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Asparagus and Cauliflower Gougère with a Beet and Grapefruit Salad
Friday night I decided to try something new. I didn’t really know what at first, but as I was flipping through my Vegetarian cookbook, I came across a recipe for a mushroom and cauliflower gougère. I didn’t have any mushrooms, but I did have some asparagus, so I decided to try my own version of [...]
New Baking Adventure: Rye Pretzels
On Monday, my friend Laura sent me a recipe for Rye Pretzels she saw on NYTimes.com, and I knew immediately that I wanted to try it out — I even had all the ingredients on hand! It took me a whole two days to get around to it, and I’m glad I decided to try [...]
An Anniversary Dinner: Soup, a Savory Pie and Chocolate Almond Cake
November 3, Evan and I celebrated our third anniversary. It seems that each year before this one, November 3 has been a hectic day full of lots changes. On our first anniversary, I moved out to Budapest. Evan was already there, and I was joining him to live there for a couple of months before [...]
Making Home Made Orange-Date Rolls
Last week I got some dates in my LOVE Delivery box. I don’t really like dates plain very much, so I wasn’t sure what I was going to do with them. Then, over the weekend, I started thumbing through the bread recipes in How to Cook Everything and came across a recipe for orange date [...]
The Secret to Getting Nooks and Crannies in English Muffins
The first two times I made english muffins, I thought they were delicious but I missed the nooks and crannies that you get with fork-split muffins that toast up nice and crispy and catch lots of butter and jam.
I also missed the little crunch of cornmeal that most store-bought english muffins had, so I decided [...]
Making Whole Wheat Irish Soda Bread
I’ve been intrigued by all the Irish soda bread recipes I’ve seen in my cookbooks. Each book seems to have one, and they always look relatively quick and simple — especially because the bread is made with baking soda and baking powder as the leavening agent, not yeast, so it doesn’t need time to rise. [...]
Polenta Torta and More from The New Vegetarian Epicure
I don’t have many cookbooks, but the few I have are reliably wonderful. One of my favorites that I really should cook from more is The New Vegetarian Epicure by Anna Thomas. First, I love how the book is arranged — seasonally by meals. That means that I can find something that uses what’s fresh, [...]
Making Whole Wheat Pita Bread
This week, I decided to make pita bread from a recipe in Paul Gayler’s Burgers cookbook. I used to buy it a lot, but haven’t had it in a while, and I had some halloumi and other ingredients that seemed like they would work well in a pita sandwich. I decided to make them with [...]
Potato-Stuffed Indian Flatbread with Parsley Tzatziki
Last week’s bread-making adventure was inspired by the abundance of potatoes I had. I got some in my first LOVE Delivery veggie box, and then I got more in the second, so I figured I needed to do something with them. Looking through How to Cook Everything, I came across this recipe for potato-stuffed Indian [...]
Making Montreal Bagels… In Southern California
I’ve been talking about making bagels for a long time. I’d read about making bagels in a Slate article about making staple foods from scratch (the article was also my inspiration for making crackers), and it was what initially inspired me to start making bread and baking more in general. In the piece was a [...]
Fantastic Foccacia, a Roasted Beet Salad and Sicilian Pasta
This week’s bread experiment was my very best yet. I made focaccia bread with rosemary and sea salt, and we ate it hot out of the oven with olive oil. The bread was simple to make, and the secret was dousing it in a good deal of olive oil — and adding generous amounts of [...]
Black Bean Veggie Burgers on Homemade Buns
Last week I decided to try a new veggie burger recipe. I love the feta cheese burgers that I’ve been making for a few months, but I wanted to try something a bit healthier, with more veggies and fewer breadcrumbs. I did some recipe searching in my Burgers book and online, and I ended up [...]
Absolutely Amazing Homemade English Muffins
For this week’s breadmaking adventure, I made english muffins. I had looked up a few recipes for them before because they really are one of my favorite bread products, but I just wasn’t inspired. But then, as I was searching for a recipe for buns for some veggie burgers I was planning on serving for [...]
A Giant Sesame Ring and a Delicious Moroccan-Themed Dinner
Yesterday I wanted to bake again, but I didn’t feel like making baguettes. I looked through a few of my cookbooks and found a recipe for a sesame in The Vegitarian Epicure. It turned out to be a pretty simple ad quick bread — about 3 hours from start to finish, which of course involved [...]
More Cooking Fun: Baguettes, Brownies and Homemade Pizza
I’ve still been on my cooking kick, baking bread and trying out new recipes. Last week, I decided to bake baguettes again, and this time they came out looking perfect, though slightly undercooked for my taste — they were cooked all the way through, but I would have liked a thicker crust.
As for dinner with [...]