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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 [...]
How to Make Chocolate Drop Cookies
A few weeks ago, we invited friends over for dinner on very short notice. I had enough food in my fridge and pantry — I just needed to figure out what to make. I put together a salad with grapefruit, avocado and a shallot-citrus vinaigrette, and I pulled some little puff pastries out of the [...]
Simple and Delicious Latkes and Applesauce
It’s Hanukkah! And that means it’s latke time. Those tasty, greasy potato pancakes come in a variety of styles. My personal preference is to keep them thin and somewhat crispy. That’s why I like recipes that leave the potatoes simply grated and don’t have much or any flour. The recipe I’ve been using for a [...]
Simple and Festive-Looking Holiday Appetizer: Pea Pesto Crostini
A few weeks ago, I was watching Giada at Home on the Food Network and Giada made a super simple and pretty looking recipe — Pea Pesto Crostini. I decided to make it when we had a friend over for drinks and it was a hit, and then I made it again this past weekend [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
Simple and Delicious Lemon Dill Tofu Filets with Avocado Salsa
Wednesday night, I decided to make a quick tofu dinner. I don’t cook with tofu too often — maybe once a month — and I typically just make some sort of stir fry. But I had bought fresh dill and lemons at the market, and I had some green beans, tomatoes and lettuce from my [...]
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 [...]
The Vegetarian Feta Club Burger… mmmm
I’ve wanted to make veggie burgers for a long time now, and Evan even has a great-looking book that has a bunch of recipes, but I just hadn’t done it. But tonight we were having some friends over for dinner and veggie burgers seemed like the perfect Sunday-night meal. I pulled out Burgers by Paul [...]