During Caroline's field hockey years at Duke, every game was followed by a lavish tailgate. The team parents brought the food to Durham or to such faraway places as Norfolk or Boston. Dick was the darling of the field hockey girls because he always brought … [Read more...]
15-Grain Breakfast Bread
Adapted from the Multigrain Bread recipe in Cook's Illustrated, March-April 2006. Special thanks for the idea of flax seeds to Peter Reinhart, from Roasted Three-Seed Bread in Brother Juniper's Bread Book (1991). In 1991 Peter was still a Brother of Christ the … [Read more...]
Rosemary Foccacia
Adapted from Cook's Illustrated, May 1997. This is the bread that inspired 5-year-old Rob’s sensible question, “Why does Granny put Christmas trees on her bread?” Chris and I discovered foccacia during our first week in San Francisco in 1992 at L'Osteria del Forno (closed in … [Read more...]
Cheese Scones
The original recipe for these fabulous treats came from The Cheese Board: Collective Works, by the Cheese Board Collective in Berkeley, California. We adapted their recipe for a food processor. The best thing about these scones is the cheese that leaks out during baking! … [Read more...]
Fred’s Really Tomatoey Gazpacho
My first gazpacho recipe came from Serendipity, a café in Cary that sold delicious lunches and desserts to SAS employees in the days when one had to leave the office, not yet a "campus," to find lunch. In fact Serendipity is still in Cary. Serendipity's gazpacho recipe was … [Read more...]