We went to a little restaurant in Warden today, just exploring. It's called the Euro Restaurant & Lounge and the food was pretty darn good. We had excellent clam chowder - beautifully flavored, rich with the taste of butter, bacon, clams, & thyme and LOADED with tender clams. We followed our cups of soup with sandwiches which were really good. (The lunch special was "blueberry dumplings with choice of soup or salad"???)
Now comes the desperation - "spicy European ketchup"! OMG this was good. Bob asked, but the recipe is a family secret. It tasted like, perhaps, apples (cider, sauce, butter???), a bit of spice on the finish, and a spice or flavor that I know - but couldn't quite get. It wasn't red like a tomato ketchup, sort of brownish, clear, with tiny darker speckles (like a spice - cloves???).
Does anyone have a clue??? I googled it and found nothing that sounded quite like it. Bob tried a "European strawberry doughnut" for dessert and I did find that it is a Polish pastry so that kind of makes me think . . . Poland?
Any help would be appreciated - I would love to make this, but if I have to try to buy it . . . oh well.
Now comes the desperation - "spicy European ketchup"! OMG this was good. Bob asked, but the recipe is a family secret. It tasted like, perhaps, apples (cider, sauce, butter???), a bit of spice on the finish, and a spice or flavor that I know - but couldn't quite get. It wasn't red like a tomato ketchup, sort of brownish, clear, with tiny darker speckles (like a spice - cloves???).
Does anyone have a clue??? I googled it and found nothing that sounded quite like it. Bob tried a "European strawberry doughnut" for dessert and I did find that it is a Polish pastry so that kind of makes me think . . . Poland?
Any help would be appreciated - I would love to make this, but if I have to try to buy it . . . oh well.
You only live once . . . but if you do it right once should be enough!