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Monthly Archives: January 2011
Peanut Butter & Chocolate Bread Pudding
Sometimes I get annoyingly ambitious in the kitchen. If I overhear someone say that he or she doesn’t like this or that food, I think (and thank goodness I don’t always say it): you just haven’t had it prepared the right way. Then, just for fun, even if I don’t intend to actually cook it, I try to invent a recipe to prove the point. Well, my husband doesn’t like bread pudding. I, on the other hand, very much do. So I gave myself the challenge of coming up with a bread pudding that even he couldn’t resist. I didn’t … Continue reading
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Tagged bread, chocolate, peanut butter
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Parsnip & Pear Latkes
There’s something about the combination of parsnip and pear that I just can’t get enough of. Last year I made a soup with roasted parsnips and pears and sang its praises so much that my sister has made it part of her cooking repertoire. I was wrong, however, to say in that old post that parsnip is the root from which parsley leaves grow. Though often mistaken for one another, parsnip (Pastinaca sativa) and parsley root (Petroselinum crispum) are very different plants. The flavor of parsnip is deeply familiar to me; parsnips are used a lot, alongside … Continue reading
Smoky-Sweet Seitan Stew
There’s a bit of the unexpected in every spoonful of this stew. The orange and white chunks aren’t the traditional carrots and potatoes but, rather, sweet potato and celery root. Then there’s the bite of chipotle counterbalanced by the sweetness of paprika and dried basil, and, at last, the startling pairing of fresh basil with cilantro to finish the dish. Basil in a stew is unusual, I know. I second- (and third- and fourth-) guessed my instinct that it would work. I’m glad that in the end I went with my gut feeling—not a bad thing to do in the … Continue reading
