The Comic Genesis Pot Luck!

[Prettysenshi]

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.

Man that sounds delicious! And I think I could even make it...

[Jim North]

Kolters marinade sounds good!

At first glance I thought that said "Kolter's man ride".

[Ekolter]

Bethie's Redneck Creampuffs

1 can of buttermilk biscuts
1 brick of cream cheese
1 stick of butter
cinnamon
sugar

Open can and take out biscut dough. Press them into big circles. Put a slice of cream cheese in the middle. Pinch close. Round them out as best as you can after doing so.

Melt stick of butter. Dip biscuits in it. Then cover in a mixture of the cinnamon and sugar. Bake for 350F for 15 minutes. Eat.

Beef Noodle Shit created back when I first went to college

Big pot
A package of egg noodles or more.
Meat - perferable beef
Sour cream
Spices
Cheese

Get big pot. Biggest you got available. Fill with 3/4 full of water. Add noodles. Bring to slow boil.

Cook meat in a skillet. Drain off grease - don't forget to do this! Add sour cream and other spices to your liking. I prefer garlic power, onion power and whatever else I can dig up. Mix on low heat til all combined.

Dump meat into pot of noodles. Yes it looks gross. Add a couple slices of cheese to pot. Let it melt. Stir occasionally to make sure it mixes well. Cook until noodles are done. Eat.

[McDuffies]

Hmm... I haven't tried any really fancy recipes recently...

Perhaps baked paprika... you should bake it in the oven. I usually microwave it about 10 minutes. It should be soft and it's skin should peel off easily. Peel it, chop up some garlic over it, add a lot of oil and vinegar. Let it soak a bit before eating.

[Seriocity]

I wasted two hours of my time making spaetzle and cordon bleu... Burnt my tongue and hand in the process.

Now it's time to make lentil stew...

[Rkolter]

Kolters marinade sounds good!

At first glance I thought that said "Kolter's man ride".

don't release the hounds... don't release the hounds... don't release the hounds...

[Noise Monkey]

don't release the hounds... don't release the hounds... don't release the hounds...

Psst...Jim, release the hounds.

[MariaAndMichelle]

We posted this a long time ago, but it's still perhaps one of the more delicious recipes Michelle knows (assuming you like lemon):

[Noise Monkey]

I, too, am dragging something from the depths. In fact, I'm pretty sure this inspired my spot on the "99 'Spacers" list.

Chicken Pot Pie (Monkey-Style)

First, you need two cans of Campbells Chunky Hearty Chicken and Vegetables (or somesuch nonsense...its got chicken and the green stuff....that's what you need to know) and one can of Cream of Chicken soup (I used Campbell's but I guess that's not necessary...the Chunky cans are bigger though, which is important), and one set of pre-made pie crusts...the kind that come rolled in a box. Pillsbury makes some, but I used the Wal-Mart crap brand and it came out fine. If you don't have a pie cooking thing (9 inch size), you'll need one of those, too. Barring that, the whole thing should cost you around $7.00.

Ok, now that you've got it all, you need to start preheating. Set the oven to 375°F (I don't know the °C...sorry all you international people). Ok, next open the cans and drain all the fluids from the Chunky cans, as well as the entire can of Cream of Chicken, into a large mixing bowl. Stir it all until its quite mixed. Next, roll out one of the pie crusts and press it into your pie plate-thingy. Now, empty the combined juices and the chunks from ye olde Chunky soup in the crust. Take another pie crust, unroll it, and cover the whole thing. Press the edges into the bottom crust. You can pinch it together and that'll make it stick. Next, shove it in the oven and wait. You'll want to let it go for 45 minutes, or until the crust is nice and brown. NOT KHAKI. If it's khaki, it's not done. After you pull it out, you CAN eat it right away (allowing time to cool a bit so you don't destroy your tongue), but it holds together better if you let it cool for an hour or so before serving. Theoretically, you can serve 8 with it, but if you don't have any sides made, you're only gonna serve four. Hey, it's not my fault they're hungry.

[Mercury Hat]

Beef Noodle Shit

My friend had something similar to this he'd make for parties sometimes. Instead of pasta you use rice, but it's the same idea. Make pot of rice, cook beef, add spices and whatever else, throw in with rice and add cheese.

Basically it's like a casserole without having to bake anything. Speaking of casseroles...

Mom's Mac and Cheese!

• Ingredients
• 3 or 4 tablespoons butter
• 3 tablespoons flour
• 1/2 teaspoon salt
• About as much pepper as salt, not too much but enough to flavor it.
• 1 cup milk
• 8 oz. box of macaroni
• Cheddar cheese, personally I love extra sharp.
• Any kind of cooked meat, veggies, whatever else you want to toss in. I prefer ham cubes, but little sausages work well, too. Just don't go crazy.

1. Cooking
2. Cook macaroni according to directions on box. Drain and let sit in a strainer in the sink.
3. Make the cheese sauce! Heat up the milk in a microwave first, then melt the butter in a pot on low-to-medium heat. Use the same pot you used to cook the macaroni.
4. Whisk in flour, pepper and salt until it's smooth.
5. Add milk slowly and stir constantly. When all milk is added, wait for sauce to boil then reduce heat a little and keep stirring until it's thick.
6. Add cheese to taste. You'll want to add enough so the sauce is super cheesy. You'll be mixing plain macaroni into it, so you want the sauce to be strong enough to compensate for that.
7. Simmer the sauce on a very low heat for 10 minutes or so.
8. Stir the macaroni and other stuff into the pot and stir it well. You want the sauce to coat everything so that you won't have much extra left in the pan.
9. Dump it all into a casserole dish. Round works best since corners tend to get overdone in a square dish. My mom has a large ceramic one. Toss cheese on top.
10. Bake in oven at 350 degrees until the cheese on top is bubbly and a nice brown.

You'll never go back to Kraft Dinner again.

The nice thing about casseroles is the stuff in them is usually cooked all ready so you don't have to worry about undercooking anything .

I get most of my recipes from my mom. You can tell when I do if there are approximate measurements for ingredients since she's one of those "measure by sight" type of cooks. Here's one I got off a website, though:

Oven-fried chicken! This one gets a little messy, but it's worth it.

• Ingredients
• Chicken breasts. The packs I get at the store have 3 big pieces in them.
• 1 cup of flour
• 1 teaspoon salt
• 1/4 teaspoon pepper
• 1/2 c. butter
• Any other kinds of spices you'd like

1. Cooking
2. Combine your dry ingredients--the salt, pepper, etc--in a bowl and whisk together until well-mixed. You'll be dunking chicken in this, so make sure your bowl is big enough.
3. Put the butter on a cookie sheet and place in the oven you're pre-heating to 400 degrees. Pull the sheet out when the butter's melted.
4. Take your chicken and coat them totally in your breading mixture. Try not to get flour all over like I usually do.
5. Place the chicken on the sheet and coat each side with butter.
6. Bake in the oven at 400 degrees for 30 minutes or until it's cooked through and a little brown on the outside.

The only downside to this one is when you're coating the chicken and flour sticks to your hand in a chicken juice and butter paste.

Even though I'm only cooking for myself, I like my recipes to be big so I can have left-overs to eat. The chicken and stroganoff last me about 5 or 6 bowls each, though I tend to have two bowls per meal since I eat a lot.

[Noise Monkey]

You'll never go back to Kraft Dinner again.

Great, now I'll be singing "If I Had $1,000,000" all day long. Thanks, Merc.

[Mo]

[Jim North]

*adds a little extra Cope to the mix for taste*

[Garneta]

Tasty Soft Tacos:



Sometimes I also add lettuce and/or cheddar cheese.

[Laemkral]

Beef Noodle Shit

I've had a variation of that in the Army. It was grey and looked disgusting and tasted like fake beef on top of noodles.

When I get back, I'm gonna have Jason make one of his simple dishes.

[Prettysenshi]

ARGH! Now i'm hungry.

this thread is like the frickin' Food Network of the forums....I cant'..I can't come here anymore. One look at all these recipes and I'm starving.

[Guildmaster Van]

Van's Delicious Boiling Water:
- Add water to a pot
- Heat the pot
- Serve it to your enemy's faces

[Althalus]

Chili Con Carne:

2 pounds of mince - (800 grams) - (or replace with red split lentils for veggie)
1 finely chopped onion
6 pureed tomatos
1 pound of butter beans (soaked before hand)
1 pound of kidney beans (soaked before hand)
1 pound of beans in tomato base (450 grams)
1 pineapple (chunky cubes)
2 large handfuls of sultanas
3 peppers (sliced and diced)
1 pint of sweetcorn (350 grams)
1 tablespoon of extra virgin oil
1/2 pint of water (use extra juice from pineapple and sweetcorn)
2 tablespoons of chili powder
1/2 clove of garlic

1 chili stock
? finely chopped chilies (to your taste)
? Pinch of cinnanum

Fry the mince with the onion in the oil until brown and thoroughly cooked. Season with the cinnanum as it is frying in order for it to sealed into the mince.

Meanwhile heat the water until boiling. Stir in the chili stock, sweetcorn, sultanas, puree, garlic, pineapple, peppers, beans and the rest of the ingrediations. Season with another pinch of cinnanum. Stir as needed over the next hour.

Serve with pilau rice. Will easily feed 10-12 people.

[McDuffies]

I love the use of "meanwhile, elsewhere" in that photo-recipe.

[Keffria]

Most of my recipes involve just throwing things into a pot, and then serving them over rice or noodles. I'm especially fond of chili.

Ah, and I'm with Laemkral on the salad dressing marinade thing: I especially like using Italian dressing on chicken. I let it soak for a while, then lightly garnish with rosemary, oregano, and whatever else I happen to want that day, and cook for an hour or so. Deliciously easy herbed chicken.