Cooks: What's your "go-to" recipe?

badgerman27 · 07-03-2009, 08:21 PM

2 things I can go to the well with:

3 meat cannelloni - ground veal, chicken, and Italian sausage browned with shallots, yellow onion, garlic, salt & pepper. Brown them separately. Combine the meat with ricotta cheese, shredded Parmesan/Asiago cheese, an egg, seasoned with oregano, fennel seed, and parsley. I grind the spices in a hand held coffee grinder. Roll the mixture up in crepes, and place in casserole dish. Cover with provolone cheese, shredded mozzarella, and a cheese sauce made of Mascarpone cheese, 1/2 pint of cream, and a few ounces of shredded Parm/Asiago/Mozz cheese.

Seafood boil. Makes the crap they serve at Joe's Crab Shack look like swill. Everyone loves it. Friends ask me to make it for birthdays/parties/etc all the time.

Onions(quartered), potatoes(halved), corn, kielbasa(cut into 1"-2" slices), snow crab, shrimp. The important thing is the order you put the ingredients in the water, and the amount of time they are in. Large stock pot 1/2-2/3 full with water. A pot with it's own strainer is best. I use Old Bay for seasoning, but still add garlic powder, cayenne pepper, paprika, kosher salt, chili powder. Get the water to a rolling boil, and add the potatoes and onions. Wait for the water to reach boiling again. Wait 10 min, and add the kielbasa. You should make every attempt to use pre-smoked/pre-cooked handmade sausage. Otherwise, you end up with a soggy mess. Wait for the water to return to a boil, and then wait another 10 min. Add the corn and snow crab. Wait 5 min, and then add the shrimp. Drain and serve. Melted butter with lemon for the crab. Louisiana brand cajun seasoning goes great with the corn and potatoes.

07-03-2009, 08:21 PM	#32 (permalink)
badgerman27 Walk-On 250+ posts Join Date: Nov 2004 Posts: 441 #53 Greg Jones	2 things I can go to the well with: 3 meat cannelloni - ground veal, chicken, and Italian sausage browned with shallots, yellow onion, garlic, salt & pepper. Brown them separately. Combine the meat with ricotta cheese, shredded Parmesan/Asiago cheese, an egg, seasoned with oregano, fennel seed, and parsley. I grind the spices in a hand held coffee grinder. Roll the mixture up in crepes, and place in casserole dish. Cover with provolone cheese, shredded mozzarella, and a cheese sauce made of Mascarpone cheese, 1/2 pint of cream, and a few ounces of shredded Parm/Asiago/Mozz cheese. Seafood boil. Makes the crap they serve at Joe's Crab Shack look like swill. Everyone loves it. Friends ask me to make it for birthdays/parties/etc all the time. Onions(quartered), potatoes(halved), corn, kielbasa(cut into 1"-2" slices), snow crab, shrimp. The important thing is the order you put the ingredients in the water, and the amount of time they are in. Large stock pot 1/2-2/3 full with water. A pot with it's own strainer is best. I use Old Bay for seasoning, but still add garlic powder, cayenne pepper, paprika, kosher salt, chili powder. Get the water to a rolling boil, and add the potatoes and onions. Wait for the water to reach boiling again. Wait 10 min, and add the kielbasa. You should make every attempt to use pre-smoked/pre-cooked handmade sausage. Otherwise, you end up with a soggy mess. Wait for the water to return to a boil, and then wait another 10 min. Add the corn and snow crab. Wait 5 min, and then add the shrimp. Drain and serve. Melted butter with lemon for the crab. Louisiana brand cajun seasoning goes great with the corn and potatoes.