What are you famous For?

“OK cooks, what’s your one dish you are famous for being at? Top 5?

Mines probably my:
Lasagna
Stuffed baked onions (half credit because it’s Strider’s recipe)
Broccoli stuffed pasta shells
Scrapple (1/2 credit to Phil)
Steak”

“I make a mean pepper steak. My ribs are my specialty, though. I won cook-off #1 with them. And I may have to do it again for #3, being that some of these TT loudmouths haven't tasted them yet. Nothing like shuttin' someone up by sticking a rib in their mouth!

That said, I also have developed a sesame chicken and steak teriyaki that kicks ass. Those are recent...”

“Well, lessee...

My wife loves my chicken and dumplings.
My son loves my red beans and rice, except he calls it red rice and beans.
My daughter likes my pancakes and sausage.
The rest of my family loves it when I do Mexican night. My brother especially likes the way I make the refried beans.”

“Choco chip cookies”

“I think all of you need to send me a sample of each dish so I can confirm or deny your claims.
last edited: 2/11/05 10:13:52 AM”

“Oh I forgot about my ribs!

I like to cut them into individual ribs and then rub them down real good and let them sit for 2-3 days. Then I put them in a dutch oven with half the bbq sauce and a can of beer. Then when they're done I serve them with fresh hot bbq sauce. the beer gives it this wonderful yeasty taste and smell and makes them extra sweet.”

“Lessee, I got some leftover chicken and dumplings in the fridge right now. They're only about, um, two weeks old? They oughta be just about right. I think I need to taste them to see if they're still good.

Pancakes in the freezer too.”

“You'd probably call me blasphemis bit but I love catchup on my chicken and dumps.”

“My ribs are more the Chinese style with the seared on red sauce, Nigal.”

“Is that some kind of Yankee thing? I have seen ketchup put on a lot of things, but never chicken and dumplings. Mine are more like a thick soup anyway, so you'd be mixing it in, lol...

It took me years to get my sister-in-law to stop putting ketchup on steak.”

“Chicken Divan
Shrimp Ettouffee
Roasted, grape stuffed, Cornish Hens
Texas hash
steamed oysters :D”

“Ketchup on steak is just wrong.”

“my daughter dips her steak in ketchup. At first I tried to change it, but at least she is eating something besides Mac and Cheese or mashed potatoes”

“I won't list them all, but I cook a lot of pasta and bean/pea dishes that are regional to where my family came from.

Other than them, everything Italian:

anything carbonara
chicken francese
chicken saltimboca
chicken piccata
chicken parmigian
chicken a la King
stuffed chicken breasts
breaded fried chicken breasts

lasagna
stuffed shells
homemade ravioli
homemade gnocchi
homemade pasta
homemade pizza
spaghetti w/oil, garlic and broccoli (lemon)
spaghetti sauce
meatballs
brociole
stuffed peppers

french fries
homefries
potato soup
potatoes w/oil and onion (baked)
potatoes dauphenoise (fantastic)
baked mashed potatoes w/mozzarella

chicken soup
cream of broccoli soup
Cream of chicken corn chowder
Lentil soup
Pea Soup
Navy bean soup

I can't pick a top 5, because all these foods I make come out excellent and I'm sure I've left some out. I've been cooking since I was 6 years old.”

“Omlettes.”

“bad gas”

“Let me not forget steak au poivre if I'm spelling it right. It's steak with a peppercorn sauce w/brandy and you can add cream too if you like.

I forgot beef stew. I love my beef stew.”

“dinner at Lipstick's house!!”

“Hmm... this is a tough question.
I'm with Lipstick on this-- pretty much everything I cook comes out well-- learned by watching my mom and just experimenting with recipes. (I consider recipes as "guidelines" on how to make a dish... unless, of course, it's a baked good (cookies, cakes, etc.) Then, I follow the recipes due to the chemistry of baked goods.)

will have to come up with my list later... :-)”

“oh. My homemade pizza.

Pesto and shrimp

Proscuitto and calamata olives”

“Prolly my chicken enchiladas or my steamed herbed chicken wrapped in grape leaves (I am making it Sat night).”

“Who's sending me food?
8D
last edited: 2/11/05 10:33:06 AM”

“pink, I agree. I have no recipes, but baked goods tend to be measured. My poor in law came to visit and tried my linguine carbonara. She went home and cooked it for her family and it came out dry w/the linguine stuck together. I guess I made it look easy, but non cooks don't realize there is a trick to everything you make, and it's not always how you start, but how you finish. Some of the most important parts of cooking come at the end.”

“Thanksgiving Cajun Smoked Turkey. Of course, the only real work I do is brine the thing for 48 hours and turn the turkey in the smoker every 2 hours.”

“When I'm finishing up, it's best to just stay the hell out of the kitchen.

Unless you really want to be julienned, of course...”

“lee made me think of that I do make other dishes well, but since I don't actually eat them, I haven't listed them, like shrimp scampi. I don't eat seafood.”

“"or my steamed herbed chicken wrapped in grape leaves (I am making it Sat night)."

embear
10:30:54 AM
2/11/05

hmmmm... I can't wait...”

“My instant mashed potatoes.
My Pork Picatta
My Mandarin Orange chicken.
My Home Made Cream Cheese icing (to top a cake)
My Stiry Fry.
last edited: 2/11/05 10:42:45 AM”

“stollen went over pretty well lately”

“pasta w/meat sauce”

“Oh crap, I forgot about the cheesecakes. I'm pretty good at them too. I usually make pumpkin cheesecake at Thanksgiving. Sometimes I make an amaretto cheesecake that most everyone likes.”

““My instant mashed potatoes."

What exactly do you do to them to make them so good? I like a packet of alfrado powder in mine with parsly.”

“absolutely nothing,

still waiting for my 15 minutes.”

“four cheese mashed potatoes with smoked oysters added to it....yummy

hot mustard on french fries”

“According to my friends:
hot and sour soup
onion bahji
Mexican corn chowder
greek salad
pilau
according to me:
cuisine bourgeoise (even if my entrecôte de caribou à la chasseur lost out to CapnBobo at last year's cook-off)
I'll try and think of some more.”

“I had to experiment with the meat a couple of times until I finally figured out how to do it "just right." Those of you who have cooked venison probably know how difficult it is to cook it correctly.

Now I get friends bringing me big chunks of venison to make them a pot of it. I made a couple pots for a Super Bowl party and it went over bigtime.”

“I'm famous for being the Foremost Purveyor of Crap on this Forum!”

“Dhutch's stolen is the bomb!”

“Cheesecake. Everyone loves my cheesecake. I make a lovely baked brie too.

lipstick you live by me, can I come over for dinner? LOL!”

“Dhutch's stolen what?”

“your heart? I can't blame you Bitpusher, she is cute. If I weren't married and were gay maybe I'd love her too. But you are married, so maybe you just better get over her.









STOLLEN. Are you happy now?
last edited: 2/11/05 2:28:18 PM”

“lol...what is it/are they?”

“Some fruity german bread that's deeeelicious.”

“let's seeeeee,

pizza from scratch
shrimp salad
spinach-artichoke dip
assorted muffins
pumpkin pie

there, that's 5! i'm a cookaholic, i read food/cooking magazines like they're going out of style. sometimes things i make don't always work out, though...like i made this stuffed-bread thing to take over to my friends' house last weekend, and i made it exactly how i always do, except i put rosemary in with the veggies/cheese mixture i stuff the bread with. i think it clashed with something in there (prolly the broccoli), because it tasted like complete crap! i mean the whole stuffing part was really wretched.

Tarpy makes good Italian food...in fact, mostly everything he makes is Italian, even if it doesn't start out that way. he'll plan on Mexican, and then by the time dinner is ready, it's somehow morphed into Italian. LOL!”

“Oh, no wonder it's stolen so much.”

“that's funny, i heard of stollen for the first time just yesterday! i saw it on marthastewart.com”

“pixie, one day we should get together in the spring time for a hike. Right now all I can handle is a walk in the park with my dog, lol. I am so out of shape. I'm in Federal Way. Where do you live?”

“I'm in Seattle near the U District.

The PNWH "posse" does hikes all the time. Sarbar runs the email group if you want to join.”

“Shotgunning a beer in less than 2 seconds!”

“I want proof of that one.”