Chalie Can Cook's Profile
I'm hosting a Chili Cook Off and want to have other dishes - HELP!!
Two things:
1) put out a bowl of bittersweet chocolate chunks with the chili. It really smooths things out.
2) I find cornbread, though delicious, is too messy when used to scrape the bowl. Here's an alternative: Garlic bread, made the slow way.
1 French baguette, cut lengthwise and then into four inch pieces
Six cloves of garlic
Two tablespoons of EVOO. Do not substitute.
Two tablespoons of the best butter you can get.
Coarse salt (kosher or sea works. The coarseness is what is needed.)
Roast garlic (lightly crushed with a knife blade) to a golden color in the olive oil. Don't let it burn. Let garlic rest on a paper towel, remove oil to a Pyrex dish, add butter to oil and let it sit on the stove until all melts. (Don't cook it, just let it warm.) Chop garlic, add salt to it, then use the back of knife to make a paste by scraping it against the cutting board. Return paste to oil/butter mixture, mix well, spread over sliced bread. Broil bread for about a minute. Keep an eye on it. Tastes best when edges of bread just start to burn.
gluten-free ideas
Check out http://www.celiac.org. Much in the news, a partner with NIH.
Help! Need great crock pot recipes!
6-10 (depending on size) Ox tails
two leeks, washed, split with bay leaf put into split, then tied with string)
one peeled big yam, chunked
one peeled Yukon Gold potato, chunked (2 if small)
baby carrots (whole peeled carrot cut into chunk is ok)
1 cup ea: frozen peas, corn, limas
1 pint can of beef broth
salt & pepper
pinch cinnamon (grind fresh from bark if possible.)
First brown in frypan seasoned & floured ox tails (I am a celiac sufferer, so I use soy flour.) Place in bottom of crock pot Find spots to snuggle in leeks. Sprinkle with cinammon, then add peas, corn & limas. Add broth over all, then add a layer of Yukons, carrots, then yams. Cook until sweets nearly dissolve and carrots/potatoes split with fork.
