We baked an "Apple Hill Cake" from the Los Altos Stake cookbook for Sunday yummy today. It was ok. We probably overcooked it a little. (A real rarity in our oven.) The frosting also seemed to be a little lacking in sugar (1 cup powdered sugar to 8 oz cream cheese + butter and lemon juice.) However, I didn't mind the 'extra-cheesy' version of the frosting.
The cake itself was 4 cups apples, along with some sugar, flour, eggs and oil and a lot of spices. I think I like butter better in cakes. Nuts would also have been helpful. There was a nice apple coffeecake recipe we tried before.
However, it was nice to use up some of our abundant apple crop. Now we are throwing away all sorts of apples with even the slightest blemish. First we tried to save them, give them away or make applesauce, but now they have caught up with us. Just wait. In a few months, we'll be buying apples. D'oh! Too bad the pomegranate crop looks to be coming in at three fruits this year.
For dinner, I also whipped up some hummus (and finished off the tahini in the process.) I did get to use some fresh ranpor lime and lemon juice. (And managed to break the lock that locks the food processor on to the blender base. Maybe its time we got a new food processor/blender.)
After cutting up some carrots and celery, I discovered we were out of other good vegetables to serve with the hummus. It sounded like a good time to try pita bread again.
I used the king author recipe. Just flour, yeast, salt, sugar and oil. Its one of the easier breads to make. Just kneed it together, let it rise for an hour, then roll it out. After sitting for a few minutes, it goes in a really hot oven for 5 minutes and - presto - pita.
The recipe actually called for 5 minutes plus 2 minutes, but they seemed to be done after five. Our oven running hot for two recipes in a row? This is unheard of. Perhaps its the hot day causing it to act that way.
I actually used white flour in the pita because, well, its yummy. I prefer cakes and cookies with whole wheat, but pita just seems to need the white stuff to have the yummy fluffy texture.
The kids ended up making pita faces using hummus to stick the veggies on the pita. Yummy!
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Sunday, October 10, 2010
Sunday, June 06, 2010
Chicago Style Deep Dish (Spinach) Broccoli and Swiss Chard Pizza
Crust
2 cups whole wheat flour
1 cup white flour
2 teaspoons yeast
1.5 teaspoons salt
1.5 teaspoons sugar
1 cup warm water
1/2 cup oil
Sauce:
2 1/2 cups seasoned tomato sauce (such as Trader Joe's pizza or Marinara sauce, or any good store bought or homemade sauce)
3/4 cup shredded cheese
Vegetables*:
1 clove garlic
1 tablespoon olive oil
10-12 large leaves of Chard
1.5 cup chopped broccoli
Topping:
3 cups shredded cheese
* Can substitute spinach for the chard. Or to make it easy, just mix 4 cups of chopped spinach with the sauce to make two Spinach pizzas
dissolve yeast in water
mix flours, salt and sugar
add yeast, water and oil to dry mixture
knead together and let rise for about an hour (less or more rising time is fine.)
Grease two 9 inch pie pans (they should be at least one inch high.)
Break up the dough in to two equal parts. With fingers, spread the dough out in the pan to cover the bottom and sides.
Remove the Chard greens from the ribs. Finely chop the greens. If desired, chop the stalks also. Saute the garlic in olive oil. Add chopped chard. Saute over low heat until well done. Should produce about 2 cups when cooked.
Combine tomato sauce and cheese. In one pan add broccoli and cover with half the sauce. Mix the chard with the remainder of the sauce and poor in to second pan.
Cover each with shredded cheese (about 1/2 cup each).
Back at 450 degrees F for about 25-30 minutes.
Dough based on this recipe
2 cups whole wheat flour
1 cup white flour
2 teaspoons yeast
1.5 teaspoons salt
1.5 teaspoons sugar
1 cup warm water
1/2 cup oil
Sauce:
2 1/2 cups seasoned tomato sauce (such as Trader Joe's pizza or Marinara sauce, or any good store bought or homemade sauce)
3/4 cup shredded cheese
Vegetables*:
1 clove garlic
1 tablespoon olive oil
10-12 large leaves of Chard
1.5 cup chopped broccoli
Topping:
3 cups shredded cheese
* Can substitute spinach for the chard. Or to make it easy, just mix 4 cups of chopped spinach with the sauce to make two Spinach pizzas
dissolve yeast in water
mix flours, salt and sugar
add yeast, water and oil to dry mixture
knead together and let rise for about an hour (less or more rising time is fine.)
Grease two 9 inch pie pans (they should be at least one inch high.)
Break up the dough in to two equal parts. With fingers, spread the dough out in the pan to cover the bottom and sides.
Remove the Chard greens from the ribs. Finely chop the greens. If desired, chop the stalks also. Saute the garlic in olive oil. Add chopped chard. Saute over low heat until well done. Should produce about 2 cups when cooked.
Combine tomato sauce and cheese. In one pan add broccoli and cover with half the sauce. Mix the chard with the remainder of the sauce and poor in to second pan.
Cover each with shredded cheese (about 1/2 cup each).
Back at 450 degrees F for about 25-30 minutes.
Dough based on this recipe
Sunday, February 07, 2010
grouprecipes.com
Last night, I had a hankering for coffee cake that used sour cream, nutmeg and pecans. So I googled the ingredients and started filtering through a bunch of junk to find a good recipe.
"Wouldn't it be nice to have a site where you could just enter some ingredients and get some good recipes?" Sometimes I just have some things I want to cook, and really want to try some new way of putting them together. Other times, its a particular flavor that I'm in the mood for.
Well, it turns out, in the search results, I found a list from Group Recipes. The URL listed a bunch of different spices, so my curiosity was piqued. Either this was a spam site, or it might be what I'm interested in. I went to the site and found it really was the real deal.
The search engine lets you type in a list of ingredients you want to use, or a list of flavors, and shoots back with recipes. Its great for cases of "What do I do with this?"
"Wouldn't it be nice to have a site where you could just enter some ingredients and get some good recipes?" Sometimes I just have some things I want to cook, and really want to try some new way of putting them together. Other times, its a particular flavor that I'm in the mood for.
Well, it turns out, in the search results, I found a list from Group Recipes. The URL listed a bunch of different spices, so my curiosity was piqued. Either this was a spam site, or it might be what I'm interested in. I went to the site and found it really was the real deal.
The search engine lets you type in a list of ingredients you want to use, or a list of flavors, and shoots back with recipes. Its great for cases of "What do I do with this?"
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