WI 4th of JULY family memories supper [View all]

All of the meal focused on family food memories. Of course, it's the 4th in Wisconsin so supper entre was BRATs. And as this was about memories of family suppers we even went into some leftovers.

The nothing special in WI Brat was taken up notch by serving it in the center of the plate on a bed of well caramelized onions (mild olive oil and Wi butter) that had an experimental apple butter and balsamic vinegar sauce. As a kid my family raised, picked, and cooked buckets and buckers of apples into savory spiced apple butter that mom canned and stored in the basement. Tonite we used my partner's home-made canned apple butter from last fall). It was something of a 30 minute slow cook to skillet chutney. My food suspicious partner,and sometimes victim of my cooking experiments said that it was dynamite!

The right side the plate (from 1 to 5 o'clock) was an ~8 inch-long crescent composed of cross-sections of Roma tomato and cucumber with an early summer relish/crudite of green onion, radishes, baby carrot sticks and sweet pickle resting in the red and white curve.

On the left side of the plate, sharing the bed of caramelized onions was left over potato pancakes from this weeks Tuber-Tuesday.

All in all, a success and we made a food experiment into a good-food memory.

Hope your holiday family meal was also great!