this was amazing. i particularly like this one because it’s everything thrown into the crockpot, no making anything separately.
parmesan garlic chicken
4 boneless, skinless chicken breasts
1 tsp. olive oil
4 T white wine (cooking, or a dry wine preferred)
1/4 tsp. salt
4 garlic cloves, minced
1 tsp. basil
1/2 tsp. parsley
1/4 C parmesan cheese
1 C brown rice, uncooked
1 1/4 C chicken broth
lightly spray the bottom and sides of your slow cooker with cooking spray. place the rice along the bottom and pour the chicken broth carefully over the rice. top the rice with chicken breasts.in a small bowl, mix together the olive oil, white wine, salt, minced garlic cloves, basil and parsley. pour the marinade over the chicken & rice. cover and cook on low for 6-8 hours. top with parmesan cheese for serving.
we’re not big drinkers, so i googled what wine would be best with chicken. we used chardonnay. and since we don’t drink, we practically had the whole bottle of wine leftover. so i made sangria too! juice-heavy, of course.
Next time someone tells you to eat more veggies, get down on of these tiny motherfuckers. These low fat, high fiber sons of bitches are healthy as shit without sacrificing flavor. Trying to eat better? START WITH A FUCKING BURGER.
SMOKEY BEAN AND SPINACH SLIDERS
2 cups chopped fresh spinach
1 cup chopped onion
3 cups cooked kidney beans or 2-15 ounce can
1/2 cup cooked brown rice (use leftovers)
4 cloves of garlic, chopped all small and shit
1 tablespoon liquid smoke (like I said, it is near the BBQ sauce at the store I swear. You haven’t even looked yet so stop complaining. It is there)
2 teaspoon soy sauce or tamari
1 tablespoon smoked paprika
2 teaspoons oregano
1 ½ teaspoons ground cumin
black pepper to taste
1/2 cup whole wheat breadcrumbs (any breadcrumbs you have are fine. Got nothing? Just toast up some bread until it is almost burnt looking and real dry then grate them shits or put them in a food processor to get some tiny fucking crumbs. They help soak up all the liquid so don’t leave this shit out)
Warm the oven to 375 degrees and lightly grease a large baking sheet. You can throw down some foil and then grease it if you are a lazy fuck like me and hate doing dishes.
Add the spinach and onion to a food processor and pulse until they are in tiny-ass pieces. Add the kidney beans, rice, garlic, liquid smoke, soy sauce, and seasonings and pulse until everything is all mixed up. It’s fine if a few larger pieces of the beans hang around but you want this looking like kinda paste-like. Place the bean-spinach mixture into a medium bowl and add in the fucking breadcrumbs. This should be slightly sticky and hold nicely when you form it into a ball. If it is too wet, add more breadcrumbs. Taste it and add more spices and whatever until it tastes good to you. Can’t do that shit with ground beef.
No food processor? It’s all good. Just cut up the spinach and the onion extra tiny and add everything but breadcrumbs to a big bowl. Now pound on that shit until it looks like chunky mash potatoes. Then add the breadcrumbs and do all the other shit I say above.
Divide the mixture into 16 patties if you are making sliders or 8 patties if you are making regular burgers. Whateverthefuck you want to do. Place them on the baking sheet, spray them lightly with oil (slow your roll, I said LIGHTLY) and bake for 15 minutes or until the bottom is a crispy golden brown. Flip the patties and bake for 15 or until both sides look awesome. If you are doing full size burgers you might need to let the sides go 5 extra minutes. Let them cool for a few minutes before serving. Pile them high with red onion, avocado, whatever additional deliciousness you’ve got and chow the fuck down.
Makes 16 sliders or 8 regular patties
If grandmothers around the world had a rallying cry, it would probably sound something like “You need to eat!”
Photographer Gabriele Galimberti’s grandmother said something similar to him before one of his many globetrotting work trips. To ensure he had at least one good meal, she prepared for him a dish of ravioli before he departed on one of his adventures.
“In that occasion I said to my grandma ‘You know, Grandma, there are many other grandmas around the world and most of them are really good cooks,” Galimberti wrote via email. “I’m going to meet them and ask them to cook for me so I can show you that you don’t have to be worried for me and the food that I will eat!’ This is the way my project was born!”
The project, “Delicatessen With Love”, took Galimberti to 58 countries where he photographed grandmothers with both the ingredients and finished signature dishes.
Galimberti said many of the subjects for the project were selected serendipitously, picked while he was working on a project about couch surfing that explored the global phenomenon of staying in other people’s houses. Since Galimberti never slept in hotels while working on the project, he was able to come into contact with people who introduced him to grandmothers in the area.
Galimberti acted as photographer and stylist during each shoot with the grandmothers, taking a portrait of both the women and the food they made for him.
From top to bottom:
Inara Runtule, 68, Kekava, Latvia. Silke (herring with potatoes and cottage cheese).
Grace Estibero, 82, Mumbai, India. Chicken vindaloo.Susann Soresen, 81, Homer, Alaska. Moose steak.
Serette Charles, 63, Saint-Jean du Sud, Haiti. Lambi in creole sauce.
The photographer’s grandmother Marisa Batini, 80, Castiglion Fiorentino, Italy. Swiss chard and ricotta Ravioli with meat sauce.
Normita Sambu Arap, 65, Oltepessi (Masaai Mara), Kenya. Mboga and orgali (white corn polenta with vegetables and goat).
Julia Enaigua, 71, La Paz, Bolivia. Queso Humacha (vegetables and fresh cheese soup).
Fifi Makhmer, 62, Cairo, Egypt. Kuoshry (pasta, rice and legumes pie).
Isolina Perez De Vargas, 83, Mendoza, Argentina. Asado criollo (mixed meats barbecue).
Bisrat Melake, 60, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Enjera with curry and vegetables.
Chicken Lettuce Tacos with Cilantro Lime Cauliflower “Rice”
Ingredients:
Chicken Lettuce Tacos
1LB of Ground Chicken
Taco Seasoning (I used crushed chili pepper, oregano, onion powder)
Romain Lettuce Hearts
White Onion
Shredded Cabbage
Avocado
Salsa (I highly recommend Casa Sanchez Fresh Roasted Medium Salsa, only 5 ingredients and sea salt is the last item)
On medium high heat, add a bit of olive oil to a frying pan with 1/2 small white onion diced and saute for about a minute or two. Then, take your ground chicken and add it to the pan in pieces and allow it to simmer. Sprinkle 1-2 tablespoons of seasoning and toss it with a spatula. Add 3 tablespoons of water to avoid drying out the meat. Stir every so often until the chicken is white and the juices run clear. Take a lettuce heart and cut off the stem and separate into pieces. Wash and then divide them. Layer the chicken, shredded cabbage, some left over white onion, sliced avocado, and salsa.
Cilantro Lime Cauliflower “Rice”
Cauliflower
2 Cloves of Garlic
Fresh Cilantro
Limes
Olive oil
Add cauliflower florets to a food processor and pulse until it looks like the consistency of rice/couscous. Add a fistful of freshly chopped cilantro to the food processor and pulse it a few more times until evenly distributed in the cauliflower. Put about 1/2 tablespoon of olive oil to a frying pan on medium-high with two diced cloves of garlic and saute for about a minute. Add the cauliflower cilantro mixture to the pan. After a couple minutes of stirring the “rice” with a spatula, remove from heat and add the juice of one lime.
OKAY, THIS WAS THE MOST DELICIOUS MEAL I HAVE EVER CREATED. SO FRESH SO CLEAN AND SO FREAKING EASY!!! HOPE YA’LL LIKE IT AS MUCH AS I DID!
parmesan garlic chicken.
No, seriously! Crispy crunchy juicy BAKED chicken!
So, I am a huge fan of crunchy fried chicken. However, the grease is not good for my health. I’m hefty and in order to keep from gaining weight I have to constantly watch what I eat. This crispy baked chicken made it really super easy.
I came up with this kind of on accident, just to try. It turned out PERFECT.
No, Seriously! Crispy Baked Chicken
Ingredients:1 Box Panko Japanese Bread Crumbs
A couple of large chicken breasts (I used 3 and it made a bunch of chicken)
Condiment of your choice
Seasoning of your choice
Cooking spray, either olive oil or spray butter
A baking pan or dish (I used a glass casserole dish)
Directions:
Preheat the oven to 375 degrees.
Slice the raw chicken breasts up into pieces. I cut mine somewhat thin, roughly 3/4 an inch thick, give or take. This should produce 7ish pieces from the breast.
Roll the pieces in the condiment of your choice. Try not to gob it - it keeps the chicken from getting super crispy. I used O’Charley’s Honey Mustard for one batch, and some standard honey barbeque sauce for another, and both were INCREDIBLE.
Mix the Panko crumbs in with the seasoning of your choice. I used some onion salt, but I bet barbeque dry rub would have been to die for.
Roll the dressed chicken slices in the panko, making sure you get as much crumbs and seasoning as possible. This is important to the crunch.
Spray the baking pan/dish with some form of cooking spray, like spray butter or olive oil spray or something.
Lay the chicken in the pan.
Spray the chicken with the spray. This makes the panko get crispy.
Bake uncovered at 375 for roughly 30ish minutes. Seriously, I didn’t time it, I just watched the chicken. When the panko is golden brown, the chicken should be done.
EAT IT UP.
I SUGGEST CHEESY RICE OR MAC AND CHEESE AS A SIDE.
COUNTRY MADE LESS FATTENING, Y’ALL.
Apple Cider Caramels
Ingredients:
- 4 cups (945 ml) apple cider
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 2 teaspoons flaky sea salt, such as Maldon, or less of a finer one
- 8 tablespoons (115 grams or 1 stick) unsalted butter, cut into chunks
- 1 cup (200 grams) granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup (110 grams) packed light brown sugar
- 1/3 cup (80 ml) heavy cream
- Neutral oil for the knife
Find the recipe here.
Beyond Good and Evil - Starkos
I missed out on Beyond Good and Evil the first time around but was fortunate enough to enjoy it when the HD version was released on Xbox Live earlier this year. I can see why it’s received so much critical acclaim; it’s a wonderful piece of adventure gaming and since seeing this video quite a while ago now I’m still eagerly awaiting a sequel… Making a Starkos is tricky business and it was supposed to be my second post here on Gourmet Gaming but I didn’t feel confident enough at the time to attempt it. When thinking about what a Starkos was I focused on the idea that it’s street food in the very culturally diverse land of Hillys - and who are the best species in Hillys? The Rhino humanoids over at Mammago Garage obviously. So I’ve taken a dip in their Jamaican-esque roots and have created a Starkos patty filled with a sweet, curried shrimp (since there’s a lot of water around - they must have a pretty good fishing trade, no?).
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Lembas Bread (Lord of the Rings “authentic” Elvish bread)
Ingredients:
2 ½ cups of flour
1 tablespoon of baking powder
¼ teaspoon of salt
½ cup of butter
1/3 cup of brown sugar
1 teaspoon of cinnamon
½ teaspoon honey
2/3 cup of heavy whipping cream
½ teaspoon of vanillaDirections:
Preheat oven to 425F. Mix the flour, baking powder and salt into a large bowl. Add the butter and mix with a well till fine granules (easiest way is with an electric mixer). Then add the sugar and cinnamon, and mix them thoroughly.
Finally add the cream, honey, and vanilla and stir them in with a fork until a nice, thick dough forms.
Roll the dough out about 1/2 in thickness. Cut out 3-inch squares and transfer the dough to a cookie sheet.Criss-cross each square from corner-to-corner with a knife, lightly (not cutting through the dough).
Bake for about 12 minutes or more (depending on the thickness of the bread) until it is set and lightly golden.
***Let cool completely before eating, this bread tastes better room temperature and dry. Also for more flavor you can add more cinnamon or other spices***
as someone who has baked these A LOT
They are REALLY GOOD
and I am reblogging this because I KEEP LOSING MY RECIPE
Myst: Uru – D’Ni Mushroom Bread
The Myst series is possibly one of the greatest I have ever encountered, with Myst III: Exile being my personal favourite (it has Brad Dourif in it - automatic win). I’m a huge fan of puzzles, story and exploration, and Myst always satisfies on each of these levels. The cultural detail of the worlds you encounter through every game is outstanding; incredible minutae is written about in the multitude of books scattered throughout - including the mention of a mushroom spore bread from the Teledahn, or ‘Mushroom’, Age. A delicacy for the elite, spores were harvested so furiously to make the outstanding Mushroom Bread all resources dried up, and the age had to be abandoned.
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