The specialty here is duck in many forms — in a strudel, crispy, stuffed with prunes, as a pâté, homestyle, Tisza style, Rozsnyai style or atop mashed apple.
A lifelong cook may not be able to whip together a full dinner but could mash apples for applesauce.
From noon to 9 p.m., the Standard will be serving a holiday feast including butternut squash and apple soup with pancetta; herb-roasted turkey with shallot gravy; Swiss chard and leek gratin; brown butter mashed potatoes; apple and chestnut bread pudding; salty caramel pot de creme with whipped maple cream; bourbon pumpkin pie with pecan streusel.
Potatoes are mashed with green apples, the slight tartness of the apples well-suited to the braised lamb shank; or with saffron, to add more zing to roasted chicken.
Use a potato masher or fork to mash the apple into a puree consistency.
Cheese and apples or mashed bananas with sugar and cream.
The swordfish sauteed with Cognac and black peppercorns, received top marks too, as did juicy slices of pork tenderloin presented with cooked apples, garlic mashed potatoes and red cabbage.
Straddling historical and contemporary cuisines was a (remarkably un-gamey) goose-leg confit with apples, buttery mashed potatoes with sage, chestnuts with roast carrots and swiss chard, and one of the most tender and flavorful chickens I've ever eaten.
The city's distinctive heritage is also echoed in its dialect (which even other Germans often struggle to understand), and in local dishes such as himmel un aad – literally "heaven and earth", actually black pudding with apple and mashed potato.
Make sure the apples are well mashed.
Mash the apples with a potato masher.
