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.
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 cheese and onions, these thick servings French Toast are very hearty, as served with warm squash for lunch and have the satisfying savoriness of a French Croque with the melting interior of cheese and onion. The brown exterior is sautéed apples. These slices of bread were too crusty
Baking during a pandemic has become less about getting the job done with speed and ease, but with making something beautiful. The idea of standing apple slices on their sides, I think came from the New York Times Food section, makes color shine while leaving the nutrient rich peels on
My salted caramel ice cream Goat cheese is delicious with figs and I had just made some Fig & Hazelnut Financiers. When I accidentally bought a honey-sweetened goat cheese a Vanilla Cheese Ice Cream was the perfect use. The salted caramel is so simple, when cream was left in 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
Pour a cup of pure, natural, unsweetened beet juice over dry bread cubes (preferable with soft or no crusts). Blend with sautéed onion and garlic. Add fresh tomatoes, a peeled cucumber, parsley, basil, chili pepper, red pepper and purée to the desired texture. You can reserve some of the pepper,
– 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
In A Nordicware Pan I want a moist cake that will come out of my beautiful Nordicware cake pan. I trust David Leibovitz for desserts although I always cut his sugar measurement in half. His Double Chocolate Cake sounds great but I’m on my last block of Callebaut chocolate. I
Making a fragrant staple I used 1/2 cup of dried Pakistani rose petals purchased from Savory Spice Shop because I haven’t loved them in cooked dishes like the curries I’ve tried, where they were a last minute garnish. The dried petals became a brilliant rose red when put in 1