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What's your top 3?

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  • 31-12-2012 12:39am
    #1
    unkel
    Registered Users Posts: 64,915 ✭✭✭✭


    3 years of the Cooking Club - big thanks to all the contributors :)



    Now what is your top 3 and why? I'll kick off:

    1. Spicy Thai Chicken Noodle Soup - After I made it, I smelled the soup. Wow, did I make this? Glorious rich smell and decent restaurant quality food. I gave myself a 9 out of 10 and so did others. I've never made anything as good before or after. Gave me a real confidence booster about cooking :)

    2. Pulled Pork - Need I say more? :D

    3. Homemade Pizza - Love it. Extremely versatile. Make up the sauce in large batches and freeze them in portions. Mu electric breadmaker makes the dough for me (I'm lazy). The toppings are whatever we fancy / have left over. Could be anything! Even if you have next to nothing in the house, you can always make pizza!


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    shinikins
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    I'd actually pick the same three! :D So many great recipes to choose from over the course of the 3 years, but these are just my go-to recipes!


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    Mr Simpson
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    For me its:

    Pulled Pork
    Rasberry Blondies
    Baileys & Malteser Cheesecake :)


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    Toast4532
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    I'd choose the pizza too, I have made it many times and it never lets me down, it is delicious, well worth all the effort and the waiting.

    The baileys and malteaser cheesecake was amazing. I have the ingredients to make it again, just waiting for an excuse to make it!

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055847706&page=6

    The american pankcakes are delicious too, although I don't use the maple syrup as I can't stand it.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056573503

    I am dying to try the Lime and Chilli Chicken burgers, maybe at the weekend I'll make them :)

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056717661


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    oscarBravo
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    Toast4532 wrote: »
    The baileys and malteaser cheesecake was amazing. I have the ingredients to make it again, just waiting for an excuse to make it!

    Excuse...? :confused:



    ;)


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    nice1franko
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,300 ✭✭✭nice1franko


    1. Indian Restaurant Curries It had been a bit of an ambition of mine to be able to make curries like these since I first tasted them (it seemed like magic to me) so I'm not overstating when I say this got something struck off my bucket list!

    2. Chili - up til this I thought chili was a just a "novel" way of dressing up an average midweek, sustenance, mince-based meal.

    3. Smoked Haddock and Leek Risotto - my first time making risotto so this was a bit of a gateway for me to many more.


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    hdowney
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    Toast4532 wrote: »
    I'd choose the pizza too, I have made it many times and it never lets me down, it is delicious, well worth all the effort and the waiting.

    The baileys and malteaser cheesecake was amazing. I have the ingredients to make it again, just waiting for an excuse to make it!

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055847706&page=6

    The american pankcakes are delicious too, although I don't use the maple syrup as I can't stand it.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056573503

    I am dying to try the Lime and Chilli Chicken burgers, maybe at the weekend I'll make them :)

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056717661


    I made the Lime and Chilli Chicken burgers. They were great :)


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    Toast4532
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    hdowney wrote: »
    I made the Lime and Chilli Chicken burgers. They were great :)
    They sound amazing.

    Did you put Jack Daniels in them? I want to, but don't have any, so would need to buy a small bottle, although I'd only be using it for cooking so not sure if it's worth it as I have no other recipes that call for JD.


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    hdowney
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    Toast4532 wrote: »
    They sound amazing.

    Did you put Jack Daniels in them? I want to, but don't have any, so would need to buy a small bottle, although I'd only be using it for cooking so not sure if it's worth it as I have no other recipes that call for JD.

    I didn't have any at the time, nor the wherewithall to purchase some (for me it would have been a 70cl bottle as I am partial to JD :) ) So I left it out. It was grand without in my opinion


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    Loopy
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    Chicken & chorizo bake

    Rasberry blondies

    Paella


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    hattoncracker
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    Malaysian curry- I love curry, my bf isn't a spicy person because he has ulcers so I make it mild. :)

    Beef with red wine and rosemary stew, I hate normal stew, this is the first recipe like this that I loved.

    Pulled pork-well obviously! ;)


    ...can I pick more than 3? :)


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    fitzcoff
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    For me it would be the following but in no particular order

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2055822034 - the chicken and chorizo bake
    (but I add black pudding to it )

    The Baileys and Malteaser cheesecake - got some orange baileys over Xmas so looking forward to trying that in the cheesecake.

    http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?t=2056506416 - The chicken a la king - i normally make this with leftover roast chicken and I have recently discovered the herb infusion stock pots and added it to this dish and yum.

    again if it was more than the top 3, the pizza and quiche would have to be added plus a few more

    (on a side note, how do you create a link within the name of the recipe )


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    oscarBravo
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    fitzcoff wrote: »
    (on a side note, how do you create a link within the name of the recipe )
    Like this:

    [noparse]the chicken and chorizo bake[/noparse]


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    Neyite
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    fitzcoff wrote: »
    (on a side note, how do you create a link within the name of the recipe )

    Write the word, then highlight over it and click on the little blue globe icon. In the pop up box paste the url of the destination for the link.


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    timbertime
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    Its hard to only pick three!

    1) Blondies
    2) Mars bar treats
    3) Spicy thai chicken noodle soup

    Breaded goats cheese salad runs the soup very close. Made it for starter for Christmas dinner and went down a treat!


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    Malari
    Registered Users Posts: 18,150 ✭✭✭✭Malari


    I think based on how often I make them it would be:

    1. Faith's Pesto Chicken
    2. Swampy's Spinach & Ricotta Gnocchi
    3. Susie Q's Flourless Chocolate Cake

    But the breaded goat's cheese salad and the blondies were also shortlisted!


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