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Butternut Squash and Pomegranate Salad

November 1, 2016 By Patty Limatola-Tanenbaum Leave a Comment

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Fall is in the air making it the perfect time to combine two of my favorites, butternut squash and pomegranates!  My inspiration for this butternut squash salad recipe came from a magazine where they made a salad and used a tahini dressing…a tahini dressing…loved this idea and knew I had to make it.

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Filed Under: Dinner Entree, Easy Entertaining, Main Meals, Side Dish, Vegetables Tagged With: butternut, company, different, dinner, entree, fall, mm-good, mmgood, pomegranate, recipe, recipes, salad, side-dish, squash, tahini, winter

Apple Cider Cake Glaze

August 25, 2015 By Patty Limatola-Tanenbaum Leave a Comment

Here is a super easy cake involving apples and apple cider.  I loved this cake as it was simple to make and making an apple cider reduction gives the cake plenty of apple flavor.

I love apple pie, apple crumble, French apple or anything apple when it comes to a dessert and yet I don’t tend to make desserts with apples. When I worked in the commercial kitchen we would experiment by making apple cakes (which was more of a batter then a crust), I just never liked the ones we would make.

For the fall, I decided I wanted to try my own version of an apple cake so I created this recipe, I did use a few other recipes as guidelines and took the best of what I read to develop this cake recipe.

The key is the reduction of the apple cider, to reduce apple cider, take a cup of cider and cook it on the stove until it becomes 1/4 cup, here is the before

apple cider

and after

cider

I used granny smith apples as they are great for baking

apples

I shredded the peeled apples, the old fashion way using a grater, it was so much easier then pulling out the food processor

Grater

I wanted to wring out the extra moister so I  placed the shredded apple in a towel and squeezed as much of the juice out that I could, do not omit this step

Apples draining

beat butter with sugar until light and fluffy, then add eggs, one at a time, make sure it is mixed well

butter

In a separate bowl put “dry” ingredients (flour, baking powder, baking soda, apple pie spice and salt) and to cream add apple cider leaving the “wet” ingredients

milk

Just like I did in my blueberry cake, alternat adding adding 1/3 of dry ingredients, mixed until blended, add 1/2 of wet ingredients and mixed it up, add another 1/3 of dry ingreditents and mix, add all of the remaining wet ingredients, mix again and end with dry ingredients

batter

Add the shredded apple and zest from 1 lemon and mixed it by hand until everything was incorporated.  Don’t worry if your apple has some discoloration to it, it won’t matter once it’s baked up.

apple lemon

Put in an 8×8 pan, sprinkle with the cinnamon and sugar on top and baked it for about 50-55 minutes…YUM!

Cake Baked

Now for the glaze, while the cake was baking I did the same thing with the apple cider by taking a cup and reducing it to only 2 tablespoons.  I put the apple glaze in with confectioners sugar and used just slightly over 1 tablespoon of milk, if you like your glaze more runny add more milk and if you like a more thick glaze add less milk

Sugar

here is a photo of the mixed glaze

Frosting

Once the cake cooled off, slice your piece and drizzle some of the glaze on top (this can be optional as well)

Apple Cider Cake

I loved this recipe as you can see from my photo,  you do not see large chunks of apple or any apple at all, just looks like a cake.  The flavor of the apple is amazing, by reducing the apple cider, you intensify the flavor even more which helps bring out the apple flavor.

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Apple Cider Cake

Ingredients

  • 1 cup Apple Cider
  • 2 cups Granny Smith Apples (I used 3)
  • 1/4 cup softened butter (4 tablespoons or half a stick)
  • 1 cup Sugar
  • 2 large Eggs
  • 2 cups Flour
  • 1 1/2 teaspoons Baking Powder
  • 1/2 teaspoon Baking Soda
  • 1/4 teaspoon Salt
  • 1/4 teaspoon Apple Pie Spice (optional)
  • 1/2 cup Heavy Cream
  • 1 Zest from a lemon
  • 1 teaspoon Cinnamon
  • 3 tablespoons Sugar
  • For the Glaze
  • 1 cup Apple Cider
  • 1 cup Confectioners’ Sugar
  • 1-2 tablespoons Milk

Directions

  1. In a small saucepan, put 1 cup of apple cider in and reduce it to 1/4 of a cup. Set aside to cool
  2. Peel your apples and shred them until you have 2 cups, put them in a towel and wring them until all moisture has vanished
  3. In a large bowl place your butter and sugar and beat until light in color. Add your eggs, one at a time until it's well mixed, mix for about 3 minutes
  4. In a small bowl add your flour, baking powder, baking soda, apple pie spice and salt (dry ingredients)
  5. In a measuring cup, measure out milk and apple cider (wet ingredients)
  6. With your mixer on low, alternate adding the dry ingredients first then the wet, ending with the dry until well mixed.
  7. Pour into your prepared 8x8 pan
  8. Prepare the cinnamon and sugar mixture and sprinkle that on top of your cake. Bake for 50-55 minutes or until cooked through*
  9. For the Glaze
  10. While the cake is baking, place the second cup of apple cider on the stove and reduce it down to two tablespoons make sure that it doesn’t evaporate too far.
  11. Place the confectioners’ sugar in a small bowl and add the reduced cider along with one tablespoon of milk and stir. Add more milk if you desire, but to it in small increments, this glaze should be thick but runny enough to drizzle off the end of a spoon.
  12. When the cake comes out of the oven, cool it to room temperature, cut into squares and drizzle a little glaze over just before serving. Enjoy
  13. * if you do not wring out the apples, there will be moisture and the cake could take longer to cook and may stay wet in the inside
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30 Minute Pasta with Pears and Gorgonzola Cheese

October 17, 2014 By Patty Limatola-Tanenbaum 2 Comments

I know what you are thinking, “who puts pear with pasta and gorgonzola”…was I right?  Well I never thought of putting pear with pasta until recently and let me tell you…I just loved it!  I have to share how this pasta dish with pear and gorgonzola came about.  I am currently teaching cooking classes at the Conejo Valley Adult School with my girlfriend Susan (you may recall her as I did her Thumbprint Cookies back in December) and together we are doing a “Fall Series” collection of recipes which included a class on “appetizers” and then last week we did “sides”.

For the sides class I was baffled as I had offered to do a “fall” pasta dish and I really wanted a recipe to knock it out of the park.  I made so many different recipes including pasta, rice and quinoa and here is the thing, I had limitations as I wanted something that didn’t include squash (we already were using squash in other recipes) and I wanted a recipe that didn’t include using the oven…nothing was working for me so I knew I had to reach out to Tim.  Tim was the chef who taught my culinary class, he is very creative and experienced and if you ever need a caterer, you have to try him as you will not be disappointed (click here if you’d like his information), he gave me the inspiration for this recipe.  I have to say I was very grateful he did and so were the students in my class.

Because I wasn’t originally using this for my blog, my photos do not represent the recipe so use the photos as a guideline as I modified the recipe as I went along.  The recipe below is the exact recipe though.

Put your water on to and cook your pasta according to the instructions on the box…in the meantime;

Put some oil in my pan and then put my nuts in the same pan and “browned” my nuts…once browned, I removed my nuts from the pan and left the oil in the pan (in my photo I used hazel nuts but for my recipe I liked the walnuts better, either nuts will work)

Pasta - nuts

I then cooked my sliced shallots in that oil, I cooked the shallots until they were crispy, then I removed the shallots and placed them on the same plate as my nuts

Pasta - shallots

in the same pan of the nuts and shallots, I put my pear in the pan and cooked them down

Pasta - pears

I put my cheeses in the same pan as the oil and added the shallots and pear to the sauce

Pasta - cheeseshallots

I then added my milk

Pasta - milk

I stirred and let it cook together

Pasta - sauce

I then added 1/2 of my chopped spinach

Pasta - spinach

added my cooked pasta

Pasta - pasta

I tossed my pasta with the sauce and added my now chopped nuts

Pasta - pasta and nuts

I tossed it all together and served it warm

Pasta with Pears

I have to say that I was amazingly surprised at how good this recipe was…and when I made it for the students of my class, they loved it too.  I love that Chef Tim gave me the inspiration for pear with my pasta.  Again, I did my dish with hazelnuts but walnuts work out great at well.  If there is a recipe that you have tried that is different and unique and you are willing to share it with me, I’d love to experiment and blog about it.

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Pasta with Pears and Gorgonzola Cheese

Ingredients

  • 1 pound Pasta
  • 1 bag Spinach, chopped / fresh not frozen
  • 1/3 cup Walnuts (or hazelnuts), chopped
  • 2 Pear, sliced into pieces
  • 1-2 Shallots, sliced thin
  • 1-2 tablespoons Oil
  • ½ cup Milk
  • 4 ounces Gorgonzola Cheese
  • 4 ounces Cream Cheese, cut into bits
  • ¼ cup water, more if needed
  • Salt and Pepper, to taste
  • ½ cup Parmesan Cheese

Directions

  1. Cook your pasta according to instructions.
  2. In a frying pan, add your oil and your nuts, sauté for just a few minutes. Remove your nuts. To the oil, add your shallots, cook until browned, and remove from the pan. Add the pears to the pan, cook the pear until they are soft and lightly browned.
  3. With your pear still in the pan, add the gorgonzola cheese, the cream cheese, the milk and the water. Add the cooked shallots stir until mixed well.
  4. Add ½ of the fresh spinach to the cheese mixture. Mix with your pasta, add the remaining spinach, parmesan cheese and toss. Add your nuts, toss and serve.
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How to Make a Beef Stew

November 1, 2013 By Patty Limatola-Tanenbaum 2 Comments

I know what you are thinking “everyone knows how to make beef stew” and you are probably right as there are so many different ways to make beef stew.  I would also tell you that maybe not everyone really knows how to make a beef stew so I thought I’d post one of my recipes, lol.

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