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Home made food that copies the bought stuff
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N9eav
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Please post any recipee you have used which may copy something that is found in restaurants or shops that you like that works....
Just to get started.....
REECES peanut butter cups
Before Reeces peanut butter cups landed on UK shores the Americans had been eating them for years. Here's a home made recipe that I got about 20 yrs ago from a Menonite cook....
Base: 2 1/2 cups of digestive biscuit crumbs
2 1/2 cups icing sugar
1 cup peanut butter smooth
1 cup butter/marg
Melt butter and peanut butter in a pan, when liquid add the biscuit and icing sugar mix well.
press into 9 x 13 inch swiss role tin.
Top: Melt 12 oz chocolate (dark or milk, cheap or expensive, up to you)
with 1/4 cup peanut butter.
Spread on top of base. Cool in fridge...
Enjoy
Just to get started.....
REECES peanut butter cups
Before Reeces peanut butter cups landed on UK shores the Americans had been eating them for years. Here's a home made recipe that I got about 20 yrs ago from a Menonite cook....
Base: 2 1/2 cups of digestive biscuit crumbs
2 1/2 cups icing sugar
1 cup peanut butter smooth
1 cup butter/marg
Melt butter and peanut butter in a pan, when liquid add the biscuit and icing sugar mix well.
press into 9 x 13 inch swiss role tin.
Top: Melt 12 oz chocolate (dark or milk, cheap or expensive, up to you)
with 1/4 cup peanut butter.
Spread on top of base. Cool in fridge...
Enjoy
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ALICE SPRINGS CHICKEN
This comes from the American steakhouse called 'OUTBACK' and is worth a go.
4 chicken breasts
8 slices of streaky bacon
250g mushrooms sliced
1/2 cup of honey
1/2 cup of Dijon mustard
Small wedge of edam or other cheese which melts like Monterey jack
Some cheddar
Mix together the honey and mustard with a tsp of lemon juice and 2 tsp of oil.
Pour half of this mixture over the 4 chicken breasts and marinate them in the fridge for 2-3 hours.
Fry the bacon till well done, drain and leave on kitchen paper.
Sear the chicken breast in a hot pan, (I put it on the BBQ and do it that way), cook the chicken breast basting it with some of the honey mustard dressing.
While you are doing this saute the sliced mushrooms
When the chicken is cooked, place in individual dishes ( I use the white ones from ASDA that are about 6 inches by 4 inches, 99p each)
Put the bacon slices over the top of the chicken breast, then the fried mushrooms, salt, pepper and the rest of the unused dressing . Top off with your cheeses and put under the grill or hot oven to melt the cheeses until hot and bubbly.
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N9eav
Just one thing to clarify with the chicken, do you take it out of the pan after searing and cook in an oven, or do you just lower the heat and carry on in the Pan, or is it immaterial?
Thanks
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Peanut butter cups
Thanks to Nigella and they are lovely, very popular with the lads at work!
Ingredients
For the base
50g/2oz soft dark brown sugar
200g/7oz icing sugar
50g/2oz butter, softened
200g/7oz smooth peanut butter (not wholenut)
For the topping
200g/7oz milk chocolate
100g/3½oz dark chocolate
gold buttons and edible gold stars to decorate, or other decorations of your choice
For the full recipe see here2010 is the year of bargain shopping! Time to money save, exercise and plan! I like to keep busy
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N9eav
Just one thing to clarify with the chicken, do you take it out of the pan after searing and cook in an oven, or do you just lower the heat and carry on in the Pan, or is it immaterial?
Thanks
DG
Take the seared breats out of the pan and put them into individual dishes and then put the other ingredients on top. When it's all complete put in the oven to melt the cheese (or under a low grill)NO to pasty tax We won!!!! Just shows that people power works! Don't be apathetic to your cause!0 -
theres a website that has lots of restaurant recipes - they used to have a KFC recipe - my OH made it a few times and it was fantastic!
https://www.topsecretrecipes.com
I cant see the KFC recipe on there now - or perhaps its one that they have started charging for - if anyone wants it I can ask OH if he can remember it!0 -
This site is really good and has the recipe for the above here http://www.copykat.com/component/option,com_rapidrecipe/Itemid,28/page,viewrecipe/recipe_id,1013/DFW Nerd 267. DEBT FREE 11.06.08
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It matters not if you try and fail, And fail, and try again; But it matters much if you try and fail, And fail to try again.0 -
cool, I was just looking for the KFC recipe too! I have read that when chemically analysed there arent '11 secret herbs and spices' at all!!
The recipe below appears to be the same as the recipe my OH used - I notice that both of them rely on the salt, pepper and MSG for the KFC flavour!
(p.s probably not the healthiest way to eat chicken, but at least you can use decent quality chicken at home instead of the rubbish KFC use - pretty cheap too if you use thighs, drumsticks etc)
This did taste very much like the original:
from https://www.recipesformom.com/kfc-crispy-chicken.html
Extra Tasty Crispy Chicken
1 whole frying chicken, cut up
6-8 cups vegetable oil
Marinade
4 cups water
1 tablespoon salt
1/2 teaspoon MSG (see Tidbits)
Coating
1 egg, beaten
1 cup milk
2 cups all-purpose flour
2 1/2 teaspoons salt
3/4 teaspoon pepper
3/4 teaspoon MSG
For the full recipe please see the link above.0 -
Fried chicken is a common meal in the Southern US States. Most southern fried chicken recipess are great and use just salt, pepper, garlic powder in the coating flour for the seasoning.NO to pasty tax We won!!!! Just shows that people power works! Don't be apathetic to your cause!0
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i have a pdf file that has a whole load of recipes to make things like:
mars bars
cadburys cream eggs
KFC BBQ baked beans
McDonald's stuff
Burger King
Ben and Jerrys
and loads more. I wasn't sure if i was allowed to post it or not.
If i am and people are interested I dont mind putting up a link for it but am seeking permission first - if needs be I can email it to a mod?embarrassed to say I used to work for barclays..sorry0 -
The only one I can think of at the moment is home-made Bacardi Breezers, if you add Bacardi to Traditional style lemonade (cloudy), it is a dead ringer for lemone Bacardi Breezers.A minute at the till, a lifetime on the bill.
Nothing tastes as good as being slim feels.
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