Is the coffee syrup/topping some of you are speaking of the bottles of like vanilla or hazelnut syrup you ADD to coffee? Or something different?
Trader Joe’s used to carry a coffee-flavored syrup. My D24 loved the stuff, on ice cream, in a glass of milk…it was like chocolate syrup, only…coffee. It has been discontinued for a while around here.
It’s its own mystery, @abasket .
See if this link works
https://www.davescoffee.com/products/original-coffee-syrup?gclid=EAIaIQobChMIiZO406nG7AIVWamWCh2I2g5zEAAYASAAEgJTmfD_BwE
Coffee Milk may be the “state drink” in RI. Pretty much sounds like cold coffee to me. I dunno.
Thank you @lookingforward I have totally never heard of that! I want coffee milk! I have always said I like my coffee with half and half - half milk, half coffee!!!
I signed up for their emails so I can be notified when it’s in stock again.
@abasket The spaghetti squash with Bolognese sounds good. Do you have a recipe? I have some honeynut squash that I got from the farmer’s market. It’s like butternut squash, but sweeter. Wonder if I could use it.
@Bromfield2 here’s the recipe - I have not tried it!
Roasted Garlic Spaghetti Squash Lasagna Boats
https://www.halfbakedharvest.com/roasted-garlic-spaghetti-squash-lasagna-boats/
Coffee milk is great. Like an adult chocolate milk. Yes, a big thing in RI.
Piccadillo, arroz blanco, friojles negros, tostones ??
Coffee milk was how my mom got me to drink milk. She’d serve me in a coffee cup
Ice cream sauce is u-bet coffee flavored syrup.
@BmacNJ - does your picadillo have potatoes and raisins in it? If so…mind sharing your recipe?
@DeeCee36 full disclosure, I’m Irish American but grew up and work in a Spanglish community. My wife is Cuban American and I’ve spent a lot of time in the kitchen with her mom and grandmother over the past 30 years. I’ve made it with and without potatoes, raisins. Not much variation to recipe, so here goes.
Peel and cube 3-4 medium potatoes. You want to fry them (canola oil) for about 10 minutes and then drain/dry them, put on side.
dice a medium Spanish onion, couple of teaspoons of pre-crushed garlic, dice a half of green bell pepper and cook the 3 in some olive oil til soft (5-7 minutes)
1-1.5 pounds of chop meat, seasoned with salt, pepper, garlic powder, onion powder, Adobo to taste, add it to the vegetables and brown meat (about 10 minutes)
add 1/2 cup white wine, teaspoon of sugar, can of tomato sauce, 1/2 cup of water.
add a handful of pitted green olives sliced, handful of raisins, half handful of capers and the potatoes you fried earlier.
lower the flame, mix, cover and let simmer for about 10-12 minutes
It’s a legit half hour spanish comfort meal I make at home or at work. Serve with white rice, black beans and tostones or maduros. Need to have crackers to scoop up rice/meat?
I would sometimes drink chocolate milk as a kid, but more often it was coffee milk. The coffee syrup was called Coffee Time, I think. I grew up in NYC, with no connection to RI.
@BmacNJ Thank you! I’ll be trying this very soon, it sounds exactly like what I was thinking of.
@DeeCee36 I like the Cuban picadillo recipe from the Skinnytaste website. It’s really easy and has a lot of flavor. No potatoes in her recipe.
I’ve been out of town for several days and it was hot when I left but overcast today. I need to market but first need to check the forecast to plan my menu for the next few days.
Saturday we will celebrate a family birthday and the birthday boy has asked for lamb kabobs. Not sure where he developed a taste for lamb as we never served it when he was growing up. I’ll have to also make something else as my H and D won’t eat lamb.
The skinnytaste picadillo recipe is the one I have made. Super easy and delicious.
Any easy recipes for a lemon blueberry cake? We are celebrating a birthday on Saturday and I’m trying to decide if I’ll bake or buy a cake. None of us including the birthday boy are big sweet eaters.
Probably not what you are looking for @mom60 but I made this a few weeks ago and it was so, so good - great texture.
https://www.barbarabakes.com/lemon-blueberry-coffee-cake/
That cake looks delicious!
I subscribe to Alison Roman’s (NY Times) newsletter. She had a recipe for a Sticky Apple Cake that looked really easy. I’m going to try it tomorrow and will report back. I went apple picking last week and have way too many apples. Made apple sauce and baked apples for dinner, but I still have some left.