Okay, this is the most recent Recipe Thread

[Aliantha]

That's a very lazy lamington recipe.

[Griff]

BBQ Squirrel

~ 4 squirrels, quartered
~ 3 tbsp salt
~ 2 tsp pepper
~ 1 tsp garlic powder
~ 1 tsp onion powder
~ your favorite dry rub
~ 15 charcoal briquets
~ 3 handfuls hickory chips
~ your favorite bbq sauce


In a large pot, boil the squirrel in water seasoned with the salt, pepper, garlic powder and onion powder for 1 hour or until tender.

In the meantime, soak the hickory chips in water. Light the charcoal and let them get white hot. Place them to one side of your grill.

Remove the squirrel from the water and pat dry. Coat with your favorite dry rub.

Add one handful of wood chips to the hot coals.

Place squirrel on grill across from the hot coals. Cover and smoke for 1 hour. Add a handful of wood chips every half hour.

Add last of the wood chips and baste squirrel with bbq sauce. Smoke for another half hour basting another 3 - 4 times.

Serve with mashed potatoes, sweet corn and buttermilk bisquits.

[dar512]

I've had squirrel fried like chicken. It was good.

[DucksNuts]

UG, yooo hoooo UGGGGGGGG

Whats quinoa and what can I supplement it with???

I have a recipe for quinoa salad that I want to try, buuuut, I cant find quinoa anywhere locally.

[DucksNuts]

Oh never mind, I found a website that will sell it to me, stupid bloody hixville pokey town.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Yeah, where O where to go for funny grains? The health-food stores in my area sell it packaged or in bulk -- look carefully at the bulk, 'cos quinoa looks like great big amaranth! As I've said, two volumes of stock to one volume, perhaps a little more, of quinoa cooks up nicely in a rice cooker. Or else use water if you're not trying for the pilaf effect.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

I think ol' Rachel gets EVOO into everything short of vanilla ice cream. And my own consumption of EVOO has gone up quite a bit since I started watching her show. Kinda too bad for us guys she's been married for a couple of years, huh?

(Remember to scroll down farther on the page for a paragraph I neglected to copy into the recipe.)

[skysidhe]

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

I think ol' Rachel gets EVOO into everything short of vanilla ice cream. And my own consumption of EVOO has gone up quite a bit since I started watching her show. Kinda too bad for us guys she's been married for a couple of years, huh?

(Remember to scroll down farther on the page for a paragraph I neglected to copy into the recipe.)

lol true about the EVOO in everything sort of ice cream

I don't know. I thought guys didn't like her for the most part? I thought guys
liked bitchy controlling women or beauty without brains. Of which I fall short or inbetween both .....plus I'm not a guy and I don't really know what they like.

( ok I'll scroll ) edit- ok I have the entire recipe copied to my notepad. thanks!

[Urbane Guerrilla]

I could kind of crush on Rachel, not least for her looking like she should have dimples in her cheeks when she smiles that broad smile -- but she doesn't. Attention-getting.

Hey, she's brunette, she's clearly passionate about food and its creation, she's got a good figure. And she can cook -- and she can teach you how. She makes good money at it too.

Rachel's got a lot going for her. Some don't like her vocal squeaks, but they don't bother me. What does bother me is accidentally treading on my tongue watching her. That's a hell of a way to find out the living room carpet really needs vacuuming.

Well, ninety to ninety-five men out of a hundred like people like you, skysidhe. You know, female people. That, and the fully grown make the best partners. Remember that men as a whole are less inclined to say love loudly than to do love, and long.

Meanwhile, it's a real hoot getting men to do something if you can frame it as an opportunity to show off before women. That is like totally not a secret; you'll see us smile knowingly then, and, laughing a little, go right on to do whatever it is.

Right down to "honey-do" projects.

[skysidhe]

Originally Posted by Urbane Guerrilla

What does bother me is accidentally treading on my tongue watching her. That's a hell of a way to find out the living room carpet really needs vacuuming.

That's a funny image


I do agree that fully grown partners are nice except that by my age if a man isn't attached there are some serious reasons? I don't know I've been out of the loop. It's either that or I am a freak magnent and therefore lose my trust so/ and ....therefore I don't see so clearly.

You might ask the same of a woman who at my age isn't attached. Well for me it has been rasing a kid. My whole focus even to the exclusion of my own needs which isn't healthy but when your plate has been full things just are sometimes.

I do agree that a man usually expresses his love by doing something and I like that since that is my way to express love too. I think giving of oneself is a good way to create harmony in a relationship. A giving back and forth...words don't mean so much if not matched by the action.

So I know that was a little bit personal but since you shared what seemed a genuine effort I thought I would respond in kind.


thanks for the nice little chat

[Sundae]

Please can I have your best recipe for low fat Tuna Pasta Bake (possibly Tuna Noodle Casserole in the US) Ideally with UK measurements, though if you have to use cups I can probably get by.

From memory, I used to soften an onion and garlic in olive oil, then add tuna and pasta which had just been brought to the boil and a tin of mushroom soup. I'd then top with spicy breadcrumbs and cook for 20 mins.

Exact recipe or just variations on a theme would be great - I'm cooking something every day now but lost a lot of low fat recipes in my last few moves.

[limey]

Originally Posted by Sundae Girl

Please can I have your best recipe for low fat Tuna Pasta Bake (possibly Tuna Noodle Casserole in the US) Ideally with UK measurements, though if you have to use cups I can probably get by...

Basic recipe
Par-boiled pasta.
Soften chopped in 1 tablespoonful of olive oil, or low fat marge, or other stuff. Take the pan off the heat briefly.
Sprinkle 1 rounded tablespoonful of flour (selfraising or plain, it doesn't matter) onto the softened onions and stir til all onion bits coated in flour.
Put the pan back on a low-medium heat, add a little bit (an eggcupful-ish) from half a pint of milk (semi-skimmed, skimmed if you like I suppose), and stir til mixed and thickened. Add a little more milk and repeat ... Adding the milk gradually like this prevents the formation of lumps.
When the consistency of the onion sauce (yahey!) is to your liking, stir it into the pasta, and add the chunks of tuna. I'd grate a little cheese on the top, and stick it under the grill to brown.
Variations
Instead of tuna tinned mackerel, cooked chicken pieces, salami-type sausage bits, a tin of beans (not baked beans, but black eyed, or kidney beans, say), crisply fried bacon bits.
Instead of onion, mushrooms, or add peppers to the onions. Cook the onions til dark brown for a different flavour.
Curry powder in the sauce.
Cheese in the sauce. Goats cheese!
Go wild and poach (gently simmer until the flesh is white and flaky) an 8 ounce fillet of (smoked or unsmoked) haddock in the 1/2 pint of milk, and then use tha tmilk to make the sauce and the haddock instead of the tuna.
Add peas or sweetcorn.
Instead of onion sauce, a tin of tomatoes or passata or whatever and herbs (basil is good).
Please accept my apologies if any of this is too basic. Hope this helps.

[Urbane Guerrilla]

Mmmh -- good one. Maybe I'd have to invent one, I don't know. I think both terms are used in the US. Looks like search time for both of us, doesn't it?

[Edit: on "tuna casserole recipe" alone I get one million fifty thousand hits. We oughtta be able to do something with that. What wine should we put 60ml of in the 'shroom soup?]

BTW, I've found I don't particularly care for putting tuna into Green Bean Casserole. It's edible, but the flavors don't really enhance each other -- they don't dance together. Seems it has to be either tuna at the center of it all, or else the beans/mushrooms/Tater Tots team.

Soo, if we don't find something we dream up variations to try. Probably one important part will be to enhance the dish's fiber content so there's plenty of satiation in a serving: whole wheat pasta noodles. We avoid using anything else in the house, trying to keep my blood sugar under control -- Metformin can do a lot, but doing things to keep blood glucose levels from getting all spiky-crashy -- which is a phenomenon that will put the pounds on -- is important too.

[Sundae]

I did search and got many hits also, but my problem was they were all US sites (with measurements foreign to me) and I was too lazy to vet them all for low fat solutions...

I just want something tried and tested from someone I trust.

[Clodfobble]

I'd love to help you out... but tuna (any kind other than sushi) is the work of the devil.