Frico slices,

Frico or homemade cheese slices.

ingredients:

shredded cheese
Cooking oil

Method:

Take a metal sheet pan and cover with parchment paper. Lightly oil the parchment paper to make it non-stick, Mound up shredded cheese. Let bake in a preheated oven at 350 degrees F. for seven to eight minutes. Your oven may very. watch the cheese so it does not burn. Flip the slices when you take them out of the oven. Use immediately.  (The brown around the edge gives them more flavor).

Peanut gravy./sauce

Peanuts per se are not used that much in American cooking except probably in the deep south.To really make this interesting, you could probably roast the peanuts first to have added flavor.

Put your bottle of peantust in the blender and then add some boiling chicken stock. Do not buy stock, just get some chicken and boil it to make the stock. So you get the stock and the chicken for the same price of the chicken,

Toast some bread and cook some eggs.

Put the eggs on the toast.

 Add a pice of cheese. We like swiss.

Then finally add the peanut sauce and microwave it for half a minute or so.

Breakfast!

Rag soup.

Rag soup is a nutritional poor man's soup. The basic ingredients are chicken stock, spinach, and eggs. Cheese can be added if you want it. In this case, I added cornbread and a little corn flour. Just heat it until the soup thickens up.

Fettucine alfredo

Use prepackaged noodles ot make your own.

You can use a knife or a pasta machine to separate the noodles.

Boil the noodles

 Cream cheese and butter mixture

Tada.

Fettucine alfredo

Ingredients:
1 - stick butter
1 - cup heavy cream (or like to use condensed milk)
1 - cup mozzarella cheese
1 - pound fettucine pasta.
    1 - large egg
    olive oil
    salt
    1 - cup whole wheat flour
Pepper to taste
Garlic powder to taste.

Method:
Boil the noodles to al dente
Melt and mix cheese, cream, and butter till combined
Add pepper and garlic powder as desired.
Add to noodles.

Variation:
Substituting 3/4 cup half-and-half thickened with (1 tablespoon cornstarch) for 1 1/2 cups heavy cream, we created a lighter alfredo recipe.

Milk magic.

Coffemaker meals.

Coffeemaker meals and etc.

Table of Contents
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Intro: Coffeemaker meals and etc
Step 1: Coffee or tea. but
Step 2: Making beer in a coffee maker
Step 3: Making cheese
Step 4: Coffeepot oatmeal
Step 5: Coffeemaker eggs
Step 6: Grilled cheese NOT!
Intro: Coffeemaker meals and etc..

Just a couple of coffee maker options for cooking various foods. Oatmeal, eggs. and more to come.
Note: for making pasta in a coffee maker see:www.instructables.com/id/Coffee-maker-pasta/
for making soup in a coffee maker see: www.instructables.com/id/Tuna-noodle-coffepot-soup/
for making confederate coffee: http://www.instructables.com/id/Confederate-coffee-or-tea-recipe/
Idea: You can take some tomato puree or the like, add basil, onion/garlic powder, salt, pepper,and oregano then put the mixture in the coffee make to warm up and you have instant pasta sauce.
You can always poach some fish in the coffeemaker also.

Step 1: Coffee or tea. but.....
You can certainly use a coffee maker for cooking but, a coffee maker will have the taste of coffee that will not enhance the flavor of the food. You can flush out the unit a
zillion times till you get most of the taste out. Preferably you can get a separate unit that has not been used for coffee. Usually they are inexpensive. Be sure and put a
sign on the unit that says "NOT FOR COFFEE USE!!" Good luck.

Step 2: Making beer in a coffee maker.
How to brew beer in a coffee maker, using only materials commonly found

Materials
(1) electric drip coffee maker with a water-heating compartment and a hot plate
(1) wooden rolling pin (marble is too heavy)
(1) coffee filter
(1) saucepan, larger than 2 quarts
(2) 1-quart canning jars with lids
(2) 6-inch squares of cheesecloth
(2) rubber bands
(1/2 gallon) filtered-not distilled-water
Brewing ingredients
1 1/4 cups regular oatmeal
1/2 to 1 cup sugar
1/4 cup or so oregano (can be used for hops)
1/2 packet of Champagne yeast or .baker’s yeast

Method:
Basic prep.
Gather materials.
Sanitation is key. Everything must be clean.
Grain prep:
Grind up your ‘grains’ (but not so much that it becomes powder).
Place your ‘grains’ in coffee pot (not the filter basket, the carafe).
Run 2 cups of clean water through coffee maker and let it sit on the hot plate for an hour. This releases all the good chemicals from you ‘grains’ and creates a fluid
called wort.
Wort prep:
Strain the wort through the coffee filter and place the filter full of ‘grain’ into the filter basket. Add the ‘malt’ to the filter basket. Pour the strained liquid back into coffee
maker and add 1 cup of water.
Run the wort through the coffee maker 5 times, each time adding 1 cup of water.
Pour the wort into the saucepan and boil for 45 minutes. Two minutes before boiling is done, add the hops.
Carefully pour the wort into the canning jars.
Fermentation:
Let the wort cool to between 60 and 70 F. Once it is cool enough to touch the outside of the jars without burning, pitched the Bakers’ Yeast into the mixture.
Seal jar with a handkerchief and rubber band over the mouth.
Store in a cool, dark place where it will not be disturbed for a week.
Final:
Results: A cool, smooth brew, flavored with whatever you found. It may be very bad, it may be good. It will be beer.

Step 3: Making cheese
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I have made cheese before using the regular methods, but I wanted to try something new. If you have a second free coffee pot you can be making your noodles at the
same time. That is if you are having a pasta meal. . This is a delicate process so you need some free time or being nearby doing other things to keep an eye on it. Using
the rennet tablet lowers the temperature to curdle the milk and separate the curds from the whey.

Ingredients:
2 - tablespoons vinegar
1 - Rennet tablet. (Tablet can be crushed in the packet before using so ot makes it easier to dissolve.
10 - cups room temperature milk. (Do not use ice cold milk) (Number of cups depends on your coffee maker. mine is 12).
3/4 - cup water.
1 - Tablespoon salt.

Method.
With the coffee machine off pouyr the water into the resevoir.
Pour the milk into the carafe.
Add the crushed Rennet tablet.
Add the vinegar.
Turn on the coffee maker.
Water will go into the carafe. That will help get the milk up to temperature quicker.
Now you will need to let the milk do it's thing.
Watch carefully as you do not want the curds to burn on the bottom of the carafe.
Once the curds and whey are separated, turn off the coffee maker.
Take a large bowl and inver a solid cup in the bottom.
Place a pasta strainer basket on top.
lay a non-frizzy towel in the basket covering as much as you can.
Take the carafe and slowly empty the whole contents into the basket on top of the towel.
You will probably have a alot of liquid. Be careful.
Add some salt to the cheese.
Place the bowl unit in the fridge for the cheese to drain off more whey,
Whey can be used for making polenta or feeding the cats.
Use the cheese as soon as your meal is ready.

Step 4: Coffeepot oatmeal.

Normally this should be done with instant oatmeal, but 5 minute oatmeal seeded to do ok.
With coffee pot inserted, add twice as much water to the coffee reservoir as there is oatmeal. (be sure not to overflow the reservoir.
Turn on coffeepot maker.
In a "Oven proof " cup, add your oatmeal (one/half cup is a serving), sweetener and or fruit. (Do not put the oatmeal in the carafe!!)
Stir well.
Pour water from the coffeemaker pot into the heat proof cup until the oatmeal is well moistened, but not soupy.
Remove the carafe from the coffee maker.
Put the oven proof cup on the coffeemaker base. keep stirring until everything is well combined.
Turn off coffeemaker.
Add milk.
Eat.

Step 5: Coffeemaker eggs.

Use a larger coffee make if possible i(.e. 12 cup).
Use pasteurized eggs if possible.
Bring eggs to room temperature.
With coffeepot installed add eight or so cups of water to the resevoir.
Turn on coffeemaker.
When the reservoir is emptied, add the eggs (one or two) gently. (if the eggs crack, they will possibly be easier to peel.)
Let cook for about twelve minutes
Carefully remove the eggs with a spoon so that you do not get burned.
Turn on coffeepot maker.
Add ice to the eggs to help them cool off a bit before peeling.
Peel eggs and eat.
Note: Great for making safer mayonnaise

Step 6: Grilled cheese NOT!

This did not turn out too well. It is probably better done with an iron.
Place a piece of foil setting shiny side up. (that reflects heat better.)
Just put a touch of butter if any at all. (I put way tooooo much)
Place the butters side towards the shiny foil.
Add the cheese between the bread.
Close up the foil.
Put package on the heater plate WATCH CAREFULLY!!!!!!!!!)
After a couple of minutes turn and repeat the last step.
Remove from heater plate turn off coffee maker.
Because I used way too much butter it was all soggy, Put it in the microwave to finish.
Fail!

Quesadilla sort of.

Mozzarella cheese

Make cheese like you normally would. Bring a gallon of milk close to 100 degrees Fahrenheit , then add a rennet tablet and or an acid such as lemon juice or vinegar. Let the curds separate. Take the curds and strain the remaining liquid. Let cool. in the fridge.

Heat a pot of water to 170 degrees Fahrenheit, Put the cheese into the pot to warm up. Careful its, hot. Dump your hand in some cool (ice) water for a second, then take a slotted spoon and get a handful of the warm cheese out. With two hands extrude the cheese from between your fist so it looks sort of like a light bulb. Put the bulb in the cold water to cool. Refrigerate.

 

Our pasta carbonara.

Pasta carbonara is good and custary, you would think you might be eating dessert. If your pan is hot enough, they eggs will temper (aka cook) in the sauce as you are maiking it.
Around for a zillion years, this is a simple dish that people have eaten most noticeably during and after World War II when food was hard to come by. Legend has it that powered eggs spared by solder's passing through was the basis for the eggs. They also used pig jowls for the meat of the dish. It was made in coal fired stoves or what be might called barbecue pits today. Though, we will make it on a regular stove. Rumor has it that they used penne (edges make you think of a quilled pen) shaped noodles as it was easier to toss than the long stringed pasta.
Notes: Lidia of Lidia's Italy like lots of onions in their version pasta carbonara and they only use the yolk of the eggs. She also talks about in her version of the history of pasta carbonara, that coal miner's wives who had coal dust in their hair as they cooked coal ust would fall in the dish as they were making it and that is where the name came from. Everyone has their own story.
Heard yet another story of where the lady who brought the coal around would fix this dish with lots of ground pepper so that it seemed like there was coal dust in the dish. Black pepper and cheese go good together.
Also see: http://www.instructables.com/id/Our-food-instructables/

Step 1: What's needed:

Ingredients:
1 tablespoon cooking oil.
4 ounces (1/2 cup) turkey bacon, diced. (4 to 5 strips).
1/2 pound (1 cup) spaghetti or pasta. (if using dried spaghetti and the package is one pound, use half a package).
1 1/2 cups of the water from the cooked pasta.
3 large eggs at room temperature and lightly beaten.
3/4 cup grated home made cheese.
Good grinding coarse black pepper.
Salt to taste.

Step 2: Pasta:

Boil your pasta in plenty of water till it is to the tooth of your preference.

Step 3: Bacon prep.

Cut up the bacon in small but not too small pieces.
Put oil in the pan and fry the bacon till semi crisp.
Turn off and remove from the heat while you prepare the eggs.

Step 4: Egg preparation.

Step 5: The main event.

Take about a cup of water from the pasta pot.
Drain the pasta and then put in the pan with the cooked warm bacon.
Add a bit of water to moisten the pan and make it easier for the eggs to be tossed in.
Stir that around.
Add the creamy eggs to the pan and mix well.
Grate the home made cheese into the pan.
Add a generous amount of pepper, but not too much. Cheese loves pepper.
Add a tiny bit of salt to taste.

Hint: If you put too much water, you can always toast some bread and grind it up. Then put it in the dish to absorm the liquid. You can also heat the pan back up gently as to not scramble the eggs but evaporate the liquid.

Step 6: Serve.

On the plate, add a salad or vegetables if you have some.
Serve out the pasta/
Add more cheese if you like.
Eat.

Homemade SOS

This is an old military sort of meal that I varied a bit.

Ingredients:

Swiss cheese slices
Bread slices
Ground turkey
Flour
Butter or oil
Salt, pepper and etc.
Water: (several glasses)

Method:
 1. Toast the bread slices.
 2. Saute the ground turkey in 1/4 lb hunks.
3. Remove the turkey from the pan,
4. Add cooking oil if needed.
 5. Scrape up the bits in the pan to an emulsion.
 6. Add two tablespoons flour.
 7. Let that cook till the flour taste should be gone. (several minutes).
 8. SLOWLY add just a bit of water (milk or whatever) and mix into the oil and flour mixture. You will add more liquid as you go along to increase the volume of the gravy. Add pepper and salt as needed.
 9. Put a slice of cheese on a piece of toast.
10. Slice up a 1/4 pound of meat and put on top of the cheese.
11. Pour gravy on the top.
12 Eat.

Pasta with sage-butter sauce.

Simple pepper butter pasta dish.

Ingredients:
8 to 12  ounces uncooked capellini pasta (angel hair)
6 - turkey bacon strips
1 - gallon water )for boiling noodles)
1 - stick butter (1/2 cup)
1 - teaspoon sage
1 - teaspoon black pepper
1 - slice swiss cheese
1 - dash garlic powder

Method:

Start to boil the water in a large pot.
When boiling, add the dried pasta and cook for several minutes.
In a skillet fry  the bacon strips till semi-crisp, the remove for skillet.
Melt the stick of butter gently.
Add the pepper and sage.
Tear bacon into small pieces and add back to the pan.
Remove the pasta from the water and add to the skillet and toss well.
Tear a slice of swiss cheese and add to the skillet.
Add garlic powder to taste.
Stir well and server while hot.

Superbowl eats.

A Fococcia (aka thick bread pizza) covered with American cheese slices.