Cold Weather Food

[rachelmanija]

Yeah, yeah, I realize that 50 F and rainy is not "cold weather" for much of the world. Guys, I have only ever lived in Maharashtra and California, and mostly in hot parts of both! I am thin-blooded!

Currently in oven: chopped baking potatoes, red potatoes, sweet potatoes, and garlic. (What I had minus onions; I'm extremely sensitive to onion fumes and couldn't face them when I can't open a window.)

Awaiting oven: Chicken parts rubbed with brown sugar, cumin, salt, and pepper.

In refrigerator marinating: more chicken parts soaking in soy sauce, balsamic vinegar, brown sugar, and chopped garlic.

Contemplating: cake. Though that would require leaving house to buy milk.

Tell me of your favorite cold weather food, either ones you make or ones you just eat. (Recipes are great if you actually make them yourself.)

Comments

[vom-marlowe.livejournal.com]

It's super simple. Take your apple and cut around the stem in the top, angled in (if that makes sense). Cut down as far as your knife goes, but not all the way through the bottom of the apple. What you want is to remove a section of apple, like a little plug or cork size.

Do this to two apples per person.

In a small cup, mix a couple of tablespoons of loose brown sugar and a small spoonful of cinnamon. (If you like cinnamon.) Put the apples in a small glass pan with a little water, just enough to cover the bottom (you don't want it to dry out). Pull out the wee apple corks and spoon in a spoonful of sugar mix getting it deep into the apple. Put the cork back in. Repeat.

Put pan in 350 oven for about 45 minutes, until they smell lovely and the juices have come out and turned sugary and wonderful. Serve hot plain, with a little cream (my preference), or with vanilla ice cream.