Are you a chef? Do you know someone who can cook their ass off?
 

I got me a powerful pinin' fer some red eye beans and gravy. With homemade biscuits!

I was just talking with a bus driver today about food in Los Angeles. We agreed NY outstrips LA any day of the week. Philadelphia and Chicago are close twins to NY. Boston ain't that far behind either.

But then we got to talking about southern cuisine. Foods made out of things cartoon companies make characters out of.

Gotta admit those southern dishes like cornbread stuffing, crawdads and corn, grits, fried chicken, bar b qued raccoon and possum belly and chitlins sure can make ya' wanna marry a woman quick who can cook em'.

I can cook just about anything. Southern food is my specialty but I can also cook the heck out of Italian, Mexican, Chinese, Cajun... just about anything. Pretty soon I want to learn some Russian and Japanese dishes. I LOVE to cook!

I got the dopest bachelor/for your kids recipe ever.

1 pack of Oscar Meyer? hotdogs cut into 1/2" sections
1 pack of frozen OreIda? tater tots
1 can of Bunker Hill? hotdog chili
1 package shredded chedder cheeze
1/4 C. Ketchup
Salt and Pepper to taste

Mix all that shit in a baking dish and bake on 375 for like 20 minutes. Good for one free heart attack of your choosing. :thumbsup

You can actually hear yourself getting fatter with every bite.

sexy and know how to cook, your husband IS a lucky man, :glugglug

Nick, here is another heart attack inducer that my whole family loves.

Tater Tot Casserole

1 bag frozen tater tots
2 pounds ground beef
1 small onion, peeled and diced
2 cans condensed cream of chicken soup
2 cups shredded sharp cheddar cheese

Brown the ground beef with the onions in a frying pan until the meat is completely cooked and the onions are translucent. Stir the soup and cheese over low heat until the cheese is completely melted, stirring constantly to avoid sticking. Place about 2/3 of the tater tots in a 13"x9" casserole dish. Mix the beef mixture and soup mixture together and pour over the tater tots. Then put the remainder of the tater tots on top of it all, pressing them down until they are about hald buried, but leave a little sticking out on top to form a nice brown crust. Bake at 350 for 30 minutes and dig in. YUM!

I got that recipe from one of my favorite southern restaurants. It's a cute little mom and pop place owned by some semi-distant relative of mine. A great great uncle or fourth cousin or something, I think. I miss their food. Haven't eaten there in years.

My favorite southern food restaurant EVER is in north Georgia. It's called Dillard House and it's in Dillard, Georgia. Their food is AMAZING and the mountain view is just beautiful. They have a cookbook out that I recommend to anyone who wants to learn to cook real southern food. The Dillard House Cookbook.

Some more cookbooks that I have that are great if you love southern food:

The Foxfire Book of Appalachian Cookery (THE BEST!)

Natalie Dupree's Southern Memories (among other things, it has the best recipe for Brunswick Stew I've ever found)

Smokehouse Ham, Spoonbread and Scuppernong Wine

Those are all outstanding books with REAL southern recipes in them. :thumbsup

You just can't beat something that has tater tots baked into it...

What's a tater tot?

I rock at cookin' up this stuff:
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i was a pastry chef in nashville for almost 4 years....i can make some fucking nice deserts

And don't forget this thread:
http://www.gofuckyourself.com/showth...hreadid=246947

shit on shingle :glugglug

It is a processed potato thing that kind of looks like a little barrel about an inch long and resembling a McDonalds hashbrown in color and consistency. When you eat them they actually skip the esophogas and go straight to your arteries forming a wall of plaque. They are a medical mystery...

Mmmm, salsa. All I put in mine is tomatoes, onions, cilantro, lime juice, salt and a little canned green chiles.

Got to watch that Cilantro tho. That stuff can kill good salsa. In moderation it adds a flavor unmatched though.

I think we call those Potato Gems in Australia.

Ever been to a Sonic Drive Thru? They have tater tots. Their chili cheese tots are yummy.

Very true. Cilantro is great unless it's overdone. I wouldn't think of making salsa without it, but it's really easy to add too much.

I live in Australia. We don't have Sonic Drive Thru's.

I rock in the kitchen.

And I DON'T mind saying so myself !!!

And I'll prove it.

Send me 1000 joins between now and December 31 and I'll FLY you and your partner Downunder, put you up for a week in a nice hotel, show you around the place I call home, and invite you to my house where I WILL COOK YOU A KICK ASS 3 COURSE FEED !!

Who'll try me on?

btw.. that is ON TOP of your usual 75% revshare or $45 per join !!!

:thumbsup

Well there go my plans to move to Oz. LOL

We have fast food though... and drive thru's... just not that one. :winkwink:

McVegemite

I'm sure Australia has enough that I woudl enjoy so I wouldn't miss the U.S. too much. I hear you guys have some killer potato chip flavors that we don't. :)

How do you guys eat that shit. My old roommate was this dude from Australia. He loved it. Said his mom used to put it on toast. I tried it cause he made me. It was ... wierd.

We eat it from when we are kids so we grow up with it.

I like it but you have to apply it carefully. Too much and you're in trouble.

It it VERY good for you.

http://www.vegemite.com.au/

lol ya that's what my buddy karl had said. He grew up with it. I just couldn't deal with the aftertaste. It was almost like an aluminum bread aftertaste. He said it was real good for you tho...

Nick are you Greek? If so you should know the Greeks can cook like no tomorrow!

Man I miss them home cooked Greek dishes! We used to have lamb roasts now and then and the boys would whip up a baste that turned the meat into like something out of this world.

We would spend two or three days preparing a roast.

No actually I am Irish http://almostlucky.com/tat2.jpg I stole this name from National Lampoons Vegas Vacation. I agree though, greek food is great. I like the Mousakka I think it's called. Whatever it was called it has like meat on top and potatos on the bottom. Good shit.:thumbsup

I've actually got a jar of vegemite in my cupboard. Yumm.

Oh dang! I'll bet you're married too! Any woman who can cook all that there musta' been an army of guys wooin' you!

I'm about to whip up my specialty:

Cappuccino Blueberry Pancakes with hot Italian smoked sausage.

One batch of these and you can't move for an hour or two. Don't get fat either, makes you lose fat cause the fiber in the blueberries absorbs all the fat in the food and cleans out your system.

I know these are great cause my Dad had a handyman at one of his houses who was a chef for the Royal Marines. He came into the kitchen one day and I served him up a dish of these pancakes and he was slain. Told me they were the best pancakes he ever tasted and begged for the recipe.

The one recipe I wish I had gotten was from another chef my Dad had hired. He used to cook southern food. I mean waaaayyyy back in the hills southern food.

One night my parents were out and I visited their house to watch it. Opened up the fridge and there was a huge plate of bar b que... Best freakin' bar b que I ever had and I was tearing it up and watching Star Trek. I was in-the-zone!

Then the parents come home, Dad pops his head in the kitchen and says:

" Son! Glad you got hold of that bar b qued raccoon! I couldn't eat another bite! "

I almost keeled over. If I had known what it was I wouldn't have eaten it. I thought it was rabbit or something.

Yet that recipe ROCKED ASS. To this day I can't find bar b que like it.

I love cooking but hubby does most of the cooking, since I take to long with all the courses I prepare. BTW, he is a very good cook!

:)

Damn! Now I'm hungry!

Yes, Greg, you're right. I am married :)

I have to thank my parents for bringing me up to be the kind of girl that most guys truly enjoy being around. I'm not snobby, self-centered, money-hungry or selfish. I'm extremely faithful. I love to cook. I'm not sexually inhibited and I am bi-sexual. I love science fiction (especially Star Trek). I love computers. I love video games and RPG games like AD&D. I love action movies (including martial arts movies and superhero movies) and I don't like very many chick flicks.

I guess my one fatal flaw when it comes to being "the perfect chick" would be sports. I HATE sports. Oh well, you can't have everything! Hehe. Luckily, I met a guy that loves sci-fi and hates sports as much as I do. :thumbsup

well i make one mean beef ravioli

Dude, why did you mention Ravioli. My pal Matt makes it traditional. Takes 3 days to prepare and he uses sausages and beef. Best fucking Ravioli and lasagna ever.

All this damn talk about Vegemite...

Just had to go and make myself a big thick Vegemite Sandwich !!!

The secret is thick fresh bread and LOTS of butter.

:thumbsup

As an interesting bit of bullshit trivia.. Vegemite is one of the best known sources of Vitamin B ..... hell, it is a yeast deritive after all!!

3 days? takes me 3 mins, what a noob

I can't cook very well ... I do but I wish I knew more about it .

I'm getting sick of fast food real quick . It always tastes the same over and over.

Thanks for sharing. Got any recipes Cajun (sp?) cooking? :)