Prog Chefs Unite!!!

Would anybody be particularly offended if I create a new thread alongside this one specifically for recipes? I'm always looking for new recipes myself, and I'm sure other people would like some new recipes as well.

For today's lunch I made baked pasta - a sort of Italianate version of mac and cheese. Originally I wanted to make lasagne, but then I had to confront the harsh reality, i.e. the lack of fresh pasta sheets in our local grocery store. The only similar thing they had were egg roll wrappers, so I decided to give them a miss, and use ordinary pasta instead - a packet of tri-coloured cockscombs (don't laugh, that was the name!), which weren't the very best choice, but not too bad either. I mixed the cooked pasta with ricotta, cooked, chopped spinach, some sour cream, and shredded cheddar, then spread it in a pie pan and topped it with tomato sauce, sprinkled with Parmesan. I baked everything in a 375 F oven for about 20 minutes. Quite delicious!

I've made it with cubed beef and Guinness before and it was wonderful served over mashed potatoes. The beer really smooths out when reduced.

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she just pulled the cheesecake out of the oven... oh my god it looks and smells like heaven... not touching a ounce of food for breakfast or lunch tomorrow.  She is making sausage and lentils for dinner tomorrow night with the cheesecake for dessert.  Ummmm....

love green curry Angelo.... I bet that was good...

Raff made an incredible Seafood Risotto today....  in return I treated to burgers at Fudruckers (with Chili cheese fries hahha).... and in return... she is in the kitchen right now making a raspberry chocolate cheesecake 

Eric, my condolences to you and your family - memories are all that will be left, but given your story above, they'll be good memories. 

Will do, Micky. The world definitely lost a very good man. The word 'integrity' keeps popping up in my head when thinking about Jim.

I'll pass that on to my wife. She'll appreciate it. Thank you for your condolences, though. It was very special to make them for him one last time.

For as long as I've been a member of my wife's family, there is one thing  my father-in-law, Jim, has always loved--my biscuits and gravy. Whenever they'd come down to visit I always made sure I had sausage and biscuits because I knew Jim just loved and looked forward to them. I preface this by saying that Jim's oldest son is also named Eric (very nice man). Apparently when Jim found out that Laurie and I were coming up early, a very frail Jim goes, "Oh, I sure hope I can get Eric to make biscuits and gravy." Eric (my brother-in-law) goes, "Not a problem, Dad. I'd be glad to," and Jim looks up and goes, "Not you! The other Eric." Everybody just chuckled.

Well, I made sure that I prepared the best biscuits and gravy I could. He was asleep when my niece (who also loves my biscuits and gravy, and who rode over with me to be sure to get some) arrived, but the rest of us ate breakfast and I thought, "Man, this could be the best batch I've ever made." Jim woke up and I asked him if he was in the mood for a half a biscuit or a whole one. He told me that he could handle a whole one, so I took it out to him and returned to the kitchen. As ill as he is, I can just hear him in the living room commenting on how good the biscuits and gravy were. He was just so happy to be eating them (especially after the awful hospital food) and you could tell that he was in gravy heaven.

Jim passed away from complications of Leukemia the morning after Christmas at his home in Elkhorn, Wisconsin. I'm going to miss making it for him because I know he always enjoyed it. My daughter, Emily, also goes nuts over them and I try to make them for her a few times. I'll definitely always think of Jim every time from now on, though.