I was looking for a good weeknight dinner to go with some baguettes and decided to adapt a basic shakshuka recipe from Joan Nathan’s The Foods of Israel Today. The original recipe came from the Tripolitana Doktor Shakshuka Restaurant in Jaffa. My main change was adding some feta. This recipe is intended to be 6 Read More …
I have had a sourdough starter for many years, but it had been neglected lately, so I bought a new one from breadtopia.com. It took about a week to rehydrate and build the starter to a useable quantity. So far I have used it as a poolish replacement. I have built it up to be Read More …
This is the version of baguettes that I have been making the most often lately. The starter was from breadtopia.com and I followed their Almost No Knead Baguette recipe except that I substituted 250 g.of the sourdough starter for the poolish in the original recipe. (The sourdough starter has 100% hydration, i.e. equal weights of Read More …
This is a stub. I was making a batch of my standard pizza dough, when I decided to turn it into a baguette to go with shrimp with garlic sauce. My standard pizza dough has 77% hydration, which is too high to form a baguette. After quick internet research I decided to try 65% hydration, Read More …
This tasty and easy vinaigrette was a house salad dressing of the Angeli Caffe in Los Angeles, and appeared in their cookbook and in the October 1997 issue of Gourmet magazine. 2 garlic cloves, peeled 1 tsp. kosher salt 1 cup extra virgin olive oil 1/3 cup red wine vinegar ¼ cup finely grated parmesan Read More …
We had some pie pumpkins on hand, which were used for decoration at Thanksgiving, so I decided to make pumpkin pie out of them. This could have been made with canned pumpkin. The recipe is adapted from The King Arthur Flour Baker’s Companion. The first step using pie pumpkins was preheating the oven to 350 degrees, Read More …
This is a version of the classic Boston baked beans, which can be made in about 3 hours elapsed time vs. the much longer time of the traditional method. The key innovation is a quick boil/simmer of the dried beans with baking soda (for alkalinity) to speed up softening the beans. This version is an Read More …
This is a recipe adapted from the New York Times to fill the Bureka Dough in another posting. The whole recipe will fill one batch of the dough, or it can be easily halved and the other half of the dough used for a different filling. 1 medium eggplant (about 1 lb./455 grams) 2 Read More …
This is a recipe adapted from the New York Times to fill the Bureka Dough in another posting. The whole recipe will fill one batch of the dough, or it can be easily halved and the other half of the dough used for a different filling. 1 package (16 oz./455 grams) frozen chopped spinach, Read More …
On November 28, 2018, the New York Times published an article on a group of Jewish women in Atlanta, who make burekas (essentially Middle Eastern empanadas) for an annual synagogue bazaar. One of the things I found charming about the article is that their recipe has evolved over the years to use White Lily flour, Read More …