Fruitcake is a staple in our household this time of year. Thus, there is no better recipe for my final blog post of the year. Happy holidays! ___________________ Ingredients:
Top L & R: Lemon pepper Center: BBQ Bottom L: Adobo Bottom R: Buffalo ___________________ Baked chicken wings can be quite irresistible on the evening-snack plate and even the dinner plate, when accompanied by a hearty carb and salad on the side. Realistically, I do not prepare all four kinds simultaneously. The magic number is usually two, with an occasional upgrade to three. Only once have all four varieties been prepared in a decadent batch. Glad I took a photo that time. And yes, I know that there are five on the plate instead of four. (Alas, I took a spontaneous photo of an inviting serving plate rather than a carefully staged photo for the recipe. Maybe I shall remedy that the next time I make all four again.) ___________________ Ingredients: For 5 chicken wings of each style (total 20) Buffalo wings:
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I purchased bubble/boba tea twice and had two complaints both times: too sweet and too expensive. Add to that the desire to have bubble tea using the teas I usually drink at home (a wide variety from the somber Earl Grey to the playful ginger-lemon), and I had no reason to not brew my own tapioca-studded cold concoction. It is alarming to wonder about the sugar-content in the saccharine store-bought version, since the homemade kind is by no means low on sugar. This drink works wonders on summer afternoons, be they pleasant or scorching. ___________________ Ingredients:
This has been a staple breakfast in our household, especially on busy workdays. I found a version of this recipe online (which involved cereal/nuts of some sort) years ago, but more than half a decade down the line, I have made many adjustments to it to both satisfy our tastebuds and save time. There are several upsides to this rendition of good old oats: it smells like cake (this is quite enough, so feel free to ignore the rest of this sentence), it keeps well in the refrigerator for about four/five days, and it helps you use up those soon-to-be-dead fruits. ___________________ Ingredients:
I can cook two pork dishes: this (added to my repertoire recently) and honey-mustard pork loin. I may not have yet matched the partner's prowess when it comes to cooking pork and this may be far less lethal than the fiery concoction I was served the one time I ordered vindaloo at a restaurant, but it works for us. I began with a recipe in the NYT, but, as always, found ways to simplify the process without any palpable gustatory disadvantage. ___________________ Ingredients:
We buy whole pineapples to slice and freeze and often end up with more frozen pineapples than we need. Tossing some in curry is a wonderful way to use them (that recipe is the significant other's and I may share it with permission some day). Another way to make use of them is, of course, sweet chutney! The recipes I found online were too elaborate or had onions/bell peppers (oh the horror). Here's a simplified recipe of my own device that yielded a delicious pot of chutney. - RD ___________________ Ingredients:
It is finally warm in Texas after an unenviable mixture of cold weather and power outages. (The two don’t need to be simultaneous as the chilly months in the north showed me, but I digress.) The approaching summer made me crave sweet chutneys. I dug up an old recipe with tomatoes, a fruit (this is one of the few recipes where tomatoes as fruit makes sense) always lying around in the crisper, and also concocted a new one with the frozen pineapples threatening to ripen beyond edibility. Sharing the recipes here. - RD ___________________ Ingredients:
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