The Cal-Berkeley Recipe Thread

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<p>Since I noticed that quite a few people like cooking, including myself, I figured we start a recipe thread where we can share our favorite recipes or concoctions we've made that worked well. All my recipes are for two people, if you have more, simply multiply the ingredients roughly by the number of people you are serving. My cooking is quick and functional and is not an exact science, so results may vary.</p>

<p>Pan Blackened Lemon-Mustard Chicken with fried peppers and mushrooms:</p>

<p>Serves 2 people:</p>

<p>Two medium sized, good quality chicken breasts.
2 Bell Peppers, shelled, seeded and sliced. Any bell pepper will do. Or if you are more creative and colorful than me, use several halves.
8 large mushrooms, plain garden variety white or brown one that you get at the supermarket work fine. Slice them into slivers or quarters, depending on your preference.
1 Half of a large lemon
2 decent handfuls of good quality grilling or honey mustard. Use a spiced mustard, DO NOT use frenches or Dijon.</p>

<p>Take a large pan (enough for two chicken breasts) and put about a tablespoon of sunflower seed oil and thoroughly coat the bottom of the pan.
Take the chicken breasts, place them on a cutting board and gently massage the mustard into the surface of the chicken. Be sure to be thorough about this. After thoroughly marinated, place ingredients in pan and then squeeze the half lemon over the chicken and some of the veggies.
Turn heat on to high, and cook the chicken and veggies until the mushrooms and chicken are browned or blackened, but not burnt. The peppers don't brown or burn too much, so don't worry overly about this. This part is a bit tricky, you will have to do a lot of stirring to get this right. After the chicken and vegetables are cooked, serve and enjoy. </p>

<p>Andrew's Quick and Easy Chicken Parmesean.</p>

<p>Serves 2 people:</p>

<p>2 frozen breaded chicken breasts or cutlets
8 oz. spaghetti or linguine
Any generic pre-made tomato sauce that comes in a jar, use any brand Napoli (just tomato) for best results.
4 oz. shredded parmesean cheese.
6 decent sized mushrooms, sliced.
Teaspoon plain table salt for water boiling.</p>

<p>Take a pan, coat thinly with sunflower seed or any plant oil, PAM works too. Place chicken breasts or cutlets and start to fry slowly. Place pasta in pre-cooked, lightly salted water and boil until soft and, for lack of better terms, noodly. After chicken starts to turn golden-brown, add mushrooms, and sauce. After another minute or two, liberally apply parmesean cheese. You might want to cut each chicken breast in half to make sure they are not pink on the inside. Cook until chicken is thoroughly white. Serve. Use excess sauce and mushrooms to flavor the pasta. Enjoy.</p>

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<p>wow i'm hungry now. i can't cook, but i don't mind people cooking for me. =)</p>

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<p>Hey andrewtdx, are you living near bowles by any chance? If so, you will be one of best friends because I can't cook for ****.</p>

<p>I can offer many crates of Top Ramen and Toasters in exchange.</p>

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<p>Hahahahaha. I can imagine the crates of Ramen.</p>

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<p>Delicious Avocado Recipe:</p>

<p>Items Required:
1x Hass Avocado
1x knife
1x Container of Morton's Salt
1x Spoon</p>

<p>Directions:
With knife, slice Hass Avocado in half the long way, and take out the giant seed.
Sprinkle Morton's salt all over Hass avocado.
Use spoon to eat.</p>

<p>Serves 1 or 2 people.</p>

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<p>I'd go with 1! I love them avocados. :)</p>

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<p>Does it have to be a Haas Avocado? Will the recipe work with a regular one?</p>

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<p>I cannot cook, but I live in Fallbrook "Avocado Capital" so will trade avocados and other fruit from our mini grove for cooked meals anytime. :)</p>

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<p>most avoacadoes out there are Hass.</p>

<p>slight modification to unlimitedx' great recipe: mix 1 small teaspoon of dijon mustard with 1 small tspn of balsamic vinegar, put half of that on both avocado halves, eat.</p>

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<p>man i love to cook. hopefully at least once a month i'll have time to do it. sorry i dont have any recipes off the top of my head as i don't use them</p>

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<p>I take a nice cheap thin piece of steak, cut it into stripes, chop up some peppers and onions, and cook in a wok. Mmmm.</p>

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<p>Classic French steak au poivre (pepper sauce) recipe:</p>

<p>coat filet or steak with coarsly-ground peppercorns. Dice two small shallots. Melt a tblspn of butter with 1/2 a tblspn of veg oil in a stainless steel or iron pan (teflon-coated won't work), set temp on high, then throw in shallots, then steak. Turn temp to med-high and fry about 4 min then turn over another 3-4 min (more or less time depending on thickness of meat and doneness level preference). DO NOT press steak down, EVER. It will lose its juices. Do not move the steaks either while cooking, so that surface caramelization is optimal.</p>

<p>Once done, take steak out and let it rest on a separate plate (the juices will run out if you cut the meat right away, they get reabsorbed into the fiber if you let it rest.) Then "deglaze" the pan by adding two third of a cup of red wine onto it without reducing the fire. Stir the bottom caramelized bits into the wine and reduce wine-sauce until about 3/4 of the original wine is gone. Put steak back in pan in final minute, then serve with sauce. Serve with fries and sauteed veggies.</p>

<p>Eat with strong red wine: French Bordeaux or California Cabernet. CA Zinfandel works too, because it's a bit spicy.</p>

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<p>Here's one I used yesterday:</p>

<p>Ingredients: Can of Chef Boyardee</p>

<p>Steps:</p>

<ol>
<li>Open can with can opener</li>
<li>Dump food from can to bowl</li>
<li>Put bowl in microwave for 3 minutes, and eat</li>
</ol>

<p>Yum...</p>

<p>My instructions also look strangely similar to instructions to making dog food.</p>

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<p>Toaster's Trademark Breakfast:</p>

<p>1 x Toaster
1 x loaf of bread
1 x stolen mini cereal boxes from cafeteria
1 x Top Ramen
1 x Milk (Chocolate Milk is preferred)
1 x Stove
1 x Pan</p>

<p>Use Toaster, put bread inside, out comes toasts.</p>

<p>Open cereal box, pour in milk.</p>

<p>Turn on stove, put Top Ramen in pan, add water + the crap that comes in Top Ramen, and let the magic happen. </p>

<p>I have done all three in 3 minutes. It's not really "healthy", but it fills you up well and cost very little.</p>

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<p>I bought some Haas avocados the other day, and oh, man are they going to be delicious when I eat them!</p>

<p>:)</p>

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<p>Never been an avacado man myself. But I might be willing to try this.</p>