Food Porn, Anyone?
In case eretria has been wondering if I've been cooking/baking anything lately, I have not been idle. In spite of the heat, I have been quite regularly cranking up the oven and burners. Oh, yes. And sealover_astara, I've gotten your postcard (the Bad Reichenhall one) and am always hoping things are OK with you and your parents these days.
The giant ("Big-Ass") picnic sandwich I made for a kayaking outing Tim and I took last Sunday. I baked a huge whole grain, seedy loaf of bread, split it and filled it with grilled chicken, fire-roasted red peppers, cucumbers, dried tomatoes, kale greens, pesto, cheeses...
'Pig Candy': Peanut brittle with crunchy bacon added. Salty, sweet, crispy deliciousness!
The layered brownies I made for Peter's high school graduation party. Chocolate brownies topped with some homemade caramel sauce, peanut butter filling, salted caramel ganache and then sprinkled with the broken up Pig Candy brittle.
Ofen Suppe. I concocted a recipe that is similar to what I remember at Ulla's house in Dresden. We used smoked pork, though. Tim made a massive amount for Peter's graduation party, and I used some of the braising liquid and meat.
A grilled vegetable sandwich. Eggplant, yellow squash, zucchini, red peppers, sweet onions, and a spread of cream cheese mixed with a load of herbs from the back yard.
Simple custards topped with a dusting of spices, and served with black raspberries from the wilderness behind our back yard. And blackberry wine from a Michigan winery, which was not bad at all.
I made caramel candy for the first time. It was pushing 90F outside, and 82F in the house, but did I care? NO. I was briefly obsessed with replicating a long-ago brownie I'd had from a grocery store bakery which contained a sandwich-like layer of caramel and peanut butter in the center. I more or less succeeded, but I want to try again for a better version :))). Now that I know how to make this stuff, I can make caramel apples in the fall, too.
The giant ("Big-Ass") picnic sandwich I made for a kayaking outing Tim and I took last Sunday. I baked a huge whole grain, seedy loaf of bread, split it and filled it with grilled chicken, fire-roasted red peppers, cucumbers, dried tomatoes, kale greens, pesto, cheeses...
'Pig Candy': Peanut brittle with crunchy bacon added. Salty, sweet, crispy deliciousness!
The layered brownies I made for Peter's high school graduation party. Chocolate brownies topped with some homemade caramel sauce, peanut butter filling, salted caramel ganache and then sprinkled with the broken up Pig Candy brittle.
Ofen Suppe. I concocted a recipe that is similar to what I remember at Ulla's house in Dresden. We used smoked pork, though. Tim made a massive amount for Peter's graduation party, and I used some of the braising liquid and meat.
A grilled vegetable sandwich. Eggplant, yellow squash, zucchini, red peppers, sweet onions, and a spread of cream cheese mixed with a load of herbs from the back yard.
Simple custards topped with a dusting of spices, and served with black raspberries from the wilderness behind our back yard. And blackberry wine from a Michigan winery, which was not bad at all.
I made caramel candy for the first time. It was pushing 90F outside, and 82F in the house, but did I care? NO. I was briefly obsessed with replicating a long-ago brownie I'd had from a grocery store bakery which contained a sandwich-like layer of caramel and peanut butter in the center. I more or less succeeded, but I want to try again for a better version :))). Now that I know how to make this stuff, I can make caramel apples in the fall, too.