What: Green Pea and Asparagus Ragout Where: The Art of Simple Food Who: Alice Waters I love this. And you may love this too, if you love peas. If you don't love peas, you might as well move along. But if you do love peas, but you don't love asparagus, this is a fantastic way to [...]
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What: Chicken Legs Braised with Tomatoes, Onions, and Garlic Where: The Art of Simple Food Who: Alice Waters This dish is like a mom hug. It's like climbing into your own bed after two weeks on the road. It's like sweatpants-cum-novel by the fire. Chicken legs braised with tomatoes, onions, and garlic does not sound like [...]
Orange & Carrot Salad
I was craving both oranges and carrots at the same time and thought, "Why not?!" So I made a bright little salad. Avocado would be an excellent addition, as would cilantro. 1 orange, peeled, halved, and sliced 1 carrot, peeled into ribbons with a potato peeler 1 handful sprouts or micro greens or baby arugula [...]
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What: Coleslaw Where: The Art of Simple Food Who: Alice Waters This coleslaw is fresh and lovely in its simplicity, and simplicity of course is Waters' specialty. There are some wonderful Variations (additions) for this recipe: apple, parsley, celery root, jalepeño or serrano, lime juice, cilantro, or mayonnaise (or a combination). Here, I added the [...]
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What: Lemon Curd and Lemon Curd Tart (p.199) Where: The Art of Simple Food Who: Alice Waters What an easy, bright, delicious, cheerful recipe! This was simply delicious. As Waters suggests in her Variations, I used 1 regular lemon and 3 Meyer lemons, with the zest of 2 Meyer lemons for a sweeter, more perfumed [...]
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What: Moroccan Carrot Salad with Ginger Where: The Art of Simple Food Who: Alice Waters This salad is intensely spicy, both in flavor from the cumin and coriander, and in heat from the cayenne and fresh ginger. There is also a hint of bitter from the spices. Next time, I will either lower the measurement [...]
Cookbook of the Month: March
March was a simple decision. Even after cooking exclusively from it all of February, I am not ready to be done with The Art of Simple Food. So, it gets another month of undivided attention. There are plenty more recipes to fill an entire month of cooking. That makes me happy. Honestly, this list of recipes (not [...]
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What: Moroccan Sweet Potato Salad Where: The Art of Simple Food Who: Alice Waters This saffron-infused salad is enjoyably intriguing. Every taste is accounted for: sweet, salty, sour, savory, spicy, and even floral. Waters gives two ways to make it: one where the ingredients are simply tossed over freshly-baked sweet potatoes, and one where the saffron and ginger get [...]
February Cookbook Review: The Art of Simple Food
I am so loathe to part with cooking from this anthology daily, I may just carry it through as an addition to March's featured cookbook. It has captured my heart, and I have a hankering to work through it until I know it. As it is, I have only scratched the surface. Alice Waters' The Art of Simple Food [...]
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What: Winter Fruit Compote Where: The Art of Simple Food Who: Alice Waters This was surprisingly wonderful. A host of dried fruits (golden raisins, cherries, apricots, apples, and currants) are reconstituted in fresh-squeezed orange juice, vanilla bean seeds, star anise, and orange zest strips until plump. And it only takes 5 minutes. This is by [...]
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