Beats the hell outta Gamer Grub

Or.... The Quest for the Kitchen: A Classic Sierra Adventure Game

Or maybe Ham and Eggs, Mystery of the Silver Spoon or Adventures of the Grand Recipe Book.

GAMER GRUB MEAL RECIPE:

1. large bag o doritos
2. wasabi
3. mayo
4. canned spam
5. infinite/+ mountain dew

- 1st drink mountain dew... ahhh refreshed!
- now mix spam, mayo and wasabi together. add lots of wasabi because you're a HARDCORE gamer!
- pour doritos into the mix and eat it all up! feel that heartburn and thump your chest!
- drink more mountain dew, brah!

Oh man, I ate at Jack's last night. Central Texas barbecue is about as good as life on this planet gets. And there is no better place in Seattle to park my early 90s truck with long expired Texas plates. :)

-1 brisket
-lots and lots of salt and pepper
-smoke over post oak at 175 degrees Fahrenheit for 10-12 hours.

Great base cookie recipe:

I whip up these often for tea and biscuits. its a 'go to' quick and believe it easy recipe. the best thing about this recipe is that you can easily change it up and subst your choice of dried fruit, chip or nuts at the end, just keep the dry ingredients the same (decrease sugar if you add raisins). my fav is coconut, raisin, choc chip, cinnamon combo. increase baking time for all recipes by 4-6 min for crispier cookies if you bake with 2 cookie sheets at one time.




Oatmeal, Chocolate Chip, Pecan Cookies



Ingredients

1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour (about 5 1/2 ounces)
1 cup regular oats
3/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/2 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup granulated sugar
1/2 cup packed brown sugar
1/3 cup butter, softened
1 1/2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 large egg
1/4 cup chopped pecans, toasted
1/4 cup semisweet chocolate minichips

Preparation

Preheat oven to 350°.

Lightly spoon flour into dry measuring cups; level with a knife. Combine flour and next 4 ingredients (through salt), stirring with a whisk; set aside.

Place sugars and butter in a large bowl; beat with a mixer at medium speed until well blended. Add vanilla and egg; beat until blended. Gradually add flour mixture, beating at low speed just until combined. Stir in pecans and minichips. Drop dough by tablespoonfuls 2 inches apart onto baking sheets lined with parchment paper. Bake at 350° for 12 minutes or until edges of cookies are lightly browned. Cool on pans 2 minutes. Remove cookies from pans; cool on wire racks.


link from cooking light where recipe came from:

http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/oatmeal-chocolate-chip-pecan-cookies-0/print

As there is soon an annual thing happen again where i get some traditional bavarian food
I finally send one of my favs:

Bavarian Roasted Pig

Ingredients for 6 portions:
2 kg pork, with rind (Schweinebraten) - most use it from shoulder or belly
1 tablespoon caraway
lots of salt - you have to massage the whole with it
some pepper
2-3 Onions
1 garlic
2 big carots
1/4 celery root
1/2 leek
1/2 or 1 Litre dark bavarian beer
1 Litre meat brooth

For the Dumplings (Knödel):
500g dumpling bread
3 eggs
250ml milk, lukewarm
some Parsley, minced
some Salt and Pepper
a pinch of nutmeg

Directions:
Heat the convection oven to 175° C or 20° C more with normal oven.

The Pork:
Cut rhombs into rind (sharp knife needed) or let it do from the butcher
rub lots of coarse salt, caraway and some pepper into the rind and pork
give pork with the rind on top into a roasting tray and 0,5 l cooking meat brooth over it
let it cook around 1h on middle heat.
Cut onions, carots, celery and leek in small pieces
and give them to the pork - pour the rest of cooked meat brooth all over the pork and let it cook 2h more.
Check all 15/30 min the pork and pour some of the gravy over the meat
if needed add some water.
20 minutes before end switch to 200-220° C top heat and give the beer to the sauce.
We throw out the garlic, sive the sauce and breakup the cooked onions carots etc. with the mixer
to get a more creamy sauce - dont use sauce binder.

The dumplings:
pour the lukeawarm milk over the dumpling bread and mix it with the hands
give parsley and the eggs to it and mix it again with the hands - flavor it with some salt,
pepper and nutmeg and let it rest some minutes
form approx. 8 dumplings with wet hands give them into cooking saltwater (dumplings have to swim)
after 20min they are ready to be served to the pork.

Hints: the correct dumpling bread is one or two days old roll/bun cut into rough pieces
If you use 1kg of pork you should cook for 30minutes then for around 1h.
one of the big hit or miss of this recipe is the constant pouring of the sauce over the pig to
get a juicy meat and the rind have to be crisp but not black as coal
- dont pour the beer to early into the sauce as it can get bitter
- of course you can taste the beer before in a more direct way - just assure you have enough left for the pork ;-)
Watch this for a hint how it should look like

ah and btw look out for a GA this week which hopefully get us more recipes here ;-)

If you're willing to buy a cookbook (or can find a copy), I would recommend the America's Test Kitchen cookbook for slow cookers. I quite enjoy the ATK books (I am a little biased in their favor), not just because they offer great recipes (and they do), but also because they don't just teach you how to cook a recipe, they teach you how and why you are doing what the recipe says to do. It teaches you how to cook, not how to make a recipe.

That said, your onion stew sounds pretty tasty. Throw the beans in near the end (last hour or two) if you like them to have a little texture.

Seems like something I'd enjoy.

http://www.netmums.com/recipes/eggy-bread

MMmmm Yummy, I sprinkle a little black pepper on top

[edit] I don't use maple syrup

Greek Salad (Horiatiki)
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Ingredients:

3 tomatoes
2 cucumbers
1 onion
A big slice of Feta cheese
A handful of Kalamata olives
Several capers
Extra virgin olive oil
Dried oregano
Salt (optional)
Bread (for the dipping) ;-)

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Slice the tomatoes, cucumbers and the onion and then mix them in a large salad-serving bowl.
Add the Kalamata olives & the capers. Do not slice the olives!
Place a big slice of Feta cheese on top of the ingredients (or you can cut it down to cubes).
Add the extra virgin olive oil (when you think it's enough, add some more!).
Sprinkle with dried oregano and salt (although it isn't needed because the cheese is already salty enough).
Ready!

Enjoy with some Tsipouro or Ouzo & good company! Cheers!

Honeyed Sriracha Wings

For the wings:
2 pounds chicken wings
2 tablespoons peanut, corn or vegetable oil
2 table spoons butter, melted
1 teaspoon granulated garlic
1 teaspoon sea or Kosher salt
3/4 teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

For the sauce:
1/3 cup butter
1/4 cup Sriracha
1/4 cup honey
1 tablespoon soy sauce
2 tablespoon fresh lime juice


1. Preheat oven to 400F degrees. Lightly oil rimmed baking sheet. Dry chicken wings and place in bowl.

2. Mix melted butter, oil, garlic powder, salt and pepper. Pour over wings in bowl, mis and massage seasoning mixture to coat the wings. Lay wings out, not touching, on prepared baking sheet.

3.Bake wings 45-55 minutes until toasty brown and cooked through.

4. While wings are cooking, melt butter in a small pot over medium heat. Mix in sriracha, honey, soy sauce and lime juice. Stir until mixture bubbles gently. Remove from heat.

5. Place cooked wings in a large bowl. Reheat sriracha honey glaze for a moment and drizzle over wings. Toss gently to completely cover the wings.

NOT IN

My favorite sandwich that I pretty much exclusively eat on my birthday....

Media Noche (Mid Night)

4 sweet bread rolls (use potato bread, trust me I'm cuban)
1/2 cup mayonnaise
1/4 cup prepared mustard
1 pound thinly sliced cooked ham
1 pound thinly sliced fully cooked pork
1 pound sliced Swiss cheese
1 cup dill pickle slices
2 tablespoons butter, melted

Split the sandwich rolls in half, and spread mustard and mayonnaise liberally onto the cut sides. On each sandwich, place and equal amount of Swiss cheese, ham and pork in exactly that order. Place a few pickles onto each one, and put the top of the roll onto the sandwich. Brush the tops with melted butter.

Press each sandwich in a sandwich press heated to medium-high heat. If a sandwich press is not available, use a large skillet over medium-high heat, and press the sandwiches down using a sturdy plate or skillet. Some indoor grills may be good for this also. Cook for 5 to 8 minutes, keeping sandwiches pressed. If using a skillet, you may want to flip them once for even browning. Slice diagonally and serve hot.

Edit- added pic

Here is a simple but delicious one:

meatballs (for 4-5 people)

1 bun (from the day before)
2 onions
600g minced meat (half beef, half pork)
1 egg
salt
pepper
paprika
about 40g clarified butter or some cooking oil


1. Do the bun in some cold water. Deduct the onions and cut them.
2. Mix the minced meat and the wet bun with the onions and the egg. Mix it. Then use salt, pepper and paprika.
3. Now shape 8 - 10 meatballs (use wet hands and it will be easier).
4. Heat the clarified butter or some cooking oil in a pan. Fry the meatballs by medium heat for about 10 minutes. Don't forget to turn them around from time to time.

Enjoy them (for example with some french fries)!

This is an odd one that I eat from time to time.

Tuna Melt Variant (serves two)

5-6 oz. of cooked tuna, well drained and room temperature (use a decent-quality can or, if you're brave, this method)
1-2 scallions, very thinly sliced
Four slices of cheap bread (the closer it is to this, the better)
Two broad, thin slices of pepperjack cheese, room temperature
1/4 cup of mayonnaise
Fresh-cracked black pepper

Mix the tuna, mayonnaise and scallions in a bowl until the globs of mayonnaise disappear (tuna should not be mush). Spread the mixture evenly across two slices of bread, then top with a dusting of black pepper and the pepperjack. Close both sandwiches with second slices of bread and place them on a cold griddle or grill pan. Cook and flip on medium heat (adjusting heat when necessary) until cheese is melted and sandwiches are brown on both sides. Cut diagonally and serve while hot.