Passover food notes

[pantryslut]

For the seder on Saturday, I made two things: a green salad, and a chocolate almond cake.

For the salad, I decided that diced apples and walnuts would taste nice with the mixed greens, and I made a dressing from walnut oil plus olive oil, a little green garlic, grapefruit juice, salt and pepper. It was good! In order to keep the apples from browning while in transit, I just stuffed them into the same jar as the vinaigrette and shook. This worked out quite well.

Usually, I make Claudia Roden's orange almond cake for Passover, but this year, I didn't have any oranges in the house when I started baking, so I decided to try a chocolate cake (tort, really) instead. Even though I knew that everybody and their mother was likely to bring something chocolate for dessert. I leaned on Claudia Roden again for the guidance, and the result was tasty enough to please both the chocolate lover Steven and the chocolate indifferent G. And me, as long as you included ice cream or whipped cream or something. Also, I really love beating egg whites with the rotary beater. It's quite a satisfying bit of manual labor.

Comments

[alibi-shop.livejournal.com]

YES THEY WERE GOOD THANK YOU

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

Apparently, they were so good I made you shout! :)

[genderfur.livejournal.com]

I have a recipe for a really good flourless clementine cake. Yummmm. I got it from Pat Kight (of here), who got it from Nigella Lawson (of famous cookness). I will share it with you soon.

Also, a brief anecdote. I got a recipe for some cake or other once, that the poster said was a fabulous Easter cake & she'd gotten the recipe from a neighbor. One day I was idly looking at the recipe where it was pinned to our fridge and I realized:

>>> IT WAS A PASSOVER CAKE. <<<

(Idiot xians. :-)

[innerdoggie.livejournal.com]

I've made the orange almond cake, too, and boy it is good!