After spending a night testing food concepts for a collaborative project a friend gave me two boxes of puff pastry, leftover from an abandoned experiment in sausage pies. There was one recipe I had in mind in particular to use the puff pastry for; Yotam Ottolenghi’s caramelized garlic tart. It’s sort of a savory cheesecake… Read More Smoked Ricotta Caramelized Garlic Tart
We skipped dumpster diving last week because there was so much left over from the week before, and my freezer was still pretty full, but we were both running low on fresh food so we went out and found a great deal of desserts, vegetables, cheese, and some meat. We found a whole bag filled… Read More April 15, 2019
Last night went well and we got a lot of nice stuff. We thought we’d gotten about 12 lbs of chicken breasts, as well, only to find when we got back to the house that they smelled terrible. We found a couple of nice pesto, mozzarella and prosciutto sandwiches on baguettes and ate them that… Read More February 25, 2019
Since I had a lot of lemons and eggs this week I decided to make a lemon meringue pie. It’s a very light pie that doesn’t actually take much to bake, except a somewhat labor-intensive process. The recipe (I made an 8 inch pie; the recipe linked is the same recipe but for a 9… Read More Lemon Meringue Pie
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