Orange sponge cake with cranberry marble

4 eggs + 1 yolk
8 oz sugar
1 tsp salt
2 tbsp lemon juice
1 tsp vanilla
2 tsp baking powder
8 oz flour, sifted (pulsed with b. powder in food processor)
rind of 1 orange
8 oz butter, melted, cool

Preheat oven to 350 F.
Place eggs, sugar, salt, lemon juice and vanilla in bowl of stand mixer.  Place over water simmering in saucepan and whisk until eggs just warm and sugar has begun to melt.  Place bowl in stand and whip on high with whisk attachment until triple in volume.  Fold in flour and baking powder.  Fold in butter.  Pour into pan (bundt pan used).  Swirled cranberry sauce into batter with knife.  Bake ~ 45 minutes until tester clean.

Also made scrambled eggs with farmer's sausage:

Sauteed 2 links no name farmer's sausage until fluid diminished then added ~1 cup chopped onion and 2 chopped garlic cloves plus a little beer and turned to low until onions golden.  Add eggs (mixed with some garam masala, and lots of dried chervil plus salt and pepper).  Won rave reviews from DH. No pics since gobbled up :)

Chili with steak

Tried a chili with steak, and loved the flavour!  Our steak requires a little more cooking than what you get from the store, so I should have allowed more time.  But once it was cooked, yum yum.  :)

~2 lb round steak
4 cloves garlic, chopped
~2 cups chopped onion
2 Tbsp homemade chili powder (from theKitchn)
1 Tbsp cumin
1 tsp ancho chile powder
1/2 tsp chipotle chile powder
1 tsp ground coriander
2 bay leaves
2 tsp dried leaf oregano
3/4 cup Lucky Lager (cheap cooking beer)
~3 cups beef broth
7 cups cooked beans
1 small can corn niblets, drained
1 tbsp red wine vinegar
fresh chopped red onion
chopped pickled jalapenos

Dry steak and season with 1 & 1/2 tsp kosher salt and 3/4 tsp pepper.  Brown steak in 2 batches undisturbed for several minutes then stir to brown evenly.  Remove to plate along with juices.
Heat oil and add onions and garlic with some kosher saltover medium, stirring occasionally until softened & lightly browned.  Add seasonings and cook, stirring, until fragrant, ~2 minutes.
Add beer, turn heat to high until most liquid gone, scraping bottom of pot to loosen browned bits.  Add broth and bring to simmer.
Puree 1 & 1/2 cups beans (maybe more next time) and add to pot along with whole beans and meat with juices.  Simmer until beef is tender (~ 3 hours).  Add water if thickens too much.  Add corn at end.  Add vinegar at end after seasoning.  Garnish servings with red onion & jalapenos.

adapted from fine cooking Feb/Mar 2014