Sleepy, and my head hurts, and feeling like I haven’t done anything creative. Long ago (2007), I did an April is the Cruelest Month dinner. I was into savory pithiviers for awhile; here’s the recipe.
And wait isn’t this supposed to be a food blog?
I made cinnamon scones on Saturday morning. They had cream cheese and butter and some leftover whipped cream from last weekend in them, and cinnamon chips, of course. The whipped cream was from a trifle I made with the last of the cake I made from the last of Passover charoset, and some other old cake I hauled out of the freezer. It was good at the start but eventually started looking kind of lumpy and grey. Kinda like how April is making me feel.
Cinnamon scone & friends
For Sunday brunch, I made biscuits & sausage gravy. I’ve been having trouble with biscuits lately – getting the dough too dry – but these were nice and tall. I used part lard and part butter, and part heavy cream and part buttermilk, for the fat and liquids respectively. Seemed appropriate to use the lard, since both it and the sausage are from the pig Waisman’s raised that we bought in the fall.
And oh yeah, almost forgot – I made a real dinner on Friday: pork shoulder roast rubbed with a spice rub I found in Joy of Cooking, with finely ground coffee and Ancho chile and brown sugar and oregano and some other stuff, mashed potatoes, and peas & carrots. All good, except Mark grabbed a handful of the Easter colors foil wrapped Hershey’s eggs for dessert and somehow that put me in a mood to finish them …. somewheres around 20 of them, nothing like the reserved 2-3 he took.
That’s my trend at the moment – the best intentions go awry, so a good dinner turns into a chocolate binge; once-tasty trifle turns grey. I seem to be throwing out the last dab of this and that more often, like this last halfs of the grilled sandwiches I made Saturday night. Half a Cubano, with ham, mozzarella, and pork from Friday, and sweet/hot pickles that Hanne picked out, and 1/3 of a mozzarella and sundried tomato pesto.
But who knows, maybe I can turn it around – the pork from Friday is cooking in the oven right now on timer and the buns for sandwiches are in the pannier on my bike. I think I have all I need for a nice big salad. This NYT cooking article is making me think maybe I can turn the leftover mashed potatoes into a tart. Maybe it’ll even be photogenic.
And oh, yea, I changed my phone wallpaper to spring, and my laptop desktop matches the blog banner – also spring.
