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Showing posts with label chocolate. Show all posts
Showing posts with label chocolate. Show all posts

Wednesday, January 28, 2009

Arby's recipes: the anti burger sandwhich and more

Arby's on UrbanspoonKnown for its roast beef, like many others I have been to Arby's for a little bite. But for some reason, I can't quite get it out of my mind that the roast beef should not be pink but but have a "light shade of brown" like regular roast beef. Am I wrong?

Once in a while I like to pop into Arby's location for their fabulous Jamoca shakes, especially when there is a coupon. They are very creamy, chocolaty and almost as good as Wendy's. (They are not quite as creamy thick and have a little different consistency). I wish they had a $1 menu. Well they sort of do but you can pick from a wide array 5 for $5. But when I just interested in one this what I get for $1. I have eaten the salads once and they are not bad.

The curly fries are "to die for" and have just right crispness. I also love the sauces like horsey sauce (horseradish sauce) which is not too hot but gives a sandwich a mild extra zing of heat. But the 3 pepper sauce is to die for an is very, very addictive for me. This three pepper sauce which is absolutely awesome and is a good blend of different peppers, heat, flavor and goes well along on a sandwich , with fries etc (I wish they would bottle it as I would buy it!). That reminds me maybe I can find a recipe for it. But before that, I found an interesting article on horseradish and more at ( under culinary uses)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horseradish


The recipe

Arby's Horsey Sauce

By: Cookinn'Lovinit
Nov 17, 2007
From Top Secret Recipes
SERVES 4 -6 , 1 cup (change servings and units)
Ingredients
1 tablespoon white vinegar
4 teaspoons granulated sugar or sugar substitute
1/8 teaspoon salt
1 cup mayonnaise
2 1/2 tablespoons prepared horseradish
Directions
1In a small bowl, mix the sugar and salt in vinegar until dissolved.
2Add mayonnaine, horseradish and vinegar mix into a blender. Set on medium until pureed. (About 10 seconds).
3Chill in covered container until smooth and creamy (about 2 to 3 hours).

The BBQ sauce recipe is

Arbys Barbecue Sauce Recipe
Mrtnzangel8 / All my dishes
11 months, 2 weeks ago
Arby's sauce is one of my favs on their roast beef sandwiches or whatever..I've been known to put it on a bacon, egg and cheese biscuit... I got this recipe in an e-mail earlier. I am trying it right now.....

Ingredients
1 cup ketchup
2 teaspoons water
1/4 teaspoon garlic powder
1/4 teaspoon onion powder
1/4 teaspoon pepper
1/4 teaspoon salt
1/2 teaspoon Tabasco pepper sauce

Directions
Combine all the ingredients in a small saucepan and cook over medium heat, stirring constantly, until the sauce begins to boil, 5 to 10 minutes.
Remove the sauce from the heat. Cover and allow to cool.
Pour into a covered container for storage in your refrigerator.
Keeps for a month or two.
Makes 1 cup.

Sunday, January 4, 2009

Pumpkin-Chocolate bread pudding - yummmy

I love bread pudding - all types and kinds. When I opened up the Kansas City Star Food section on 11/23/08, I saw this recipe and knew I had to try to make it. It called for two parts: making the pumpkin-chocolate load first and then the Pumpkin-chocolate bread pudding. I tried to jump the recipe and take some time and actually make the pudding part with cubes of Italian bread. I drizzled the custard like pudding mixture over the bread cubes. It came out great, very chocolate laden and with whip cream even my wife loved it.
I tried to find the recipe to display here but it would not show. I don't have time now to reenter the recipe by hand but if anyone would like to try it, email me and I will put it other and send it you and also display in this section later. (contact me at dreric1kansas@aol.com).
Oh by the way I rated this 9.6/10. Not bad for half a recipe so to speak.

Saturday, November 22, 2008

chili powder with hot chocolate : sounds crazy but it is good

I have heard about this for several years. My wife brought me some chili powder with hot chocolate poweder. It was very good. The chili powder balances out the hot chocolate. You get the sweet with a little kick which (trust me ) tastes good.
Make your own by taking some hot chocolate mix and then mixing with hot water. Then add a chili powder to taste. Its great. What do you think?