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The Open Source Cookbook?
InspectorPraline asks: "I'm currently working on a cookbook that is intended to provide good food at a reasonable price - the kind of stuff you'd make before sitting down for a long coding session, with the occasional idea that would feed a LAN party. I've got some ideas I can put down, but the book would be quite thin, so I thought I'd put the call for submissions to Slashdot. I'm calling it 'The Open Source Cookbook,' and I'd release it under the GFDL, in PDF, ASCII text, and Word formats. Of course, I'd take submissions as comments here or via email. I'd 'publish' the book via the web once I got enough submissions to make the book at least about 40-50 pages in length or 30 recipes (whichever comes last), and as submissions came in I'd update the book. Anyway, I'm asking for submissions for the book, which could be recipes for dinners, lunches, even drinks. Two webpages that will serve as temporary homes for the project can be found here and here, and those addresses list my email as well as some submission guidelines. So, any ideas, folks?" Hey, if you ever wanted to share your favorite dishes with geeks around the world, this might be the way to do it. What great dishes have you prepared?
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Tuna Mac
1 can of tuna
1 can of macaroni and cheese
1 tsp black pepper
Cook macaroni like you normally would. When done cooking drain tuna and mix with macaroni. Pepper to taste.
Dennisons Chili Chimichanga's
1 Can of dennisons chilie
3 cups of shredded cheese
6 flour tortilla's
Use equal amounts of cheese and chili and wrap the ends. Fry in a pan till golden brown.
Chili Relleno's
2 tblspoons of flour
1 egg white
1 Can of whole green chili's
Cheese cut into sticks.
Mix the flour and egg white. Stuff the chili pepper with a stick of cheese, then dip in the batter. Fry in a pan until it is brown and the cheese is melted.
Open source Salsa
Everyone brings the hottest chili's they can find. Add tomato paste and chilis to a food processor. Mix until you have a nice salsa like texture. Have a contest to see who can eat the most.
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Start boiling water (as this is the the task that takes longest to complete), put some salt in the water (a tablespoon).
Split the tomatoes open, get rid of all the watery goo and seeds so only the firm flesh of the tomatoes remain. Chop them as finely as you can be bothered to.
Put some oil in a frying pan, put the pan on the heat and finely chop the garlic. Put the garlic in the pan, and then before it turns brown (that is after 10 seconds) add the tomatoes.
When the water boils, add the pasta. If you don't turn down the heat very much, so the water continues to boil violently you don't have to stir very much ;-)
Keep stirring the tomatoes around until they turn soft and start looking a bit like sauce. Check if the pasta is finished by getting a strand out of the boiling water once in a while and biting it. If it doesn't have a hard core, it's finished.
Get rid of the water for the pasta. Add tomatoes to pasta, add some extra virgin olive oil and stir. Put on plates, sprinkle with grated chese and some leaves of basil if available...
There you go, one of my favourite easy dishes...
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1 Box of Kraft Mac 'n Cheese
1 Can Campell's Cream of Mushroom soup
1 can of Starkist Tuna in spring water
1/4 cup butter
1/2 cup milk
Some crushed potato chips (ruffles work best)
Preheat oven to 350. Boil and drain the noodles (do not rinse).
Mix in the cheese powder, milk, butter, tuna, and soup with the noodles, and pour into a casserole dish.
Sprinkle a layer of crushed potato chips on top. Bake uncovered at 350 for 30-45 minutes.
Use more butter if you want it a little sweeter, and more milk if you want it creamier.
There is a great archive of recipes (more than 70,000) at RecipeSource. It's free, searchable, well-organized, and you can submit recipes too.
A long time ago before Usenet was only useful for p0rn and warez there was the Usenet Cookbook. It was distributed in the newsgroup rec.food.recipes. The moderator put together a set of troff macros and templates and people posted recipes to the group. The moderator would edit the postings and release a couple of recipes a week (to save bandwidth).
Copies are still floating around the net this seems like a good place to start. I printed the whole thing out several years ago and it took a couple of packages of paper.
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About five desert spoons of green thai curry paste (measure it to taste, but DON'T overdo it)
250 ml coconut milk
500g of either skinless chicken or lamb, cut into strips
Four *large* mushrooms, well chopped
500g (total) of the following vegetables:-
Broccoli, fairly well chopped
Miniature sweetcorn
Cabbage
Carrots
Snow peas
Bean sprouts (optional)
Vary the amounts of the different vegetables there as you like, so long as it == 500g.
Method:
Pour enough olive oil into a frypan or wok (a wok is definitely better if you've got one) for shallow frying.
Mix green curry paste and coconut milk in a bowl, making sure they're well mixed together. Ideally you'd probably want to blend it.
Put coconut milk and lamb or chicken into frypan, and cook on medium heat until the lamb/chicken is around half cooked.
Add vegetables to lamb/chicken, and continue cooking until meat is firm/cooked through. You really don't want to overcook chicken, as it goes like cotton wool if you do.
Serve either on it's own or on a bed of jasmine rice. This will probably make enough for about five people, but if you want enough for one, just use 100g of meat and vegetables, and quarter the amount of curry paste and coconut milk.
If you go through iuniverse.com, you can have it set up for print-on-demand for something like $100. It goes in the Amazon and BN catalogs and can be ordered at brick n morters through Ingram. No minimum orders as all books are printed after they are ordered.
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