The Food Thread

arunbg

Calling all food lovers and connoisseurs of PF .
A thread to post anything and everything about food.
Share your favourite recipes, your kind of cuisine and favourite dishes, dining experiences, or even your kitchen antics and fiascos.

Let the food fest begin and remember, gluttony is not a sin.

Evo

Oooh, I'll be back in a bit. A friend and I were trying to find new recipes for lentils and we found some rather unusual fare, such as chocolate lentil cake.

We were also trying to find a modern version of "horsebread" that didn't require two bushels of flour.

arunbg

Chocolate lentil cake !!! That's my favourite ( drools over keyboard ) !

larkspur

2 cups fresh basil leaves
2 or more large garlic cloves
3/4 cup fresh parmesan cheese (shredded or grated)
1/2 cup pine nuts
2/3 cup extra virgin olive oil

Put the first 4 ingredients in a food processor and blend while drizzling in the olive oil. Process until smooth. Pour into a jar and top with olive oil.

Prepare your favorite pasta(angel hair works great) combine it with about a tablespoon of pesto per serving.


Cover the unused pesto sauce with olive oil to keep it green and keep in the fridge up to a week.

Cyrus

By far, Lebanese food is one of the best in the world.

larkspur

Got any recipes?

Astronuc

See also - Recipes & Cooking

Actually, one will find a lot of food threads in GD.

Cyrus

No, but if you drive down to Maryland I will take you to a good resturant in Bathesda .

turbo

Do you have a grill and a clamshell grilling basket with a fine wire mesh? If you do, here is today's recipe. Mix up a concoction of olive oil, dry red wine, ketchup, (insert favorite spicy salad dressing here - mine is Marie's Roasted Red Pepper Vinagarette), maybe some prepared mustard, the juice of one fresh lemon, molasses, some really hot habanero sauce, a crushed clove of garlic (or two), some oregano, freshly-ground black pepper, and salt. Mix them in approximately that order of decreasing amounts, tasting from time to time. That is your marinade. Thoroughly de-vein and de-shell some previously-frozen jumbo shrimp and marinate them in this for a few hours (or overnight), then cook them on your grill on high heat, painting them generously with the left-over marinade before and after turning. The molasses helps keep the seasonings stuck to the shrimp, while carmelizing nicely during cooking. When the thinner parts of the shrimp look crispy, open that grill basket and serve. Don't ask for specific quantities in the recipe. I don't measure, and you'll have to try this a few times to see what "by feel" proportions work for you. I can tell you that these grilled habanero shrimp never last more than a few minutes after they are served, so something must be going right. I grew up in a family of great cooks, so when you haul out a dish at a family gathering and it disappears in minutes with a crowd elbowing in for dibs, that is high praise. This one will make you popular at parties.

George Jones

Dahl? (extra char)

Rach3

Mixed chopped fruit with yogurt, my favorite breakfast. Maybe:

chopped fresh fruit -
apples,
cantaloupe,
grapes,
orange slices,

topped with vanilla yogurt, in moderation as not to overwhelm the fruit. I discovered this combination at a cafe in Key West, off of Duval street, forgot the name.

Rach3

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puttanesca

I got lucky once and this came out incredibly good, very strong flavors of anchovies and black olives (no capers for me), concentrated by reducing over a full hour at low heat. Mine was with spaghetti though, not rigatoni as pictured in wikipedia's article. I supplemented the olive oil with the olive oil the anchovies were packed in, that may have affected things positively, I'm not certain. I've also tried a version at an upscale restaurant, too soft and muted for my taste though, my version was better.

Cyrus

Best breakfast, steak with runny eggs on top, oatmeal and 5-6 scrambled eggs. Protein +10.

Rach3

Sounds lethal.

Cyrus

Lethal?

Nope. It has all that your body needs for strength!

JamesU

I ate at taco bell for lunch...it was nasty...


that's al I have to say about food

Pengwuino

I just smoked some oil... disaster report soon to come