A thread for boxing fans who are also chefs/food lovers

[billeau2]

pasta? Add a good clump of mayo, wholegrain mustard and honey.

Changes everything

If your're on for cooking pasta seperately, after you boil it drain the water and leave it sitting in the hot pot. Throw in some natural butter, ****es of your choice (I like black pepper) = you have now evolved pasta.

Your dealing pretty low level here my friend. First of all regarding pasta: How about cooked down tomatoes, olive oil and french thyme? You want to make it dinner? add some well cooked bacon, buy your baon with no nitrates and add a bit of the cooked off fat...just a bit.

Now, if you want to take it farther? have a date coming over? buy a block of authentic parmesian (from parma) it will run you a bit but it lasts forever and you will get a lot of use...shave said Parma on the pasta...You know its good if you can hear the granules in the cheese when you are shaving it.

Want a really good meat sauce? take the same basic variety above and buy a chuck roast, slow cook it...just leave it on the stove with some onion carrot and celery...maybe a touch of wine, and let it start to pull apart with the grain (what the cubans call Ropa Vieha sp?) just pull the meat apart and add to the sauce.

If sausage is your thing...well most store bought is ****. Get a meat grinder, cook down a pork butt, take a square of pork fat (about 1 pound of meat to 1/4 pound fat) and grind the mixture, add fennel seed. garlic onions salt pepper... you can get sausage causings at most wholesale meat distribution places.

And finally! wanna really impress your date? take that same basic sauce, now bare with me because it sounds crazy but it works! An old mafiosa godfather taught my dad this recipe and as a kid I knew only one thing, it was delicious!

Buy some codfish, cook it down and let it shed, take it out of the water and wash it down add to that same root sauce. This is a light sauce that has great flavor...great for summer.

So one root sauce, many variations. if you keep a container of it handy you can also make marinara (add vinegar) parmesian (use on chix breast egg plant) and even add fresh zuchini and portabello for a vegetarian dish (portabellos are meaty).

Hope this helps

[billeau2]

Croz

If you must have your mayo...I understand a sandwich is a sandwich but if you want a good mayo for a sauce, make it homemade, use walnut oil minced garlic and paprika...its not that labor intensive if you use a blender, kitchenaid, or mixer...the taste is well worth it. Add a little lemon juice at the end.

And Butter milk is not butter and milk...it has bacteria like yogurt which gives it the nice sour taste.

[AddiX]

Croz

If you must have your mayo...I understand a sandwich is a sandwich but if you want a good mayo for a sauce, make it homemade, use walnut oil minced garlic and paprika...its not that labor intensive if you use a blender, kitchenaid, or mixer...the taste is well worth it. Add a little lemon juice at the end.

And Butter milk is not butter and milk...it has bacteria like yogurt which gives it the nice sour taste.

how long does that stay good for though?

I'm not trying to make mayo on a weekly basis.

[Divine Hammer]

i love to eat mac and cheese. it's one of my guilty pleasures. i also like honey and milk in my oatmeal. yummy.

[croz]

]Your dealing pretty low level here my friend. [/B]First of all regarding pasta: How about cooked down tomatoes, olive oil and french thyme? You want to make it dinner? add some well cooked bacon, buy your baon with no nitrates and add a bit of the cooked off fat...just a bit.

Now, if you want to take it farther? have a date coming over? buy a block of authentic parmesian (from parma) it will run you a bit but it lasts forever and you will get a lot of use...shave said Parma on the pasta...You know its good if you can hear the granules in the cheese when you are shaving it.

Want a really good meat sauce? take the same basic variety above and buy a chuck roast, slow cook it...just leave it on the stove with some onion carrot and celery...maybe a touch of wine, and let it start to pull apart with the grain (what the cubans call Ropa Vieha sp?) just pull the meat apart and add to the sauce.

If sausage is your thing...well most store bought is ****. Get a meat grinder, cook down a pork butt, take a square of pork fat (about 1 pound of meat to 1/4 pound fat) and grind the mixture, add fennel seed. garlic onions salt pepper... you can get sausage causings at most wholesale meat distribution places.

And finally! wanna really impress your date? take that same basic sauce, now bare with me because it sounds crazy but it works! An old mafiosa godfather taught my dad this recipe and as a kid I knew only one thing, it was delicious!

Buy some codfish, cook it down and let it shed, take it out of the water and wash it down add to that same root sauce. This is a light sauce that has great flavor...great for summer.

So one root sauce, many variations. if you keep a container of it handy you can also make marinara (add vinegar) parmesian (use on chix breast egg plant) and even add fresh zuchini and portabello for a vegetarian dish (portabellos are meaty).

Hope this helps

had no idea what else he was asking for. Chef boyardee is just a pasta dish and I can't predict the kind he prefers for him. All I can do is take the order he wants and suggest a way I would personally improve it. In this case a simple step like adding mayo to cream it up is no major leap but makes a huge difference in texture. In a nut shell if someone wants creative food, don't ask for pre-made (canned) food.

[croz]

i love to eat mac and cheese. it's one of my guilty pleasures. i also like honey and milk in my oatmeal. yummy.

I always call that a cheese dish. Do you eat it with mince?

[torosboxing75]

Me and my wife are making bread pudding this weekend.

[Divine Hammer]

I always call that a cheese dish. Do you eat it with mince?

no i just like it plain usually. maybe i'll eat it with a pickle.

[croz]

Croz

If you must have your mayo...I understand a sandwich is a sandwich but if you want a good mayo for a sauce, make it homemade, use walnut oil minced garlic and paprika...its not that labor intensive if you use a blender, kitchenaid, or mixer...the taste is well worth it. Add a little lemon juice at the end.

And Butter milk is not butter and milk...it has bacteria like yogurt which gives it the nice sour taste.

I like your recipes all the same so no offence here but that doesn't sound like mayonaise, and who decided what butter milk has to taste like?

[croz]

had no idea what else he was asking for. Chef boyardee is just a pasta dish and I can't predict the kind he prefers for him. All I can do is take the order he wants and suggest a way I would personally improve it. In this case a simple step like adding mayo to cream it up is no major leap but makes a huge difference in texture. In a nut shell if someone wants creative food, don't ask for pre-made (canned) food.

I should reiterate this in another way. I'm a simple kind of guy looking for simple ideas to make my simple day simply a little better. So the food suggestions are simply spectacularly devised to to feed the simple service man with simple needs and simple ambitions. Because you never know, if he's simply fed the right simple snacks, he might simply stratom.