Posted on 12/01/2018 3:04:20 PM PST by Jamestown1630
We will be away this Christmas and probably won’t be cooking a big holiday meal. But one thing I’ve always wanted to try is a crown roast of pork – just because it’s so beautiful.
Especially this time of year, you can often purchase a crown roast that is already boned, trimmed, frenched and tied. Depending on where you are, you may have to order well ahead, and will certainly pay a pretty penny, but it will save you a lot of work – and this is definitely a Very Special Occasion or Holiday dish.
Here from Taste of Home is a recipe with Apricot/Apple stuffing:
https://www.tasteofhome.com/recipes/pork-crown-roast-with-apricot-apple-stuffing/
If you want to buy two rib halves of pork loin and do-it-all-yourself, Jimmy Kerstein, author of ‘The Butchers Guide: An Insiders View’, has an excellent video (all of his videos are very succinct and informative):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z_rXxawB6Og
(Those pretty little paper decorations on the bone ends are called 'chop frills' and are easy to find on the Web.)
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I don’t know if this is new, but I just discovered it a few months ago – Rice a Roni has a Cilantro/Lime flavored rice now, and it really is very good for a prepared, boxed item like this. If you have spent a lot of time and effort on a great Mexican or other dish and need a quick and unusual starch to go with it, you might appreciate this.
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Chef John of Food Wishes has an interesting little ‘pudding’ dish that would make a nice lighter dessert for a fancy meal, and sounds and looks very Holiday: Lemon Gingersnap Posset:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_933Sthfx5c
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Finally, one of my favorite holiday things is in the stores now - the Kraft Roka Blue Cheese Spread, which comes in a little jar that you can use as a juice glass later. We only seem to see this in our local stores from Thanksgiving through Christmas, and it's displayed on special stands in the dairy department (not refrigerated). They also make other versions, including an Old English one. This year there's a little flyer with coupon and recipes on the display.
-JT
Is your pan like a popover pan? I’ve always wondered what the real difference is between a popover and a Yorkshire pudding, except for the type of fat...
You always brighten us up with cool music ;-)
OMG! My friend who was raised in “Liddypool” turned me onto this thing.
Costco has great lamb and its usually only 5.99 a pound. I never do chops or cook it in the oven. Only do legs and roasted on the charcoal grill with the rotisserie. Yum!
It’s all good :) Put yer heart in it.
I know this is cooking not baking.But when McTurd died my wife baked a cake.
I made a special request. “Can you make a Mounds cake?”
She made a dark chocolate cake with vanilla buttercream coconut frosting, then put crushed up Mounds bars in the middle filling.
AWESOME. Best cake I’ve ever eaten, and she makes some doozies.
LOL! That sounds like a great cake.
This thread is for everything to do with cooking/eating/ imbibing.
Welcome!
No. My Yorkshire pudding pan has four very shallow indentations which I imagine is a bit different from a popover pan, I think.
Genuine Yorkshire pudding should be cooked directly under the beef in a very big pan. As far as I can see, there is no difference between a popover and Yorkshire pudding except for the beef drippings. It is the same recipe as pancakes. And so delicious!
New Zealand lamb is lovely. Australian, in my experience, is not so good.
I should not say this.
This AM I went for breakfast. lovely place, this gal sings me songs while I eat eggs and watch the farmers market.
I tried for months to buy a coffee cup from them.
Lovely folks but they would not let me pay to advertise.
I pinched one this AM and left the waitress a $8 tip on an $8 tab.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkvmzJkHx6E
And to you as well.
We grow some damn good lamb in Tx, I think
Robert uses 13 clovers in his pasture.
See you at the market...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vPFhDpL3LHc
Did you see Heston Blumenthal’s attempt to use a giant paella pan to make Yorkshire pudding?
No, I didn’t, lol! I just gave my paella pan away to Good Will (if you can imagine). But I suppose any pan can make a good Yorkshire pudding.
Prayers for our FRiend Kathy in Alaska, California girl.
Lord help in this time of need.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dkvmzJkHx6E
Someone gotta fight the war, someone gotta make the deviled eggs..
Best wishes all.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqqbfE-RMbI
Apparently not: YT: Heston's Great British Food S01E02 Roast Beef Dinner
About 22:00, he starts his Yorkshire pudding decision segment.
Our neighbor here in Eureka has a sheep farm in New Zealand AND one over near Alturas in the NE corner of California. She was born & raised in NZ. My wife refuses to bake lamb because of her experience with Mutton at her grandmothers ranch in Humboldt County in the late 40s early 50s...
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