I know, I'm such a cunt. I have another forum -and- a life. Fucking hell, I don't even deserve to be a member here. Okay, self-bantering over with.Subhuman wrote:Dammit, this is DAC. You're not allowed to have a life.
Do post recipes, though.
Recipes:
I'm not going to post everything, since a bunch of it was just simple stuff like burgers and such - what, we had to feed more than 100 people with only five cooks: fancy wasn't possible at -all- times - but there are some things that were nice. I'm not going to bother with meassurements, though, since it's individual how much you want of different seasonings and such, and I firmly believe that recipes are only meant to be informal guidelines (omg, sue me!).
At lunch Saturday we, among many other things, served a tuna salad thingy, which is really easy (and cheap) to make:
You use an amount of canned tuna to your own liking, where you've squeased out the water so it's very dry-ish, dump it into a bowl and mix it up with mayo (yes, mayo) untill it gets a texture that's to your preference. Then add sweet corn and season with salt and pepper - that's a base for you, and you can serve it like this, no problem, but to make it a tad more interesting, lemon is your friend. The zest of two lemons as well as the juice of both added to it makes it absolutely great, since it makes it a bit more zingy and actually takes away some of the tuna taste for those who don't like it all too much.
Writing about that reminds me of a similar salmon-salad we made for hour'derves at a similar convention about six months ago.
You buy fileed pieces of salmon - no bones, but with the skin still on, and boil these in water that has salt and pepper in it. The water has to actually look really murky. You wrap the pieces of salmon individually in pieces of baking paper and do your best to seal them off - this prevents it from flaking into the water and giving you a hassle when you have to get it out, though the paper still allows the pieces to be seasoned properly by the salt and pepper - and boil them while wrapped.
When they're done boiling, you unwrap them and put them into a huge bowl where you flake them into tiny pieces. Now you add greek yoghurt (yay, low-fat!) and gently flip it around (not stirring) till it has a sort of fluffly texture. Then you add a bit of spicey mustard and a tad of dill sauce as well as freshly chopped dill as prefered and stir this around to mix it up nicely. If you want it to have a great zing to it as well, the zest and juice of a couple of limes will do wonders (got to love the citrus with the fish.) It was a great heur'derve indeed.
Both salads (or what you'd call them) a served on slices of wheat baguette.
For dinner saturday we did roast beef (no recipe needed here I think) as well as another kind of roast that I wasn't involved in so I wouldn't know the recipe, sadly, and some chicken files:
The chicken was marinated in tomato pure and honey, along with asorted spices: oregano, thyme, rosemary - you catch my drift - and then fried on a pan in oil until cooked halfway to the middle, then to be heated in an oven untill cooked tender. We did the oven thing because we were stressed for space and capacity for so many people, but it's perfectly possible to just fry them on the pan at a low heat instead, if you don't want that much of a hassle.
Also, what we always serve for these things at Sunday lunch is a sort of pizza-buns. In Denmark we have sweet little tea-bun sort of things that can be bought in every grocery store, which we at these assemblies cut in halves and smear with tomato sauce and then add fillings of preference and sprinkle it with cheese - pop into the oven for about 10 minutes (till the cheese is melted) and serve warm. They're delicious little mini-pizzas which go great with hangovers and are hella easy to make for a large amount of people.
Anyway, we made loads of other stuff (breakfast, lunch and dinner would have been sort of bleak if we didn't, huh?) but I either don't have the accurate recipes (or, in my case, list of things we actually used) or don't think it's worthy of posting - but, however, I do want to write a couple of recipes for Catman. I think it was him who asked what to make when the wife was away from home, and I can now add a couple of things I sometimes make for myself, yay!
I was recently at my best friend's house where we cooked dinner for about 10 people because there were quite a few guests. The dinner we made was great and can easily be scaled down for just one person - it does, however, need a bit of time to prepare, so it's not for making if you just want something quick and done with. But if you're really looking for something that tastes awesome and is healthy and so on and so forth and you're actually willing to take the time for it, here it is:
Woked veggies: thin cut potatoes, carrots, mushrooms, broccoli and cauliflower as well as leek and red chillis. Woked in oil with salt, peper and soy sauce.
Cold lettuce and spinach salad with cucumber and mushrooms and cashew nuts and another nut I don't know the name of, dry fried with salt - with homemade dressing made of olive oil, garlic and mustard.
And finally: thin chicken strips marinaded in olive oil, paprika, chilli and garlic.
And, at last, there's a casserole I made some time ago which is a little less healthy but still tasted incredible (unhealthy stuff often does) and was easy to make and also had potatoes in it, so I gather I'll post it since you were off'ing potatoes:
Thinly sliced potates are put in a greased up deep tray along with sliced brocolli and onions. Add pre-fried minced meat, either port or beef but preferably beef - this having been fried with garlic and chopped tomatoes and seasoned with salt, pepper and chilli powder. Mix these things up and pour cream over it (this is where it gets unhealthy) and sprinkle cheese on top and pop it in the oven to stand there untill the cheese is melted and golden and the cream has started boiling up in the sides - that should very well have cooked everything. And voila, lovely casserole.
So, those were my recipes for now. I'm not going to read through the entire thread to check if there are things left unanswered (omg, lazy mod), but I'm back to answer questions now if people wish to ask them. If not, I'll just go back to lurking.
