Posts Tagged ‘cream sauce’
Pork Medallions in Mustard-Green Peppercorn Cream Sauce
Poultry & Pork • Tags: cream sauce, green peppercorns, Guest Test Kitchen
We make new friends all the time, and it’s always a joy finding out one of them loves to and is able to cook. This is the case with Zack. Zack and I work together, but he has attended several dinner parties and events that Chrystal and I have hosted. In the office, Zack busts out the healthiest meal meal every day–Usually a bag of raw baby carrots and a simple sandwich. One day, he professed his love for food, all food, and cooking extravagant meals, so you can imagine the surprise. Since then we have indulged in countless meals together outside of work, where we enjoyed foods ranging from the modestly sensible to the absurdly unhealthy. Guess you shouldn’t judge a person by what they eat for lunch. Here’s Zack to share even more of his passion for food and experimental cooking.
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Kroppkakor (Swedish Potato Dumplings)
Poultry & Pork • Tags: bacon, cream sauce, lingonberries, potato dumplings, Swedish
Surprisingly, other than dinner parties and a few special occasions, we don’t really cook that much for our friends. Sure there’s the occasional cookie or treat we love to share with co-workers and our roommates, but most of the cooking we do is generally for ourselves or each other. Recently, however, a dear friend of ours was reminiscing about his Swedish heritage and a particular boyhood favorite dish. “Kroppkakor,” he called it. Who? Have you ever heard of such a thing? Well we definitely have not, but our blank stares diminished and turned into equal shares of his enthusiasm after we understood several choice words in his explanation: ”potato,” “dumpling,” “bacon!” He put in a special request for us to take a pass at making it, and we were more than happy to oblige. We can’t say no to bacon.
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