Talkin' About Food. (Om Nom Nom...)

Last night was rainbow trout (broiled until crispy on both sides) served with a Serbian riesling (rather tasty, though not as bright as other rieslings I’ve had) plus a sauté of (cooked) wild rice + russet apple, fennel, and red onion. Dessert was some of the remaining mandarin oranges we’ve got floating around. We had russet apple with 2-year-old cheddar (PC) for starters (the parrot had some, too).
It was hella tasty. The veggies mix was lacking a little something – mustard, cranberry, a spritz of cider vinegar, something to brighten it up a little – but otherwise it was flavourfully well-rounded and delicious. :-)

This evening will probably be something fast-and-easy Rotini with alfredo sauce and some veggies – probably frozen spinach, preserved red peppers, and garlic, but maybe some other stuff thrown in there, too. We shall see. Maybe we’ll serve it with cranberry juice or something. :-)

One of these nights I’ll be doing beets with chevre, I do know that. I just need to figure out what to serve it with… Maybe gnocchi and some roast pork or something. I don’t know. :-)

Cranberry (sauce) Sour-Cream Coffee Cake

Considering trying the following recipe as an experiment:


Cranberry Coffee Cake

Ingredients
1/3 C granulated sugar
1/4 C margarine
1/4 C sour cream
1 egg yolk
1 tsp vanilla OR orange extract

1 egg white

1 1/2 C flour
1/2 tsp baking powder
1/2 tsp baking soda
pinch salt

1/2 C cranberry sauce (cranberry-apricot-ginger in this case)


Directions

0) Preheat the oven to 375F
1) Whip the eggwhite until it forms stiff peaks
2) Cream together the sugar, sour cream, margarine, egg yolk, and vanilla/orange extract
3) Whisk together the dry ingredients
4) Blend the wet mixture into the dry, being careful not to over-mix
5) Fold in the eggwhite
6) fold in the cranberry sauce
7) Grease a loaf pan
8) Pour the batter into the greased pan
9) Bake for about 1 hour (until it passes the fork test)
10) Remove from oven. Allow cake to stand for ten minutes or so before turning onto a wire rack and allowing to cool the rest of the way


Serve sliced with cranberry curd and/or appricot compote and/or sour cream and/or custard-sauce, or whatever else you feel like throwing at it. OR eat it on its own, served with coffee. It would probably work really nicely with a white-chocolate glaze or something, too, come to think of it.


Anyway. We'll see how/if this turns out. :-)


TTFN,
Amazon. :-)

Help with poetry

I am in need of a poetry beta-reader.

I've got a piece that I want to submit to the queer issue of Stone Telling, but I need to make sure that the "queer" and the "myth" are both clear enough.

It's 85 words long.


Any takers?