Avatar

harlo has a blog

@harlo-blog / harlo-blog.tumblr.com

Posts
Avatar

Pancakes with Sour Apple, Date, and Walnut Jelly

Pancakes: 2 cups flour 2 eggs 1 teaspoon white vinegar 2 tablespoon sugar 1 1/2 cups milk 1 teaspoon salt 1 tablespoon honey Sour apple, date and walnut jelly 1 green apple, cubed about 8 dates, chopped 1/3 cup walnuts, chopped 1/2 stick sweet butter 2 tablespoons sugar 1 tablespoon honey 1/2 cup water Melt butter in a saucepan. Add sugar, apples, water, honey, and cover. Once it,s boiling, add dates and walnuts. Remove from heat once apples are soft and translucent.

Avatar

Fennel and Celery Salad with Carrot Green Dressing

You didn't think you could eat carrot greens?  You can (in moderation!)  Show the goddamn greens some love:

Ingredients:

  • 1/2 Fennel (minus the green plumage)
  • 1 Celery (head and all)
  • 2 lemons
  • 2 tablespoons parsley, chopped
  • 1 tablespoon carrot greens, chopped
  • 1 teaspoon of kosher salt
  • 1/3 cup olive oil

In a bowl, mix the juice of 2 lemons, parsley, carrot greens, salt, and olive oil.  Whisk until the oil is somewhat frothy and lighter in color.

Using a mandolin, shave the fennel and celery into the bowl.  Mix thoroughly.

Avatar

Correct Steak Salad

Steak salad with fried crispy herbed potatoes and mushrooms. It is very good.

Ingredients

  • 2 small cuts of some steak (doesn't matter which cut, and it's actually a good way to salvage some older/freezer burnt/embarassingly cheap meat.
  • 8 small red potatoes
  • 1 1/2 cups of mushrooms (those non-fancy ones)
  • 1 tablespoon cumin
  • 20 leaves of fresh, fluffy sage
  • 1 tablespoon fresh thyme
  • 6 cloves of garlic
  • 1/4 cup fresh chopped parsley
  • 1 Tablespoon Srirracha
  • 3 tablespoons Worchestershire sauce
  • 1 tablespoon balsamic vinegar
  • 1/4 cup dry white wine
  • 1/3 cup crumbled white cheddar cheese (optional)

Preparation

  • A few hours before you cook, make a marinade out of the Srirracha, Worchestershire, balsamic vinegar. Add in enough olive oil to keep you happy, and beat until it's blended.
  • Cut up your steak and add marinade. Let set in the fridge for about 3-4 hours.
  • When it's time to cook, preheat oven to 450.
  • Slice potatoes into medium-thick medalianons, and lay them on a lightly oiled, salted, peppered, and cumin'ed baking sheeet.
  • Lightly drizzle oil, sprinkle salt and pepper on the upturned side and pop it in the oven.
  • These get roasted for about 50 minutes. You may toss them a little as you go along.
  • Start mincing parsely, garlic, and tyme and set it aside.
  • In a SEPARATE bowl, julienne the sage, and let it just hang out.
  • Pull the steak out of the fridge.
  • Pour about 1/4 cup olive oil, and a teaspoon of sesame oil into a pan, and start pan frying the steak once the pan is heated.
  • Start out on medium heat, and increase to high heat once the steaks are about 1/4 done. Once a good fond is going in the pan, maybe after about 7 minutes, take out the steaks.
  • Then, WHAT? toss in those julienned sage morsels, and let them get good fried and crispy. Don't over-fry them. Remove them when they're starting to take on a bit of charcol. Toss them into the same bowl as the garlic-parsley-thyme situation.
  • Don't waste that fond, though: throw in your chopped mushrooms, and let them get a bit brown.
  • To prevent dry out, and to maximize pan sauce, throw in about 1/4 cup of water, and let simmer.
  • Once the potatoes are done, toss them with the garlic-parsley-thyme-fried-mothfuckin-sage slurry.
  • Take the mushrooms off the heat...
  • ...and put it all on a bed of spinach or mixed greens.
  • If you like, you can crumble white cheddar on top-- i hear the milkiness plays well with the Srirracha in the steak.
You are using an unsupported browser and things might not work as intended. Please make sure you're using the latest version of Chrome, Firefox, Safari, or Edge.