Adapted from Mark Bittman, The New York Times, who calls the pancakes "exotic". You need cooked oatmeal from steel-cut oats. These delicious treats are so good that you will find yourself making oatmeal just to make the pancakes. It's hard to believe something made with such … [Read more...]
Shakshuka
Another great recipe from David Lebovitz, inspired by Adam Roberts' Secrets of the Best Chefs and Yotam Ottolenghi's and Sami Tamimi's Jerusalem. David reports that he ate shakshuka every morning on his trip to Israel. It's definitely worth looking up his blog entries for that … [Read more...]
Best Steel-Cut Oatmeal
From Cook's Illustrated. 3 cups water 1 cup whole milk 1 tablespoon unsalted butter 1 cup steel-cut oats ¼ teaspoon table salt Many supermarkets sell prepackaged steel-cut oats, but we found they were often stale and always expensive. A better option is to purchase them online … [Read more...]
Breakfast Strata
Mariana had two different kinds of Strata at the cabin in the countryside before Jeffrey’s Hampden-Sydney College graduation. Since then it has become an important breakfast dish at every family get-together. I found this recipe from Gale Gand in House Beautiful which … [Read more...]
Twin Towers Comfort Cake
Everyone who tries this cake loves it. I found the recipe in Gourmet magazine's first issue after 9/11, included in Ruth Reichl's Letter from the Editor. …Like just about everything else in this new life we're all leading, it happened in the aftermath of the Twin Towers … [Read more...]