On Memorial Day, while I was planting lemon basil in my garden, I remembered that I’ve been wanting to make a French yogurt cake from Dorie Greenspan’s Baking from my Home to Yours. What’s the connection? She glazed her cake with lemon marmalade and I’ve been thinking that a glaze is the perfect use for [...]
Archive for May, 2011
Dorie’s French Yogurt Cake Glazed with Lemon Basil Jelly
Posted in Cake, Herbs, Preserving, tagged Lemon basil jelly on May 31, 2011 | 2 Comments »
Turnip and Greens Soup
Posted in Greens, Soup, Turnips and rutabagas, tagged Potage Untel, Turnip and turnip greens soup on May 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
What in the wor(l)d? This is a simplified version of a classic French soup known as “Potage Untel” as Julia Child referred to a similar concoction. In today’s world, to find the origin of “Untel,” we go to Google. And guess what, we find out more information than we ever wanted to know about Intel [...]
Strawberry Ice Cream
Posted in Berries, Sorbet on May 30, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
I made an awesome orange-strawberry sorbet the other day, not documented but hopeful, although it was icy. I was surprised, since it had added an abundant amount of orange zest and Grand Marnier liqueur and a reasonable amount of pulp. Every frozen concoction goes through the exercise of texture, so-called mouth feel (not my favorite [...]
Spring Vegetable Lasagna
Posted in Pasta, Zucchini, tagged Spring vegetable lasagna on May 29, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Light and fresh are not typical descriptors of lasagna, but made with strips of oven-roasted zucchini, ricotta seasoned with spinach and arugula, a few fresh tomatoes reduced with red peppers, and local raw milk mozzarella, this dish was decidedly spring-like. Since the zucchini was young and a little floppy, I added a single sheet of [...]
Spaghetti with Pesto of Radish Greens, Mint and Walnuts
Posted in Pasta, Pesto, Radish, tagged Radish green pesto on May 26, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
The ribbing in my household over my statement that I have rarely met a vegetable I didn’t want to roast is rivaled only by my interest in pesto. I mean “pesto” in the generic sense of a mix of ingredients that is pounded. The word comes from the Latin “pinsere,” which led to various iterations [...]
Simple Asparagus and Leek Soup
Posted in Asparagus, Leeks, Soup, tagged Asparagus leek soup on May 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A Bowl of Spring The weather’s ugly, cold and wet, and yet Burstings of spring and just sprung leeks Mean warmth will be here soon, in weeks From straw, asparagus is green anew And begs to join a springtime stew We will prepare, and warm the bowl For simple soup that wakes the soul Asparagus [...]
Pickled Asparagus with Curry Spices
Posted in Asparagus, Preserving, Spice Rack Challenge, tagged pickled curried asparagus, Siphoning in canned fruit and vegetables on May 17, 2011 | 1 Comment »
After a few seasons of trying, I am gradually improving my pickled asparagus and this one looks like it will be the best yet. Last year I made curried pickled asparagus using ground spices and while the taste was good, the powdery substance created a slurry that I thought was unattractive. So this year, I [...]