In honor of Wil Ledezma.

What's wrong with a few guys sharing recipes on the internet?

http://www.eaglebrand.com/detail.asp?rid=650

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I'll be all over this after X-mas.

re: Magic Cookie Bars

The wife pulled a fast one and took those bitches to work with her "for the girls".

Snowman plate came home with saran wrap, scraps and crumbs only.

:emo kid:

Big Swami's "Special" Hummous

2 15-oz cans of chickpeas (garbanzos)
2 Tbl Tahini
3 Tbl high-quality olive oil
4 Tbl lemon juice (unsweetened, unflavored yogurt can be substituted for lemon juice at a rate of 1.5 Tbl yogurt to 1 Tbl lemon juice)
1 clove of pressed or pulverized garlic
1 tsp salt (more or less to taste)

Put in blender or food processor and blend until smooth. Use as a chip dip or sandwich spread.

Optional:
Add about 1/2 cup of fresh cilantro before blending
OR
Add about 1/3 cup fresh red chiles before blending
OR
Toast 3/4 cup pine nuts in a pan in the oven until brown, and add them to the top of a bowl of hummous along with a generous topping (2 Tbl or more) of olive oil - this is THE SHIT and people will love you if you bring it to them.

WTFDetroit: Where a bunch of guys getting together sharing recipes IS NOT GAY.

Thanks Glenn, I'm going to whip up a batch on my break...I've already printed this thread...

I like the look of those bars, but I can't eat coconut except when it's on that one kind of Girl Scout Cookies...Samoas or something like that? Them shits is delicious.

Somebody got the recipe for Pete's Schweddy Balls?

I like the look of those bars, but I can't eat coconut except when it's on that one kind of Girl Scout Cookies...Samoas or something like that? Them shits is delicious.



My sister used to be in Girl Scouts, and I used to ransack those boxes before she had a chance to sell them...

Samoas & Thin Mints

http://buygirlscoutcookies.com/images/samoas.jpg

Tagalongs are the bomb too. Too bad it's like 5 bucks for 6 cookies or something like that. Girl scout cookies are the only thing with an inflation rate higher than oil.

I've almost started this thread about 50 times but I thought everyone would think it's too gay.

Big Swami's "Special" Hummous

2 15-oz cans of chickpeas (garbanzos)
2 Tbl Tahini
3 Tbl high-quality olive oil
4 Tbl lemon juice (unsweetened, unflavored yogurt can be substituted for lemon juice at a rate of 1.5 Tbl yogurt to 1 Tbl lemon juice)
1 clove of pressed or pulverized garlic
1 tsp salt (more or less to taste)

Put in blender or food processor and blend until smooth. Use as a chip dip or sandwich spread.

Optional:
Add about 1/2 cup of fresh cilantro before blending
OR
Add about 1/3 cup fresh red chiles before blending
OR
Toast 3/4 cup pine nuts in a pan in the oven until brown, and add them to the top of a bowl of hummous along with a generous topping (2 Tbl or more) of olive oil - this is THE SHIT and people will love you if you bring it to them.

Swam, do you have a recomendation for the peas? I always end up with a grainy texture to my hummus, no matter how long I blend. I presume it's cheap chick. Or do you just get the foodclub shit, and I need to quit complaining?

There are a few things you can do to get a finer texture. First is: get an awesome food processor. But beyond that, the "professionals" start with dried chickpeas and just soak the living bejeezus out of them until they're hardly anything anymore. Sometimes they use lye to soften them (like how you make grits). You can also try pre-boiling the chickpeas, which also seems to help. Personally, I don't mind my hummous a little grainy, it makes it seem more natural to me.

http://www.wtfdetroit.com/forums/showthread.php?t=10188

This isn't that hard of a recipe, but it takes a long time and it requires a food processor. I'm a vegetarian, but it goes really good with chicken. I figure I'd share it with you since it got me laid on more than one occasion.

Swam's Get You Laid Soup

1 Tbs. olive oil
1 medium onion, finely chopped (1 cup)
1 stalk celery, finely chopped
1/2 medium green pepper, chopped
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 tsp. ground cumin
1 tsp. dried oregano
1 1/2 cups black beans, soaked and drained
14 and 1/2-oz. can diced tomatoes, preferably fire-roasted
2 chipotle chiles in adobo sauce
3/4 cup of red wine
3 cups of water
3 cups of vegetable stock
1/4 cup of fresh cilantro

Toss the onion, green pepper, and celery in a deep pot with 1 tablespoon of olive oil and sautee them until they get soft and translucent, about 10 minutes. Then throw the garlic and cumin in there and give it another couple of minutes - your house will start to smell REALLY good right about now.

Add the beans, the water, and the vegetable stock. Cover the pot. Let these boil until the beans start to get tender - this could take more than an hour. Call your girl and invite her over.

Then, take a strainer or a slotted spoon and fill up your food processor with black beans from the pot. Blend until they're smooth, then pour them back in the pot. Do this a couple of times until the consistency is just right.

Then take your tomatoes, cilantro, and chipotle chiles and process the shit out of them together, and add them to the pot. Toss in your red wine, and boil off some of the liquid for about 15 or 20 minutes with the lid off.

You can try serving this with those little tortilla strips, or maybe some diced avocado, or a little spoonful of sour cream floated on the top.

Cancel your plans for the night.

You forgot the roofies.

I was kinda hoping for more "manly" recipes, like the BBQ chicken soup I'm gonna whip up in a couple hours:

1) BBQ some chicken breast, using a little too much sweet BBQ sauce. I tend to do this the day before, as part of some other chicken meal. :) Avoid very hot BBQ sauces, or else it'll overpower the taste of the soup.

2) Chop/rip the over-BBQ-saturated bird breast into bite-sized small pieces.

3) Cook up your favorite powdered chicken noodle/ramen soup mix. Today, my choice will be a few boxes of Mrs. Grass's noodle soup with extra noodles.

4) Add the chopped up BBQ bird, along with onion powder, garlic powder, red chili pepper (I prefer togarashi, here -- shop around for good spices), a pinch of saffron and parsley shortly after your noodles start boiling.

5) Salt as needed, but most powdered mixes are already quite salty enough.

I was kinda hoping for more "manly" recipes

I prefer togarashi, here -- shop around for good spices)

a pinch of saffron

Yeah, I admit it... I keep curry, saffron, togarashi (the 7-pepper spice you get at Japanese restaurants), and some other "dat's good shit" spices in stock. It makes my life a lot easier when I want to just throw random shit together and create a concoction to get laid without a lot of hassle. :)

swami, hit me up wit a good recipe for a sandwich

My fav sammy lately is French dip.

Take a open up a French roll, heep some roast beef on it and put it under the broiler for a lil bit. Put cheese on it if you want.

Then comes the hard part...open a package of French's French dip sauce and put it in some hot water and stir.

Then eat it.

I was kinda hoping for more "manly" recipes......

a pinch of saffron



I refuse to ever eat saffron after a former coworker told me it tastes like cum.

I refuse to ever eat saffron after a former coworker told me it tastes like cum.

I hope it was a female coworker.

LOL, that's what I was going to say.

Yes it was and she was a major skank.

Hot? Pics?

1 bottle rum
1- 2 liter bottle coke
1 pack Camel cigarettes
wife and kids at Anita's house
girlfriend sneaks in back door

That's my recipe for fun!

Do you go through your girlfriend's back door in return?

1 bottle rum
1- 2 liter bottle coke
1 pack Camel cigarettes
wife and kids at Anita's house
girlfriend sneaks in my back door

That's my recipe for fun!

Ohhhhhh Zip left himself open here...pun intended :)

My fav sammy lately is French dip.

Take a open up a French roll, heep some roast beef on it and put it under the broiler for a lil bit. Put cheese on it if you want.

Then comes the hard part...open a package of French's French dip sauce and put it in some hot water and stir.

Then eat it.
This is what I was thinking by "manly" recipes.


I refuse to ever eat saffron after a former coworker told me it tastes like cum.
This is NOT what I meant by "manly" recipes.

If you want to reorient yourself on this matter, hot girls named Saffron are your best bet.

Greatest recipe ever:

http://xs55.xs.to/pics/05463/sand13.jpg

Ok, so it's not so much as a recipe but its a picture of the greatest sandwich ever.

Two girls
One Cup of Shit

WTFDetroit: Where a bunch of guys getting together sharing recipes IS NOT GAY.
Hey, we're doing it while talking sports. That negates the gay.

This isn't that hard of a recipe, but it takes a long time and it requires a food processor. I'm a vegetarian, but it goes really good with chicken. I figure I'd share it with you since it got me laid on more than one occasion.

Swam's Get You Laid Soup

1 Tbs. olive oil
1 medium onion, finely chopped (1 cup)
1 stalk celery, finely chopped
1/2 medium green pepper, chopped
2 cloves garlic, minced
2 tsp. ground cumin
1 tsp. dried oregano
1 1/2 cups black beans, soaked and drained
14 and 1/2-oz. can diced tomatoes, preferably fire-roasted
2 chipotle chiles in adobo sauce
3/4 cup of red wine
3 cups of water
3 cups of vegetable stock
1/4 cup of fresh cilantro

Toss the onion, green pepper, and celery in a deep pot with 1 tablespoon of olive oil and sautee them until they get soft and translucent, about 10 minutes. Then throw the garlic and cumin in there and give it another couple of minutes - your house will start to smell REALLY good right about now.

Add the beans, the water, and the vegetable stock. Cover the pot. Let these boil until the beans start to get tender - this could take more than an hour. Call your girl and invite her over.

Then, take a strainer or a slotted spoon and fill up your food processor with black beans from the pot. Blend until they're smooth, then pour them back in the pot. Do this a couple of times until the consistency is just right.

Then take your tomatoes, cilantro, and chipotle chiles and process the shit out of them together, and add them to the pot. Toss in your red wine, and boil off some of the liquid for about 15 or 20 minutes with the lid off.

You can try serving this with those little tortilla strips, or maybe some diced avocado, or a little spoonful of sour cream floated on the top.

Cancel your plans for the night.

I'm currently going after a vegetarian chick. I think this may help.

^ have fun with that twig.

I mean, good luck.

If she's anti meat and you eat meat, it won't work. Anyway, back to your regularly scheduled recipe programming.

Mr. Oobir's Smells-Like-Shit BBQ Sauce (or, Raspberry Hot BBQ Sauce)
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Ingredients
4 1/2 c KETCHUP
1 1/4 c RASPBERRY JAM/PRESERVES
8 oz HONEY
1 c PICKLE JUICE
2 tbsp HOT MUSTARD
HOT SAUCE, to taste
1/4 c BROWN SUGAR
1/3 c RED WINE VINEGAR
1 tbsp RED PEPPER FLAKES
1 tbsp ONION FLAKES
2 tsp GARLIC POWDER
BLACK PEPPER, to taste

Directions
Combine all ingredients except hot sauce in a saucepan. Cook over medium heat, stirring often, until boiling. Lower heat and simmer. Stir in hot sauce and let sit for at least an hour. Store until use.

For less flavor and smells-like-shit, replace the pickle juice with 3/4 cup of water and 2 teaspoons of salt, and increase the vinegar to 1/2 cup.

Makes an awful lot of the stuff, maybe a half gallon. Can it and give out as gifts!
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This makes a pretty good hot barbecue sauce, but the smell is a little much.

Lasagna

1 pound hamburger mixed with Jimmy Dean sausage, season it a little bit. Sausage has too much fat to go straight sausage.

1 container cottage cheese, 1 container ricotta cheese in a bowl and mix it up with a bunch of parmesan, maybe a lil garlic.

Boil the noodles, put a little Ragu on the bottom of a glass pyrex, 1 layer of noodles, meat, white cheese sauce, mozzarela, red sauce, noodles, etc.

Bake the shit till its fucking burnt, throw it away and say fuck it, I'm going to McDonalds or something.

Speaking of manly recipes...

Great Balls of Meat (http://www.foodnetwork.com/food/recipes/recipe/0,,FOOD_9936_32086,00.html)

I made these meatballs the other day. Best. Ever.

Also, if you never caught Good Eats, it's the best food show running. A lot of good food, some science and often funny.

Big Swami's "Special" Hummous

2 15-oz cans of chickpeas (garbanzos)
2 Tbl Tahini
3 Tbl high-quality olive oil
4 Tbl lemon juice (unsweetened, unflavored yogurt can be substituted for lemon juice at a rate of 1.5 Tbl yogurt to 1 Tbl lemon juice)
1 clove of pressed or pulverized garlic
1 tsp salt (more or less to taste)

Put in blender or food processor and blend until smooth. Use as a chip dip or sandwich spread.

Optional:
Add about 1/2 cup of fresh cilantro before blending
OR
Add about 1/3 cup fresh red chiles before blending
OR
Toast 3/4 cup pine nuts in a pan in the oven until brown, and add them to the top of a bowl of hummous along with a generous topping (2 Tbl or more) of olive oil - this is THE SHIT and people will love you if you bring it to them.

I gave this recipe a try today and it came out great. I had no issues with it being grainy, using canned chickpeas and making it in a cuisinart. The toasted pine nuts were a nice touch. I also added just a pinch of cayenne in it to good effect. Overall the proportions and texture were excellent.

The only tweak I'd make for the next go-round is to swap out some of the lemon juice for an equal amount of either water or yogurt. At 4 tbls the lemon juice overpowered it just a little but really that's a minor quibble on a very solid recipe.

East Lansing Nachos.

I used to bang this chick in EL/MSU and they used to make these kick-ass nachos that I still make to this day.

Perfect for the Super Bowl

I used to bang this chick in EL/MSU


I used to bang an East Lansing/MSU chick too. Here's a pic:



http://www1.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/2530667/2/istockphoto_2530667_the_prostitute.jpg

<----- was obviously wasted.

That could be the best looking chick in EL...ever! j/k sparty

I had something called Pesto Fries at Ashley's in AA last night. You'd think that would be a disastrous thing to eat with one or six gin gimlets, but actually it was pretty good.

The pursuit of good homemade hummous is becoming something of an obsession for me. I found an article at this link (http://www.nctimes.com/articles/2007/07/09/food/20_19_107_4_07.txt) that offered a lot of solid info.

There were a few things there I hadn't seen mentioned elsewhere that I thought were pretty useful.

Hummous update:

I got a new food processor recently, and I have learned the secret of TEH AWESOEM SMOOV HUMMUOS!

Apparently, the secret is to start processing your liquid ingredients first (including the tahini) and slowly add small batches of chickpeas over the course of about 3 minutes. I made the least gritty hummous yet, and it was a big hit at my birthday party. It worked out so well that everyone was convinced I bought it from a restaurant.

Also, I don't know if I mentioned this, but a garlic press is one of the greatest inventions ever in the history of cooking. Pressed garlic is so much stronger than chopped garlic that you can use less of it. For instance, if I make hummous with 2 cans of chickpeas, I only need a clove and a half to make REALLY GARLICKY hummous.

I've often said that if you can't get the tahini right, the whole batch of hummus is just plain shit.

I've seen hummus made a thousand times on TV and know people that eat it, but I've never been around or near hummus and I tend not to eat new shit............so lay it on me. What the hell is hummus and what does it taste like? How do you eat it and what does it go with food-wise?

I got a new food processor recently, and I have learned the secret of TEH AWESOEM SMOOV HUMMUOS!

Apparently, the secret is to start processing your liquid ingredients first (including the tahini) and slowly add small batches of chickpeas over the course of about 3 minutes. I made the least gritty hummous yet, and it was a big hit at my birthday party. It worked out so well that everyone was convinced I bought it from a restaurant.


I will give that a try on my next batch.

Do you take the skins off the chickpeas first? That was the thing for me that pretty much eliminated the grit.

Also, chilling the chickpeas before the puree made a noticable improvement in the texture of the finished product.

Somebody change this to "Fancy lads discussing hummous".

http://artswork.asu.edu/arts/students/content/tb/costume_plates/shak_gentelman.jpg

Somebody change this to "Fancy lads discussing hummous".

http://artswork.asu.edu/arts/students/content/tb/costume_plates/shak_gentelman.jpg
Yeah, I knew I was risking ridicule in this thread but good eats is good eats.

...and that's the second thread you've used the same picture in. It was funny the first time. Now... tenuous, at best.

I will give that a try on my next batch.

Do you take the skins off the chickpeas first? That was the thing for me that pretty much eliminated the grit.

Also, chilling the chickpeas before the puree made a noticable improvement in the texture of the finished product.
Some people remove the skins, I know, but I like the skins. If you blend the bejeezus out of it you can't tell the difference anyway. I have not tried chilling them, but I will try it next time.

Yeah, I knew I was risking ridicule in this thread but good eats is good eats.

...and that's the second thread you've used the same picture in. It was funny the first time. Now... tenuous, at best.

Sir Douche Baggins is anything but tenuous.

I've only had it a few times, on pita bread. There's a middle eastern market right by my apartment and my roommate used to go there and get hummus and pita bread a few times a week.

It's a really great food for vegetarians because it's got some things vegetarians have a hard time getting: protein and flavor.

It's a really great food for vegetarians because it's got some things vegetarians have a hard time getting: protein and flavor.

You do realize you just made a solid case against being a vegetarian.

Put some a cup of rice in a clay baker or whateve you bake stuff in and add 1 cup of chicken broth, put some chicken pieces in there, then spoon a can of cream of chicken soup on top and bake it.

The rice is damn good...and the chicken aint bad either.

Put some a cup of rice in a clay baker or whateve you bake stuff in and add 1 cup of chicken broth, put some chicken pieces in there, then spoon a can of cream of chicken soup on top and bake it.

The rice is damn good...and the chicken aint bad either.
I have a name for this dish: "Chicken-flavored Chicken and Chicken (with rice)"