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Perfect Roasted Turkey

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 11:15:06 -0700

Heat oven to 350 degrees

Rub butter or oil over the skin of the turkey until it is completely coated.

Sprinkle with salt and pepper and any other seasonings you prefer.

Take a knife and gently separate the skin from the breast meat;
slide lemon halves under the skin with the peel side up, one on
each side. This way the juice from the lemon will release into the breasts.

Cover and bake for 30-45 minutes. Remove cover and continue
to roast until juices run clear, basting every 15-20 minutes.

If you've followed these steps correctly, your turkey should
look like the one in this picture [link].

Bon Appetit!

Soraaxs Stuffed Jalapeno

Sun, 17 Jan 2010 08:59:31 -0700

Jalapenos 15-20(Depending how full you stuff them)

2 pair of RUBBER GLOVES!!!!! AGAIN I SAY RUBBER GLOVES!!! Made the mistake the first time after I finished mixing, cutting and stuffing the Jalapenos. I washed my hands and had to use the restroom.... you fill in the rest.

1.) Set cream cheese out to get to room temp.

2.)Brown Sausage drain well let cool. Bacon same deal. IF THE MEAT IS HOT THE CREAM CHEESE GETS TO RUNNY AND MAKES A MESS.While they are cooling I cut my Jalapenos and de-seed them. Depending on how hot you want your peppers, I usually leave some of the veins in.

3.) Once meat is cool, chop the bacon up fine.

4.) large bowl add the sausage and bacon. Pour the Parm. Cheese and mix well. Add the cream cheese and with rubber gloves on mix well.

5.) Preheat oven to about 375.

6.) stuff your half peppers in the amount you want. The more you stuff the softer and greasier the peppers will be. If you want them hot leave some ribbing in the jalapeno halves.

7.) I bake mine until the top of the cheese mixture gets the little brown crust forming, take out of oven and sprinkle shredded cheese over each one.

Mixed Memories

Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:53:17 -0700

Scarabs retell memories from previous games.

Southern-baked Sweet Onions

Thu, 26 Nov 2009 06:16:34 -0700

Preheat oven to 350 degrees and get a shallow square baking dish.

Square top and bottom of onion (so it sits flat and has a flat top) and peel skin.

Taking a large knife, flower the onion by making four cuts that don't quite go all the way through the onion.

Spread the onion open, and push the chicken bullion cube down into the middle of the onion. Season with garlic salt to taste - if you like garlic, add a bunch, otherwise just a dash.

Press the butter down over the cube, then set the prepared onion on top of a single sheet of aluminum foil.

Wrap the foil up so the ends all come together at the top - this is critical! The foil will be containing all the liquids from the butter and onion and must have no rips or holes below the top. Twist the foil together at the top, enclosing the onion inside.

Bake at 350 for 60 minutes. Remove and enjoy.

Sloppy Joes

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 15:05:56 -0700

Note: All measurements are guesses, I am the zen master of sloppy joes (probably the only cooking thing I have really mastered) and just add "enough" of each at each appropriate phase. My measurement guesses should be close and you can go conservative on certain parts until you get more experience. This is really a classic, delicious recipe that is worth mastering.

Brown the hamburger, breaking it up with a spatula into small pieces, drain the grease, then immediately after draining, turn down the heat a bit and squirt in a lot of Heinz ketchup. You CAN use too much, but squirt a bunch in, stir it up and then add a fair bit of water, maybe 2/3 cup. Stir it around and see if it looks too brown or red. If it looks mostly brown and hamburger colored, you need more ketchup. If it looks RED, you have gone crazy and put in too much ketchup, you suck. It should look orangeish-brown. Until you master the recipe you can go light on the ketchup and dip the sloppy joes in ketchup, but optimally you should cook it for best flavor with just the right amount of ketchup. Don't worry, this just takes experimentation and experience.

Add 3-4 healthy dashes of worcestershire sauce and the brown sugar. Both are critical for flavor and you may want slightly less or more brown sugar. You can add more brown sugar, but be careful, its easy too go to far and end up with overly sweet sloppy joes. Its really just an accent flavor and a counterbalance to the mustard and worcs sauce. On the other hand, its hard to overdo the worcs sauce, lots of it usually works very well Add a little squirt of mustard, not very much at all really.

Mix it all in and add more water, it should look way too watery at this phase. If it looks like just enough water, you don't have nearly enough; be bold and add more. The reason for this is that you are going to simmer it for about 15 minutes, and the water will cook in and help give the hamburger the wonderful texture it needs for optimal sloppyness. Lower the heat a bit and simmer.

After its simmered a while, sprinkle in the cornstarch and mix that in thoroughly (also possibly add a little more water at this point), lower the heat a bit more and simmer for another 5-10 minutes, stirring occasionally. The cornstarch helps it all solidify up into an awesome texture that is properly gooey but still sloppy. You can add more/less cornstarch per your preferred texture. Toast the hamburger buns lightly in a toaster oven @350 degrees. Now for you sloppy joe challeneged folks, the last step is to put the sloppy joe material in the toasted buns and start eating them

Tostada sandwiches

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 14:53:03 -0700

I bought a lot of these corn tostadas lately and experimented until I got a recipe for tostada sandwiches just right. The tostadas are also great to heat, break up, and eat just with salsa. I got the corn tostadas in the international section of the grocery, where they are more authentic and tastier than the bland American mass market brands. The brand I bought was "Charras."

Anyway, brown the hamburger in a skillet, breaking it up with a spatula. Drain the grease, then mix in the taco seasoning and water, simmer for 10 min or so until the water is cooked in, then throw the hamburger on a big plate and dump the cheese over the hamburger and microwave for about 3 minutes, or until the cheese is fully melted. I used a store brand of mixed mexican cheeses and it was quite tasty.

While the hamburger and cheese is in the microwave, get out your stack of delicious, crunchy yellow corn tostadas. Turn on your oven (I used a toaster oven) to 350 degrees and put the tostadas in there. If you stack them up, after a few minutes flip the stack over so they cook evenly. You just want to crisp them up and get em nice and hot, don't get them brown or that ruins the flavor.

While the tostadas are cooking (doesn't take long, maybe only 5 min or so, dont let em burn), get out plates and the salsa. Get the hamburger/cheese out and grab the tostadas out of the oven. Spread some hamburger/melted cheese and some salsa on a tortilla/tostada, and then put another tostada on top of it, pick it up and eat it like a sandwich (dipping in ketchup if you are a true chef ). Sounds weird, but trust me, they are awesome

Detroit stuff?

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 09:56:50 -0700

Start: 2009-07-10 15:00

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

I have some business to do up in Detroit the weekend of July 25th (www.VectorMotorsports.com related business ). Anyone know what's cool to do in Detroit? So far all I have in mind is a Detroit Tigers game and maybe the Henry Ford Museum. Might have time to do that and more depending on how long I stay.

Break Bundt Cake (from Tonto's Wife April)

Tue, 16 Jun 2009 17:42:18 -0700

Combine all ingredients in a large bowl Spray Bundt (poundcake?) pan well with cook spray, Cook on 350 for 30-40 minutes

2009

Fri, 15 May 2009 05:09:55 -0700

Scarabfest 2009, Houston, Texas. Booyah!

Ventrilo Status

Fri, 13 Mar 2009 15:20:08 -0700

Rest assured that although the sidebar says the service is temporarily unavailable, it is in fact running. What isn't working is the web status widget we used, apparently. Typefrag recently updated their control panel and apparently this feature is either taken away or not finished. As soon as I know more I will let you all know.

Sorry for the confusion...

Maska

IC election notes

Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:59:19 -0700

Start: 2008-12-22 23:00

Timezone: Etc/GMT-4

In the email I received, the address to send your votes to got garbled. The correct address is

(shown correct in the version Maska posted). I think you can just hit reply to the email ballot and get this address.

Also, for those that mainly know me recently from WoW, I am listed as Dinaden on the ballot. Used to be my main char in EQ See my avatar, license plate from when I lived in VA ---->

2008

Tue, 27 May 2008 14:21:01 -0700

The insanity continues on Memorial Day 2008.

Karazhan

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:15:58 -0700

Start: 2008-02-01 15:30

Timezone: US/Central

http://www.guildscarab.com/node/13656

Karazhan

Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:14:49 -0700

Start: 2008-02-02 09:00

Timezone: US/Central

http://www.guildscarab.com/node/13656

Candid Photos are up on my LJ.

Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:02:25 -0700

(Does anyone know why my Blog posts don't show up on the main page anymore?)

Anyway, here are a couple that I figured you wouldn't mind seeing here...