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Yup. A thread to share your favourite baking and cooking recipies. I'll start off with my Butter Tarts recipe.



1/2 cup brown sugar
1/4 cup corn syrup
3 tbls soft butter
1 egg beaten
1 tsp vanilla
1/8 tsp salt
1/2 cup raisins (optional)

Combine throughly sugar, corn syrup and butter. Add egg, vanilla, salt and raisins. Fill tart shells 2/3 full of mixture. Bake at 425F for 8 min. Lower heat to 350F and continue baking until filling is set and pastry is baked, 15-20 min.

What I use to do is instead of putting the raisins in the mix I would put them directly into the shells. Usually 3 per shell works. That way there was always an even amount in the tarts. BUT, it's optional to do this. You can use pecans instead, or just nothing. ^___^ I like them without raisins and nuts. Just use frozen tart shells. To make your own is very difficult...I don't make my own tart shells! Just remember that you don't prebake the shells. You bake them once they are full. And use a muffin pan to hold the shells it is much easier that way. If you don't have a muffin pan use a cookie sheet to put them on while baking.

Irish Pancakes(to put the apple jelly on wink )
These are also known as Scotch Pancakes, especially in the north. They must be cooked as soon as possible after mixing, as the acid in the buttermilk starts to react with the baking soda at once. For that reason the griddle or pan should be heated before combining the ingredients.
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8 oz/ 250g/ 2 cups plain flour
1/2 tsp baking soda
1/2 tsp salt
1 tsp sugar
1 large egg
1/2 pt/ 250ml/ 1 cup buttermilk
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Sift the dry ingredients into a bowl. Make a well in the middle with a wooden spoon and add the egg. Break the yolk and pour in the buttermilk, mixing quickly to a thick batter. Do not beat, as this would develop the gluten in the flour and prevent the pancakes from rising. Fry in large dollops on a lightly-greased, hot griddle or heavy frying-pan. Drop scones are best served hot for tea, thickly spread with melting butter and syrup or jam.

Here is an easy way to make thin pancakes:
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4 oz/ 125g/ 1 cup plain flour
pinch of salt
2 eggs
1/2 pt/ 250ml/ 1 cup milk
1 tbsp melted butter
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Put all the ingredients in a blender and blend for about 30 seconds. The batter should then be allowed to stand for 30 minutes in a cool place. Heat a small pan over a medium heat. Grease with a little butter and wipe out with kitchen paper. Fry about 2 tbsp of batter at a time, swirling to cover the base of the pan. Keep them thin and there will be no need to turn. Serve rolled up with sugar.

Gruel-(not the nasty kind. I just didn't have a name for it and it kinda looks like gruel.)

1 can murshroom soup.
1 cup rice
2 cups water
1p ground beef.

1. place water and rice into medium pot, cover and let boil until rice is desired tenderness.
2. in medium saucepan, brown ground beef until well cooked.
3. when rice is finished, place rice in a medium saucepan and add can of mushroom soup. Cook, stir well initially, then stir occationally until done. Done is when the muchroom soup has been absorbed by the rice.
4. add beef and remove from heat.

optional steps: season the beef with pretty much anything you think goes with mushrooms. You can also add cheese into soup when cooking into rice. Feta cheese is a nice additive to mushroom soup. cook on whatever temperature you like.

suggested to serve with steamed vegetables or a light salad.

Silly question:

For recipes with the mushroom soup, do we add water per ormal instructions, or forgo the water and simply just cook the soup?

Chocolate peanut butter no bake cookies

2 Cups sugar

2 sticks butter

1/2 cup cocoa powder

1 Cup Peanut butter

2 cups quick oats (More if nessicary but do not exceed 4 cups)

Start out by softening the butter (25 seconds in the microwave works for me)

then mix the butter, sugar, and cocoa powder together and stir untill throughly blended

Spoon in the peanut butter and stir until blended completely with the chocolate. stir in the oats.

once all the ingrediants have been throughly mixed together you can either roll it into tablespoon sized balls Or spread it out on a cookie sheet so it can be cut into bars later (I recomend doing it that way). Place the refrigerator and let chill for 1 hour then enjoy!

Okay, so this is pretty basic, actually... But it's really good so I'm sharing it >:3

heart Avocado
heart Steamed (Sticky) Rice
heart Seaweed
heart Crab Sticks
heart Soy Sauce

It's basically a California Roll in Donburi form, but basically put the rice in a big bowl and add in slices of Avocado and Crab Sticks, best if the Crab Sticks are separated so it's about 4-5 strands or so. Pour about a cap full, or about a tablespoon of soy sauce and pour it over the avocado and crab meat and sprinkle pieces of seaweed on top =9 Enjoy~ ((Great... Now I'm hungry...))

>.< i dont know the recipe for my favorite foods....darn

i love this thread