One-Pot Wonders
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Harissa Honey
"Do you really need to post a recipe for something that only has two ingredients," you ask me, assuming I can hear you talking through your computer screen. Well, now that you know this exists, you probably won't have to refer back here too often.
Wine-Poached Pears Baked in Custard Cream
I wanted a simple homey dish of pears baked in cream. I flipped through Martha Stewart's Pies and Tarts: a pear tart provided the basis for the poaching liquid. I had an open bottle of wine to use up. There wasn't nearly enough in there--is there ever?-- so I opened a second bottle of same. This in itself was cause for celebration, so I raised a glass and sampled some. Immediately things fell into place--oops! I forged tipsily ahead. For the cream sauce I referred to a new book on my shelf, Gâteaux from the Fait Maison series for a sort of crème Anglais, sans eggs. Here is the happy result. Let me know how you like it!
Millet with Three Cheeses
Delicata Squash Chips
The sugars in the delicata squash caramelize and yield that crispness, rather than the starch frying up in a high temperature oven. This chip recipe is a must!
Simple Bolognese
This is not a true Bolognese (which traditionally contains milk), but a simple version that's quite versatile. Use any type of lean ground meat for this recipe.
Home made spiced Paneer
Tongle tickling variation on the regular Paneer. You won't find this flavor in any store bought brick! I first tasted this Paneer (Fried into a Pakora) at Chef Vikas Khanna's restaurant Junoon. The flavor induced such an AHA moment and Chef Khanna was gracious enough to mention that the Paneer was made from scratch everyday at the restaurant. Not sure what other spices went into the Junoon Paneer, and quite frankly, I did not ask,I preferring to create my own version. Pepper & coriander were definitely in the cheese. Feel free to adjust the amount of spice to your personal preference
Maryland Style Steamed Dungeness Crabs
In order to adapt Maryland without giving up the summer tradition of eating steamed crabs, I made this recipe for steamed Dungeness ones instead.
Garlic Bread Grilled Tomato Sandwich
End of sun-warmed Minnesota tomatoes and I'm soaking up every one in or on something luscious. Skip the cheese, add garlic to the pan, and have a crusty, garlicky, tomato on grilled country bread.
White Peach and Rosemary Jam
I really enjoy a sweet yet savory jam. Such a treat allows you to escape the cloying nature of many fruit preserves but also provides flexibility in that your jam is no longer relegated to breakfast or PB&J (not that jam should be, but it often is). Anyway, still enjoying my plum-basil jam in such a major way, I decided to savory up my sweet white peaches from last weekend's farmers market. Rosemary, black pepper and Cognac did the trick nicely, and this will be absolutely wonderful with cheese, on a good whole grain bread or baguette, and in many other ways.
Crispy Roasted Chickpeas
What makes this roasted chickpeas recipe so flavorful is the paprika, cumin, cayenne, coriander, olive oil, and salt mix. Roast the chickpeas until crispy.
Avocado dressing
This is so simple I hardly call it a recipe. Yet it is one of my Summer staples when I am making tasty, healthy ,quick Summer salads. Avocados are such a perfect fruit that I hate to do much to disguise their creamy, nutty flavor and this dressing stays true to that premise. I usually use Hass avocados ,the dark pebbly looking ones that have the best flavor(in my opinion).
Chicken sausage and lentils
I developed this recipe because I wanted to use some Chicken Sausage but didn't want it to be the focal point of the meal, so I added Lentils and voilà! Enjoy!
Cauliflower in curry yogurt sauce
Oven roasted Cauliflower with Yogurt Curry has been a staple in my kitchen. Wanting the dish without using the oven was the motivation for this recipe.
Black Bean, Avocado and Pineapple salsa
So far, I've served this salsa with halibut, swordfish and tuna, but I suspect chicken and pork would also marry happily, or chips. It tastes better after the ingredients have spent some time together, so feel free to bring it along to a BBQ, a picnic or camping.
Garlic Scape & Basil Pesto
I am part of a CSA (Community Supported Agriculture) and this week, I recieved one of my favorite ingredients, Garlic Scapes! They are actually the plant greens of garlic and only come around a few weeks out of the year! They are insanely delicious with their light garlic and earthy flavor and make for an amazing pesto. I served mine on spaghetti with pan roasted tomatoes. My recent batch included a mix of pine nuts, walnuts and marcona almonds which were all in my pantry and was devine! I also froze some for a great quick crostini when guests come over topped with Burrata cheese.
Beautiful mushrooms
During a recent trip to the farmer's market, I came across a man selling nothing but shitake mushrooms. These bags full of fresh fungi looked wonderful, but I was slightly put off by the price. The man started to sell me by talking about how I could prepare them so simply and beautifully that they would taste like bacon. Prepared the way he suggested, they do not taste like bacon, but they taste like the most wonderful mushrooms in the world. I can imagine making these at a dinner party for some fancy hors d'oevres, but right now I just love taking them out of the oven and eating them straight from my cast iron skillet.
Scottish Oatmeal Breakfast with Teff Grain and Flax Seeds
This is a breakfast I created to use Scottish oats, which are whole oat groats that have been flattened in a slow grinding process, producing something like rolled oats, but retaining all the nutritional value of the whole grain. They take longer to cook than rolled oats but would get too mushy if cooked overnight in a slow cooker like steel cut oats. To make these work for a quick weekday breakfast, I was inspired by a recipe from Heidi Swanson of toasting rolled cereal the evening before. I found that toasting these in some butter and then soaking them in boiling water made them easy to finish off the next morning. Then I experimented with other grains and liked including some nutty teff grain for body and flax seeds for texture. I've also made this with a mixture of rolled and steel cut oats, and I've swapped in chia seeds for the teff grain, all with good results. This hot cereal is delicious with lots of different toppings. I suggest dried apricots, hazelnuts and a drizzle of maple syrup. Will including the nutritional powerhouse of teff grain and superfood of flax seeds in your daily breakfast bring you health and superhuman powers? Maybe not. But taking the extra few minutes in the evening to start a warm bowl of oatmeal for the following morning, and infusing your house with the fragrance of buttery, toasted grains in the process, will make you feel cared for, which apparently accounts for a great deal of the healing power of placebos. A good breakfast when you'd like a little extra insurance for getting through a demanding day.
Barbara Kafka's Simplest Roast Chicken
Barbara Kafka's basic formula for roasting chickens in the high-heat method is about ten minutes to the pound for a chicken at room temperature, untrussed. Feel free to adapt this recipe up or down for larger or smaller birds using this rule (up to 7 pounds). Kafka urges us to have fun: "This is not astrophysics." Try stuffing instead with herbs, shallots, a quartered small onion, celery leaves, or juice or blood orange wedges. Recipe adapted from Adapted from Roasting: A Simple Art (William Morrow, 1995)
Daniel Patterson's Poached Scrambled Eggs
These are the quickest and fluffiest of poached scrambled eggs, made with a forgiving technique. Though this recipe serves 2, you can scale up or down freely.
Sweet n' Buttery Cabbage and Onions
I made this as a piroshki filling for a Russian-themed dinner party I threw last weekend. I had discovered the Pike's Place Market cookbook in the Los Angeles Central Library which had the recipe for the first and most memorable piroshki I ever ate, at a Russian cafe in the market when I was a child. The recipe for the filling, however, is my own, though the ingredients are typical for cabbage piroshkis. The onions are carmelized for 45 minutes until they become delicious threads of sweetness, and the cabbage goes in for at least another half an hour along with butter, salt, and pepper. The result is soft, savory, sweet, and addictive. Quite a bit of the filling went straight into my mouth and not in to the pirsohkis. If you do use this for piroshkis, you can make it while the dough is in its first rise. I recommend putting on a comforting black and white movie (Arsenic and Old Lace in my case) and absorbing the homey scent of carmelizing onions while getting up now and then to stir them.
Outstanding Celeriac Soup with White Truffle Oil
I once had a similar recipe at a restaurant in Madison, WI as an amuse bouche. I tried to figure out all of the flavors and also searched online for some ideas. I came up with this recipe. It is simply the best soup around and so very simple. The white truffle oil to me is what kicks this up a notch. I drizzle this stuff on everything. It I could take a bath in it I would!
Chinese Celery and Baby Octopus, the Vietnamese way
This is a classic preparation in Vietnam, except usually we make it with squid. The baby octopus just looked really good at the market that time, so we thought - why not? With squid, you would slice it thin or score criss-cross on a 2x2'' piece of squid, to make it cook fast without getting chewy, and absorb the sauce. I took a chance with baby octopus and saute it really fast, and then cut it up when we eat. There is a slight chewy texture, but not in a bad way!!
Sardine Butter
When I asked my boyfriend, an avid lover of seafood of all kinds, what I should make for this contest, he quickly and enthusiastically answered, “sardine butter!” Eaten on toast as an hors d’oeuvre or starter, it is the love child of two ingredients beloved by people from his region of France: sea salt-laced butter, and sardines. As a bonus, it is really easy to make and store.
Rejuvenating Pure Carrot Soup
A perfect example of "less is more". Carrots abound at the greenmarket these days, and I wanted to create a carrot soup. A dear friend, and former chef, gave me a few tips on how to turn humble carrots - still dark with dirt - into a dynamite soup. It's all in minimal ingredients, careful cooking, and a few accessories at the end. Hope you enjoy.