If you're looking for relish recipes, you've come to the right place. Corn relish. Mexican Corn Relish. Zucchini Relish, Fennel and Onion Relish and Christmas Relish. Even Blueberry Relish with a Brokeback Mountain theme. Alas, it's been brought to our attention that we don't yet have a recipe for "regular" relish, more accurately known as India Relish. So here goes. So … [Read more...]
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MOSTARDA DI CREMONA
So I've been on a Jane Gardam binge lately, reading everything of hers I can get my hands on. Her writing is addictive, her stories filled with all-too-human characters and happy small surprises. (Start with Old Filth; and no, it's not what you think.) In The Hot Sweets of Cremona she introduces us to Mostarda di Cremona, "bright fruit things" displayed in an Italian … [Read more...]
CORN CHUTNEY AND TWO NEAT GADGETS: HOT JAR MITT AND CORN CUTTER
Here's a riff on our popular corn relish recipe. This time some tumeric, more mustard and raisins make it zippier. Yellow beans and green tomatoes thicken it for that rich chutney lusciousness. Great to make while the corn is still wonderful. And check out this nifty canning jar mitt. It keeps its form, making it easy to grip and hold hot jars while you fill them. Another … [Read more...]
DUBLIN LAWYER: LOBSTER IN WHISKEY CREAM SAUCE
Every time March rolls around the search for new Irish recipes commences. After all, corned beef only gets you so far. Even at its most creative (St. Patrick's Day sausages anyone?) it is still corned beef. That's not to say there aren't a lot of tasty Hibernian dishes. Witness General Vegetable Soup and the Sullivan family's soda bread recipe. A few notches up the gourmet … [Read more...]
Steak au Poivre Alex Hitz
My new issue of House Beautiful fell open to Alex's Kitchen and his recipe for Steak au Poivre. I took it as a sign from the heavens and the angels did sing when these steaks hit the table. Oh my they were good. I'm a big fan of Alex Hitz recipes and his My Beverly Hills Kitchen cookbook. His food is flavor-packed and usually rather showy which is right up Spectacularly … [Read more...]
CHRISTMAS RELISH: PEAR, POMEGRANATE, PEPPERS AND CRANBERRIES
Embarking on the creation of the ruby red Christmas relish I must confess the red food coloring wasn't out of reach. (Making icings for the holidays.) But lo and behold, this rubicund relish needed no supplement coloring agents. The recipe calls for red pears, red onions, red pepper (fresh and dried), cranberries, pomegranates and a mix of dried dried cherries and … [Read more...]
HOT BREAD AND BUTTER PICKLES
Some like it hot. So good old Sally Stott's bread and butter pickle recipe gets a spicy upgrade here with sliced jalapeños added to the 'cukes and onions. There's enough sugar and spice in these babies to disguise the heat... at first. But the thermostat does creep up slowly and surely. Don't worry, it's nothing incendiary enough to kill grandma or emotionally scar … [Read more...]
GIARDINIERA FANTASIA
You know those big jars of vegetables you see in Italian markets and gourmet stores? With the onions, carrots, peppers and other gifts of the gardens tightly packed and neatly layered? That pretty relish they call Giardiniera, or verdura sotto aceti? So simple, mixed pickled vegetables packed into jars -- how hard can that be? Far harder than one might imagine. So … [Read more...]
GENERAL VEGETABLE SOUP
While Irish cuisine has shaken off the shackles of ridicule and abasement, there still remain some charming examples of its humble origins. General Vegetable Soup is one such recipe. On our first grand tour of the Emerald Isle we made certain to visit the acclaimed Ballymaloe House, a restaurant, country inn and cooking school. Already fans of Myrtle Allen's Ballymaloe … [Read more...]
READERS’ CHOICE: 2012 BEST READ AND MOST LOVED RECIPES
Here at Spectacularly Delicious we strive to present a little bit of something for everybody -- in the USA and the big wide world beyond. With our 2012 readership growing in such far flung reaches as Fiji, Laos and Azerbaijan perhaps, just maybe, we are inching along toward that goal. So let's close out the year with a look at the most popular stories and recipes visited by … [Read more...]