Saturday, after our glorious cheat dinner we had a rather simple dessert. Have you heard of something called succession tasting? I hadn’t. This came from Tim Ferriss’ book The Four Hour Chef. Normally this would be done with mango, but I didn’t have any mango, I just had cantaloupe, so I used that. Slice up the melon into large bite…
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Gorgonzola Pasta
After two weeks of half-assing the Slow Carb diet, last week was my first full on week. So I was truly looking forward to yesterday as my first true cheat-day. Dinner was Gorgonzola Pasta as follows (and for those keeping track at home, both Cynthia and I woke up weighing less the day after this than the morning before –…
Crumpets
Crumpets; the mid-afternoon-snack of English aristocrats and the world’s deadliest thirteen year old. Due in no small part to the subliminal advertising efforts of the crumpet-lobby we picked up a pack of crumpets recently. Man, they were tasty. The following week I was sent on a pre-breakfast grocery run to get eggs. I was this close to coming home with another package of crumpets. The…
Baklava Experiment
For a recent potluck, I decided to be overly ambitious and try making baklava. I’d had a recipe* floating around that I kept eyeing and finally decided to give it a try – and it was absolutely worth the effort. The hard part (in reality more time-consuming than hard) is the phyllo pastry. Keeping it damp and not ripping it proved…
Pizza Dough
Earlier I posted a recipe for bread. Well, today it is all about the pizza dough. Pizza Dough 1 1/4 tsp Bread Machine Yeast 2 Cups White Bread Flour 1/2 Cup Whole Wheat or Multigrain Bread Flour 1 tbsp oil 1 tbsp white sugar 1 tsp salt 1 tsp dried basil 7/8 Cup water 1/2 tbsp corn meal 1 clove…
Awesome Bread
We don’t buy much leaven bread these days. Tortillas, Naan, and other flatbreads we’ll buy (although I am working to change that too). But we very rarely buy regular old bread. The reason is simple, ever since I moved out of my parents’ house, I’ve had a bread machine. Why pay $2 for lousy Wonderbread when I can make properly…