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Recipes whipped up in house, or things that are so heavily altered they have turned into something mine.

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Onion Soup with Cheese Bread (KHR)

olive oil (veget) (1 1/2 tsp)
4 med onions, sliced
4 cloves garlic, minced (originally 1)
1/3 c. apple cider (originally sherry)
2 sprigs fresh thyme
1 bay leaf
salt, pepper, W-sauce to taste
6 c beef broth
shredded cheese
baguette

Heat oil.  Add onions.  Saute.  raise heat and brown onions stirring to keep from burning.  Add salt, pepper, w-sauce.  Add garlic, cook another minute or so.  Add cider, thyme, bay leaf.  Cook until cider is mostly evaporated.  Add broth.  Simmer.  Spice more if needed.  Heat broiler.  Slice bread, 1 per bowl.  Put slices on baking sheet.  cover with cheese.  Broil until cheese melts and bread browns.

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Garlic Mussels in White Wine (Me, with help from The Minimalist)

Mussels, still in shell.  Saute in oil, shake around for a minute or so, add a bunch of sliced garlic.  When garlic starts to colour, add about a cup of white wine.  Turn the heat up, mussels will start popping open.  (Add some butter for flavor, your favorite green spice to finish off.)

Fairly quick, and if you get it right, awfully tasty.

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Caramelized Onion-Potato Pancakes (Lifescript)

I had to alter this one quite a bit from the original, as far as process, and size of various bits.

2 baking potatoes, baked and chilled (sizable ones, if you only have smaller potatoes, make up the differential by using more.)
1 onion, diced
1 pepper, diced
1/2 c. corn kernels
3 cloves garlic, minced
1/2 tsp rosemary (might work better chopped, but I find chopping rosemary to be a danger to myself and anyone else in the kitchen.)
1 tsp oregano
2 egg whites
salt and pepper to taste

Peel potatoes, grate coarsely.  Put a little oil or butter or…  choose your cooking poison of that sort…  in a pan and saute the onions and peppers and garlic until they are softening. Add corn and herbs and cook until it smells like food, and the textures are to your liking.  (3-15 more minutes).  Set aside to cool.
After that has cooled, fold the vegets, potats, egg whites (after mixing them up a bit), salt, pepper together in a bowl.
Put by appropriate amounts for the size of potato pancakes you wish, into a skillet (again with oil or butter or…) and cook until browned on both sides.  (2-4 minutes a side, depending on temp and size)

Really tasty layered with cheese, bacon (or ham), and eggs.