"Food ways" is an expression that dates back to 1946. It refers to the eating habits and culinary practices of a people, region, or historical period. Food Ways Presented by Everyday Exotic Spices: Food finds for foodies and food lovers - curated content from around the web, sharing the ways we all like to enjoy our food! Food history, recipe sharing, and all things food-related. This foodie blog is aimed at newbie cooks or beginners. But everyone is welcome!
One good thing leads to another. Started my day scrolling through posts by Tumblr bloggers that I follow. One blogger who loves French inspiration and French-inspired things led me to a vintage picture of Petit Fours. From there the web opened its doors and I found these gorgeous cakes. But since some of my Food Ways subscribers don't follow me via social media, I'm resharing the content here. Please enjoy.
Cupcake Cafe is a classic cake experience, the go-to for gorgeous buttercream flower-embellished cakes. I love the cluster of blooms against the solid color of the cake. They are delicious and breathtaking.https://t.co/t8gFSN5G2Cpic.twitter.com/uG05ySL929
Autumn is the season for apples and pumpkins. My favorite recipes are apple cobbler and pumpkin pie, which (in my humble opinion) are true American holiday cuisine. I enjoy these desserts for both Thanksgiving and Christmas.
FUN FACTS:
Cobblers originated in the British American colonies. "The earliest recipe dates from 1824. Apple Cobbler – Cobblers (stewed fruit topped with batter, biscuit, or dumplings) originated in the British American colonies with the term “cobbler” recorded in 1859. Cobblers can be made with any type of fruit or berry and are also known as slumps, grunts, and pandowdy." (SOURCE: M. E. Bond)
A cobbler is not the same as Crisp, Crumble, Betty, Or Buckle? What's the difference? "Cobblers are a fruit dessert baked with biscuit-style topping. It's called a cobbler because its top crust is not smooth like a pie crust but rather “cobbled” and coarse. It's usually dropped or spooned over the fruit, then baked. Individual fruit cobblers." (SOURCE: Farmers' Almanac)
"Northeastern Native American tribes grew squash and pumpkins. The Native Americans brought pumpkins as gifts to the first settlers, and taught them the many uses for pumpkin. This led to serving pumpkin pie at the first Thanksgiving in America about 50 years later." (SOURCE: The History Behind Pumpkin Pie)
I
watched this time travel Korean drama where an acupunturist from the
past (Joseon, 400 years ago) traveled to the future and met a lady
doctor, a heart specialist. They fell in love and in one of the
scenes, they were at a restaurant in Seoul. She told him to try the
strawberry chocolate cake. She said it was one of the most popular
desserts. I
have never had a strawberry chocolate cake, so that comment sent me searching for a recipe. Found one very easily published at one of my favorite food blogs. This looks like a dessert that should be made for a
holiday or a special occasion.
“People who love to eat are always the best people.” — Julia Child
“The two biggest sellers in bookstores are the cookbooks and the diet books. The cookbooks tell you how to prepare the food and the diet books tell you how not to eat any of it.” — Andy Rooney
“Everything you see, I owe to spaghetti.” — Sophia Loren
Sam Monaco publishes a food blog sharing awesome photos and recipes of scrumptious food that he makes himself. Visit his blog to find recipes for:
Appetizers/Snacks
Main Dishes/Grilling
Soups/Salads/Sandwiches
Pasta
Desserts/Cookies/Candy
Why would anybody like this blog? Because it's just good old-fashioned home cooking. Nothing overly fancy or ostentatious. It's everyday family-style hearty and comforting food. The blog's tagline reads "Old and new family recipes prepared with the most delicious and fresh ingredients."
I publish a food magazine via Flipboard ~ My I Like Eating Channel. A few of Sam's blog posts are circulated via my magazine. I'm doubling the fun and resharing content from Sam's Place that was flipped first to my foodie magazine. Enjoy!
These baked butter garlic chicken wings made the perfect game day treat last week. You don't have to wait for a game day to enjoy these. Serve these for a nice appetizer or snack at your next party or just a snack for the family. It's no secret that I'm a huge fan of garlic.
We are certainly in the cold season now, and when it gets cold outside we like our soups. There is nothing better than serving your family a hearty and healthy bowl of soup. I like all kinds of soups, especially in the winter months, which happens to last a long time in here in Western New York.
It's winter here in Western New York, and there is nothing better to get you through those cold days than some good fashioned comfort food. I decided to make some cast iron skillet pork chops. This is another quick and easy meal to put on the table after a long day at work.
Every year my cousin sends me a box of fresh lemons from his backyard lemon trees in Arizona. So, I put them to good use with these Glazed Lemon Almond Biscotti. The lemon and almond are a delicious combination of flavors for biscotti. If you're not a fan of almond flavor you can leave it out.
Poor Man's Pizza, another recipe passed down from my grandmother. I really don't know why my grandmother called this poor man's pizza, I never asked. I learned how to make this by watching her. Although my grandmother made it best, isn't that always the case?
Desserts! YUM! There are very few people in the world who will refuse a delicious dessert.
Parents tell their kids: “If you eat all your vegetables, you’ll get dessert!” or “Finish your food or you won’t get any dessert!
Kids grow up and tell themselves: “Life is uncertain. Eat desserts first.” ☺
Sometimes It Is OK to Eat Desserts
If you live in the USA, then you know that there are certain times of the year when eating desserts is totally OK. From October through December, because many holidays are celebrated, indulging in and enjoying desserts is expected. Is it any wonder that these 3 months are my favorite time of the year? A few years back I signed up to receive a free newsletter published by FaveSouthernRecipes. This publication supplies wonderful recipes that are submitted by various people. The contributors could be professional chefs or everyday cooks. One of the issues was loaded with recipes for desserts. There were twelve (12) easy recipes that used my favorite secret ingredient Cool Whip.
REFERENCE: “12 Easy Southern Recipes with Cool Whip.” Edited by Terrie Hayes, FaveSouthernRecipes.com, Prime Publishing, LLC., 7 May 2015, www.favesouthernrecipes.com/Recipes-for-Dessert/Easy-Southern-Recipes-With-Cool-Whip.
Elvis Presley’s love of bananas, peanut butter, and bacon is legendary! One of the recipes is called the “Ode-to-Elvis Poke Cake”. Here is the description provided at the site: “The King’s favorite flavor combo of bananas, peanut butter, and bacon comes together in this easy Southern recipe with Cool Whip. Moist yellow cake (with peanut butter added) is topped with banana cream pudding, Cool Whip, crumbled bacon, and a peanut butter glaze.” What??!!!
This should be illegal. LOL.
Do You Like Cool Whip?
Who likes Cool Whip? Believe it or not, this is a question that causes a divide. There are those who view it as fake whipped cream and say it’s advertised as “imitation whipped cream”. I say: Cool Whip is real enough for me! There are many Americans, including me, who are very pleased that William H. Mitchell, a chemist who worked at General Mills, invented this food product. I can quantify “many”. Statista.com reported that “126.43 million Americans consumed Cool Whip in 2018”.
♦ Do you have a favorite dessert?
♦ Do you have a favorite ingredient that you like with almost any dessert recipe?
This OREO POKE CAKE RECIPE is one of our favorite EASY and delicious cakes to throw together for any occasion. This moist and flavorful cookies and cream cake is layered with chocolate cake, Oreo pudding, cool whip, and crushed Oreos. OBSESSED! ?ﾟﾘﾍ? … https://t.co/rR6cdLYldWpic.twitter.com/8WnRYcbg8f
— The Cookie Rookie (@cookierookiebec) May 7, 2018
Do you remember when you first learned how to cook? Do you remember when you made a dish or a dessert that you thought was impossible to make with your limited culinary skills but when you followed the recipe you ACED IT!!
I
remember when I made my first Pineapple Upside Cake.
I was a
teenager and I was trying to teach myself how to prepare meals for my
family, including dessert. I was quite proud of my cake even though
I used a cake mix. I had not realized that the part of the recipe I
thought was the most difficult ~ that is, getting the pineapple on
the bottom to be on the top. It was so easy! Once I learned what to do
I started thinking: 'I can probably do this same recipe with fruit
other than pineapple.' I
thought that but I've never done it! I'm not sure what fruit I would
substitute for the pineapple. Although I have seen a cooking videos upside down cakes for other than pineapple.
Below
is a link to a great recipe for pineapple upside down cake, if you have
never baked one. And ...??? I'm just curious. If
you have already made such a cake, have you ever made an upside down
cake with a fruit other than pineapple?? Mango?
Nectarines? Peaches? Bananas? Apples? Rhubarb? Some exotic fruit that grows in
abundance where you live?
Exotic fruits like mango and passion fruit can turn a dessert in a gourmet delight. You are going to love this recipe.
"Yolka" with mango and passionfruit confiture
Ingredients:
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📌Merengue:
Egg white 150 g
Granulated sugar 300 g
Lemon juice 1 tsp
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📌Cream mascarpone:
Mascarpone 150 g
Cream 33% fat 100 g
Powdered sugar 1 tbsp (optional)
Vanilla extract 1 tsp
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📌Filling:
Mango jam - passion fruit 150 g
⠀ Preparation:
STEP 1. Meringue:
Heat the protein with sugar in a water bath, stirring constantly, until the sugar crystals dissolve. Remove the protein mass from heat, beat with a mixer until stable peaks. At the end of whipping, add lemon juice. On pastry parchment, draw 3 circles of the desired diameter, turn over and place on a baking sheet. Spread the protein mass with a silicone spatula (or spoon) within the circles drawn, making a small indentation in the center of the circle. Place the baking sheet in an oven preheated to 150 ° C and immediately reduce the temperature to 100 ° C. Bake for ~ 1.5 hours. The exact baking time and temperature range depend on the power of your oven. The meringue should not brown, but should have a hard crust. Cool the finished meringue cakes.
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STEP 2. Cream mascarpone:
Using a mixer, beat the chilled cream with mascarpone and vanilla extract until stable peaks (add powdered sugar if desired).
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STEP 3. Assembly:
Put the cream on the meringue cake, then add a layer of confiture. Repeat with the following cakes. Place the finished cake in the refrigerator for ~ 1 hour.
❗️ Notes: To prevent the pastry parchment from slipping on the baking sheet, grease the edges with whipped protein mass and glue it to the nasty. Bon Appetit!*
Which Countries or Cultures Make the Best Cakes? Would love to hear your thoughts on this foodie topic. My husband says when it comes to baking, nobody beats out the Greeks and the Jews. Not that I'm a cake connoisseur, but I am tempted to agree with him; especially about the Greeks. Did you know the Greeks invented cheesecake and that we have them to thank for the tradition of the birthday cake?
Sorry to say cake baking is not my forte. But I do love a great cake. It would be right to say that cake loving IS my forte. 💗
Honestly! If Queen Marie Antoinette had really said “Let them eat cake!” and I had been in earshot distance, I would have been “Where?!! Where??!! Where's the cake??!!”
Recently, I've been coming across recipes shared by my online friends from different countries and also from food newsletters that I subscribe to and it's got me dreaming and wishing I could enjoy all of these wonderful baked delights without having to concern myself with the possible ill effects of consuming too much sugar. Alas! There is diabetes in my family line and I just don't want to take any chances.
Most of the time, I enjoy cakes by just looking at them or maybe taste a teeny weeny sample. ☺
But some cakes are far too pretty and unusual to eat. Don't you think? Like these incredible jelly cakes.
And then some cakes are dummy cakes. Dummy cakes? Yeah. Also called Fake Cakes. New term I learned. Apparently they have become popular at weddings as the wedding cake. Check out this article in the New York Times about NY Cake. Not edible but the artwork is incredible! 😆
But we all have our preferences and there is not one person in the world who can say that their specific food taste is “the right food taste”. What about you? Do you💗 cake? If you were going to sing praises about a country or a culture that makes the best cakes what would your choice be? I'd love to hear your picks. Do you agree or disagree with my husband? ☺
Shining my foodie Friday spotlight on Falooda. It's an Indian dessert. Friends in a forum introduced me to this dessert. Ingredients (for the picture below): Mango, Jelly, Basil Seed, Vermicelli, Tapioca Pearls, Condensed Milk, Rose Syrup and Vanilla Ice Cream. There are, of course, recipe variations (see below). Most ingredients you can probably get from your local grocery stores like mango, jelly, condensed milk, and vanilla ice cream. But you may want to shop online for Tapioca Pearls, Basil Seed, and Rose Syrup. Ever try this dessert?
I started publishing this blog in 2016. As of May 2020, seven (7) of my posts are specifically related to cakes. (See below.) I am always looking for cakes. Not only are they a delicious and luscious dessert but many times they are works of art. You almost don't want to eat them. Fortunately, many people take photographs of their artistic culinary creations BEFORE they are devoured. My search for fellow food bloggers on the Blogspot blog publishing platform led me to this post. A Cook @ Heart: A basket (cake) of flowers!Isn't this cake gorgeous?!! You can tell by the comments left at this post that the blog visitors were ecstatic!!
This wonderful blog's posts archive dates back to 2006. You could spend months exploring the content. OR ... just use the handy Recipe Index and search for cake! ☺❤🎂
Hello! Thank you so much for visiting my foodie blog. Was it the word "pudding" that tempted you here? LOL. Food Ways is just one of the places on the web where I publish or have published content about my love for food. Virily.com is a social blogging community and I have published content there on a wide range of topics. One of those topics is food! One of my favorite post series is called "Irresistible Fun Food". I shared about 20 posts in this series. Sharing a link to my post about pudding. Enjoy!
Pudding goes on my list for fun food, thanks to Jell-O’s creation of instant pudding. In my circles, mention pudding and folks just want to know if they’re being offered banana pudding or chocolate pudding. No surprise that if you search for pudding recipes on Twitter, the first few recipes that pop up are banana and chocolate. After that, there is rice pudding or bread pudding. The recipes for these are not instant. I will admit that I was never a fan of old-fashioned rice pudding but the way the Indians make it gave me second thoughts. I do like the old-fashioned bread pudding because my mom used to bake it with old bread and raisins. It was very filling.
These are the common puddings (or rather the puddings that I know about). When it comes to pudding there are some cooks or chefs who use ingredients that never crossed my mind like persimmon or tiramisu.
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From time to time I randomly choose food topics, publish posts and tag them “Foodie Friday”. I have been doing research on edible flowers and that's what this Foodie Friday post is about.
When I was a child we (my sibling, my friends, and me) ate the hibiscus flowers that grew in the front yard of my childhood home. Don't know why but the thought never occurred that there were lots and lots of edible flowers. Then one day I was watching a TV cooking show. It was Rachel Ray. She made this dish, garnished it with flowers, and pointed out that the flowers were not just for decoration. You could eat them! Part of me was happy and wondered what they tasted like. The other part of me was sad because the food was just so pretty. I hated to destroy the work of art.
Anyway. The more I explore, the more I find. A fellow food lover who contributes articles to an online writing community where I have been a member for almost 10 years, published a list of 25 Flowers You Can Eat. At the end of the article, she shared a link and I made an amazing foodie discovery: Crystallized Flowers. The recipe is so simple. You don't have to be a professional baker or pastry chef and you can decorate all kinds of desserts with them.
ImPORTaNT CooKING TiP: Use organic flowers that have not been sprayed with pesticides.
I am very pleased with the progress of my research project. Hope you are happy with my findings as well.
This week's Foodie Friday spotlight is pineapple! Pineapple is included with a list of refreshing super foods we should eating during the summer. This recipe at mostlyhomemademom.com, is typically prepared during the Christmas holiday season but it's a treat that should be enjoyed whenever you have a craving for something delicious and sweet! For me that's all year round! What about you?
Holiday Stuffing For any day of the year.
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More Pineapple Delights from Around the Web
Mrs. Renfro's Salsa Express ~ Offering a wide variety of salsas from traditional to exotic. The pineapple salsas are very popular!
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