Cooking recipe

LuckyTaxi

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Ok one of my new year's resolution is to cook more often, and brown bag more often.
I guess the first step is to find some recipes, so for those who love cooking, which sites are the best for easy to follow recipes? I have some books so I'll check those out as well.

Mainly looking for easy to do chicken and fish dishes.
 

everman

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Buy This Book. It isn't a "recipe book," it's more like a bunch of techniques and formulas you can use and modify to create whatever you want. You'll learn not only the how but also the why. Great book. There's also one about baking called "I'm just here for more food."
 

Pepsei

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i win... link

rough translation for the dish "jade paw of longevity"

rice wine 40 gram
salt 2 gram
ginger 100 gram
spring onion 100 gram
starch 20 gram
clear stock 500 gram
chicken oil 15 gram
fresh bear paw 1 (about 1750 gram)
ham 250 gram
lean pork leg meat (1 kg)
chicken 1
apple 1
white cloud fungus 150 gram

1. cook paw in water in low heat for 5-6 hours, drain, remove hair and skin while hot. then use tweezer to remove smaller hair, then clean. cut open chicken and remove guts, clean. cut spring onion to sections, crush ginger
2. add fresh water to pot, add paw, add spring onion and ginger (50 gram each), cook on high for 5 minutes. drain... add more water to pot, add chicken, ham to the pot with spring onion, ginger, and paw. add 20 gram rice wine, heat on low for 2-3 hours until paw is tender enough to seperate from bone. remove all the tiny bones from back
3. steam could fungus, decorate plate with fungus. put paw in big bowl, add 150 gram clear stock, dash of salt, and rice wine, cut apple in 1/2 and place on top of paw, steam bowl for 30 minutes drain and remove apple. put paw on the fungus decorated plate
4. in a clean pot, add 350 gram clear stock, add rest of wine, salt.. bring to boil... add starch to thicken sauce, add oil... then pour sauce on paw.
 

xSauronx

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Originally posted by: everman
Buy This Book. It isn't a "recipe book," it's more like a bunch of techniques and formulas you can use and modify to create whatever you want. You'll learn not only the how but also the why. Great book. There's also one about baking called "I'm just here for more food."

QFT, 2 of the best books ever.

i watched foodnetwork almost nonstop for a couple of years, and use the foodnetwork site, allrecipes, or epicurious if i dont feel like winging it.
 

ponyo

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Feb 14, 2002
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Originally posted by: iamwiz82
Alton Brown's recipe are almost always a hit, IMHO. He has really opened my eyes to food. We are making Grilled Romaine tonight.. Mmm...

Same here. Every recipe of his I tried has been good or great. Cooking is a science and he's made it fun. I think he lives in Alpharetta, GA which a neighboring suburb about 5 minutes from my house. I recognize many of the store locations from his TV show like Harry's Farmers Market in Alpharetta (aka Whole Foods) and the Crabapple Kroger store. Both are like 5 minutes from where I live.