Thanksgiving hits

[sistawendy]

A couple of new (to me) recipes selected & prepared by Nibs, of course, kicked a lot of butt:

1. meringued pecans - Cracklike. I suspect that this would be a prime PMS food.
2. apple & quince tart

I almost took for granted the celery root slaw, roasted sunchokes, mashed spuds with shallots, and cranberry sauce with o.j. & sherry.

Comments

[mamishka.livejournal.com]

Wow, that is some fancy decadent foodz! :-)

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

Nibs really is quite the cook. She's constantly reading food magazines & cookbooks in bed, scouting new recipes.

[alton-lust.livejournal.com]

What the heck is a sunchoke? My new exotic food this week has been mustard greens.

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

Sunchoke = Jerusalem artichoke, i.e. sunflower tuber.

[alton-lust.livejournal.com]

The root of a sunflower plant? I have never heard of this. We got nothing like that here.
Maybe I'll try that with cattail roots.

[sistawendy.livejournal.com]

Yup, the root of a sunflower plant. But surely you've heard of Jerusalem artichokes. Sunchoke is just a shorter & more accurate name for them.

As for cattails, I await your report with... keen interest.

[alton-lust.livejournal.com]

Nope. No sunchokes in my area. Which is odd since they are supposed to be from Massachusetts.

"The Cattail has been referred to as the supermarket of the
swamp, as it offers us so many different things. Cattail sprouts, Flour
from Cattail roots, Cattail hearts, Cattail-on-the-cob, and Cattail pollen."