Flavor of the week
Feb. 17th, 2003 12:11 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
magidIn truffles: rose water.
In bread puddings: onion, sesame, cheddar, feta.
Both came out well, though I think the rose is a bit not-what-I-want-with-chocolate. It's not bad, but not quite as happy-making as other flavors, somehow (I still have a decent-sized bottle of rose water. If anyone has suggestions for uses, I'm all ears.).
It's the first savory bread pudding I've made in a long time. I sauteed the onions into partial caramelization first, but I didn't add enough zing, somehow. If I'd had leeks, perhaps, or a bit more pepper, or some Emmenthaler, perhaps. Still, pretty darned good, and a happy thing for breakfast (finally). And it was pleasing to be using things up, too (the end of some cream, the last of a dozen eggs, some dehydrated onions, etc).
I went out to move my car just as someone across the street was leaving. Score! Now I definitely don't have to move the car if there's a snow emergency announced (and it's less likely I'll be egregiously plowed in, too). I did a first pass at shoveling the front stairs and sidewalk, and it was already covered over again by the time I finished. I suppose another pass this afternoon is in order...
(How there can be this much snow after all this storm has dropped everywhere else is another question. Rather impressive, actually. And it looks different than a lot of the snow we've had recently, with some flakes a different white than the rest, and somehow it all looks a bit more individually crystalline even while on my porch, not just in the air.)
In bread puddings: onion, sesame, cheddar, feta.
Both came out well, though I think the rose is a bit not-what-I-want-with-chocolate. It's not bad, but not quite as happy-making as other flavors, somehow (I still have a decent-sized bottle of rose water. If anyone has suggestions for uses, I'm all ears.).
It's the first savory bread pudding I've made in a long time. I sauteed the onions into partial caramelization first, but I didn't add enough zing, somehow. If I'd had leeks, perhaps, or a bit more pepper, or some Emmenthaler, perhaps. Still, pretty darned good, and a happy thing for breakfast (finally). And it was pleasing to be using things up, too (the end of some cream, the last of a dozen eggs, some dehydrated onions, etc).
I went out to move my car just as someone across the street was leaving. Score! Now I definitely don't have to move the car if there's a snow emergency announced (and it's less likely I'll be egregiously plowed in, too). I did a first pass at shoveling the front stairs and sidewalk, and it was already covered over again by the time I finished. I suppose another pass this afternoon is in order...
(How there can be this much snow after all this storm has dropped everywhere else is another question. Rather impressive, actually. And it looks different than a lot of the snow we've had recently, with some flakes a different white than the rest, and somehow it all looks a bit more individually crystalline even while on my porch, not just in the air.)