Well, it’s almost Cheddar, but with more flash and style, so it’s familiar yet edgy.
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My mom loves a drink made with tonic and rhubarb syrup, which we usually get from IKEA. Well, we ran out just as rhubarb came into season. Now I have several quarts of beautiful ruby syrup waiting to get canned so we don’t have to rely on getting to IKEA any time soon.
And I’ve got a pot of vichyssoise going in the instant pot for lunch tomorrow.
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These are my first try at pupusas. They were actually great, for an alpha attempt.
I was originally going to make corn tortillas, but they wouldn’t hold together, so I changed course to try these. I’m sure next time will be better, either tortillas or pupusas. It took me a dozen tries to make whole wheat tortillas I was pleased with, so I’m on course to get there with corn, probably by the next bag of masa.
Some had refried beans and some had cheese. It turns out that cotija is not the right sort of cheese, so next time will be queso fresco.
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Wow! Those look so good! Congratulations
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Sometimes the old standards are the best-Mac and cheese with vegetables and sausage mixed in. Didn’t even make a salad to go with.
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I put rabbit in mine. It’s good without the rabbit, but the rabbit puts it over the top.
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Baby back ribs, with just Old Bay seasoning and some Pecan chips in a smoker box ( gas grill ) Dipping sauce of 1/2 Franks red-hot and 1/2 Stubbs BBQ sauce.
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Mmmmmmm. Stubbs BBQ sauce!
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Rockfish fillets grilled with herbs, onion, garlic, and olive oil.
I pulled some fresh oregano, rosemary, and chives from the garden and put the fish on top of them to grill/steam it. It turned out well, though the garlic was still pretty sharp. I will need to cut it smaller or pre-cook it a bit first.
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We got mom a serious pizza oven for her birthday. So we had a surprise, regulation compliant pizza party.
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Oooooh, nice!
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Who knew you could make clotted cream at home?
“Double cream”, in the U.S., is basically whipping cream.
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There isn’t a consumer market equivalent of UK Double Cream in the US.
US Heavy Whipping cream is greater than or equal to 36% fat. US Manufacturers Cream, which is a wholesale only product is greater than or equal to 40% fat. You’ll almost never find a version of these with any higher fat content than the legally required minimum. Though there are specialty wholesale products with higher percentages, and they are technically Manufacturers Cream.
UK Double Cream is 48% fat by statute.
Manufacturers cream is the closest,and you’re probably only going to find that at Restaurant Depot. But to get an exact equivalent you’re talking special orders from producers or wholesalers. I got pastry chef friends who drive to Lancaster PA or Upstate NY from Philly and NYC to get cream with that level of fat and no stabilizers. The dairy companies they deal with just can’t provide it, and pricing from specialty wholesalers isn’t as good as from the Amish direct. So they take a van up every two weeks and pay cash.
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I’ve got a couple of cast-iron pans that, though they aren’t toys, are only about 6" across. I got them after ordering lasagna in a restaurant, and they served (and, presumably, baked) each portion in those. Years later it would never occur to me to cook individual portions of lasagna; the kids will eat a whole one for 2 or 3 days. I suppose I could use them to make cornbread but, again, I could use the bigger skillet and have more when I’m done.
(Couldn’t resist)
The closest restaurant to our house is Salvadoran and we’ve raised our kids on a steady diet of pupusas de queso. Given the convenience, it wouldn’t have occurred to me to make them 
(I bought some frozen once and the kids complained they weren’t nearly as good)
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Looks yummy!
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Cheese soufflé for dinner, with a nice green salad. After I made my third or fourth the eureka moment was “this is a fancy cheese omelet!” Back in the 1970s my dad had a Philipino coworker who was vegetarian, and every time we had them for dinner it was cheese soufflé, since mom couldn’t think of anything else. Vegetarians were very thin on the ground in our circles at that time.
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