Cotelette de porc a la Flamande - The Mind Palate Solid home cooking from Belgium's Flanders region: substantial pork chops slow-simmered in cider with sharp apples

Just up at the #MindPalate #recipe site: Belgian Flanders-style pork chops slow-simmered with sharp apples and cider. mind-palate.com/cotelette-de...

Pork with Chiles and Chocolate - The Mind Palate One of Peter's signature dishes. Rich. Dark. Not sweet. Mole-adjacent. And REALLY good.

Over at the #MindPalate end of things: @peter.petermorwood.com's rightly famous signature recipe, Pork with Chilies and #Chocolate: now, at last, with better images. (Though [ffs] the in-post video is acting up: please just click on the MP4 links to see the videos.) mind-palate.com/pork-with-ch... 🍽️

A great pleasure to assist! 😊 (BTW, if you haven't hit the #MindPalate pages for this, both @peter.petermorwood.com 's and my takes are there.) (mind-palate.com/the-househol...) and (mind-palate.com/the-househol...) #breadsky

Pancakes for Pancake Tuesday - The Mind Palate The rolled-up, lemon-juiced, sugar-sprinkled favorites

Over at the #MindPalate site: Pancakes for #PancakeTuesday. mind-palate.com/pancakes-for...

French Toast A La Santa Fe - The Mind Palate Possibly the best of all railway French toast recipes? You decide...

So finally, over at the #MindPalate end of things: our final French toast recipe... possibly the best one ever served on the railways. mind-palate.com/french-toast... 🍜🍽️

Status report, Pre- #MindPalate stuff: if I've got to have this song stuck in my head for the rest of the day, y'all might as well too. Judy Garland (and others) singing the (1946) #Oscar-winning song "On The Atchison, Topeka and the Santa Fe": youtu.be/zSgrOvMLWsY...

French Toast Union Pacific Style - The Mind Palate Basic and substantial French toast from the dining cars of the railroad that served the Omaha stockyards

Over at the #MindPalate site: As we kick this terrible, awful, no-good, *very bad* January out the door, here's some French Toast, Union Pacific Style! CONTAINS LARD and doesn't care who knows it. (Though you can always omit that if you like.) mind-palate.com/french-toast... 🍽️🍜

Pennsylvania Railroad French Toast - The Mind Palate A classy (if slightly finicky) take on French toast: tiny sweet sandwiches cut up and fried

Over at the #MindPalate site: Yes, it's still more French toast! In this case, the Pennsylvania Railroad's delightfully fiddly recipe in which you get to make little tiny sweet sandwiches and fry them! Dump the doomcrolling for an afternoon and make these instead. 🙂 mind-palate.com/pennsylvania...

Soo Line Special French Toast - The Mind Palate Simple, straightforward, and fabulously crunchy: part of the Soo Line "Special Breakfast"

Over at the #MindPalate site: the deep-fried French toast recipe of the old #Minneapolis-based Soo Line Railroad. mind-palate.com/soo-line-spe... #whatscooking

Northern Pacific French Toast - The Mind Palate The signature breakfast dish of a great American railway

Also over at the #MindPalate site: the recipe for the famous French toast that the Northern Pacific railway served in its dining cars during their heyday. mind-palate.com/northern-pac...

Northern Pacific French Toast Bread - The Mind Palate The signature breakfast bread that chefs of the Northern Pacific Railway devised for their famous French toast

Today over at the #MindPalate site, a pair of recipes from the Northern Pacific Railway (whose HQ was in St. Paul, #MInnesota). The NP's unique French Toast bread... mind-palate.com/northern-pac...

...Tomorrow or the next day, on the #MindPalate site, I'll be adding the "French Toast As Served On Five Railways" post. The Northern Pacific once again led the charge here. They actually developed their own French Toast Bread for their breakfast specialty. ...(grin) They. Meant. BIZNESS. 😄

Status report, "Baking Issues" dep't: Time to bake the Northern Pacific's French toast bread so I can get some new photos for the #MindPalate site before I move the recipe over. The questions of the moment: (a) Where's the dry baking malt? (b) Do I even *have* dry baking malt? 😅

A nearly-empty bag of Callebaut 70-30-38 dark baking chocolate callets

BTW, at the #MindPalate end of things, for those who might be thinking about taking a run at yesterday's brownie recipe: if you can, see if you can lay your hands on a bag of these. They are *superb.* (I threw a fistful of them in the ones I photographed yesterday, and that batch did *NOT* suffer.)

Dave Gemmell's Brownies - The Mind Palate Quick and easy brownies: the favorites of a favorite houseguest

Over at the #MindPalate site: quick and easy brownies first made for a houseguest (and really often thereafter...) mind-palate.com/dave-gemmell...

Took Family Seed-Cake - The Mind Palate A version of the centuries-old English sweet treat that a Hobbit could definitely love

Over at the #MindPalate site: a centuries-old recipe that even Bilbo Baggins has been caught baking, just before that infamous Adventure he ran away to. "Took Family Seed-Cake": mind-palate.com/took-family-... #breadsky

@peter.petermorwood.com's signature Pork with Chiles and Chocolate, just out of the oven

In the #MindPalate website dep't, "Prepping For Photography" division: Oh gods just LOOK at @peter.petermorwood.com 's Pork with Chiles and Chocolate. Just now out of the oven (after 4 hours at 120C), exquisitely glossy and yummy-looking even in *this* unattractive lighting. 😋

Meanwhile, in #MindPalate website work: realized we didn't have a *single* plated-up image of @peter.petermorwood.com 's signature "Pork with Chiles and Chocolate" recipe. (He was always busier cooking it than shooting it...) Starting to remedy that now. :)

Parmesan Cocktail Biscuits (cookie press version) - The Mind Palate From Mrs. De Salis's 1903 SAVOURIES A LA MODE cookbook: incredibly habit-forming biscuits, adapted for the cookie press

So over at the #MindPalate site: here's the cookie-press version of the Parmesan cocktail biscuits. This version is my favorite, possibly because their size and shape make it possible to eat them faster. 😅 mind-palate.com/parmesan-coc...

Parmesan Cocktail Biscuits (rolled-out version) - The Mind Palate From Mrs. De Salis's 1903 SAVOURIES A LA MODE cookbook: incredibly habit-forming biscuits

Over at the #MindPalate site: a "recipe card" version of the Parmesan Cocktail Biscuit recipe from Mrs. De Salis's 1903 SAVOURIES A LA MODE cookbook. (The cookie-press version of this will follow shortly.) mind-palate.com/parmesan-coc...

A small rolled pork roast with a chile and smoked paprika rub, pre-cooking

Status report, "Non-Local Cuisines" dep't: Per @badexampleman.bsky.social's requent, I'm getting the potato dumpling / kartoffelklöße / kartoffelknöde recipe sorted out for the #MindPalate site. But you can't just serve them by themselves: they need to be shown *with* something. So... (1/2)

From Scotland: Christmas and Hogmanay Recipes - The Mind Palate The 1954 Christmas / New Year’s-holiday recipe brochure from the Scottish Federation of Grocers’ and Independent Provisioners’ Associations

Over at the #MindPalate site: just a reminder for folks that we have a downloadable PDF collection of vintage Scottish #Christmas abd #Hogmanay #recipes. mind-palate.com/from-scotland-christmas-...

Irish "Strong Farmer's" Soup - The Mind Palate A dish that might turn up in a well-to-do farmer's kitchen: a hearty beef and barley soup with garden vegetables

At the #MindPalate food site: Thinking (as usual) of @peter.petermorwood.com on a chilly evening like this... one of his favorite soups: the "Strong (Irish) Farmer's" beef and barley soup. mind-palate.com/irish-strong... #GNUPeterMorwood

From Ireland, "Strong Farmer's Soup": beef, barley, leeks, onions and other garden vegetables

A closeup of the Irish "Strong Farmer's Soup," with beef, barley, leeks, onions and other garden vegetables

Meanwhile, in other news: Anticipating many people easing out of their food coma today, have done some new photos for one of @peter.petermorwood.com's favorite soups, the legendary Irish "Strong Farmer's Soup". His recipe will go up at the #MindPalate site later today. 😋

Potato Scones with (Optional) Cheese - The Mind Palate Yummy scones with fresh potato in them! A cheesy take on the trope...

New over at the #MindPalate website: the pulled-together version of the potato scone #recipe that unfolded over here last Saturday. mind-palate.com/potato-scone... 🍽️ #breadsky #recipes

Zeughauskeller Potato Salad - The Mind Palate The historic Swiss restaurant that serves this goes through twenty metric tons of it per year. Here's the recipe.

Over at the #MindPalate site: it was my intense pleasure, on my way back to Ireland from the Central European end of things, to squeeze into the historic Zeugnauskeller restaurant for dinner & get a better picture of their far-famed potato salad. Here's the recipe. mind-palate.com/zeughauskell...

Pets de Soeur / Pets de Nonne (Nun's Farts) - The Mind Palate A slightly rude and goofy nickname for a centuries-old fried treat

Status report, DIgital Housekeeping dep't: While doing under-the-hood work at the #MindPalate site, realized this post had not been imported. Well, WTF. What's not to love about a #recipe with the comment, "This version makes one large fart"? 😏 "Nuns' Farts": mind-palate.com/pets-de-soeu...

Triple Vanilla Ice Cream - The Mind Palate Rich, sweet, and a ton more complex than the word "vanilla" usually indicates these days

New today over at the #MindPalate website: the household recipe for a triple-vanilla ice cream. mind-palate.com/triple-vanil... #recipe #food #icecream

Making Butter From Scratch - The Mind Palate It's easier (and maybe faster) than it sounds. Find out what you need to know right here.

So, off some previous posts—now up at the #MindPalate site: How to make your own butter from scratch. (And buttermilk too, but that's more or less unavoidable...) mind-palate.com/making-butte...