The REAL FOOD recipe thread

[noobiechickenlady]

Well clearly I am the odd man out....everyone here seems to like a little added sweetness to their sweet potatoes!

I am surprised!

Nah, Dace, me too. I'm thinking it is the syrupy sweetness that turned me off. I've never been one for real gooey sweet stuff. Or stuff that is very sweet, period. I make a big bar of dark chocolate last several weeks. I might be the odd man out there.
I am definately going to try to pair them up with something spicy. Or at least like a baked 'tater, butter'n'stuff.
WOW Ldychef2k, thats a coma waiting to happen.

For fall-ish weather! This is the only way I like pumpkin, too. Yes, I'm strange, I know...
Ingredients:
1 large Onion, chopped
1 large Porcini Mushroom Cap, cut up
2 Garlic cloves, minced
4 T. Virgin Coconut Oil (I use EVOO)
1 large Green bell pepper, chopped
2 large Tomatoes, chopped
1 celery stalk, sliced
Sea Salt, to taste (1 scant teaspoon?)
Cayenne
2-3 cups Vegetable broth
1/4 cup Worcestorshire Sauce (I leave this out & replace the veggie broth with chicken)
1 16-oz can Whole kernel corn, drained (or your frozen corn)
2 cans organic Black Beans (drained) (or equivelent dried, soaked & cooked)
(Also, I will normally add some leafy green to this, kale is awesome
1 Medium sized pumpkin

Method:
Saute onion, garlic, celery and mushroom in oil. When transluscent, add greens. When greens wilt slightly, add tomatoes, green pepper, salt, and broth.

Cover and simmer 1 hour. Meanwhile, cut top off pumpkin and discard. Scoop out seeds and stringy membrane. Brush inside of pumpkin with oil and sprinkle lightly with salt and cayenne. Stir corn and beans into stew and spoon into pumpkin shell. Place shell in shallow pan and bake at 325F 1 hour, or until pumpkin meat is tender. Place pumpkin in large bowl and ladle out stew, scooping out some of pumpkin with each stew serving.

 

[Wifezilla]

16 cups???



I never ate sweet potatoes as a kid because everyone added marshmallows and other garbage to it. When I finally ate a baked one with just butter, I was in heaven!

 

[SKR8PN]

We can all of our sweet 'tators in plain water so we can eat them however we want them! We like ours mashed, OR with just butter and FRESH HOMEMADE maple syrup on top!

Gawwww........I'm hungry now!

You made maple syrup? How'd I miss that?

Actually......my buddy tapped his trees, but I helped haul the raw sap, and cut and carried all the wood to cook it, helped him stir it, so I consider it part mine.

 

[Henrietta23]

Baked sweet potatoes with butter. Mmmm. I've never actually had candied sweet potatoes.

 

[Wifezilla]

Consider yourself lucky! LOL

And interesting flavor combo I have stumbled on is coconut cream and cumin. I fry up chicken or beef in butter, add coconut cream (unsweetened), and garlic, ginger, salt and ground cumin. YUM!

 

[Ldychef2k]

I am a somewhat experimental cook. For example, tonight I am eating chopped pork mixed with cream of onion soup and white rice. Not too experimental, you say? Well, I am adding bacon jam to it.

Yes, you read that correctly: Bacon jam. My nephew is a bacon fanatic, and someone sent him a jar. I figured I could make it, so I gave it a shot. The first bite wasn't particularly exciting, but after that...I have been sneaking to the fridge to grab a bite. It's not something you can, but I made it anyway !!!


2-12 ounce packages of cheap bacon
4 cloves of garlic, minced
1 chopped onion
1 teaspoon dried chipotle powder (you can used canned chipotles with sauce if you prefer)
2 teaspoons ancho chile powder
1/2 teaspoon allspice
1/4 cup ground cocoa
15 ounces strong brewed coffee
1/4 cup apple cider vinegar
(optional) 1/4 cup jalapeno jelly

Fry the bacon, add the onion and garlic and cook until onions are translucent. Drain all the grease. Then add the rest of the ingredients, cover and simmer for two hours. Run briefly through the food processor. Chill.

I have put it on biscuits, on tonight's rice and pork, and just straight out of the GladWare !

I have a wierd palate, but this is really, really awesome.

 

[abifae]

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[Dace]

Consider yourself lucky! LOL

And interesting flavor combo I have stumbled on is coconut cream and cumin. I fry up chicken or beef in butter, add coconut cream (unsweetened), and garlic, ginger, salt and ground cumin. YUM!

Seems that would be some of the elements that make curry so yummy. The sweetness of the coconut with the smokiness of the cumin and the freshness of ginger....sounds great.

 

[big brown horse]

Tonight's real food:
We are having baked spaghetti squash sauted with butter and minced garlic and a bit of sea salt served along with a side of Italian-seasoned, ground pork sausage, red bell pepper and mushrooms sauted in butter, garlic and topped with home-made parm. cream sauce and fresh, chopped Italian parsley. (Sea salt and fresh ground pepper to taste.) I'm popular around here tonight.

 

[Henrietta23]

Homemade mac-n-cheese, salad with local greens, apples and some dried cranberries, mashed sweet potatoes with butter, salt and just a touch of maple syrup because the bottle was almost empty.