11:02:00 AM books, cookbook collecting, in the kitchen with a good appetite, what are you reading Melissa Clark, What Are You Reading? I recently had the pleasure of meeting Melissa Clark when she was in Austin for the Texas Book Festival . Over some bowls of chili and chip... Read More
3:29:00 PM apples, caramel, Ice cream, my favorite ingredients, pecan Apple Ice Cream with Toasted Nuts and Caramel Sauce Caramel apples are as classic as fall treats get, and caramel anything always gets my attention. However, biting into a big, gooey, caramel-... Read More
12:26:00 PM mushrooms, parmigiana, Pasta, whole wheat Mushroom Paté with Einkorn Pasta One of the first types of wheat to be grown as a crop during the Neolithic era was einkorn. 12,000 years later, this ancient grain is being ... Read More
3:45:00 PM quiches kugesl and couscous, the essential new york time cookbook, what are you reading Joan Nathan, What Are You Reading? I always enjoy seeing Joan Nathan appear in Martha Stewart cooking segments, and during a show last spring she prepared a delicious-lookin... Read More
12:42:00 PM cocktail, ginger, lemon, persimmon, vanilla Persimmon Martini It couldn’t have been better coordinated. Just after reading about persimmons in the latest issue of Edible Austin , we received persimmons ... Read More
11:26:00 AM burrata, butternut squash, my favorite ingredients, pickling, tomatoes Pickled Butternut Squash with Burrata Pickled pumpkin has such a nice ring to it, and that’s what this was supposed to be. The page for this salad had been marked since March whe... Read More
10:04:00 AM chocolate, cookies, marshmallows S’mores Cookies Last week, I was planning to bake cookies for some friends, and I wanted to come up with something their kids would really like. I asked Kur... Read More
2:36:00 PM anchovies, fish sauce, kaiser rolls, mayonnaise, num pangs, piquillo peppers, sriracha Piquillo Pepper Num Pangs I made homemade Kaiser rolls , and I had a plan for them. I had been thinking about these sandwiches on Kaiser rolls for a year, or the reci... Read More
11:56:00 AM Bread, kaiser rolls, poppy seeds, the bread baker's apprentice Kaiser Rolls When I finally started baking from The Bread Baker's Apprentice , I didn’t have good luck with the first two breads I tried . Maybe I ch... Read More
5:11:00 PM cardamom, chiles, onion, sweet potato, world vegetarian Sri Lankan Sweet Potatoes with Cardamom and Chiles Sweet potatoes keep coming in our CSA bushels, and they are a welcome site. My favorite use of them is making oven fries seasoned with vario... Read More