Mushroom-Shaped Chocolate-Orange Meringues

Whimsical party food to impress.

Froot Loop Cupcakes (USA)

Fancy dressing up your vanilla cupcakes?

Creamy Chicken Tetrazzini

Savory and creamy comfort food!

I-Disgust-Me BBQ Burgers

A burger for when you've stopped caring about fat content. The only thing missing is bacon!

Crab-Topped Deviled Eggs

Eggcelent. Yeah, I went there.

Chicken-Fried Chicken with Country Gravy Dipping Sauce

Double-coated for extra CRUNCH.

Red-Bottom Cake

Imagine if a black-bottom cupcake had a baby with a red velvet cake. Now imagine a red-bottom cake. Simply another excuse to eat cream cheese frosting.

A Rather Traditional Pavlova

Dreaming of a sunny summer day in food format?

Orange Beef Burgers

A chinese takeaway in burger form.

Mexican-Inspired: Cheesy Refried Bean Quesadillas

I beat Taco Bell to their own crushed-Dorito food hell with these babies.

Marsala Chicken Dumplings

Dumplings get a makeover.

Mochacinno Fudge

Premium coffee drink fudge!

Parmesan Chicken Risotto

Risotto for picky eaters!

Whimsical Cookery is a site for adults who prefer to eat like children, or perhaps just need to cook for some children. This site contains an aversion to vegetables, a love of fried food and cupcakes, lazy shortcuts, some disturbing creations, and an ignorance of proper culinary practices...

Tuesday 23 November 2010

Easy Curried Linguine

 
I have found some curries to be really involved or full of vegetables that I find off-putting.  It is in that spirit, that I recommend this incredibly simple recipe for chicken curry linguine.  Another plus to this recipe is the use of cream of chicken soup instead of a heavy cream.  It was not difficult to find an acceptable low-fat cream of chicken soup.  The use of linguine may be counter-intuitive, but the thickness and consistency of the noodle turned out to be my starch of choice for this curry. If you want an idea of how this might taste, just imagine a midwestern mother made a curry casserole.
Once again, this is another recipe that tastes pretty brilliant with veggie-chicken or without any chicken at all, so I have included it in the vegetarian section.

You will need:
2 tins of cream of chicken soup (10.75 oz.)
3 Tbsp tomato paste
1/3 cup water
1 cup button mushrooms
1 1/2 - 2 Tbsp Mild Curry Powder
1/4 tsp onion powder
1/4 tsp allspice
Linguine



1. In a medium-sized pot, combine chicken soup, tomato paste, water, mushrooms, curry powder, onion powder, and allspice.

2. In a separate pot, boil water and cook your linguine.  I change the amount each time, though roughly a fistful of pasta will do.

3. As pasta is about to finish, heat curry mixture.

4. Drain water from noodles and immediately add to pot of curry, mix, and heat thoroughly.

Sunday 7 November 2010

Cran-Apple Cider Sorbet



A nice sorbet in autumn or winter?  While this sorbet may be refreshing on a summer's day, it also has the sweet and spicy cider taste of holidays.  I am also currently toying with the idea of some sort of chai tea sorbet... but I digress.

You will need:
1/2 can apple juice concentrate
1/2 can cranberry juice concentrate
2 cups water
1 1/2 cups applesauce
2 Tbsp lemon juice
3 cinnamon sticks
1 tsp whole cloves




1. Combine apple juice, cranberry juice, lemon juice, and water in a pot.

2. Heat, and add cinnamon sticks and cloves.  Simmer on a low heat until desired level of spice-flavor is achieved.

3. Strain out cloves and cinnamon sticks.


4. Add applesauce and allow to cool.

5. In a freezer-safe mixing bowl, freeze sorbet mixture until it becomes a stiff-slushy consistency.

6. Remove and beat sorbet to break up the ice crystals.

7. Refreeze, remove and beat again just before frozen to refine ice crystals once again.

8. Freeze again.  To serve, let sorbet sit at room temperature for a few minutes.  Enjoy!

NOTE: Alternatively, add sieved mixture to an ice cream maker and finish in the freezer.