One of the more interesting (and less intimidating) recipes in The Complete Curry Cookbook is the Fried Pork Curry. Pork may seem an unusual ingredient for a curry, given that many of the predominant religions in Asia forbid it. And while it is certainly off-limits for observant Hindus and Muslims, pork is quite common……
Ingredient: cinnamon stick
Orange-Spiced Pot Roast (Oklahoma, 1970s adapted)
Orange-Spiced Pot Roast is an international approach to the traditional Yankee pot roast. The recipe comes to me by way of Adventures in Food, a 1970s cookbook from my parents’ Oklahoma congregation. It’s a surprisingly adventuresome dish for this cookbook, where most of the main dish recipes are practical weeknight meals. Like most 1970s……
Spiced Cranberry Shrub
Spiced Cranberry Shrub is a tart cranberry syrup with the warming spices of a winter punch. For those unfamiliar, a shrub is a lightly fermented fruit syrup main from roughly equal amounts of fruits and vegetables, vinegar, and sugar. They may be mixed with soda for a complex and mostly non-alcoholic alternative to bottled pop,……