Pickle Fries. I think maybe I can see into my future. Well, I can see into my future if my future involves me being pregnant. If I’m ever a pregnant Joy the Baker… oh sweet lordy… God help us all. I’ll totally be one of those pickles and ice cream women. I’ll also be a marshmallow and peanut butter woman. It’s the future. I hope and pray that pregnant Joy the Baker is also still into kale and quinoa. Thank goodness that’s all a long way away. In the meantime… I’ll just turn pickles into fries and pretend the yogurt dipping sauce is actually vanilla bean ice cream.
This is what a typical pickle shoot looks like. I should tell you now that this is a double battered, fried pickle situation. First the cornichons are bathed in a beaten egg with mustard and hot sauce. mmm hmm. A dusting of seasoned flour… then back to the egg bath! The extra egg bath makes the panko bread crumbs stick like glue.Well… delicious glue.
These darlings are ready for the fryer (and ready for a hot date with an ice cream cone). serves 2. Simple preserved lemons. I've been going through my stuff, drawer by drawer, organising, de-cluttering and trying to decide what stays and what goes. Now is the best time to do this, before we settle in to our new home. No matter how simple life I've tried to lead, I have somehow managed to accumulate a fair bit of stuff during these 6 years in Australia. I'm trying to be brutal, but remain reasonable, as I sort my way through clothes, bags, books, linen, etc etc. This morning I took some time off to prepare these simple preserved lemons. Simple preserved lemons 4 whole organic lemons + 5-6 organic lemons, juiced 1/2 cup good sea salt 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.
Alex Rushmer Just Cook It » Manakeesh and Toum. Manakeesh and Toum 06/01/2011 - 6:33 pm If you could eat anything, , right now, what would you choose? Sometimes hunger is a general niggling feeling in the base of the belly that can be kept at bay by a bowl of cereal or slice of toast. At other times though it affects the psyche as well as the stomach. It claws its way into the deepest recesses of your frontal chow cortex or some other part of the brain. When this occurs the one course of action that is guaranteed to make you feel even more desperate for food is to torture yourself by creating your ideal meal: a rundown of a complete menu that you would pick if time, money and other such base limitations were no object.
Of course, you could add caveats if you were of that persuasion but that sort of defeats the object. Considering how often we eat – by ‘we’ I mean generally, you included rather than me and my significant other – the number of dishes that are easy to recall in a rich, Technicolor multi-sensory way is surprisingly small. Burnt fennel & zucchini salad. Eveleigh Market and Eating Locally – Homemade Mayonnaise, Celeri Remoulade and Smoked Trout- The Food Blog. Posted by Fouad in Recipes on Jul 3rd, 2009 | 5 responses eveleigh markets’ bounty: new potatoes, turnips, baby garlic, pears,spinach and celeriac Eveleigh Markets are a recent discovery of mine, and it does upset me that I spent 4 years living in Newtown having not known about them. Today has made up for the lost years. A lazy, sunny day, balancing the winter chill, perfectly suited for a trip to the market. Winter is a great season, and the colors and smells are phenomenal at Eveleigh.
As you can see from the above photo, I took home a colorful bunch of beauties. My mission this weekend is to cook only from the produce I gathered. Baby TurnipsNew PotatoesBaby GarlicGrape TomatoesPearsSpinachCeleriacFree Range EggsOrganic Lamb MinceSmoked TroutSpelt Bread So the first dish this weekend was a very retro but very tasty celeri remoulade with smoked trout. Home made mayyonnaise: eggs, oil, salt and vinegar classic flavours in my retro serving dish: smoked trout with celeri remoulade. Fast and Easy Toum – The Best Lebanese Garlic Sauce Recipe- The Food Blog. What you are about to read is a breakthrough in the toum making process. I have unlocked the secret to easy, fast and perfect toum.
Since I’ve decided to share this invention, I have a feeling the world will owe me something good in return, apart from immortalising me in the memory of future generations. If you don’t know what toum is, you haven’t lived, but it’s not too late. Read my first toum recipe for background information about this amazing dip and then head to the first Lebanese charcoal chicken place you can find. Now, you may have heard me make this claim before: the best toum (Lebanese garlic sauce) ever. Why a second toum recipe? But, why do we need a second toum recipe, you ask. It takes so bloody long. What does the new approach give us? So, with my new recipe, here are the technological advances I have been able to achieve: That’s all good and well, but how does the magic work? Fast and Easy Toum Recipe (Lebanese Garlic Sauce) Ingredients Method.
Pan-Roasted Mushroom Recipe. Earth to Table | Ecco, 2009 Mushrooms have a high water content and must be cooked over high heat long enough to remove the excess moisture. I add a splash of water to the skillet to prevent them from burning before they can release their natural, flavorful juices. Undercooking mushrooms is a common mistake for both home cooks and chefs. I like to cook mushrooms until they are dark and crispy. They become sponge-like, soaking up the rich flavors of butter and herbs added in the cooking process.
–Jeff Crump and Bettina Schormann LC To Stir or Not to Stir Note Here’s something you may not have thought to try–adding a splash of water to mushrooms in a skillet when you sauté ‘em. Quick Glance 25 M 35 M Serves 4 Ingredients Directions 1. Hungry for more? Pan-Roasted Mushrooms Recipe © 2009 Jeff Crump and Bettina Schormann. Dijon-braised brussels sprouts. Is there anything so dull as a brussels sprouts recipe just days after the brussels sprout-ing-est holiday of the year? No? Phew. Because these sprouts, they’re a long time coming. It took me forever to get them right. I’d originally intended them for the cookbook. I made them six different ways in the fall of 2010, and I never found what I was looking for. It was a year before I could even look at brussels again, and by that time, the book had moved on without them.
I wanted a brussels sprout dish that was the opposite of what I’ve been seeing around in the last couple years — that would be free of nuggets of slab bacon, toasted nuts, buttery breadcrumbs, crumbled cheese or individual leaves, deep fried until crisp as potato chips. Of course, it took but two weeks after the great Lowering Of the Stakes (I mean, manuscript delivery) for me to get it right.
Dijon-Braised Brussels Sprouts Serves 4 as a side dish Trim sprouts and halve lengthwise. Test Kitchen tips: Roasting garlic. Roasted garlic: It's one of the most amazing flavors in the kitchen. Add it to soups and stews, whisk it into a vinaigrette or tomato sauce, brush it onto grilled steaks, use it to lend extra flavor to your secret recipe for mashed potatoes. Or simply rub over toasted bread, like butter. If you've never roasted garlic before, I can't stress enough how easy it is.
Grab a whole head of garlic (or two, or three) next time you're at the market. Remove the roasted garlic from the oven and set it aside (still in the foil) to cool slightly. If you have any kitchen tips or questions you'd like me to explore, leave a comment below or email me at noelle.carter@latimes.com. Go behind the scenes at the Test Kitchen 134 recipes for your favorite restaurant dishes Browse hundreds of recipes from the L.A. -- Noelle CarterTwitter/noellecarter Photo credit: Annie Wells / Los Angeles Times.