Ottolenghi’s Plenty reads, “Filling a tart with potatoes is a real treat for potato lovers…” I couldn’t agree more. Surprise! It’s potatoes and buttery pastry! The best kind of surprise. This was a fun fanfare dish for a dinner party. It’s quite fussy, so I wouldn’t make it just for normal dinner, but I knew I […]
Monthly Archives: August 2014
Saltie’s Focaccia
I seem to have trapped myself in a food loop. Since I’ve got a bit of a recipe backlog, I write about each thing some time after actually having made it. When I edit photos and write about each recipe, I often convince myself to make that recipe again. Is that like laughing at your […]
Make a dutch baby.
The best part of dutch babies is, when you’re preparing one, you can announce, “I’m making a dutch baby! … not the kind that requires a Dutch man (or woman).” So, you know, what are you waiting for? This dutch baby is a giant, eggy, crowd-pleasing pancake that requires less than 10 minutes of work, total. […]
Spring roll salad
In my continuing quest to identify salads that are acceptable as entire meals, I’ve started adding lots of non-salad ingredients, like handfuls of rice noodles and omelets. Because nobody wants to eat only leaves, you guys. But for real, this salad tastes like a spring roll without the fuss of actually rolling up spring rolls. […]
Tomato eggs (Fanqie chao dan)
My family loves eggs. When I lived at home, we would buy them in 18-packs (sometimes two of them), and occasionally in the smaller palettes that Costco offers. A fried egg on a carb vessel, your choice of rice or toast, continues to be my go-to quick meal and has been more or less since […]