Originally I was not going to participate in this go around of HHDD. I'm just not a fritter girl. I mean I eat them, the apple ones that are all gooped up with icing and such from the bakery but I wasn't sure I wanted to make them. I was uninspired until I ran across a recipe in a cookbook I bought last week, Kathy Casey's Northwest Table. She is a local chef(but you can buy the book anywhere) and I think she is very inventive. I have two of her cookbooks now and I love them both, if you are a more advanced chef I highly recommed you go out and buy her cookbooks. Anyway, I ran across a recipe for Chanterelle Fritters. The only problem was that these were the kind of fritter where you dip the item(in this case a mushroom) in a batter and fry it....and well, I don't like that kind of fritter. So again I thought I would skip this round. I was running out of time but circumstances changed(it is raining big time...and we were suppose to go to the pumpkin patch) and time opened up. … [Read more...]
Hay Hay! It’s Donna Day #5
Well Donna Day is rapdily approaching once again and this time around savory tarts is the theme. I chose to make a tart that helps to welcome the upcoming Fall. My local Farmer's Market is slowly weeding out the fruits of summer to make way for the apples, pears and pumpkins that make up the Fall I know and love. I almost always bake with Granny Smiths(perhaps a rut I should get out of) and today was no exception to that rule. The dried cherries were added as my nod goodbye to the Summer fruits(they were the last of some ones from the Farmers Market and they are no longer carrying them till next Summer). To learn more about this event, visit Running with Tweezers, this month's host for more information. Caramelized Apple, Onion and Roquefort Tart 2 TBSP unsalted butter 1 cup thinly sliced sweet onions 2 cups sliced apples, skins left on 1/4 cup dry white wine 1/2 tsp salt 1/4 ground black pepper 1/3 cup toasted walnuts 4 ounces dried cherries 2 sheets of … [Read more...]
Goodness, Gracious, Great Balls of Goat Cheese
Blog Party #13 is here and the theme was more than challenging. No oven, or stove top or any cooking of any kind. Sounds easy till you start really thinking about it. Want to make chicken salad, after all that is not hot, but wait...you have to cook the chicken. So I went to my mound of cookbooks and dragged out Martha Stewarts Hors D'Oeuvres Handbook, surely there was something there that didn't need to be cooked. There were tons of non-cook recipes, but thumbing through all the photographs I ran across a beautiful picture of little balls of goat cheese on a plate of olive oil. How lovely I thought. Though I feel it was more than ambitious for me to try(quite the pain to do and photograph) it was something I wanted to try. So there I stood rolling out little balls of cheese, rolling them in various herbs and trying somewhat successfully to roll them in a line of smoked paprika. My drink is a Green Tea Collins simply because I love green tea. I have it everyday. So when I found a … [Read more...]
Hay Hay it’s Donna Day #4
A tale of two bruschetta: I wanted to participate in this event after seeing the lovely photography on Bron Marshalls site. I have been bugging the Cream Puff about her photographs and come to find out that her and I have similar cameras(she has the better version of mine). This gave me hope. So after seeing the lovely bruschetta I knew I wanted to join in. Right away I knew what I wanted to make...and then I read the rules....you must make 2 types of bruschetta. Hmmmmm, that made things tougher. So I shall start with the one I wanted to do right away. It is an adaptation of a salad that I make a lot and thought it would be quite interesting as bruschetta. I had REALLY wanted to make it on Cinnamon Brioche, but alas it is way too hot here still to fire up the oven. So I had to improvise a tad...but isn't that half the fun of cooking? Drunken Melon and Raspberry Bruschetta with Chive Scented Cream Cheese Bruschetta: I just bought a baguette from the bakery(no baking for me … [Read more...]
