How to Eat Extremely Well
Tastings are posts about the ideas or concepts of what we decided to cook, why, how we did it, and how it turned out.
Frozen cherry tomatoes will add moisture after baking this savory pie made from leftover lamb. These “Lemon Drop” tomatoes came two plants in our garden that were so prodigious we were able to freeze some whole when they were at their ripest. The lamb was from a boneless leg roast,
For thanksgiving during a pandemic, we were two. So a small apple ginger tart was a crisper, brighter and lighter dessert than the traditional pumpkin pie.
An olive oil based chocolate cake for the bundt pan – for the National Bundt Day, November 15 – was too airy too hold together and come out of the angular pan in one piece. Shards of cake show the pumpkin custard interior that made this cake even more moist
Pie crust – short crust – again, and this time filled with caramelized onions. Make a pie crust ( ratio: 2 cups flour to 1 stick butter) to match the pie or tart tin you’ll be using. Chill. Then make the filling. Start by caramelizing onions, using about 1 pound
Stuffed with what we tried to remember
Idea of standing apple slices on their sides.
My jar : my salted caramel ice cream Having emptied a second jar, we make a vanilla version of ice cream, too. These two, one-cup-of-cream ice creams each make enough for four servings. No machine is used, so these are quick to make, if you don’t count freezing time. The
Dessert served with your own fingers No cutting, plating or garnishing, these peanut butter cups are already a beautiful serving. And far better than a peanut butter cup you buy once a year on Halloween to give away to children. Easy to make, the PB cups take less effort than
– No Molasses — but just as Ginger A Small Ginger Cake This cake is intense, and I want to make it small — for our little family. So all I need is 2.5 cups total batter. Choose a large enough beaker for an immersion blender that will hold at
Not From a Sack of Tortillas Steuart made a coarse cornmeal, flour and water mixture that turned into something like a corn tortilla you could buy in the grocery store. His tortillas that he used as a base for vegetables and as a nice lice were: mostly corn, round, thin