Iron Chef WAYCT - What Are You Cooking Today

[Beatle]

cool. give me 5

[hectic]

Baking today:

Project 1:
Lamington Muffins (hereafter called: Lamiffins). My g/f is from Australia and I thought she might like some nostalgia (Lamingtons are are an Australian cake made of sponge, chocolate icing and rolled in coconut):

Make sponge muffins (no naked sponge viz, sorry)

Roll in this goo:

Then roll in coconut:

Ta-da:

Project 2:
Anti-insomnia macadamia & sour cherry brownies (with super secret special incredient. N.B.: Not that secret):

Plus giant brownie cake for normal folk:

[Beatle]

oohhh..

[stever]

ah, the ol stilnox & ambien brownie
the last thing i remember every evening

[van Olzon]

BAKING TODAY PART II

[Beatle]

damn, ur the one who made the meatballs as well , right ? my second favorite cake - matter of fact had my mom make this for me on my birthday when I was little. Can only be beat by ….wait for it ....wait....cheesecake !

Looks tasty

[van Olzon]

well … beats ... cheesecake is my favourite too and always on the first place ... 
actually ... I didn't really liked rhubarb in the past since I tried the one from my mother in law ... and now hooked on this too ... and it's yummee

[Chris]

Wow, seeing that reminds me of my childhood.  Mom used to make rhubarb pie and I always thought it was weird that something that looks like red celery could taste so good.  May have to try and make some myself.

But you and Beatle are right- cheesecake is the absolute best.

[Beatle]

we need to do a Iron Heart cook down…

everybody brings their favorite food/ recipe and we slave in the kittchen for a whole weekend.

hmm, what kittchen to pick....

[madmonday]

[madmonday]

sure other food was involved but let's jump to cake prep.

sifting the floor

beating sugar & butter

seems some of the sugar needed to get put back in it's place

skip the oven that's long & boring. . . we want cake

simple sugar with a little kick

yum *i've given up the sauce for lent heheheehehe

damn, all this for a freaking cake
& it's still not done.  icing & all that got done & now it has to be dressed up. hopefully tuesday will finish it up on tuesday 

big tease

[stever]

@monday:

[chickenn]

oh hellyeah!! i just did up a quick batch of alfoil chicken breasts to last me a few post-gym dinners. as a semi-related aside, chillies go a helluva lot further when they are in a sealed container as opposed to getting fried and all of their heat flying off into the atmosphere.  open up the alfoil boat and my eyes are already watering

[elclintor]

Ahh the simple things….

[madmonday]

tuesday finished up the Easter cake

sorry would of gotten pictures of her doing all the icing & fondant, but i came home & it was done 

[jacoavlu]

g'damn she's a pro

[Katsushin]

@elclintor:

Ahh the simple things….

This belongs in the "What are you Unwrapping and Microwaving Today" thread…

[Beatle]

holy cake, that is going to be one easter feast

[injunjack]

This springs first grill day…
Lamb 'cause it's still easter, and new seasons potatoes

Some feta sallad

cheesewurst as sidedish (for kids)

purrrfect summersunday meal

[Geo]

at the start of this thread i promised that if the topic took off i would create an Iron Heart cookbook from the contributions

well - imo the thread has been a great success and so a huge thanks for all the fantastic contributions to date (please, please keep 'em coming!); so . . . here are the beginnings of how i am imagining the e-book might take shape (thinking along the lines of retro lookbook rather than actual recipe book):

Inside Cover

Sample page (in progress)

thanks to Simon for the burger pic and a certain crazy Kat for another type of inspiration 

these are downsampled works in progress, but just wanted to let you see i'll keep my promise since you contributed so wonderfully well (and shamed me since i've hardly done any cooking recently . . . to be remedied  ;))

comments/ideas would be very welcome

[rocket]

very very cool… make me really looking forward to see the final thing