Polpettone over Spaghetti
21-JAN-2009
"Mexican" Knishes
Knishes stuffed with mashed potatoes, grebenes, chile poblano and queso.
Golden Basmati Rice Pilaff
Fresh Mango Salsa with frijoles
Small Frangipane Fig Tart
Large Frangipane Fig Tart
26-MAY-2008
Frijoles Charros
I recently made Frijoles Charros; cooked pinto beans enriched with bacon, onion, garlic, and chiles de Árbol, among other ingredients.
This is a great side dish at a barbecue cookout.
18-JUN-2008
Crema de Berros
Cream of Watercress Soup, improvised from leftover Leek and Potato Soup.
26-MAY-2008
A Hunk of a Chunk of Pumpernickel
26-MAY-2008
A loaf of Dark Pumpernickel Raisin Bread
Borscht with boiled potato and Cucumber-Horseradish Sour Cream garnish
Home made Flour Tortillas
Breakfast Burritos; Chorizo, Potatoes and Eggs
02-APR-2008
Corned Beef Dinner
We served a home cured corned beef brisket with all the usual accompaniments, including home made Kosher style Dill Cucumber Pickles, and Sour Caraway Rye Bread to our guests.
30-MAR-2008
Kosher Style Dill Cucumber Pickles
I made these on an impulse, 4 days before a planned corned beef dinner. It's anyone's guess whether they'll be even half-sour in so short a time.
Meanwhile, you can look at the results of an earlier effort here:
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Home made Torta Ahogada
A Torta Ahogada is, literally, a "drowned sandwich". This one is a bit atypical: a home made bolillo was filled with sliced spicy roast pork, simmered in a thin, slightly picante tomato broth, and heaped with American style, creamy Garlic Slaw. It was super good, too, accompanied by a chilled Cerveza Modelo Especial.
In some ways, it's not too different than a Southern Pulled Pork Sandwich with slaw.
21-FEB-2008
Bread Pudding
A great way to use up stale bread. This was made with a failed Cinnamon-Walnut-Raisin Bread. The results were better than the original.
11-OCT-2007
Sour Cream Apple Pie
What to do with 5 apples, 1 9-inch crust, and some leftover crema?
Make Sour Cream Apple Pie. (Actually, there are a few more things to it than those.)
11-OCT-2007
Apple Pie estilo Las Cuevas
The second apple pie in a week. This one is less excessively juicy (soupy) as I used bread crumbs under the apples and some tapioca in the filling. This one didn't burst!
Credits to Amanda for her assistance.
13-FEB-2007
No Knead Sourdough Seed Bread
13-FEB-2007
A view of the top from the side
10-JAN-2007
Angel Biscuits
Light, buttery and soft. You can make the dough up to several days in advance, then roll it out, cut it and bake. Heavenly!
Serve with jam or apple butter; we had them with fried eggs, home made sausage patties and milk gravy.
08-DEC-2006
Panettone
We are planning a holiday party, with an Italian food theme (but with Mexican touches.) Today, inspired by a post on the lonelyplanet.com Thorn Tree, Get Stuffed Branch, I decided to make panettone. Although I'm somewhat familiar with the process, it took hours and hours for the cakes to rise. Somewhere around 2 1/2 hours for the final rise. Together with the sponge stage and the dough fermentation, the total rising time was on the order of 7 hours.
This is a laborious process. We even made our own candied citrus peels.
I was vindicated in my faith. They turned out very nicely.
08-DEC-2006
Panettoni Just Out of Oven
The first Moment of Truth: taking the finished panettoni from the oven.
The second Moment of Truth is in the eating.
05-DEC-2006
Danish Pastry—Home Made
There are a lot of things about the baking business that I miss. One of them is the ability (when you work on your own) to start a baking project and see it through from start to finish.
Since we returned from the USA in late October, I have been baking several times a week. Yesterday, I made a small batch of rugelach.
Yesterday afternoon, while ruggles were baking, I started a Danish pastry dough, using one of the less demanding recipes.
And now I have the satisfaction of taking these beauties out of the oven. I made Cream Cheese with Cheddar and Dried Cranberry Snails, Lekvar (prune) Pockets, and from the scraps of dough, a few Cinnamon-Walnut Clothespins.
29-SEP-2006
Pozole Estilo Jalisco
Last night we were invited to a pozole supper at our friends' house, near Pátzcuaro. Sra. Betty makes Pozole estilo Jalisco, which she pointed out to us is distinguished from the local, Michoacán pozole in that the latter is "batido" and thickened, while the Jalisco style is not. Anyway, she's an excellent cook, and after openers of "Cabrito Brand" Tequila (cheap but tasty), we sat down to beautiful bowls of steaming pozole. It is red with mild chiles, probably strained guajillos. I forgot to ask.
For accompaniments, we had crisp, finely shredded cabage, and long, hot red dried chiles fried in oil, orégano and minced onion. No radishes.
Dessert was a lattice top butter crusted apple pie.
Desayuno: Queso Fundido con Rajas de Chile
Chilaquiles on the stove
Chilaquiles: dried, fried corn tortillas, simmered in chile salsa, and enhanced with cheese, chicken or occasionally, meat.
Chilaquiles on the plate
Enriched with melting quesillo de Oaxaca and crema; accompanied by frijoles negros refritos, and a mug of chocolate caliente (Just out of the picture, upper right.), and a small piece of pan dulce.
Home style food: Chile Mac
16-OCT-2005
Sopa de Verduras estilo Vietnamesa
Madness: Cilantro by the handful
Sauerbraten Dinner—red cabbage
Sauerbraten Dinner & plate 1
19-JAN-2006
Mexican Camote Pie
"Pumpkin" Pie made of camote blanco and carrots.
27-JAN-2006
Gado gado 1
An Indonesian Vegetable Salad served hot or cold, with a rich, spicy peanut sauce.
Yes, there's a plate with corn tostadas and chicharrones in the mid-picture. After all, this is Mexico.
Our dessert was fresh pineapple and luscious mango slices.
27-JAN-2006
Gado gado 3
This particular gado gado had potato, spinach, cucumber, blanched shredded cabbage, green beans, carrots, bean sprouts, etc, etc.
The colorful plate behind the plastic salt and pepper shakers was the appetizer: Mexican sardines in picante sauce of Chipotle-Mandarina peel infused oil, with lime juice, on a bed of shredded jícama, covered with white onion rings and a few sections of yellow chile perón.
pizza de espinacas cocida
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Home-brewed, Mexican Pineapple Beer
19-FEB-2006
Capirotada acabo del horno
26-FEB-2006
Living ¡La Vida Buena!
An American style Chili Dog.
01-MAR-2006
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09-MAR-2006
Cinnamon Pecan Rolls
Bathed with a honey-cinnamon-lime-rum syrup
09-MAR-2006
Pozole Rojo Estilo Jalisco
Our dear neighbor, Betty, made this superb Pozole Rojo from scratch, and we enjoyed it immensely.
12-MAR-2006
chickpea fritters with yogurt
15-MAR-2006
Dos Manojos de Acelgas
Me cobró $5 MXP cada uno.
15-MAR-2006
Sopa de Rollitos de Acelgas estilo Vietnamesa
16-MAR-2006
Biscuits, gravy, Spanish fried potatoes, longaniza verde
17-APR-2006
Chiles Poblanos Rellenos de Atún "Tapenada"
A cold, salad-like dish of roasted and peeled Chiles Poblanos, filled with a lightly dressed, limón and olive oil "tapenade" style tuna salad.
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Made from scratch, by hand, in house.
07-JUN-2006
Apple Cobbler
From a great recipe in Marian Cunningham's Fanny Farmer Baking Book, with local special touches.
Plátanos fritos con La Lechera
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Savory Corn Soup, flavored with an anise-like herb.
Alubias blancas cooking
Alubias blancas (large white beans) for "Lobster" Mushroom Pasta
02-AUG-2006
Mllefroggie, sister, Sra. Anon, at Birrería Don Prisci
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Key Lime Pie
The anomalous but delicious dessert for a dinner of semi-Vietnamese dishes on September 2, 2006 at Casa Gloria at Las Cuevas, Michocán.
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