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[UknowsI]

[blackjack]

Are there mainly going to be koreans or westerners there? Is there going to be drinking?
Don't expect a meal where everybody retreats to the dining room, sits down together and eats by courses. Anyway do you even have place setting for 10 people and multiple courses? I know I don't.

Keep it simple, If it was me

starters

dips, can be made the day before
-a big bowl of salsa with nachos and mabe some other dips
(tomatoes, onion, lemon juice, salt pepper, chillis, cilantro (be careful many koreans hate this).
-Tzatziki (yogurt (unsweetened), cucumber, cumin, onion, garlic, olive oil, lemon juice).
-maybe Vietnamese spring rolls, can be made an hour or so before hand and all the ingredients can be gotten at homeplus with a few different dips

Main

Two whole roast chickens with stuffing and potatoes. If your oven is anything like mine then it should cope. Precook the potatoes. If there is no room for the potatoes then mash them and make garlic mashed potatoes (or throw some cheese in).

The stuffing is easy
-rip some bread up into small bits throw into a bowl.
-dice an onion and throw in the bowl
-dice some garlic and chillis up (can be skipped) and throw in bowl
-salt pepper, herbs (oragano, rosmary, thyme)
-break an egg and throw in the bowl (use a second if too dry)
-mix it all together (don't use a blender) and stuff it in the chicken.

Make a gravy (juices from chicken, flour, chicken stock).

Maybe steamed veges (you can make a white sauce if you want)

The starters can all be made before people get there, the chicken will be in the oven and the veges will be cut up. Mashed potatoes take one element, while the steamed veges take the other. A white sauce can be made ahead of time and heated in the microwave, the gravy can be made while the chicken is resting.

Desserts
Can be made ahead of time but once again keep it simple. Personally I would skip them or just make the brownies you were talking about. Chances are people are going to be drunk anyway

[teachingld2004]

Ah, I should have made it clear. These are graduate students. They do not have money. This is not a hard meal to make. Maybe I can make pie, maybe I can't. Pot Luck is great, but they do not cook.

I have just talked about things I eat. They said spaghetti is expensive, and they do not make it. I said shaghetti is cheap. I told them that I always make salsa. They said that is hard. We had this whole conversation about the different way we eat. A few of the were shocked that I do not eat rice every day, and a few of them thought I ate potatoes or spaghetti every day. I said I usually eat Korean food, and I do not eat spaghetti often, and that I bake potatoes. I said I never have soup or rice or kichee for breakfast. Oatmeal or cornflakes. Some times toast. Some times eggs. And that is how it came to pass that I invited them to my apartment for a meal.

I have a toaster oven, but it has temperature settings. I have made brownies lots of times. I make bread in it once a week. I do not buy bread. I can put one chicken in it and maybe 2 small potatoes.
I have to cook in batches. I can cook the night before.

Pain in the but, but these students are really great.

[blackjack]

[Xuanzang]

At least your place can hold 10 people. Mine could if 5 didn`t mind being in the shoe area or bathroom. Good luck there. I`m sure they`ll appreciate it.

[teachingld2004]

My place can hold 10, but how, not sure. Some of the students have room mates in places half this size.

Cole slaw I made today. it was super easy to do.

Sauce I made in the rice cooker and put it in the freezer.

cucumbers, green/red peppers, carrots, garlic, a drop of olive oil, a drop of sugar, and balsamic vinegar marinating in a big zip loc bag. Easy and quick.

I bought tortilal chips. Tomorrow I will make salsa. That is super easy to do.

Saturday I will make meatballs. This is really not too hard, I just am thinking about keeping food hot. And where I put food is another trick. The "kitchen" is a little area.

You walk into the apt, and you are in the kitchen. There are sliding doors that close the kitchen off. But if you do, then you are in a box. This won't kill me, but I need a kick in the head.

The students are absolutely great and I have no stress on the job.

[teachingld2004]

BEST BROWNIES

I make these brownies often, and they never have come out less the n perfect. I use these small rectangle pans that come with lids, 10 for about 2,000 won. (And if you geel like washing them, they can be re-used)There is too much batter for one batch, and not enough for 2, so one batch comes out like brownies, the second like great cookies, You can not fail. I never haave vanilla extract, so I use cinnamon.

1/2 c. butter, melted
1 c. sugar
1 tsp. vanilla extract
2 eggs
1/2 c. all-purpose flour
1/3 c. Hershey's cocoa (any brand will do)
1/4 tsp. baking powder
1/4 tsp. salt
1/2 c. chopped nuts (opt.)


Heat oven to 350 degrees. Grease square pan, 9 x 9 x 2 inches. In large mixing bowl blend melted butter, sugar and vanilla. Add eggs, using spoon, beat well. Combine flour, cocoa, baking powder and salt; gradually blend into egg mixture. Stir in nuts, if desired. Spread into prepared pan. Bake 20 to 25 minutes,

[UknowsI]

Is "vanilla sugar" different from vanilla extract? Vanilla sugar is easy to find at least. I'll try to make brownies, but I can't change the temperature on my oven. I just assumed it was 220 Celsius or so. Do you mean 350 Celsius or Fahrenheit? I guess Fahrenheit...

I just found Jell-o in Korea (Daejeon) now. So this is a recipe for cheese cake that doesn't use an oven:

Bottom layer:
Melt 150 g of butter
Crush a pack of digestive in a bowl.
Mix butter and digestive and then pour it into your pan
Make a smooth and hard surface out of the mix by using a spoon

Middle layer:
Boil water equal to half the amount you usually use when you make Jello
Add lemon or citrus jello
Put 200 g of philadelphia cheese in a bowl and mix with 1 dl of sour cream, 100 g of powdered sugar
Mix in the jello
Pour onto the pan and put it in the fridge

Top layer
Make strawberry/raspberry jello with half the amount of water you usually make, and pour it on top of the cheese layer after the cheese layer has become hard (after 3 hours or so in the fridge)
Put it in the fridge to cool off

Guide to get the ingredients:
Jello, probably the hardest ingredient to get. You can find it in the gourmet supermarket in the B2 floor at Timeworld Galleria in Daejeon
Sour Cream, can be found at Costco or E-mart but you can use neutral flavoured yoghurt instead
The rest can be found in any store.

EDIT: I think I'll add it to the Western food sticky as well.

[teachingld2004]

I have never used vanila sugar. I have seen it all over the place too.
You can eliminate the vanila, and add cinnamon instead.
Extract is found in the foreign food mart in Itaweon. They will also send you stuff.
If you can not regulate the heat in your oven, I think the brownies will burn.
You CAN drop the dough by spoonfulls on a plate and microwave them. I have done that and believe it or not, they are OK