Archive for January 30th, 2008

Last year (or maybe slightly beyond a year ago), I made baby-back pork ribs. I followed a recipe from the Gourmet cookbook for so-called “Chinese” style ribs. It seemed to me at the time, to go well with potato latkes.

This time around, I followed Gourmet’s recipe for latkes, and we had a delicious meal.

The ribs get marinated in sugar, soy sauce, ginger, garlic, and sherry; ketchup is added as a sweetener and for its red color. The ribs are always tasty.

For me, however, the real treat were the pancakes of potato and onion that weren’t pressed together; instead, I just dropped them in, and the resulting texture was superlative. Really, really delicious. The “secret” if there was one, for me, was a three-fold one:

• use butter with the oil,
• don’t use too much egg (in comparison, my homemade recipe was always too eggy compared to this),
• really, really, really squeeze-out the water with a towel!

Yes, and in addition to this, I made a keylime pie. Maybe I’ll get a photo of that still…

Thanks to Cavanna Pasta, this delicious meal was quick to prepare.

I like the concept of meatballs without spaghetti. So I served for each person, two of Gianni’s meatballs with his porcini ravioli.

My sauce:

• onion, garlic
• crimini mushrooms
• radicchio
• parmesan cheese
• marsala wine
• sweet red pepper relish
• salt, pepper
• EVOO
• applewood smoked bacon

I also served Cavanna rolls, but I split the tops, and poured-in EVOO before warming them in the oven. They were great for sopping-up the delicious mushroom sauce.