randir's New Writeups

Banana-Stuffed French Toast (idea)

2003-03-10T17:36:24Z

About a couple weeks ago, Anthony and I had to go to California to visit a sick aunt of mine. Staying at my sister's house in North Hollywood, I decided it would be nice to cook breakfast for her family as a token of our appreciation. I decided on making French toast (I mean, who would turn down French toast? Let alone made by someone else?). She had very few ingredients at hand and, as a result, I had to make do with what was around. Looking around her kitchen I noticed that she had quite a number of bananas and decided to work them into the recipe.

Besides omelettes, French toast is one of my favorite things to make for breakfast. It's simple and tasty and makes an excellent presentation with powdered sugar and fresh fruit. My favorite way to serve it is to slice up strawberries and fan them…

Almond crusted chicken fingers dinner (idea)

2002-10-03T17:47:56Z

The way this recipe is given here, it is served with a side of sautéed mushrooms with onions and rice pilaf. They are included because they make a good complement to the flavors provided by the chicken. Naturally, this recipe can be prepared without the two side dishes. If that is the case, it might be a good idea to serve the chicken fingers with a dipping sauce like honey mustard or even ketchup. It makes for great party food but takes a while since the chicken needs to be cooked in batches at a time.

Note that this dish contains nuts and, if the side dishes are used, mushrooms. Allergic people beware.

what you'll need:

1 lb skinless, boneless chicken breast (tenderloins, if you can get them)
1/4 c dijon mustard
2 tsp thyme
1 T parsley flakes
1 tsp garlic salt
1 tsp onion powder
1 tsp ground black pepper
1/2 lemon
5 c seasoned bread crumbs
3 c

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Baked Ziti of Pain (idea)

2002-09-25T07:37:43Z

In the tradition of Lasagne of Fiery Doom, Baked Ziti of Pain is a zinger of a baked pasta recipe. Its origin can be traced as far back as 1996 or 1997, around the time that I started living in sublets to stick around Boston for the summers. On my own and in the absence of dorm food, I'd be learning how to cook and, at one time, tried cooking something simple, working in what I had then accumulated in my ability to cook (which wasn't considerable at the time). Through the years, this particular recipe (and sauce, namely) would be worked on more and more as I began making it more and more. You'll notice a distinct similarity between this recipe (again, the sauce, namely) and Lasagne of Fiery Doom for this very reason. I'd recommend taking a look at the lasagne recipe to develop some context. You'll notice that this sauce will have a different texture than that which is used for the lasagne and this dish has appeared at different…

Lasagne of fiery doom (idea)

2002-09-23T22:33:12Z

Chris-O says miller, la la la, he makes spicy lasagna, la la la, i need the damn recipe, la la la, i have no more words.
- January 28, 2002

This is my signature lasagne recipe. Well, by now it is, anyway. And, incidentally, it makes use of a modified version of my signature pasta sauce. I've been bugged by a couple of different noders (namely, Chris-O and moxie) to node this recipe as it has, on numerous occasions, appeared at nodermeets where I've made a culinary contribution of some sort. At the least, it's been present whenever I've had noders come over for dinner or parties, typically served with a special kind of bruschetta I make. drunkenmonkey says it should probably be referred to as the official E2 lasagne. I don't know if I'd go that far, but I'd definitely think it was safe to say it could at least be the official BAP lasagne.

Now, you'd think that…

Pepper steak fajitas or something (idea)

2002-05-31T15:56:50Z

So cahla said we should do dinner over at her place last night. That she would pick up whatever groceries I would need, provided I cooked. And, y0, I'm always down for that. Since she and I were both pretty sick of pasta and rice dishes, we sought other things. At first I was thinking potatoes to go along with whatever, but figgered that'd take way too frickin' long. (And it would have.) I suggested a pepper steak dish that my sister used to always make. But realizing that it's a dish better served with rice (as my sister did it), I decided to make it kinda like fajitas instead.

You'll notice that the bell peppers are added at the very last and not cooked for very long. That's because she doesn't much like cooked (in particular, really cooked) peppers. They're steamed to retain their texture, which turned out to be a rather good thing. The contrast between their relative freshness and the meat'…

April 29, 2002 (thing)

2002-04-29T18:19:02Z

Friday, April 26
1:33 PM

Miller, it's Carla.
Um, I just got the keys for "Davey Jones' Locker". Um, it is locker number four hundred twenty nine. Four-two-nine. None of the keys have this number on it because I had to make ten copies for us. So, uh, I'm in the middle of running a bunch of errands.. I'm going to be thinking about this but I wanted to recruit your creative brain power. Um, we need to come up with a riddle of some kind to get them the number "four twenty-nine". I don't want to give it to them - that would fuckin' suck!

Uh, so think of something clever. Also don't forget about making up an anagram of your phone number. And the last thing that I have to do with you is give you your instructions to leave your

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