Live Qualitarian: Eat 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.
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
2014 Chateau Cap de Faugeres “La Mouleyre” Castillon 750ml (Bordeaux) From the Garagiste: Every once in a while, we find a wine that is so good and so low in $ (and also strangely overlooked), it makes no sense at all – that’s a wine that demands an offer to
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
Grilling Saucing Late Autumn, and the weather is summery. Barbecue a few lamb chops and set them in a sauce of fresh plums from the orchard, just over the wall. Bake scallop potatoes on the grill, and by the time this is done, the autumn sun is setting and it
My friend Michele arrives for a visit with a half gallon jar of chokecherry juice she’s made from berries from a friend’s tree. We go to the Saturday morning farmers’ market and contemplate what to do with the juice. Chokecherries are deep red and the juice is medium ruby on