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FOT Community => General Discussion => Topic started by: joanna on July 05, 2008, 02:40:53 PM
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yesterday some of my pals were making fun of me because i wrote a damn cookbook, but 85% of my meals have five ingredients or less. but that's because the simple and strong flavor combinations are the best! why mess with a good thing?
so post your favorite "recipes" with 5 or less ingredients (salt & pepper don't count). i'll start:
- cinnamon toast
- peanut butter and jelly
- pasta with pesto (most of my pestos are just 4 ingredients, so this counts)
- coconut sorbet with fresh berries
- fruit crisp
- bruschetta
- salad with strawberries and balsamic vinaigrette
- smoothies
- more cinnamon toast
- toast with peanut butter, banana, and honey
- oatmeal with soymilk, banana, and walnuts
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are you vegetarian?
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cheesy toast (bread/bagel/english muffin, butter, cheese, salt or garlic powder - broil it)
bean dip (black beans, onions, cumin and hot sauce - blend it)
buffalo chicken dip (cream cheese, chicken, buffalo sauce, cheddar cheese - mix and melt)
tuna noodle (macaroni and cheese in a box, tuna, frozen veg, milk - mix and bake)
hot cocoa (cocoa, salt, milk, sugar, vanilla - mix and nuke)
crispy chicken (chicken with skin, cornflake crumbs, garlic powder, pepper, butter)
AND:
Baker's German Sweet Chocolate Pie
4 oz Bakers sweet chocolate - melted
spoonful of milk
4 oz cream cheese
cool whip
prepared graham cracker crust
Mix first three ingredients. Add cool whip, fill pie crust and freeze. You can also use strawberry puree instead of chocolate to make a strawberry pie.
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are you vegetarian?
vegan.
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bean dip (black beans, onions, cumin and hot sauce - blend it)
ooh good one. this also works with a chipotle pepper instead of hot sauce. and i add garlic and saute the onions and garlic first. guh! so good.
i forgot chips and guacamole!
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Pasta Fresca:
Penne
Sauted Red Onions
Sauted Tomatoes
Feta
Chicken/Tofu whatever
You can add spinach to it but I don't making it eligible!
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Cocoa Krispies
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Cocoa Krispies
Milk
Spoon
Mix together in a big bowl. Serves 1.
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hot cocoa (cocoa, salt, milk, sugar, vanilla - mix and nuke)
What does the salt add to hot cocoa? I love my cocoa and must know what I'm missing out on here.
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This is helpful for poor people like me who have been living with less than five ingredients in the whole cupboard. Thanks!
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hot cocoa (cocoa, salt, milk, sugar, vanilla - mix and nuke)
What does the salt add to hot cocoa? I love my cocoa and must know what I'm missing out on here.
I think salt adds a bit of depth to the cocoa and some contrast to the sugar in hot chocolate. just put a pinch in per serving it the next time you make it.
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Sam Adams and celery.
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Water
Malt
Yeast
Barley
Hops
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Mushroom rice!
Fresh Mushrooms, Garlic, Olive Oil, Water or Chicken Broth, rice (+ salt and pepper)
Sautee mushrooms and garlic in olive oil, add rice and cook for a minute. Add liquid and make like regular rice.
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Anyone got a good fried rice recipe?
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Anyone got a good fried rice recipe?
yeah, the trick is to use rice that's at least a day old, then fry it with not too much fat (maybe 1 tablespoon of oil, MAX), then you add carrot, celery, and scallions, splash of soy sauce, splash of rice vinegar.
it's extra nice if you slice those veggies on the diagonal like they do at chinese restaurants.
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Mushroom rice!
Fresh Mushrooms, Garlic, Olive Oil, Water or Chicken Broth, rice (+ salt and pepper)
Sautee mushrooms and garlic in olive oil, add rice and cook for a minute. Add liquid and make like regular rice.
if you use arborio or sushi rice, you have all the ingredients there for a risotto, too!
mmmmm risotto.
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I know if you saute chopped white onions in a little sesame oil, with a few shakes of ginger juice, it smells like a chinese restaurant. Then you can add the rice and other stuff
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Anyone got a good fried rice recipe?
Add chopped up Kimchi to rrrratchet it up a notch.
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Probably my favorite sandwich is the ridiculously simple pita bread, hummus, baby carrots (sliced the long way) and lettuce. I ate it for lunch every day for a while (before the phase when I ate yogurt every day- my school lunches were never very imaginative).
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Toast, butter, sliced tomatoes, salt, pepper = good.
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This isn't 5 or less but satisfies the question of fried rice recipes asked earlier. I liked this recipe a lot and I even left out the oyster sauce and peanut oil. With those in I bet it would be great.
http://www.wish.ca/print/recipe/289/
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Here's another fried rice recipe. More than five ingredients, though.
1 c. rice, steamed and chilled
1/2 c. 1/4" cubes of ham (or bacon)
1/4 c. frozen peas, thawed
2 scallions, cut into 1/4" rings
2 slightly beaten eggs
1 tbs. soy
sesame oil and/or fish sauce to taste
Heat 4 tbs. oil. Add ham, scallions, and rice. Stir-fry till lightly browned. Pour the eggs over the mixture. Stir till set. Add soy sauce and peas (and whatever). Douse with sesame oil and/or fish sauce if you like.
Obviously, you can omit the meat if you don't eat the stuff. And the fish sauce. I think the eggs are sort of important, though, as a binder.
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Thanks for the rice recipes, guys!
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I think the eggs are sort of important, though, as a binder.
they might be important in that recipe but usually when eggs are in fried rice, you scramble them first, take them out, then add them back in the end. so they're not a binder at all, just another ingredient.
this thread is making me crave fried rice so hard!
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using Jasmine rice helps too.
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Sesame noodles:
1. pretty much any kind of noodle
2. sesame oil
3. creamy peanut butter (i find the crunchy texture does not go so well with the pasta). mix it in when the noodles are still hot.
4. wee bit of hot pepper
5. sesame seeds
Kind of bland the way i do it, but fills me up big time. i'm thinking of trying a hint of brown sugar in it next time to see if i can give it a little more "vodee-oh-doe-doe-doe."
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One-dish Roasted Chicken, Potatoes and String Beans (or just potatoes and string beans for all the vegetarians out there)
Chicken breasts with skin
few tablespoons of Olive Oil
One orange
Red Potatoes, quartered or cut small
Whole fresh green beans
Salt + pepper
Mix zest from the orange, the juice, olive oil, salt and pepper. You can also add garlic. First coat the potatoes in the mixture and add to a large greased casserole. Then do the green beans and place around the permiter of the dish. Finally, do the chicken and place it in the middle.
Bake at 350 until done. I can't remember how long. If you have extra orange slices you can place some on top of the chicken. The green beans end up kinda roasted and crispy.
I use a big ziploc bag for this because it's really easy to just lightly coat each item. You should have enough juice mixture for everything.
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Pumpernickle bread + cream cheese + elderberry jelly
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Pumpernickle bread + pitted and halved fresh cherries + cream cheese
oh my.
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Vanilla ice cream + Chocolate magic shell + Peanut butter