What is the thing (or things!) in your cooking repertoire you are famous for? You know, the things your family and friends always request from you.
Don't be shy...time to brag girls!
Ps recipes welcome ;)
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What is the thing (or things!) in your cooking repertoire you are famous for? You know, the things your family and friends always request from you.
Don't be shy...time to brag girls!
Ps recipes welcome ;)
You didn't say what you best known for!.....:
Ummm.... I don't know what I'd say, have to think more. I usually just offer to make things like a salad or dessert and they happily accept. I tend to follow recipes so I don't have any mishaps!
Mine are -
Baked ham
Shortbread
Mince tarts
Potato salad
Anzac biscuits
Lemon tart
Various desserts and slices
My mini bacon and sweetcorn quiche
The reputation of my chocolate mousse precedes itself...is rather yummy!
My pho - I swear it tastes just like the stuff I used to buy from the noodle carts in Vietnam. https://www.bellybelly.com.au/forums...332#post608332
Lasagne - my not very secret ingredient is rasberry jam
Slow cooked lamb shanks with rosmary and garlis (it's pretty hard to mess that up lol)
It used to be chicken wings marinated with my secret family recipe (ie a jar of masterfoods marinade :p ) and caramel slice. The wings were famous with a groupd of friends I no longer see, and the caramel slice is still popular with family but it's now my pavlova. Even the one I made a total mess of at christmas was apparently amazing.
As far as the recipe for my pav, I use the Donna Hay recipe on the masterchef website. I double everything to make a bigger one but I only increase the cooking time by an extra 20 min.
Swedish Meatballs
Shortbread (Turkish and Irish)
Potato Salad :p
Duck Fat Potatoes
Slow Roasted Pork Belly
Hainanese Chicken
Pink Salad
Cakes and Cupcakes
Buffalo Wings
Mars Bar Caramel Slice
Reeses Slice
Roast Turkey
Sweet Potato Casserole
Anchovy Peas
Paella
Blueberry Pie
BLT with Egg
Croissant Creme Brulee Pudding
Salted Caramel everything
Swiss Meringue Icing
Cookies
Twice baked French toast w/bacon & maple syrup
Butter Chicken
Risotto
Cinnamon Scrolls
These are all things that friends and family request over and over. Some are recipes I've collected. Others are ones I've tweaked.
Homemade marshmallow
Recipe please. My one attempt (about 10 years ago lol) was a massive, massive fail. Which sucks because I love home made marshmallow. Especially when it's rolled in coconut.:
choc ripple cake. living on the edge.
Hehehe I get asked for ripple cake too lol:
My white choc mud cake is a repeat request. It takes forever but it's so damn nice!!
BG I thought your post said nipple cake lol :)
From my DH its sweet and sour chicken
From my kids, well sausages and plain pasta aren't exactly cordon bleu stuff ;-)
From people that actually enjoy food, my layered latte cheesecake would have to top the list
Chocolate Honeycomb Cheese Cake
Mini Quiches
Lasagne
Nachos (DD1 keeps requesting it!)
Lemon Meringue Pie, all from scratch. The recipe is from the old Women's Weekly recipe cards ;)
Also, zucchini slice gets requested often
They were brilliant. My mum had the whole set too, but sold them off in a garage sale!!! Crazy lady:
Lasagne, chicken pie and various desserts and cakes.
Lasagne, mexican (in general) and thai curries.
I used to get asked for heaps more, but my cooking repertoire hasn't really grown much in the past 10 years, and my friends and family all seem to have discovered Master Chef and upped the anti, rendering my offerings unnecessary ...
From DH it's lasagne or Spanish chicken (which is really nigella's!) followed by homemade ice cream.
Kids love meatballs, cinnamon scrolls, sausage rolls and pikelets.
Jelly slice and trifle from family/friends.
Wombok.
All of my biscuits. But mostly gingerbread.
Potato salad.
Don't forget your Speshuls Divvy.
My scalloped potatoes are my specialty.
Malay Chicken Rice (but prefer Rouge's Hainanese Chicken Rice myself)
Nasi Lemak (Coconut Rice with all the accompaniments)
Christmas Pie
Curry Devil - a traditional Eurasian dish that doesn't have one bit of curry powder in it, but will blow the top off your head if it's done right
Crispy Noodles (my kids' favourite back in the day)
Crab, spinach and pine-nut fettucine alio olio (my dad's favourite)
Oh yeah. Speshuls. Noms.
Rouge and Sushee, you are making me hungry!
Z - raspberry jam in lasagne? you have got me curious.
i don't have a specialty, cook very few things, find cooking difficult now, all the steps, co-ordinating everything. Would love to remember how i used to make Thai Carrot Salad. i used to be known for my green chicken curry (thai). Have no idea how i use to make it (pre ABI.) Some smells are just SO familiar, i KNOW i used to cook with them, but can't remember now, what they go with, how to use them (e.g coriander, cardamon).
what's a speshuls?
You'll have to get Divvy to make you one PN.....If you dare :p:
I dare. What is it?
You'll have to Get DH to drive you here and home. Otherwise you will get a DUI.
You will be under th affluence of inkahol.
Maybe I'll swing by chambers ... :p
Hungry reading this!
Chorizo Pasta
Cheesecake
Quiche
Potato Salad
Wine Jus
Carrot Soup
Rice Noodle Salad
Quesadilla
Would love a Chicken Pie and a Beef & Guinness Pie recipe, pie is my major downfall LOL
Mini quiches
Raspberry and coconut cake
Coffee and walnut cake
Mostly just desserts/baking
They're from playgroup people or my mum. I don't think my dp has ever requested anything I make - maybe only potato cakes
Pavlova
Chocolate Cake
Mocha cupcakes
All of our home-made dairy products - cream cheese in dips or logs, havarti, camembert, yoghurt. Yum! The french onion dip (with homemade cream cheese mixed with Continental brand french onion soup mix) is always the first thing to go at family gatherings, followed by the cream cheese log rolled in paprika and chilli.
How do you use raspberry jam in lasagne? Stirred into the meat sauce?
All this is making me hungry!
I'm Polish so DH is always requesting traditional food.
I'm also known for my baking including rainbow layer cake, devil's food cupcakes with cream cheese frosting and baked cheesecake.
as i am reading through the responses i had to have a little chuckle at the fact that most of us are known for sweet dessert dishes.
I never see my family but my husband often requests choc self sauce pudding with whipped cream.
pumpkin soup
cauliflower and blue cheese soup
shepherds pie
chicken cacciatore