Swiss Chard is my new green friend. My new favorite sandwich is stir fried swiss chard...olive oil in the second biggest frying pan, red pepper chopped and then when wilted, and a fried egg.... served on 7 grain , toasted with a bit a mayo and ooooo so delicious....
I love my sea salt and miss fresh ground pepper.... but use the big rough ground black pepper....
Now swiss chard is new to me and it offers both the green and the delicious translucent crunchy stem.... yum....
Friday, November 21, 2008
Monday, October 27, 2008
$5 MACE
ARgh! It cost $5 for a tiny little container of mace! and $5 for a tiny little container of cloves. So for those who still have money to invest, perhaps they should invest in spices, because the prices are like those from when the world
was thought to be flat!
was thought to be flat!
Tuesday, August 5, 2008
Recipe Exchange: Apple Torte
This Apple Torte is dedicated to my memory of the Peacock Cafe on Greenwich in
the village. Walnuts are a nice addition to the crumble.
Apple torte
2 pounds Total
of three different kinds of apples
: gala, pinklady and empire
is what i like also golden delicious,macintosh and rome
1 tblsp Cinnamon
1 teaspoon Nutmeg
1/2tsp mace
1/2 tsp Ginger
1.5 cups sugar
1 tblsp Molasses
1 cup flour ( i like oat or pastry flour for this)
1 cup oatmeal
1/3 cup butter, softened
Mix sugar and spices
cut molasses in until crumbly
and evenly brown
Thin slice apples
chop apples
Mix 1/2 of sugar-spice mixture with apples
put in 2 quart baking dish
Cream butter and sugar.
Mix flour and oatmeal
Add flour-oatmeal to butter-sugar mixture
Sprinkle this over apples.
Bake at 350 for about 45 minutes or until apples are tender
and top is golden
serve with whipped cream or ice cream topping
or as i do, with vanilla soygurt.
Now what i left out of the recipe exchange, what i think makes it special is fresh grated ginger root, mixed in with the apples, and of course this must be peeled, fresh, juicy ginger root,,,, but just a bit and added similarly to the sugar mixture... the fresh melds in, does something special to all this.... the reason north americans squeeze lemon, but better, to my tastes than lemon on apples is ginger
Akua Lezli Hope
the village. Walnuts are a nice addition to the crumble.
Apple torte
2 pounds Total
of three different kinds of apples
: gala, pinklady and empire
is what i like also golden delicious,macintosh and rome
1 tblsp Cinnamon
1 teaspoon Nutmeg
1/2tsp mace
1/2 tsp Ginger
1.5 cups sugar
1 tblsp Molasses
1 cup flour ( i like oat or pastry flour for this)
1 cup oatmeal
1/3 cup butter, softened
Mix sugar and spices
cut molasses in until crumbly
and evenly brown
Thin slice apples
chop apples
Mix 1/2 of sugar-spice mixture with apples
put in 2 quart baking dish
Cream butter and sugar.
Mix flour and oatmeal
Add flour-oatmeal to butter-sugar mixture
Sprinkle this over apples.
Bake at 350 for about 45 minutes or until apples are tender
and top is golden
serve with whipped cream or ice cream topping
or as i do, with vanilla soygurt.
Now what i left out of the recipe exchange, what i think makes it special is fresh grated ginger root, mixed in with the apples, and of course this must be peeled, fresh, juicy ginger root,,,, but just a bit and added similarly to the sugar mixture... the fresh melds in, does something special to all this.... the reason north americans squeeze lemon, but better, to my tastes than lemon on apples is ginger
Akua Lezli Hope
Saturday, July 19, 2008
Goat Cheese for Lactose Intolerant
ahhh how fortuitous to discover goat cheese.
Now in mimicry of another ancient taste I have goat cheese cheddar and goat cheese feta. I pair these with fresh baked multi-grained currant bread. It makes a hearty breakfast or brunch. Many complimetary tastes in the mouth with the seed, and the sweet currants and the sharp or salty cheese , the wheat, and not that i have a tiny expresso pot I can have coffee brewed to a ripeness of flavor.
and that with very vanilla soymikl is sheer delight.
so simple. so good
what am i reinventing and remembering. My mother taking me to chock full of Nuts on 34 street an Broadway across the street form Macy's in the 1950s and me smelling her coffee and eating datenut or raisin bread with cream cheese. I miss you, mommy.
Now in mimicry of another ancient taste I have goat cheese cheddar and goat cheese feta. I pair these with fresh baked multi-grained currant bread. It makes a hearty breakfast or brunch. Many complimetary tastes in the mouth with the seed, and the sweet currants and the sharp or salty cheese , the wheat, and not that i have a tiny expresso pot I can have coffee brewed to a ripeness of flavor.
and that with very vanilla soymikl is sheer delight.
so simple. so good
what am i reinventing and remembering. My mother taking me to chock full of Nuts on 34 street an Broadway across the street form Macy's in the 1950s and me smelling her coffee and eating datenut or raisin bread with cream cheese. I miss you, mommy.
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