Pan de muerto (programming.dev)
 

My favourite buns! They have a nice taste and aroma of oranges, and are super elastic and juicy. They're pretty demanding to make. I had to knead them for half an hour, and they had to rise at least 11 hours in total.

Kinda failed at the decoration again, but I learned that I have to flatten them even more first, and use more dough for the bones than the tears.

Recipe: https://www.epimel.es/recipes/pan-de-muerto-fra-1938

A bun with a sugar dusting. The shape is a bit droopy
 

Soy marinated eggs are in general really easy to make, and make for a nice snack or breakfast to bring outdoors or to accompany ramen. While Nitamago has a sweet and salty taste, Lǔ dàn is more aromatic. I like both a lot, and struggle to decide which is my favourite.

I struggled to present them well, so I just arranged them in a bowl 😅

Recipe: https://www.epimel.es/recipes/lu-dan

Japanese alternative: https://www.epimel.es/recipes/nitamago

A bowl of soy marinated eggs, looking slightly like a smiley
 

Both really simple, just fried in butter with salt and pepper. There is a butter lemon sauce which adds flavour though. Prepared this way, the lamb cutlets end up tender and juicy. If you have a lot of ghee or clarified butter left over, this is great for using it.

Recipes: https://www.epimel.es/recipes/cotelettes-d-agneau-a-la-minute-fra-1903 https://www.epimel.es/recipes/pomme-de-terre-chateau-fra-1903

Fried lamb cutlets paired with small fried potatoes, topped with a butter lemon sauce
Made Pelmeni from 1861 (programming.dev)
 

They're so much work! I thought I would be done in an hour and a half, but these little bastards took three hours. My neck and upper back were begging for a break when I finished filling them

But they're good, though! Similar to gyoza, with a salty filling with a bit of broth inside. Crispy and elastic

Recipe: https://www.epimel.es/recipes/pelmeni-fra-1861

A dish of six boiled and fried dumplings with a dollop of smetana in the middle
 

Reminds me of pizzoccheri, and I mean that in a derogatory sense. The pasta was semi dry, and the poudre douce was dominated by the ground ginger. If this is what they could eat at tavernas in the 1300s, I feel sorry for them. Feels like a bachelor dish. The ancestor of lasagne, everyone 🎉

It could work with normal flour and a better spice mix for the poudre douce, but I don't feel like trying again and wasting 1.5 liters of beef stock

Recipe: https://www.epimel.es/recipes/loseyns-fra-1390

A plate of dry whole wheat pasta flates with cheese and poudre douce in between
 

The taste is unlike anything I've tried, but it certainly makes me think of the forest. It's sweet and fruity, but with a little bitter aftertaste, similar to that of lingonberries. The color is a dark red-orange when made following the recipe, and a pink-orange when diluted as in the photo.

Process-wise, it's important to freeze the berries first to break down the starch into sugar, and to boil it to break down the parasorbic acid into sorbic acid.

It took a couple of hours time to forage for enough berries, but I found about 280 grams, enough for about 1 liter of juice. It was a bit of a hassle to pick the berries clean afterwards and avoid yucky insects.

I now look at the rowan trees around me in a very different way, because they suddenly became food, haha

Recipe: https://www.epimel.es/recipes/rognebaersaft

A glass of rowanberry juice. Light orange-pink in color
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