Recipes

[Smokeyjoe]

Nothing gets a party started like a big ol' Box-O-Wine!

Whaat?  One of the bottles from the 4-packs isn't fancy?!  Next thing I know, you will tell me that my favorite boxed wine isn't fancy either.

You're supposed to put the box wine into an empty fancy brand wine bottle first, don't you guys know anything about being classy /default_wink.png.

 

[DGSB0708]

You're supposed to put the box wine into an empty fancy brand wine bottle first, don't you guys know anything about being classy /default_wink.png.

So I can put it in my empty MD 20/20 bottle?  /default_tongue.png

 

[Smokeyjoe]

So I can put it in my empty MD 20/20 bottle?  /default_tongue.png

Hell Yes!

And who doesn't like MD 20/20.

However you may need to add some purple food coloring to fool the true MD aficionado.

 

[DGSB0708]

Hell Yes!

And who doesn't like MD 20/20.

However you may need to add some purple food coloring to fool the true MD aficionado.

ah, but it comes in so many pretty colors now!

 

[DorothyZbornak]

I wonder why MD 20/20 doesn't come in a box?

 

[DGSB0708]

I wonder why MD 20/20 doesn't come in a box?

Oh that's a picture of the holiday gift set, just out of the box.  A fancy cedar box, lined with the finest velvet and a 14k gold lock.  /default_biggrin.png

 

[Jewbacca]

Oh that's a picture of the holiday gift set, just out of the box.  A fancy cedar box, lined with the finest velvet and a 14k gold lock.  /default_biggrin.png

Wow, that's impressive. Actually upgraded to real velvet from the old school "velvetine"?

 

[DGSB0708]

Wow, that's impressive. Actually upgraded to real velvet from the old school "velvetine"?

@ 2.50 a bottle, how can you have anything but real velvet?  /default_wink.png

 

[DorothyZbornak]

Oh that's a picture of the holiday gift set, just out of the box.  A fancy cedar box, lined with the finest velvet and a 14k gold lock.  /default_biggrin.png

I certainly hope that that is The Mrs' Christmas gift! If so, gold star for you!!

 

[Jewbacca]

I certainly hope that that is The Mrs' Christmas gift! If so, gold star for you!!

So, uh, if, say, a tall, furry single creature were looking for some holiday love under the mistletoe, you'd suggest a MD 20/20 velvet gift set?!

Don't judge! I'm asking for a friend.....

 

[kittykat]

/default_wink.png  U got this........

 

[DGSB0708]

So, uh, if, say, a tall, furry single creature were looking for some holiday love under the mistletoe, you'd suggest a MD 20/20 velvet gift set?!

Don't judge! I'm asking for a friend.....

Probably need a bottle of Thunderbird too sir, just to seal the deal. 

 

[DGSB0708]

ASPARAGUS WRAPS

INGREDIENTS

1 LARGE BUNCH ASPARAGUS, TRIMMED WITH BOTTOM 1/2 OF STALK REMOVED (CAN SAVE THE BOTTOM HALVES FOR SOUP OR SOMETHING LATER)

1 LARGE PACKAGE PILLSBURY CRESCENT ROLL DOUGH (seamless works best)

1/2 LB PROSCIUTTO VERY THINLY SLICED

FRESH GRATED PARM CHEESE

HOLLANDAISE SAUCE  (packet mix OK for this)

DIRECTIONS

Blanch top 1/2 of asparagus spears in boiling water for 5 minutes, drain and shock in ice water bath to stop cooking

Remove asparagus from bath, pat dry, set aside

Divide crescent roll package into equal number of pieces as you have asparagus spears

Sprinkle parm cheese on each piece of crescent roll dough

Take an asparagus stalk and wrap the prosciutto around it completely

Place the wrapped asparagus onto a crescent roll piece and shape the dough around the asparagus spear (like making a cocktail frank in dough)

Repeat this for each asparagus spear and place them all on a cookie sheet

Follow directions on the crescent roll package as far as baking temperature and time

Pop the cookie sheet in the oven.

**while the asparagus wraps are cooking, make the hollandaise sauce

Remove from oven when time is up or when dough is golden.  Use hollandaise sauce for dipping.

S-

 

[DorothyZbornak]

So, uh, if, say, a tall, furry single creature were looking for some holiday love under the mistletoe, you'd suggest a MD 20/20 velvet gift set?!

Don't judge! I'm asking for a friend.....

Well, tell your friend that the MD 20/20 gift set is the sure way to go.  If your friend wants to kick it up a notch, make it a complete set with some Chicken in a Bisket crackers and spray cheese and you will be golden.  Throw it in a picnic basket and she might even label your friend a 'romantic.'  /default_wink.png  Go get her, friend of Jewy's!

 

[Jewbacca]

Well, tell your friend that the MD 20/20 gift set is the sure way to go.  If your friend wants to kick it up a notch, make it a complete set with some Chicken in a Bisket crackers and spray cheese and you will be golden.  Throw it in a picnic basket and she might even label your friend a 'romantic.'  /default_wink.png  Go get her, friend of Jewy's!

Well, thanks Dorothy, but it appears as though I'm too late.....

 

[DorothyZbornak]

Well, poop.

 

[kittykat]

Well, thanks Dorothy, but it appears as though I'm too late.....

Where  is the SPAM?  /default_tongue.png

 

[fidobaxter]

Oh my gosh what a great thread this is, I love all the recipe ides already! I have to be honest though since  you don't know me at all yet but I am not a geat cook....I can follow a recipe fine but I am not creative nor would I know what to do with a chicken breast if I wasn't given thorough instructions on how to make it tasty and how to make sure it is cooked thoroughly lol!  I did make crepes for my family last weekend but I got the recipe from the internet. I loved them, and everyone else here did too (ok the dogs did, and my hubby did thats all....my daughter hated them). I am going to try and make new ones this weekend using a combination of the recipe I just used and my cousin's recipe she just emailed to me....if it comes out yummy I will post it here if anyone is interested in crepes....any ideas though as to what I can use with them like fruit or so, something? They are kind of plain all alone :0)

 

[Smokeyjoe]

Here is a simple recipe for the single or less ambitious cooks like me.

I cooked this on the BBQ for my wife on one of or first dates we had.

She named this "Shrub Chicken".

1. Cut a boneless chicken breast into pieces that are about 3"x 1" or about the size of a fat French fry.

2. Use two pieces of aluminum foil about 2' long, one piece on top of the other, and put the cut chicken strips in the center of the foil in a strip about 1.5' long and in the space between the top to bottom of the foil using about 1/3 the space top to bottom.

3. Pour BBQ sauce or Teriyaki sauce or some flavored salad dressing you like all over the chicken so it's well covered with sauce.

4. Fold the foil sides in and fold the top and bottom of the foil together and seal up the chicken and sauce so it doesn't leak out of the foil.

5. Place the foil packet on the hot BBQ (but not directly over very hot coals or a high flame or it burns the BBQ sauce) for about 15 to 20 minutes until sauce is bubbling and chicken is cooked.

That's It!

It's really very tasty and the chicken picks up a lot of the taste of whatever sauce you use.

This seems obvious so I am sure many others have made this too /default_smile.png.

 

[DGSB0708]

Well, thanks Dorothy, but it appears as though I'm too late.....

Thank GOD my wife doesn't know about this forum.  You would have just spoiled her X-mas this year as that's her "big" gift. S-