20-minute (or so) recipes from gamers

[-silencer-]

Quite quick and very tasty? Try my baked cheese-stuffed chicken parmesan.

Shop for:
1 box of each: Rigatoni & Penne pasta.
1 jar: Newman's Own Italian Sausage pasta sauce.
1 jar: Emeril's Roasted Gahhhrlic pasta sauce.
1 jar: Italian Seasoning (or pick and choose your specific spices, but the mix I buy is perfect and quick)
1 package: Boneless, skinless chicken breasts
1 package: Shredded mozzarella cheese (or a mix of cheeses containing mozzarella)
Extra virgin olive oil.
Italian seasoning bread crumbs.
Romaine lettuce & italian vinagarette or Caesar dressing.. Caesar garlic crutons.
Decent red wine. (For under $40, I prefer Kendall Jackson merlot (~$18 ).. if you must go under $10, Yellowtail Shiraz works.

To cook..
Boil rigatoni & penne pasta.

Heat equal parts of Newman's Own Italian Sausage & Emeril's Roasted Gahhhrlic pasta sauces. Mix in some italian seasoning (various mix of salt, pepper, basil, cilantro, and other spices). If using a pint size jar of each pasta sauce, I'll usually add 1/2 a cup to 1 cup of cabernet, merlot, or shiraz - red wine.

From the top, make a cavity inside each chicken breast you want to cook. Hard to describe, but think about taking the top off a pumpkin, but only cut 1/2 of the circumference of the top. Stuff the inside of the chicken breast with shredded mozzarella cheese (or some multi-cheese mix containing mozzarella).

Dip cheese-stuffed chicken breast in extra virgin olive oil to wet, then cover in italian seasoning bread crumbs. Put 'em in a pan in the oven at 400* for ~8-20 minutes. It really depends on how thick the chicken is, and how much cheese you used, so check your chicken every couple minutes until you get used to the time. Expect the cheese to ooze out of the chicken - that's fine.

Fix salads and drink wine while waiting for chicken to cook.

When chicken is done:
Put mixed pasta on plate, with chicken on top, cover with pasta sauce, then top off with grated parmesan and romano cheese.

There you go:
A quick salad while you're waiting, and a killer cheese-stuffed chicken parmesan.
If you use smaller chicken breasts, it's do-able in 20 minutes. The most difficult part of the meal is cutting the chicken just right to contain the most cheese during cooking.. but you could simply slice the chicken in half and put the cheese in the middle - like a chicken/cheese sandwich.

[Bradster]

Friend always talked about his wife's Beer Battered Chicken, he finally sent it to me. My wife and I tried it. Tasted pretty good, bit messy to make but good.

• 2 large chicken breasts cut into cubes
• 2 cups of flour
• 2 eggs
• 1 teaspoon baking powder
• 1teaspoon season salt
• ½ teaspoon garlic salt
• ½ teaspoon onion salt
• 1 12-18oz bottle of beer
• 1 quart of oil
• Deep fryer, or a deep soup pan

Instructions:
Start buy heating the oil, if using the pan on the stove place over medium high heat. While the oil is heating cut the chicken into cubes or strips which ever you prefer. Set chicken aside. In a medium sized bowl place flour, baking powder, onion salt, garlic salt, season salt, and eggs. Slowly add the beer to the other ingredients while mixing slowly. You won’t need to add the entire beer so make sure to keep checking the thickness of the batter as you add it. It should be thin enough to coat the chicken evenly. Once batter is ready put part of the chicken into the batter and mix it in. If the oil is ready slowly add the chicken from the batter into the hot oil. As the chicken cooks turn it a few times for even browning. Once chicken is evenly golden brown remove it from the oil and place on a cookie sheet or plate covered with paper towels, or a paper bag. (I usually cut one open to ensure that the meat is fully cooked) and put in the oven on warm while wait to finish the next batch. Continue this process until all of the chicken is cooked. __________________________________________________

[Bradster]

Sorry Rob you said FAST to make, umm in that case Behold!

http://www.hibachihouse.com/
“Hibachi House” Microwave Hibachi. This Hibachi still is amazing, and the meat is really high quality and tons of it. Costs 5 bucks and you can’t even eat it all there’s so much. Takes less then 5mins to make.

[Bradster]

Skuggomann That pic is great NOM NOM NOM lol

[Bradster]

This takes a while to make, but man is this the most epic Roast beef you’ll ever have. Extremely easy to make I can even make it! It’s also cheap
Requires Crock Pot:
Get a half a pound or pound of sliced thin Roast beef.
Buy decent rolls like you were making a hoggie.
Block of Pepper Jack Cheese.
Buy some Beef Broth (chicken broth works too) the key is to find one you like.

Put a few cans of broth in the Crock Pot. Then place individual slices one at a time in the Crock. This ensures it soaks it all up. If you put it in there as one big block it doesn’t work. Once you’ve quickly placed each indivual slice in there by hand set it on low and come back after three hours. Can cook for 3-5 hours. Three normally does the trick.

Use a spoon (not a fork) to take the roast beef out, it’s really tender and you want the added broth in your sandwich. Stuff a ton in a roll, take the pepper jack and cheese grater and go to town and watch the cheese melt.
You will not eat this sandwich you will devour the thing.

[Biomehanikka]

@ bradster; wow that roast beef sounds amazing!! i will try it after the next time i buy those big ass packs of roast beef from costco!!

@ silencer; damn that sounds tasty, i made some stuffed chicken a while back with sharp white cheddar and bacon and it was alright but this just sounds awe inspiring!

[Kel]

Possibly a bit boring, but practical:

Chicken + Rice
Spray chicken with 1kcal spray oil and then liberally coat with a seasoning mix of your choice (e.g. http://www.schwartz.co.uk/productdetail.cfm?id=5174)
Put on a tray and stick it in the oven (set to 225º)
Important part (which I tend to forget) - set a timer for 30mins minus however long your side dishes take to cook

I tend to go for microwave rice (2 mins nad tasty) with microwave steam veg (3 mins), so I'd set a timer for 25 mins and cook the veg and then the rice.

Prep time is short and it only takes a couple of mins (if that) to dish up.

I also like to cook up chocolate cake for special occasions, but that takes >40 mins and is fairly labour intensive at the start and end of the cooking process.

[keyclone]

ok.. now i'm hungry

i've never done anything in a crock pot.. i think i'll go get one this weekend and try bradsters roast beef sandwich
(are there better brands of crock pots? what should i be wary of?)

here's a thought. what do you think about having a gamer-recipe-of-the-month kind of thing?

[Vyndree]

Requires Crock Pot:
Get a half a pound or pound of sliced thin Roast beef.
Buy decent rolls like you were making a hoggie.
Block of Pepper Jack Cheese.
Buy some Beef Broth (chicken broth works too) the key is to find one you like.

Put a few cans of broth in the Crock Pot. Then place individual slices one at a time in the Crock. This ensures it soaks it all up. If you put it in there as one big block it doesn’t work. Once you’ve quickly placed each indivual slice in there by hand set it on low and come back after three hours. Can cook for 3-5 hours. Three normally does the trick.

Use a spoon (not a fork) to take the roast beef out, it’s really tender and you want the added broth in your sandwich. Stuff a ton in a roll, take the pepper jack and cheese grater and go to town and watch the cheese melt.

I might have to try this -- are you talking about the roast beef you get from the deli? Or are you saying I should get a beef roast and slice it myself?

[Bradster]

We get out roast beef from a deli in the Grocery store.

Called my wife but she didn’t answer, trying to figure out the correct name and spelling of the broth we use. It sounds like “Hey Jew” but it has a different spelling. If you can find that broth, that’s the type we always use. I tried many brands but that was the most tasty.
Remember beef broth > Chicken broth for this sandwich