176th Carnival of the Recipes

Updated: Somehow this accidentally got top-posted, I must have inadvertently changed the date from yesterday evening (when I posted it) to Monday evening. I am not fixing it because I have no idea how much havoc that will play with any links. For more recent posts, scroll down below this one.

Welcome to the 176th Carnival of the Recipes, the Literary Edition. Y'all supplied the recipes, I supplied the literary quotes based on whatever tickled my fancy adn seemed to match the recipes.
I have an odd sense of humour.

We have a lot of entries, so let's get started:

Breakfast

“Before Dr Johnson came to breakfast, Lady Lochbuy said he was a dungeon of wit, a very common phrase in Scotland to express a profoundness of intellect, though he afterwards told me that he had never heard it. She proposed that he should have some cold sheep's head for breakfast…” Life of Samuel Johnson, LL.D.: Together with A Journal of a Tour to the ... By James Boswell, Samuel Johnson

Pancake Recipes presents Yummy French Toast posted at Pancake Recipes.

Here are some ideas to get out of the cereal rut: Veteran Military Wife presents No More Cereal for Breakfast posted at Life Lessons of a Military Wife.

This decadant smoked sausage roll with cheese and more sausage recipe would work as a main dish too, in all its artery clogging goodness: Greg Seher presents The Fatty - Fattystyle posted at Bossystyle BBQ.

Here are some tips on starting the new year ‘green’ along with a hearty and tasty looking whole grain pancake recipe: GP presents Start your New Year Right .. and Green posted at Innside Montana-Your Home at the Range.

Soup

So the cook went away, and the Many furred Creature cooked the soup for the King. She made a bread soup as well as she possibly could, and when it was done, she fetched her gold ring from her little room and laid it in the tureen in which the soup was to be served. The Green Fairy Book, By Andrew Lang

I think a nice butternut soup is perfect for a wintry evening, and this one looks great, not too heavy: Famous Recipes presents Butternut Squash Soup posted at Famous Recipes.

If squash is not your favorite, how about a nice bowl of cabbage soup? Bill presents Cabbage Soup posted at World Famous Recipes.

Melissa presents Toscana Soup posted at A Penny Closer.

Mel Rimmer presents Bean Sprouts: Duck Soup posted at Bean-Sprouts.

Deb Bixler presents Tomato Soup with Quinoa » Increase Metabolism & Live Healthy posted at Increase Metabolism & Live Healthy.



Main course

To his thinking, the hour was so long a-coming, that he fancied time stood still; but yet at last, the wished for moment came and they served him up some minced beef, with onions, and some calves feet, somewhat stale. The hungry governor presently fell too with more eagerness and appetite than if they had given him Milan godwits, Roman pheasants, Sorrentum veal, Moron partridges, or Lavajos green geese.
And after he had pretty well taken off the sharp edge of his stomach, turning to the physician, "Look you," quoth he, "Mr. Doctor, hereafter, never trouble yourself to get me dainties or titbits to humour my stomach; that would but take it quite off the hinges by reason it has been used to nothing but good beef, bacon, pork, goat's flesh, turnips, and onions; and if you ply me with your kick-shaws, your nice courtiers' fare, it will but make my stomach squeamish and untoward, and I should perfectly loath them one time or another.The History of the Ingenious Gentleman Don Quixote of La Mancha, By Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra

This beef and bean dish is easy on the pocketbook, but hearty and tasty- popular even with most of the kids: Laura Williams presents Laura Williams' Musings: 4 Bean Casserole posted at Laura Williams' Musings.

Amanda presents Recipes: Best Meatballs posted at Pajama Mommy.

Shawn Lea is baking up some baby-back ribs.

We have a family of six over for dinner every other Tuesday night, and we’ve been doing sloppy joes in the crockpot. This version sounds like a nice change of pace:
Diabetic Recipes presents Tex-Mex Sloppy Joes posted at Diabetic Recipes.

"Now, we have killed a porker, and Emma thinks of sending them a loin or a leg; it is very small and delicate- Hartfield pork is not like any other pork- but still it is pork- and, my dear Emma, unless one could be sure of their making it into steaks, nicely fried as ours are fried, without the smallest grease, and not roast it- for no stomach can bear roast pork- I think we had better send the leg- do not you think so, my dear?"
"My dear papa I sent the whole hind quarter. I knew you would wish it. There will he the leg to be salted, you know, which is so very nice, and the loin to be dressed directly, in any manner they like."

Emma, By Jane Austen

Rebecca presents Pork Carnitas with Green Tomatillo Salsa posted at The Experimental Kitchen.

"My dear sir if there is one thing my mother loves better that another it is pork a roast loin of pork. " Emma, By Jane Austen

Pork loin tenderloin is a favorite around here, too, and this recipe looks like a keeper.

What is that opposite Mr. Hartright? Boiled chicken, is it not? I thought you liked boiled chicken better than cutlet, Mrs Vesey?"
Mrs. Vesey took her dimpled hands off the edge of the table and crossed them on her lap instead, nodded contemplatively at the boiled chicken, and said, "Yes, dear."
"Well, but which will you have to-day? Shall Mr. Hartright give you some chicken, or shall I give you some cutlet?"
Mrs. Vesey put one of her dimpled hands back again on the edge of the table, hesitated drowsily, and said, "Which you please, dear."
"Mercy on me! It's a question for your taste, my good lady, not for mine. Suppose you have a little of both, and suppose you begin with the chicken, because Mr. Hartright looks devoured by anxiety to carve for you.

The woman in white, By Wilkie Collins

A family of nine has to stretch the meat, so we’re always interested in more ways to serve chicken, and these chicken casseroles look delicious: Thelly presents Chicken Casserole posted at Chicken Recipes.

Chicken Recipes presents Chicken Recipes - Chicken and Green Chili Casserole posted at Chicken Recipes.


Walpoliana By Horace Walpole

Cabbage rolls stuffed with ground turkey breast, tart apple, rice, and more? Mmmmm: Slow Cooker Recipes presents Stuffed Cabbage posted at Slow Cooker Recipes.

Fortunately, we have two versions of this Serbian recipe- the authentic, slow food method (involving trans-Atlantic travel and a couple of months) and the quick and easy version: Coturnix presents How to Fix an Authentic Serbian* Sarma (Stuffed Cabbage) posted at A Blog Around The Clock.


Salads, vegetables, and side dishes


Poets' Wit and Humour

Sweet potatoes with a secret ingredient sure to tantalize your tastebuds:
GWN Lifestyle presents The Easiest Side Dish Ever posted at GWN Lifestyle.

Here’s a beautifully tasty array of salads: Joel Fuhrman, MD presents Disease Proof: Behold...the Salads! posted at Disease Proof.

Everything you always wanted to know about fennel, along with a recipe for a tasty looking fennel soup and one for a fennel salad: Expat Chef presents Weekend Herb Blogging/Fennel: Vegetable, Herb or Spice? posted at The Expatriate's Kitchen.

Jennie W presents Corn, Sage and Bacon Stuffing posted at Jennie's Rambles.

This side dish sounds elegant and piquant: Adam presents Wild Rice Pilaf with Goat Cheese and Cranberries posted at Men in Aprons.

Dessert

History of the Conquest of Mexico: With a Preliminary View of the Ancient ... By William Hickling Prescott

We still don’t have all our Christmas decorations packed up and put away (yes, we’re behind), and this recipe makes me feel like doing a little more Christmas baking:
pickel presents Chocolate Babka Recipe, Russian Christmas posted at A Child Chosen.

This sound melt-in-you-mouth-and-sinfully-delicious: Dani presents Holiday Baking Recap: Ginger-Cinnamon Caramels posted at Catch the Spoon.

This sounds delicious topped with a nice heaping dollop of whipped cream, especially if the whipped cream is made from scratch: WFR presents Apple Gingerbread Cobbler Recipe posted at Recipes.


One of the most mouth-wateringly memorable desserts I have ever had was in the Phillippines- just a bowl of home-made ice-cream from a neighborhood street vendor, topped with incredibly fresh and juicy mango. This brings me right back:


If mango ice-cream does not appeal, perhaps you’d like to try something a little more exotic: Katy presents Cardamom Ice Cream posted at sugarlaws.

Here’s an idea whose time has come- a pecan pie made without corn syrup:
Becca Ribbing presents Becca’s Bourbon Maple Pecan Pie « Diary of a New Old-Fashioned Gal posted at Diary of a New Old-Fashioned Gal.




Not really a recipe:
Batya explains her experiments with a crockpot Is The Crockpot All That It's Crocked Up To Be? posted at me-ander.

Wenchypoo has some unconventional ideas on economy: I think you have to take this advice on a case by case basis. When I can pick up a whole chicken for .98, the carcass is a frugal buy. When I can get boneless, skinless chicken breasts for under 2.00 a pound, they are the better buy.


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