Bringing Hundreds Of Years Of Wealth . . .

So we ended up with a bunch of red cabbage. You might ask yourself, as I did, What can I do with so much red cabbage? This is a great solution. This recipe looked intriguing, too.

Our Hawaiian-Inflected Feast

We read a book by a Hawaiian-born author for book club so we made a Hawaiian-themed meal: Hawaiian Style Macaroni Salad (which I understand is a thing), two vegetarian dishes for the non-meat eating among us — Huli Huli Tofu and Lau Lau, and roasted pork shoulder with a Hawaiian barbecue sauce.

Now That We Found Tuaca What Are We Gonna Do With It?

I got a bottle of Tuaca thinking that I’d seen it in a bunch of recipes while flipping through whatever book I’d been reading and then it turned out that there weren’t all that many recipes that use Tuaca. Hmph. Go figure.

So then I just googled it and found nothing but recipes from the Tuaca website. Clearly, that’s a thing. So the most intriguing of the bunch was this Tuaca Manhattan, which is one part Tuaca to two parts bourbon, plus one dash of bitters. And, no kidding, it’s good.

On Meatloaf

This Paul Prudhomme recipe I originally saw in his Chef Paul Prudhomme’s Louisiana Kitchen cookbook last weekend which a friend brought over (to make gumbo) and which is adapted online here is good. The spice mix is in the cookbook but not online. I couldn’t remember any of it so I just used Alton Brown’s spice mix for the Good Eats meatloaf.

Tzatziki And Lamb

Two more lamb kofta recipes: Woman and Home and Stupid Easy Paleo. I didn’t have the hands to do the former, what with the frying and then broiling, but I really want to, both to cut down on cooking time and get that char. I used ideas from each recipe vis a vis the spices: smoked paprika and cinnamon (which I initially balked at but figured that it goes in garam masala so why not?) were two things I wouldn’t have thought of. I did not have onion on hand and it didn’t need it. Child approved, too.

Then I followed this Easy Tzatziki Recipe but added the inspired carrot-for-cucumber idea from this tzatziki recipe and was kind of converted; not only do cucumbers have like zero nutritional value but they aren’t things that you keep around, or at least I don’t — carrots, on the other hand . . .