Big cooking day at Villa cbayer. What's going on at your place? - Sunday, August 3, 2014
Have our first guest coming tomorrow and I want to prep some food for his visit.
Roasting a piece of pork "porchetta-style". I'm not really sure what this particular pice of meat is, other than pork. When I put the name in the translator, it came out as pork chine. It's a big hunk of meat with some fat on one side. I'm just going to roast it slow and low and hope for the best.
Rice and peas on the side.
For tomorrow, I am making a couple of dips/spreads that we can have as soon as we return with guest - one eggplant and one bean. Then a vegetable soup that I can drop fresh ravioli into and eat whenever we are ready.
Another beautiful day here - just perfect for cooking.
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Slow and low should do the trick, then.
Have a great sunday, greataunt!
But, yes, your cooking instinct was correct. Have a great Sunday, cbayer.
I put it in a very, very hot oven at first, then turned it down for the slow cook.
It smells delicious and I am keeping my fingers crossed that it is going to begin to melt soon!
going to smoke it for a couple three hours and then finish it in the crockpot with my bbq sauce. i rubbed it down with brown sugar, garlic powder, chili powder, salt and dried mustard powder last night. husband didn't want me to go through the extra work of the double cooking process, but it's really not that much more work and it's so going to be worth it (i hope).
pasta salad and corn on the cob on the side.
enjoy your visit!
Corn on the cob.
I'm also going to make a plum kuchen from the recipe I posted last week. This seems a bit different from the one my mother made as the cake part had no cinnamon and I don't remember that she ever had almond extract (I had to get some) but I think that recipe was in her head and she took it with her.
I don't see anything that even remotely looks like it.
I need to do some research, I guess.
I also couldn't get any almond extract, but I don't think that would have been a big deal. The baking powder on the other hand…..
Baking powder is a necessity! Does this help?
http://firenzemom.wordpress.com/2012/09/29/substitutes-in-italy-baking-powder/
I saw this and thought it might be yeast or something. Will get some tomorrow when we go into town.
Thanks!
I remember trying to buy baby powder in Rome and not quickly seeing what I needed nor knowing what it was called. Happily, an Englishwoman who lived there came into the pharmacy at the right time and helped me.
You're welcome.
be without the almond.
I hope you like it.
and we should have blackberries within the next week.
This is just fruit heaven.
It'll work with pears -- apples also -- but the plums were always my favorite in this.
Have a great dinner cbayer and all.
I wish I could watch the game. It's just what I am in the mood for.
Have a wonderful time.
I simply love it when I have a guest who wants to cook or I get the chance to go to someone's home who loves to cook.
Such a treat for you and the menus sounds wonderful.
Enjoy!
I would wish you good luck for tonights game, but I am a big BoSox fan.
I am finally making my own pasta with my new pasta roller.
I'll let all know how it came out tomorrow....I'm just waiting for the sauce to thicken before I roll out the pasta.
For appetizers we had barilotta cheese and roasted peppers with pesto. Also an order of chicken wings.
Next up, a couple burgers. I had bacon blue cheese and the RG had a regular burger, just California style.
Proseco with the appetizers and a bottle of white with the burgers.
The burgers came with the most unusual fries. They were thick fries cut in a spiral. We asked about them and our waiter told us the story of how they make them (this is a relatively new restaurant), but the RG didn't think the story added up.
The food was very good and the waiter was hilarious. He was like somebody out of Seinfeld. He has missed his calling as a waiter; he should be a TV personality!
Cher