Recipes for the Culinarily Minded

Hello, all!

I thought it would be fun to have a place where YWSers can share their favorite recipes!

I'll start it out with my favorite brownie recipe:

4H Brownies

Ingredients:
1 cup butter or margarine
2 cups sugar
4 eggs
1 1/2 cup flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
1/2 teaspoon salt
12 tablespoons cocoa powder
2 teaspoons vanilla extract
1 cup chopped nuts, optional

Directions:
Preheat oven to 350 degrees F.

Melt butter in 9 x 13 inch pan on stove. (I actually just do it in the oven.) Remove from heat. Stir in sugar, then eggs. Sift and add flour, baking powder, salt and cocoa. Mix in vanilla. Add nuts, if desired. Bake for 30 minutes. Cool. Sprinkle with powdered sugar if desired.

Personally, I suggest using Hershey's Special Dark Cocoa powder. It makes them reeeealy chocolatey.

Have at it!

This is the perfect thread! I'm definitely going to try to make those brownies, magpie.


Here's a dinner I made just last night using a recipe I found on allrecipes.com:
Grilled chicken with peach sauce

The peach sauce was delicious, and the only difference I made to the above recipe was to add a couple teaspoons of red pepper flakes for some heat.

Anyways, I brushed the chicken with the peach sauce every few minutes while grilling, being sure to turn the chicken first in order to allow the sauce to seep in before turning again. This gave it a nice, even glaze that tasted great. I also grilled a few peaches as the recipe suggests and used the remaining sauce on the peaches.

The only thing I would do differently next time is to double the sauce -- I ended up using most of it for the glazing.

Perfect! @Nate if I weren't a vegetarian, I'd try that chicken! ( I looooove peaches)
and @magpie those brownies sound diviiiiiiiine!
Now for mine!

Mama Sword's Super SCRUUUUMPTIOUS Nana Nut Bread

Spoiler

Seriously I grew up on this stuff. It's to die for. If you like bread and bananas... and walnuts or pecans, give it a try!

Ingredients:
1/2 cup butter
1 cup sugar
2 eggs
1 tsp vanilla extract
1 1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1/2 tsp salt
1 cup sliced bananas
1/2 cup nuts (optional)
1/2 cup sour cream

1. Cream the butter, sugar, and vanilla. (If you aren't sure what this means, mix them with a spoon until the mixture is all creamy and stuff.)
2. In a large mixing bowl, or any kind of bowl that you wanna use, I won't judge, mix together your flour, baking soda, and salt.
3. Mix together your butter-sugar-vanilla mixture, or your bsv for short, if you want to get really friendly with it and give it a nickname, like I said, not judging, anyways, mix the bsv with the dry ingredients REALLLY well.
4. Fold in the banana slices. Don't fold it like you're folding a shirt, Wait, yes, do that, put some of the slices on top of the mix and use your spoon to fold them in. If you catch what I'm saying.

Spoiler

If you don't, you take the spoon and basically fold it over the bananas. Be careful not to break the bananas, you need them C:

I'll be back with a ton of my faves!

My go to, simple dinner is Rösti:

Boil a potato till it's cooked but not mushy.
Grate it using one of those big-holed graters.
Take a small tawa/skillet with raised edges, add about 1tbsp butter, let it just melt.
Press the grated potato onto the skillet layering carefully. I like to add herbs between my layers especially rosemary and parsley.
Cook and flip until both sides are golden brown.
Top off with some cheese. Add grated carrots, mushroom and spinach for some more veggies.

Best part: you can store it for a few days and eat small slices.

My favorite recipe is Pumpkin Flan<3



I'll translate this for you guys.

Ingredients:

1 cup of boiled and smashed pumpkin
4 eggs
1 cup of milk
1/2 teaspoon of vanilla
4 tablespoons of melted butter
1/3 cup of wheat flour
1 cup of white sugar
1/4 teaspoon of salt

Random note: Adding a bit of cinnamon is a nice idea.

What now?

1. Mix all the ingredients.

2. Put caramelized sugar on the baking pan, and then add the mix.

3. Bake for an hour (350 F/175 C) in a Bain-Marie (this only means that there should be bigger baking pan with some water under the one you're using for the flan).

4. Let it get cold in the fridge.

5. Eat the best dessert ever! xD