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den ([personal profile] den) wrote2007-06-21 11:20 pm
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Bloke Cooking

Train Smash, for [livejournal.com profile] odiedragon and [livejournal.com profile] lonita

Train Smash

Get

1 casserole dish
Some tomatoes
Some onions
Some cheese
Some herbs and stuff like that

Do

Turn the stereo up loud.

Slice up everything. Get it all together in the dish in layers. Start with a layer of onions, then tomatoes, then cheese. Do this until you fill the dish or it's at least an inch thick. You can sprinkle herbs in as you do this, if you want. Put extra cheese on top and bake it in a moderately hot oven until the cheese starts to go brown.

This dish is called "Train Smash" because it looks like one when you put it on plates.

[identity profile] odiedragon.livejournal.com 2007-06-21 01:21 pm (UTC)(link)
Do you think it'd be good with some chicken under that top layer of some cheese? It sounds good but I'd rather it be a meal than a side dish.

[identity profile] dewhitton.livejournal.com 2007-06-21 01:27 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't see why that wouldn't work. I've also done a layer of mashed potato on top of the last layer of cheese.
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[personal profile] jenny_evergreen 2007-06-21 01:52 pm (UTC)(link)
Ooh, even vegetarian me can make it! *happy dance*
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[personal profile] jenny_evergreen 2007-06-21 04:31 pm (UTC)(link)
*makes note to add tofu-bacon* :P

[identity profile] lonita.livejournal.com 2007-06-21 07:25 pm (UTC)(link)
You're going to have to define that one for m, dear. :>
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[personal profile] chezmax 2007-06-22 08:07 pm (UTC)(link)
IAWTC = I Agree With This Comment. :)

[identity profile] lonita.livejournal.com 2007-06-23 05:10 am (UTC)(link)
Well, then, IAWTC also, since everything is better with bacon.

[identity profile] odiedragon.livejournal.com 2007-06-21 02:01 pm (UTC)(link)
Mmm... that sounds good too!

[identity profile] dancinglights.livejournal.com 2007-06-21 01:37 pm (UTC)(link)
"Turn the stereo up loud." should be the first step in any recipe.

[identity profile] http://users.livejournal.com/crossfire_/ 2007-06-21 02:51 pm (UTC)(link)
Needs Velveeta. :-D

[identity profile] starcat-jewel.livejournal.com 2007-06-21 03:12 pm (UTC)(link)
Sort of like a pizza without the crust. :-)

[identity profile] dewhitton.livejournal.com 2007-06-21 10:33 pm (UTC)(link)
It's a vegetarian casserole.

[identity profile] weyrdbird.livejournal.com 2007-06-21 03:47 pm (UTC)(link)
You could use meat in it, yeah. It represents the charred corpsesXD.
Maybe I should try it with some pre-cooked green tomatoes.

[identity profile] dewhitton.livejournal.com 2007-06-21 10:36 pm (UTC)(link)
I can't remember if I ever posted my recipe for Steak & Suspicious Organs Pie.

[identity profile] fenris-lorsrai.livejournal.com 2007-06-21 07:24 pm (UTC)(link)
They used to serve something similar in the university cafeteria that was called "train Wreck". Unsuprisingly, new students tended not to eat it with that sort of name...

[identity profile] dewhitton.livejournal.com 2007-06-21 10:37 pm (UTC)(link)
Train wreck... train smash. It looks the same on the plates.

[identity profile] zibblsnrt.livejournal.com 2007-06-21 09:49 pm (UTC)(link)
More recipes need audio components.

[identity profile] dewhitton.livejournal.com 2007-06-21 10:34 pm (UTC)(link)
"Serve with Chilled Lager and Sex Pistols."

[identity profile] hafoc.livejournal.com 2007-06-22 02:14 am (UTC)(link)
Tuna Slop

Noodles
Condensed Cream of Mushroom Soup (canned)
Tuna (canned)

Boil noodles until mushy. Dump in soup and tuna. Stir. Generally served with chewy coffee outside a tent while camping.


Camp Barbecue Chicken

Start charcoal in square metal thing with legs which pretends to be a cheap charcoal grill but needs to be at least three inches deeper.

Start the charcoal again.

Start the charcoal again.

Squirt on charcoal starter fluid. Put out flaming eyebrows and hope like hell you were wearing cotton clothes and not polyester (polyester melts and laminates to the skin)

Wait until charcoal goes from too hot to too cold.

Put the grill on top.

Dip chicken legs in tomato catsup and throw them on the grill.

Watch for a LONG time.

Decide the danged thing isn't going to cook for a while. Go into the trailer to open the baked beans. This will signal the fat in the chicken skin to melt, drip into the charcoal, and create a fountain of flame reminiscent of the time the tanker Jupiter blew up at the docks in Bay City.

Approximately 20 nanoseconds of this will give the chicken the classic raw inside, charred outside texture of true camp cooking.

Eat it anyway, because there's nothing else. Medevac and stomach pump optional.



One Pot Breakfast

Dump water, instant oatmeal, rasins, peanuts, powdered milk, brown sugar lumps, and M&Ms into one pot and boil the hell out of it, because you forgot the real stove and it's six states away now and you only have the one-burner abomination you bought to carry along on the hike down the Grand Canyon you never did go on because of that infected cut on your foot. Discover that the mixture is really not bad at all, and certainly beats the chicken.

[identity profile] dewhitton.livejournal.com 2007-06-22 02:22 am (UTC)(link)
Camp Cooking is just Drunk Cooking done outdoors.

[identity profile] lonita.livejournal.com 2007-06-23 05:12 am (UTC)(link)
Gosh, and all I have is a recipe for stuffed camel. :(

Ye Olde Budget Standby

[identity profile] weyrdbird.livejournal.com 2007-06-22 11:06 am (UTC)(link)
Dead Chicken parts (6)
1 can cream of mushroom soup
1 cup cream or 1/2 and 1/2 (don't cheat and use milk unless you have to, it makes all the difference in the universe)
salt/garlic salt
pepper (optional)
paprika
chopped parsley (and use dried inna pinch)

Take the dead chicken parts, put them in a casserole (one flat layer) and salt and pepper it a bit, then paprika thoroughly, Dilute the soup with the cream, pour it over the chicken, and sprinkle the parsley on top, Bake uncovered for an hour and 15-30 minutes, Good with rice and two veg or a green salad:D. There is also a curried version:D.