Hello Emma! This is a cozy South African favourite. I've come up with a cheat's recipe for it which everybody loves.
Pumpkin fritters
1kg pumpkin (cooked , mashed and drained of any excess moisture) It feels like an obscene amount of pumpkin, but therein lies the secret.
1 box pancake mix of your choice
Cinnamon
Sugar
Mix up the pancake mix according to instructions, and then add the pumpkin and combine. Fry tablespoon-sized amounts in an oiled pan until fritters are browned on the outside. Once cooked, sprinkle cinnamon and sugar mix onto the fritters while they are still hot.
They are beyond cozy, and you will feel nostalgic for them even as you eat them.
Love these food recommendations! I make a version of this cauliflower recipe about once a week right now (I never have panko, but usually just crush up some crispbread/Wasa since I usually have that on hand): https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1022966-cauliflower-popcorn
Oh my gosh! The chocolate cars!!! My son and daughter (both in college now) are crazy car heads. Those are so perfect! Lambo for her, and beemer for him, or maybe the porsche. Decisions!
I'm making these tonight because it's cold and they are so full of warm spices they just feel like the perfect fall meal:
I make them a little differently depending on how lazy I'm feeling. I've always been too lazy to soak the breadcrumbs in milk (Just why?) so I use panko and 2-3 tablespoons of milk. I've never put saffron in the sauce because I'm out and keep forgetting to buy it or getting palpitations when I see how much it costs. And I just skip any of the spices I don't have in the meatballs. I mean, there are like a hundred. Who's going to miss one? But these are so, so good! And very forgiving of my shortcuts and short attention span. I've even skipped the browning all together and just plopped the meatballs a few at time into the sauce and let it simmer a bit longer. Oooh, and regular couscous is faster than pearled, so I usually do that.
Emma, thanks for your newsletter. It's a bright spot in my day when it shows up in my feed! This is my favorite easy fall recipe: Ina's twice baked sweet potatoes. The simple alchemy of these ingredients! https://barefootcontessa.com/recipes/twice-baked-sweet-potatoes
We were drooling over our plates and wouldn’t shut up about it, even my 18 month old was like DAMN! I mean, more like “good food!” Circa BooBoo the gosling but we were all around changed for the better.
If I am looking at the correct link the calendar listing has no description and only one photo. Would they sell more quickly with a more detailed description of the photos inside?
Wait a second, Peter from The Chronicles of Narnia is now in Hallmark Christmas rom coms?! Can we talk about this? Love this for him.
Hello Emma! This is a cozy South African favourite. I've come up with a cheat's recipe for it which everybody loves.
Pumpkin fritters
1kg pumpkin (cooked , mashed and drained of any excess moisture) It feels like an obscene amount of pumpkin, but therein lies the secret.
1 box pancake mix of your choice
Cinnamon
Sugar
Mix up the pancake mix according to instructions, and then add the pumpkin and combine. Fry tablespoon-sized amounts in an oiled pan until fritters are browned on the outside. Once cooked, sprinkle cinnamon and sugar mix onto the fritters while they are still hot.
They are beyond cozy, and you will feel nostalgic for them even as you eat them.
Melissa Clark has a lot of great pasta recipes, but for ease there is nothing like a sheet pan dinner:
https://cooking.nytimes.com/68861692-nyt-cooking/12118164-sheet-pan-dinners
Chocolate Lambo tho
Love these food recommendations! I make a version of this cauliflower recipe about once a week right now (I never have panko, but usually just crush up some crispbread/Wasa since I usually have that on hand): https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1022966-cauliflower-popcorn
Oh my gosh! The chocolate cars!!! My son and daughter (both in college now) are crazy car heads. Those are so perfect! Lambo for her, and beemer for him, or maybe the porsche. Decisions!
I'm making these tonight because it's cold and they are so full of warm spices they just feel like the perfect fall meal:
https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/12763-north-african-meatballs?q=north%20aft
I make them a little differently depending on how lazy I'm feeling. I've always been too lazy to soak the breadcrumbs in milk (Just why?) so I use panko and 2-3 tablespoons of milk. I've never put saffron in the sauce because I'm out and keep forgetting to buy it or getting palpitations when I see how much it costs. And I just skip any of the spices I don't have in the meatballs. I mean, there are like a hundred. Who's going to miss one? But these are so, so good! And very forgiving of my shortcuts and short attention span. I've even skipped the browning all together and just plopped the meatballs a few at time into the sauce and let it simmer a bit longer. Oooh, and regular couscous is faster than pearled, so I usually do that.
I listened to an interview (Nerdette podcast) about Saltburn and I can’t wait to see this movie!
Emma, thanks for your newsletter. It's a bright spot in my day when it shows up in my feed! This is my favorite easy fall recipe: Ina's twice baked sweet potatoes. The simple alchemy of these ingredients! https://barefootcontessa.com/recipes/twice-baked-sweet-potatoes
I have also made that recipe and it’s also a 5 star for me. I’m glad you reminded me of it because now that’s dinner tonight 😅.
I did this easy chicken one a few weeks ago and was immediately texting my sister to make it. https://cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/1022086-roasted-chicken-with-fish-sauce-butter?smid=ck-recipe-iOS-share
We were drooling over our plates and wouldn’t shut up about it, even my 18 month old was like DAMN! I mean, more like “good food!” Circa BooBoo the gosling but we were all around changed for the better.
If I am looking at the correct link the calendar listing has no description and only one photo. Would they sell more quickly with a more detailed description of the photos inside?