Monday, September 24, 2012

water into wine (making my cooking wine palatable)

was drinkin yellow tail shiraz today -lovely. i drank it all. had t resort t drinking the venison wine after all booze was gone and i went home (i live in ireland and it was well after 10pm). the €4 cooking wine was shiiiiitee!!! this made it quite palatable and was done bit by bit experimentally.. ground up well; ground coriander -goes well with vinegar sugar (well ground) -a good antidote to sourness sparing amount of MSG -just good! this got it tasting just OK, then added cinnamon -small bit for that xmas taste, relative perfection! nutmeg did not add anything so i stopped there at quite palatable! i think this is a good generic mixture for any wino trying t drink his cooking wine. i will surely refine this recipe again!

Tuesday, September 18, 2012

crusty coriander pork chops

crusty coriander pork chops: Made paste to spread on 3 pork chops; 2 tsp ground coriander 1 tsp cumin 2 tbsp dijon mustard 2 tbsp honey Salt +pepper Oven n pan hot. Spread mixture on pork chops. Seared for 2 mins on each side in pan. Into oven for 10mins ...most of it was really lovely. Was a little bit too much towards the end though, too much coriander and cumin maybe.