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RE: Cooking for One - The Singles Food Thread - 4/4/2008 12:04:24 AM
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utilityfielder
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Tonight I also had a pork chop and one of those 7 oz cans of green beans. No leftovers.
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RE: Cooking for One - The Singles Food Thread - 4/4/2008 1:15:10 AM
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I don't really have a problem cooking for one, because I live at home.
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RE: Cooking for One - The Singles Food Thread - 4/9/2008 12:08:06 PM
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Cooking italian??? You'll need a bread machine and this recipe:
Garlic Bread
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INGREDIENTS
1 3/8 cups water
3 tablespoons olive oil
1 teaspoon minced garlic
4 cups bread flour
3 tablespoons white sugar
2 teaspoons salt
1/4 cup grated Parmesan cheese
1 teaspoon dried basil
1 teaspoon garlic powder
3 tablespoons chopped fresh chives
1 teaspoon coarsely ground black pepper
2 1/2 teaspoons bread machine yeast
DIRECTIONS
Place ingredients in the bread machine pan in the order suggested by the manufacturer.
Select Basic or White Bread cycle, and press Start.
This tastes a lot like the bread at Macaroni grill, though they add Rosemary to their recipe (I don't know how much).
I prefer to eat this break like macaroni grill, so I take a small dish, put fresh ground pepper and olive oil in it, break off the bread and dip it.
Yum.
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RE: Cooking for One - The Singles Food Thread - 4/12/2008 11:22:53 PM
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I needed to revive this thread with a recipe. I had wanted to post one I saw on TV. It was a Mexican chocolate cake with flan topping, but I couldn't find that one. While searching for that, I found one that looks just as good!
Tamales de Chocolate
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RE: Cooking for One - The Singles Food Thread - 4/12/2008 11:32:01 PM
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Yummy! That reminds me of mole, sort of. Making tamales are fun, too. Thanks, Steve!
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RE: Cooking for One - The Singles Food Thread - 4/12/2008 11:35:36 PM
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Enjoy, Shema!
When I make those tamales, I am also going to make Adriana's Creme de Papaya, and of course, you're invited!
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RE: Cooking for One - The Singles Food Thread - 4/12/2008 11:37:44 PM
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Enjoy, Shema!
When I make those tamales, I am also going to make Adriana's Creme de Papaya, and of course, you're invited!
I'll be there! (...as long as you don't use any maple syrup!)
Do you have a tamale press?
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RE: Cooking for One - The Singles Food Thread - 4/12/2008 11:40:28 PM
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Enjoy, Shema!
When I make those tamales, I am also going to make Adriana's Creme de Papaya, and of course, you're invited!
I'll be there! (...as long as you don't use any maple syrup!)
Do you have a tamale press?
Hmm...no. Is one needed? Can tamales be made without one?
I promise---No maple syrup. Cross my heart, hope to die--Stick a needle in my eye.
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RE: Cooking for One - The Singles Food Thread - 4/12/2008 11:43:42 PM
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No need to inflict bodily pain!
You don't have to use one, but they're really fun. I used to make black bean tamales (on accident the first time. The beans bled through the masa, so after that I just started mixing it all together before forming).
You might be able to pick one up pretty cheap. Do you have any Hispanic grocery stores in the area? (That's an ignorant question upon first read. We have so many here, that it's difficult to imagine your area having any!)
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RE: Cooking for One - The Singles Food Thread - 4/12/2008 11:50:07 PM
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No need to inflict bodily pain!
You don't have to use one, but they're really fun. I used to make black bean tamales (on accident the first time. The beans bled through the masa, so after that I just started mixing it all together before forming).
You might be able to pick one up pretty cheap. Do you have any Hispanic grocery stores in the area? (That's an ignorant question upon first read. We have so many here, that it's difficult to imagine your area having any!)
There is a HUGE Mexican population here and a bunch of Mexican groceries in my neighborhood, so I'm sure I could find one. I could pick up all the ingredients there too.
It does sound like fun.
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RE: Cooking for One - The Singles Food Thread - 4/19/2008 2:47:24 PM
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I love to cook. I always plan for left overs for lunch. I usually cook big on Sundays and Tuesdays. I always keep cooked ground beef in the freezer for quick weekday meals. DD lives for spaghetti.
I also make meat loaf muffins. I can freeze and separate when needed. I have found that most anything will freeze.
The crock pot is my friend. I make lots of stuff with it.
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RE: Cooking for One - The Singles Food Thread - 4/19/2008 3:59:33 PM
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Hey, SharMar! Glad you stopped in here. Feel free to post any of your culinary creations.
Do you have to mail-order all your ethnic ingredients?
Welcome, Jamie!
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RE: Cooking for One - The Singles Food Thread - 4/19/2008 4:16:27 PM
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That was my original intent, Steve; to mail-order stuff like that.
However, after searching for hours, I found one site that I thought I was absolutely going to love . . . and promptly spend a lot of money ordering all kinds of wonderful things. Sadly, after placing the order, I then learned that their customer services was more than extremely lacking; and I don't do business with companies that provides shoddy customer service. So I'm back to square one in that regard. I was hoping to find a one-stop site where I could order everything food-wise that I wanted and/or needed to. I think I may have to instead find a combination of a few smaller sites.
BTW, remember my black-bean cornbread? The other day, I made it, subbing lite coconut milk for buttermilk or half-n-half. It was really good; and not overly coconutty.
I should spend some time getting caught up in here. Any specific recipes that I should know about?
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RE: Cooking for One - The Singles Food Thread - 4/19/2008 11:58:06 PM
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shawke
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Any specific recipes that I should know about
There's a yummy papaya drink by Adriana back near the front of the thread. I haven't made it yet though.
I'm not a fan of coconut, but I do want to make black bean cornbread soon.
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RE: Cooking for One - The Singles Food Thread - 4/20/2008 6:36:46 PM
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Thanks Sharon-Marie... I see it has black bean flour, I've never seen that (and I've seen a lot of flour!)... is it just ground up black beans? I can do that if it is...
I use rice bran oil for a lot of cooking (has a higher smoke point than olive oil, is cheaper and doesn't add flavour to food ~ and is still good for ya!).
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