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[[BTF]adam]

I also must mention, as skill-less and terrible it is..

Cheesy Chips!

Ingredients:

Chips (fries for you lot)
Cheese
Salt

Preparation:

Soft drink of choice for usage while cooking.

Cooking:

Fry chips
Add Salt to taste
Grate excessive amounts of cheese on top
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PROFIT!

[[BTF] Reflex]

Add chili and bacon pieces and that's an American classic Adam


Triple Decker Grilled Cheese  (Eating one now)

Butter 3 pieces of Honey wheat bread

Start one in the pan,  and add a piece of sharp American cheese wrapped in a slice or 2 of shaved turkey,
top with the second piece of bread and flip the whole thing over when it's ready.. 
Top that with a second helping of cheese and turkey and the last piece of bread,
 flip again when it's ready and toast the final side.

Nice thick grilled cheese.  I can't eat a regular one anymore

[[BTF]adam]

Slightly different cheese toastie. (Grilled cheese it's called over there?)

Basically here, the usual is to toast some bread, pop the grill on, grate the cheese, put it on the toasted bread then put it under the grill until the cheese has melted OR, using a george foreman grill butter the outsides of 2 bread and put cheese in the middle, then plonk it on. But this way i've been doing lately and it's pretty much my favourite way now, toast bread, butter the insides and just put the cheese in without melting it in anyway. Take it upstairs and by the time it gets there, the cheese has softened a bit but not much so its litereally just like a cheese sarnie but with the bread being toasted. Retains the texture of cheese and tastes pretty goooood.

[|iR|Focalor]

Focalor's Breakfast Burrito

You need probably 3 frying pans ready for this.

2 eggs! Crack them sumbitches! Toss 'em in a bowl! (...without the shells, dummy)

Now... grab a wisk and scramble them mofo's till they can't possibly get no more scramblededer. I like to pour in a little bit of milk too. Seems to make them cook up a little fluffier. NOW... cook them damn eggs, boy! DON'T BURN THAT SHIT!

Now, in your other pan.... get some chorizo sausage and grind that shit up to where its chunky like ground beef, baby. Toss some diced onions in with it, preferably some good ole sweet Georgia vidalia onion. Not too much, but I guess it just depends on how much meat you have. You don't HAVE to use onions at all, but I always like to have diced onions in any kind of ground meat I'm cooking.

Now, COOK THE SAUSAGE! COOK IT! DO IT TO IT! Just DON'T DO IT TIL YOU BURN IT!

Now in the third pan, toss a flour tortilla in there. Get that stove hot as hell too, it'll cook it faster. Take a wide spatula and wait for the air pockets in the tortilla to start filling up with hot air like a balloon and then smash that sucker flat and hold it there for a bit. The idea is to get the surface of the flour tortilla slightly charred and toasted. Flip it! Do again on the other side!

Now that your tortiller is rightly crispified, lay them there scrambled eggies out on it in a nice row. Then sprinkle on some grated monterrey jack cheese,... and hopefully yer eggs are still warm enough that it'll melt all nice and purty like. THEN, toss on the chorizo. Maybe a little more cheese, what the hell, why not, who wants to live forever anyway.

You don't HAVE to do this, but I usually do... sprinkle tinkle tinkle on a liberal amount of Tabasco sauce, or even better, some Tabasco habanero sauce. Now wrap that muthafucka up and gnaw on it!

NOW YER EATIN' BREAKFAST LIKE A BEANER, WOOHOO!

note: I think the proper term for this would be "huevos con chorizo" if you don't like this particular recipe and would like to search for a better one on the inturwebz.

[Whirlingdervish]

Just ate one of those off the roach coach.

It was tasty!

 

[[BTF]adam]

One question, are these recipes based off stuff you'd find in ya houses normally over there? cause the majority of these if I were going to attempt any id have to actually buy specific stuff that we wouldnt usually have like that burrito stuff, we'd have like eggs and thats it haha.

[|iR|Focalor]

Well I usually have eggs and soft flour tortillas. I guess you brits don't have as many beaners living around you as us yanks.

The chorizo is a little harder to find. The stuff I usually get is at the regular old grocery store in the same case with the hotdogs and balogna and other pre-packaged lunch meats. What I usually get comes in a pack of about 5 or 6 links the size of hotdogs. I slice it up and squish it with a potato masher to get it chunky, which is kind of a pain in the ass. Its basically just a spicy kind of sausage. Sometimes I get the GOOD stuff from the Mexican market, but I don't usually like to make a special trip there for just some chorizo, I'll stop in and grab some if I'm over in that direction though.

As far as vidalia onions, I don't know that you'd be able to find any. I think they're only grown in the southern United States. They are a little sweeter and less acidic than other onions.

[Krlll Mule]

Good recipe Focalor.  Only thing I'd change/add: chop and add some bell pepper to yer Vidalia onion (THE best). Substitute venison sausage.   

Adam, I get a kick out of your Englisher terms and descriptions.   

[[BTF]RottenRose]

Beef Stew

1 can of tomato or Vegie juice
1 packet of au jus sauce
1 can of diced tomatos (it helps with the acid I've found)
1 pot roast
Cut up and add to the pot: carrets, potatoes, and onion. I do like to have some squash in mine though.
Add salt and pepper to taste.

Leave in crock pot for at least 6 hours til roast falls a part and potatoes can be easily sliced through with a spoon. If you have to remove roast from pot place on plate and take some forks to it.

Enjoy!

[[BTF]adam]

Cold-Banishing Vegetable Soup.

I made this today and its pretty damn decent if I do say so myself. Cookng time approx 40 minutes, give or take. (including prep)

Cube two large/medium potatoes
Dice an onion and a half.
Chop up carrots, round, width about just under a cm.
Chop up two leeks, same deal.

Whack all this into a pan, 750mls of cold water on top. Crumble 2 Vegetable stock cubes. Liberally apply salt and pepper (throughout!)
Bring to boil, keep at boil for 5 minutes or so then just simmer away till you get something that resembles a swamp but tastes great
THERE IS MORE HOWEVER! I also added a half sprig of rosemary, 2 bayleaves, a tablespoon of mustard powder, moar salt and pepper, and towards the end a knob of butter and finally, muy importanto, a good few splashes of Lea Perrins.

Serve up with some bread. It should have the consistency of a fairly thin but thicker than water broth, with soft chunky vegetables swimming in it!

[[BTF]adam]

Seriously go nutty on the pepper btw if you have a cold, and add a little more mustard powder. Helps with the congestion and gives it a kick.

[SANCTIFY]

NO KNEAD POT BREAD!!:  this is one of my favorites. The bread is easy and tastes delicious!

First:  Stir together following items in large bowl:

4 cup flour
1 teaspoons sugar
2 teaspoons salt
3/4 teaspoon yeast

Second:  Vigorously stir in 2 cups of cold water into the mix.  When done, all flour should be moist but the overall dough should not be overly wet.

now spray the top of the dough with cooking oil or olive oil or whatever oil you have. (not car oil.... )

cover the bowl and put in your refrigerator for 24 hours.


Third: preheat oven to 450 degrees and let EMPTY dutch oven or heavy metal pot to sit in oven for 10 minutes or until "sizzling hot".

loosen dough from sides of bowl and invert it into the pot (after spraying pot with non-stick spray).

generously spritz top of dough with water and immediately cover.  Then shake the pot back and forth to even out the dough inside.

Put pot in oven and bake for 55 minutes.  then remove lid and bake for 15 minutes or until top is well browned.

ENJOY!

P.S. it seems tricky at first, but its really simple. Not to mention the bread is heavenly.

[[BTF] Reflex]

Will give it a try,  need to get yeast first.

[Th0m@s29]

Bacon,eggs,home fries and toast is what I would ask for my last meal on death row.

[kvaki]

wow seriously. how do you burn boiled eggs? its boiling? did she let the water boil away and then burn them? loooool