I made this strawberry pound cake.
A slice of ”Bienenstich” is one of my favourite bakery buys here in Berlin. It wasn’t something we’d ever had in our trips to Cologne. Smitten Kitchen has taken it on… and I happen to have everything I need on hand…
Side note: I do not like the way links now look in the dashboard. Same goes for videos.
Last week’s carrot cake ice cream was delicious, but also a little weird, because there was vegetables in my ice cream. And it also was a little too reminiscent of pumpkin pie, which is also delicious, but I wanted carrot cake, dammit!
But this. This is going to be great.
Some good suggestions here for freezer-friendly meals at the Kitchn.
Yes! Let’s! So this.
I had a 750 gram piece of boneless pork shoulder (I got the woman at the meat counter to cut it from the fattier end), which I rubbed in a mix of paprika, salt, cumin, sugar, and powdered ginger. I put it in a pot on the stove top at a high temperature to sear it.
After all the sides had a good crust on them (and one side had a little too-good crust on it), I poured in a sauce based on the chili sauce for the Mountain Meatball Recipe in Jamie Oliver’s America cookbook:
- 2 small onions, chopped,
- 5 garlic cloves, sliced
- 3 tbsp apple cider vinegar
- 3 tbsp molasses (well, I used the German substitute of Zuckerrubensyrup)
- 2 tbsp grainy mustard
- 2 tbsp tomato paste
- 2/3 cup cola
- 1 cup canned tomato chunks
- salt and pepper to taste
Then I let that stew in the pot at the very lowest temperature for 2.5 hours, until I could easily pull of chunks of meat from the pork with a fork.
Then I mixed the polenta based on this recipe (except I left out the goat cheese and it was just fine).
Here is the recipe for the incredible Balsamic Orange Glazed Chicken and Creamy Goat Cheese Polenta last night.
As a side note, I’m going to be making that polenta recipe pretty much every week. It’s easy, fast, and beyond delicious.
EVERYTHING above is true. Polenta is now officially a regular side at our house.
It has dates and I’m sure it will get you a date with a lumberjack. Lumberjacks love dates.
How great of a dinner party idea is this? The link takes you to a menu and recipes to make everything.
Fall seasonal recipes that don’t involve pumpkin
Because we all know it ain’t the only gourd in town these days… and I know I’m not the only one who has had it pumpkin and it’s ubiquitous spice.
- Smitten Kitchen’s apple mosaic tart with salted caramel
- The Kitchn’s roasted vegetable soup with herb dumplings
- A Dash of Cinnamon’s roasted butternut squash lasagne
- Coconut & Lime’s apple cranberry pie
- How Sweet it Is’s brussel sprouts hash for dinner
- Sweet Sugar Bean’s upside down pear ginger cake
- The Kitchn’s fettucine with roasted squash, brown butter and sage
- David Lebovitz’s harvest tart
- The Kitchn’s sweet potato bread pudding with pecan streusel and whiskey sauce
- Dorie Greenspan’s French apple cake (via David Lebovitz)
- Chow’s cranberry and pistacchio biscotti
- Serious eats’ roasted sweet potato salad with chutney vinagrette
Happy eating!
