Showing posts with label Modern Ape. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Modern Ape. Show all posts

Saturday, March 19, 2011

French Fries

One more thing to do with potatoes, french fries!

Ingredients:
Potatoes
Salt
Pepper
Canola Oil

1) Skin potatoes
2) Dice potatoes in to very thin strips
3) In a colander rinse potato strips thoroughly, until the water runs through them clear. It's important to remove the starch
4) Freeze overnight. If you dont have a freezer let them sit in water.
5) Deep fry in canola oil at 375 degree for about 10 minutes. You can use a pot on top of a stove for this but be careful not to get burned.
6) Salt and pepper immediately. For variation add garlic salt or Cayene pepper. Experiment!
7) Dont feed them to anyone else no matter how much they ask. You deserved this, you fat fuck.

This might take more time than running out to McDonalds but it's also pretty fucking awesome.


More life tips at Modern Ape.

Wednesday, February 23, 2011

Stupid Simple Spaghetti... and Sgeti

Another simple recipe from my kitchen... we're gonna make Spaghetti fit for a hungry kid on a budget. Also, we're gonna make sgeti.


Stupid Simple Spaghetti

1 water
250 gram pasta noodles
1/2 lb ground beef
1/2 green pepper
1/2 onion
3 cloves garlic
1/2 tomato
Some mushrooms
2 cups tomato sauce
some cheese

salt
pepper
paprika
oregano
thyme
cumin

1) Boil water and heat pan
2) Introduce beef to pan. Let the beef sizzle back
3) Peel and mince garlic, add to beef because the fat is starting to melt
4) Chop onions and green pepper, add to beef
5) Chop tomatoes and mushrooms, set aside
6) Add pasta to now boiled water
7) When beef and vegetables fully cooked, add tomato sauce, vegetables, and spice to taste.
8) Drain Pasta, mix with sauce
9) Grate cheese on top (if economically feasible)

Simple. Done. Tasty. Eat it.


Sgeti

1 water
some spaghetti
some ketchup
Your mother

1) Add spaghetti to water
2) Wait
3) Stir in red ketchup
4) Scratch head in confusion
5) Ask mom what you did wrong.

More life instructions at Modern Ape.

Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Bourgouise Breaded Chicken on Rice

Hey readers, it's Mathieu from the Modern Ape zine and blog. I cook and sometimes people like it, even though I always end up inventing new plates by complete accident. How? Why? Well, I'm cheap. I use discount ingredients and make the best plate I can with them. Does it turn out well? ...sometimes. Depends on the recipe and how "creative" I got with the procedures. If they told me how to cook it on the back of the box it will definitely turn out like it should on the back of the box... the first time. Will I post something awful? No way. Tastiness ensured. Olive oil exempt.

Anyways, I cooked this recipe two nights ago from a similar recipe I found online. But I pretty much completely disregarded the instructions, as I often do, and  made it from stuff typically in my college aged kitchen. LETS COOK.

Ingredients
2 Slices of Whole Wheat or Rye bread (toasted crisp)
4 chicken legs
1/2 onion
1/2 green pepper
4 stalks green onion
1 medium carrot
1 dream of childhood innocence
4 cloves garlic
1/8 stick of butter
dash of vegetable (equivalent) oil
2 cups rice
Salt, pepper, Cayenne Pepper, Louisiana (or equivalent) hot sauce, oregano

Directions
1) Preheat wok or large sauce pan to medium, preheat small pan to high
2) Boil 3 cups water and add rice
2) Grate bread in to crumbs, mince and crush the garlic, mix with all spices in a bowl and set aside
3) Strip the bone from the chicken leg and discard (or save for stew?). Cut chicken in to bite sized pieces.
4) Melt butter in sauce pan and add hot sauce. Coat chicken in the mix and bread.
5) Raise heat on wok and cook chicken. Add breaded mixture over top and mix it in the pan.
6) Chop onions, peppers, and green onions and the dream of childhood innocence however you see fit. Peel carrot in to slices
7) Add onions carrots and vegetable oil to small sauce pan, cooking until soft and browned
8) When chicken is nearly cooked, add the rest of the vegetables, warming them but not fully cooking them.
9) Serve all on top of rice

Serves 2. For you and a date to reminisce about what Beavis and Butthead episode was the best and why the world is broken.

I would take a picture but it would look like shit. Happy eatings!