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Ye Olde Motherboarde
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Motherboard and dsiegmund cordially invite you to participate in the Ship of Fools Cookbook. We have such wonderful cooks on board who love to share thier gifts with us at ship meets or inviting us into thier homes for parties.
I don't know how many of you are going to join us, but we'll take all comers! We will divide them into food categories, try to make it easy for cooks in any country with dual cups and liter equivalents.
other than the recipes there are other considerations:
1) I would very much like British and Australian people to help with this, and if you are interested, please PM me. (Babybear, you are first on my list!) ![[Big Grin]](biggrin.gif)
2) If anyone has friends or relatives who own a print shop you can PM me too. I have a friend who are printers, but will consider any others.
3) Next will be cost. I don't have a clue, as I don't know what it will cost to print and ship.
4) How many recipes can you post? As many as you would like, I think. Either post me or dsiegmund on PM or on this thread.
5) How long do I have to send recipes? Good question. I have to put a time limit on it, but I will post that later.
Just consider this and pray for us, this is a labor of love, and hope you will enjoy the book when it is finished.
Love and saintly cooking hugs,
Motherboard and d siegmund
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dolphy
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![[Not worthy!]](graemlins/notworthy.gif) Motherboard ![[Love]](graemlins/lovedrops.gif)
Count me in ![[Wink]](wink.gif)
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marmot
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How about posting it online in its own corner of the Ship? Anyone who wants a printed copy can bear the cost themselves. That way we can add to it as people prepare their best dishes at future shipmeets.
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Amorya
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I can do page layout if you want - giving you a PDF file that you could send straight to the printers.
I don't expect cost would be loads for a recipe book. I think my local print shop does spiral binding for a pound or two, and black and white pages for 4 or 5 pence (for a one off). If they were doing large quantities, the cost per page would go down significantly.
Amorya
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dsiegmund
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Hopes someone mentions the recipe book in MW. What would the beverage section be without them?
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Scarlet
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This is so exciting!
Thanks to both, Motherboard and dsiegmund.
I'll be submitting shortly. So we just write the recipe as we locally measure it? Y'all will have conversion tables or something?
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Ye Olde Motherboarde
Ship's Mother and Singing Quilter
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MARMOTA ![[Angel]](graemlins/angel.gif) what a great idea!
![[Yipee]](graemlins/spin.gif) An online recipe book.
And thanks for mentioning the Joy of Cooking for the conversion chart. I don't have the book myself, but I'm sure someone will help with that.
Oh, this is becoming a wonderful adventure for "foodies"......
Love and yummy hugs,
Motherboard
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Lyda*Rose
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I hope everyone has checked out the Recipe thread in Heaven pg 4. There are some real possibilities there.
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Mamacita
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OOOh, this is brilliant. Thanks, Motherboard!
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Wow would love to help and submit a recipie
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Mrs Smith - nee Lady G
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A stunning idea.
What would the slant of the book be? Just a general collection? a medley of obscure recipes? a random collection of cakes? recipes from each county represented on the ship? receipes for those on a shoe string?
To add to marmot's idea - if this was going to be a fundraiser, you could charge a couple of pounds to download the book.
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dsiegmund
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Should those recipes that are Meet favorites merit their own chapter or should they be scattered in different sections with a notation like "Colorado Meet New Mexico Chili"?
The online version sounds like a good idea. Take a look at Epicurious.com It is a large, searchable cookbook.
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Janine
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dsiegmund - I promise, I will find an avatar I like, soon! Then you can have your face back...
Is it Ariel who has a great quince/lamb recipe? I may have that filed -
Now if only I can actually write down actual measurements. Mamman taught me to use my hands.
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dsiegmund
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Janine,
The avatar is I'm sure public property, so don't worry about using it. Did Maman teach you to make good rice and gravy?
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sabine
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Wonderful idea!
Since this is a spiritual board, will there be recipes for communion bread? (not that they would apply to my religion, but I've been around and know there has to be an answer for those tiny crispy pillow-shaped cracker-type things I've seen used.)
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Wasn't it Stoo who was responsible for those lethal SoF party punches? (my virtual bath has never recovered from the shock) ![[Frown]](frown.gif) . We must include one of those.
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Gill H
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Got to include Babybear's Chocolate Strawberries, as done during the Scarborough St Sim's weekend.
Mmmmmmmm ....
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I'll donate my pecan honey crusted chicken, peanut butter nipple cookies, and sure-fire chocolate chip cookies. Sounds terrific.
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dsiegmund
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I hope that if we do a section of faith themed recipes that someone will come up with a recipe for the beautifully named Nun's Sighs (Suspiros de Monja). I've never had it, but it's a Spanish desert like a beignet. There's also one called Nun's Tummies, but I don't know anything about what that one's like.
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Ye Olde Motherboarde
Ship's Mother and Singing Quilter
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YUM,
dsiegmund, the Nun's tummies sound like mexican sopapillas.
For the UK posters, the one, the only inimitable BABYBEAR has agreed to join the recipe committee, as has Dolphy.
Send those recipes NOW!
I have fudge from Beenie, Colorado chile from Jb and Regina Shoe's calabacitas recipes
Still negotiating for online space, and how to get paid for downloading recipes for the Organ Fund. <Rodin's the thinker smiley needed here>
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BuzzyBee
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Great idea. I'll send in my favourite veggie recipies. When's the deadline?
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dsiegmund
Shipmate
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Motherboard,
I have 83MB of webspace left with my ISP. Do you think that would be enough for the cookbook? Or since there's going to be money involved would it be better for it to be with the Ship's domain?
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dolphy
Lady of Perpetual Responsiblity
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Just about to send you mine Motherboard.
I have a feeling that this is going to been a great 'book'.
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Gill H
Shipmate
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Peanut butter nipples and nun's tummies? Is this the T'n'T recipe book? ![[Eek!]](eek.gif)
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Old Hundredth
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quote:
Originally posted by dsiegmund:
I hope that if we do a section of faith themed recipes that someone will come up with a recipe for the beautifully named Nun's Sighs (Suspiros de Monja). I've never had it, but it's a Spanish desert like a beignet. There's also one called Nun's Tummies, but I don't know anything about what that one's like.
The French have a sort of meringue known as Nun's Farts.
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Jengie jon
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What sort of recipes do you want. My sister created a glorious ice-cream cake. Mine own tend to be more savoury, e.g. Smoked trout kedgeree
I should say quantities tend to be handfuls rather than exact measures.
Jengie
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dsiegmund
Shipmate
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I'm impressed Chastmastr. The TNT section seems to be shaping up nicely. ![[Two face]](graemlins/scot_twoface.gif)
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jlg
What is this place?
Why am I here?
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quote:
Originally posted by dsiegmund:
Hopes someone mentions the recipe book in MW. What would the beverage section be without them?
I slipped in a plug just now on Name that Chorus .
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Zeke
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Salivating with anticipation!
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Mamacita
Lakefront liberal
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quote:
Originally posted by ChastMastr:
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Originally posted by Gill B:
The French have a sort of meringue known as Nun's Farts.
Here 'tis.
I nearly spat my drink all over the screen when I reached the line: "This recipe makes one large fart."
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Just wanted to check the procedure. Do we PM our recipes to you, Motherboard? Please advise.
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Ye Olde Motherboarde
Ship's Mother and Singing Quilter
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Send recipes to Motherboard, dsiegmund or babybear. We are the coordinating committee.
Everyone just send what you'd like and think that others would. I accept it all.
Motherboard
P.S. dsiegmund, we will chat about that ISP space, as soon as I hear from the "powers".
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duchess
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Harriett's Ham Delicious Sauce on its way to your pm box, Motherboard.
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Originally posted by Mamacita:
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Originally posted by ChastMastr:
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Originally posted by Gill B:
The French have a sort of meringue known as Nun's Farts.
Here 'tis.
I nearly spat my drink all over the screen when I reached the line: "This recipe makes one large fart."
No doubt a companion to St. Agatha's Breasts - a concotion of marinated summer fruits in a mound covered with sweetened creme chantilly smoothed into a dome and decorated with a fresh raspberry as a nipple.
I am happy to PM you the recipe.
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New here, but definitely interested in participating.
Anyone like chocolate truffles <innocent look>?
A group I participate in just had a recipe book printed by one of those "we'll bind your fundraiser cookbook" companies - could definitely contact The Committee for details if there is interest.
Charlotte (aka Amazing Grace)
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babybear
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I have started getting a few of the recipes together at SoF Cookbook.
The index page is very rough. It will probably contain links to "starters", "main course" etc, and then from there will be links to the individual recipes. There will also be links to a glossary page and a page with conversions.
What do people think about the format on the recipe pages? Are they clear, and easy to use? I was thnking that it might be an idea if people have pictures of their recipes for them to be included instead of the cookbook.gif that I have cobble together from the Purg and AS graphics.
While we are working on this project it will be easiest if I have it in my webspace. If anyone sees any spelling mistakes, errors or busted links please let me know.
I also need to know about the weight of 1 cup of:
- chopped tomatoes
- green chillies
- grated Monterey Jack
In Beenster's fudge recipe all of the ingredients are given in metric. Does this cause a problem for North Americans? Do we need to convert the weights into cups for the recipe to be useful?
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jlg
What is this place?
Why am I here?
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CM is correct; Americans will need American measures. It's not just that we don't have kitchen scales (since we don't normally need them), it's also the sad but true fact that a lot of Americans (though hopefully not Shipmates) either wouldn't realize it was possible to convert or couldn't be bothered to do it. Considering the fact that all our packaged food has been labelled in both systems for many years, it really isn't all that difficult.
Re: the fudge. Some items will need to be in cups (sugar), chocolate would normally be in ounces. (American baking chocolate is scored to break into one ounce squares; I'm not sure about 'eating' chocolate bars.)
A quick check of my fridge shows that packaged pre-grated cheese (mozzarella, cheddar, jack) is 1oz = 28gr = 1/4cup. So that's probably a standard conversion for ordinary cheeses. Just off the top of my head, I think a standard 15/16oz can of chopped/diced tomatoes would be about 1-1/8 to 1-1/4 cups; being the sloppy cook I am, I've never measured it, I just use the whole can if the recipe calls for one cup.
I like the format for the calabacitas, with the metric on one side of the ingredients and the American on the other. I would suggest that every recipe be in that format.
I also suggest that all the instructions should be formatted as single steps, each in its own paragraph, separated by a blank line.
I suspect the cookbook will need a disclaimer/intro which explains that these recipes came from all over, and that due to differences in local versions of ingredients and conversion of measurements, they may not turn out perfectly the first time (especially the baked goods). And admitting that we didn't run a test kitchen!
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tomb
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Jennifer, I would take poison before I would use "pre-grated" cheese. What a dis.gus.ting notion.
And my momma told me that "a pint's a pound"--but not an imperial pint, seemingly.
I suppose if I have to, I can convert to grams (damn, where did I put that slide rule?)
What about centigrams? decigrams? God, I hate the metric system.
Inasmuch as most of my recipes are a "pinch" of this; a "handful" of that, I'm not much on accuracy. It's the gestalt of the thing that counts. And if your guests develop convulsions after the meal, it's on account of your own poor judgement.
All that being said, the recipe for Colorado Shipmeet Chicken Marsala is winging its way to the cookbook mavens.
If they like that, I'll submit my recipes for Death By Pasta and Grunge Crepes.
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Originally posted by tomb:
If they like that, I'll submit my recipes for Death By Pasta and Grunge Crepes.
Why wait. send.
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tomb
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That's sweet, JB, but I think I'll wait. You probably just want them to use as keys to help you decode terrorist threats for NSA or Homeland Security.
I really don't want gummint thugs at my door because of bad cooking.
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JB*
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Originally posted by tomb:
I really don't want gummint thugs at my door because of bad cooking.
I imagined they would come because they heard how good the food was at our shipmeet. Gummint thugs gotta eat, too.
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Ye Olde Motherboarde
Ship's Mother and Singing Quilter
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Gummint thugs gotta eat, too
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Ship's Roundhead
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Weight? Cups?
Wimps!
Just put stuff in until it feels or smells right.
Works for everything except cake & souffle.
Works better than measurements for bread.
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Thumbprint
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I must admit I've already pilfered Tomb's pasta sauce recipe from the Colorado Meet. Added a pinch of this, a smidgen of that...
Measurements? Do people really cook with those?
T.
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