Posts by Koukouvagia

I made baked rice with ground beef, tomatoes, onions, green peppers, zucchini, parmesan, fresh parsley and mint.  I couldn't remember which type of rice to use and unfortunately chose long grain white which turned to mush. ...

Quote: Originally Posted by KingNothing  I made a homemade pappardelle with home grown slow braised leeks and prosciutto.     Love!  Looks just like a Jamie Oliver dish I like to...

If I could I would throw frozen peas into literally every dish I make.

Of course it needs thickening, it needs pasta!  Pasta is startchy and can thicken your sauce.  But to take it a further step nix the chicken stock and add pasta water instead, the water has some starch in it that will help...

Quote: Originally Posted by chefbuba  Green Peas!...... Just the thought of them makes me want to wretch........But, I do like snow's, sugar snap's & split's   Confused, I thought green peas were snow...

Quote: Originally Posted by ton822  Ok,sorry for that...here's what I came up. We have 3 hrs. to do all the dishes including the mise en place. Appetizer : Arugula salad tossed in sherry...

Quote: Originally Posted by siduri  Well, i did drive a Smart car once when our regular car was in an accident and the insurance gave us a smart car to use.  It was awful.  It worked badly as an automatic...

Quote: Originally Posted by scribble  So the consensus is that I didn't cook the dish long enough to get all the alcohol out and probably shouldn't have done the flour coated chicken. Sent from my Samsung galaxy...

Do you have any left?  If you do you can try making risotto with it.  A very rich risotto!

Sounds like you hate the ovens you've seen.  My mother in Greece has an electric fan oven like you describe and I don't like it.  I am used to gas stoves and ovens and it irritates me to no end to have to switch to an...