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Saviolo's JournalHomemade Apple Butter Recipe (video)
It's apple season! At least here in Ontario it is. Lots of fresh apples all over the markets right now, and they are delicious. Apple butter is a delicious and slightly spicy recipe that is perfect for fall. Amazing flavours and goes extremely well with biscuits and butter, and we discovered that they go very well with peanut butter!
We cooked the apples sous vide, which worked very well. It kept all of those flavours and all the juices from the apples together while they cooked. Opening the bag was amazing! But if you don't have a sous vide machine, you can use a crock pot or a slow cooker, they both work very well. You also don't want to overcook the butter after it is strained, because overcooking it will denature the pectin and make it runny. It's pretty easy to tell by watching the texture when it's done.
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Stuffed and Red Wine Poached Pears Recipe (video)
Something a little closer to fine dining this time around! This is a bit of a delicate and fancy recipe, and definitely takes a bit of a soft touch, but it is extremely delicious. We poached some beautiful Anjou pears in a lovely local Ontario red wine, and then stuffed it with a mixture of goat cheese, the spiced candied pecans from last week, and some Grand Marinier soaked dried apricots. It came out absolutely delicious. Amazing delicate texture, excellent flavour and aroma, overall a really amazing dish.
We did a little research and apparently Bartlett pears don't really hold up very well to the poaching process. Bosc or Anjou pears are a better choice for this recipe. Also, you can switch up the spice mixture in the poaching liquid however you'd like. You can also use a lovely white wine instead of a red wine, it just depends on the flavour profile you're going for. Also, be very careful with the pears once they've been poached, they are very delicate. If you have softer tongs to handle them, that helps, but being very careful with a slotted spoon is a better bet.
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Spicy Citrus Candied Pecans Recipe (video)
A quick and simple one this week. But we're going to be using these in next week's video, so we wanted to get it done first! These spicy candied pecans have a delicious citrusy zing from calamondins (or calamansi). This is a small citrus that is frequently sold as an ornamental tree. It's a very popular ingredient in the Philippines, and out tree (in a pot) produces fruit about twice a year. If you don't have access to calamondin, you can use orange or lemon for that part of the recipe.
These came out very spicy. Between the black pepper, the cinnamon, and the dried Thai birdseye chili, it had a real zing. There's an excellent chocolate shop local to us that does dark-chocolate covered spicy candied pecans, and we could see these being absolutely amazing that way, but we also don't have the patience to temper chocolate! If you want to tone down the spice, you can reduce or omit the chili pepper, and also reduce the black pepper in the recipe. If you want to keep it more of a warm-spice flavour profile, then go ahead and add a little nutmeg, clove, or cardamom to this.
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Simple Homemade Churros Recipe (video)
Another recipe using choux! It's such a versatile dough. This time, we're making churros. It's a slightly lean choux pastry fried in oil for a longer time at a slightly lower temperature. This is what gives churros that classic slightly chewy, but fluffy texture inside. The churros themselves don't have any cinnamon in them, they just get that nice coating of cinnamon sugar as soon as they come out of the oil. Make sure you hit them with that cinnamon sugar while they're still hot!
This homemade version isn't going to have the channel down the middle for you to fill with chocolate sauce or caramel or strawberry or whatever you want. Dipping them works just as well, however, and we've got some good recipes for a strawberry compote and a chocolate sauce you can use (for this video, we just used store-bought chocolate sauce, but we did make the strawberry sauce you see). Add a little dash of cayenne to the cinnamon sugar for a bit of zing!
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Homemade Chawanmushi Recipe (video)
This is a delicious Japanese dish. It is a very soft and creamy savoury egg custard made with dashi (a kelp broth) and usually filled with delicious little tidbits. We used edamame and reconstituted dried shiitake mushrooms. You will find this typically served in individual little ramekins in restaurants, but you can also do it family style like we've done here. You'll notice there's a very faint little crispy line along the outer edge of the dish. If we had used a lid, you would not be seeing that line. Some people enjoy it, and some people would prefer it wasn't there.
You can change up the flavour profile in a few ways. What you put inside can change, and could include things like corn kernels, pieces of snow pea, or even just green peas. If you want to kick up the mushroom aroma and flavour, you can replace a small portion of the dashi broth with the liquid you used to reconstitute the mushroom. The parsley can be replaced with mitsuba or shiso. Lots of ways to tweak this one for your individual tastes.
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