Tag Archives: butter
Cultured Butter, Ricotta Salata and Mysost
An extra gallon of raw milk in the fridge prompts a spate of frenzied cheese-making! My very first attempts at homemade ricotta salata, mysost, and cultured butter.
In Memoriam
Farm animals, wild birds, backyard gardening, raw milk and honey-lime salmon are the highlights of our Memorial Day 2011.
Not Too Shabby
Fancy food for weeknights: garlicky prawns, pan-seared steaks, and cheesecake. What more could you ask for?
Mom’s Macaroni Soup
A trip down Memory Lane with a very simple soup of macaroni, milk and butter.
Two Bits
Shave and a haircut... This simple pasta highlights finely shaved Brussels sprouts with the addition of nuts, brown butter and Parmesan cheese, and is a great way to ease picky eaters into a fearsome vegetable.
Oscar Does Pie Crust
Classic pumpkin pie with a not-so-classic crust: pâte brisée made using sourdough starter!
Compounding Assets
In the second week of the Preserve the Bounty Challenge, we preserved fruits and vegetables in fat and oil. My approach was three flavorful compound butters: basil, peach-praline, and tomato-garlic.
Salmon Glue
A trio of salmon recipes: Roasted with caper-anchovy butter; sauteed and served under a satiny beurre rouge sauce; and crusted with crispy rounds of potato, with a simple salmon mousse serving as edible glue and…
Splurging, Two Ways
This special-occasion meal is composed of porcini-crusted filet mignon, pan-roasted and topped with gorgonzola garlic butter. The remaining steak was then transformed into sandwiches on homemade potato rolls (made from leftover chard-laced mashers), smeared with…
Huffing and Puffing
The September 2009 Daring Bakers challenge featured homemade puff pastry baked up into little cups called vols-au-vent. I filled mine with scrambled eggs, sauteed spinach and mornay sauce, in a breakfast-for-dinner riff.
Do You Have the Chops?
A basic lamb chop recipe livened up with sun-dried tomato compound butter; the latter can also be tossed with pasta, peas, and feta cheese for an easy side.
Little Pillows of Cheese
The May 2009 Daring Cooks challenge featured Zuni Cafe's ricotta gnocchi. Mine used freshly made ricotta and a simple sauce of tomato paste, capers and butter.
On the Bandwagon
Fashionable, super-sized chocolate chips cookies a la Jacques Torres, employing cake and bread flours, an overnight rest for the dough, and a garnish of finishing salt.
What a Flake
The June 2008 Daring Bakers challenge featured the Danish braid, a gorgeous pastry of homemade laminated dough. I filled my braid with apples, and set about making a host of smaller pastries with a variety…
Apple Dumplings for Faux-Fall
A homey, comforting dessert, these apple dumplings take a bit of prep time, but can be individually frozen to pull out whenever your loved ones start hinting for something like apple pie.
Speed Records and Brownie Sundaes
Velvety white chocolate ice cream tops gooey bittersweet brownies that can go from concept to plate in about 30 minutes with no boxed mix in sight (take that, Rachel Ray!).
Cowboy Crumb Muffins
Allspice crumb muffins, with their sweetly spiced streusel topping, evoke memories of the cowboy coffee cake I adored as a child.
Donut-muffin Biscuits
This recipe produces a funny little hybrid of donut-biscuit-muffins, scented with fresh nutmeg and tumbled in a cloud of powdered sugar.
Christmas Cookies, Part the Fifth: Sugar Cookies
Classic sugar cookies, made from scratch, are the perfect blank canvases for any decorations you like.