The Cookery Club

[truemuslim]

Time for moi to post up da perrrfect foods.

ok one perfect food. i did make pizza but everyone ate it before i could take a pic

Soooo i maade, Qurs al sa7n, or Bint alsa7n. wurrever u wanna call it, it dont matta u gna eat it neways

soooo...try and follow mee giving myy recipe, coz III suck at writing it mayb. (or mayb too ghetto for u )

Ook

1. You wash ur handys and den u go make da doughh.... *trys nd remember what is in the dough*
In the dough u puuut:

Sum salt. sum yeast. sum flour. sum water. TaDA! tis dun now. now u put it in sa7n and u feast. (joking)

then u mix the dough how u do it, and den it shud be nyc nd medium typa dough, not soft, or hard...or shud i say "nor" hard. :thumbs_do


Then u do it pieces liek this.

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And then u stare at it for about 5 minutes, turning ur head every now and then...what ur really doing is counting it, there should be bout 16 pieces, but it dont really matter. thats only what my auntie says. and she cant count

THEN you take each piece, stretch it wit that rolling thingy. till it stops annoying u. then u take it and u stick the edges of it to the edges of the Sa7n u is gnna uuse. between each piece u put on spread som melted butter onnit. so it dunt become one entire piece, coz if u wanna do that, just make shamoota!
THis is the boring annnnnoying part which makes u get made and kill someone... Coz it never ever stays sticking onto the sa7n unless u glue it!! dont do that tho. itll stick eventually eventually kay:

Then it would look liek this....wait wait i aint got no piccy. am too lazy to take one.


fine...

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but ignore how ugly mine look. i suck at making this. plus its like 3:00am when i decided to make it for tomorrow breakfast sooo...

And then when u finally get to ur llaaast piece, you should be very very happy and u shud make someone get u a reward, trophy or something lol
then on top of ur last piece uu do som eggs on it, spread sum prety egg on it, mix the egg then spread it.

then u wash ur hands again before u go back to play xbox and then u put it in the oven and u cook it at like 420 degree and it will looks like a bubble. try and resist popping it coz then u gna make it ugly like what i did but seirously leave it and be patient until the top is nyc and darkish brown NOT BLACK and the bottum of it is nyyyc

Then u spread HONEY on it then u eat. but first u take a pic before they finish it so i can see if i really suck at makin it or is there worse than me

Ima take a pic of it after its dun tomorrow coz right now mine is in the fridge waiting till its morning.

I kno i already put up a recipe of this from a site, but it was crappy and unghetto so do it the way i say coz there way is totally WROOONG.

 

[truemuslim]

incase u is wondering. YES i can cook things other than yemeni food.. liiiiike this cake..i forget what they call it. pineapple something Cake.

Tis my secret recipe...i forgot it tho coz it was really ina cookbook
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innit pretty ?

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[mehnaz]

^ i tried lemon, and nandos flavourin

im bored of asian foods lol, and like you cant expect your mummy to make nice biryani n all that everyday lol, so either you accept all the weddin invites you get or start to learn how to cook! and ive decided on the latter

chicken n fish are easy to cook, but like need ideas, innaaay

salaamz...

try marinating them the chicken pieces with ginger garlic paste,salt,red chilli powder,soy sauce,wrochestershire sauce(or however tht is spelt...lol),a bit of tomato sauce,curd and tandoori color....keep aside for a few hrs...and then bake in the oven for abt 30 to 45 minutes....u can add chunks of potato ,lemon and tomatoes in the chicken while baking it...turns out yumm..believe me...and its no hassle...jus mix any and every sauce that u have in ur cupboard and voila!! theres a masterpiece...

w'salaam

 

[fatima_01]

oh wikd i am so joining this club, ive just started to learn how to cook nd im lovvvin it. i am knw a semi expert ive just gt to work on my chappatis i cnt get the things to blow up man first tiime i made them they turnd out real hard nd crunchy loool

 

[Patience7]

well just found this club...looks good

incase u is wondering. YES i can cook things other than yemeni food.. liiiiike this cake..i forget what they call it. pineapple something Cake.

Tis my secret recipe...i forgot it tho coz it was really ina cookbook
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innit pretty ?

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ohh i love it...makes me wanna eat some...it's called pineapple upside-down cake (great namekay

 

[truemuslim]

well just found this club...looks good



ohh i love it...makes me wanna eat some...it's called pineapple upside-down cake (great namekay

lol yah its good. hehe yeh thats the name lol tank u

 

[AmarFaisal]

I just loved this :

Here's an easy way to do it at home:

http://video.about.com/homecooking/Watermelon-Basket.--3T.htm

I think it's fab.!

 

[Muhaba]

Here's my version of Halwa:

Halwa

1 cup sooji (Sameed in Arabic)
1 cup milk
1/2 cup sugar
1/2 cup oil
nuts

Mix Sooji with milk.
Pour the sugar & oil in pan. Cook over medium flame until sugar turns brown. Add Sooji mixture a little at a time, stirring to mix sooji mixture with melted sugar. Add nuts and keep stirring until cooked (about 5 minutes).

Alteration, also add 1/4 cup coconut flakes to sooji and milk mixture. Then cook as before.

 

[Cabdullahi]

is this like the somali/omani halwa

 

[Muhaba]

This is pakistani halwa altered slightly. I think pakistanis use water instead of milk.

 

[Ummu Sufyaan]

what are the alternatives to put in a recipe instead of alcohol? can you get away with not putting in the alcohol or would it ruin the recipe? i heard you can replace the alcohol with orange juice, but is that true?

 

[Insaanah]

what are the alternatives to put in a recipe instead of alcohol? can you get away with not putting in the alcohol or would it ruin the recipe? i heard you can replace the alcohol with orange juice, but is that true?

I never new this thread existed!!! :statisfie

I often thought about a cookery thread and thought it's probably in the sisters section!

In most recipes you can get away without alcohol, unless alcohol is the main point of the recipe in which case I wouldn't make it anyway. And yes, orange juice is the best thing to replace it with, if you want to add something in its place.



EDIT: I guess you could use water if you don't like the taste of orange..... If it's just a small amount, omit it altogether, and don't make any replacement.

 

[Woodrow]

what are the alternatives to put in a recipe instead of alcohol? can you get away with not putting in the alcohol or would it ruin the recipe? i heard you can replace the alcohol with orange juice, but is that true?

The alcohol is not needed nor is any substitute needed. The alcohol is only a carrier for flavorings. Alcohol itself adds no falvor or anything to whatever is being made. Use natural pure (Unextractd) ingredients and there will no need to worry about the alcohol. Look back at older recipes and forget about modern ones that are deigned for simplicity and convenience.

 

[sister herb]

Neither I didn´t notice here is kind of thread. :statisfie

Ok, some of traditional foods from Finland...

Finnish Macaroni Bake

This is traditional Finnish home food. Kids love this with ketchup.

500 ml macaroni, dried
500 g ground meat
1 onion, chopped
400 ml milk
2 eggs
black pepper
salt

Preheat the oven to 200°C.
Fry onion and ground beef until onion is soft and the beef is brown.
Boil the macaroni al dente (it will still cook in the oven).
Mix the pasta, beef and onion, season with salt and pepper and put in a shallow oven dish.
Mix the milk and eggs together, pour on the pasta mixture. It should just cover everything.
Bake in the oven for about an hour.

Runeberg's muffins

Ingredients: - 200 g margarine or butter
- 2 dl sugar
- 2 eggs
- 2 dl wheat flour
- 1 tsp baking powder
- 1 tsp ground cardamom
- 2 dl sweet bread crumbs (e.g. crumbled biscuits)
- 2 dl ground almonds (appr. 80 g)
- 1 dl single cream
- solid raspberry jam

To moisten:
- 2 dl water
- 1 dl sugar

Topping:
solid raspberry jam or marmelade

Icing:
- 1 dl icing sugar
- 2 tsp water or lemon juice

Preheat the oven to 200°C.

Grind the almonds and combine them with the bread crumbs. Cream the butter or margarine and sugar together. Add one egg at a time, beating the mixture well after each egg. Combine the flour and baking powder and stir into the mixture.

Add the cardemom, bread crumbs and almonds and finally the cream. Mix lightly but do not unnecessarily stir the mixture. Grease a muffin mould and put a equal amount of the mixture into the hollows. Leave room for the mixture to raise in the hollows. Using a floured fingertip, press a hole in the middle of each muffin. Place about half a teaspoonful of jam or marmelade on each muffin. Bake in the middle of the oven for about 15 minutes.

Boil the water and melt the sugar in it. Moisten the baked muffins with the liquid. When the muffins are still hot, add another half a teaspoonful of jam in the middle. Let the muffins cool.

Combine the icing sugar and water or lemon juice in a small bowl. Pour the liquid icing around the jam.


* These muffins have got they name from Finnish poet, Johan Ludvig Runeberg (1804 - 1877) and are traditional food serving specially at 5th of February what we are calling as "Day of Runeberg" as it was his birthday. Story tells these kind of muffins were his favourites what he ate every day at breakfast.

Finnish Trifle (Pappilan hatavara)

4 portions

200 gr cookie crumbs or dry cake crumbs
1 dl light juice (apple)
2 dl strawberry, raspberry or apple jam
2 dl whipped cream
1 tsp sugar

Whip the cream together with the sugar until light. Moisten the cookie or cake crumbs with juice.

Place the ingredients in layers (crumbs, jam and whipped cream) into dessert dishes or a bowl. Cover the dessert dishes or bowl with plastic wrap and place into the fridge for preferably 2 – 3 hours before serving.


Serve the Finnish Trifle cold. The Finnish name ”Pappilan hatavara”, means ”The hasty dessert of the Vicarage”; A dessert which was served to "unexpected visitors".



This one is from sister from Australia:

Lemonade with Fresh Mint, homemade

Ingredients:

5 sprigs fresh mint
3 cups fresh lemon juice
2 cups sugar
2 cups water
7 ice cubes

Mix all the ingredients together in a jug and serve.
Tip decorate the cup with some lemon slice around the edge.

 

[Woodrow]

I just realized that the younger generation does not know how to cook with fresh spices and flavorings. The above post about alcohol made me see that.

The only recipes that require alcohol are alcoholic drinks, which should not be of any interest to us.

The only area we need have any concern about alcohol in our cooking is when we use extracts. Nearly all extracts contain alcohol. However, extracts are not needed. Use the fresh products. For lemon extract, use the zest from lemon peel, for vanilla extract cook with about a 1/4 inch-25mm piece of vanilla bean, the beauty of vanilla beans are you can reuse the same piece 4 or 5 times.

Learn to cook like your grandparents or great grandparents cooked, and you will never need to worry about alcohol in extracts.

 

[Beardo]

I just realized that the younger generation does not know how to cook with fresh spices and flavorings. The above post about alcohol made me see that.


Learn to cook like your grandparents or great grandparents cooked, and you will never need to worry about alcohol in extracts.

Excuse me, Grandpa. When I cook, I cook with all the spices. Tuneric, chilli, cumin, corriander, and paprika powders.

If I don't say so myself, I love the gorbanzo I make. It's a perfect replacement for chicken.

I want to learn to make a simple naan. Anyone know?

I'm considering a raw food diet. Or a diet with minimal calories etc. Hmm. Food suggestions, anyone? I don't want suggestions that require me to buy large varieties of ingredients.

 

[Woodrow]

Excuse me, Grandpa. When I cook, I cook with all the spices. Tuneric, chilli, cumin, corriander, and paprika powders.

If I don't say so myself, I love the gorbanzo I make. It's a perfect replacement for chicken.

I want to learn to make a simple naan. Anyone know?

I'm considering a raw food diet. Or a diet with minimal calories etc. Hmm. Food suggestions, anyone? I don't want suggestions that require me to buy large varieties of ingredients.

How To Make Naan:

4 cups White Flour (Maida)
1/2 tsp Baking powder
1 tsp Salt
1/2 cup Milk
1 tbsp Sugar
1 Egg
4 tbsp Oil
1 tsp Nigella seeds (Kalunji)



Sift the flour, salt and baking powder into a bowl and make a well in the middle.

Mix the sugar, milk, eggs 2tbsp of oil in a bowl.

Pour this into the center of the flour and knead adding water if necessary to form soft dough.

Add the remaining oil, knead again, then cover with damp cloth and allow the dough to stand for 15 minutes. Knead the dough again and cover and leave for 2-3 hours.

About half an hour before the naan are required, turn on the oven to maximum heat.

Divide the dough into 8 balls and allow rest for 3-4 minutes.

Sprinkle a baking sheet with nigella seeds and put it in the oven to heat while the dough is resting.

Shape each ball of dough with the palms to make an oval shape.

Bake the indian bread naan until puffed up and golden brown. Serve hot.

 

[Ummu Sufyaan]

The alcohol is not needed nor is any substitute needed. The alcohol is only a carrier for flavorings. Alcohol itself adds no falvor or anything to whatever is being made. Use natural pure (Unextractd) ingredients and there will no need to worry about the alcohol. Look back at older recipes and forget about modern ones that are deigned for simplicity and convenience.

i thought it adds volume to the recipe? the recipe i want to make says i need 1/2 cup to add to the sauce...so it wont affect it at all...?
i guess you are right when you say its adds nothing, after all it does evaporate.

and what do you mean by un-extracted? what products are un-extracted that i could add?

 

[Woodrow]

i thought it adds volume to the recipe? the recipe i want to make says i need 1/2 cup to add to the sauce...so it wont affect it at all...?
i guess you are right when you say its adds nothing, after all it does evaporate.

and what do you mean by un-extracted? what products are un-extracted that i could add?

All of the natural flavorings are unextracted. They are not found in little bottles in the Spice/flavoring sections of the supermarket, you have to look in the fruit and vegetable sections.

Orange, pineapple, lemon, etc. flavors do not have to extracted from the fruit, you can get it fresh from the fruit itself. For the citrus fruits you usually get it by grating the peels.

You may have to look through old cook books to find the natural original ways of getting and using the old flavors before people got lazy and wanted them in little bottles.

A few good places to star your search and learn how to cook when cooks really did cook:

http://www.allfoodsnatural.com/

This next source has concentrated flavor however you have to use caution and get the steam distilled concentrates as the also sell alcohol extracts. But if you specify alcohol free, or steam distilled you can get what you want. In usind concentrate only make a very small batch of flavoring at a time. A very small amount goes a long way.

http://www.naturesflavors.com/product_info.php/products_id/4398


You can also make your own flavorings by soading fruits, flower, petals, nuts etc in honey. Try placing some chopped walnuts in a small bottle, filling it with honey and then sealing and closing the bottle for a year or so. Not only an excellent sweetner but a good walnut flavoring syrup

 

[Woodrow]

i thought it adds volume to the recipe? the recipe i want to make says i need 1/2 cup to add to the sauce...so it wont affect it at all...?
i guess you are right when you say its adds nothing, after all it does evaporate.

and what do you mean by un-extracted? what products are un-extracted that i could add?

Just noticed you are making a sauce that reguire 1/2 cup. I am assuming that is calling for either wine or beer if it is wine simply use an unsweetened grape juice instead. If it is calling for beer used a small amount of malt and crushed hops plus 1/2 cup water. If it is calling for a liquor such as brandy, post the name of the liquor and I will post a substitute.

Or Check this site: http://homecooking.about.com/library/archive/blalcohol6.htm but be certain the substitue does not contain alcohol