The main recipe for dinner was Pork Roast in a Blanket. A pork loin is cooked for an hour on high heat and then taken out and covered with a mixture of fresh bread crumbs,grated apples, hazelnuts, mixed with Dijon mustard and snipped chives. Then put back at 350 degrees for another hour. I was out of Dijon but had Western NY Weber's mustard so I used that instead. It took away from the other ingredients but it was still good. I am always looking for a good use for my hazelnuts and this was one of them!
The side was Two Bean Provencal, a great bean dish but not very pretty. Again I had all the ingredients from the garden so I loved that. The recipe called for haricots and regular green beans so I had a little twist there. I used regular and Dragon tongue beans, which are yellow with splotches of purple, however, when you cook them they turn a crisp banana yellow. A fun bean!
Being in the cooking spirit, we also had applesauce and baked potatoes. Not in the cookbook but hey, who would need a recipe for those.
Dessert was great! A Strawberry Roulade. A mixture of stiff egg whites, sugar and flour made up the cake part of the roulade. The recipe called for fromage frais. A cheese that is readily available in the European market but definitely not in the USA. I used a carton of Mascapone and about three quarters of a cup of low fat sour cream with a half cup of confectioners sugar for the filling. tasty! Will definitely do that again!
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Going to Columbus tomorrow and will be there most of the day so very little cooking! Remember Dessert first so you can enjoy it!
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