The Comic Genesis Pot Luck!

[Seriocity]

Actually... here's a stupid little contest/idea/whatever we wanna make of it thing I'd like to do: A cooking thread!

Basically, you either post your favouritefoods (yes, you can even tell us how you make it), or show a comic where characters are cooking.

Please note that the above "or" is an inclusive "or", so you can post all three answers if you like... it does not have to be all on the same post.

I'll start:

Some Food(s) I Like: Raisin Bran, Pho, Sandwiches, Schnitzel.

Recipe: Noodle Soup

Ingredients: Lentils, Onions, Celery, Garlic, Frozen Veggies, Beef Shank (or whatever meat), Cheese, Salt, Pepper, General Mix of Spices/Seasoning, Egg Noodles, Wine, Maggi Sauce/Soy Sauce

Chop lentils, onions, and celery to small pieces. Boil a pot of water - add lentils, onions, celery, and beef shank, add crushed/chopped garlic. Stir and add the spices/salt/pepper/wine/maggi sauce throughout the whole cooking process (as much as you want!).

Cook 30 minutes. Remove meat, chop to cubes, put it back in soup, dump frozen veggies.

Cook another 30 minutes, dump in the egg noodles, stir a bit. Cook an extra 20-30 minutes. Soup's done!

Sprinkle the soup with cheese (mozzarella is good) and eat with some bread if desired.

[SergeXIII]

The ingredients to funk, rythm, and souuuuul.

[Kilre]

Hmm, while I'm waiting for Gnerds to load, I'll draw somethin up, myself.

[Turnsky]

one large baked potato, cut in half, and served with baked beans, ham(or bacon) and cheese on top.

[Rkolter]

Maybe I'll make some of my "Slap my Ass and Call Me Sally" Chili and then post the recipe.

It's goood stuff.

[Kilre]

<a href="http://i7.photobucket.com/albums/y288/K ... ng1.jpg">I got yer pizza right here!</a>

[Garneta]

Damn, there was something I was cooking the other day and thought, "I wish the CG Chef thread was still up, this would be perfect!" But I can't remember what it was.

Anyway, here's a recipe that I've been using for most meals lately:

1: Get in car
2: Drive to restaurant
3: Order something tasty to go
4: Drive home/or back to work
5: Eat

[Grabmygoblin]

5 minute recipes I love-

mmmm quesadillas
1) start warming frying pan on burner
2) shred your choice of cheeses + maybe other ingredients like onions, pepper and/or tomato
3) open package of tortillas
4) if adding anything other than cheese, fry those ingredients now to get some of the juices out. this is important because simply putting the ingredients raw into your quesadilla will make it soggy. (this goes for most recipes I have- raw tomatoes on a pizza ruin it, but sun-dried are excellent.)
4) put tortilla flat on frying pan
5) layer THINLY cheeses + additional ingredients, now warmed and dried a touch on HALF of the tortilla
6) fold other half onto the half with the ingredients
7) flip a couple times until cheese is melted and both sides browned.
8) serve with sour creme and salsa

mmm perogies
1) open package of premade perogies- may be hard to find a good brand, but western new york has many you can try.
2) begin boiling perogies while preparing to fry
3) begin warming butter/vegetable oil/your choice of fatty semi-solid in frying pan
4) slice into fry onions, mushrooms and fake steak bitties (you omnivores probably want real steak, but I recommend everyone at least try Morning Star brand meal starters. in fact, anything Morning Star makes you should try. their "chick" patties are amazing, everyone who's tried them tells me they're much better than real chicken patties.)
5) when perogies start to float in boil, drain in colander
6) shake perogies dry then pour into fry
7) when browned, serve

mmm stuffed shells
1) begin preparing about 45 minutes before you'll be hungry
2) heat oven to 450
3) open package of stuffed shells
4) layer shells in roaster pan with tomato sauce- you'll want the sauce to coat the shells, with a layer between the shells and the pan to keep shells from cooking to pan.
5) when oven up to temperature, pop pan into oven and heat for about 30 minutes, shells should come out a touch overcooked- not burnt, but a little crispy in exposed areas.

mmm cheese sauce
1)shred your choice of cheese
2) brown a little flour- this'll cut the flour's "taste" while keeping texture (flour doesn't really have a taste, but everyone knows when someone has used too much)
3) begin heating milk over burner.
4) when it starts to get warm, add browned flour
5) milk/flour mix should be a little thick with no chunks on unstirred flour
6) add shredded cheeses and some canned cheese salsa/ "cold pack cheese food" (Helluva Good brand from Sodus NY makes a great semi-solid cheese)
7) sauce should be thick, but not so thick it doesn't move. serve over macoroni, toasted bread, or anything really. not cereal. well, maybe cherrioes...

[Mo]

I have an easy-to-make, cheap and quick recipe that involves fishpudding, anyone wanna hear it?

. . .


FINE!

[Ekolter]

1: go online to see if we have money in checking account.
2: go online to see if we have money on the credit cards.

If yes:
order pizza and/or go grocery shopping.

If no:
make something with whatever we find in the cabinets. Mmmm tomato soup for the 3rd day.

[Ian Moulding]

I have an easy-to-make, cheap and quick recipe that involves fishpudding, anyone wanna hear it?

Sure. I'll trade you a liver and onions recipe.

Mmm, liver...

[Ahaugen]

i personally love this soup and make it at least three times a month.

Argentine Meatball Soup


Meatballs:

12 oz (375 g) lean ground beef
1/2 cup bread crumbs
1/4 cup salsa
1/4 cup cilantro finely chopped
1/4 cup grated carrot
1/4 cup green onion finely chopped
1/2 teaspoon chili powder
1/2 teaspoon ground cumin

Combine above. Roll into 1 tablespoon sized meatballs and set aside.


Soup:

1 tablespoon olive oil
1 cup chopped onion
2 cloves minced garlic
1/2 teaspoon chili powder
1 box (900 ml) chicken broth
1 cup drained canned black beans
1 cup frozen corn
1 cup sliced grape tomatoes

Heat oil, onion, garlic, and chili powder over medium heat for 5 minutes. Add broth and bring to a boil. Add meatballs. Cover and simmer for 20 minutes or until meatballs are cooked through. Add beans, corn and tomatoes and heat through. Serve with garnish of chopped cilantro and lime wedges.

[Laemkral]

Standard cooking practice for me:

1) Buy salad dressings and barbecue sauces.
2) Buy various types of meats.
3) Place each type of meat into a different Tupperware container.
4) Pour one of the salad dressings or barbecue sauces over meat into container, coating entirety of meat.
5) Place in refrigerator.
6) Forget about meats.
7) Return several days later and grill one of the meats.
8) Mmmmmm.

Any time I see salad dressings on sale for real cheap, I pick them up for that reason. I have about 4 in my fridge in various states of use.

[Rkolter]

Ryan's Damn Fine Marinade:

2 liter Diet Coke
Hickory Smoke BBQ sauce
Louisiana Best Hot Sauce
A1 Bold Steak Sauce

Stab the steak or meat you are marinading with a fork one hundred times, total, flipping between the two sides.

Empty the contents of the above bottles into a large tupperware. Add the steak.

Marinade at least 24 hours, but up to 48 hours.

Cook. Eat.

[Joel Fagin]

Chocolate Cherry Terrine (This thing is Bill Gates rich)

500g crumbled sweet dry biscuits (Granita is best)
220g cooking margarine
1/3 cup cocoa
1/3 cup castor sugar
2 eggs, beaten
1/2 cup chopped raisins or sultanas
1/2 cup chopped glace cherries
2 teaspoons vanilla essence

1. Melt the margarine in a large saucepan.
2. Add the cocoa and sugar. Blend well with a wooden spoon.
3. Remove from the heat and stir in the eggs and other ingredients.
4. Spread mixture into a loaf tin and refrigerate.
5. To get the terrine out of the tin, stand it in hot water until the outside has melted enough for you to tip it on to a plate.
6. ????
7. Profit!

- Joel Fagin

[Swikan]

Wow! I am definitely going to try some of these!

Here's Samantha's Easy Chili. Perfect for working folk who don't like a lot of prep time:

1lb ground beef, browned and drained
1 packet of TACO seasoning mix
1 can of your favorite kind of beans, drained (I switch between big red kidney beans, black beans and chili beans, depending on my mood)
1 can of canned tomatoes (if you get the ones that come with peppers in it, that's a bonus)

Put all in stock pot and let simmer for at least an hour. My favorite way is to put it all in the slowcooker and let it go all afternoon. If you put it in the stock pot, be sure to stir it occassionally.

When ready, top with grated cheese (usually cheddar) and sour cream and serve with tortilla chips or cornbread.

This is perfect for taco salads, too.

[Komiyan]

5 minute recipes I love-

mmmm quesadillas
1) start warming frying pan on burner
2) shred your choice of cheeses + maybe other ingredients like onions, pepper and/or tomato
3) open package of tortillas
4) if adding anything other than cheese, fry those ingredients now to get some of the juices out. this is important because simply putting the ingredients raw into your quesadilla will make it soggy. (this goes for most recipes I have- raw tomatoes on a pizza ruin it, but sun-dried are excellent.)
4) put tortilla flat on frying pan
5) layer THINLY cheeses + additional ingredients, now warmed and dried a touch on HALF of the tortilla
6) fold other half onto the half with the ingredients
7) flip a couple times until cheese is melted and both sides browned.
8) serve with sour creme and salsa

ZOMG

Thank you! I didn't know properly how to make those, jsut that they are delicious. Now I'm gonna try 'em!

Edit- Have tried. Found delicious.

[Rkolter]

Wow, I missed that. Coo, quisadillas!

Simple dirt cheap but tasty bean burritos -

Get 2 cans of refried beans - $0.99 x 2 = $1.98
Get a jar of salsa - $1.29
Get a bag of shredded cheese - $2.29 (I get 2% cheese on sale)
Get a container of sour cream - $1.09
Get a bag of 20 small tortillas - $2.29

Warm the refried beans in the microwave. Do one can at a time; it'll make roughly 8-10 tortillas.

Put a tortilla flat on the plate. Add refried beans. sprinkle with cheese. Microwave 30 seconds.

Add sour cream and salsa. Fold. Eat. Repeat

20 burritos - $8.94. Roughly $0.44 a burrito.

[Garneta]

Kolters marinade sounds good!

[Mercury Hat]

Beef stroganoff aka grey junk!

• Ingredients
• 1 lb. ground beef
• 1 container sour cream
• flour
• 1 can beef broth
• black pepper
• Rice or your favorite kind of pasta. Wide egg noodles work best for pasta.

1. Cooking
2. Brown the ground beef in a pan.
3. Drain fat until about 1/4 of a cup remains in pan.
4. Turn off heat.
5. Add flour until there is no more loose fat and the ground beef is nice and thick. This will probably be more flour than you thought you needed. Make sure to not add too much at a time or else you'll get flour lumps.
6. Add beef broth and pepper, stir in well.
7. Add sour cream by the spoonful, mixing it in until you've achieved the proper grey color and there's no fat floating around loose.
8. Serve over pasta or rice.

Lima beans go well on the side. You can also add in mushrooms if you'd like, but since I don't like those I never do.