Scape's Cook Book: The Recipe Files

[Jae]

I usually cook mine on the stovetop, too. I just really want a rice cooker *laughs*

I've got one and it's very convenient - you just put the rice in with water and leave it, and you can leave it for up to 12 hours after it's done.

And speaking of rice, allow me to add a plug for:
Forbidden Rice

On my recent trip to New Mexico I picked up 2 bags for $4 each

Well, my need for a rice cooker has gone up exponentionally!

As for the forbidden rice, mmmm.

Sadly, when I went to China, I did not try black rice. But thanks to Amazon.com, it can be mine!

 

[flowersofnight]

Sadly, when I went to China, I did not try black rice. But thanks to Amazon.com, it can be mine!

One of my mom's friends went to China once and according to him, all the rice you get there is utter garbage compared to the stuff you might eat at a halfway decent Asian restaurant here. Was that your experience?

 

[Jae]

Sadly, when I went to China, I did not try black rice. But thanks to Amazon.com, it can be mine!

One of my mom's friends went to China once and according to him, all the rice you get there is utter garbage compared to the stuff you might eat at a halfway decent Asian restaurant here. Was that your experience?

It was okay. I mean it was nothing to write home about, but I ate plain rice. I think the rice here is...fluffier (?) (I'm not sure which adjective to use). I think Asian restaurants really 'play up' or 'enhance' (I suppose that's the word I'm looking for) (??) their food so that Americans or individuals from non-Asian countries can appreciate Asian cusine. I will tell you this (but I'm sure you already know this), authentic Chinese food is NOTHING like what is served here.

</long-winded ramble>

 

[Garnet in the Eden]

Being that we've got so many Mana fans here, I think it's only right that I post a curry recipe
Courtesy of "The New York Times' More 60-Minute Gourmet"

Thank you for that! It looks really simple and the end result looks nami so I think I'll make this 8D even though I don't normally cook.

 

[PureElegance]

I guess the kind of rice you eat depends on where you are? o.o

 

[Miruku]

My favourite recipe:
- Take everything you find in the fridge or cupboard that you like
- Fry it in the frying pan
- Add soy, sugar, chili and one egg
- Eat with pasta.

:3

 

[flowersofnight]

msjae, question on your recipe:

1 egg
1 egg yolk

Does this mean a whole egg (white + yolk) plus a second yolk?

 

[Jae]

msjae, question on your recipe:

1 egg
1 egg yolk

Does this mean a whole egg (white + yolk) plus a second yolk?

Yes!! One whole egg and an additional egg yolk. You can either throw the white away OR keep it and whip up a yummy meringue


P.S. Your curry recipe looks SO good. I am going to make this soon!!

 

[Garnet in the Eden]

My favourite recipe:
- Take everything you find in the fridge or cupboard that you like
- Fry it in the frying pan
- Add soy, sugar, chili and one egg
- Eat with pasta.

:3

Sounds delicious.

 

[Jae]

My favourite recipe:
- Take everything you find in the fridge or cupboard that you like
- Fry it in the frying pan
- Add soy, sugar, chili and one egg
- Eat with pasta.

:3

Sounds delicious.

Yes it does! Hilariously enough, it sounds like the pad thai I make (only I don't use eggs in mine)

 

[Miruku]

I eat that at least three times a week... It's good to get rid of left-overs from previous days xD

 

[Elec]

I will tell you this (but I'm sure you already know this), authentic Chinese food is NOTHING like what is served here.

This is an absolute given, and while in Taiwan I finally got to experience authentic Chinese-esque, cuisine, there is something to be said for the heaping mounds of delicious orange chicken I used to get from the little dinky Chinese shop across the street from my university.

As a Californian, it's the same with Mexican food. I'd usually much prefer the real thing or the taco cart guy in Eagle Rock near Occidental University, but sometimes you get a late night craving for taco bell or some other cheap psuedo-Mexican equivalent...

American Japanese restaurants play it too safe when it comes to the cuisine, I've found.

 

[flowersofnight]

heaping mounds of delicious orange chicken

If you ask me, this is an oxymoron XD Orange chicken is only delicious for about 3 bites and then it starts making me sick, so there's no such thing as a heaping mound of DELICIOUS orange chicken

 

[Jae]

I will tell you this (but I'm sure you already know this), authentic Chinese food is NOTHING like what is served here.

This is an absolute given, and while in Taiwan I finally got to experience authentic Chinese-esque, cuisine, there is something to be said for the heaping mounds of delicious orange chicken I used to get from the little dinky Chinese shop across the street from my university.

As a Californian, it's the same with Mexican food. I'd usually much prefer the real thing or the taco cart guy in Eagle Rock near Occidental University, but sometimes you get a late night craving for taco bell or some other cheap psuedo-Mexican equivalent...

American Japanese restaurants play it too safe when it comes to the cuisine, I've found.

I feel the same way about the sweet and sour chicken I get at the Chinese restaurant down the block. While it's certainly not 'authentic,' it's authentically delicious. AND I much prefer it to intestines in brown sauce!!


As for Japanese food, I have yet to visit Japan, but when a friend was mine was there a few years ago, she said the same thing about the cuisine.

 

[SDjilliaRE]

I can make a mean fried egg sandwich.

 

[Lem]

My Grandma and Dad are Japanese and Grandma's cooking > anything I've gotten at any Japanese restaurant Except Sashimi because she doesn't make that

I would love to go to Japan and be a fat kid though 8D

 

[Amatsu]

msjae, question on your recipe:

1 egg
1 egg yolk

Does this mean a whole egg (white + yolk) plus a second yolk?

haha. i was wondering this too. thank god someone asked because I wasn't gonna. x]

 

[Cally]

...Aw...now I want lemon chicken. D: No fair!

Anywho, to a couple of my cracklike recipes. It's been a while but I'll try to remember everything.

I shall start with the reese cookies!

This recipe is designed for lazy people such as myself who doesn't remember how to make their own chocolate chip cookie dough

Things you will need

- A bunch of those tiny cupcake holder thingermajiggers. One would think that I would remember what they're called, what with working for dunkin for five years. >>

- One of those big sticks of nestle chocolate chip/chunk cookie dough (Seriously, for best results it must either be nestle or a dough of your own making)

- Cookie sheet (duh)

- A bag of mini reeses candies

Things you must do...

Okay preheat that oven to whatever temperature the cookies tell you to. It's been a long time since I've made these cookies, so I don't quite remember what exactly the temperature is.

While the oven is preheating, start cutting and rolling the cookie dough into little balls and sticking them into the little cupcake things. Continue this process until the cookie sheet is full of cup-cookie looking goodness.

Here is where the mini reeses come in, take off the wrappers and all that other nonsense from each and squish 1 mini reese into the center of every ball of dough. Repeat process until finished

You may want to smoosh a little bit of the cookie dough over the edges of the reese so things dont go all whacky during the baking process.

Unless your oven is on six different kinds of crack, it should be finished preheating by this point. Toss that tray of deliciousness into the oven and bake them until they are a light golden color around the edges. DO NOT overbake. They are much more yummy when they are still squishy.

Eat whatever cookie dough is left over. Reeses too. It will hold you off until the cookies are done baking and cooling ;D That's why I made sure to put "big" and "entire bag of" into the ingredients, anyway.

Once they are baked and cooled, you will have the most awesome cookies on the planet. XD

Tune in next time for "Cheesy Curly Fries of Spicy Painful DOOM"!

 

[Elec]

If you ask me, this is an oxymoron XD Orange chicken is only delicious for about 3 bites and then it starts making me sick, so there's no such thing as a heaping mound of DELICIOUS orange chicken

orange chicken is delicious ALWAYS and i will be eating and savoring it long after all of you are dead and gone

 

[rizumu]

If you ask me, this is an oxymoron XD Orange chicken is only delicious for about 3 bites and then it starts making me sick, so there's no such thing as a heaping mound of DELICIOUS orange chicken

orange chicken is delicious ALWAYS and i will be eating and savoring it long after all of you are dead and gone

I'LL HEAP ORANGE CHICKEN ON YOUR GRAVE