i can cook pretty well when provided with a recipe. i'm good at breakfast, especially. but breakfast isn't very hard.

i make pretty tasty chicken tacos. they consist of grilled, shredded chicken (seasoned and marinated), "refried" blackbeans, salsa, jack cheese, and extra cilantro.

i want a latte. um...attach it to an email?  

i make a killer frozen pizza  

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Artichoke and Pancetta Pasta:

buy 4-6 fresh large artichokes
tons of mint
one bulb of fresh garlic
salt
1/4 pd. medium slice of pancetta
pasta of choice, a big one that can hold pieces of ingredients. Not Spaghetti
3 lemons
clean the artichokes really well, taking many of the hard outer leaves off and scooping out the choke in the middle, placing the artichokes in icewater with lemons to prevent browning.

chop up your mint and garlic and mix with a healthy dose of salt. So you're making like a pesto. Not quite as smooth.

Stuff this mixture between the leaves and in the center of the artichoke.

Place the artichokes stems up in a pot with two cups of white wind (tasty stuff please), the halved lemons (not the ones that had soaked in water though!) and one cup of good oilive oil

Turn the heat up and bring mixture to a boil, then turn down and let simmer for 50 minutes.

Meanwhile, chop up your pancetta, brown and drain of fat (unless you love that) Start your pasta water.

when your fork easily penetrates the artichoke body they are finished. Take them out and put them in a bowl to cool a little. Raise the heat on the remaining juices, now a sauce, and cook it down a bit until it's thicker.

Slice up one or two of the artichoke bodies (removing the leaves) and add to the sauce, along with more chopped garlic and the pancetta.

Get that pasta cooking

Then mix them all together and serve the remaining whole artichokes on the side with cooked lemons as garnish.

Delish!

edited: 08 Jul 2004   

i'll make that tonite fredo.
 

I have two recipes in my forum that I made up on the fly. They are pretty good too!

Eat em up!  

 

spaghetti w/ or w/o meatsauce

MMMMmmmmmm?  

Almond and maple syrup crusted Salmon filet
with garlic aparagus, and apricot cous cous.

Its a date pleaser..  

yumyumyum!  

oh, asparagus with carmelized ginger!  

damn it, my belly likes food!  

make me some food please. it sounds good. i don't cook.

but i can bake you a strawberry rhubarb crumble. or delicious nanaimo bars. they are very good, if i do say so myself.  

thai food

fresh ginger & lime leaves
red chilli - honey and coconut milk
lemon grass - garlic - lime juice - fresh coriander
cardamon pod -

cooked together with
sugar snap peas
meat or veg

rice or glass noodles

edited: 08 Jul 2004   

i learned alot about cooking southern indian style from an ex-girlfriend..that same girlfriend also taught me another thing...

Not a recipe really but something great to know nonetheless..

An old bartender trick to get a agrravatingly drunk patron out of a bar... Put 1 drop of Visine in the their drink..they will shit themselves...and more than likely leave..at least hopefully after they mess themselves..

I have yet to try it.. any takers?  

yes it does work.
i have visined a few ppl