Food Porn-IT is all about the food...

[Isadora]

Apple Cake

Batter:
3 cups flour, sifted
2 ½ cups sugar
3/1/2 teaspoons Baking Powder
1/8 teaspoon salt
4 eggs, beaten
¾ cup canola oil
¼ cup crushed pineapple
½ cup fresh squeezed orange juice

Pre heat oven to 350. Grease and flour a tube pan.

Mix the batter well. The batter will be a little heavy. Set it aside.

Filling:
6 medium apples, (tart) peeled, cored and sliced. I like them thicker like about a ¼ inch but some like them thinner.
4 Tablespoons sugar
2 Tablespoons brown sugar
1 ½ teaspoons ground cinnamon

Mix the sugars and cinnamon before mixing them with apples. Set apple cinnamon/sugar mixture aside for 5 minutes.

Put a third of the batter into the tube pan, half of the apples, 1/3 of the batter, the rest of the apples and the remaining batter on top. Make sure no apples “pop up” through the top layer of batter.

Bake for an hour and 10 minutes.
Should be golden and a little crusty on top.

Cool

Dust with powdered sugar or drizzle caramel sauce over the cake. I loved the drizzled caramel sauce. (I tried melting caramels and pouring but it got too hard, caramel ice cream sauce seems to work best.)

[Gemme]

*salivating*

[apretty]

i have this insane love of homegrown tomatoes.

plain, a little salt, in a sandwich, on rye, with a bit of mustard--it doesn't matter, even sliced as a side-dish: give me those homegrown tomatoes.

so. TODAY. just a few minutes ago... i ate the very first!!!

RIPE TOMATO
of the season.

it was only about 2 inches around but it was to die for. seriously. i'm dead.

[freyja]

apretty, i can't believe you have fresh tomatoes NOW!!!

We have to wait til August i believe

i am going to put a tomato plant or two in my balcony planter this weekend, our Canadian traditional planting weekend.

Give me tomato porn.
Give me rhubarb porn.
Give me po-rrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr-n!

[apretty]

oh we've got TONS just waiting to turn and 5 artichokes!

-not bragging at all, not repeating this in a sing-song voice in my head.

lahhh deee dahhh

[always2late]

OMG there is nothing better than a fresh, ripe tomato!!

Tomato Sandwich

Large Ripe Tomato, cut into 1/2 inch slices
Two slices bread, toasted (I like whole grain for this sandwich)
1/2 avocado
1-2 Lettuce leaves (I think butter lettuce works best with this)
1/4 cucumber (sliced very thin)
1 tbs mayo (if you are a vegetarian, substitue safflower mayo)
salt and pepper to taste

Mash the avocado and mix with the mayo, apply it to both slices of bread, then pile on the rest of the ingredients to your sandwich and dig in!!
MMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM.....i gotta go get some tomatoes!

[simpleasdirt]

" I could eat a peach for hours"....ok, stolen from the movie Face Off, but ....still true lol had to say it! Food porn ya know.

[Isadora]

I am moving in three weeks to a place I can have a "garden". It will be a container one, but at least now I get sun. Tomatoes!!!!!!!!!!!!! Herbs!!!!!!!!!
Flowers!!!!!!!!!!! Beans!!!!!!!!!!!

[chefhottie25]

Originally Posted by apretty

i have this insane love of homegrown tomatoes.

plain, a little salt, in a sandwich, on rye, with a bit of mustard--it doesn't matter, even sliced as a side-dish: give me those homegrown tomatoes.

so. TODAY. just a few minutes ago... i ate the very first!!!

RIPE TOMATO
of the season.

it was only about 2 inches around but it was to die for. seriously. i'm dead.

I share your love for tomatoes. I am growing heirloom tomatoes this year in my garden. Wish me luck.

[always2late]

I LOOOOOVE peaches! Does anyone have a good method for grilling peaches? I know I could just put them on the grill....but there must be more to it...it can't be that easy lol

[Gemme]

Originally Posted by always2late

I LOOOOOVE peaches! Does anyone have a good method for grilling peaches? I know I could just put them on the grill....but there must be more to it...it can't be that easy lol

Maybe a nice glaze? Honey maybe.

[PearlsNLace]

One of the first things that attracted me to Paphigleo was the concept of food porn.
On the phone, this guy can make food sound better than the hottest gay boy action- and if you dont know what Im talking about here, sorry, just ignore the reference.
Anyway, we would talk for hours, and then, just as I would be ready to say good by and hang up, hed start talking about what he was making for dinner that night. OMG this Butch can COOK. His meals are better than a well matched orgy with no drama or pillow princessess.

Currently hes in the kitchen making food fantasies come true.

Im a lucky lucky lucky girl.

Im hoping he will join the conversation, and add some of his stuff to this thread. At the moment hes posting a yummy reduced real meat meatball on a calorie counting website.

Im going to finish the dishes and see what other good stuff he might come up with.

[Random]

Last year I discovered grape tomatos..

I swear, most of them never made it into the kitchen.. we ate them fresh picked off the vine..

Originally Posted by Gemme

*salivating*

[Gemme]

Originally Posted by Random

Last year I discovered grape tomatos..

I swear, most of them never made it into the kitchen.. we ate them fresh picked off the vine..

Love those!

[Isadora]

Yorkshire pudding is a like a popover not a custard. I make it with Roast Beast and Gravy...the traditional way! In fact the roast is in the oven and the pudding mix is resting!

Grandma’s Yorkshire Pudding

Ingredients:
4 large, fresh eggs, measured in a measuring cup
Equal quantity of milk to eggs
Equal quantity of all purpose/plain flour to eggs
Pinch of salt
2 tbsp lard, beef dripping or vegetable oil

Directions:

I make the batter first while the roast is in the oven.

When I bring the roast out of the oven and let it rest, I raise the temperature of the oven to 450F.

Pour the eggs and milk into a large mixing bowl and whisk thoroughly. Mix the flour with the salt and form a well. Pour egg and milk into the well and with electric hand beater or hand-whisk to create a lump free batter resembling thick cream, if there are any lumps pass the batter through a fine sieve. Leave the batter to rest in the kitchen for a minimum of 30 minutes, longer if possible - up to several hours.

Place a pea-sized piece of lard, or a drippings or ½ tsp vegetable oil in a 12-hole muffin tin and heat in the oven until the fat is smoking. This takes about 5-6 minutes.

Give the batter another good whisk adding 2 tbsps of hot water and fill a third of each section of the tin with batter and return quickly to the oven.

Leave to cook until golden brown approx 20 minutes.

[Daryn]

Went to the farmer's market today... got all kinds of lovely goodness.... strawberries were the money shot from that part of my travels... then I went to a butcher/cheese shop (have guests coming tomorrow)... all that smoked meat and lovely cheese is pure porn... and the balsamic marinated mushrooms with the veggies (I will turn the radishes into rosettes - been forever since I did that trick)..... there will be one porny antipasti platter tomorrow to go with with a luscious bottle of brunello.

[Medusa]

I made this for dinner:




Pan-fried chicken tenderloins with basil, oregano, rosemary, cracked black pepper, a tiny bit of sage, and a tiny bit of lemon zest sauteed in olive oil and garlic

Spinach and cheese raviolis with a tiny sprinkling of pesto and mozzarella

Zucchini, carrots, and onions sauteed with olive oil, garlic, a sprinkle of romano, and parmesean

Total Calories: 520

[morningstar55]

right now im having some
maple walnut ice cream .. and drizzled it with butter scotch schnabbs.