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As a favor to Nummy and others I have promised to start posting recipes here. I promise they will alll be easy and nothing crazy.
It would be great if others posted their favorite recipes as well.

Gunthar
Healy Bear

Basic recipe:
1 3 1/2 - 4 lb whole chicken
2 tsp cornstarch
2 lbs small red potatoes, scrubbed and halved
2 tsp vegetable oil
salt

1. Line a roasting pan with foil, letting foil come up the sides of the pan. Adjust oven rack to middle position, place roasting pan on rack and heat to 475 degrees F. Coat V-Rack with cooking spray.

2. Combine cornstarch and 2 tsp of salt in a small bowl. Use a skewer to poke holes all over the chicken skikn. Rub the cornstarch mixture evenly over the chicken.

3. Remove roasting pan from the oven and place chicken, wing side up, in the V-Rack then place the V-Rack into the roasting pan. Roast chicken 15 minutes. Remove roasting pan from the oven and, using wadded up paper towels, flip chicken over so the other wing is facing up. Roast 15 minutes.

4. Meanwhile, toss potatoes, oil and 1/2 tsp salt in a medium bowl. Remove pan from oven and carefully move the V-rack to a foil lined cookie sheet. Gather up foil by the corners, collecting any juices and fat, and discard. Arrange potatoes, cut side down, in roasting pan and place V-Rack back in pan. Using a wad of paper towels flip the chicken in the V-Rack breast side up. Roast until an instant read thermometer placed in the thickest part of the thigh reads 170 degrees. About 20 minutes.

5. Using a wad of paper towels remove the chicken from the V-Rack and pour the juices from the cavity into the pan with the potatoes. Place chicken on an angel food pan insert or an empty soda can to rest upright for 10 or 15 minutes. Meanwhile toss the potatoes in the chicken juices and return to oven for 10 to 15 minutes until well browned and crisp.

Notes:
I recommend you stuff the chicken cavity with aromatics such as parsley, thyme, rosemary, lemon and/or onion wedges. This will make the very moist meat taste much better.
Also, add some fresh ground pepper, garlic powder and fresh thyme to the potatoes.

Be sure to pour off the first set of chicken juices. They are very salty.
When you flip the chicken, using a couple of good potholders or kitchen towels is better than the paper towels.

Enjoy.

Gunthar
Healy Bear

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It dries out the skin and makes it more crispy. If you ever have really crispy Chinese food it is because they use cornstarch and rice flour in their breading.

Gunthar

This recipe I got from my Ex:

Tator Tot Casserole

1# ground beef or turkey
1 small onion, chopped
1 14oz can french style green beans
2# bag frozen tator tots
1 can evaporated milk
1 14oz can cream of mushroom soup

Brown meat and onion together, put on bottom of a 9"x12" pan.
Drain green beans and put on top of meat. Mix milk and soup together, pour
over meat and green beans. Put tator tots on top. Bake in oven at 425*F
for 45-50 min, until tator tots are browned.

Other types of cream soup may be substituted.
Can substitute tofu for meat.
Freeze, thaw, and squeeze water from tofu (1#).
Cut into 1/2" x 1/2" x 1 1/2" pieces.
Marinade in 2T hot water
2T soy sauce
2T almond butter or extract
1/4 tsp garlic powder (or 1 clove)
1/4 tsp black pepper

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After a kill, there is nothing like a BLT [Brain, Lettuce, and Tomato], where the brain is sliced up nice and thin and the tomatoes are ripe...Mmmm...

Crepes are very easy and impressive.

You don't need a special pan. Just a skillet with a flat bottom.

Crepes
Makes 8 or so.

2 Tbls butter, melted
1 cup flour
2 eggs
1/2 cup milk
1/2 cup water
pinch of salt

Mix eggs, water and milk together and pour into a bowl with the flour and salt.
Mix well, you don't have to be gentle with this in fact you can mix it all in a blender.
Then add the melted butter and continue until you have a thin batter.

Heat skillet over medium heat and coat bottom with cooking spray.
Once hot, pick up the skillet and add 1/4 cup of batter, swirling batter around the
bottom is covered in a thin sheet.

Place skillet on burner and cook about 1 minute, until the edges start peeling away
from the sides. With a wide spatula take out the crepe and flip over to cook the other
side for about 20 - 30 seconds. It should be flexible. Place on waxed paper and repeat
process until you have all of them cooked. Separate crepes with waxed paper. These
can be stored flat in a ziplock bag and frozen up to 6 weeks.

Crepes can be filled with hot or cold ingredients or stacked with ingredients between
them to form a cake.

Suggestions:
Place the cooked crepe back in the pan, or fill once the crepe was flipped with:
Swiss cheese and slices of ham.
Roasted chicken and hollandaise sauce.
Scrambled eggs with toppings.
Beef in mushroom gravy.

Sweet and cold:
Strawberries and whipped cream
Blueberry compote with cream cheese
Sliced bananas with a drizzle of Nutella

They are wonderful with just jam spread on them.

To serve you can fold the edges in over like you have seen.
Or it can be folded into a square or even wrapped in paper and
rolled into a cone to eat out of hand like they do in Paris.

Very easy and versatile. I'm doing a crepe bar breakfast for 100
next week and have cooked and frozen 300 crepes to use as my base.

Gunthar

kool aid
add your favorite flavor of kool aid
# 1 1/2 cups sugar
# 1 gallon cold water

stir and enjoy

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You should check out this site Rokey http://www.tastespotting.com/

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If the Tank dies, its the Healer's fault.
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