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?

Comments

pdf, ascii and word?!

[edrugtrader]

why not just make a web page with a database full of the recipes... let me log in and customize what recipes i want, and then create my own pdf/ascii/doc of my CUSTOMIZED cookbook?

Potato Soup

[Callamon]

I can't really take credit for this one, as a friend showed it to me, but it's a really good and easy to make potato soup.

1 Can of campell's Cream of Potato soup (with 1 can of milk)

1 Can Chunky Baked Potato w/bacon & chives

1 Can Baxter's Potato and Leek soup

Mix it all together, and slow-cook it for about 20 minutes (boil it for at least 5), add salt/pepper to taste!

.....VODKA and RedBull.....

[Dr_Marvin_Monroe]

That's my favorite LAN party drink by far....the Red get's you up while the vodka makes the killing oooooh so easy.....

PostModern Casserole

[friscolr]

here's my recipe for a casserole. the name comes from a book i had lying around, couldn't think of anything else.

Here is a photo plus the recipe, in case anyone wants to link to it. It doesn't take much preparation but takes a long cooking time, so halfway through your all night coding session you'll have a good meal.

PostModern Casserole

Ingredients

1 package sobe noodles
1 green pepper
1 onion
1 measurement quinoa
2 measurements nutrional yeast
1 measurement thyme
1 quantity tempeh
1 spoonful rocoto salsa*

Preparation

Cut green pepper,onion and tempeh.
Fry the onion and tempeh on low heat in some oil.
Cook sobe noodles quite al dente.
Pour noodles and water into crock pot (you better not have too much water)
Dump pepper, onion, tempeh and quinoa into the crock pot.
Mix in thyme, rocoto and nutritional yeast.
Sprinkle layer of nutritional yeast on top of food.
Place lid on crock pot and leave on low for a few hours, or on high for less time.
It's done when the quinoa is cooked, there is no sitting water and you're hungry.

Optional
Add corn and calamata olives.

* not meant to be too hot. remember - good hot stuff is tasty first, hot second.

one more thing, it's vegan and has enough fiber for even CowboyNeal.

Cheap Yakisoba Recipe:

[zulux]

Ingredients:
Top-Ramen or other brand - Pork Flavor.
Worstishire Sauce - to taste (1 tea-spoon)
Sugar to taste (1 tea-spoon)

Prepare:
Boil noodles until tender, drain, add half of flavoring packet
Add Werstishier sauce and sugar to taste. Mix to coat and enjoy.

Cultural Note: Worstishire sauce is a western copy of Ease-Asian fish sauce. It shares the same roots as English Brown Sauce and Tomatoe Ketsup and Portuguese Fish Sauce.

Real dried Yakisoba can be purchased at most Japanese food stores - It's made by Nissin and has the English word 'BIG' written large on the package.

This recipe is primarily for those who live far from said store.

Commander Taco Salad

[Graff]

1 pound of ground beef
1 packet of taco seasoning
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 head of iceburg lettuce
2 ripe tomatoes
1 large onion
1 medium bottle of french dressing
1 medium bag of nacho chips (Doritos work great)
16 ounces of cheddar cheese, diced or shredded.

Brown and drain the ground beef. Add the taco seasoning and the garlic powder to the browned beef. Set aside and allow to cool.

Shread the lettuce. Dice the tomatoes and the onion and add to the lettuce.

Coarsely crush the nacho chips. Leave them in the bag until you are ready to serve the salad.

Just before serving, combine all of the ingredients in a large bowl and toss gently. Make sure to evenly distribute all ingredients.

The key is to do all the steps separately and then combine them just before you serve. This makes the salad still crunchy and that's when it tastes best

This recipe is very popular at lan parties and cookouts. It makes a large amount of taco salad, but it gets eaten quickly.

South-of-the-Border Pizza

[cybermace5]

This is a really delicious pizza, not like anything you've tasted before. Most people eat it and ask how to make it, before even realizing it's meatless. You could probably throw some boiled, cubed chicken on there if you want to.

Here goes:

Fresh Salsa:
1 large tomato
1 can chopped green chiles (it's a small can)
1 large white onion
1 can sliced black olives
1/3 cup chopped fresh cilantro (it's really cheap and available at any store)
Salt and pepper

Chop everything up and mix it in a bowl. Cover and refrigerate for as long as you can before making the pizza. A couple hours would be best, but it's still ok made right before.

Preheat oven to 400.

Pizza Crust (a good crust for any pizza, even sliced into breadsticks)
For a thick crust, double everything.
1 cup warm water
1 tbsp. yeast powder (1 packet)
1 tsp. salt
1 tbsp. sugar
1 tbsp. vegetable oil
All-purpose flour (NOT self-rising!)

Mix everything except the flour into a large bowl. Begin stirring in flour until it reaches dough consistency, it's going to be somewhere around four cups, more or less. For non-bread-makers, it's going to be squishy and sticky, kind of stretchy. Knead the dough (squish and fold on a floured surface, throw some flour on top) until you have a smooth ball of dough. Roll this out into the size of your pizza pan, fold over the edges so it doesn't hang over.

The Pizza:
Fresh Salsa (above)
Pizza Crust (above)
2 cups grated Montery Jack cheese
1 cubed avocado
Cumin

Put down the pizza crust on the pan, cover the bottom with cheese, then spread the salsa and avocados on top. Lightly dust with cumin right from the shaker. Bake the pizza for about 18-22 minutes, or as long as it takes for the crust to turn a light brown.

One of the best pizzas I have ever eaten. It's not as hard as it sounds, you really spend a total of 30 minutes in the kitchen, max.

Ramen Recipe Database

[Osty]

Perfect for college students and people who can't afford/don't want to pay for more expensive food, there's always the Ramen Recipe Database (quick link to all recipes). Over 200 recipes and counting. It's amazing what people can do with Ramen when they try. Ramen by itself may not be all that nutritious, but with a little imagination you can make a full meal out of one of those little $0.15 packages.

Re:RecipeSource

[Otter]

RecipeSource, by the way, used to be the SOAR archive at Berkeley, for those familiar with that site. One fun thing about it is that it's based heavily on old Usenet posts, so it contains recipes from a lot of old skool Internet figures. Rob Pike's cheesecake is really good.