Dinner at Christina's. Celebration Hummingbird Cake, and Saveur! The simple act of Cake means celebration to me. And indeed, there's a lot to celebrate right now: May Day, the full-blown coming of spring and the imminent arrival of summer, my friend Kashy's birthday (happy birthday, Kashy!) , the OBL news-- the list goes on. So much happiness to celebrate at the beginning of May! Here's my celebratory cake: a celebration hummingbird cake, with sweet, incredibly moist layers packed full of banana, pineapple, and coconut, with the nutty crunch of pecans and the slightly sour and salty finish of cream cheese frosting.
Usually, I'm not a big fan of a million and one healthy ingredients invading my cake space, but for some reason, a hummingbird cake, dressed up with the addition of coconut, just seemed perfect for the season. You guys, words cannot express how hugely flattered and honored I am to be nominated by you all and to be chosen as a finalist by the editors at Saveur. Read on for recipe.... 1. . 1. Enjoy! PIZZA IN A CUP/THICK CRUST PIZZA. This time I am pretty late in posting the sweet punch challenge. Pizza was this month's challenge. As I have already posted the thin crust pizza, I wanted to make thick crust and pizza in a cup. This pizza cups looks cute for parties and kids will surely love it. I have used the inverted muffin tray for making the Pizza cups and before rolling I have just sprinkle redchilli flakes, grated garlic and dried Italian Herbs.
Recipe source - Pioneer Women Ingredients : 1 teaspoon Active Dry Or Instant Yeast 4 cups All-purpose Flour 1 teaspoon Kosher Salt ⅓ cups Extra Virgin Olive Oil Sprinkle yeast over 1 1/2 cups warm (not lukewarm) water. In a mixer, combine flour and salt. The topping I used for Thick crust Pesto Pizza: Black olives Artichokes Onion Roasted Asparagus Mushrooms the above topping are my favorite one for pesto pizza. For filling the Pizza cup I used the following First apply your favorite sauce then fill with the following. Ariane Duarte's Blog - DinnerTool.com. Dessert First: Sugar and Spice Brioche Buns: Everything Nice. To see the winners of last week's Blackboard Eats contest, see the bottom of this post!
We're spoilt for choice of bread in San Francisco, where there's enough artisan bread bakeries around that not having freshly baked bread with dinner almost seems enough reason to turn in your foodie membership card. I must confess that I'm not the hugest bread person, probably because there's stiff competition for Most Ardent Bread Lover in this town, and my carbohydrate of choice tends to be rice, since it was a fixture of the dinner table while I was growing up. I will make an exception for brioche, though. I like that it inhabits some undefined but utterly delicious middle ground between bread and cake. I like it even though it's so rich because you are literally shoving as much butter as possible into the dough before it loses all structural integrity, people still tend to enjoy it by putting even more rich items on, like...more butter, or eggs, or pâté.
Basic Brioche 1 tablespoon salt 5 eggs. Desserts for Breakfast. Recipes. So here it is, then, the Spud’s collection of blogged-about recipes all on one page – woohoo! Click on a category below to jump to the recipes for that category, or just scroll down through the recipes on this page. Clicking on a recipe will bring you to the relevant post. Potato recipes (and there are quite a few!) Are highlighted in green. Breads and Scones Bran OatcakesCheesy Sage And Onion SconesChocolate BreadFarinata (Chickpea Flatbread)Jim Lahey’s No Knead BreadLefse (Norwegian Potato Flatbread)Potato Bread (Yeasted Bread Rolls)Potato and Rosemary Flowerpot BreadPotato SconesPotato Tomato BreadPotato Upside Down Bread (Soda Bread Focaccia with Potato and Onions)Raspberry SconesTom’s White SconesWhite Soda BreadWinter Buttermilk (for soda bread and other things)Wholewheat Soda Bread Dips Nibbles and Small Bites Salads Pancakes, Potato Cakes and Omelettes Savoury Pies, Quiches and Pizzas Gratins and Bakes Mashes Other Side Dishes Other Light Meals Cheeses Savoury Sauces And Dressings.
Recipes. So here it is, then, the Spud’s collection of blogged-about recipes all on one page – woohoo! Click on a category below to jump to the recipes for that category, or just scroll down through the recipes on this page. Clicking on a recipe will bring you to the relevant post. Potato recipes (and there are quite a few!) Are highlighted in green. Breads and Scones Bran OatcakesCheesy Sage And Onion SconesChocolate BreadFarinata (Chickpea Flatbread)Jim Lahey’s No Knead BreadLefse (Norwegian Potato Flatbread)Potato Bread (Yeasted Bread Rolls)Potato and Rosemary Flowerpot BreadPotato SconesPotato Tomato BreadPotato Upside Down Bread (Soda Bread Focaccia with Potato and Onions)Raspberry SconesTom’s White SconesWhite Soda BreadWinter Buttermilk (for soda bread and other things)Wholewheat Soda Bread Dips Nibbles and Small Bites Salads Pancakes, Potato Cakes and Omelettes Savoury Pies, Quiches and Pizzas Gratins and Bakes Mashes Other Side Dishes Other Light Meals Cheeses Savoury Sauces And Dressings.
Spinach ravioli | the domestic mama and the village cook. As I promised, I have an awesome giveaway! It’s part of a promotion that Johnsonville is having, a recipe contest where you submit your favorite Italian sausage recipe. Yes, take your favorite recipe and toss in some sausage and see what happens! Woo-hoo to that. The grand prize they are offering is $10,000. Woah. That’s a lot of cash. So, go grab some Italian sausage and get cookin’! Head over to Pastaville, you can see some awesome recipes and get inspiration and coupons, too. A little tip- I had the hardest time finding their Italian sausages… turns out, my local store freezes them.
Now, this recipe doesn’t have sausage in it. What’s the giveaway? What will you win? A brand new shiny pasta machine! Yum. I will even get you started with a recipe. This is what I call my mini pasta dough recipe-it doesn’t make a ton, but it makes enough for a meal for 2. That means you can spice up the filling. My filling consisted of this- don’t worry, recipe is at the end. the green blob is pesto. [print_this] English muffins | the domestic mama and the village cook. This was one of the “runner-ups” of challenge 4. I didn’t do it, maybe that was for a reason because someone else did English muffins and did an awesome job. Like the hot chick that wears the same dress as you to prom. Yeah, that sucks. But you can’t get mad at her. She has good taste, after all. I have been wanting to make these for a while now, along with crumpets which are cooked on a griddle the same way-maybe I will do that when this dozen of English muffins are eaten. Crumpets are good. I also went for a black and white theme with this post.
My little one helped mix the flour and salt. Make a well in the flour for your warm water- don’t worry, I will have a printable at the end of this post. start to mix it all together… you will form a nice ball in about 5 minutes. Place it in an oiled bowl cover with a damp towel. Look- it looks like my dough has a “bun-in-the-oven”. I love this pic. Now, we are getting into color. Bake em up- can I call it baking? There you have it. [print_this] Cheese enchiladas & enchiladas verdes. « Whole Foods, Whole Body, Whole World | disgustingly GOOD. J’s been busting my butt about going to Macayo’s Mexican restaurant for their enchiladas.
She usually gets one Baja style (green) and one regular cheese. I must admit, enchiladas have always been one of my favorite Mexican dinners so I can totally relate. Enchiladas are always good in my book, even when their bad. Some of my favorite are from a fast food joint in Topeka, KS called Taco Tico, it’s all about their sauce baby. My mom also makes a killer enchilada. She makes it flat style and uses old el paso enchilada sauce from the can and it’s some of my favorite store bought. These recipes were taken out of my newly purchased book The Joy of Cooking which has like 4500 recipes in it and more. Cheese Enchiladas Recipe from The Joy of Cooking cookbook. Ingredients 6 corn tortillas 1 large onion, chopped 2 medium jalapeno peppers, seeded and chopped 1 T. finely chopped garlic 1 T. peanut oil/vegetable oil 2 T. chili powder 1 t. ground cumin 1/4 t. ground pepper 1 1/4 c. shredded cheese Preparation. Project Food Blog Entry: The Lefse Challenge.
Project Food Blog Entry: Hot Tamales! Crispy Beef Lettuce Wraps. Requested no less than 4 times so far this month by my clients and family, I feel this recipe is worthy of a blog post. Crispy Beef Lettuce Wraps are the ground beef cousin to a previous post of mine for Barbecued Asian Chicken Lettuce Wraps. Lean ground beef is browned and seasoned with sauteed onions, hoisin sauce, sesame oil, and soy sauce and gets a spicy kick from pickled ginger - a favorite of My Oldest and No Thank You Boy when we go out for sushi - and Asian chile pepper sauce.
Scooped into bibb lettuce leaves and sprinkled with chopped cashews, this handheld meal does not disappoint. I made a double batch of this Asian inspired recipe for my family. We have been enjoying it in the lettuce leaves and also rolled up with shredded monteray jack cheese in a tortilla. This is one of those recipes that freezes well. Crispy Beef Lettuce Wraps Print recipe serves 6 Rinse whole lettuce leaves and pat dry, being careful not tear them. I Can't Believe It's Not Butter Market Event (Pie Crust Recipe) ICBINB Farmers Market Event – Food, Friends and Fun from Kristen Doyle on Vimeo. Please excuse my videography skills, or lack thereof. I have a new found respect for those of you who are masters of the video camera and putting these things together! Still, I hope you’ll take a moment to view the short video of our day at the Overland Park Farmers Market.
This past Saturday I had the opportunity to invite a few foodie friends on a shopping trip to the Overland Park Farmers market. The wonderful people at I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter gave us a total of $200, some handy shopping totes, a Flip video camera and some great ICBINB product coupons to get us started on our adventure. Sandie from A Bloggable Life, Roxanne Wyss and Kathy Moore from Electrified Cooks and I met bright and early in the morning to check out what the market had to offer. I have to admit, I haven’t made it to the farmers market at all this year. Grass Fed Beef Kabobs with Farm Fresh Vegetables 1/3 cup sugar 1/4 tsp. salt.