I love an excess of a single ingredient that allows me to experiment. Watch what you wish for! Opening day of our CSA season brought 4 pounds of spinach and 8 large heads of lettuce into the kitchen, not to mention a pound of baby bok choy and ½ pound of arugula. All those greens [...]
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Seasonal Tart: Spinach, Dill and Ricotta
Posted in Greens, Herbs, Pie, Ricotta, Uncategorized, tagged Spinach ricotta tart on May 23, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Blueberry Pie for the Fourth of July
Posted in Berries, Pie, tagged Raw and cooked blueberry pie filling on July 7, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
Festive blueberry tarts decorated with star cutouts and red berries are irresistible for a Fourth of July picnic. As blueberries are very plentiful in July, we make all kinds of excuses to serve them. I am not a great fan of most cooked fruit fillings – too gooey – so this technique solves the problem. [...]
Chicken Pot Pie
Posted in Chicken, Pie, tagged Seasonal chicken pot pie on January 31, 2011 | 1 Comment »
With so much snow on the ground, and more to come, we crave warm and comforting foods. Chicken pot pie is one of our family faves, adaptable season by season. It’s typically the end of the line for a roast chicken, when all of the meat has been taken off and the carcass turned into [...]
Improved Gluten-free Dairy-free Pumpkin Pie
Posted in Gluten-free dairy-free, Pie, Pumpkin, tagged Ginger snap pie crust, Gluten-free dairy-free pumpkin pie on November 28, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
With a great tip from Mark Bittman of The New York Times, I improved the gluten-free, dairy-free pumpkin pie that I made for Thanksgiving a year ago. Last year, the pat-in crust, made from purchased gluten-free ginger snaps, was really ugly. This year, I added unsweetened coconut to the ginger snaps and it worked much [...]
Pear and Chestnut Tart
Posted in Pears, Pie, Preserving, Tigress Can Jam, tagged how to make a pear or apple tart, Pear and chestnut tart on November 15, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
This is one of the most decadent and satisfying desserts that I know how to make. With my new pear and chestnut jam as a base, I think it is even better than the classic version with ground almonds. The new jam perfectly complements the riff on a traditional tart. For this month’s Tigress Can [...]
Paper Chef 49: Seafood Pot Pie with Fennel and Peppers
Posted in Fennel, Paper Chef, Peppers, Pie, Seafood, Shellfish, tagged Fennel, Peppers, Pie, Seafood on February 9, 2010 | 3 Comments »
Prawns, fennel, sweet pepper and passion. Hmm. Lots of possibilities for this Paper Chef challenge. Luckily I shopped for the seafood before a giant winter storm shut us in. One of my passions is to seek and use the freshest, most local, and hopefully organic ingredients. With nothing called a prawn in our markets, I [...]
Gluten-free Dairy-free Pumpkin Pie, so who said it had to be pretty too
Posted in Gluten-free, Gluten-free dairy-free, Pie, Pumpkin, tagged Gluten-free, Pie, Pumpkin on November 28, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Figuring out how to make a pumpkin pie dairy-free is not hard, given the possibility of using soymilk or unsweetened coconut milk as a substitute for cream or half-and-half. Figuring out a compatible crust is harder. The piecrust that I made last Thanksgiving emulated a whole-wheat crust but was crumbly to the point where I [...]
