When I eat poultry, I love having it with some sort of fruit sauce or chutney. A slice of turkey and cranberry sauce with whole berries; duck with blueberry chutney; chicken with cherry port sauce. I find the fruit sauces to be a delightful addition of flavor, moistness, and texture. In fact, I would far rather have a fruit sauce than gravy.
With cherries in season, they seemed like a good ingredient to try in a sauce. Being freshly picked, they are fairly sweet, just enough to balance the seesaw of sweet and savory in this sauce. Sautéed onions fill
TT Jr.’s Favorite Compound Butter
by TT Jr. July 11th, 2012 | Recipes, Spreads & Sauces
Every other week or so my family has an Italian dinner. And every time we have it, I pig out! Which for me is abut two bowls of pasta, but still I eat more than usual. I adore pasta; it is probably my favorite Italian food. The thing I like the most about it is how many ways you can make it. You can do pasta plain, you can do it with an Alfredo, marinara, cheese, butter, pesto. If you can stir it, you can put it on pasta. One of my favorite things to use is compound butters.
Vegtable Cream Cheese
by TT Jr. May 14th, 2012 | Recipes, Spreads & Sauces
I love bagels. I just love them, specifically toasted. And with cream cheese. They are so delicious when they are still hot and the cream cheese starts to melt on them. My favorite flavor is salt bagels, and they are delicious with plain cream cheese, but sometimes that gets a little boring. So, I decided to make a vegetable cream cheese to see how it tasted with my mom's yummy salt bagels. It tasted like heaven on a hot bagel. The sweet crunchy carrots with the tangy, slightly spicy chives against the salty, hot, soft, crunchy bagel is incredible.
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Peachy Cocktail Sauce
by TT April 26th, 2012 | Recipes, Spreads & Sauces
In an attempt to broaden my 14 year old's seafood palate, I decided to cook tuna last week. Unfortunately, the fish counter that I visited had none available, so I went with her current favorite fish, salmon, and jumbo shrimp. Shrimp is a type of seafood that she doesn't like, but the rest of us do. I figured if I got her to try it again, it may start to be a seafood item that she likes. She adores coconut, so I thought some coconut shrimp might do the trick.
Apparently, the lure of a coconut coating isn't enough
Apparently, the lure of a coconut coating isn't enough
Pineapple Mango Salsa
by TT Jr. April 18th, 2012 | Appetizers, Recipes, Spreads & Sauces
Hey there! I am sure you guys are usually used to seeing TT's name in the author spot, but my mom has been very busy lately so we decided to split up the articles. . .and I should probably now introduce myself. I am TT Jr. If you are one of her avid readers, you would know me as her fourteen year old daughter. You may already know this, but I am a competitive gymnast and a vegetarian.
Last weekend my family and I were having munchies for dinner, and I offered to help cook. I decided to make pineapple
Last weekend my family and I were having munchies for dinner, and I offered to help cook. I decided to make pineapple