I am looking to learn some new exciting recipes, could anyone help me?

I think you should start looking at cookbooks. There is a wide selection so it will only take a little digging to find the perfect one. I have very bad memory so I cant give you a good recipe cause they are all in my cookbook. You could also look up rcipes online. Anyways good luck and most importantly Have fun!

bleh I have loads of cookbooks and look online quite a bit but I can’t think of anything more I want to do :p I tend to dislike cookbooks as they generally have only a few things I like so I never think its worth buying them.

Lol. Well I was just looking through my cookbooks and I realized all my recipes are too complicated! I really need to buy another cookbook. Anyways srry I couldnt help and Good Luck finding a recipe! :)

The BEST Buttermilk Pound Cake, great for breakfast.

Preheat oven 325 degrees. Grease and flour 1 large bundt pan.

2 sticks butter (margarine works also)
3 cups sugar
3 cups flour
¼ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt (I don’t add this, because I use salted margarine)
1 cup buttermilk
2 teaspoons vanilla
4 eggs

Cream butter and sugar together. Add eggs one at a time. Add flour alternatively with buttermilk. Add baking soda and vanilla. Beat all together until well blended. (I use an electric hand mixer, although you can beat by hand, but my hand would hurt, it is a very heavy batter).

Bake about 1 to 1¼ hours. Let cool in pan 10 minutes.

I take it you are ruling out all seafood?

You might try Hamburger Stroganoff.

1 lb ground beef
2–3 cloves garlic, minced
½ medium onion, diced
6–8 mushrooms, sliced (I prefer Crimini, but button mushrooms work)
2 Tbsp flour
2 Tbsp butter
2 Tbsp. paprika (smoked is nice if you have it, but sweet is traditional)
Salt
pepper
1 c. milk (for richer, mix milk with cream or use ½ & ½)
½ c. sour cream
Serve over Egg Noodles

Start the noodles. Brown the onion with the ground beef. Drain any grease. Add the minced garlic,butter and mushrooms and saute for a couple more minutes.

Sprinkle with the flour and cook for 30 more seconds. Pour in the milk-cream mixture and heat until it begins to thicken. Turn the heat down until it is just simmering.

Add the paprika and salt and pepper to taste.

Cook, stirring until flavors blend and sauce has thickened.

Just before serving, stir in the sour cream until heated through. Do not allow mixture to boil. Serve over buttered egg noodles.

Here is one I recently wrote on another thread:

We call this Cuban Chicken in my family, but it is not Cuban at all. It is a recipe my mom’s Cuban girlfriend gave her years ago.

4 skinless bone-in chicken thighs that have been out of the fridge for 20–30 minutes
1 can campbell’s cream of mushroom soup
¼ cup orange juice
¼ cup water
1 cup sliced mushrooms
salt
pinch of garlic

In a frying pan that has a cover (not sure what to call that pan? The one with straight sides? But you can improvise if you need to, 10 inch diameter more or less would be good) empty entire contents of soup can, water, orange juice and pinch of garlic. Mix together and then additionally mix in the mushrooms. Start cooking at medium high heat. Salt the chicken and then add it to the pan and cover. Once “soup” is bubbling, reduce to medium heat and cook approximately 30 minutes turning chicken twice. If sauce starts to dry out add some water, it is not a thin sauce, but you don’t want it to cook out so much that it might burn, or if it seems runny you can take the cover off towards the end of cooking so it thickens.

Serve over rice.

HInt: you can add some white wine to the recipe if you like.

@Marina Yum. I do a similar recipe with a short cut. I use beefy onion soup in the envelope add some water and sour cream, mix with cooked ground beef and serve over rice. I don’t know the measurements, I can kind of throw it together now without measuring.

Ramen.
Instant or homemade.

there is this website i love to use. everyone can post their own version of recipes(and get reviews on them) and there’s tons and tons of new and exciting stuff! it’s free too! check it out, i swear by it. www.recipezaar.com

have fun! :)

I like allrecipes.com.

My favorite website for recipes is Epicurious.com. I love, love, love the reviews.
My fiance is incredibly biased towards Cook’s Illustrated.

That out of the way, some really fun things to make are biscotti, creamy pesto tortellini, and quiche. They are fun because the recipes for them are all very, very malleable.

This is the recipe I use for biscotti: http://paperbagged.livejournal.com/7247.html#cutid1
For creamy pesto tortellini, I saute whatever veggies I want, add ¼ cup fat free sour cream (more if you want it saucier), 3 tbsp pesto, and my cooked tortellini. Viola! Delicious!
Quiche: Again, saute the veggies you want, toss with some fresh herbs, cook and add some meat, find a ratio of egg to dairy you like, grate some cheese on top, toss in a pie crust and bake. (My ratio of dairy: half skim milk, half fat-free yogurt. So good!)

This calls for chicken mince but I have used pork or turkey with equal success, it is so good. And I often serve it on fresh lettuce leaves with rice.

Steamed Choy with chicken

Prep time 5 min
Cooking time 10 min
Serves 4

1tbs vegetable oil
1 stalk lemongrass finely chopped
1 garlic clove
500g chicken mince (1.10 pounds)
1 tbs brown sugar
1 tbs fish sauce
¼ cup chicken stock
2 red chillis, sliced
¼ cup lime juice
baby buk choy or pak choy or lettuce leaves

1) Heat oil in a wok or large frypan over medium heat. Ad lemongrass and garlic and stir fry for 30 secs or until fragrant. Increase heat to medium high, add chicken mince and cook for 3–5 minutes until no longer pink. Drain excess liquid if necessary.

2) Add sugar and fish sauce, stirring to combine. Add stock and simmer for 5–8 minutes until liquid has evaporated. Remove from heat then add chilli and lime juice.

3) if using one of the choys – steam and put the meat mixture on top.

This is seriously so good.

Well if you like Asian foods and I personally think they are the best!

Not very complex or challenging but you could make cookies in a waffle iron. No seriously.

The Pioneer Woman always has tasty, easy, not-too-weird recipes.

Her lasagna is to die for.

@ccrow – me too! I am on allrecipes.com all the time! It’s the best!

Seems like you havnt tried much dessert baking!!

You HAVE to try some cheesecake! Its rather easy to bake, adn delicious!