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Sweet & Savory "Vesper" Bread
When my boyfriend's German parents visit, I often run to the farmer's market and grocery store for a variety of sliced meats, hard & soft cheeses and spreads. It's common in his region of Germany for some meals to be served as a Vesper, a snack or meal of cheese, bread and cold cuts, and I've come to really enjoy it. There's no wrong way to put together your favorite combination, but this one is my absolute favorite. The key to it, however, is using the best quality ingredients you can find. Use an unsalted, European-style butter with a high butterfat content or raw honey from your local farmer. Homemade or fresh bread works well, but because of the bold flavors you'll slather on top, stale bread can be masked too.
Quick & Easy Collards
Collard Greens are a nutrient dense and often overlooked leafy green. Most southerners cook them a long time- resulting in a drab green leaf. These collards are bright green and cook in about 5-10 min (after the initial prep). Collards can take a while to prep, especially if you get whole leaves (or a whole head), so this recipe allows you to do the time-consuming prep work a day or so ahead of time. Currently my favorite way to eat these is for Breakfast with eggs and smashed potatoes. The inspiration for these came from Small B&B in Pittsboro, NC. They served them for dinner and again for breakfast. This is my idea of how they cooked them- I'm not sure since I never saw their recipe.
Pot-Roasted Collard Greens
This pot-roasted collard greens recipe is based on Thomas Keller's recipe. If you have never roasted collards or any other green, I highly recommend it.
Easy Bacon and Bonus Instant Smoky Stock
My favorite method of cooking bacon is baking it on a cookie sheet in a 400-degree F oven for 15 - 20 minutes, which I learned from Cook's Illustrated magazine. It doesn't spatter, and all the bacon cooks so perfectly. Then I discovered the recipe had a huge flavor-building bonus: instant smoky, rich stock.
Spiced Cherries in Bacon
This might sound like the craziest recipe in the world and you may well raise your eyebrows at me but seriously give them a go. They are sweet, savoury, tangy, salty juicy little bundles of deliciousness and so good with a cold glass of something and on that note if I could steer you towards my Sloe Vespa, the Christmas cocktail then all the better.
Bacon-Balsamic Strudel
I learned to love savory strudels in culinary school. The chefs would create them to use up leftover ingredients, frankly. At home, they are a party bite that I find equal parts elegant and comforting. This strudel can be prepared far in advance, and refrigerated or frozen until party time. Then, pop it into the oven and you have a warm appetizer to pass! Plus, who doesn't love bacon?!?
Rosie's Buttermilk Biscuits
My grandmother often used lard in her buttermilk biscuits, but on occasion she'd use bacon grease. The latter preparation is my favorite because it adds depth of flavor and smokiness. She always used self-rising flour (specifically, White Lily brand), but all-purpose flour can be substituted with the addition of 4 teaspoons baking powder and 1/4 teaspoon of baking soda. Rendered bacon grease will contain a little salt, but not enough to season the entire batch of dough. Add 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt along with the leaven.
Raw Scallops on Bacon
Salty and sweet, crisp and tender, bacon and scallops pair well together in this impossibly easy dish. Any time you cook with a limited ingredient list, you want to select good-quality items, especially when working with raw seafood. Many store-bought scallops are soaked in a phosphate solution that plumps them up with water (and increases the price), so it’s important to look for scallops that are labeled “dry” or “dry-packed,” since a phosphate-marinated scallop can taste soapy. Since the scallops are served over bacon, season them frugally with just a hint of salt.
Beer-Candied Bacon
This beer candied bacon is like homemade bacon-jerky. This recipe is some of the best bacon I’ve ever made. You must try it for yourself.
Butternut Tomato sauce
I paid more than $6 for a jar of gourmet pasta sauce, but after reading the ingredients I realized it was pretty simple. Adding defrosted butternut squash--the whole package with a quart jar of homemade or quality prepared tomato pasta sauce--couldn't be easier. Not only does this add a great nutritional punch, but its a complex flavor and nice thickness that adds a lot to homemade sauce or baked pasta dishes.
Salt & Pepper Babyback Ribs
This recipe's salt and pepper baby back ribs were salty, but I found them strangely addictive; the meat was tender and moist. I will definitely make them again.
Basil-Ginger Marinated Pork Tenderloin
If you are looking for an effortless dinner with high potential to please, look no further. This is a subtly fragrant piece of meat to welcome the first spring vegetables, or refresh on a hot summer day. It requires almost no work, just a nice piece of tenderloin, a meat thermometer, and a tiny bit of greens on the side.
Nosh O'clock Wafers
We are serious Friday night cocktail people who celebrate the martini and bloody mary with vigor! This dish, served with bacon, came to me after a few of those favored drinks. It was an immediate hit! We now serve them every time there are stiff drinks to be had. I love sophisticated, painful recipes; it’s a way of life for me. But, soooooooometimes… simple food is just damn good.
Simple, Spicy Chile Con Carne
My boyfriend's dad is an excellent cook who specializes in "cheap feasts." He was gracious enough to share this recipe with me. The ingredient list may be simple, but its spicy flavor pack a big punch. And the left over chile is great on everything from salads to eggs.
Creamy Crock Pot Pork
This is homestyle "comfort food" type meal - it is great warm up for cold nights. It is very easy to make, and super filling. It is great for those times when you want a cozy full meal.
Pan Seared Pork Chops with Mustard Cream Sauce
Organic, Frenched, bone-in pork chops are pan seared to a nice golden brown, then finished off with a flavorful Stone Ground Mustard Sauce. Try this recipe!
The Elegant Hors d'Oeuvre's Bacon-Wrapped Water Chestnuts
Why are they genius? Well, they're delicious. There is always a fight over them, and never one left behind. It's four ingredients (not counting the chutney) and -- like some of the most genius recipes we've seen -- you don't really need a recipe to remember them. Adapted slightly from The Elegant Hors d'Oeuvre by Margon Edney and Ede Grimm (Tofua Press, 1977).
Lard, beautiful lard
Lard is a wonderful thing to use in pastry crusts, crackers, and as a butter substitute when sauteing. Did you know that New York City's health commissioner, Corby Krummer, has asked local restaurants to stop using cooking oils containing trans fats, comparing them to such hazards as lead and asbestos, Kummer proposed that we bring back lard, "the great misunderstood fat." Lard, he cheerfully reported, contains just 40 percent saturated fat (compared with nearly 60 percent for butter). Its level of monounsaturated fat (the "good" fat) is "a very respectable 45 percent," he noted, "double butter's paltry 23 or so percent." Kummer hinted that if I wanted to appreciate the virtues of this health food, I needed to fry shoestring potatoes or a chicken drumstick. To read more about lard go to http://www.foodandwine.com/articles/lard-the-new-health-food
Candied Bacon
Bacon rules in my house. I wanted to incorporate it into dessert somehow, but didn't feel like making bacon ice cream. What to do? I've taken to cooking bacon in my oven instead of a fry pan on the range top. It's less messy, retains its elongated and flattened shape, and doesn't sit in a pool of fat. How else could I have fun with bacon, then? Here's how.
Leeks with peas and bacon
Somehow I forgot about this recipe until this moment, in spite of the fact that I make it as a side dish once every couple of weeks. It's terribly simple, but packs a lot of flavor and is as good as a side dish (for almost anything, but especially roast chicken or fish) as it is a filling for an omelet the next day. I have a feeling I saw a picture of leeks with peas and bacon somewhere once and seized upon the idea, but I have no idea where it originally came from. I'm glad I have it though!
Rustic French Pork and Chicken Pâté
O.K., this is a little bit of a project, but not too taxing for an adventurous home cook. How about making your own pâté for the holidays? Ask the butcher to grind three-fourths of the meat medium, and one-fourth very coarse. Otherwise, if you are using a home meat grinder, you will need to hand chop about one-fourth of the meat, so that the mixture is dotted with little cubes of meat and fat. This will ensure a juicy texture and a rough mosaic pattern in each slice.
Spaghetti Carbonara
This dish is a deli bacon-egg-and-cheese-on-a-roll that has been pasta-fied, fancified, fetishized and turned into an Italian tradition that, like many inviolate Italian traditions, is actually far less old than the Mayflower. Because America may have contributed to its creation, carbonara is Exhibit A in the back-and-forth between Italy and the United States when it comes to food. Remember: the main goal is creaminess.
Brussels Sprouts With Bacon and Chestnuts
