Live Qualitarian: Eat Well
Good butter makes good cake. Take it out of the fridge right now so its ready. The cake’s crisp crust give just enough resistance for a moment of anticipation of its delicate cakey texture pressed with the warmth of vanilla and almond. Parchment makes this moist crumby cake easy to
Wash tomatoes when the come in from the garden. When there are a dozen or more, bring water to a boil in a large saucepan (or soup pot, if you have more tomatoes). We used setting 8 on our induction stove. Place tomatoes into boiling water – one at a
Cut meat from seeds and stems of hot peppers. (wear rubber gloves, cut the peppers as if you were slicing off sides of a box). Make a brine with 150 g of water and 8 g of salt in a jar that will hold the peppers. Weight them down so
Crispy eggplant slices stack up to enclose melted mozzarella and the signature Parmesan cheese and sit on the plate like a main dish should. A polenta or pasta could be a further adornment of the plate, or serve a salad as a following course. Use an eggplant that is at
Buying excellent ingredients makes for excellent meals, and the fillets from Dr Field Goods in the DeVargas Mall, is an excellent way to ensure greatness. Grill fillets for just a few minutes on each side and let rest in bbq-friendly pan in which you’ve placed onions, garlic and a little
Summer is when the plants we thought would never grow more than 2 inches give us full grown eggplant, zucchini, peppers and tomatoes. With these, plus cuttings from the happy herb garden, we can make ratatouille. Cut a large eggplant into rounds, yielding seven to a dozen that are 1/2
Make short crust pastry using 2 cups of flour, a pinch of salt, one stick of butter, and enough water to pull it together in a ball. Refrigerate the dough until ready to roll out and bake. After you briefly bake the crust in a large pie tin, you will
Caramel comes first and is simple if you allow about a quarter cup of water to dissolve the brown sugar (2T) and let that heat until you can smell caramel. It will bubble and start to dry out. While this is happening gently warm 1 cup of cream in a
Nan’s cold soup is a perfect summer lunch. Made for a 4th of July Party, it stored well until the 7th, having been chilled since it’s simple creation. Very simple, said Nan. Sauté 3 medium zucchini in a little olive oil, add chopped onion, a T of curry powder and
Classic madeleine batter was quickly whisked together – without the lemon zest. Instead, dehydrated red raspberries were crushed and sieved to eliminate their seeds and added to the soon to be red batter. A blue phylophylic powder was added to the blue third. One third was left natural. After cooking