Archive for the 'recipes' Category
Applesauce Cake with Caramel Glaze
November 9th, 2011by Caroline Glaze. Glaze is one of those words that makes me try a recipe, and the combination here of “caramel” + “glaze” got me, even though it is really just one small component of that recipe. But this glaze is so good I might just start making it to spread on things other than [...]
Roasted Cauliflower with Chard, Chickpeas and Dukkah
November 7th, 2011by Caroline Chard and cauliflower are two of my family’s favorite winter vegetables, but I’d never thought to combine them in one dish, nor to add chickpeas to make it a really hearty vegetarian dish (this would be a great way to keep your favorite vegetarians and vegans happy at Thanksgiving). Plus the dukkah is [...]
Pear-Rosemary Bread
November 2nd, 2011by Caroline I don’t normally buy single-ingredient cookbooks (with an inventory of over 100, I’d be seriously jeopardizing my shelf space if I did), but years ago I found a small, beautiful pear cookbook on a remainder table. For $2, I figured if it had just a couple good recipes, it’d be worth the money. [...]
Butternut Squash & Hominy Stew
October 31st, 2011by Caroline This is absolutely not a recipe I would make just for my family, since my kids are at the stage when stews and other cooked food mixtures don’t appeal to them at all (although they will happily eat their own weird combinations of food, if they make them themselves). But, this recipe arrived [...]
Cauliflower Compote
October 23rd, 2011by Caroline So, remember last week, I wrote about single words that can draw you into a recipe? Well, compote is definitely not one of those words for me. It just sounds like a food dump; I guess it sounds a bit too much like compost. But the combination of ingredients in this recipe from [...]
Chocolate Almond Apricot Biscotti
October 19th, 2011by Caroline You never know what will draw you into a recipe. A picture? An ingredient? Sometimes it’s a word; any recipe with the word “caramelized” in it gets me. Or it can be a phrase, as in the line that grabbed me several years ago when I spotted this recipe in Sunset magazine and [...]
Pasta Romanesco
October 17th, 2011by Caroline Of all the new vegetables we’ve met via our CSA — the cardoons, the agretti — I think my favorite might be romanesco broccoli, the fractal vegetable. It’s firmer than standard broccoli but sweeter than cauliflower, and it tasted great the other night in an easy pasta with lemon zest, sliced almonds, and [...]
Homemade Ricotta Cheese
October 12th, 2011by Caroline Years ago, the summer between Tony’s and my marriage and my first pregnancy, we travelled in Italy with good friends, gorging on art and wine and food. In Bologna, we ate in a small restaurant that was dominated by a dark wood, marble-topped hutch. It held bowls of beautiful antipasti: roasted peppers, olives, [...]
Pumpkin Coconut Milk Curry
October 5th, 2011by Caroline My parents are visiting this week (on the California leg of my Dad’s book tour) — and that means I am experimenting with recipes I wouldn’t make for just the four of us. My parents (unlike my children) are eager and adventurous eaters, and while the food here ultimately matters less to them, [...]
Quick Yeast Bread
October 3rd, 2011by Caroline We love bread. And while it is very easy, living in San Francisco, to buy a different kind of delicious bread every day, we love to make it, too. I learned by watching my mom make bread every week, and my kids are learning the same way. In fact, if I can send [...]