Beet Greens Crostata
A savory crostata of ricotta and Parmesan cheeses, sauteed beet greens and leeks, and a rustic, flaky crust.
Category Archives: Baking
Basket of Bartletts
You can't beat a brown-butter cake made with pantry staples and studded with chunks of melty bittersweet chocolate and juicy pear.
Tuna Corks and Apple Tourtes
Tuna corks with shredded carrot salad, and a svelte apple tart for dessert---a French-style dinner perfect for the transition to fall.
No-Labor Day
All sorts of homemade fixings to pair up with hamburgers, from fries to coleslaw to onion rings, and even microwave potato chips!
Get Out Your Shaking Stick
A beautiful bevy of breakfast muffins, from beet-chocolate chip to nibby raspberry to sourdough apple, with a few egg-free, veganizable offerings thrown in for good measure.
Baked Alaska
The August 2010 Daring Bakers challenge was brown butter pound cake combined with homemade ice cream into baked Alaska and ice cream petit fours.
Check That One Off the List
Barbecue beef sandwiches with my homemade sauce and sandwich rolls, and coleslaw with a dressing made from homemade mayonnaise and yogurt---self-sufficiency can be a beautiful thing.
Bagel Kisses
Expanding my sourdough repertoire to bagels, made with all-purpose flour fortified with vital wheat gluten.
Pick a Peck of Peaches
A homey double-crusted cobbler made with peaches I picked myself, this recipe is very different from the biscuit-topped variety I was more familiar with.
Yogurt Chocolate Chip Cookies
Next time you're out of eggs and feel like baking, whip up a batch of these soft chocolate chip cookies. You can even snack on the dough with no worries!
Bread Alone
The quintessential sourdough loaf (which I am hoping will come to taste more sour as my starter matures!).
English Muffins for Oscar
Homemade English muffins that are every bit as good as store-bought, if not better!
Midsummer Feast
A simple roast of beef with sides of summery vegetables and pesto-infused mashers, remixed into roast beef sandwiches on soft, homemade potato rolls.
Tidbits
Some notes on miscellaneous recipes from recent weeks: cherry-frangipane tart, arugula and garlic scape pestos, whole wheat hearth bread, tuna melts, and a twist on spaghetti and meatballs.
Breakfast (Radishes) for Dinner
Using all parts of the radish: Raw for snacking, greens for soup, and even shredded into focaccia bread. Also a white bean-Caesar flatbread with prosciutto and arugula.
Adventures in Skillet Focaccia
My attempts to cook focaccia bread successfully on the stove-top.
Strawberry-Coconut Pucks
A disappointing attempt at strawberry-coconut muffins, through no fault of the jammy roasted berries.
Second Fiddle
A tasty, quick chicken fricassee takes a back seat to a raw kale salad with white bean Caesar dressing and croutons made from fried bread dough.