Jarrett
Most Obnoxious Member 2016
For those of you on here that didn't know this, I am a bit of a foodie. I like to cook. Do you like to cook? Maybe you enjoy making your own food and cooking it. Maybe you enjoy buying something frozen that isn't really yours and heating it, therefore not making your own food but still cooking it. Maybe you like making the food but don't cook it for whatever reason. Maybe it's a no-bake cheesecake. Maybe it's a ceviche and it cooks itself. Maybe you just like eating raw chicken (though it's probably not healthy). What do you do to provide yourself with food?
I enjoy cooking things from scratch or mostly from scratch, and I'll make just about anything that looks like it might be good. I love cooking international dishes, I love to bake, and I sometimes create my own recipes.
This dish is a tribute to one of our favorite vacation spots, Charleston, SC, USA. It's a crab cake served with she crab soup (a creamy bisque-like crab soup with sherry in it), two popular dishes that take advantage of the large crab population fished from the salt marshes around the city. Unfortunately, my dad's learned to make amazing maverick grits (a Charleston dish consisting of cheesy grits with shrimp, spicy sauce, chicken, sausage, and peppers that wasn't named after an awesome Intamin LSM coaster in Ohio) better than me so he does Charleston night now.
This is a really simple family recipe called cake with chocolate that consists of cake...with chocolate. It's just a yellow (sometimes lemon) cake mix from a box and a chocolate sauce made from cocoa, sugar, corn starch, vanilla, and either milk or water (this is what makes the recipe versatile; mixing and experimenting with the milk-water ratio for this liquid allows you to change the flavor and texture of the chocolate). It's a great thing to make if you're having company over.
Had this idea for a St. Patrick's Day cake a while back so I made this. I wanted the Lifesavers to create more of a "rainbow-y" look and that didn't work out, but the modified lemon cake mix tasted really good.
We needed to make something for dessert on Easter one time, were low on time, I threw a few things from the pantry together with some candies we had for Easter...and this epic thing happened.
This simple dish is called Chinese Five Spice chicken and for a marinade made with five ingredients, it tastes really good. I served it over drunken noodles in this picture (which actually have no alcohol cooked into them, it gets the name because it's supposed to be a hangover cure).
Yet another awesome Asian dish I made was this Thai combo. Here I made an egg and rice soup (with an egg poached right into the soup...SO good!), a really good spicy-sweet pickled cucumber salad, and Thai chicken satay served with peanut sauce.
I had volunteered for a bake sale...I totally forgot about it...not wanting to be a bad person I threw this semi-homemade banana bread together on the day it needed to be dropped off.
This is oven fried Parmesan chicken served with a side of polenta. I TRIED to make the plating look elegant and tried a "spoon push" thing I saw on Chopped but it didn't quite work out. I do like the basil I cooked onto the polenta, though.
I wanted to give this cake an autumn theme, so I didn't do anything to the box mix and just tried to decorate. It wasn't for an important event, I just wanted to try the candy corn concept out.
This is one of my favorite dishes to make. It's a recipe I invented myself and I call it Rusted Pork because the marinade (based with barbecue sauce and apple cider) caramelizes when grilled, creating a rusty color. Here I served it with scalloped potatoes, cinnamon apples, and apple chips.
Goon bit of the day: I didn't MAKE it, but I did design how I wanted it to be professionally decorated. This was for my graduation party in 2012. We got it from this really good place downtown called The Cakery and I worked with my dad to make sure it was visually pleasing. And it was a chocolate cake with raspberry cream filling...AMAZING!!!!
Yet another family recipe! This is a punch made from this really awesome soda called Sun Drop that was only available in Tennessee for the longest time (and the people there could drink it like it was water) that's like Mountain Dew but sweeter and with more caffeine. The punch is made with Sun Drop, pineapple ice cream, and a few other ingredients, and it can make you REALLY hyper. Like, "anybody who knows Jarrett personally from that horrible Live knows what I'm talking about" hyper. This was my first time trying to make this recipe my cousin's wife makes at every family occasion.
This Mexican-style breakfast was a collaborative effort between me and my parents. I mostly just helped chop fruit but the little bits we did all helped!
I made a GIANT buckeye candy for Christmas one year! We had leftover materials so I decided to just melt some more chocolate and make one bigger than a cat's head!
Made from scratch chicken sandwich!
Slightly off topic, but I made it and it's MADE of food!
Did this for the Pretzel Coaster Build-Off 2011.
Guys! Look what I did! I made a Christmas Cheesecake! Everything bar the Oreo crust was made from scratch and there's grated peppermint bark between the layers. The ganache on top was made from scratch and I love the way it turned out. Planning to make this same one but in Banshee colors in April!
OTHER THINGS I'VE MADE:
*Really good Key Lime Pie (Really wish I had a picture, it looks beautiful the way I present it)
*Chicken Saltimboca (Italian dish consisting of a chicken breast topped with sage and prosciutto)
*Hot cocoa cake (chocolate cake mix with peppermint and hot cocoa flavors added here and there)
*Polynesian drumsicks (chicken marinated in pineapple-soy marinade that I serve in a pineapple rind)\
So those are the dishes I make (along with the Korean barbecue I have on the crock pot right now), what have you made? Share pictures, recipes, anything! Discuss!
I enjoy cooking things from scratch or mostly from scratch, and I'll make just about anything that looks like it might be good. I love cooking international dishes, I love to bake, and I sometimes create my own recipes.
This dish is a tribute to one of our favorite vacation spots, Charleston, SC, USA. It's a crab cake served with she crab soup (a creamy bisque-like crab soup with sherry in it), two popular dishes that take advantage of the large crab population fished from the salt marshes around the city. Unfortunately, my dad's learned to make amazing maverick grits (a Charleston dish consisting of cheesy grits with shrimp, spicy sauce, chicken, sausage, and peppers that wasn't named after an awesome Intamin LSM coaster in Ohio) better than me so he does Charleston night now.
This is a really simple family recipe called cake with chocolate that consists of cake...with chocolate. It's just a yellow (sometimes lemon) cake mix from a box and a chocolate sauce made from cocoa, sugar, corn starch, vanilla, and either milk or water (this is what makes the recipe versatile; mixing and experimenting with the milk-water ratio for this liquid allows you to change the flavor and texture of the chocolate). It's a great thing to make if you're having company over.
Had this idea for a St. Patrick's Day cake a while back so I made this. I wanted the Lifesavers to create more of a "rainbow-y" look and that didn't work out, but the modified lemon cake mix tasted really good.
We needed to make something for dessert on Easter one time, were low on time, I threw a few things from the pantry together with some candies we had for Easter...and this epic thing happened.
This simple dish is called Chinese Five Spice chicken and for a marinade made with five ingredients, it tastes really good. I served it over drunken noodles in this picture (which actually have no alcohol cooked into them, it gets the name because it's supposed to be a hangover cure).
Yet another awesome Asian dish I made was this Thai combo. Here I made an egg and rice soup (with an egg poached right into the soup...SO good!), a really good spicy-sweet pickled cucumber salad, and Thai chicken satay served with peanut sauce.
I had volunteered for a bake sale...I totally forgot about it...not wanting to be a bad person I threw this semi-homemade banana bread together on the day it needed to be dropped off.
This is oven fried Parmesan chicken served with a side of polenta. I TRIED to make the plating look elegant and tried a "spoon push" thing I saw on Chopped but it didn't quite work out. I do like the basil I cooked onto the polenta, though.
I wanted to give this cake an autumn theme, so I didn't do anything to the box mix and just tried to decorate. It wasn't for an important event, I just wanted to try the candy corn concept out.
This is one of my favorite dishes to make. It's a recipe I invented myself and I call it Rusted Pork because the marinade (based with barbecue sauce and apple cider) caramelizes when grilled, creating a rusty color. Here I served it with scalloped potatoes, cinnamon apples, and apple chips.
Goon bit of the day: I didn't MAKE it, but I did design how I wanted it to be professionally decorated. This was for my graduation party in 2012. We got it from this really good place downtown called The Cakery and I worked with my dad to make sure it was visually pleasing. And it was a chocolate cake with raspberry cream filling...AMAZING!!!!
Yet another family recipe! This is a punch made from this really awesome soda called Sun Drop that was only available in Tennessee for the longest time (and the people there could drink it like it was water) that's like Mountain Dew but sweeter and with more caffeine. The punch is made with Sun Drop, pineapple ice cream, and a few other ingredients, and it can make you REALLY hyper. Like, "anybody who knows Jarrett personally from that horrible Live knows what I'm talking about" hyper. This was my first time trying to make this recipe my cousin's wife makes at every family occasion.
This Mexican-style breakfast was a collaborative effort between me and my parents. I mostly just helped chop fruit but the little bits we did all helped!
I made a GIANT buckeye candy for Christmas one year! We had leftover materials so I decided to just melt some more chocolate and make one bigger than a cat's head!
Made from scratch chicken sandwich!
Slightly off topic, but I made it and it's MADE of food!
Did this for the Pretzel Coaster Build-Off 2011.
Guys! Look what I did! I made a Christmas Cheesecake! Everything bar the Oreo crust was made from scratch and there's grated peppermint bark between the layers. The ganache on top was made from scratch and I love the way it turned out. Planning to make this same one but in Banshee colors in April!
OTHER THINGS I'VE MADE:
*Really good Key Lime Pie (Really wish I had a picture, it looks beautiful the way I present it)
*Chicken Saltimboca (Italian dish consisting of a chicken breast topped with sage and prosciutto)
*Hot cocoa cake (chocolate cake mix with peppermint and hot cocoa flavors added here and there)
*Polynesian drumsicks (chicken marinated in pineapple-soy marinade that I serve in a pineapple rind)\
So those are the dishes I make (along with the Korean barbecue I have on the crock pot right now), what have you made? Share pictures, recipes, anything! Discuss!
