What's for Supper?

18 years ago

A harvest supper tonight. Grabbed a couple young cabbages from the garden, and cleaved them and pitched them into a pot, added a few slices of ham, a shallot or two, some Kosher salt and ground pepper, and it's simmering. Just took out a couple pans of Ozark pudding from the oven, a wonderful old farmer's dessert when you're swimming in apples and into the hot oven went a pan of cornbread. The batter sizzled as I slid it into the hot bacon drippings.

The DH wanted some spuds boiled in with the cabbage, myself I prefer a pan of crispy fried, but I did it his way.

We'll have some homemade applesauce I put up last week from the wonderful, spicy and juicy apples from the mystery tree down in the grotto. I planted it a decade and a half ago, and don't remember the variety, if I ever knew it. But, the last of them are gathered, and they're not long-keepers, so I am pining for next year's crop already. Or, some radishes I picked from the fall garden.

We have fresh Amish butter, homemade strawberry jam or some honey to eat with the corn bread when you're done dipping it in the cabbage and some ice cream for the hot pudding.

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jazmynsmom
18 years ago
Suzy, that sounds YUM!

I went to the village's farmers market earlier this week and they had the prettiest sugar pumpkins. It reminded me that this month's issue of Everyday Food (awesome mag for seasonal menu inspiration) featured a recipe for roasted cubed pumpkin with shallots and sage with rigatoni and goat cheese... we're having that and a salad.

Izzy thought she'd died and gone to heaven because me dicing a peeled pumpkin involved errant cubes leaping to the floor at tantalizing intervals. She (like most dogs) loves pumpkin.
oscarthecat
18 years ago
Sounds great. How about the recipe for OZARK PUDDING??? Steve in Baltimore COUNTY.
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lindajewell
18 years ago
My supper last night consisted of all the leftovers! Not near as good as yours sounded Suzy! It is getting cooler now so that means the oven will be turned on more for roast, chicken and possibly some sweets here and there, like your Ozark Pudding!
lilod
18 years ago
It was a braised pork-loin-chop baked on a bed of leftover rice and some of the last of the tomatoes, marinated with onions in balsamic vinegar.
When I want rice,I do have to cook for left-overs, I find it's not possible to cook rice for one.
endorphinjunkie
18 years ago
Supper last night was a ham sandwich, potato chips and a beer. We did go high class with the mustard, though. Grey Poupon and all that. Hey, we spent most all day on the river and didn't get off the river until well after sundown.

Today it's going to be different. Amberjack is in season in the Gulf and my favourite seafood shoppe just happened to have some.
This afternoon it will be grilled amberjack, oysters on the half shell, and seafood jumbo. Have mixed up a batch of Sangria. Red wine, sparking water and slices of apples, oranges, and limes, never the same way twice. Have a key lime pie made just in case we need a desert.

No, I'm not cooking yet on my solar cooker. Just waiting for the additional mirrors I have ordered come in. Early experiments are promising.

It's another ever so pleasant of a day. Gotta dilemma, though. Alabama and Georgia, who are ranked 8th and 3rd, respectively, play tonight just about the same time that Darius Rucker, Beausoleil, Kansas and 38 Special are playing.

Life is full of little decisions....
endorphinjunkie
18 years ago
Supper last night was a ham sandwich, potato chips and a beer. We did go high class with the mustard, though. Grey Poupon and all that. Hey, we spent most all day on the river and didn't get off the river until well after sundown.

Today it's going to be different. Amberjack is in season in the Gulf and my favourite seafood shoppe just happened to have some.
This afternoon it will be grilled amberjack, oysters on the half shell, and seafood jumbo. Have mixed up a batch of Sangria. Red wine, sparking water and slices of apples, oranges, and limes, never the same way twice. Have a key lime pie made just in case we need a desert.

No, I'm not cooking yet on my solar cooker. Just waiting for the additional mirrors I have ordered come in. Early experiments are promising.

It's another ever so pleasant of a day. Gotta dilemma, though. Alabama and Georgia, who are ranked 8th and 3rd, respectively, play tonight just about the same time that Darius Rucker, Beausoleil, Kansas and 38 Special are playing.

Life is full of little decisions....
endorphinjunkie
18 years ago
Sorry about the double post.

Just test driving the Safari Browser....
mawheel
18 years ago
I would definitely go hear Beausoleil!!!

Our supper last night was so mundane, I won't even discuss it! You good cooks really put me to shame, though I love reading what you're cooking and eating. Saturday night's supper is almost always a big tossed salad with "windings" bought from the store. It's our one foray into fried food! Of course, having it once a week (the fried chicken) means that it's not really a rare treat, is it? :>)
lindajewell
18 years ago
Tonights supper will be different....roast beef which has been roasted packed in kosher salt, baby carrots, hash brown cassarole and a little fruit cup. Might make some brownies or something, not sure yet........
gandle
18 years ago
Just lamb chops, will broil some eggplant slices with them. Leone made an apple cake from our own supply of apples. Looked like she put at least 4 to 5 cups of chopped apples in the batter. Sure smelled good while it was baking.
husky004_
18 years ago
Got invited out tonite to a pig roast...everything was yummy...always tastes better when it's prepared for you.
coconut_nj
18 years ago
The plan for tonight was a bit ambitious. Nice spaghetti sauce simmered with meatballs and chicken legs. I love chicken cooked in sauce. Then the sauce was to go on stuffed shells. Since Christy is a major carnivore I planned to make her chicken parm. Well, the rain the past days had me hurting so much that I had to compromise. I skipped the meatballs and made the sauce bolognese style, but with tons of fresh basil. Skipped the stuffed shells until later in the week. I did make the chicken parm and it came out better than ever. Butterflied the breasts and used fresh breadcrumbs. Fried quickly on very high heat then finished in oven for ten minutes, with cheese going on last five. Excellent. We had cappellini to go with the sauce and the chicken parm. Some nice refreshing salad and we were good to go.