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.
Beef Stuffed with Thyme Butter A butter made with fresh thyme, garlic chive from the garden and anchovy spread onto the pounded flat beef flap, or skirt steak meat. Roll the meat up like a jelly roll, and tie with kitchen string. Place rolls in a Le Creuset and add
Mom’s Date Bar Recipe Oven Temp: 350 °F 3/4 cup sugar 1 stick softened butter 3 egg yolks 170g (1 1/3 cup) all-purpose flour l tsp. baking powder 1/2 tsp.salt 1 tsp. vanilla 2 cup dates (cut fine) 3/4 cup nuts (cut fine) 3 egg whites powdered sugar (optional) Cream
White and Red: Steuart has become the breadmaker for our family and rarely do we buy bread anymore or a store-made pizza dough. It has become his routine to mix a bread dough in the morning, let it rise overnight. This technique for pizza dough was something we learned from
Poached Eggs – Avocado Benedict Breakfast with home fries and a sausage-like patty made from ground meat (ground at our local store) and spiced to taste like sausage but without the nitrates and preservatives. The poached egg was set on a bed of chopped avocato and fresh tomatoes, and topped
Breakfast the morning after a dinner party, here, where we made use of the leftover tray of antipasto we had as a starter the previous night — and the baguettes that had be cut in slices to accompany the meal. Having been sliced the bread was perfect for dipping in
Nasturtiums are edible peppery tasting flowers so they are perfect on a breakfast of green chili and fried eggs. Recipe for Green Chili: 1 T Olive Oil Onion, 1/4 of 1, chopped & 1 garlic clove, minced New Mexico green chilies seeded, peeled and chopped roughly 1 t cumin 1
Steuart has a standard bread recipes and had a bowl of dough waiting to be baked in the morning following a party at our neighbor’s house across the alley – a pizza party making use of the neighbor’s wood-fired oven. After a meal of many different topped pizzas, the
REvised and reMade Since writing this story in 2011, I’ve made my recipe below with the 6 separated eggs and I haven’t loved the results. I want a dependable version of this for times I don’t want chocolate, don’t have butter, and have left over orange rinds. My go-to olive
Clear beef stock in easy to use cubes. That’s the final product of a long process — not a hard one — that is the basis of some many great recipes, and that’s beef stock. Please feel free to read the post I wrote last winter about making beef stock
Mussels are an inexpensive way to get a lot of seafood taste. With about $5, you’ll get a pound, and can over-serve two people. And just a few minutes of preparation. Rinse the mussels. If you purchase these in a grocery store they will already be cleaned several times and