Carol and I recently walked the Portuguese Route of the Camino de Santiago, and once we crossed into Galicia we saw Tarta de Santiago everywhere, and ate it several times for dessert. It is actually a very straightforward almond cake. The version here is adapted from Penelope Casas’ fine book Delicioso: The Regional Cooking of Read More …
One of our granddaughters slept over last night, so that made this morning a good time for a special breakfast, like waffles. One of the nice things about Richmond is that it is easy to get full-fat buttermilk here, and that meant we should have buttermilk waffles. This recipe, adapted from Cook’s Illustrated, makes two Read More …
An easy way to make a smoked sausage is to start with a fresh sausage and simply smoke it. Kroger had a sale on mild Italian sausage, and I smoked 2 lbs. at 250 degrees in my MasterBuilt electric box smoker until they reached an internal temperature of 160 degrees, which took about 45 minutes. Read More …
As discussed in another post, I was making Julia Child’s Supremes de Volaille aux Champignons (Chicken Breasts with Mushrooms and Cream), as adapted for a sous-vide cooker, and she suggested serving the chicken with risotto. Risotto has always seemed to be too much work, and too finicky, but an article in www.thekitchn.com insisted that Read More …
In the book Julie and Julia, author Julie Powell sets out to cook her way through Mastering the Art of French Cooking. In the movie based on the book, I think that one of the first dishes she tries is chicken breasts in cream, which is indeed a very tasty dish. I made this Read More …
A few years ago, Carol and I spent 4 very enjoyable days taking baking classes at King Arthur Flour’s baking school in Norwich, VT. One of the classes I took was for baguettes, and this is an adaptation of how we made them in that class. One change is that I baked the baguettes Read More …
My contribution for the family Easter gathering this year was three pans of dinner rolls, adapted from Bernard Clayton’s Complete Book of Small Breads. The recipe below will make one pan of 12 rolls. This enriched dough is very easy to work with, and can be used to make a variety of roll shapes. I Read More …
Last week, I was vacationing in Puerto Rico, and I started thinking about eating a fish escabeche, cooked fish marinated in olive oil and vinegar. It is a dish of Spanish origin which is found in many Latin American cookbooks, but unfortunately was not on the menu of any of the restaurants I ate Read More …
This is similar to Smoked Trout Pate , except that it was made with smoked whiting I found at Wegmann’s, and it used sour cream instead of cream cheese, because that is what I had on hand. A smoked whiting yields about 8 oz. of smoked fish once the bones and skin are removed. Read More …
This recipe is adapted from www.wokandskillet.com and is a quick and easy way to get the taste of Chinese barbeque. Ground pork is mixed with sweet and savory ingredients, including five-spice powder. I served them tonight with rice and asparagus drizzled with a soy-balsamic glaze. I think they would be good with Chinese noodle dishes Read More …