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What's the best tasting dish/recipe you've made lately?

Asked by rockfan (14632points) September 27th, 2013 from iPhone

I had a “peanut and sweet potato soup” today. I thought it was extremely strange at first, but I loved it. Here’s the recipe:

Ingredients

1 small bunch of cilantro
2 tablespoons of peanut oil
1 large onion, diced
2 cloves garlic, chopped
1 inch piece ginger, chopped
1½ teaspoon ground cumin
1 teaspoon ground coriander
½ teaspoon cinnamon
½ teaspoon ground turmeric
½ teaspoon red pepper flakes
2 pinches of ground cloves
1 cup crushed canned tomatoes
4 sweet potatoes, cut into cubes
Sea salt
½ cup organic peanut butter
½ cup salted roasted peanuts
Juice of 1 small lime
Red pepper flakes, to taste

Directions

Wash cilantro, including the stems, then separate the stems from the leaves. Finely slice the stems and set the leaves aside.

Warm oil in a soup pot over medium-high heat. Add onion and cilantro stems, and cook until soft, about ten minutes. Stir in garlic, ginger, and rest of the seasonings. Add tomatoes, sweet potatoes, 1 teaspoon of salt, and 4½ cups water. Bring to a boil, then lower heat and simmer, partially covered until sweet potatoes are tender, about 30 minutes. Stir in the peanut butter.

Purée 3 cups of the soup in a blender until creamy. Stir the purée back into the pot. Stir in half the chopped cilantro leaves.

Chop the rest of the cilantro with the peanuts, leaving some texture, and mix in a few pinches of red pepper flakes and the lime juice. Pour soup into bowls and add a spoonful of the peanut-cilantro mixture to each.

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16 Answers

talljasperman's avatar

Hot dogs… Take two hot dogs and boil remove from water after two minutes and eat with or without a bun… Add Mac and Cheese as needed.

DWW25921's avatar

There are things in that recipe list that I’ve never heard before. What you do is you get a couple of pounds of venison from a neighbor. Than you mix it up with some noodles and Italian dressing. You cook them separately than mix them. Got ahead of myself there. Anyway, it’ll feed a family of 5 as long as you keep the dogs out of the kitchen. It tastes great and it’s about $3. I reckon you could buy some meat from the store but that crap is usually awful.

jonsblond's avatar

Roasted Red Pepper Pasta

I’ve made this once a week since I found the recipe. It’s so good and the ingredients are pretty inexpensive. I think I paid about $10 for everything that I needed. I really need to make this with the red bell peppers we have in our garden. I’ve only tried it with the jar of peppers from the grocery.

@rockfan Your recipe looks interesting. I’ll have to try it.

janbb's avatar

Carrot cake with orange buttercream frosting

Blondesjon's avatar

Cooked up some pretty decent tacos tonight.

Fried up some onion, green, yellow, jalapeno, and hot Hungarian peppers from the garden along with a pound of ground beef. While they were draining off I peeled and cooked down some tomatoes from the same garden along with with a little beer, cumin, oregano, garlic, salt, pepper, and cinnamon. A little cheap ass hot sauce and some simmering created a beautiful thing that any tortilla can be proud to hold.

JLeslie's avatar

My husband loved the steak I made last night. It was tasty. I’ve made it a zillion times before, LOL. Rub Good Seasons Italian seasoning on steak and a little salt. I sauteed it in olive oil to medum. Served with green beans and Asian sticky rice.

poisonedantidote's avatar

I’m going to have a go at cooking that soup tomorrow at work, it sounds odd, but I can imagine it working.

The best thing I have found lately is a sauce that goes well over chicken or pork.

All it is, is you take the pan you cooked your meat in, then heat it up with a table spoon of olive oil in it, get it nice and hot, and pour in some white wine. It should boil instantly and start to clean the left over meat particles off the pan. At this point, add in some cooking cream, some stilton or blue cheese, and little tiny pieces of mushroom and bacon, and just reduce it until it is thick.

Then just add to your meat according to your taste.

livelaughlove21's avatar

This might sound stupid, but I tried the Grands biscuit mini pizza recipe a few weeks ago that was surprisingly tasty. We’ve made it twice since then.

My chili is also pretty tasty, especially with a few Ritz crackers crumbled in.

1 large can mild chili beans
1 small can medium chili beans
1 can kidney beans
1 lb lean ground beef
2 cups tomato juice
1 package chili seasoning
Chili powder to taste

Simple, chunky, meaty, and delicious. And no tomato chunks, which I can’t stomach.

I’m not much of a cook, really. I do my best. I am exceptionally talented at making Betty Crocker boxed goodies though. :) The brownie cookie one? Amazing.

YARNLADY's avatar

I placed some potatoes into a recycled cereal bag and put them in the microwave for three minutes. I let them sit on the counter while I put a lamb shoulder blade in a microwave dish, covered with tomato and mushroom slices and sprinkled with mint flakes. I set the timer for 5 minutes at ½ power. It was perfect with the potatoes mashed up and buttered.

Coloma's avatar

Oooh soup!

I just made my favorite invention soup too, a smoked sausage and veggie concoction that is sooo delicious!

Herbed veggie stock
Smoked turkey sausage cut into cubes
red, yellow and orange bell pepper strips
chopped yellow onions
yellow crookneck squash ( diced )
diced potatoes ( skins on )
boatloads of chopped cabbage
garlic
cracked red pepper, black pepper, all purpose seasonings.

Serve with artisan french bread and butter and caraway harvarti cheese.
Mmmm good!

WillWorkForChocolate's avatar

I made tacos last week, always a family favorite!

Sunny2's avatar

Made up a mix of brownies and added almond extract. Took them to a meeting and they disappeared. Delicious

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talljasperman's avatar

I made a blade simmering steak plain for breakfaster a week ago.

Coloma's avatar

Chili! Loaded with the last of the red, yellow and orange peppers from my garden. Mmm good!

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