Ferris Bueller

You can use butter substitutes i suppose, just make sure they dont have a habit of burning. Easiest way i've found to test it is to take a piece of bread, basically slather it with melted butter substitute of choice, and run it through 2 toast cycles on light if you have a toaster oven, if not, us a regular oven at 350 for 5-7 mins. If it turns black, you probably dont wanna use it because you have to brush the phyllo with it for best results on the pastries. Also, the heavy cream in the sauce can be subbed out and you can use half and half or a lighter base instead.
The cream sauce is also REALLY good if thickened a bit and stirred into mashed potatoes a little at a time until you get a nice whipped consistency. Garlic-Basil Mashed potatoes to kill for.
By the way, this is Cry, just with a new name as picked by the TGNS gang....too many people were misinterpreting the name as being some emo thing or some derivative from that madonna song from evita...you know the "dont cry for me argentina" one.

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nulloperations

Clarified butter isn't a butter substitute. It's butter that's been melted on a very low heat in a pan, had the "fatty heavy stuff" scooped out of it and the pure buttery goodness left over (thus clarified). It's better tasting ussually than normal butter, and a ton healthier since it removes a bunch of the oils.

I keep a stock on hand ussually. You'll want to melt at least 10-20 bars of butter at once so you can have a good amount on hand without having to do the process too often.

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Beatnik

Ok null so you know/use clarified butter and come from New Orleans... got any goot cajun or creole recipes?

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Alas no. I am a black sheep from my city and don't care much for cajun/creole cooking. The one hallmark I have from my city though is that I love spices and put them in my plate (although not always in the dinners I make. The girlfriend loves me, but not the amount of spice I like).

Here, my favorite ingredient. Goes in everything but ice cream.

I'm that strange guy in the corner of the crawfish boil not eating anything. Any other time, I've got that hearty NOLA appetite. I think it's mostly crustaceans I don't care for.

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Beatnik

Since it's the season, and I just got this from my mom, who was a gourmet cook and caterer back in the day...

Beatnik's Mom's Pumpkin Bread Recipe
(Makes 2 loaves)

Dry Ingredients:
3 1/2 cups sugar
3 cups flour
1 tsp. of the following:
baking powder
baking soda

Wet ingredients/spices:
4 eggs
1 16 oz can Pumpkin
1 cup vegetable oil
1 tsp. of the following:
cinnamon
allspice
cloves
salt

Mix dry ingredients together with sifter or wire whisk. Mix wet ingredients together separately. Combine wet and dry ingredients, and add pecans and/or raisins (about 1/2 cup of each). Cook for ~1 hour @ 350, until a fork inserted into center comes out dry.

This is a simple, but very tasty recipe and next to Banana Bread this is my favorite food my mom used to make. Enjoy.

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Alright, Beatnik, I love you man! First the banana bread, now the pumpkin bread. My wife has this thread bookmarked, so keep posting yummy recipes for her to make for me!

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aculle01

Thats a lot of ingredients for a single loaf. Looks like you could probably get 3 loaves out of all that.

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Beatnik

Two loaves. Yeah I live alone (ladies....) and I halve the recipe for a standard bread pan.

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After countless iterations, I give you my best Margarita:

Ingredients:

• Juice from one small lime
• 2 Shots 100% Agave Tequila
• 1 Shot Cointreau
• 1 Shot Water
• 1 Shot Simple Syrup*

Directions:

1. Combine all of the above ingredients in a large glass (or pitcher if you replace "shots" with "cups" )
2. Fill small Shaker with ice
3. Pour margarita over ice
4. Put 12oz. old-fashioned glass over shaker and shake vigorously for ~15 seconds. (This is VERY important - it breaks all the little sharp corners off the ice cubes, chilling and mellowing the drink)
5. Serve in old-fashioned glass

*(2 parts Sugar in the Raw + 1 part water.. heat until sugar is dissolved completely. You can use regular sugar, but it's not the same)

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aculle01

Though with two loaves you wont feel as bad offering up some slices to others while you have a second stashed away for yourself.

On a recipe note, when I bake breads and feel like making them even guiltier I add a struesel topping. Its pretty simple.

Struesel topping
1/3 brown sugar
1/4 whole wheat flour
2 tbl butter

mix the sugar and flour together then cut the butter into the mixture. Work the butter around continuing to break it up until your mixture resembles coarse crumbs. Optional: mix in 1/3 cup chopped walnuts. Sprinkle the crumbs on top of the batter before placing in the oven.

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Keres

Anyone have any good advice for good foods to cook while in a college dormitory? I'm looking for something a little more nutritious (and tastier) than the Ramen.

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I always ate those individually wrapped hotdogs.

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CingularDuality

Can you get away with a George Foreman-style grill, CrockPot and/or an electric wok? With those three things, the possibilities are endless!

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I think the crockpot is good, I'm iffy on the electric wok, and no grills (no "open flame" according to housing). I have a kitchen available to me (just not pots and pans) and I have the dining hall, but the dining hall and my stomach don't agree very often.

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WhiskeySix

you should be good to go w/ the George Foreman grill... no open flames... about as dangerous as a clothes-iron. (speaking of which - ever tried grilled-cheese sandwitches w/ an iron? just use some tin-foil)

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