Clik here to view.
Young, Green Garlic Pizza
Have you seen Jim Lahey‘s new book? The one all about pizza? I have been a big fan of Lahey ever since I lived up the street from the Sullivan Street Bakery in Soho. Back then, I used to go over there...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Young, Green Garlic Knots with Parmesan and Marinara Sauce
Well, I did it. I broke my oven. After a week of intense pizza-making, my oven decided that it was having no more of this high-heat nonsense and promptly decided that it was going to go on strike. The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Daring Kitchen April Cooks’ Challenge: Whole Wheat Flatbread with Grilled...
This was the Daring Kitchen challenge that almost didn’t happen. After a few weeks of thinking, toying with ideas and brainstorming, the challenge got put on hold and then was quickly buried under a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Mascarpone-Polenta Cake with Rhubarb and Meyer Lemon
I wish that I was more of a baker. Unfortunately, my baking past is littered with all kinds of baking misfortunes: lumpy cakes, leaden cakes, cracked cakes, dry cakes, lopsided cakes, burned cakes,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Finnish Ruis Bread Topped with Sliced Radishes and Soft Butter
I ate my first radish after watching Shelley Duvall’s Faerie Tale Theater. Do you remember that series? Maybe it was a little dark for children, but I loved it and thought Shelley Duvall was the bomb...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Wild Spinach and Radish Green Spanakopita
It used to always kill me to buy a bunch of radishes and discard the leafy tops. I have never had the space to compost, so all of that plant matter would go straight into the trash. It killed me every...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Cherry Clafoutis
Clafoutis is the classic dessert of the Limousin, the northwestern part of the Massif Central in the middle of France. Traditionally, it is baked in a buttered dish and is more or less a flan with ripe...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Tickets still left to see me at the Brooklyn Cookie Takedown on December 16!
As if I didn’t learn my lesson the last time . . . I will be competing in this year’s Brooklyn Cookie Takedown! Just like the Brooklyn Bacon Takedown: 300 samples, but minus the bacon. Come out and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Update: Brooklyn Cookie Takedown 2012
Who’s so awesome? MISO AWESOME!!!!!!! My Takedown cookie entry was: white chocolate chips + white miso + wasabi peas + tamari almonds. Even though I didn’t win with that crazy combination, I had a...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Miso Awesome Cookies
For my first post of the new year, I am going to wrap up the remainder of business from the last: my Miso Awesome Cookies! Come to think of it, this post should actually be called: Dr. Daisy or: How I...
View Article