Need a critique ideas from you creative chefs.
Any thoughts on whether the apricot glaze/sauce is a good combination with roast beef? or any more creative ideas are welcome. (Got to do something with all these apricots.) 
Dinner includes roasted asparagus spears, mashed potatoes/gravy, hot wheat rolls. Apricot halves for salad and Cherry pie for desert. Please don't drool on my screen. |
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Mmm.... I was about to ask for an invite! I don't know if that's a good combo because I've only used my apricot glaze (that has cucumbers&pecans) for chicken, but I sure would try it! I can eat apricot glaze alone if someone let me.  |
| MMMMMMM sounds so good!!!
I'm not a chef by any means. I grew up in my French household with both my sister and mom taking over the cooking duties while I did a lot of baking. I haven't tried roast beef with apricot sauce but it sounds good. I do remember my mom baking apricot pie, however. That and apricots floating around in Brandy jars which are quite famous and tourist attractions (lots buy them to take them home).LOL Seems many stores in France have the apricots soaking in brandy, they are called Mirabelles. So that's all I can add...bake a apricot pie instead of cherry perhaps? Marianne Good luck George - it all sounds delicious and if your meals are anything resembling your home made bread..I have no doubt you're going to pull it off! |
| Sounds good to me!
I don't know how you were planning on doing the apricot half for the salad. One way we had them when I was growing up was put a bed of lettuce greens as a base on a small saucer or bowl, set the apricot half on that, and fill the "bowl" made by the apricot with a scoop of cottage cheese. Each person had their own little serving at their place. It was yummy - we even ate it as kids! Good luck with your meal.  |
| Dawn,
Thanks for salad idea. Adds a bit of a flair to serving the apricots plane. Will do it. |
| I dunno about apricots with beef. I tend to think of poultry going with apricots, not beef. But it could turn out like a sweet and sour beef, so why not? But I like Dawn's cottage cheese idea the best. Very retro! |
I am on my way for dinner at your house George 
I'd try the apricots with the beef, something I never really thought about, done Apricots and Chicken but that sounds really different and unique with the beef. They use Apricot jam to glaze baked ham, can't see why not with beef too. Slurp nearly lunchtime here, you are making me hungry  |
| Here's some ideas
the Apricot almond chutney looks good http://www.txbeef.org/recipe_book/sauce ... and_salsas Bon Appetite! |
| i would mix the apricots with red wine and mix with the drippings to make a gravy!!!! |
| Well George how did dinner turn out? All the advise sounded so yummmmy. |
| Zahra: Thanks for the recipe. Don't like cilantro so will delete that, and use pecans which I have.
Darcy: I'm planning that as a glaze. Will use Zahra's as a sauce for the presentation. Don't know how this will taste, but it should look pretty. Violet: Dinner is Wednesday. We eat at 6 if you're coming. (dogs are welcome) |
George wrote: Zahra: Thanks for the recipe. Don't like cilantro so will delete that, and use pecans which I have.
Darcy: I'm planning that as a glaze. Will use Zahra's as a sauce for the presentation. Don't know how this will taste, but it should look pretty. Violet: Dinner is Wednesday. We eat at 6 if you're coming. (dogs are welcome) Don't temp me George....if a blonde headed stranger with an OES and two Aussie's show up on Wed at 6:00. We're up for a "road trip." |
| mmm.....sounds great! You can also do a salad of grilled apricots over bibb lettuce. Warm your pecans in the over (in tin foil)...While they are still warm put pieces of bleu cheese on the apricots and then sprinkle the pecans. That would go lovely with beef! |
debcram wrote: mmm.....sounds great! You can also do a salad of grilled apricots over bibb lettuce. Warm your pecans in the over (in tin foil)...While they are still warm put pieces of bleu cheese on the apricots and then sprinkle the pecans.
That would go lovely with beef! and add some goat cheese !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
| I just ran across this site for substitutions for just about everything in cooking/baking. You might want to bookmark this link...
http://www.recipezaar.com/bb/viewtopic.zsp?t=192472 |
| all the ideas are good !!I would make an apricot tart for desert |
| mmmmmmmm apricots!! You need to get yourself a food dryer and make some dried apricots!!!!!!!!!!!! |
Tasker's Mom wrote: mmmmmmmm apricots!! You need to get yourself a food dryer and make some dried apricots!!!!!!!!!!!!
Hmmmm. Great idea, with all the members who like apricots, next year and could sell dried apricots for our rescue organizations. Late breaking news: the wife of the couple just called; hubby had a bad reaction from a tick bite - feast is postponed to he is back to health. I should tell he to talk to Dr. Ron. |
| ABSOLUTELY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I think you can actually dry them in the oven. |
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