Posted on 10/10/2017 3:41:33 PM PDT by Jamestown1630
There are lots of things you can do with pumpkin, besides pie and Jack-0-Lanterns. I like these recipes that can be served inside of the cooking-pumpkin that they came out of to start with. From 'My Recipes' here is Pumpkin Soup with Pumpkin-Seed Mint Pesto:
http://www.myrecipes.com/recipe/pumpkin-soup-pumpkin-seed
'The Kitchn' has '10 Things You Can Cook Inside a Pumpkin', and the Savory Stuffed Pumpkin with Sausage and Gruyere looks great:
http://www.thekitchn.com/10-things-you-can-cook-inside-a-pumpkin-211927
The HGTV email newsletter this week had instructions for making these gorgeous gilded pumpkins out of the 'faux' pumpkins you can get at the craft store, as well as some easy carving templates:
http://www.hgtv.com/design/make-and-celebrate/handmade/metallic-copper-gold-and-silver-pumpkins
-JT
No, that’s metallic foil, it’s like gold leaf, a tissue; generally you use a soft brush to smooth it onto a surface with a light adhesive.
It is very a beautiful craft.
You know those little collections of shellacked gourds they sell at the grocery florist this time of year? I’m wondering if they are actually dried/preserved and hold up. A bowl of those done in the foils would make a nice centerpiece.
Mmmmmm......I haven’t checked out the foils....perhaps they instruct on surfaces best suited for the craft.
I’d be afraid the gourds’ shellacking might disintegrate after awhile making all your foiling for naught.
Might be better to seek out something else.
Try Hobby Lobby. They have a huge selection...might even get a discount.
I looked at Hobby Lobby, and they do have a lot. Amazon has them too.
They usually have a large assortment....hope H/L’s are the kind recommended for foiling.
I think as long as it’s a hard surface, not ‘foamy’, it will work. That foil is really delicate, though - you can tear it just by blowing on it ;-)
Which paint at Hobby Lobby are you talking about? I found this, but it’s not a spray paint:
I refer to the spray paint used for antiquing glass.....that spray paint comes in several metallics.
Oh, I think you mentioned that before; Krylon Looking Glass?
Right...you got it.
During the winter, I often use a pair of chickens as the “backbone” of the week’s menu - roast them for a good weekend meal, make a casserole with the remains, and make soup with the remains of THAT. So chicken soup is my go-to; it’s pretty hearty with wild rice, white wine, and some cream to pump up the veggies. I dry wild greens during the spring to use in winter soups and usually add a couple cups of those too.
Lentil soup is my other favorite - I like the texture, so I don’t puree it. Start with sausage, onions and mushrooms sauteed in butter till they smell good, pour about a pound of dried lentils over them, pour enough water (plus maybe half a bottle of white wine) to cover over that, toss in some garlic and a bay leaf, and simmer for about an hour and a half until they’re tender. It’s a very versatile recipe, and I’ve done it with French/Indian/Italian spices as well as “hey, that smells good” and “it’s bacon, how can it go wrong?”
Don’t like lentils but chicken soup with wild rice sounds dang good. Thx!
Recently made stock out of baked bones instead of boiled ones. Never using boiled again!
Suppose to get down to 40 Monday night. Making minestrone this weekend.
“tell me where the Christmas gifts I bought for the ladies at the beauty shop and a dear friend are!”
LOL! Every morning it’s find my coffee mug!
We need this...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YvT_gqs5ETk
The ‘best restaurant in the world’ is a run-of-the-mill English pub
By Ruth Brown, NY POST, 10/12/17
The best restaurant in the world isn’t a snobby silver service spot in London, Paris or New York — it’s a village pub in the English countryside, according to a new poll.
The Black Swan in Oldstead, Yorkshire, scored the coveted No. 1 spot in TripAdvisor’s 2017 rankings, which are based on millions of user reviews from the past 12 months and were released Wednesday.
Only one US restaurant cracked the top 10 — French celebrity chef Daniel Boulud’s Upper East Side flagship Daniel, which also boasts two Michelin stars.
The Black Swan, which features a $125 tasting menu that includes squid in horseradish juice and lobster with onion and gooseberry, has one Michelin star — but its chef says the TripAdvisor accolades are a particular honor.
“What makes it really special is that it’s been awarded because of feedback from our customers,” chef Tommy Banks told The Guardian. Banks’s family has lived in Oldstead, about 20 miles out of York, for generations and his brother, James, runs the eatery’s front of house.
The Black Swan enjoys a five-star rating, and hundreds of gushing reviews on the travel website. “The food is amazing, truly wow, starts amazing finishes amazing, you need to keep hold of the menu to assist when you go back and judge each course. Never knew beetroot could taste so good, the raw beef is on another level completely out of this world,” wrote Martin P after a meal last weekend.
Coming in just behind the Black Swan in the rankings was another British eatery, Belmond Le Manoir aux Quat’Saisons, followed by Maison Lameloise and L’Auberge de l’Ill, both in France, and Spain’s Martin Berasategui.
The top five in the US, after Daniel, was Victoria & Albert’s in Orlando, the Charleston Grill in Charleston, Alinea in Chicago, and Chef and the Farmer in Kinston, North Carolina.
http://nypost.com/2017/10/12/the-best-restaurant-in-the-world-is-a-run-of-the-mill-english-pub/
Looks inviting.
Chef and the Farmer is Vivian Howard - I’ve always enjoyed the TV show she does, ‘A Chef’s Life’, and it’s concentration on local ingredients and the folks who produce them.
I love her show.......she always adds an intellectual component to the food being prepared.
It is interesting that England has so many Michelin stars. The food revolution there has been nothing short of amazing. I can still remember all the terrible aspic dishes served to me in restaurants when I was a student there in the 70s. The saving grace were the immigrant restaurants in Soho.
Since they mention Daniel Boulud, I’ll mention that I’ve made Thanksgiving reservations at Boulud Sud for my family. (My family is so small, it is not worth going to the trouble of fixing a huge meal.) The menu looks good - even the usual holiday fixin’s.
Boulud’s for Thanksgiving....fabulous.
I love his restaurants.
I used Open Table and they screwed up the reservation! Try fixing that! Luckily, we called the restaurant and they were super nice and fixed it for us.
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