Survey: If you are a cook, or if you are not a cook ...
If you are a cook:
Name one dish (and a recipe or where to find the recipe):
A) You absolutely adore.
B) You are indifferent about, but would recommend
C) that you wouldn't feed to your evil stepmother (or other abhorred person)
If you are not a cook:
List a restaurant (along with city, type of food):
A) You absolutely adore.
B) That you are kinda indifferent about, but would eat there again.
C) That is so bad that you wouldn't even take your hated stepmother to it
Mine are:
Recipe:
A) Chicken cacciatore from Buca di Beppo. Which also happens to be my favorite restaurant. (The closest is in Pineville, NC, I believe.)
B) Scout's Brownies. I don't like these brownies as much as regular ones, but if I had to recommend a recipe that's a little different, this would be it.
My variation on Scout's Brownies
1 cup unsalted butter
4 ounces peanut butter chips
3 tablespoons european style unsweetened cocoa powder
1 1/2 cups all-purpose flour (high altitude, add 2 tbsp)
1/2 teaspoon baking powder
1 teaspoon salt
4 eggs
2 cups sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 cup good quality chocolate chips (I used a mixture of half peanut butter, half chocolate chips. I think dark chocolate chips could also be good).
-- Preheat oven to 350 degrees (high altitude 375).
-- Melt butter with unsweetened chocolate in a double boiler. Set aside to cool.
-- Sift together cocoa, flour, baking powder and salt.
-- Beat eggs until creamy, and slowly add the sugar, beating constantly.
-- Add vanilla and cooled chocolate/butter mixture.
-- Stir in dry ingredients until just combined.
-- Spread batter in buttered 9x13 pan.
-- Sprinkle chips over surface.
-- Bake for 30-35 minutes or until center is set. Let cool before cutting.
C) This is hard. A recipe I hate? The closest I ever came to disliking a recipe was when I made lasagna using Giada di Laurentiis' recipe. But everyone else who ate it said they liked it, so I guess I would serve it to an evil stepmother.
