madbaker: (Chef!)
This week's Resolution Recipe: Spaghetti with Tuna (Spaghetti al Tonno).
"This dish has a tuna casserole vibe, but with a brighter, zippier flavor from the capers, tomatoes, and lemon juice."
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madbaker: (Chef!)
This week's Resolution Recipe: Tamal de Cazuela (Mexican Tamal Casserole).
"An equally delicious, quicker alternative to tamales. This may be lesser-known than the Americanized Tamale Pie."
This is not as much work as it seems. It does, however, create more dirty dishes than it seems. )
madbaker: (Paul the Samurai)
This week's Resolution Recipe: Autumn Galette.
"This recipe is a real celebration of autumn. It's a sweet-savoury combination of apples, shallots, and cheese. Serve with a sharply dressed salad." (Which I assume is made by ZZ Top.)
Galette Me Try This )
madbaker: (Chef!)
This week's Resolution Recipe: One-Pan Orzo with Spinach and Feta.
"Similar to spanakorizo, a Greek spinach and rice dish, this easy, meatless meal is deeply satisfying but still on the lighter side of pasta dishes."
'Deeply satisfying'? That overstates. )
madbaker: (Chef!)
This week's Resolution Recipe: Rice with Mussels... For Science in the Kitchen!
Put the clams (see end) on the fire with enough water to cook the rice. When the clams pop open, remove the shells and save the water. Prepare a soffritto with olive oil, garlic, one small onion, parsley, one carrot, and celery. Mince everything as fine as possible with a mezzaluna. When the ingredients are sufficiently browned, throw in the shelled clams, a few pieces of dried mushroom previously soaked in water, a pinch of pepper, and some of the water you have reserved. After a few minutes, throw in the rice and cook thoroughly, adding the rest of the water.

Taste to see if the natural salt of the clams and the spices you have added have given it enough flavor. If not, add tomato sauce or tomato paste, and also some butter and a pinch of Parmesan cheese.

Instead of clams, you can use other varieties of shellfish such as mussels, as is done in Venice, where, if restaurants followed this recipe to cook rice with mussels (a specialty of that town), the results would be much improved.
-Pellegrino Artusi, Science in the Kitchen and the Art of Eating Well (1891)
Got to love that slam on Venice.Read more... )
madbaker: (Chef!)
This week's Resolution Recipe: Corn and Polenta Bake.
"If you've ever been singed by a rogue splash of molten polenta, you'll be happy to keep the simmering far from your forearms."
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madbaker: (Paul the Samurai)
This week's Resolution Recipe: Small-Batch Biscuits.
"With just five ingredients and ten minutes of prep time, you can have two golden, tender biscuits ready in time for breakfast."

America's Test Kitchen delved into making fruit cobbler some time ago - their conclusion was that it is impossible to get a consistent bake on the biscuit topping when it is on the fruit; the underside always is doughy. (Confirmed with experience, although I usually don't mind.) Their suggestion was to make deconstructed cobbler, with baked fruit cooked separately and topped with a biscuit. That's what we did here - we each had a small Pyrex pan of cooked apricot/sugar/cinnamon, with a split biscuit on top. It was lovely... but I will take apricot cobbler in pretty much any form during the season.
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Get Baked

May. 11th, 2025 08:09 am
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This week's Resolution Recipe: Cheesy Baked Pasta.
"It's seasoned with plenty of garlic, oregano, and fennel seed."
your definition of 'plenty' needs work )
madbaker: (Default)
This week's Resolution Recipe: Pasta with Chickpeas.
Italian poor food.
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madbaker: (Chef!)
This week's Resolution Recipe: Slow Cooker Porridge.
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A Spare

Mar. 25th, 2025 12:06 pm
madbaker: (mammoth garlic)
This week's Resolution Recipe: Pasta with Asparagus.
"This dish is simple and elegant."
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madbaker: (Paul the Samurai)
This week's Resolution Recipe: Sourdough Popovers.
"The sourdough starter gives them a tang, and while these aren't the lightest popovers you'll ever experience, their combination of crisp crust and soft interior is a wonderfully comforting treat."
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madbaker: (Bugs Bunny)
This week's Resolution Recipe: Tortellini and Spinach Soup...For Science!
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madbaker: (mammoth garlic)
This week's Resolution Recipe: Kimchi Fried Rice.
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madbaker: (Default)
This week's Resolution Recipe: Roasted Cod, Potatoes, and Anchovy.
"Rubbing a garlicky anchovy paste on pretty much any kind of fish before roasting is possibly my favorite way to add flavor without much work."
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madbaker: (Paul the Samurai)
This week's Resolution Recipe: Shortcake Biscuits.
"Like many overachievers, for too long I clung to the belief that the hard way is the best way. Twaddle. These biscuits are the opposite of fussy - no cutting in of butter, no painstaking flouring and folding. Since the fat in cream and butter is essentially the same, the full flavor remains.

"Despite the recipe's simplicity, the results are tender, flaky, and rich. No one need know you took the easy way out. This streamlined style is known as a cream biscuit, a cousin of the scone and the shortcake."
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Bhipotle

Jul. 22nd, 2024 10:52 am
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This week's Resolution Recipe: Black Bean Burrito Bowl...BFor BScience!
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madbaker: (Chef!)
This week's Resolution Recipe: Farinata.
Apparently this chickpea pancake is known as "farinata" in northern Italy and "socca" in southern France. I previously made a socca recipe, but this is a different recipe, so it still counts.
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madbaker: (oxford comma)
This week's Resolution Recipe: Wild Rice and Mushroom Salad.
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Side note: I knew that the English term "rocket" came from French roquette. I was curious and now know that the French word was borrowed from the standard Italian word ruchetta, derived from the original Latin eruca. "Arugula" is a loan word from a "non-standard Italian dialect" (popularized in English in the '60s by NY Times cookbook author Craig Claiborne). That makes "rocket" and "arugula" cognates. The more you know!

Resolution Recipes are going on hiatus for a couple weeks.
madbaker: (Chef!)
This week's Resolution Recipe: Fettucine with Prosciutto and Poppy Seeds.
"Nothing more is added because nothing more is needed."
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