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14th July 2011
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8th July 2011
French Fridays with Dorie: Salmon and Tomatoes en Papier d'Aluminium
This frazzled accountant is grateful to the FFwD powers-that-be for choosing the easiest, quickest, tastiest recipe for this week. During the first week of every month, it's crunch-time at work. I won't bore you with the details of what I do, but let's just say that once the Thursday night arrives, I'm sick of twelve hour weekdays and cooking is the last thing on my mind. If you follow me on Twitter, you must have also read about my refrigerator's down time during the long weekend. That did not help my cause at all.
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1st July 2011
French Fridays with Dorie: Beets
About a month ago, I bought my first bunch of fresh beets. It was my first time consciously eating beets in thirty-plus years. Around My French Table proved to be a great resource - I had no idea what to do with them and Dorie Greenspan provided not one but four methods for cooking this inky root vegetable. The leaves went into stir fry earlier in the week (as kindly suggested over Twitter), and I roasted the roots in my toaster oven. This seemed to be the preferred cooking method from what I read in some blogs.
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28th June 2011
Saffron and Seafood Risotto
I struggled to name this dish. When I made it, I thought of calling it "Paella Risotto" - it combines the flavors associated to paellas with Arborio rice in the foolproof risotto cooking technique. Shushing my (not so inner) etymology nerd, I decided against it because paella refers to the actual pan where the rice is cooked and the dish is traditionally referred to as 'arroz a la paella'. After listening to Annie Siboney, the hostess of Cooking Channel's "From Spain with Love", say that authentic paella does not have chorizo I opted for the alliteration filled saffron and seafood risotto. As some British dude wrote once: "What's in a name..." I will be working on a "real" paella soon, though. DH ordered our first pan to use it on top of our charcoal grill after considering it for a few weeks.
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26th June 2011
Guest Post - Market Update for SummerTomato.com
I am very happy to share with you a guest post I wrote for Summer Tomato about the farmers' market I visit every other Sunday. Darya Pino, the brains behind the site, shares great tips, news, and recipes on healthy eating and brings awareness to issues that everyone who eats should know about.
Check out Farmers Market Update: Puerto Rico for my write-up on the Cooperativa Orgánica Madre Tierra's food finds for last Sunday, June 19th.
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24th June 2011
French Fridays with Dorie - Mozzarella, Tomato, and Strawberry Salad
On Tuesday, the day of the summer solstice, I rushed home thinking all the way that I needed a snack to hold me through until dinner time. Ignoring the vending machine at work was not an easy task. Halfway through, it hit me - I needed a 'small plate'. The mozzarella, tomato, and strawberry salad from Around My French Table fit the bill perfectly - it was a wholesome snack to indulge my sweet tooth while getting in some protein and it took next to nothing to assemble! I was thrilled to have enough daylight to take a couple of pictures.
When a meal consists of only a few ingredients, quality is very important. I splurged and got a package of fresh mozzarella and used a splash of balsamic vinegar Eduardo and I brought back from our trip across Tuscany last year. The day we set out of Florence on our way to Sienna, we stopped at Il Molino di Grace, a Chianti winery for a quick pit stop. It was not even 10am, so we shared one tasting and went straight to the vinegars and other non-alcoholic offerings. A bottle of one of their reserve balsamic vinegars made it home with us... barely!
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19th June 2011
Green Green Crostini
Happy Fathers' Day to all the papás, the dads out there! Today we began our day at the farmers' market, as we do every first and third Sunday of the month. Instead of just showing you some of my purchases, I'll share a quick recipe I put together before even storing my vegetables. The 'green green' crostini are made with green onions and quick steamed green beans. The proportions are just right for two people and can easily be multiplied for company. The green onion flavor is strong - blend in extra cheese or reduce the amount onion if you'd like a milder taste.
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17th June 2011
Catching Up with @FFwDorie - Spicy Vietnamese Chicken Noodle Sauce
Food tragedies come in many forms. Ingredients can be so elusive they are never found. The soufflé stays flat and undercooked. Favorite restaurants close. Sometimes we need to accept these facts, make the best of what we have or know, and move on.
Despite being a vegetable that grows in all the different US Hardiness Zones, rhubarb is not readily available in the Caribbean. I've never tried it, but wish I had based on what I've read about it (and the onslaught of strawberry rhubarb goodies popping all over the food blogosphere). This week, instead of joining the French Fridays with Dorie crowd in their roasted rhubarb experience, I decided to play catch-up with one of the recipes completed before I joined the group - the spicy Vietnamese chicken noodle soup. Dorie Greenspan's award winning Around My French Table is a book that doesn't shy away from modern influences in French cooking, as you can tell by this and last week's rib recipes.
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13th June 2011
Julia Child's French Onion Soup
I wish I was exaggerating, but it hasn’t stopped raining in over three weeks. We did get a short break this weekend - a few hours of pure, blue sky - but the winds shifted and the afternoon rains returned. My car is filthy, the grass is overgrown, and the excitement over my lush herb garden does not make up for the fact that it’s been so dreary and humid. A few weeks back, I tried invoking Murphy (of the law fame) by making a pot of French Onion soup thinking that if I made soup to comfort us, the rain would magically disappear. That did not work out too well! On the bright side, Julia Child’s recipe was completely worth making, despite its lack of weather altering powers.
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10th June 2011
French Fridays with Dorie - Cola and Jam Spare Ribs
The events depicted in this post are a figment of my imagination, inspired by back to back weekends of cooking and eating spareribs. Let’s imagine this is a bizarre dream induced by falling asleep right after eating, in porky stupor. In a world where a couple buys seven pounds worth of ribs at their local Costco, watches too much Food Network, and the blogging half can’t keep her eyes open past 10:30pm most evenings, this might not be too much of a stretch.
Dorie Greenspan, are you ready for a throwdown?
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Adriana
A Puerto Rico home cook with a soft spot for music, running, travel, New Orleans cuisine and culture, and a red 5-quart cast iron Dutch oven.
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