas Mark 6) and bake until batter is puffed and browned (about 30 minutes).

I sometimes add many different things to this dish... mushrooms, tempeh (for the vegetarians), apples,, peppers, broccoli, MORE CHEESE! I used to serve this in my colleges kitchen for breakfast, its went about 50/50 on weather or nto people like it, or would even tried it, but those that did really enjoyed it! I got this recipe from http://www.rampantscotland.com/recip...cipe_index.htm

[Destin_scot]

Here is a simple basic recipe that you can adapt to just about any protein, (even tofu if you're so inclined)

Basic Alfredo Sauce



1 small to medium onion diced (about 1/2 -3/4 Cup)
2 cloves garlic (minced, grated, crushed)
1 Cup heavy whipping cream
1 Pint 1/2 and 1/2
3 TBS flour (substitute rice flour if you want gluten free)
1 stick butter (8 TBS)
2 TBS olive oil (will help keep the butter from browing too quickly)
1/4 - 1/2 tsp grated nutmeg
8 oz grated parmesan cheese (spend the money to get a good quality parmesan)
2 TBS - 1/4 Cup semi-sweet white wine

Kosher salt
white or black pepper (your choice)

In a medium to large sauce pan.
Slowly melt the butter over medium low heat, add the garlic and the onions and sweat until the onions are clear. Sprinkle the flour over the oil and bring the heat up slowly to cook the pasty taste out of the flour. Add the wine and stir. Slowly add the 1/2 and 1/2 while stiring until well blended. Add the heavy whipping cream, and stir in the nutmeg. Add the parmesan cheese and stir while bringing the pan up to a boil. Once it is at a boil, add water to thin the sauce out if it is needed. Allow to cook longer if the sauce is too thin.

Taste and add salt if needed, add pepper if desired

Serve over your choice of long pasta, (linguni, fettucini, angel hair, etc)


You can add your additional protein* and cook it thoroughly before adding the flour if desired

* Peeled and deveined shrimp
bay scallops
diced cooked chicken
diced cooked turkey

You can also stir in cooked diced bacon and 1 TBS tomato paste for another variation

[Meggers]

Being that i'm feeling like ***** today (first day of cold symptoms first day is always the worst) I wanted to post my sick-sandwich that I always make when I am sick. I don't know why this sandwich has become my choice for my sick morning breakfasts, but it's damn good and easy.

Meghans Sandwich To Eat When You Are Sick (Always tastier and has better healing qualities when made by Mothers)

what you need:
-1 egg
-1 slice of cheese of your choice (chedder or pepperjack are my favorites)
-2 slices of bread
-butter for the bread
-natures seasoning (salt and pepper works if you dont have natures seasoning...but I suggest buying it cause it makes eggs taste like Super Eggs)

What you do:
Fry the egg and break the yolk, flip it over and shake a couple good shakes of Natures Seasoning on that top. Stick a slice of cheese on it and let the cheese get all melty. Toast the bread. Put butter on the bread. Put the egg on the bread and make it into a sandwich