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USCHO Cooks: Allez Cuisine!

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So we have "Iron Chef" competitions at work sometimes - the next one is apples. Anyone have a great recipe for something with apples? I'd prefer something that doesn't have to be reheated. I don't like baked apples, so it's hard for me to come up with something. I make an apple tart for Thanksgiving that people like, but I'd rather do something else. I wish I got to do the pumpkin one instead of apples.

If all else fails, I may repeat the caramel apple cake I just made, or make the tart.

p.s. no pies, please. I am not comfortable with my pie-making skills. :) (and I'm sure someone else will do pie)
 
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jen said:
So we have "Iron Chef" competitions at work sometimes - the next one is apples. Anyone have a great recipe for something with apples? I'd prefer something that doesn't have to be reheated. I don't like baked apples, so it's hard for me to come up with something. I make an apple tart for Thanksgiving that people like, but I'd rather do something else. I wish I got to do the pumpkin one instead of apples.

If all else fails, I may repeat the caramel apple cake I just made, or make the tart.

p.s. no pies, please. I am not comfortable with my pie-making skills. :) (and I'm sure someone else will do pie)
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Classic Waldorf salad?
 
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jen said:
So we have "Iron Chef" competitions at work sometimes - the next one is apples. Anyone have a great recipe for something with apples? I'd prefer something that doesn't have to be reheated. I don't like baked apples, so it's hard for me to come up with something. I make an apple tart for Thanksgiving that people like, but I'd rather do something else. I wish I got to do the pumpkin one instead of apples.

If all else fails, I may repeat the caramel apple cake I just made, or make the tart.

p.s. no pies, please. I am not comfortable with my pie-making skills. :) (and I'm sure someone else will do pie)
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Make apple chips. Very simple, and everyone will love them.
 
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Just add some "Essence of True Flavor" to anything. You're good to go.

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I got home from my work trip and found that my strawberry wine has taken on a very awesome shade of red that I don't know how to describe, it almost looks like a candy apple red. I'll have to re-rack it next week, and top it off with the excess I have sitting in a bottle.

I haven't gotten around to doing the blackberry or peach yet, mostly because both of the recipes that I found require either boiling water or something else to be heated, and I don't have a stove yet.
 
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Tonight's dinner will be beef heart stew with carrots, onions, celery, turnips, potatoes, and green beans. Recipe called for lima beans and I didn't have any.

And my tour around the steer continues next week with oxtail. I need to find a butcher shop that sells brains, kidneys, tripe, sweetbreads, even rocky mountain oysters. And as I understand, those don't have much flavor on their own, hence why every recipe I've seen calls for breading and frying them.
 
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Tonight's dinner will be beef heart stew with carrots, onions, celery, turnips, potatoes, and green beans. Recipe called for lima beans and I didn't have any.

And my tour around the steer continues next week with oxtail. I need to find a butcher shop that sells brains, kidneys, tripe, sweetbreads, even rocky mountain oysters. And as I understand, those don't have much flavor on their own, hence why every recipe I've seen calls for breading and frying them.
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Yum- oxtail soup!
 
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I still have plenty of leftover stew. Can I put the leftovers in a Ziploc bag and freeze? Or should I break it into individual portions first?
 
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I still have plenty of leftover stew. Can I put the leftovers in a Ziploc bag and freeze? Or should I break it into individual portions first?
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Depends on if you want to serve it all at once or individually. You can do either. WHen you freeze it make sure the air is all out of the bag and have it lay as flat as you can in the freezer.
 
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Barbecue Chicken Club Soup - basically a club sandwich in a soup bowl, it was very good. I used more bacon than necessary. :)

Recipe (and a few others) <a href="http://www.jsonline.com/features/food/104315824.html">here</a>.

Next soup I'm going to try is Hungarian Mushroom (on the same page).

Unrelated, I made Pumpkin Gingerbread, but I thought it was meh. I like my regular pumpkin bread recipe (with coffee icing) better.

btw, my apple recipe is either going to be a fregola salad with apples I posted here ages ago (that, handily, you can't find in a search) or some kind of apple spice cake with rum glaze (Roaring Dan's Maple Rum, of course). Leaning toward the salad, although I wouldn't mind an excuse to buy the rum :) (I feel like it is not hot buttered rum season yet). Although the cake would be more fall-comfort-foody... the salad is a bit more summer-spring.
 
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I racked batch 1 of my wine over into a new secondary and topped it off with what I had in the spare wine bottle, now I just have one full secondary of wine, that I'll have to rack 1 or 2 more times in the next 5 months. I tasted it, and I thought it tasted good, it tasted just like any other wine I've had, though it does need some more time aging to build on some flavors.

Since I still haven't gotten a stove (bought one, but its at a buddy's house, and I can't pick it up until I can get someone to help me unload it at home), I skipped the blackberry and the peach wines that I was planning on doing next and started a new batch of strawberry. I'm going by the same recipe, but added some grape tannin this time. Right now the berries, sugar, pectic enzyme and tannin are sitting in a bowl for three days, then they can be put into the primary fermentor.
 
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I just grilled up a huge sirloin steak that turned out to be much better than I had figured for $4.99/lb, with mashed potatoes and broccoli. Honestly, if I could get sirloins that good for the rest of my life, I'd never buy a filet mignon, NY strip, or ribeye again.
 
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Since the best holiday of the year is coming up in a few weeks, I thought I'd link Esquire Magazine's Thanksgiving Chef Survey. My piece of input: I'm with the minority of chefs that thinks homemade cranberry sauce is not that good. I'd rather have the stuff out of a can.

Oh, and even if you don't feel like reading the survey results (though it's not very long), if you're a football fan you should click through and at least read the very last line.
 
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Got a pumpkin with my farm share this week. I'm thinking of making pumpkin pie from scratch. Anyone have any good recipes?
 
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Got a pumpkin with my farm share this week. I'm thinking of making pumpkin pie from scratch. Anyone have any good recipes?
 
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jmh said:
Since the best holiday of the year is coming up in a few weeks, I thought I'd link Esquire Magazine's Thanksgiving Chef Survey. My piece of input: I'm with the minority of chefs that thinks homemade cranberry sauce is not that good. I'd rather have the stuff out of a can.

Oh, and even if you don't feel like reading the survey results (though it's not very long), if you're a football fan you should click through and at least read the very last line.
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Mashmallows and yams should never be in the same dish. Ever.

"4. Somebody forgot to make stuffing/dressing. What do you do?"

Other - immediately vote the cook out of all future family gatherings, and run to the store for a box, because it's better than nothing. The 47% who would go without dressing all hate America and should move to Cuba. It makes tolerating bland turkey worthwhile. :D

"9. What iconic Thanksgiving food would you get rid of?"

Candied yams (see above comment) or turkey. Americans only eat turkey on Thanksgiving because of an iconic photograph, and decades of Butterball marketing.
 
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Mashmallows and yams should never be in the same dish. Ever.

"4. Somebody forgot to make stuffing/dressing. What do you do?"

Other - immediately vote the cook out of all future family gatherings, and run to the store for a box, because it's better than nothing. The 47% who would go without dressing all hate America and should move to Cuba. It makes tolerating bland turkey worthwhile. :D

"9. What iconic Thanksgiving food would you get rid of?"

Candied yams (see above comment) or turkey. Americans only eat turkey on Thanksgiving because of an iconic photograph, and decades of Butterball marketing.
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I don't know what you're talking about. Sweet potaters and marshmallows are amazing.
 
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