Live Qualitarian: Eat Well
Madeleines – Quick Beat the eggs with a whisk, add the sugar and whisk briefly. Pour the flour into a strainer, add the baking soda and salt and tap into the mixture. Add the zest and gentle mix. Put a lid on the bowl and rest in refrigerator for 1
Roasting Low and Slow: The key to a fall-apart brisket beef roast is to cook it at a low temperature so that it cooks slowly. This small, 2-pound roast was smoked and cooked on the barbecue, not in an oven, and not with the use of a smoker, so maintaining
Success and failures have been the results of our efforts to make a plate of smoky and juicy barbecued pork ribs. Key takeaway: if we are very, very pre-occupied we are not attentive enough to make sure the ribs are not burned to inedibility. Key Action: The temperature inside the
A brownie with a kick Mix 1.5 stick softened butter 2/3 cup turbinado sugar 2 eggs Cream butter and sugar, beat in eggs Combine 1.25 cups of flour: white(1/2cup), almond (1/2cup), ground flax. (needs more flour?) Stir flour into batter with 1 T Chimayo Red Chili Powder, 1/4 t. salt,
Moist Cake via Frozen Fruit Cubes This small, one cup of flour, cake made in a spring form pan makes use of the squares of frozen fruit puree from our orchard. In the summer, our apricot trees produce a lot of fruit, and only so many of these small apricots
Hummus – from scratch Starting with 1 cup (.5 lb.) of dry chick peas, I produce about 1 lb. of hummus – or a small yogurt container that is equivalent to at least two store-bought packages ($12 to $15). Cost to produce this is about $3.50 and all ingredients are
Oven Roasted Romanesco Like a curry-rubbed califlower, I oven roasted this beautiful Romanesco, after brushing olive oil onto the detailed surface and dusting it with red chili powder, salt, pepper and cumin. Oven was at 375°F and the cruciferous head in it for about 60 minutes. It was delicate but
January 11, 2025 Fresh, but frozen halibut (in season in the winter) was abut $20/pound from Whole Foods. We poached a 1.5 inch thick, one pound piece in an oval LeCreuset, served it with steamed snow peas and a white Rams Gate Chardonnay, that was marked $35. I made no
Ingredients Yield: 36 cookies For the Coating ½ cup / 62 grams cacao nibs ½ cup / 105 grams Demerara sugar Generous pinch of kosher salt For the Dough 2½ cups / 320 grams all-purpose flour 1 cup/110 grams powdered sugar 3 tablespoons unsweetened cocoa powder ½ teaspoon kosher salt
Sweet, starchy, spicy Peeled and sliced in very narrow wedges, the sweet potatoes are layered with vegetables and a large amount of roasted green chilis cooked in a broth and topped with thin layer of cheddar cheese. The red yams I used were difficult to peel but any red peel