Foodies BS Thread.

recipe????

 

And here is dinner from last night!

 

we call them beaver pizzas. My wife went to highschool where the mascot was a beaver and she said they had these in the cafeteria all the time.

 

Ive always called them English muffin pizzas, my mom use to make them for me when I was a kid.

 

Ya my mom made them too. My wife bless her heart just can't quite make em as good as mom did.

 

Ya, its crazy how you can have the recipe and follow it to the "T" and it just not taste that "right" way.

 

Recipes are really more like guidelines

Wrap night at the Xaks household. Too bad you can't see the fresh grated sharp cheddar on the bottom

 

I love black olives! Is there meat on that or just veggies???

 

This weeks food adventure is making sourdough! I am going to attempt to make it for my dad for Father's Day. He is a big bread guy so I figure I would give it a shot.

Here is day one of my starter.

 

Warmed tortilla. The quoted grated cheddar.

Took a pound of ground sirlion, added the McCormick fajita mix, cooked it in w/ ~1/3 c water. Added over cheese to melt it.

In another pan, cooked down sliced vidalia onions and sweet red peppers.

Add diced black olives, plum tomatoes, and romaine. Sour cream for a wee bit of tang and some fresh ground black pepper. Pile high!

NOMNOMNOM

 

I will post it up later on today.

 

How long are you going to make me wait????? lol

 

PFFT Today starts final exams for my son. I took him to school, went to the chiropractor, picked him up at 11:20am. When I got home I changed the oil in 3 vehicles, plus changed the transmission fluid and rear differential fluid in the Tacoma. Did a 60K maintenance on the Tacoma this afternoon.


I made a double recipe.
Traditional Recipe

2 1/2 C Fresh blackberries, washed
1 C Sugar
1 C Flour
2 t Baking powder
1/2 t Salt
1 C Milk
1 Stick of unsalted butter, melted

First you should take care of the blackberry and sugar mixture because it needs to sit for a while. Stir together just the berries and sugar in a large bowl and let it sit out for 25-30 minutes. This will coax out the juices of the blackberries so that they can be sweetened up by the sugar, and we can taste the full spectrum of the fruit–this process is called macerating.

After about 20 minutes, you should turn on the oven to about 375º and start preparing your batter.

Stir together the flour, baking powder, salt, and milk with a wooden spoon. Next, stir in the melted butter and hand-mix it until the ingredients are well incorporated and you have few clumps.

Pick out a clean baking dish– a smaller one will do– pour in the batter and smooth it out. You can choose to line it with parchment paper or not, but don’t grease the pan (there is enough butter in there already!). Finally, pour the macerated blackberries on top with all the sugar included and evenly distribute it over the batter.

Bake this promising pan of happiness in the oven for 45 minutes to an hour, depending on how golden you prefer it to be. Let it set up for a good 15 minutes so it will hold its shape. It will be bubbling like crazy and quite hot, so be careful!

This hour goes a little like this: you can hear it bubbling through the vent behind the stove, you can smell the buttery dough caramelizing with the sugar, and you can see the dotted crown of blackberries creating that quintessential golden cobbler crust. It is a marvel to have in your oven, let me tell you!

Serve warm or room temperature with warmed cream or fresh whipped cream. You can store this at room temperature with foil over it for 2-3 days.

 

That sounds freaking awesome! Have you tried any other fruit? I like apple or peach cobbler... our maybe try peach and blackberrys combined...??

 

Think I will have to try this, might try a tad bit of cinnamon to the dry ingredients. Place local to us has it in their and they have some of the best I've had in a long time.

 

I need to add some cinnamon in the next cobbler.

 

I really want cobbler now... );

 

How is it going?