YOUR BEST DISH?

[Riotgear]

Chilli cheese steak sandwiches. I coat round steaks in a chili powder, spice and flour mixture and then beat the shit out of them with a mallet, brown them in oil, add chopped onions to the pan drippings and make a roux with the remaining flour mixture. Add a half of a large can of chopped tomatoes to the onions and spread on the bottom of baking pan, top with the steaks and remaining tomatoes. Bake at 350 for 2-3 hours or untill fork tender. Top with shredded cheddar cheese and bake untill melted. Serve the steaks and sauce on crusty french bread or with rice.

Quite the pain in the ass, but I'm requested to make it often.

!! On my way.

[Duchess]

I think this post could win Soup Chicken Of The year Award.

...and that's fine. Sometimes I get so tired of the bs that I'm happy to see anything that resembles normalcy.

[krystalshores]

Squash casserole is my best dish. Lots oscar squash, onions and cheese. Yum
I also make a great low carb sugar free cherry cheese cake.

I tried that once, but dipping a Graham cracker into a concoction of cherry yogurt and cottage cheese didn't cut it.
:(

Ewe. No yogurt or cottage cheese. It's really easy. I bet Duchess could even make it.

2 packs of cream cheese I cup of Splenda and two eggs. Beat it until smooth then add 1 tbsp of vanilla. Mix again. Then add to a baking dish, I use glass. Cook at 350 for an hour. Let it cool and use a sugar free pie topping.

What is your crust of choice?
(I can't believe I'm asking that...)

When I bake it in glass, the bottoms and side brown and harden just a little. It's kind of like a crust. If I want splurge on carbs, I use little cup cake paper and put a villa wafer on the bottom for a crust. Bake for only 30 minutes. After cooled, whip cream and sliced strawberries.

[Donovan]

It's the same concept as a beef stew or traditional chili with chunks of meat instead of ground. You wouldn't use an expensive grilling steak like a NY Strip or Porterhouse because it has to cook slowly to allow all the ingredients to break down. It's not the oven time thats a pita, it's the prep. I'm sure it would work good in a crockpot too, but again you have to prep it first. If you don't brown the steaks first then you lose all the juices and browned bits that give great flavor to the roux. And when you brown the steaks oil splatters everywhere messing up your beautiful clean stove.

I think this post could win Soup Chicken Of The year Award.

I get it. Still sounds delicious, but outside my comfort zone cooking for one or even two. I like simplicity, especially since I'm the poor sumbitch doing the cleanup.

And re: chicken soup thread...I wasn't planning to, but if you feel that strongly about it I suppose I could work an alcohol-related insult joke into my next post. Something in a nice dry merlot, perhaps.

[Riotgear]

Jesus fucking crisht. Next thing you know peace will break out.

[OnBendedKnee]

Hey, I've gone from (5/11") 190 to 176 in part because I don't eat the dishes being served in this thread!
Although... maybe just a taste. . .

[Duchess]

I'd be willing to do the cleanup every freakin' day if I had someone to cook for me. I sometimes wish I liked cooking because it's just a chore for me. I'd rather clean the bathroom.

[sally]

I also have an easy meatloaf recipe that everyone loves, even kids. I've tried all kinds of fancy crap and this one beats them. The jar gravy is a turn off, but it works. Best meatloaf ever.

1 lb ground round
¹⁄₂ cup milk
14 saltine crackers crushed
2 teaspoons dried parsley
2 tablespoons dried minced onion
2 (12 ounce jars of beef gravy)
4 tablespoons of ketchup
4 teaspoons Worcestershire sauce
¹⁄₂ teaspoon pepper

In large bowl combine the milk, saltines, onion and parsley. Crumble beef over mixture and mix well. Shape into a loaf and place on baking tray.

In another bowl combine gravy, ketchup, worcestershire and pepper. Pour over meatloaf and bake at 350 for about an hour. Serve with mashed potatoes and some kind of vegetable to make it halfway healthy.

[ramseycat]

I make an awsome meatloaf as well. I use mushroom gravy as my secret ingredient. Lasagna is another good dish. I usually make it for Thing 1's birthday dinner. That is what he requests. I have a great recipe for Cajun Gumbo that has been handed down thru the generations in my Dad's family. I don't really like it all that much but my ex loved it.

[username]

I'm sooo making that meatloaf soon. I have not felt like cooking much lately and that couldn't possibly be easier (and it sounds yummy regardless of the jarred gravy).

I don't really have a signature dish. Everyone in my family has different tastes. For the most part, at least one person isn't going to be happy no matter what I make.

[ramseycat]

^^ Doesn't that piss you off to no end?? I make a nice dinner and usually one of them says I don't like that. It's rare that both boys like the same thing. Or I will make it one time and they love it. Make it again and they hate it. Makes me want to throw a box of cereal at them and say here's your damn dinner.

[OnBendedKnee]

My father, when I was just a kid was watching us over the weekend while my mom was away visiting her family. I remember my dad giving each of us a dollar to not eat dinner. We were ecstatic as we each went to bed, hungry, to be sure, but
a dollar richer.

We wake up the next morning to the smells and sounds of crackling bacon; scrambled eggs, and sourdough toast with butter and honey. Freshly squeezed orange juice greeted us at the table. We sit down at our respective seats, ready for a feast.
My dad pauses for just a moment and then announces, "Breakfast served! One dollar."

[username]

Haha!! That's awesome!

My dad was old school. You sat at the table until you ate what he decided was a reasonable amount of each food. I ate a lot of very cold lima beans (if I couldn't get away with spitting them in to my napkin).

[Clang McFly]

Hmmm....potato salad, pizza, sphagetti, pork roast/pork chops,etc....too hard to pick a best dish.

[ramseycat]

My father, when I was just a kid was watching us over the weekend while my mom was away visiting her family. I remember my dad giving each of us a dollar to not eat dinner. We were ecstatic as we each went to bed, hungry, to be sure, but
a dollar richer.

We wake up the next morning to the smells and sounds of crackling bacon; scrambled eggs, and sourdough toast with butter and honey. Freshly squeezed orange juice greeted us at the table. We sit down at our respective seats, ready for a feast.
My dad pauses for just a moment and then announces, "Breakfast served! One dollar."

Your Dad is hilarious!

[sally]

My dads favorite vegetable ( I think it's a legume) was frozen lima beans. God they were disgusting. I was even willing to eat brussel sprouts and asparagus but he insisted I eat those nasty, wrinkled devil's beans. I'll even eat them dried or canned in a soup, but when they are frozen they are absolutely disgusting.

[Donovan]

Lima beans are my boy's absolute favorite, but the swamp gas that comes outta him when he eats them will chase you from the house, it's that bad.

So I feed them to him when he's due to go back to his mom's. Heh.

[ramseycat]

I like lima beans. Green Giant frozen ones are pretty good if I can't find fresh.

[ramseycat]

Lima beans are my boy's absolute favorite, but the swamp gas that comes outta him when he eats them will chase you from the house, it's that bad.

So I feed them to him when he's due to go back to his mom's. Heh.

How old is your son Don?

[FAHQTOO]

Except for green-beans...I Hate beans. Every kind of bean on the face of the planet, I hate! .
I could eat green-beans every day though.