Good simple recipes

[Fife]

1. Get some oysters and beer.

2. Shuck an oyster.

3. Eat the oyster.

4. Drink some beer.

5. GOTO (2.); if out of oysters or beer, GOTO (1.).

[Montegriffo]

For tomorrow (pancake day)...

Finely chop a shallot or small onion, sweat off in butter and add 2 cloves of garlic. When soft add a bag of washed spinach and cook until just wilted. Season with salt, black pepper and a little nutmeg. Add one tub of cream cheese and half a cup of cream.
Serve in a savoury pancake made with salt, black pepper and fresh parsley.

Nutmeg works really well with spinach but if you are not a fan you can use parmesan cheese, instead, to flavour the filling.

[Hastur]

Biff or beef Rydberg, classic Swedish dish with diced potatoes, onion and beef.
Similar to pyttipanna, but more luxurious.

Serves four:

12 Potatoes
2 Onions
about 500 grams (1.1 pounds) Beef (preferably tenderloin or sirloin)
1 tsp Vinegar
4 Egg Yolks
Parsley

Mustard-dressing:

2 dl (0.4 cups) Crème Fraîche
3-4 tsp Dijon

Salt & Pepper
Butter for frying
Olive Oil

1. Peel the potatoes and onions. Trim the meat from any excess fat and sinews. Dice the potatoes in pretty large chunks, do the same with the meat and also chop the onion quite rough. Mix the crème fraîche with mustard and possibly some salt, taste and cool.

2. Bring heavily salted water to a boil, boil the potato-cubes for about five minutes. Fry them in butter and oil in a pan, also until crisp.

3. Then fry the meat in butter and olive oil, preferably leave the meat a bit pink in the middle, season with salt and pepper. When the meat is ready remove it from pan and add the onion, when colored add the vinegar and let reduce.

Serve meat, potatoes and onions in separate rows together with mustard-dressing and an egg-yolk, season with some salt and pepper. Sprinkle some chopped parsley. Good with a cold beer.

[C-Mag]

Keep it simple

[Hastur]

[MilSpecs]

Frittata. Very cheap, delicious and healthy.

Saute a couple of zucchini in a large frying pan in about a tablespoon of olive oil until almost done. Lightly beat 5 or six eggs with about 1/4 teaspoon dried basil - you don't want the egg all mixed together. Pour over the sauteed zucchini. Cover and cook on medium until the eggs are set. Now the fun part: flip your frittata and let it brown for about a minute on the other side. If you have to, cut it into four slices like a pizza and flip each slice. Serve warm or room temperature. This should make two meals for you.

You can make many kinds of frittatas: saute a small onion and add sliced cooked potatoes. Sliced tomato frittata. Mushrooms. Canned artichokes. All make good frittatas.

[Montegriffo]

Frittata. Very cheap, delicious and healthy.

Saute a couple of zucchini in a large frying pan in about a tablespoon of olive oil until almost done. Lightly beat 5 or six eggs with about 1/4 teaspoon dried basil - you don't want the egg all mixed together. Pour over the sauteed zucchini. Cover and cook on medium until the eggs are set. Now the fun part: flip your frittata and let it brown for about a minute on the other side. If you have to, cut it into four slices like a pizza and flip each slice. Serve warm or room temperature. This should make two meals for you.

You can make many kinds of frittatas: saute a small onion and add sliced cooked potatoes. Sliced tomato frittata. Mushrooms. Canned artichokes. All make good frittatas.

Works really well with sweet potato and smoked paprika.

[C-Mag]

Beef Stew
brown small cubes of meat in dutch oven, throw in a bone if you have one
then toss in chopped carrots, potatos and onions, equal portions on all three
cook for 5-10 minutes with a pat of butter
then add water and chicken stock, or bullion cubes
bring to boil, then down to simmer for 1-3 hours
When everything is tender, mix flour with a .5 to 1.0 cups milk, and stir in to thicken

Serve with fresh biscuits and Whiskey over ice

[heydaralon]

Good tips all! All these recipes are well within my skill range, and I'm gonna try those out, except the beer and oysters one because it seems like you'd need to be at leasst a sous chef to pull that one off properly. I buy these middle eastern/indian seasoning packs and make recipes using them. I made something I have termed "Curry Monkey Meatloaf." It is really really good. I use the seasoning to put on a pound of ground beef or cut up chuck then I add onions, garlic, cilantro, and some jalapenos or scotch bonnets. Pretty damn delicious and takes like 20 min to make total.

Hastur: props for those gifs! Really good use of that video format!

[Smitty-48]

Costco sells OceanPrime oysters on the half shell, just thaw and serve.

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