Congratulations to creamtea, whose Dilled, Crunchy Sweet-Corn Salad with Buttermilk Dressing won this week's contest for Your Best Dish in the Raw, earning her big prizes from Viking, OXO and Tiny Prints, and a spot in the next food52 cookbook!
Q&A with creamtea
- What is the best thing you've made so far this year?
- A favorite of family and friends is a chocolate cream roll. It is based on Susan G. Purdy’s chocolate roll in her book, A Piece of Cake, but filled with a simple whipped-cream filling, stabilized with only confectioner’s sugar. Her chocolate sponge is as light as a whisper. It is the most-requested birthday cake at our house.
- Describe your most spectacular kitchen disaster.
- We had invited a family friend over to help finish the Thanksgiving turkey on Friday night. The upstairs neighbors were away on vacation, but somehow, their apartment flooded. The water dripped down through the ceiling and all over the turkey, which was sitting out on the stovetop. It poured like rain 3 stories on, down to the lobby. As for the ruined main dish, well, there was no backup plan.
- What is your idea of comfort food?
- A bowl of spaghetti with marinara sauce and Parmesan cheese brings me back to my childhood.
- Apron or no apron?
- Usually an apron, although sometimes I may be in the middle of dinner preparations before I remember.
- What's your favorite food-related scene in a movie?
- The exquisite meal in Babette’s Feast. The wines and food, lovingly prepared, soothe old wounds, melt past transgressions, re-kindle aging hearts and envelope the townspeople in a cloak of warmth and forgiveness.
- If you could make a show-stopping dinner for one person, living or dead, who would it be?
- My high-school English teacher, Mrs. Hernandez. I wish I could thank her properly for all she taught me.
- You prefer to cook: a. alone, b. with others, c. it depends on your mood
- Mostly alone. But we have Sunday brunch for the family each week, and I do like it when the kids help.
- When it comes to tidying up, you usually: a. clean as you cook, b. do all the dishes once you've finished cooking, c. leave the kitchen a shambles for your spouse/roommate/kids to clean.
- I like to clean as I cook. Nevertheless, there does always seem to be a lot of cleanup at the finish line.
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creamtea
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43 Comments on Winner of Your Best Dish in the Raw:
Congratulations! I picked 5 huge bags of corn last Saturday at a friend's farm (gave a lot away but still have a LOT) and your recipe was one that I tried that night - YUM!!! It will definitely be a repeated many times in my kitchen. Thanks for sharing your inspirations from your family. I hope I'm producing some of those for my kids :)
Thank you very much! Freshly-picked corn, what a treat. I, too, hope I'm making some memories for the family. The time goes by so fast.
Congrats again! So nice to hear more of your voice in the Q & A sharing such wonderful memories.
Thanks again, Sagegreen. And good luck to you with those impressive poolside quaffs. Wow! We don't have a pool on our apt. balcony. I may have to settle for a footbath and one of your concoctions as I look over the traffic below.
Congratulations on your win! Enjoyed your Q & A very much.
Thank you so much, Lizthechef. This is quite a thrill.
Congratulations! I love your winning recipe and your picture and your q&a. Enjoy your gifts!
Thank you, SKK!
Congratulations, creamtea! It was wonderful reading your Q & A, thank you for sharing such lovely memories.
Thank you, gingerroot. It's good to sit back and reflect sometimes.
Congrats on your win! What lovely memories to cherish. I have the book A Piece of Cake, and will try the Chocolate Roll!
Thanks mrslarkin. I was up against a pro. I and the kids are going to try your (virgin) snowcone as soon as I can pit some cherries. Hope you try the chocolate roll too, it's lovely.
I multiply it by 1.5 for a an 11 1/2 x 17 jelly-roll pan, just fyi, and leave out the cinnamon (not really into cinnamon for sweets). Do use a little extra care in unmolding.
Congratulations! Great to know more about you!
Thank you, nannydeb.
Congrats on this fabulous recipe!! I would also love to try the chocolate roll as we have a birthday next week and I could WOW the family...All the best from Boston
Congrats on your win and fabulous recipe. I would also love to make the chocolate roll cake you noted. Would you be able to share that recipe as I have a birthday coming soon and would love to surprise the family ! Thank you again for the great Q and A. All the best
Maybe I'll add to my recipes, except I can't take credit, since I haven't changed a thing!
Thanks Winston, I might send it as a message, since it's not my original recipe. Not right away though, guests coming Saturday and I must shop!!
I did post it in a personal message to you. Hope you got it!
Congrats on the win. What a lovely salad. ;)
Loved your q & a.
Thank you, ChefJune!
thank you ChefJune, loved your aioli, and could have eaten the whole container myself in one sitting.
Congratulations! Such a great recipe - keep them coming! Love all of your memories ...
Thanks aargersi, keep yours coming too, so original.
Congrats on your win! Enjoyed your Q&A...and can't wait to enjoy your salad...I'm making it this weekend!
Thanks EmilyC, hope you like it!
Congratulations Creamtea, the sephardhic mejjedara that you introduced thru the EP testing at home is now a regular beloved dish at home..looking fwd to trying the salad as well!
thanks, Panfusine, I'm so pleased you like that Mejjedara. It's a staple here too.
Congratulations cream tea - I loved your memories of growing up with food. What a great legacy your parents gave you.
Kitchen Butterfly, thanks. My parents deserve the credit!! Now if only I could get them to go here to the website & read about themselves -- aye, there's the rub.
Wonderful Q&A so nice to get to know you. Congratulations again,
thanks again sdebrango.
Congratulations, creamtea. So nice to get to know you.
thanks very much, drbabs. Here's to Amanda & Merrill for their interest in home cooking!
thank you, hardlikearmour. so impressed with your submissions, especially the yummy-sounding sweets.
Congrats on your win. Thanks for sharing your food-inspired memories!
Congratulations on your wonderful salad creamtea. You have me craving a good tomato and crusty bread for breakfast!
thank you, Midge! now that you mention it, I may have the same...
Congrats, again, nice to meet you! Visited relatives in Riverside every summer, when I was growing up, but haven't been there for a few years, now.
Small world, lapadia! Riverside has grown into a relative metropolis, from what I understand. Back then, the cowboy kids had the school bus stop after mine, and there was still an orange grove down the block from me.
Congrats on your win! Lovely Q&A.
thank you, harlikearmour, so impressed with your submissions.
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