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What have you been eating, drinking, and cooking?
What food and drinks have you been enjoying (or not enjoying) recently? Have you cooked or created anything interesting? Tell us about it!
What food and drinks have you been enjoying (or not enjoying) recently? Have you cooked or created anything interesting? Tell us about it!
It is stone fruit season (plums, apricots, peaches, nectarines, cherries) where I live and I made a plum cake for a family gathering. This was my first time trying plum cake and both my guests and I really enjoyed it. The flavor is tart sweet rather than sweet sweet if that makes any sense. The recipe called for cake batter as the base and then a layer of sliced plums covering the cake, and a streusel topping (flour, chopped nuts, butter and sugar) and an additional glaze after baking. I believe the glaze is actually unnecessary, but I added it this time.
The cake batter I used was more basic and came from a cookbook with exact measurements and times for using air fryers for baking. However the struesel topping and glaze came from This recipe which was a gift from a friend.
That friend uses Tildes but I don't know if they want to be identified. I am sending my thanks.
Good call out on it being stone fruit season. I've been saving Marian Burros' Plum Torte and this weekend is definitely the time!
Been on a bit of a cold food kick as of late (we meal prep by the week).
Two weeks back it was salads all week.
Last week it was sandwiches (sorry if any of you get listeria because we had cold cuts).
This week it's spicy Korean cold noodles. And as a result I am now completely out of gochujang, which in this house is a crisis. Thankfully going to Denver this weekend where there are Korean grocery stores and I can get more and not whatever the hell "gochujang sauce" is that some of the grocery stores around here carry...
On the subject of a Korean grocery store, any suggestions on other things to pick up while I'm there?
listeria
So, obviously not actually our fault, but it's been a bit of a running joke that every time over the last several years there's been a news story about a lunch meat/cold cut listeria outbreak, it has happened within a month of when we have a sandwich week.