Archive for August, 2007

Rosemary & Caramelized Onion Focaccia

On a beautiful summer day, I wanted some freshly baked bread so decided it was time to take my first shot at focaccia. I searched many recipes and ended up combining aspects of several of them. The result was not quite the texture I was aiming for, but it was still light, flavorful, [...]

August 29, 2007   Posted in: baking, bread, farm share, garden, recipe  3 Comments

Tomato Bruschetta

My favorite thing to do with tomatoes is make bruschetta. I got addicted to the stuff at my favorite Italian place (Salvi Restaurant, Brooklyn, NY), where they serve it on crostini at the start of the meal along with grissini and warm bread. It was the first food I could really enjoy that [...]

August 28, 2007   Posted in: appetizers, farm share, garden, recipe, tomato  One Comment

Mac and (Not)Cheese

Okay, and it’s not actually macaroni, either, but I love the way radiatorre holds the sauce. The principle is still there, and it tastes damn fine. One of the first things I cooked for myself as a young’un was Kraft Macaroni & Cheese, and it was one of those comfort foods that [...]

August 27, 2007   Posted in: pasta, recipe, un-dairy  No Comments

Chocolate Peanut Butter Cupcakes

As we take over the world, one cupcake at a time…
Even though I’d recently acquired Vegan Cupcakes Take Over the World, I didn’t have it handy when I started baking so the body of these is standard “Wacky Cake”. By the time they were in the oven, I was able to ponder my frosting [...]

August 26, 2007   Posted in: baking, chocolate, cupcakes, dessert, peanut butter, recipe  No Comments