Kitchen adventures + Apple cake recipe

That spinach & pancetta soup didn't turn out as hoped, but ahhhh well. Live and learn.

Mom came home yesterday, so I showed her the recipe I'd been using (it's from a really lovely book of recipes from Fruili, the region of Italy my grandfather immigrated from). She took one look at it and was like "Well, there's your problem - you're following the instructions exactly". Ahaha... apparently the techniques for incorporating the corn meal, as described, are "hard mode" and there were other things I should have done, and so on, but obviously one wouldn't know about any of it if they're just doing what the book says. Oh, well.

So, I don't think I'll try making this particular version of Paparòt again. But I'd like to try some of the other things some time... there are some frittata variations in here that sound really good, and I mean, how hard can it be, it's just a crustless quiche (says the person who has never made quiche). And ahhh there's a recipe for Fave dei morti, I want to try that when we get closer to the end of October....

Upside: I made a cake from the same book! And it turned out pretty decently! So, there's that. (Though once again, "I can bake, but I can't cook at all" rears its head, fffff.) And since it turned out well, I'll share the recipe here. USA measurements, sorry; you'll have to convert it yourself.

( Carnian Torta di Mele )