Recipe Thread

[BendtheBar]

Originally Posted by kitarpyar

Back in the days I used to take protein powder, I would often mix heavy whipping cream with a couple of scoops of chocolate flavored protein powder. Good way to down 600+ calories with 50+gms of protein. Ready in a minute, consumed within a minute. 2 minutes and a good amount of calories consumed.

Sounds great.

Months back we facetiously devised the "deadlifts and heavy cream" as a superior program to "squats and milk."

[BendtheBar]

I am a crock pot jedi.

Put your weekly chicken breasts or whatever in a crock pot along with carrots, onion, whatever, and and diced red potatoes. Add butter or olive oil, some water, and season aggressively with whatever you like.

Let this sit all day. Watch it. Stir it. Add water when needed.

This is a pretty darn easy way to cook 5 meals without doing much.

[bruteforce]

Ingredients

12 inch stick of fresh lemongrass
6 pieces of kaffir lime leaves
bunch of cilantro
vietnamese coriander (also called rah ram Persicaria odorata - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia or "laksa leaf")
mint
a bunch of green onions (scallions)
thai peppers
lime juice
fish sauce
black pepper
salt
5-7 lbs of extra lean ground beef


Directions

Chop the lemongrass into fine pieces
Mince the kaffir lime leaves into extra fine pieces.
Coarsley chop the cilantro
Slice the green onions into little rounds
Chop the thai peppers into small pieces
Pull off the mint leaves from the stalk (you can use them whole or chop them up)
Pull off the vietnamese coriander from the stalk (same as mint)
**Now that the chopping and stuff is done you can cook the meat**
Cook the ground beef in a pan on medium heat.
Add salt and black pepper to season. You will be adding fish sauce later so make sure not to salt too heavily at this time.
Cook until there is no pink and there is still some juices left in the pan.
Let the meat cool for a few minutes.
Put the meat in a large bowl that you can easily stir.
Add the Thai peppers first so that it can marinate with the meat.
Add the lemon grass, kaffir lime leaves in next.
Stir until well mixed.
Add a lot of fish sauce and lime juice.
Stir.
Add the cilantro, mint, viatnamese mint, green onions last.
Stir gently until incorporated so you don't bruise the herbs.


Eat. (commentary: Goes well on Lettuce and on Celery. Also goes well via spoon directly into your mouth.)

[T-Bone]

I make a batch of this every week so it;s always there when I need calorie boost. Rather simple and mundane, but...

Chicken and Rice MUSCLE FOOD

1# of chicken breasts (I get them 3 in a pack, frozen, <$4)
6 cups water
1 or 2 Carrots and celery stalks
Salt to taste (I use 2 tbsp)

Boil the chicken and vegetables until the chicken is done. I pick out the breasts and slice them after 10 minutes to make sure they cook all the way through. Drain the water and remove and dice the chicken. Return everything to the same pot and add:

4 cups Brown rice, cooked.

Mix and store for no more than a week (if it lasts that long!)

The beauty of the recipe is you can add whatever vegetables you have around. I've used diced green peppers, radishes, frozen peas, chopped onion, frozen corn, and green beans. And you could add any seasoning you want. A chipotle bouillon cube would be fantastic!

[BigFiveFive]

Great thread for my upcoming offseason, digging that pudding recipe Steve, that is definitely going into my diet when I get back to school and its hard to cook meals.