Crubes Kitchen

[Crube]

As much as I love "Insert Brand Name" Macaroni And Cheese... nothing beats cooking it homemade! And now for the ingredients.

Creamy Mac N' Cheese.

Time: 1 hour 15 minutes

2 tablespoons butter

1 cup cottage cheese (not lowfat)

2 cups milk (not skim)

1 teaspoon dry mustard

Pinch cayenne

Pinch freshly grated nutmeg

½ teaspoon salt

¼ teaspoon freshly ground black pepper

1 pound sharp or extra-sharp cheddar cheese, grated

½ pound elbow pasta, uncooked.

Simple Instructions... Which really can't get any simpler...

1. Heat oven to 375 degrees and position an oven rack in upper third of oven. Use 1 tablespoon butter to butter a 9-inch round or square baking pan.

2. In a blender, purée cottage cheese, milk, mustard, cayenne, nutmeg and salt and pepper together. Reserve ¼ cup grated cheese for topping. In a large bowl, combine remaining grated cheese, milk mixture and uncooked pasta. Pour into prepared pan, cover tightly with foil and bake 30 minutes.

3. Uncover pan, stir gently, sprinkle with reserved cheese and dot with remaining tablespoon butter. Bake, uncovered, 30 minutes more, until browned. Let cool at least 15 minutes before serving.

[Suga Babe]

hmm, looks good -- I'll be sure to try that instead of the well, "Name Brand" Mac N' Cheese.

Do we post recipes as well, or are you only going to be posting recipes?

[Crube]

hmm, looks good -- I'll be sure to try that instead of the well, "Name Brand" Mac N' Cheese.

Do we post recipes as well, or are you only going to be posting recipes?

Anyone can post recipies. :crube:

[Suga Babe]

Anyone can post recipies.

saafe. man...lets see, gonna pull out a cookie recipe. Uh...this is a baking recipe, not cooking.

Butterscotch Snaps

Ingredients:

• [2/3 Cups] 180 mL Butterscotch Snaps
  
• [1 3/4 Cups] 440 mL sifted all purpose flour
  
• [2 tsp] 10 mL Baking Soda
  
• [1/4 tsp] 1 mL Salt
  
• [1/2 cup] 125 mL White Sugar
  
• [1/3 Cup] 80 mL Butter
  
• [3 tbsp] 45 mL Corn Syrup
  
• [1] 1 Egg
  
• Excess White Sugar
  

Steps:

1. On medium heat, melt chips in a glass bowl in the microwave for 1 minute. Set Aside.
   
2. Sift together flour, baking soda and salt. Set Aside.
   
3. In a seperate bowl, cream sugar, butter and corn syrup.
   
4. Beat in the egg.
   
5. Stir in melted butterscotch.
   
6. Gradually blend in flour into butterscotch mixture.
   
7. Roll dough into 1.5 cm balls, roll balls in excess sugar and place on a very lightly greased baking pan. Cookies spread.
   
8. Bake 8-10 minutes until golden.
   

-- Personally, I've not tried this recipe as of yet -- but one of the groups in my baking club has tried this exact recipe and it worked out fine. So, if you follow the steps carefully there shouldn't be a problem. I decided to post it because...the cookies are awesome! Well...IMO, they are.

[Ceraziefish]

Ceraziefish's recipe of eating:

Step 1: Take a bowl.

Step 2: Find any food in your house that looks good.

Step 3: Put it in the bowl.

Step 4: Eat it.

[Crube]

Anyone can post recipies.

I meant ACTUAL recipies.

[Ceraziefish]

That's how I ACTUALLY eat 90% of the time.

[Crube]

A real recipie.

I see your cookie recipie and I shall post one.

Spicy Pumpkin White Chocolate Chip Cookies.

PUMPKIN WHITE CHOCOLATE CHIP COOKIES

1 cup sugar

1 cup pumpkin

1/2 cup oil

1 egg

2 cup flour

1/2 tsp. salt

2 tsp. cinnamon

1 tsp. ginger

2 tsp. baking powder

1 tsp. baking soda

1 tsp. milk

1 tsp. vanilla

1 cup white chocolate chips

Mix together the sugar, pumpkin, oil, and egg. Then you sift the flour, salt, cinnamon, ginger, and baking powder and then mix it. Add the rest of the ingredients and mix together.

Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Drop on lightly greased cookie sheet. Bake approximately 10 to 12 minutes. DO NOT overcook. Cookies will be soft and moist.

Word Count:

Mix: 3 times.

Together: 2 times.

Moist: 1 time.

[Suga Babe]

I see your cookie recipie and I shall post one.

are they really spicy or not?

man, don't tell me we're gonna get into a recipe posting contest or whatever.

lets see now...umm. lets go with one of my favourite cakes...don't mind the name, the cake is NOT sour...nor does it taste like you just stuffed coffee beans in your mouth.

Sour Cream Coffee Cake

Ingredients for Cake:

• [1 cup] 250 mL Sour Cream
  
• [1 tsp] 5 mL Baking Soda
  

• [1/2 cup] 125 mL Butter
  
• [1 cup] 250 mL Sugar
  
• [2] 2 Beaten Eggs
  
• [1 tsp] 5 mL Vanilla Extract
  

• [1 3/4 cup] 425 mL Sifted Cake Flour
  
• [2 tsp] 10 mL Baking Powder
  

Ingredients for Topping:

• [1/4 cup] 50 mL Brown Sugar
  
• [2 tsp] 10 mL Cinnamon
  

Steps:

1. Grease and flour a 20x20 cm square [8x8 inches] cake tin.
   
2. Combine sour cream and baking soda, set aside.
   
3. In a seperate bowl, mix brown sugar and cinnamon. Set topping aside.
   
4. In a large bowl, cream butter and sugar. Add eggs and vanilla.
   
5. Sift and measure flour onto wax paper, add baking powder.
   
6. Add alternately 1/3 dry ingredients to butter mixture, then 1/2 sour cream mixture; blending after each addition. Continue, ending with flour mixture.
   
7. Gently spread half mixture into prepared pan. Sprinkle with half topping mixture.
   
8. Gently spread remaining mixture. Top with remaining topping mixture.
   
9. Bake 40-45 minutes.
   

-- this recipe DEFINITELY works out, I've tried it a bazillion times...and it works! if there's something wrong with the cake...you did something wrong--! AND, incase you're wondering about how the ingredients are writting, i've seperated then according to what you mix together at the beginning. ANd, in the brackets its written in cups/tsp/etc...and outside the bracket its written in mL and stuff, just so it'll be easy to follow when working with any type of measuring equipment [imperial, metric...etc].

BAKING TIP

-- well, just thought i'd include this for the hell of it. if you have brown sugar -- and notice that its dry and hard [instead of moist, like its suppose to be] -- place a piece of bread in the jar or whatever its in and close it. within a couple hours the brown sugar should be moist again.

[Makil]

I know the two who are going to be cooking if we ever have an AE con. :P

[Ceraziefish]

I know the two who are going to be cooking if we ever have an AE con. :P

We'd probably be all drunk/in fruitless arguments to care.

[Galkar]

I still haven't decided whether an AE con would be extremely kickass or a really terrible idea.

[Crube]

Cake!

Hm... I might stick with something more traditional... and more sticky...

Sticky Toffee Pudding.

First off the ingredients:

Butter

Dates

Caster Sugar

4 eggs

Vanilla Essence

Self Raising Flour

Baking Powder

1 pint of water

Chop up the dates, make sure you take all the stones out the middle

Add them to the pint of water in a pan on the stove, turn on the heat (obviously) and bring to the boil, let them simmer very very gently as you don't want a lot of the water to boil off. The idea is to soften up the dates

While that is doing its thing, add 120grams of butter and 320g of caster sugar to a bowl

Cream together the butter and sugar until nicely blended

Add 4 eggs (always crack the eggs into a bowl before adding incase you get shells in your eggs) and 320g of self raising flour (sifted)

Mix this well with a hand mixer or something like that, it'll be very thick and sticky.

Go back to your dates, they should be nice and soft now so take them off the heat

Here's the fun bit, add two teaspoons of baking powder to the hot water and watch it foam up like mad as you stir it in. Pour all of this into the bowl of yummy pudding mix

Hand mix this all together well so it's evenly mixed up. Pour into a baking pan (I used a springform pan for this, easy to get the thing out after cooking.)

Cook at 374F for 25-30 mins, if you stick it with a skewer it should come out sticky but not wet.

Now it is time for the sauce!

- One completed pudding

- Demerera Sugar

- Thick heavy cream

- Butter

Like all cooking, this sauce is all about ratios. 2 parts cream, 1 sugar, 1 butter. In this I used 300ml of cream, 150g butter, 150g sugar.

Add the sugar and butter to a pan. Heat and melt it thoroughly, don't let it stick so keep stiring it all the time

Add the cream and bring to the boil and let it simmer for a while, again keep stiring so it doesn't stick. Pour over slices of pudding, add a teaspoon of thick cream on the top, serve immediately

[Makil]

Except you know, there are those of us who don't drink so they would be forced to cook. :P

[Juxtapose]

xD This thread is making me hungry.

Later I'll post up a recipe for some Swiss cookies~ <3 As soon as I find them and decipher them~ D: My great-grandma had terrible handwriting.

[Suga Babe]

xD This thread is making me hungry.

Later I'll post up a recipe for some Swiss cookies~ <3 As soon as I find them and decipher them~ D: My great-grandma had terrible handwriting.

I believe that this still needs to be done...

Vanilla Milkshake

Ingredients for shake:

• [3 Scoops] 3 scoops of Vanilla Ice Cream
  
• [1 1/2 cup] 375 mL of Milk
  
• [1 tbsp] 15 mL of Vanilla
  
• [2 tsp] 10 mL of White Sugar
  

Steps:

1. Put each ingredient into a blender.
   
2. Mix
   

-- Super easy recipe! Of course, if you'd like to make the milkshake thicker -- add more ice cream...and if you'd like to thin it out, add more milk!

[Ceraziefish]

I cooked a bunch of these at a recent LAN party, to save everyone from having to pay out the ass for pizza.

QUESADILLAS~! My favorite food.

Ingredients

-- A shitload of cheese of your favorite type.

-- Many 10" tortillas.

-- Couple steaks, thin ones, so they cook fast.

-- Salsa/what have you

-- Something caffeinated to drink (it's a LAN party...)

-- Olive oil

Stuff

-- 2 pans

-- Spatulas

-- Knives

-- Cutting board?

-- Stooove

-- Some plates

Directions:

Take pan #1. Put it on the stove on fairly high heat (past the halfway point, certainly). Pour a little olive oil in it and, in the words of Frank Zappa, "Swish it 'round." Once it is heated up throw on a few steaks. Cook as many at a time as you can. Flip them a lot, make sure they look more cooked than they should be on the outside since, to save time, you're heating them quickly, which means the middle doesn't get cooked as much.

Now. Once you've finished cooking the steak get that bad mama-jama out of the pan and into a plate. Slice it up into thin, small pieces. Cut the cheese (lol) fairly thin. Take out pan #2 and heat it up to low heat. Once it is fairly warm, put a tortilla onto it. Wait for a bit. Once it gets heated up on that site, flip the tortilla. Then put the cheese on it, covering one half. Wait for the cheese to melt, then put in the pieces of steak and fold it over. Once you feel certain the cheese has stuck to both sides, flip the quesadilla and cook it on both sides for a bit, but be careful not to brown the tortilla too much.

Then, when it's done, pull it off and throw it on a plate, and give it to someone.

Once you get started and have the pans heated up you can easily pump out two or three quesadillas every five minutes.

[Wind]

I cooked a bunch of these at a recent LAN party, to save everyone from having to pay out the ass for pizza.

QUESADILLAS~! My favorite food.

Ingredients

-- A shitload of cheese of your favorite type.

-- Many 10" tortillas.

-- Couple steaks, thin ones, so they cook fast.

-- Salsa/what have you

-- Something caffeinated to drink (it's a LAN party...)

-- Olive oil

Stuff

-- 2 pans

-- Spatulas

-- Knives

-- Cutting board?

-- Stooove

-- Some plates

Directions:

Take pan #1. Put it on the stove on fairly high heat (past the halfway point, certainly). Pour a little olive oil in it and, in the words of Frank Zappa, "Swish it 'round." Once it is heated up throw on a few steaks. Cook as many at a time as you can. Flip them a lot, make sure they look more cooked than they should be on the outside since, to save time, you're heating them quickly, which means the middle doesn't get cooked as much.

Now. Once you've finished cooking the steak get that bad mama-jama out of the pan and into a plate. Slice it up into thin, small pieces. Cut the cheese (lol) fairly thin. Take out pan #2 and heat it up to low heat. Once it is fairly warm, put a tortilla onto it. Wait for a bit. Once it gets heated up on that site, flip the tortilla. Then put the cheese on it, covering one half. Wait for the cheese to melt, then put in the pieces of steak and fold it over. Once you feel certain the cheese has stuck to both sides, flip the quesadilla and cook it on both sides for a bit, but be careful not to brown the tortilla too much.

Then, when it's done, pull it off and throw it on a plate, and give it to someone.

Once you get started and have the pans heated up you can easily pump out two or three quesadillas every five minutes.

Nice, luckily recently we got a Quasidilla Maker, which easily makes a quasidilla in about 3 minutes (looks similar to a George Forman grill but the imprint even cooks the slice marks so you have 6 slices per Quasadilla.)

its mad cool.

[NosferatuNeko]

i will have to return here and post some things i cook all the time ^_^

[Crube]

Nice, luckily recently we got a Quasidilla Maker, which easily makes a quasidilla in about 3 minutes (looks similar to a George Forman grill but the imprint even cooks the slice marks so you have 6 slices per Quasadilla.)

its mad cool.

I don't know. I never used one. Are they good?

[amy]

Amy's recipe for cookies

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Ingredients: Cookies

Directions:

1. Eat cookies

[Crube]

Amy's recipe for cookies

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Ingredients: Cookies

Directions:

1. Eat cookies

What brand do you eat?

[Natsu]

I like Snickerdoodles

[Wind]

I like Snickerdoodles

:laugh:

[Crube]

Hamburger-Mushroom Pizza

1 (16-ounce) loaf unsliced Italian bread

1/2 cup traditional bottled pizza sauce

8 (1/8-inch-thick) slices onion, separated into rings

1 cup presliced fresh mushrooms

6 ounces ground round

1 teaspoon dried Italian seasoning

1/2 teaspoon garlic powder

1/4 teaspoon crushed red pepper

3 tons preshredded pizza double-cheese (a blend of part-skim mozzarella and cheddar cheese)

Preheat oven to 500°.

Cut bread loaf in half horizontally. Place both halves of bread, cut side up, on a large baking sheet. Spread 1/4 cup pizza sauce over each half of bread. Divide onion rings and mushrooms evenly between bread halves. Crumble beef into 1/2-inch pieces, and divide beef evenly between bread halves. Sprinkle Italian seasoning, garlic powder, and red pepper evenly over each pizza, and top each with 3/4 cup cheese.

Bake at 500° for 9 minutes or until beef is done and cheese melts. Cut each half into 3 equal pieces.

Yield: 6 servings (serving size: 1 piece)