Quick N' Easy.

[Chris]

i like crock pots, but I left my last one over at a friend's house a couple years ago.  I set my oven to 200° and use a cast-iron pot now instead.

[Thor]

What the Hell is rotel?

WTH ?!?!?!?!? Are you a YANKEE??

[Thor]

Saute an onion in a couple of tablespoons of butter in a small stock pot. Add a lb of hamburger and brown. Drain.

Add 16oz of Mexican velveeta....melt over low heat, stirring to make sure it doesn't burn.

Add 2 cans of Rotel original....add the hot one if you want it really spicy.

Stir well...serve with Tostitos....

Can put it in a small crockpot on low to keep warm....

My mom used to make this, but she added some evap milk to thin it down a bit. And.......... shame on you for using "Tostitos"....... any connoisseur knows that real tortilla chips are the best. 

[Aaron Burr]

A Yankee? Absolutely not my dear fellow. Were I not comfortably ensconced behind a bottle of Tawny Port, I assure you that even now one of my disposable minions would be conferring with your "Second" the terms of our "Interview" for such an egregious insult.

The only vegetables I eat out of a can are sweet peas. However, I can't think of any recipe for them other than shepherds pie. But since I'm not a Shepard, I usually dump them in with some mashed potatoes and a cooked sausage.

[Linda]

You say you like catfish here is a quick and easy way to fix it....

Catfish Stew

Catfish either filets, nuggets or chunks
Potatoes, sliced
Onions, sliced
Salt and pepper
Water

Place a layer catfish, a layer of potatoes and a layer of onions in a pot.
Salt and pepper each layer as you go.
Repeat layers till you fill your pot or you make as much as you need for this meal.
Cover with water.
Cook over med. heat till potatoes are done.
Great served with fried corn bread or hush puppies.
This dish is even better the next day….

[Aaron Burr]

Actually, I like rock cod. But I discovered quite by accident that a catfish fillet is thick enough and tough enough to substitute for a hamburger patty.

Anyway, I'm beginning to notice a trend concerning onions in all the recipes but mine. I should probably look up what their purpose is.
Also, I like the idea of using fish in a stew that isn't a chowder. And if you have a recipe for hush puppies, I would be eternally grateful.

The next recipe is for all my canned vegetable loving friends.

Scallop Goop.

2 packages of dried spinach fettuccine
1 can of enchilada sauce
1 can of baby corn ears
1 can of black beans
sour cream
scallops

Cook the noodles, drain. In a big, fat, deep frying pan cook the scallops and whatever else you have handy, I.E. pepper slices or shrimp. Dump in the enchilada sauce, some sour cream, salt, the corn and black beans and heat it up. Then dump in the noodles and simmer and stir and get the noodles all saucy with black beans sticking to them and the scallops all over the place and your done.

Goopalicious.

[Linda]

Anyway, I'm beginning to notice a trend concerning onions in all the recipes but mine. I should probably look up what their purpose is.
Also, I like the idea of using fish in a stew that isn't a chowder. And if you have a recipe for hush puppies, I would be eternally grateful.

I am from the south and we grew up putting onions in just about everything we cook....at least my family did...
And it just so happens I do have a recipefor Hush Puppies...

Hush Puppies

1 c. Corn meal
½ c. Flour
1 sm. onion chopped
a pinch of Salt
1 tea. Sugar
1 tab. Oil
1 Egg
½ c. Milk
Oil for deep frying


Mix dry ingredients together.
Mix onions with dry ingredients.
Add oil egg and milk.

You want the batter rather thick.

Drop by spoonfuls in hot oil. Brown on one side then flip over to brown on other side.

[Aaron Burr]

Could I substitute garlic for the onions? If not, I'm chopping the hell out the onions. Also, can beer be substituted for the milk? If not, can chocolate milk be used?

Anyway. I'm not much of a chef, but I do like fish, which makes my relocating to a landlocked state somewhat quixotic. But the easiest recipe for fish is just to dump some mussels and lil' clams into a pan of wine, oil, butter and garlic. Maybe some parsley, I dunno', I don't keep much around the house. When the mussels open up dump the slop into a sourdough bread bowl. Or make garlic bread and dunk it into the pan and use those lil' forks to open up the mussels.

Yar mateys, tis' be Neptune's own ambrosia.


Oh yeah, thank you for the Hush puppy recipe. I'll make them tomorrow.

[Crazy Horse]

Did you say shrimp and scallops???



How bout shrimp and oysters with fries



Crab cakes anyone???




No onions harmed in this post

[Crazy Horse]

As for hushpuppies..............nothin better than swet betsy from Atkison mill



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[Chris]

sweet betsy?

[Crazy Horse]

sweet betsy?

Sweet Betsy with Onions to be exact.......best damn hushpuppy known to man

[Aaron Burr]

Oh Hellz yeah. Although I must admit I've never had a fried oysker. Or a smoked one. I think it's against my religious convictions to eat them any other way than raw. I'll check, I think the dietary laws are somewhere in the back of the manual.

I'm going to try Linda's' Hush Puppy recipe first. Mainly because I can never remember my Uncle using anything but what he had around the house to make them.

No recipe this time because I'm a brimming with questions. Such as, why milk instead of beer for the puppies? And what sort of oil is best for frying stuff up. I use plain old oil and sometimes lard, but I hear peanut oil is supposed to be good. I know for a fact coconut oil is what they use in movie popcorn. I just can't find it anywhere...and sesame oil in small amounts is good for Chinaman cooking because of it's tolerance for high heat but I'm far too lazy to prep everything for Wok cookery....plus sesame oil tastes like dog squeeze.

The point is, I'm very thankful for all the recipe ideas and hope someone has one for cornbread. I'm tired of eating that mix from the box.

[Thor]

You might want to throw some Old Bay into the hush puppy recipe that Linda gave.