MOD POST: A winnar and a new theme thingy!

[zarhooie]

OLD THINGY
Ok, so a couple months back I made a post that basically said that everyone who posted an entry tagged with season:autumn would get entered into a FABULOUS CONTEST with FABULOUS PRIZES. Well, ok, 2 months of paid time. Whatever.

Anyway, I decided that today was a good day to crack open the piggy bank and hand out some paid time candy. I selected stultiloquentia because her (his?) recipe made me drool. It was a 3 towel clean up! Congrats, Stultioquentia!

NEW THINGY
Now that we are moving into the "eat and eat and drink and eat some more" phase of the year, I would hazard a guess that at least a few of us are harboring secret dreams of plum pudding with little silver tokens, crown roast with rosemary mint sauce, homemade cranberry sauce that is the perfect combination of sweet and tart... You know, the sorts of foods that make your soul a little lighter and your trousers a little tighter.

I also suspect that more than a few of us will be either hosting or attending a holiday celebration where food will be involved. If you're hosting, please post what you're planning on serving. Add in at least one recipe, but don't feel pressured to add them all (though if you do, I certainly won't complain). If you're not hosting, tell us what your dream menu would be. Don't be shy! 5 courses plus a 2-part hors d'oeuvres remove and 12 kinds of pie for dessert is perfectly reasonable, especially if you're just daydreaming menus. Please tag these entries Menus: winter holiday.

I'm thinking that another 2 months paid time is a reasonable incentive. Please see the previous contest entry for rules and restrictions (it's linked at the top of this entry).

Of course, you are still welcome to post whatever other food-related things you're thinking about as well!

Now that all of that is out of the way, I'm going to go get the mango sauce started for the mango glazed pork chops that my family's having for dinner.

Happy Noming!

-Kat

Comments

[holyschist]

I think my brain shut down at "mango-glazed."

[zarhooie]

Oh yeah, they were gooooood. I intended to make the sauce from scratch, but was running short on time so I used some of the good bottled stuff I had around.

To make the glaze, you just take mango juice (most supermarkets carry it), heat it up and add a thickening agent like cornstarch. Bring it to a boil, then let it cool down. Drizzle some of the syrup on the chops when they're cooking, being careful to do it on a low enough heat so that the sugar in the glaze doesn't burn. Do it right and you've got heaven on a plate my friend.

[stultiloquentia]

Thank you very much! I'm making that very recipe this Thurs. to take to the annual brouhaha.

It came out of The All New Good Housekeeping Cookbook, a fat, gorgeously designed tome that hits everything from highly involved 10-hours-of-labour French centerpieces to "how to store an egg." Highly recommended as a present for new graduates. *g*