Buzzers' favorite recipes

[coffee achiever]

Since so many of you crazy people actually enjoy cooking, I thought this might be a good place to share your favorite recipes with other hungry-and-willing-to-prepare-their-own-food type Buzzers.

I'll start

Cranberry Apple Banana Bread

Ingredients:
3 large ripe bananas
1 cup unbleached all-purpose flour
2 cups raisin bran cereal
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/8 tsp salt
1/2 cup sugar
1/4-1/2 cup 100% apple juice
1/4 cup dried cranberries
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 egg

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Grease a large bread pan
Combine dry ingredients (flour, cereal, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt) in a large bowl and create a well in the center. Set aside.
Mash bananas and add sugar, apple juice, oil, and egg. Pour into dry mixture and stir until blended but lumpy.
Fold in cranberries
Pour mixture into bread pan and bake for 1 hour.

[DrPhilPhreak4Jesus69420]

Manic Monkey Fruit Smoothie
1 ripe banana (frozen)
1 cup plain yogurt
1 Tbs Instant Coffee
1 tsp Vanilla
Dash of Cinnamon

It's darn good, and gives me a nice caffine rush.

[kj]

Since so many of you crazy people actually enjoy cooking, I thought this might be a good place to share your favorite recipes with other hungry-and-willing-to-prepare-their-own-food type Buzzers.

I'll start

Cranberry Apple Banana Bread

Ingredients:
3 large ripe bananas
1 cup unbleached all-purpose flour
2 cups raisin bran cereal
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp cinnamon
1/8 tsp salt
1/2 cup sugar
1/4-1/2 cup 100% apple juice
1/4 cup dried cranberries
1/4 cup vegetable oil
1 egg

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees
Grease a large bread pan
Combine dry ingredients (flour, cereal, baking powder, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt) in a large bowl and create a well in the center. Set aside.
Mash bananas and add sugar, apple juice, oil, and egg. Pour into dry mixture and stir until blended but lumpy.
Fold in cranberries
Pour mixture into bread pan and bake for 1 hour.

Yah! the baking is on!!!

[Go Sox]

You guys need to have a bake sale!  I do  not enjoy baking, but love to cook, but don't write anything down, so I'm useless here. I'll just read!!

Smurfs.

[Leah]

The easiest yummiest peanut butter cookies ever:
1 c. peanut butter
1 c. sugar
1 egg

@350, about 10-12 mins...Not really sure

Beer Bread: This stuff is good...I recommend using a lager
3 cups flour (sifted)
3 teaspoons baking powder (omit if using Self-Rising Flour)
1 teaspoon salt (omit if using Self-Rising Flour)
1/4 cup sugar
1 (12 ounce) can beer
1/2 cup melted butter

@375, at least one hour

Tater Tot Hot Dish: I love this one, and it's very kid friendly
1lb ground beef, browned or one bag veggie crumbles (beef)
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 can veg-all
1 bag of tater tots
1 c. cheddar cheese

mix beef, soup and veg all together, put in casserole dish.  Top with cheese and cover with tater tots.

@ 350, until cooked through

[mellamur]

You guys need to have a bake sale!  I do  not enjoy baking, but love to I don't like to cook, but don't write anything down, so I'm useless here. I'll just read!!

I don't like Smurfs.

fixt it for me.

[coffee achiever]

The tater tot casserole sounds a lot like one my mom used to make, but she topped it with whipped mashed potatoes. Mmmmm.

[Leah]

The tater tot casserole sounds a lot like one my mom used to make, but she topped it with whipped mashed potatoes. Mmmmm.

Yeah, you can do that too.  I actually did that for my family over Christmas when we had leftover mashed potatoes and we were sick of Christmas foods.

I just substitute tater tots because I'm a busy working woman

[kj]

and cause tator tots are goOD!

[Leah]

This one I got from Kraft Foods, and I LOVE IT!!! It's like this chewey, delicious goodness...I make it without peanuts because I don't like peanuts.  I'm making this for my ZONE 6 BOIZZZZ whenever we bake off.

1 pkg. (2-layer size) yellow cake mix
1/2 cup  (1 stick) butter or margarine, melted
1 egg
3 cups  JET-PUFFED Miniature Marshmallows
1 cup candy-coated chocolate pieces
1/2 cup  PLANTERS COCKTAIL Peanuts, chopped
Make It

PREHEAT oven to 375°F. Combine cake mix, butter and egg. Spread into lightly greased 13x9-inch baking pan.

BAKE 16 to 18 minutes or until toothpick inserted in center comes out clean.

TOP immediately with remaining ingredients. Bake an additional 2 minutes or until marshmallows begin to melt. Cool completely. Cut into 32 bars to serve.

[mellamur]

Ok, this is the easiest thing ever and people love it.

Skillet Pancake

1 cast iron skillet
2-3 tbsp butter
4 eggs
1 cup milk
1 cup flour
1/4 sugar (I usually leave this out)
a little vanilla

Turn on the oven to 425. When it gets hot put the butter in the skillet and put it in the oven. Get out a blender and put in the eggs, milk, sugar and vanilla. Mix it up. Add the flour, mix it up. Take the skillet out of the oven and put the batter into it. Cook it for about 20 minutes. Awesome!

We put blueberries, bananas, or apples in it usually instead of the sugar. It's also really good without the sugar and no fruit.

[Flower Lady]

Go! I didn't realize you don't bake. I thought you did EVERYTHING. I will have to drop off goodies sometime....

[barbecuesteve]

Geez. I've got a bunch. I posted the french onion soup recipe over on the other thread, so here, I'll do my BBQ sauce. Note, I am not a big sauce fan. I very rarely use it. It has a lot of complexity in the sweet, and very little bitter or tart. Then it comes at you with a cayenne burn from behind. When used on my smoked stuff, the smoke flavor lingers too, so it's a smoky cayenne.

1) In a medium mixing bowl, mix 3 tbsp onion powder, 1/2 cup water, 1 1/2 cups ketchup. set aside.

2) Heat 1 tbsp olive oil medium-high. Saute 2 cloves of garlic, crushed, 1/2 tsp cayenne, and 1 tbsp chile powder until the garlic is browned. Mix into the ketchup mix.

3) Mix in 3 tbsp of mustard (I use cheap yellow), 1 tbsp molasses, 1 tbsp honey, 1/3c cider vinegar, 1/2 tsp red pepper sauce (for me, Texas Pete's), and a dash of rum.

4) Drink a little of that rum, now. It's important to liberally sauce the chef.

5) Simmer for a half hour or so, stirring frequently. You need to make sure all that sugar and tomato isn't sitting on the hot bottom, you don't want a scorchy taste.

Lasts a month or so.

[cmcewen]

This is very similar to a sausage cornbread recipe that I really like. I'd probably substitute jalapenos for bell pepper, and throw those in with the sausage and onion when I brown that. I'd also make sure to use a cast iron skillet as a baking pan, and preheat it w/ some bacon fat to grease it:

 INGREDIENTS (Nutrition)

    * 1 pound ground sausage
    * 1 small onion, chopped
    * 1/4 cup chopped green bell pepper
    * 1 1/2 cups self-rising cornmeal
    * 2 eggs
    * 1 (8 ounce) can creamed corn
    * 1 1/2 cups shredded Cheddar cheese

DIRECTIONS

   1. Place sausage and onion in a large, deep skillet. Cook over medium high heat until evenly brown. Drain well and set aside. Preheat oven to 375 degrees F (190 degrees C). Lightly grease a 9x13 inch baking pan or casserole.
   2. In a large bowl, combine green pepper, cornmeal, eggs and creamed corn. Pour half of the batter into the prepared pan. Sprinkle batter with sausage, onions and cheese. Pour on remaining batter.
   3. Bake in preheated oven until brown, about 35 to 45 minutes.

[barbecuesteve]

DEAD SIMPLE PERFECT ASPARAGUS


1) Put about 1/2" water in the bottom of a pot with lid.

2) Put some sort of false floor over the water. I often roll up a little aluminum foil, but those baskets work well.

3) Bring the water to a boil.

4) Steam the asparagus for exactly three minutes.

5) Pull the asparagus out and lightly salt. Serve.