How to Eat Extremely Well
A Croque Monseuir is a famous French sandwich made of ham and cheese grilled to wonderful meltedness. Add an egg on top and its so great it’s called a Madame, something we just ate at a wonderful French breakfast place in Seattle – Cafe Presse, 1117 12th Ave, Seattle, WA
Soufflé is deceptively simple to make. First, get some basic cooking skills, then make a velouté, add beaten yolks, add grated cheese, pour into stiffly-beaten egg whites, mix gently and pour into a prepared soufflé dish. Bake, eat immediately. If you have the general process in your brain, you can
Pho – in Denver is – cheap. Pho is beef broth, rice noodles, nearly raw meat, chili, bean sprouts, lime and a mounded pile of green-leaf herb, usually Thai basil and a saw-toothed cilantro. Eric Schlosser writes about cheap food in Fast Food Nation. He spoke at Denver University last
Start with oatmeal, cooked, and you do this because, like us, something came up and it was noon before we came to eat breakfast and decided on lunch instead. Adjust my recipe below for whatever you added to your oatmeal and the type of oats. I used steel cut, nothing-quick-about-them,
Cheese & Onion Enchiladas in Red Sauce 2 Corn Tortillas (per person) 45 grams of mild cheese (cheddar, jack, provolone or a mixture) 1/2 small onion For the sauce, mix: 2 T chili powder 1 T tomato paste (optional) 1 cup water Stacked enchilada, two each in our personal size
January 1, 2019 Friends spending the holidays in Vienna sent photos of a germknödel – a stuffed dumpling dessert that my friend, Pat, has promised to make for me for years. She was earnest, I’m sure, in this promise because I have all the weird stuff that was in her
Two elements make the floating island dessert: meringues – the island – and a Creme Anglaise, or vanilla cream sauce that acts as the sea. Creme Anglaise: On stovetop, heat 1.75 cups of milk to boiling, with a vanilla bean. Beat 4 egg yolks with 1/2 cup sugar (over the
A Swiss roll recipe from Jaques & Julia that is a very light mousse baked on parchment paper which gives the chocolate roulade the perfect Yule log texture. It is a very light, wet batter thinly filling a very shallow baking sheet – a cookie sheet with about 1/2 inch
Raising a cake to its full potential at high altitude is a difficult project. I want to be able to make my own cakes, because I believe you can have dessert but only if you make it yourself. Just for fun I asked a calorie counting program what a piece
We broke bread easily with friends at a meal to celebrate the old year and the new one with these very crisp breadsticks made of two different flavors: red chili and salty anchovy.