So while I'm busy experimenting a variety of blood
orange recipes over the next week I thought I'd write about the drink that always welcomes their arrival in our house.
Not exact matches
(If you don't have a freezer full of cranberries left
over from overly ambitious Thanksgiving plans and / or don't feel like zesting an
orange, you can make the compote with just an apple — see the
recipe notes.)
My only substitutions were a bit of Penzey's dried
orange peel for the flower water and some granulated tapioca as the thickener (an idea I got from Elise at Simply
Recipes, as I had some left
over from her strawberry - rhubarb cobbler.
-LSB-...] head
over to the Rix Petroleum website to get the
recipe for this almond,
orange and plum cake
recipe.
I'm working on a
recipe using the Valencia
oranges right now, as well... I have a few left
over, so I might have to give this a try!
As you look
over the
recipe there is one step that may be new to you, as it was to me, and that is to rub the
orange zest into the sugar before adding it to the butter.
The book store has gone the way of the dodo and the my copy of Olives &
Oranges was donated long ago, but I still have fond memories of procrastinating homework to pore
over recipes, making lists of how I should stock my humble pantry, and dog - earing just about every other page or so for
recipes to try on my own or to make for Cory when we moved in together.
Over on the Kitchenthusiast blog this month, I'm sharing a
recipe using one of the prettiest members of the citrus fruit family, blood
oranges.
Did not use the sauce... the best part of this
recipe is the roasting of the potaotes... finished the sweet potatoes with just some brown sugar, maple, butter
orange juice drizzled
over potatoes...
The evidence of my addiction is scattered all
over this blog; you've seen
recipes for salmon tartare with olives and avocado, olive and endive tiella, pork shoulder braised with olives and blood
oranges, among others.
Also, when processing tomato based
recipes, often there are problems with the product turning
orange due to the
over processing of tomato.
Of course, if you'd like an
orange tomato product we can also
over process with Steam Infusion, but only if required for the
recipe.
This
recipe makes a thick, mildly spicy, rust -
orange colored sauce, like some of those served
over Currywurst in the southwestern part of Germany.
Now both you and your kids can treat yourselves to this
orange creamsicle bar
recipe which does nt melt all
over the place causing a sticky mess, and does nt require any baking either.
Funnily, as I've been testing this
recipe over the past few weeks my
orange tree was chock full of blossoms and I had no shortage of the petals and flowers to play around with.
The
recipe has been modified
over the years, but it's always more or less the same... sugar, spices,
oranges, raisins, apple cider vinegar and locally grown cranberries (one of the perks of living on the Cape!).
If you eat 2 bananas, 1/4 c blueberries, and 1
orange as I found in a smoothie
recipe on a popular website, that's a glycemic load of
over 250, equivalent to a serving of macaroni and cheese.
Over on the Kitchenthusiast blog this month, I'm sharing a
recipe using one of the prettiest members of the citrus fruit family, blood
oranges.
This divine sugar free whole
orange cake
recipe by sugar free kids is one that I keep making
over and
over.
They could negotiate
over the
orange and perhaps decide to cut it in half with neither getting enough for his or her
recipe.