Original "family Secret" Recipes

CForrester · January 2005

<div class="IPBDescription">Recipes from you or your family</div> Post recipes that either you have made, or people in your family have made here. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/biggrin-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='biggrin-fix.gif' /> Please don't post recipes from a book or a website, I'd like to see original recipes!

<b>No joke recipes!!</b> ("Take 1 can of Mountain Dew, open, drink", etc...)

Here's my recipe for a great Christmas dinner:

<b>Turkey:</b>
<i>Ingredients:</i>
1 4 kg (Approx. 8 lb) turkey
Neck from the turkey
Potatoes
Olive oil
4 gloves of garlic, chopped
Salt and pepper to taste

<i>Directions:</i>
Quarter the potatoes and place them in a large, oiled baking tray. Drizzle them with a bit of olive oil, salt and pepper. Bend the neck so that it's like a U and place it in the center of the pan.

Rub the turkey with the garlic and then with olive oil, setting it on the quartered potatoes and the turkey neck and sprinkling it with salt and pepper.

Stuff and bake in an oven preheated to 375F for 2-3 hours. (Until done) Use the juices in the pan to make a gravy afterwards.

<b>Stuffing:</b>
<i>Ingredients</i>
Five slices of fresh bread (Preferrably homemade bread, mmm)
1/2 cup chopped carrots
1/2 cup chopped green beans
1/2 cup chopped broccoli
2 large white mushrooms
Grated mozzarella cheese to taste
Salt, pepper (preferrably freshly ground) and sage to taste
Butter
1 egg
2 cloves of garlic

<i>Directions</i>
Tear the bread up in to little pieces in a large bowl and add the vegetables, mushrooms, butter and cheese. Add the egg, salt, pepper, sage and garlic and mix everything together until everything is covered in egg.

<b>Gravy:</b>
<i>Ingredients:</i>
The drippings from the turkey
2-3 Tbsp water
2-3 Tbsp flour
Water or stock (You can boil and then simmer the giblets, including the neck after the turkey is done, to make a stock, if you like)

<i>Directions:</i>
Combine the water and the flour and add to the drippings and stir. Add the extra water and boil, stirring frequently, until the desired thickness is reached, then add salt and pepper to taste. Pour over the turkey and potatoes.

Hibame · January 2005

mmm mmm stew:
2 humans
1 jumbo pot
3 teaspoons of salt
mix well
cook in pot with water for 360 min
take out and serve

Mullet · January 2005

I can't think of anything off the top of my head, but our familys modo towards food is basicaly this : you can NEVER have too much garlic and the only way to eat meat is rare.

pwnz0r

Shoebox · January 2005

cream cheese

CForrester · January 2005

I said <i>REAL</i> recipes, Hibame and Shoebox.

</div><table border='0' align='center' width='95%' cellpadding='3' cellspacing='1'><tr><td><b>QUOTE</b> (Mullet)</td></tr><tr><td id='QUOTE'>I can't think of anything off the top of my head, but our familys modo towards food is basicaly this : you can NEVER have too much garlic and the only way to eat meat is rare.</td></tr></table><div class='postcolor'>
I certainly agree about the garlic. <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' /> I use garlic for so many things. I must confess that I've only tried rare meat once, when I was like... Eleven or twelve? I didn't like it, but it may have just been the way that it was prepared.

TychoCelchuuu · January 2005

Mix 1/4lb cheddah
1/4 stick buddah/margarine
3/4 cup flour
1/2 tsp paprika
1 bunch of green olives

Bake at 400 degrees 12 minutes

Doesn't sound particularly appetizing but they taste like heaven and make excellent party snacks. And they're easy to make. Did I mention they taste good?

<a href='http://cookingforengineers.com' target='_blank'>Cooking for Engineers</a> has some awesome recipes too.

Delarosa · January 2005

<b>Carmelized Apple Sauce</b> (eg. Grandma Marcie's Applesauce... since she's my great-great-great-grandmother, the name didn't fit it)

Ingredients:
1 Stick of Butter (1/2 cup)
2-3 Slices of WHITE bread (you can use other kinds, it's just not as good)
1/2-ish Cup of sugar.
1 Jar applesauce (rought 3 lbs)

Process:
in medium (2 Quart works fine) saucepan, melt the butter at high heat
tear the bread into peices and add to the melting butter.
Once the butter is fully melted, add in your suger, depending on how much you like sugar, you can add more.

stir until the sugar begins to melt.(carmelise) stir like no other, pop the top off the jar of applesauce, and dump it in like there is no tomarrow, keep stirring or you'll have ONE lump of carmelized bread.

feeds... about 2 (if i'm one of the two)

NEO_Phyte · January 2005

if i told you, it wouldnt be a secret recipe <img src='http://www.unknownworlds.com/forums/html/emoticons/wink-fix.gif' border='0' style='vertical-align:middle' alt='wink-fix.gif' />

Mantrid · January 2005

Damn it, Neophyte, I was just about to say the same thing.

Marik_Steele · January 2005

Family cooking secret: oatmeal alone may taste boring, but have you ever noticed how oatmeal cookies taste good? It's because in combination with other things, it can make for a great addition or replacement ingredient. Cookies doesn't sound like much of a stretch, but with help from a grandmother (or by taking a heck of a lot of free time doing what a computer scientist would call a "brute force" checking approach) you can successfully put oatmeal into darn well near everything, right down to <i>meatballs</i>, without your family noticing they're eating healthier versions of otherwise familiar foods.

Don't go overboard the first few times you try, but next time you're feeling adventurous, put oatmeal and applesauce into a recipie you think it would make sense for. Adjusting the amount of both can give you the desired moistness/chewyness.

Original "family Secret" Recipes

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