[molshove]

I'm stuck in a rut making a lot of the same stuff week after week.

Any of you have any good recipes you would like to pass along?

Here is one of mine...simple, and IMO, pretty damn good.

We call them pastys (not to be confused with what strippers wear)
They are our Polish family's variation of the traditional shephard's pie.

Preheat oven to 350

Buy some pillsbury pie crust dough (they come in long skinny rectangular red box, rolled up, not the ones in a pan) unless you wish to make your own crust.

Remove the pie crust, should be two to a box. Cut the crust in two, stright down the middle so you have two half circles.

Chop up carrots, russet potatos, rutabaga, (pretty finely chopped, the beef should be the largest chunks) and stew beef. The stew beef can be bought in the meat section of the grocery and should already be properly cut.

Throw the vegetables and beef all in bowl together and season as you please. I use garlic salt, ground peppercorn, and montreal steak seasoning.

Load the seasoned veggies/beef onto a half of each of the half-circle dough slices, fold the other half over top, and crimp the edges together. Poke the top 3-5 times a fork.

Place tin-foil on a cookie sheet (easier clean-up) and very lightly spray with pam or any non-stick spray.

Stick in the oven for about 45-55 minutes (they are done when the top of the pasty is pale-golden brown, and the edges are only a hair darker than the top). Take out an let cool for 7-10 minutes depending upon your tolerance to heat.

Most of our family eats them with ketchup (if you're a ketchup hater, just give it a try...it is very good). They have become a hit at my dealership, every time I make them I make waaaay more than I need because they are as good reheated, and I hate reheated food.

What do you guys have?

[alecmcmahon]

Open Fridge

Find left over COLD pizza

Smear decent layer of peanut butter ontop of cold pizza

enjoy


( yes.. i'm serious. yes.. it is amazing )



Edit: What joy, home from work, open fridge.... perfection... im serious, do it!

[molshove]

Originally Posted by alecmcmahon

Open Fridge

Find left over COLD pizza

Smear decent layer of peanut butter ontop of cold pizza

enjoy


( yes.. i'm serious. yes.. it is amazing )

Do you reheat the pizza? If yes, prior to the smearing of the peanut butter or following?

Edit: just saw the capitalized COLD

[RikRotorhead]

Peanut butter?! Yuck!
Put mayonaise on it and nuke it for thirty seconds!
THAT'S good eatin' right there!

[molshove]

you both are sick ****s...either that or your wives do the cooking for you...

[RikRotorhead]

Originally Posted by molshove

you both are sick ****s...either that or your wives do the cooking for you...

I haven't cooked more than a bowl of cereal for decades.

[rmb2485]

Here's a couple unique but simple ones that I love (thanks, mom and grandma)...

Spinach Braid:
Mix 1 pack cooked spinach, 1 cup ricotta cheese and 1 cup of parmesan cheese. Get a thing of crescent rolls (the ones that come in a tube that you pop open) and unroll the whole thing and crimp the seams to make one rectangular sheet of it. Now make a log type thing by laying the spinach mixture down the middle of the crescent roll dough, top with a few slices of ham and swiss cheese and then make slices about every inch in the sides of the dough so you can fold the flaps over the top and it ends up looking braided. Cook at 350F for 20 minutes or so, until its golden brown.

Casserole:
Mix 1/2lb (it comes in 1lb boxes) cooked elbow macaroni, 1lb cooked ground beef, 1 sauteed onion, 1 can tomato soup and 1 can tomato sauce. Put the mixture in a casserole dish with one layer of american cheese in the middle and one on top. Top that off with a layer of buttered bread, cut into inch or so squares. Cover with foil so the bread doesn't burn and cook at 350F for 45 minutes. I love the bread in this one, so I'll use a large baking dish and make a thin casserole with plenty of surface area for bread!

[LJameson]

Get some bow tie pasta, Alfredo, pre-cooked/chopped chicken (comes in little pouches) and sun dried tomatoes. Cook the pasta, then mix all together and heat. Simple but tastes GREAT!

[Hoobly_Goob]

One of my favorites is making a grilled cheese sandwich with Colby cheese.
College eats suck.

[rmb2485]

Originally Posted by HooblyGoob

One of my favorites is making a grilled cheese sandwich with Colby cheese.
College eats suck.

Add some tomato soup for dipping and you have one damn good dinner!

[jeeepguy]

All but the pizza ones sound like d**n good eats. Will try them all this coming week.

Thanks.

[Juju]

Originally Posted by molshove

I'm stuck in a rut making a lot of the same stuff week after week.

Any of you have any good recipes you would like to pass along?

Here is one of mine...simple, and IMO, pretty damn good.

We call them pastys (not to be confused with what strippers wear)
They are our Polish family's variation of the traditional shephard's pie.

Your Polish family version is actually a renaming of the traditional Cornish pasty. Miners would take them down and be able to eat them by holding the braided/crimped crust, so the rest of the crust did not get dirty. For an added twist, sometimes the bottom is crimped off a bit and a dessert of fruit fills the pastry to act like a pie.


College-afied Beans and Rice recipe:
1 can black beans (undrained)
1 can stewed tomatoes (undrained)
one onion, diced
one bell pepper, chopped
one and one half cups uncooked instant brown rice
oil
one pound ground beef
one cube garlic, minced
cumin or whatever spices you think would be awesome


In a large pot brown the beef, then add the onion and bell pepper and cook until softened but not soft.
Add garlic, can of beans, can of tomatoes and spices. Bring to boil then add the rice. You might want to add a bit of water, but no more than half a cup.
Return to boil, then simmer until the rice is cooked (follow directions on the rice package).
It should be goopy, but not liquidy.
Serve up in a bowl, or on a tortilla. Add salsa, hot sauce, cheese, cilantro, sour cream, whatever strikes your fancy/is in the fridge.
Enjoy only having the one pot to clean up.

[fransdemers]

I have a good recipe !

DUCK WITH WHISKY

Buy a 10 pound duck
Buy 2 bottles of Whisky
A bottle of olive oil
4 ounces of bacon

Decorate the duck with the bacon and put pepper and salt on it. Oil the pan.
Pre-heat the oven on 180° C and fill a long drink glass with whisky
Drink the whisky while the oven heats...

Put the duck in the pan, and fill a second glass of whisky.
Put the pan in the oven, and drink the second glass.

After 20 minutes, put the oven on 200° C andth fillf 2 glaffes of whisky. Drfink thfe firfst glafss and pickf up the piefes of the secondf one...

Tly to fill anothelf glaff of whiffy and checkf the duckf...

Hurry tfo the bathfroomff to getf the ointment for thfe burns on yourf handfs...

Put the ointment ontf the oven-glofesf and open the ovenf...

... pikf up the duck fromff tfe groundf...
... pick upff the duckf again... and rince thfe ointmentf ffromhh the duckhh
... pick upff the ointment tube...

pick up the secondf brfoken glassff and put thefe duckhhh backff..in the panfff
try to getff up and
Openfff the seconff boffle of wiffysky...
Kick the baconff under the closettfff

get uppf againdd ... pfff, don't bofther, stay on the floorrff

Next day: go to the pharmacy and get aspirin and stomac powder. And don't forget to put on sun glasses...

[GSU_DAVE]

2oz Rum
5oz Cola

Fill High Ball glass almost full with Ice. Pour rum and Cola into glass. Stir well. Garnish with optional lime or lemon wedge.



I make this recipe all the time and its a family favorite. Tried and true.

[Metaloholic]

Pickle and mayonnaise sandwiches. Delicious