One thing to add a little something new to mashed potatoes: garlic, roasted if possible, and shredded fresh basil. Add the roasted garlic when mixing or just buy some flavored olive oil. Add the basil just before you add the cream or milk or sour cream so it can mix in with everything.

cheesy bacon dip

1 package soften cream cheese
8 os shredded cheddar cheese
1 container french onion dip
1 jar of real bacon bits

blend together in corningware bowl or other oven safe dish

bake at 375 until bubbly goodness occurs (usually 45 minutes or so)

serve with crackers

One of my patients today told me an easy way to get chocolate covered pretzels.

Put pretzels on cookie sheet. Put a hershey's hug in the middle. Melt in oven for 5 minutes. Put m&m in the middle, cool in fridge.

Nothing fancy. Simple enough for me to do!

...theoretically

You recipe peeps are clogging my veins, stopping my heart, making my mouth water.

I can't share the recipe I'm going to use for this weekend. It's a secret for now. But it's going to be sooooo good.

log_jammin: Damn good if you ask me.

sounds similar to mine

1 can refried beans
1 can cili no beans
1 bag shredded cheddar cheese

again with the mixing and the baking at 375. you can make it on top of hte stove, but that involves lots of stirring.

serve with fritos scoops ot torilla chips

my cookie recipe:

preheat oven to 350.

in one bowl:

1 cup and 2 tablespoons of flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder

lightly blend and set aside.


in another bowl:

one stick of butter at room temp
3/4 cup brown sugar

mix those together thoroughly.

add one egg and 1/2 teaspoon of vanilla extract

mix thoroughly.

mix the dry contents of the first bowl into the second bowl.

add in your choice of the following:

chocolate chips (tho I usually cut up bits of a Trader Joe's Pound Plus bar...)
oatmeal
walnuts
raisins (or try dried cherries, yum!)


using 2 tablespoons, drop balls of dough onto a greased cookie sheet.

bake about 12-15 minutes.

Sarah Jessica Farker:
1 cup and 2 tablespoons of flour
1/2 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon baking powder

replace with self rising flour and eliminate the extra bowl because i hate doing dishes

I've never tried to cook a weekend before, but I imagine it might go well with some fava beans and a nice cilantro.

Crawfish Cheese Potatoe Soup

2 tablespoons olive oil
2 medium onions, diced
1 can evaporated milk
1 lb velveeta cheese
3 potatoes, parboiled and diced
1 can whole kernel corn
1 lb frozen crawfish tails, thawed

Parboil potatoes, dice and set aside. Saute onions in oil until onions are clear but not browned. Add Velveeta and evaporated milk, heat till cheese is melted. Add corn, potatoes and crawfish tails and cook 20-30 minutes till potatoes are soft.

You can actually hear your arteries hardening while you eat it!!

log_jammin, megalynn44 What is this rotel(l) you speak of? I'm usually pretty up on foodstuffs, but I've never heard of it... some sorta regional thing?

Chibisuke Holidays, however, go better with cider and cloves.

I dont have one of my own but I always find a recipie for cranberry chutney, warm up said chutney imedietly before serving, then pour on a nice soft brie. The result should be a sweet/bitter/cheesy mush of holiday goodness. I recomend making naan for a conveance method, but that can be time consumming, so triscuits work just as well.

Fresh Ground coffee with a healthy dash of frangelico
+
Cinnamon Rolls hot out of the oven
+
Rest of family 300 miles away
=
Merry Christmas for Me and my Lovely Wife

1 bottle of bacardi rum, 12 bud light and pork rinds the spicy ones!!!!

Peckerwood You should have enabled voting!

2 large blunts and a fifth of vodka.

1 glass two foot bong
1 half ounce of high grade marijuana
lighter

/Enjoy?

Farkistan Especiale!

1 tbsp wholegrain mustard
2 tbsp clear honey
1 olive oil
1 tbsp sour or bitter sauce.
4 boneless salmon fillets
100 ml vegetable stock
1 bunch of spring onions, halved
boiled rice to server

1. Mix together the mustard, honey and sauce in sour bowl. heat the oil in frying pa. Add the salmon fillets and fry for 5 minutes turning halfway through until almost cooked.

2 Pour the mustard honey and sauce mixture over the salmon and bring to the boil. add the stock and mix lightly with the pan juices.

3. Sprinkle over the spring onion strips and let the liquid bubble for 1-2 minutes. Do not masturbate in between minute 1 and 2 . when onions are heated well serve will rice.

Best with chilled Pineapple juice.
Spill mustard all over the floor to celebrate your achievement.

1 Bottle Glenlivet.
1 Tumbler glass.
3 Trays of ice, cubed.

KlumtheFark WINS

That is delicious!!! WOW now only he you could preview before posting baby.

Russian Teacakes

Mix throughly
1 cup soft butter
1/2 cup sifted confectioners' sugar
1 tsp vanilla
Sift together and stir in
2 1/4 cups sifted Gold Medal flour
1/4 tsp salt
3/4 cup finely chopped nuts
Chill dough. Roll into 1" balls. Place on ungreased baking sheet (cookies do not spread). Bake until set, but not brown. While still warm, roll in confectioners' sugar. Cool. Roll in sugar again.
Temperature: 400 degrees (mod. hot oven).
Time: Bake 10 to 12 minutes
Amount" About 4 doz 1" cookies.

10pack of popcorn,burritos,ramen..then my dog is goin on the grill

Guinness (lots of it).

Infernal You are gonna cook your dog? Dude if you are that hard up for dinner you are invited over to the house so you can have Ham with me and the wife, and Bring your dog he can hang out with our two.

You put the lime in the coconut, and shake it all up.

KlumTheFark: 3. Sprinkle over the spring onion strips and let the liquid bubble for 1-2 minutes. Do not masturbate in between minute 1 and 2. when onions are heated well serve will rice.

You can tell us the story...

HOLIDAY RIB ROAST OF BEEF

The whole standing rib roast (Prime Rib) is made up of ribs 6 12. A full 7 bone prime rib weighs about 16 20 pounds. The best portion (known as the small end of ribs) is ribs 10 12, towards the back of the rib section. This roast will weigh 6 or 7 pounds, and can be divided as needed. Have your butcher remove the chine bone. Prepare the roast by removing the external cap of fat and gristle, trim the under layer of fat to about inch.

1 3 bone Standing rib roast
1 T Dried thyme
4 Clove Garlic
1 T Kosher salt
1 t Freshly ground black pepper (or more to taste)


Crush together all seasonings.
Rub seasonings all over the roast, including any space between the meat and bone.
Let the roast sit at room temperature for at least 2 hours.
Preheat the oven to 500.
Place the roast bone side down on a rack in a shallow roasting pan and cook for 15 minutes. Without opening the oven, reduce the heat to 350 and cook for 45 minutes more.
Check the internal temperature of the roast. You want 115 for mostly rare, 120 - 125 for medium.
Remove the roast from the oven, tent with foil, and let sit for at least 20 minutes. The roast will continue to cook, and the juices will be retained for a more succulent dish.
Cut along the bones to separate into a roast and a rib section, slice the roast and divide the ribs.


Serve with Yorkshire Pudding, Peas, Glazed Carrots, Potatoes and Onions roasted alongside the meat, Gravy, and Hot Rolls.

My Thai Turkey Thingy

Great for leftovers.

Leftover boned turkey
Coconut milk
Green curry paste
Couple diced serranos
Some fish sauce

(all to taste)

Slice up the leftover turkey in thin strips (use your own judgement as to what you like) while simmering the coconut milk and curry paste (enought to mostly cover the turkey pieces when you put them in). When it's warmed up and you get a light oily film on top of the coconut milkiness put in the meat pieces and the peppers and fishy sauce and add more coconut milk until everything is immersed. Use your judgement be your guide as to levels of sauces and spices. People are too variable in tastes to always do it the same for everyone. Let it cook on medium about 5 minutes, just get everything warmed up nice and let the spices mingle. Sometimes I put in some garlic and black pepper too. Then pour it over rice.

6 eggs, separated
1 cup confectioners sugar
1/2 pint brandy
1/4 pint light rum
1/4 pint Kaluha, Amaretto or Frangelica.
1 1/2 pints milk
1/2 pint heavy cream

Separate eggs.
Mix yolks and sugar until thick.
Add milk, cream and alcohol.
Beat whites till they hold a peak.
Fold into mix.
Server immediately with a dusting of nutmeg.

Prefect for Christmas morning (must be prepared the night before):

Egg & Sausage Strata

12 slices white bread (crust removed)
1 1/2 lbs bulk pork sausage
1/3 cup chopped onion
1/4 cup green pepper
1 2oz jar chopped pimientos (drained)
6 eggs
3 cups milk
2 tsp Worcestershire sauce
1 tsp dry mustard
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp pepper
1/4 dried oregano

Line greased 13x9x2 pan with bread, set aside. In a skillet brown sausage with onion, green pepper. Drain. Stir in pimientos. Sprinkle over bread. In a bowl beat eggs, milk, worcestershire sauce, mustard, salt, pepper, & oregano. Pour over sausage mixture. Cover and refridgerate overnight. Bake next day covered at 325 for 80 minutes. Uncover and bake 10 minutes or until knife instered near center comes out clean. Let stand 10 minutes before serving.

Yum all this sounds good.

"My dad would make his special eggnog out of bourban and ice."
Fry

R O L T U E B

Mix together

One glass
Ice
Lime wedges
Tonic Water
Good quality gin (Tanqueray, Bombay)

Fill glass with ice
Sqeeze lime over ice, drop wedge into glass
Pour gin (amount varies to taste) into glass
Top off with tonic
Hold up to light to admire the fizzies dancing on the top, and the bubbles dancing below.

Enjoy.
Repeat.

Christmas Cookies.
Ingredients:
1 Cup Butter
1 tsp Baking Soda
1 Cup Sugar
1 tsp Salt
1 Cup Brown Sugar Lemon Juice
4 large Eggs
1 Cup Nuts
2 Cups Dried Fruit
1 Qt. Bottle Jose Cuervo Tequila

--Sample the Cuervo to check quality: Pour one level cup and drink.
--Take a large bowl, check the Cuervo again, to be sure it is of the highest quality: Pour one level cup and drink. --Turn on the mixer. Beat one cup of butter in a large fluffy bowl.
--Add one teaspoon of sugar. Beat again. At this point it's best to make sure the Cuervo is still good. Test another cup... just in case.
--Turn off the mixerer thingy. Break 2 leggs and add to the bowl and chuck in the cup of dried fruit.
--Pick the farking fruit off floor... Mix on the turner. If the fried druit gets stuck in the beaterers just pry it loose with a drewscriver.
--Sample the Cuervo to check for tonsisticity.
--Next, shift two cups of salt, or something. Who giveshz a sheet. Check the Jose Cuervo again.
--Now shift the lemon juice and strain your nuts. Add one table. Add a spoon of sugar, or somefink. Whatever you can find.
--Greash the oven. Turn the cake tin 360 degrees and try not to fall over.
--Don't forget to beat off the turner.
--Finally, throw the bowl through the window, finish the Cose Juervo and make sure to put the stove in the dishwasher.

CHERRY MISTMAS TO ALL!!

4oz Jack Daniels
3 Ice Cubes

Put Ice in a glass. Pour Jack Daniels on Ice.
Enjoy.

Best side dish ever:

1/4 c Butter
3 c Potatoes, sweet, mashed
1 c Sugar
1/2 c Milk
2 Eggs
1 t Vanilla
1/3 c Butter
1 c Coconut, flaked
1 c Sugar, brown
1/3 c Flour
1 c Pecans, chopped

Preheat oven to 375. Melt butter and combine with next 5 ingredients.
Mix well and spoon into lightly greased 2 qt dish. Melt butter and
combine with all other ingredients. Mix well and sprinkle over the
top. Bake for 45 minutes, until golden brown.

Anyone have any halfway healthy recipes?

This is somewhat a healthy and easy recipe:

1 container of fat free strawberry cream cheese
1 large container of marshmallow cream (which is also fat free)
Your favorite fruits

Mix together the strawberry cream cheese and marshmallow cream, cut in dip your fruit into it. It does have a lot of sugar, but no so artery hardening.

Stuffed Mushroom Caps

Bag of Spinach
As many mushrooms as you want caps
Clove of Garlic
Grated parmesan cheese
Shredded Mozzerella
Ricotta cheese

Core the mushrooms (pull out the stems) and dice the stems. Set aside caps for now.

Smash and sautee the garlic in canola oil in a nonstick pan and throw in the diced stems and the spinach. Sautee until the spinach shrinks significantly (and it will) and toss the goods in a large bowl.

Put a couple of large spoons (I use a serving spoon) of ricotta cheese and a generous portion of the parmesan in the bowl. Mix it all up until it's spread througout and set aside.

Now sautee the caps until lightly browned and put them on a cookie sheet lined with foil (hopefully nonstick foil). Stuff the caps with the mixture, then drizzle the mozzerella all over the caps. Pop 'em in the oven at 350 (you can do 400 as well, the cheese will get browner) for about 10-15 minutes or until the cheese is brown enough for you.

This is a good Atkin's/South Beach recipe as well, but goes over great on holidays too.

Christmas Whiskey Cake

1 cup butter
2 cups sugar
6 large eggs
2 teaspoons baking powder
3 cups flour, sifted
1/2 t. salt
1 cup bourbon
1 pound pecans, chopped
3 cups white raisins (or use candied fruit)
1 t. nutmeg

AND

~ a very large bottle of bourbon whiskey ~

First, sample the whiskey to check for quality.
Assemble all of the ingredients. Check the whiskey again.
To be sure it is of the highest quality, pour one level cup and drink.
Repeat this step.

Turn on the electric mixer and beat one cup of butter in a large
fluffy bowl. Add one teaspoon of sugar and cream until beat.
Make sure the whiskey is still okay... try another cup.
Turn off the mixer. Beat six leggs and add to the bowl,
then chunk in the cup of dried flut. Mix on the tuner.
Throw in two quarts of flour. Gradually pour in the cow.
Add 2 dried anything.
If the fried druit gets struck in the beaters, pry it loose with
a drewscriver. Sample the whiskey and check it again for tonsistency.

Next, sift two cups of salt. Or something. Who cares???
Check the whiskey again.
Now sift the nutmeg and strain your nuts. Add one table.
And the spoon. Of whiskee. Or something. Whatever you find left.
Grease the oven.
Turn the crake pan to 350 degrees. Don't forget to beat off the turner.
Pour the oven into the batter. Throw the bowl out the window.
Lick the batter off the floor.
Bake 300 minutes at 50 degrees.
Finish the blobble of whishy and flow to bed.