Recipes & Cooking!

FANCY TASTIC!  OMFG that looks awesome but I am wayyy too scared to try it (I have bad luck with things that must set out too long ).  NOM NOM NOM.

I'm so out of it.  I don' tknow why but I bought a big tub of masarpone cheese.  I have never had it.  I got it into my head to make icing with it for a japanese-style fancy cake.  It was like I was posessed. Now that I have it I'm wondering why on earth I bought it.

Also if one whipps whipped cream, can it be an icing?

I'm really out of it tra la la back to my books tra la la...

Sorry, ladies, I haven't been by much lately. I'm trying to behave myself and talking about food makes it harder. I know that eating right doesn't have to be boring, but I'm just kind of dissatisfied with myself right now, which isn't conducive to an excellent food-experimentation environment.

1. greast a thing for baking (it should have removable front)
2. then melt the butter
3. put pieces of chocolate in the hot butter and let it melt
4. mix the flour, baking, powder and the cocoa
5. take the butter from the stove and mix it with the dry ingredients
6. add the eggs in the bowl
7. mix everything til it looks nice
8. put in the baking thing
9. put the for 18 minutes or so
10. take the cake out and put the chocolate on the top
11. then back in the oven for about 10 minutes (keep an eye on it)
12. take the cake out and spread out the melted chocolate
13. let it cool
14. enjoy !

hope you don't mind my contribution

Last edited by BeautifulCiara (08-15-2008 10:41)

Dahly wrote:

That sounds like a really cool cake Ciara! What exactly is an After Eight?  I'm assuming it a minty chocolate? No idea really. 

Thanks for stopping by! Come around more often!

This is the Wikipedia article on After Eights: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/After_Eight

That does sound like a yummy and easy to make cake Ciara!

Here comes another one then. If do say so myself chocolate cakes is one of my specialities. I know a lot of different recipes and here's another one a little bit lighter but just as good.

LIGHT CHOCOLATE CAKE WITH LIME
Ingredients:
3 eggs
2 1/2 dl of sugar
1 dl of baking flour
1/2 tea spoon of bakingpowder
1/2 dl of cocoa
2 each of the smallest measurment (salt)
250 g of sour creme
1-2 limes (depending on the size )

For garnish : slices of lime

This cake is very easy actually.

Last edited by BeautifulCiara (08-15-2008 10:59)

Phew!  So many recipes!  I'll be updating the front page now.

Looks like we might have to start dividing up the "Sweets" section. 

Ada--Awww, I'm sorry you haven't been up to experimenting and feeling fancy.  Mucho huggos!  Go eat some nommysnacks and play loads of MMOs!!!!

Oh and a little warning--I've been going off my SSRIs which means that I'm a little fuzzy headed (I've been taking one pill every two days, then every three days, then every four.... trying to stretch it out till I can quit 100%).  So please excuse me if I start acting really weird. 

Another note:  Aside from acting funny I haven't been on MissBimbo too often lately, so!

A HUGE belated hello to all the new people who have begun posting here (you know who you are ) and THANK YOU for the recipes!  We're getting quite the collection!!!

There are so many recipes I'm wondering if there is a better way of organizing things, or labeling stuff with "new" when something comes in...

Hmm... what do you think?

Minibrutus--HONEY.  HONEY AND MASARPONE.  I think I have hit upon what I'm going to do with that cake.  Thank you for your inspiration <3 and I'll tell y'all how it goes

Ooh, I didn't see your first message--oops!!!   Thank you for the thank you, haha.

Two stars... hmm.... Oh, that makes me think there could be a recipe rating system!!! XD  Though I'm not sure who'd do the rating.  I will think on this *O*

Okay, i know none of us speak Italian.... but I have this recipe that looks cute to try, and none of it is in English. I popped it into babel fish, and I get the gist of the recipe, but I can't figure out what a few of the ingredients are.

Here's the picture:


I can't figure out from the ingredients what the green stuff is. I hope it's basil or baby spinach and not watercress because I hate watercress....

Here's the recipe in Italian:

Ingredienti per 4 persone
250 g di riso
1 limone
100 g di parmigiano
1 spicchio d’aglio
1 ciuffo di prezzemolo
1 cucchiaio di capperi sottaceto
4 cucchiai d’olio extravergine
poco fiordisale (più il sale per la cottura del riso)
1 generoso izzico di pepe
Lessare il riso in una pentola con abbondante acqua salata, poi scolarlo e lasciarlo intiepidire stendendolo su un ampio vassoio.
In una ciottola emulsionare l’olio, il succo e la scorza grattugiata di un limone, quindi aggiungere il prezzemolo e l’aglio tritati. il sale e il pepe.
Con questa salsina condire il riso, aggiungendo il parmigiano grattugiato. Formare, con il composto ottenuto, delle palline della grandezza di una noce.
Nel caso si volesse armonizzare la presentazione, si possono tagliare a fettine sottili ulteriori limoni e appoggiare su ciascuna fetta una pallina di riso decorata con un cappero.

And here's my direct translation:

Ingredients for 4 persons
250 g of rice
1 lemon
100 g of $parmesan
1 segment of garlic
1 forelock of prezzemolo
1 spoon of capers sottaceto
4 oil spoons extravergine
little fiordisale (more it knows them for the baking of the rice)
1 generous izzico of pepper

Lessare the rice in a pot with abundant salata water, then to drain it and to leave it to intiepidire spreading it on a wide tray. In a ciottola emulsionare the oil, the juice and the grattugiata rind of a lemon, therefore to add prezzemolo and the garlic tritati. it knows them and the pepper. With this salsina to flavor the rice, adding the grattugiato $parmesan. To form, with the obtained compound, of the littles ball of the largeness of a walnut. In the event the presentation was wanted to be harmonized, they can be cut to thin fettine ulterior lemons and be supported on ciascuna slice a little ball of rice decorated with a caper.


So, please, someone! Help me out. what is prezzemolo and what is fiordisale?

minibrutus wrote:

Ingredients for 4 persons
250 g of rice
1 lemon
100 g of parmesan
1 clove of garlic
1 bunch/bundle of parsley
1 tbsp of pickled capers
4 tsp extra virgin olive oil
Dash of sea salt (also some for the rice)
1 generous grinding of pepper

Cook the rice in a pot with abundant salted water, then drain it and to leave it to cool, spreading it on a wide tray. In a separate bowl mix the oil, the juice and the zested rind of a lemon, then add parsley and the minced garlic. Add pepper to taste. Add this mixture to the rice, along with the grated parmesan. Form into rice balls about the size of a walnut. To serve, cut a lemon into thin slices and top each slice a with a rice ball decorated with a caper.

Last edited by Adacatcher (08-15-2008 21:37)

Fior di sale is the Italian version of fleur de sel isn't it?

Hollywould wrote:

Fior di sale is the Italian version of fleur de sel isn't it?

Yes indeedy!

Nemaine wrote:

Everybody should have a pocket Ada.

I are a linguistic robot! I wanna be in everybody's pocket! (Please don't take that in any non-G-rated way.)

Hollywould wrote:

Does anyone have a killer blueberry muffin recipe?

I do not, but I thought I saw a mango-blueberry bran muffin recipe recently...

*wanders off in search of the recipe*

*gets lost in the vastness of the interwebz*

*comes back crying*

The interwebz is too too big. I no can findz.