I don’t know about you, but I often find the vegetable quality (and quantity) on delivery pizzas somewhat lacking. Nothing seems to be very fresh and what does look fresh often tastes bland and becomes lost in the cheese and the sauce. By cooking the vegetables first, I have sautéed them here but roasting would also be…
Category: Baking
Roasted Red Pepper Cornmeal Focaccia
If bread baking is an activity you feel uncomfortable tackling, or if you have had failed attempts in your past, I strongly encourage you to reconsider your position by baking focaccia. It is so easy and it tastes so much better than anything you can buy at the store, even focaccia from specialized bakeries doesn’t…
Free Form Three Onion and Chèvre Tart
This is an incredible dinner not only as the sum of its parts but also when broken down into its pure culinary elements: the onions become a sticky sweet jam after an unhurried slow-heat turn in a skillet, the cornmeal and mascarpone pastry could be eaten for dessert (in fact I might attempt a plum…
Brownies/Blueberries/Belly
These brownies are intense (I mean, intense) because they are all cocoa and no melting chocolate. I wouldn’t call them bitter, even bitter sweet, but they do have a definite edge that most other brownie recipes seem to lack. A single layer of frozen blueberries sandwiched between two great walls of almost-black chocolate provides you…