Unusual Recipes!

Smoka90

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I'd love to hear all your more unusual recipes! I follow a pretty specific diet, use a lot of replacements and substitutes and love making confectionary, especially.

I know I might be the only one this obsessed with unusual recipes, but oh well...later this evening I'm going to make some tahini/sesame biscuits! I didn't make the recipe up, it was off a website.

  • 1 1/4 cups all-purpose flour
  • 1/2 teaspoon baking powder
  • 1/4 teaspoon salt
  • 1 stick (1/2 cup) unsalted butter, softened
  • 1/2 cup sugar
  • 1/2 cup well-stirred tahini
  • 1 teaspoon pure vanilla extract
  • 1/3 cup sesame seeds (preferably hulled)
Whisk together flour, baking powder, and salt in a small bowl.

Beat together butter and sugar in a large bowl with an electric mixer at medium-high speed until pale and fluffy, about 3 minutes, then beat in tahini and vanilla. Reduce speed to low and add flour mixture in 2 batches, mixing until a crumbly dough forms. Transfer dough to a sheet of plastic wrap and press into a disk. Chill dough, wrapped in plastic wrap, until firm, at least 1 hour.

Put oven racks in upper and lower thirds of oven and preheat oven to 350°F. Line 2 large baking sheets with parchment paper.

Stir together sesame seeds and luster dust (if using) in a small bowl.

Roll dough into 1-inch balls, then roll balls 1 at a time in seeds to coat and arrange 2 inches apart on lined baking sheets. Bake, switching position of sheets halfway through baking, until cookies are puffed and starting to crack, 12 to 15 minutes total. Cool on sheets 10 minutes (cookies will be very fragile when hot), then transfer from parchment to a rack to cool completely.

Looking forward to making these! I love using tahini. Also, if any of you want to read about a really unique ingredient, read about Saponaria root. Years ago, I remember boiling it then mixing it with hot sugar syrup. It's used as an additive in tahini halva, and is fascinating.

Right, baking rant over. =)

The weirder the recipe, the better.

(Edit: just noticed the recipe says to use electric mixers. Sod that, seriously, all you need is a bowl and a wooden spoon.)

 
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Will be awaiting your report on the outcome. I bake too, but pretty traditional. So now I have to go look up tahini.

OK, I eat hummus all the time!

 
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They went pretty well! Whenever I put tahini into cookies, they turn out sort of crumbly, but in a good way! They're pretty much savoury biscuits, which suits me, makes a change from my usual sweet stuff.

Not sure what my other half will make of them, but I did sort of bake them because I like them, haha. Tahini sort of divides people...

If I'm the next one to post an usual recipe, that's fine, I have plenty in mind. =D

 
I make my tahini home made, but honestly...in hummus it is okay....think i will purchase some for these.  They sound delicious!

 
Even though I've got a food processor, I always buy tahini. Once I got some imported Lebanese tahini, but it's all the same really. I should cut down on the houmous, it's getting ridiculous, but samosas dipped in houmous, god, makes me melt.

I haven't been able to bake properly for ages, since I'm really busy and getting ready to move house, plus I've been a bit ill, just lounging around. Sometimes I just lounge around on my laptop rambling about North African and Middle Eastern cuisine, very bad...

Yeah, erm, omg...cumin, coriander, I am done.

 
Mmmmm hummus and Naan bread. Especially when I can find some at the farmers market. It's so much better than what I get at the grocery store. Hope you are feeling better @Smoka90

 
Ah, okay, now I have a clean kitchen again I can cook! Yesterday I made a delicious oaty flapjack with ground almonds and cherry jam in the middle! Mmm.

But, the other day I bought some bourbon biscuit spread, like extra decadent chocolate spread. I heated up some sugar syrup and mixed them, and ended up with the most divine bourbon biscuit/chocolate fudge ever! Soft, melt in the mouth, yum! Because of my specific diet I can't really just buy fudge, but why bother when you can make it?

=)

 
Ah, okay, now I have a clean kitchen again I can cook! Yesterday I made a delicious oaty flapjack with ground almonds and cherry jam in the middle! Mmm.

But, the other day I bought some bourbon biscuit spread, like extra decadent chocolate spread. I heated up some sugar syrup and mixed them, and ended up with the most divine bourbon biscuit/chocolate fudge ever! Soft, melt in the mouth, yum! Because of my specific diet I can't really just buy fudge, but why bother when you can make it?

=)
I think the flapjack sounds good ! I really wish my man knew how to cook. I've taught him a couple things but he's rather hopeless in the kitchen. Then the mess..

 
Ah, okay, now I have a clean kitchen again I can cook! Yesterday I made a delicious oaty flapjack with ground almonds and cherry jam in the middle! Mmm.

But, the other day I bought some bourbon biscuit spread, like extra decadent chocolate spread. I heated up some sugar syrup and mixed them, and ended up with the most divine bourbon biscuit/chocolate fudge ever! Soft, melt in the mouth, yum! Because of my specific diet I can't really just buy fudge, but why bother when you can make it?

=)
I think the flapjack sounds good ! I really wish my man knew how to cook. I've taught him a couple things but he's rather hopeless in the kitchen. Then the mess..
Lol, I'm an excellent cook who cleans as he goes.

 
Ah, okay, now I have a clean kitchen again I can cook! Yesterday I made a delicious oaty flapjack with ground almonds and cherry jam in the middle! Mmm.

But, the other day I bought some bourbon biscuit spread, like extra decadent chocolate spread. I heated up some sugar syrup and mixed them, and ended up with the most divine bourbon biscuit/chocolate fudge ever! Soft, melt in the mouth, yum! Because of my specific diet I can't really just buy fudge, but why bother when you can make it?

=)
I think the flapjack sounds good ! I really wish my man knew how to cook. I've taught him a couple things but he's rather hopeless in the kitchen. Then the mess..
Flapjack was okay, it was a bit dry...I went a while without baking so I'm a bit rusty, but the fudge, can't say enough just how flippin' delicious it was! And yesterday I made some ginger/clove/cinnamon biscuits with molasses, brown sugar and sprinkled sugar, again, ending up baking them too much so they were dry. But I want to try something tomorrow.

I've never heard of these things here over, but have you heard of Snickerdoodles, 2e? There's a recipe for some in a US recipe I've got, they're delicious, sprinkled with cinnamon which I think leaves a funny taste in the mouth.

I love cooking and cleaning, it's complete role reversal in this house to be honest, then again, to be fair, my other half is hopeless at housekeeping things, haha.

 
Now that I am somewhat Sober besides my Medical meds I just Eat, Love Cooking as a hobby and it impresses the Lovely Ladies Lol..I'VE been away for a few starving eating Shit.Now it's my time to eat like a King.Tonight cooking up a Angus NY Strip Steak topped with a mushroom and Sweet Vidalia bourbon demi'glace accompanied by Rosemary roasted red pepper Potatoes and haricots Verts in a herb butter sauce. Caesar Salad to start it off,I will enjoy.   

;-)

Bisko

 
Damn Bisko I'm glad to see you are treating yourself right. I wish my husband liked to cook, or even knew HOW to cook.

The ladies DO love men who know their way around the kitchen.

 
Boom!  bisko, that's what I am talking about, I like it! I dabble myself, and you are both right, it does impress girls. I always thought it was my rapier wit and baby-faced looks, but no, cooking a roast turns them on more lol.

 
Smoked Beef Rib Eye with a wild mushroom and Shallot Au Jus ,Country stlye mashed and Roasted Red Corn Succotash with  jalapeno cheddar biscuits. ....Delicious. ..

Bisko

 
Anyone have any experience cooking with Abv Buddha? I tried today but not feeling anything 2 hrs after.

 
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