yaledelay wrote:

Cranius wrote:Ingredients

4 shallots
50g/1¾oz butter
3 Little Gem lettuce hearts
100g/3½oz frozen peas
100g/3½oz chicken stock
2 small knobs of butter
small bunch of flatleaf parsley or mint
salt and freshly ground black pepper


Method
1.To make the lettuce and peas, slice the shallots and sauté gently in the butter. When soft, add the Little Gem lettuces cut side down. Allow to gently brown and soften.
2. Now add the peas and the stock. Cover the pan and simmer for 10 mins until the peas and lettuce are cooked.
3. Take the pan off the heat and stir in the remaining butter. Add the parsley/mint and season.

am I ok to sub veggy stock for chicken stock on that one?

For petit pois a la francaise

25g/1oz butter
2 leeks, finely sliced
2 Little Gem lettuces, each cut into 6 wedges through the root
450g/1lb frozen petit pois
150ml/5fl oz water
1 teaspoon beurre manié

To make petit pois a la franciase - melt the butter in a large, shallow pan, add the leeks and cook gently for two minutes until soft. Add the quartered lettuce hearts and turn them over in the melted butter. Add the peas, water and ½ teaspoon of salt, cover and simmer for ten minutes until the vegetables are tender. Then stir in the beurre manié and leave to simmer for one minute. Finally, season to taste and serve.

2 tablespoons (30ml) softened butter

1 tablespoon (15ml) all-purpose flour

alex maiolo wrote:I posted this in the "recipes for retards" thread a few months ago.
With new notes.

Thai Basil Shrimp (or chicken).
Dumbed down version. The only "weird" ingredient is fish sauce, and most grocery stores have it if they have an Asian section. It's cheap.

-OIL in a heavy pan - 2 Tbl. Spoons. Peanut if you have it, but whatever.
-A dash of SESAME OIL if you have that as well.
-Fry 1 lb. SHRIMP (peeled) or very thinly sliced CHICKEN strips until opaque.
-Add 1 tsp. SUGAR.
-Turn the stove's hood fan on "hi" because you're going to...
-...add 1/4 cup of thai FISH SAUCE, then back up, because your kitchen will smell like a drummer's ass for a few minutes (a drummer that's just come off of a 2 month tour). It tastes great. Trust me.
-Add diced HOT PEPPERS of your choice. Thai peppers if you can get them. Serranos are fine.
-Add 2 cups of chopped BASIL. Sounds like a lot, but it's not.
-Stir until wilted. Don't over cook.

Serve over rice. Jasmine is best, but any white rice will do. Dump handfuls of fresh MUNG BEAN SPROUTS, chopped CILANTRO and PEANUTS (dry roasted, from the jar) over the top to make it taste even better and to impress your girlfriend.

Don't be a putz. Serve it on a nice plate. If you don't have any, go buy two.

Dead simple. Delicious. Takes about 10 minutes, other than the rice cooking time.

If you have the option, add some finely minced LEMON GRASS when you cook the shrimp. Very finely minced.

A variation-
Serve coconut rice:
The basic recipe for rice is to put 1 part rice in 2 parts water. Bring to a boil. Stir. Put a tight lid on it and drop the stove to the lowest setting. If you have an electric stove, take if off the burner until the temperature drops, then put it back on. Give it 10 minutes.
Turn off the heat.
Let it sit for 10 more minutes.
Don't - Ever - Remove - The - Lid - During -This - Process - Or - You - Will - Have - Fucked - Up
Capice?
Remove lid after the full 20 minutes. Fluff. Serve.
To make it coconut rice, sub. half the water for COCONUT MILK.
That's it.
If the coconut rice has some brown bits in it, that's just the caramelized bits. Tastes great.

Serve the Basil Shrimp over this. Make sure you're wearing clean boxers because you will be bearing them later.

-A

alex maiolo wrote:The woman I married will eat lima beans soaked in puppy's blood if it's put in front of her at the dinner table.

-A

alex maiolo wrote:These were attractive women, but in the end, bacon won.

alex maiolo wrote:Before we met, my wife, like many women in college, had a veg. phase.
Worse, it was while she was on exchange in London, which in 1991 was a tougher place to eat that way than it is now.

Food For Thought, a veg. restaurant in Covent Garden, was about the only place she could get a meal that she really liked.
I've been there. It's great, but 6 months of it?

Near the end of her time at the LSE, she started craving country ham.
Like a mad woman.
She came home for Christmas, and her dad, who just so happens to bake the best country ham ever made by anyone in history, was given the order.

Phase over.

I'm not sayin' there's anything wrong with being a vegetarian. It's just hard work being with one if you're not.

-A