Sorry to say, but this site has been so depressing for a few days. I thought I'd ask an average, everyday question....to make us all feel a little more normal today.
I made Eggplant Lasagna, and my BIL and SIL are coming for dinner. They leave for Cali tomorrow to see their beautiful grand daughter.
Sorry, sometimes we just need some REGULAR conversation.......or at least THIS caregiver does.
Strawberry shortcake!!!!! YUMMO!!!!!!
Enjoy dinner, everyone!
I'm adding a couple of gallons worth to my rainy day pantry; figure I can rotate that much through in a year or less. I do not trust the stability of cartoon storage for longer term so I'll stick with the canned evaporated milk for longer term cooking milk.
I use red wine vinegar in salads too. I do like it in salad dressing. My glaze was, eh…not great.
I do use a fruit based pepper jelly, either peach or pineapple. Unless I find a fool proof glaze recipe I am going to go back to my pepper jelly that I buy at the farmers market.
Apricot on lamb sounds amazing! My favorite lamb dishes are from our Greek festival. Oh my gosh, so delicious!
I once did a lamb roast with an apricot glaze which was great. I can see the pepper jelly would be good on pork. I tend to buy extra of things I can't get easily in the supermarket.
I could use your help! This is the second time I’ve screwed up my pork loin. Oh well…
Maybe, I shouldn’t have tried to cook this evening, kind of bummed out by a few things and my heart wasn’t in it.
I love to cook and I am a pretty good cook but I goofed this time.
I can’t seem to find a glaze that works. The other one didn’t even stick to the loin. This one didn’t taste the way I wanted it to.
Next time I go to the farmers market I’ll be buying 6 jars of my favorite pepper jelly because that makes a great glaze for my pork loin.
Thanks for your suggestions. They sound better than what I cooked! LOL 😆
I was wondering if pineapple, crushed maybe, would be a good sweetener with red wine vinegar on pork, maybe apple sauce or both, hmmm, love both with pork, now I will need to try this idea.
I am getting ready to bake a pork tenderloin. The last time I made it I wasn’t satisfied with the glaze that I made for it. It was a honey mustard glaze that looked good but for some reason it came out kind of bland.
I usually glaze my tenderloin with pepper jelly from a vendor that I love at my farmers market. I’m out of the pepper jelly right now. It comes out delicious when I use the pepper jelly.
Does anyone have a favorite recipe for a glaze suitable for a pork tenderloin?
I don’t use Gold Medal. I buy King Arthur flour.
My grandmother never did any gardening. She did her needlework, crocheting and knitting, etc.
Order take out!
I guess I am so accustomed to bread pudding that I don’t even think of eating rice pudding. My husband would think that I was insane if I served rice pudding. LOL 😆
I don’t cook chili. I do love it. I don’t really have a preference on beans or no beans but my friends in Texas would never eat it with beans!
I keep saying that I want to try making Chili. I probably wouldn’t put beans in it.
Our favorite beans in New Orleans are red beans and rice. Preferably Camellia Brand or Blue Runner as they are local brands.
Now, if you travel to Cajun Country, such as Lafayette, Louisiana, you will find that they enjoy white beans and rice. (Great Northern or navy)
I love all kinds of beans, black beans, white beans, Lima beans, pinto and red beans. Also, lentils and split peas. It’s funny, I only eat black eyed peas on New Year’s Day.
Can I please pull your leg some more about the rice pudding?
You spoke with such authority about what people in New Orleans do not eat,
that it struck me as a bit funny.
It's great to be enthusiastic about your home town, and you are!
So, in all humility, I offer you this:
Authentic Italian Rice Pudding
Let Cooking Italian with Joe show you how to make my grandmother's authentic Italian world's best rice pudding! Truly smooth and silky texture that fills your taste buds with yum. Garnish with chopped nuts, cinnamon, and whipped cream.
Maybe put bread in it when you cook it for your dH. Lol.
However, you are right to be proud. New Orleans is famous for the best food anywhere!
BTW, do you put beans, or no beans in your Chili? And, do you use steak?
Really asking, not fighting.
Oh, I edited my post just before your response. Sorry! I love reading food blogs too.
I figured that you were joking but I started thinking about all of the different opinions on food. It is amazing how different we all cook and eat.
My husband has a coworker who came to our home for dinner once. I made coffee after dinner. Well, coffee and chicory. He didn’t drink it. He said that he could not get used to chicory. He only drank pure coffee. Poor guy was going to get coffee from McDonald’s! 😆 because he didn’t want to drink the coffee and chicory.
I do drink our local coffee and chicory but I also drink coffee without chicory.
I was bored one day and looked up cities with the best and worst food. It was so funny! Apparently, we all have different tastes.
And I was just pulling your leg about the bread and rice puddings, the way you worded your reply struck me as funny 😁
Of course, people can make and eat both rice and bread pudding, but rice pudding just isn’t a thing here at all.
We are so fond of bread pudding that we wouldn’t give rice pudding a second thought.
Variety is the spice of life. It’s great if people enjoy both rice and bread pudding.
I am a purist about my coffee though. I hate different flavors. I also hate sugar in my coffee. You won’t catch me ordering a pumpkin latte! LOL
You will never see rice pudding on any New Orleans restaurant menus or served in our homes.
Bread pudding is very popular and delicious!
Food is very regional. The food in northern Louisiana is nothing like the food here in New Orleans. They are known for ‘meat pies.’ We don’t cook meat pies in the southern part of the state.
If you visit Natchitoches, Louisiana you will see meat pies everywhere! They filmed Steel Magnolias in Natchitoches, Louisiana.
Speaking of rice, look at how sushi became popular everywhere! I could never get my mom to try it. LOL 😆 She totally grossed out when she saw it.
Cool that you're learning Greek. I can't speak it but I am Italian-speaking. I took Hebrew also and am getting back to that. I'm really starting to think I'd like to relocate to Israel.
I'm just going to throw this out there. I love both bread and rice pudding.
I have never had rice pudding. We make bread pudding here in New Orleans.
The Greek church puts on our Greek fest too. It’s a lucrative fundraiser for them.
I tour the Greek cathedral every year at the festival. It is beautiful. I have gone to a service there. I couldn’t understand any of it because the priest spoke in greek. I did say the Our Father prayer because that was said in English. The singing was magnificent.
I remember as a child the Catholic Mass was said in Latin. They changed it to English later.
I love all of the Greek pastries. I buy a box with a dozen different pastries and share them with everyone so I only eat a couple of them. It would be easy to eat a ton of them though because they are so delicious!
We have a nice Greek festival in the town I grew up in. The church puts it on. There really aren't Greek people in this area anymore though. The Italians, Jews, Portugeuse and actual Spanish left too. I cannot state the reason for such an exodus because I'll get cancelled if I say so.
The houses of worship for these groups remain and the members still keep an active cultural community through their churches here. They also host the cultural celebrations like our Greek and Italian festival. They don't live here anymore and the spectacular restaurants they used to operate here aren't around anymore either.
I cook the Greek food because I love it. Not too often because I've finally taken the weight off I put on from Covid and my years of miserable servitude living in my mother's house.
My favorite pastry of course are loukoumades. Those pastries that look like donut holes that are fried and coated in honey and nuts. My son and I had a contest of who could eat more of them. I won that.
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I'll find where Julia said about half the recipes in 'The Joy Of Cooking' not even being tested. It may be in one of the forwards of a cookbook.