LOVE green chile. (Also posole w/green chiles...kind of radical, but delicious.) And really there's just nothing better than the way the chiles smell roasting.
We've been making our own bacon at the church recently...uncured, just a big slab of pork belly rubbed with sugar &salt& spices for a week. I was making bacon/onion tarts, bacon braised with soy sauce, bacon and egg sandwiches with melted cheddar. Then Paul (my best friend and the priest at the church) showed me how to make candied bacon. Now THAT is an appetizer.
Of course since we live in Northern California it's also vegetable heaven right now. Fava beans, asparagus, bitter greens, and purple potatoes. My wife and I alone ate 3 pounds of asparagus (grilled, with Meyer lemon) for dinner on Saturday. In a week or so, we'll get apricots and cherries and white nectarines. I like to bake with them (tarts, clafoutis, pies) and also make ratafia (a kind of fresh wine-based cordial.)
Cooking. Don't get me started.
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We've been making our own bacon at the church recently...uncured, just a big slab of pork belly rubbed with sugar &salt& spices for a week. I was making bacon/onion tarts, bacon braised with soy sauce, bacon and egg sandwiches with melted cheddar. Then Paul (my best friend and the priest at the church) showed me how to make candied bacon. Now THAT is an appetizer.
Of course since we live in Northern California it's also vegetable heaven right now. Fava beans, asparagus, bitter greens, and purple potatoes. My wife and I alone ate 3 pounds of asparagus (grilled, with Meyer lemon) for dinner on Saturday. In a week or so, we'll get apricots and cherries and white nectarines. I like to bake with them (tarts, clafoutis, pies) and also make ratafia (a kind of fresh wine-based cordial.)
Cooking. Don't get me started.