FOODIE YUMMO and YUCK Awards! 2012
garlic7girl
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Hey guys we have not really talked or posted lately...I know, I know we all have been busy entertaining family and friends and the best of all....COOKING!!!!!
I thought it would be fun to discuss with each other what dishes we made that in our eyes won the James Beard Award for best dish! What new product did you use that made you a master cook?!?! New kitchen toys? New foods? New beverages?
Wipe away the cobwebs and go back all year...see what you did that made everyone say "you are the best cook ever!"
Raise your wooden spoons to 2013! Here here!
Wonder Woman (yeah she cooks too!):drinker:
I thought it would be fun to discuss with each other what dishes we made that in our eyes won the James Beard Award for best dish! What new product did you use that made you a master cook?!?! New kitchen toys? New foods? New beverages?
Wipe away the cobwebs and go back all year...see what you did that made everyone say "you are the best cook ever!"
Raise your wooden spoons to 2013! Here here!
Wonder Woman (yeah she cooks too!):drinker:
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I made some amazing Prime Rib for Christmas. Went to my Mother in laws and she doesn't cook so I did the meal in her tiny kitchen. Only 5 of Adults but I took my own blender, bowls, plates, ect and good thing she likes me because 10 minutes before serving dinner I yelled EVERYONE GO SIT AT THE TABLE AND GET OUT OF THE KITCHEN! They all laughed, sat down and let me do my thing. Over the past year? I have added some great Pinterest recipes to my Menu's Laagna soup was a keeper and I am trying to make more Seafood .0
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Ms Murph me too! I love Pinterest! i found some great food blogs that i regularyl go to daily for food ideas some are really really great liket barefootinthekitchen great site.
I think changing my cooking style was tremendous this year. I learned to make my own granola bars and one of my friends said they were the bomb diggity!
I also this year through a No Processed Food Challenge learned to make my own salad dressing. Amazing because I ate some store bought the other day and YUCK! Mine has so much more flavor! I make vinagrettes and RANCH and BLUE CHEESE!
Easter 2012 I made orange sticky buns...slobbering still.
Another great recipe I made that surprised me was Moroccan dish: meatballs with a spice. I usually don't like cinnamon in meat but this was very savory.
Other great makes: homemade chicken nuggets in blender, pesto, homemade lemonade and bread!
Favorite website: so many but SkinnyTaste
Favorite ingredient: Okay really? GARLIC!
Favorite kitchen gadget: REALLY? Garlic Press (Food Processer a close 2nd)0 -
Kitchen tools: I love my new Misto olive oil mister. I can't cook anymore, especially bake, without my digital kitchen scale. I thought I'd only use it for portioning meals and UK baking recipes, but now I use it for all baking. Even though US recipes are in Imperial measurements, I use the weight on the package (30gms for 1/4 c. of flour) and weigh it out on my scale. Sounds like a pain, but it's easy and means no more dirty measuring cups!! I hate when I have to wash them all or use the same one over and over. Once you get used to cooking by weights, you can go back. It's way more accurate, too.
Food: Nigella Lawson's toffee sauce (used on figgy toffee pudding at Christmas and in the past on gingerbread bread pudding). I want to drown in a pool of it. My own recipe for Chicken Tortilla Soup got rave reviews. Whatever that recipe was for Ancho Chili/Lime Chicken thighs on the grill was pretty darn good too. I learned how to make my own yogurt. And marshmallows. And liqueur. And the Chocolate Cherry Crack (snack) bars are amazing. I loved everything from The Homemade Pantry. The cornmeal biscotti from Whole Living get requested regularly by my in-laws and anyone they have shared them with. Plenty of yuck, too, and most all of them came from Clean Eating, sadly. That magazine is either amazing or terrible and you never know which it will be.0 -
My favourite kitchen purchase this year was a 1-egg frying pan. I've mastered the 5-minute morning eggwich with it! LOL I toast an english muffin, smear with herb/garlic cream cheese and fry an egg (sometimes with extra white for a protein boost) for a quick to-go breakfast at 220-250 calories.
I didn't do much cooking this year on account of the knee-wreck, but I love, love, love the avocado pasta recipe a friend told me about a while ago. It's super easy and feels creamy like alfredo, but with a fresh taste.
Oh, the ancho-tequila chicken thighs from Cooking Light were splendid too.
For 2013 I plan to start the European classic breakfast of soft boiled eggs with toast. Cook's Illustrated has a "foolproof" method for perfect soft-boiling, AND I bought myself some new egg cups with FEET for the occasion:
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I do not have anything wild to share. I have no new kitchen utensils, well maybe, I do have a potato masher by Princess House works great.
Hmmm, recipes. I know there are recipes but my memory is not so good. I guess it would be the Chocolate Peppermint Cake recipe from Womans Day magazine.
http://www.womansday.com/recipefinder/peppermint-chocolate-cake-recipe-wdy1212
I was not able to decorate it all fancy like the picture but I am more about taste and I promise you if you like moist cake, mint, and chocolate, you will like this cake.0
