Food & Drink Recipe Thread

[BarneyBent]

Cooked myself lunch today (gotta love being home and not at college). Grilled haloumi (had some in the fridge), grilled capsicum, and a rocquette and parmesan salad (lemon juice and olive oil dressing), with a dollop of spicy green olive tapenade in the middle, drizzled with lemon juice. Rich, salty, delicious, and washed down with a mango and orange juice, which took the edge off the saltiness.

 

[BIGBEZ]

great work looks grouse...

 

[Hooley McBoob]

I succumbed to my love for baking over cooking and made some macarons.

They are ****ing AMAZING.

 

[.Shotties.]

So, I made macarons..

..and they came out perfect. Again

If only I could convince my mummay to let me make a black forest cake.

If she says yes, go all out and make Heston Blumenthal's version. I made it, it's an experience, but the cake is amazing.

 

[ssfc0203]

Is it the one with the madeleine biscuit base, aerated chocolate, chocolate sponge, kirsch cream, chocolate ganache and chocolate mousse?

Did you make the biscuit and sponge, etc beforehand and then assemble afterwards?

I might have to tinker with the measurements - I don't have room for 3 cakes in my fridge, lol.

It sounds amazing, though. So many things I want to do in the holidays!

 

[.Shotties.]

Yeah. I almost blew up a whipped cream aerator getting enough charged into it to get the right consistency for the aerated chocolate bar. I also just used one big, square cake tin, lined it with Gladwrap and built it in there.

That's a pic of it as I trimmed it up for the last part.

 

[Hooley McBoob]

Made a quick lemon tea cake tonight. Is delicious of course as it is made with love but I turned it onto a plate while it was still too hot and the top stuck to the flippy plate, lol, so the middle part is crumbly. Oh well

 

[Mister B]

bonzaburgers and baja. Dug it up from the grave. Might post the Healthy eating and GreenEdge vids in here?

 

[baja]

Watched Masterchef the other night, saw how many eggs they wasted using their creme patissiere recipe, so use mine.

50g flour
10g custard powder
100 grams sugar
2 eggs
600mls milk
1 vanilla bean or a few splashes of vanilla extract

Bring the milk and 'nilla to the boil, while it's getting there, cream the eggs, flour, custard and sugar together.

Add half the boiling milk to the bowl and mix it up till well combined, put it back in the pan and bring back to the boil, but it's important at this stage that youkeep whisking and scraping up from the bottom because the mix will start to thicken and it'll stick to the bottom and burn if you're not constantly mixing and scraping.

When it gets thick enough, pour into a shallow dish, cover with some greaseproof paper to prevent a skin forming and put it on a wire rack so air can circulate underneath it.

Pipe into profiteroles or eat it off someone's naked body.

I just re read this thread, you seem quite the pastry chef great stuff.

 

[Bonz]

Geez going to have to cook some of Hooley's old recipes on here.

 

[Mister B]

Geez going to have to cook some of Hooley's old recipes on here.

Few of them look great don't they.

Here's something simple that takes about 5 minutes to prepare and is ready to go in a few hours.
Chocolate Fudge
Ingredients:
395g pack of Nestle choc melts
390mL tin of Sweetened Condensed Milk
50g of butter

Throw all ingredients into saucepan and place on low heat. Stir constantly making sure the chocolate at the bottom doesn't catch. When mixture is of smooth consistency and no lumps exist pour into a square cake tin lined with baking paper. Tap on bench to remove any air bubbles and place in fridge for a minimum of 2 hours. When set, slice as desired (probably don't want slices to be too big).

 

[baja]

Few of them look great don't they.

Here's something simple that takes about 5 minutes to prepare and is ready to go in a few hours.
Chocolate Fudge
Ingredients:
395g pack of Nestle choc melts
390mL tin of Sweetened Condensed Milk
50g of butter

Throw all ingredients into saucepan and place on low heat. Stir constantly making sure the chocolate at the bottom doesn't catch. When mixture is of smooth consistency and no lumps exist pour into a square cake tin lined with baking paper. Tap on bench to remove any air bubbles and place in fridge for a minimum of 2 hours. When set, slice as desired (probably don't want slices to be too big).

So, So simple I will try this. Could add chopped glazed cherries, nuts or anything you want..

 

[Mister B]

So, So simple I will try this. Could add chopped glazed cherries, nuts or anything you want..

Unbelievably simple. If you don't mind a little crunch in your fudge, peppermint crisp and dark chocolate melts goes alright. Been meaning to try white chocolate melts, think the cherries would go well with that.

 

[Mister B]

 

[Mister B]

 

[Mister B]

 

[baja]

Unbelievably simple. If you don't mind a little crunch in your fudge, peppermint crisp and dark chocolate melts goes alright. Been meaning to try white chocolate melts, think the cherries would go well with that.

I was thinking a little chopped glazed cherries, chopped nuts, chopped marshmellow's and get a little rocky road action going on..

 

[Mister B]

 

[Mister B]

I was thinking a little chopped glazed cherries, chopped nuts, chopped marshmellow's and get a little rocky road action going on..

I presume all that would go alright seeing as it works in chocolate. Only one way to find out really. I had visions of a white christmas nougat type thing with the white chocolate and cherries etc.

 

[Mister B]

 

[Mister B]

 

[Mister B]

Raw Vegetable Salad with Gemfish

 

[Mister B]

 

[baja]

These recipe's are great and should be taught to all young up and coming athletes, not sure Id enjoy them as much these days but the level of professionalism these days in sport eating like this is important..

Id add some spuds, eggs to bind, blend the fish aswell and turn his gemfish/raw veggie recipe into patties and fry them to be honest.. the flavours are there.

 

[.Shotties.]

I just re read this thread, you seem quite the pastry chef great stuff.

I'm actually pretty bad. I lifted that recipe off my girlfriend. She can bake amazingly well. My birthday just passed she made a six layer honeycomb cake.