Cool Food Recipes With Pictures images

A few nice food recipes with pictures images I found:

Thai Fried Rice

Image by queenkv
My cousin and her hubby gave us the "Seduction of Rice" for Christmas. The food pictures are beautiful and the recipes are compiled from all over the world. I tried out the Thai Fried Rice recipe with chicken, diced tomatoes, mushrooms and a fried egg.

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Image by mobile_gnome
Got a new wok for xmas - first stir-fry was chicken, napa cabbage, onions, carrots, water chestnut, with cornstarch ginger garlic and soy sauce marinade for the chicken pieces.
(thanks for the wok allison)

Makaronilaatikko

Image by Suviko
This type of macaroni casserole is basic Finnish home food. It's an easy oven casserole recipe.

Boil the macaroni pasta in water like when cooking spaghetti and fry ground beef on the pan. Mix the macaroni and ground beef in a casserole and pour milk and egg mixture over it before putting to oven (200 Celsius, or if I got conversion right, 390 Fahrenhait) for half an hour. The milk & egg mixture should be solified. You can leave it for a few minutes after taking out from the oven to set.

I usually put some cubed onions or garlic in the pan with minced meat and spice it with black pepper and other spices like garlic, curry or paprika powder. I love cheese and like to cover the casserole with grated cheese (this time it was emmental of boyfriend's request, but mozzarella would also do). I took it out of the oven when the cheese topping started turning brown and crispy.

Many people (like me) eat it with ketchup. You can make a large casserole and reheat it in microwave the next day - it's still good.

Amounts of ingredients:
5 dl (2 cups, US) macaroni pasta, measured dry and then boiled
400-500 grams (14-17 ounces) ground beef (cow is better, pork will do. some people like to add some bacon and you can also use left over Christmas ham or Thanksgiving turkey as cubes)
1 large onion, chopped
1 teaspoon salt
1 tablespoon blackpepper
(1 tablespoon paprika or curry powder if you like or a bit of crushed garlic)
3 eggs, yolks & whites stirred
7 dl (3 cups, US) milk or cooking cream

I hope I didn't screw up with the conversions. It's not that serious with this recipe to get the amounts just exactly right. The basic recipe can be modified - some do vegetarian version of it. My bachelor friend, who fancies himself as a great culinarist & chef, once experimented using coconut milk. That didn't turn out so well... :)

I took this picture for an article on makaronilaatikko in The Finnish Wikipedia. fi.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makaronilaatikko