My wife Megan has been trying out many new recipes from the site Allrecipes.com lately, and pretty much all of them have been absolute hits. Megan's favorite is a pork chop recipe that cooks the chops in a raspberry honey sauce with diced up pecans. At first the combination sounded like it could be disastrous but it really does work out. There's just enough sweetness to offset the meaty pork flavor and the crunch of the pecans adds a little something to make it a stellar dish.
The previously mentioned rum cake was made last night for our weekly gaming session. Megan added nuts to the bottom of the bundt cake pan so that the cake would have a pretty and decorative top when it came out of the oven. The recipe said to not use Captain Morgan as it would be too strong, but we like our Captain Morgan Tatoo so we went with it anyway, and it was just the perfect amount of rum flavor. Although the alcohol gets cooked out of the cake, the glaze uses a lot of the rum and doesn't get cooked, so you could theoretically get a little buzzed if you ate enough of it.
Another recipe of note that sounded a bit odd to begin with was the turkey burgers that had chipotle peppers and adobe sauce added directly into the meat before forming them into patties. These are magnificent and you don't even think about the fact that it's turkey instead of beef because of how flavorful they are. The recipe called for only a single pepper and a small amount of the sauce, but we bought a whole can of them so Megan threw the whole thing in. It was pretty spicy, but nothing too out of control and adding mayo or mustard really calmed it down.
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