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Anyone here cook? What are your favorite recipes? What do you cook the most?

I'm not much of a cook, but there's a few things I can do well. Steaks, of course, and my ahi steaks are damned good, but the dish my kids keep asking me for is my meatballs. I've never written a recipe, though.

My tops and mac and cheese and lazagnia but both are fairly standard.

I just found this thread today, so I will share my most recent recipe success:

Calabrian Shrimp for Two
ingredients: 12 large peeled and deveined shrimp, 5-10 pickled calabrian peppers (aka pepperoncini), chopped with their seeds, olive oil to coat a large skillet, 6 slices of baquette cut on the bias.
Put the slices of baguette onto a cookie sheet and toast under the broiler a few minutes on each side, until crisp.
Combine oil and peppers and heat on medium until they begin to sizzle. Add in the shrimp and cook on one side for approximately 2 mins, covered. Uncover and flip the shrimp and cook 1 min, and remove from heat (the carryover heat in the pan will finish the shrimp).
Put 3 slices of toast on each plate, and top with the shrimp and peppers, drizzling the cooking oil over the top.

Enjoy!

Update: I made this a second time recently, and added 3 cloves of minced garlic to the pan with the peppers. Even better!

Take two to four jiggers of an Islay scotch, preferably Laphraoig. Pour over two ice cubes.

What? That's it.

How about a Lagavulin 16 neat. Easy recipe and they've already added the liquid smoke!

Last glass of scotch I enjoyed was Johnny Walker Blue. Not bad, not great, but free!

Johnnie Blue is interesting... The blends differ from year to year but there's an odd grainy vanilla to it that while not unappealing, there are probably other things that I'd rather pay $225 USD for a .75 mL before I get a Blue. When I consider just how great the Johnnie Walker Green Label is for $60 a bottle (My absolute go-to when I'm just drinking with friends), I just can't bring myself to fork over the Blue money.

Keyword on my previous booze post: free

My folks, when they drank scotch, drank Chivas Regal. I always felt a burn from the brand, but it was the go-to during undergrad days.

The Glens (fiddich and levit) are much smoother to my palate, but pricey.

Mikey wrote:Islay scotch...ice cubes.

Captain Seafort wrote:

Mikey wrote:Islay scotch...ice cubes.

I'm at a loss to determine whether your reaction is due to liking less peaty, less medicinal scotches; or to preferring them neat. I admit, I'll take a Macallan's neat, but I do like an ice cube in the really kelpy Islays.

Mikey wrote:

Captain Seafort wrote:

Mikey wrote:Islay scotch...ice cubes.

I'm at a loss to determine whether your reaction is due to liking less peaty, less medicinal scotches; or to preferring them neat. I admit, I'll take a Macallan's neat, but I do like an ice cube in the really kelpy Islays.

"Macallan's is so fucking pedestrian" - owner of my local liquor store owner and whiskey expert. One of my favorite all time quotes about Scotch, but I do love a good Macallan's 12.

Honestly, if it's anything above Johnnie Black in price, I'm probably doing neat/splash of distilled water.

Macallan 18 Sherry Oak is my favourite. Unfortunately it's over £200 a bottle at the moment, even out of my price range for a 70cl bottle.

IanKennedy wrote:Macallan 18 Sherry Oak is my favourite. Unfortunately it's over £200 a bottle at the moment, even out of my price range for a 70cl bottle.

Yes, I love a sherry cask, though Balvenie 15 Sherry is by far my favorite sherry cask at any price, and at £120 a bottle certainly beats the price. Glenmorangie 12 Lasanta isn't bad at all for a sherry cask at less than £40 a bottle for a 700ml.

Also, do you guys really use cl and not ml in the UK? I suppose I've never noticed that, but I always found it weird that centimeter is used in America often enough, but I can't think of much use of centiliter here.

Mikey wrote:I'm at a loss to determine whether your reaction is due to liking less peaty, less medicinal scotches; or to preferring them neat. I admit, I'll take a Macallan's neat, but I do like an ice cube in the really kelpy Islays.

The reaction was over the idea of adding anything more than a drop of water to a good single malt.