And although I love just snacking on our apples, there are some days when I want a warm apple cake. I just saw the recipe for sharlotka, below, a Ukrainian apple cake and I look forward to baking it this week.
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But none of us are immune to what is happening in the world. And I find today that food writers are reflecting on what is happening in Israel. This morning Lean Koenig of “The Jewish Kitchen” sent her Substack subscribers a bit of edible comfort – a cross between baked apples and an apple crisp. It’s a brilliant idea, simple in execution, and comforting, indeed.
I wish we’d have actual cool weather … and some rain! … but I’m not going to hold back. It’s time for an apple cake. I love the idea of the recipe below – seems like it will be similar to a Dutch baby. Making that tonight.
From Alexandra Stafford of alexandracooks.com. This is a recipe her mother tore out of The New York Times back in 2004 (all my recipe roads seem to point there!) and she’s been making for almost 20 years.
Tomorrow night I’m going to make the pork chop recipe below because I deserve a nice dinner. And it will use up a number of things from the box. I’m not sure what I will do with those cucumbers. I truly feel as if I am cucumber-ed up this year and I love cucumbers. I’ll probably share with my neighbors. The apples will keep, the okra will get pan-fried to go with the pork chops, and the peppers will go into the refrigerator to come out when I return. My husband is a huge fan of pimento cheese, he may get a big batch next week.
The recipe calls for kale, but I’m going to make this with what I think is our bunch of turnip greens. And substitute our big white sweet potato for the two medium ones called for here.
Last week we had turnip greens (without the turnips) and I juiced them. I juiced apples. And I made Eve’s Pot Liquor, a cocktail from Keyatta Mincey-Parker that I found in an old issue of Atlanta magazine. Recipe is down below. Have you tried aloe liqueur? I had to buy it for a recipe for the AJC. Lightly sweet, yummy, glad to find another use for it. And loved putting turnip greens into a cocktail.
From the New York Times
From Red Truck Bakery cookbook.
And for something sweet, we’ll have this apple Dutch Baby for a late Sunday lunch. The original recipe came from Southern Living.
Brookhaven Farmers Market offered a variation of this stew in their e-newsletter and I realized I had never made butternut squash stew with apples. It’s an inspired combination.
If I were getting apples in my bag tomorrow, I’d be making this Dutch baby. I had to make a skillet pancake for a story on German food that publishes tomorrow in the AJC and it’s reminded me how easy these kinds of things are to do and how much everyone likes them.
It’s a recipe that came originally from Southern Living.